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price is not an issue
I believe that is a myth.
Competition is good to simply stimulate creativity and to motivate people.
PATHS has ZERO competition. It used to be $1250 to get a platinum package and was $500 per month. Now it is a small fraction of that. The regular packages used to be $129/month for ONE single module, it is now $34.95 for a package of up to 4 modules after the startup fee. The prices were not lowered just to get more people to sign up, the prices were lowered because of ECONOMY OF SCALE. It was said from the beginning that when there is enough people using PATHS that the price will come down, no competition and the company kept their word.
Competition COULD become a factor in a company being forced to bring their prices down but that has no bearing on making a company "honest". If a company is dishonest, nothing will change that and it will self destruct in the end. If a company is honest, it is honest regardless of competition or pricing.
This health product is priced to be competitive to other products in the network marketing industry so the prima facie evidence is that price is not even an issue because these other companies have moved towards $1 billon. The difference between this company and those companies is that this company is growing while the others are shrinking - as a fact - many distributors are leaving many of the other companies. And I believe many distributors in the antioxidant product companies are going to be embarrassed to even sell the antioxidant juices once the facts about them become common knowledge. They're going to want to come work with this company. Other companies have different products but the facts are that the monthly cost is what people are willing to pay while keeping the company sustainable while paying out more to people that share the message than they keep for themselves is working, and working quite well.
When demand exceeds supply? That isn't going to increase the cost of a product like this in a network marketing company. This company's technology is modular and can be setup in 3 months flat as demand justifies it. It isn't a commodity or something subject to speculation like wheat or oil. The compensation plan and the cost are intimately connected together and is very stable. Look at the products in all network marketing companies (health products) - they are extremely stable. And a further advantage is that other companies packaging "magical" berries, etc... are at the mercy of weather, etc... and there are things that could potentially upset the supply - but this is medical grade sodium chloride that is masterfully rearranged and stabilized and bottled. If anything, this company's product is probably more stable (pun intended) than every other consumable health product in the world.
The product is fairly priced in my opinion. I personally know people that also think it is too expensive, while they have a cable television bill of about the same price because ESPN or HBO + their netflix subscription takes more of a priority than their health. I don't believe in convincing people. Give the options and people will take advantage of it or not.
Again, there are PLENTY of things people can do to better their health regardless of income. Qigong, red light therapy (cost is no longer a real excuse these days - look at the cost of red and infrared led's), changing up their diet, etc... so, there are no valid reason to blame this product. Anyone with an issue with price could easily take the other recommendations of things to do because they will still be greatly benefiting their health.
Instead of blaming the price of this product, why not spend the same time utilizing other things that are recommended where price is obviously not an issue. If you are so concerned about helping people in a less expensive or free way, why not organize Qigong classes in your area promoting a local teacher? Or go into business selling red light panels on ebay or whatever? What about organizing a class teaching people about dietary changes that would benefit them without changing their monthly expenses?
Are you personally willing to do any of these things? You would be doing what you appear to want to do and that is help people with health issues in a way that cost isn't an issue. Here are some ways, maybe you can come up with others, but again, are you actually willing to do something like this? If not, how are your concerns even justified?
Originally posted by toranarod
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All I am trying to say is every business needs competition to Keep them honest.
what will happen when demand exceeds supply? the price never comes down.
it can only go up.
what will happen when demand exceeds supply? the price never comes down.
it can only go up.
Competition is good to simply stimulate creativity and to motivate people.
PATHS has ZERO competition. It used to be $1250 to get a platinum package and was $500 per month. Now it is a small fraction of that. The regular packages used to be $129/month for ONE single module, it is now $34.95 for a package of up to 4 modules after the startup fee. The prices were not lowered just to get more people to sign up, the prices were lowered because of ECONOMY OF SCALE. It was said from the beginning that when there is enough people using PATHS that the price will come down, no competition and the company kept their word.
Competition COULD become a factor in a company being forced to bring their prices down but that has no bearing on making a company "honest". If a company is dishonest, nothing will change that and it will self destruct in the end. If a company is honest, it is honest regardless of competition or pricing.
This health product is priced to be competitive to other products in the network marketing industry so the prima facie evidence is that price is not even an issue because these other companies have moved towards $1 billon. The difference between this company and those companies is that this company is growing while the others are shrinking - as a fact - many distributors are leaving many of the other companies. And I believe many distributors in the antioxidant product companies are going to be embarrassed to even sell the antioxidant juices once the facts about them become common knowledge. They're going to want to come work with this company. Other companies have different products but the facts are that the monthly cost is what people are willing to pay while keeping the company sustainable while paying out more to people that share the message than they keep for themselves is working, and working quite well.
When demand exceeds supply? That isn't going to increase the cost of a product like this in a network marketing company. This company's technology is modular and can be setup in 3 months flat as demand justifies it. It isn't a commodity or something subject to speculation like wheat or oil. The compensation plan and the cost are intimately connected together and is very stable. Look at the products in all network marketing companies (health products) - they are extremely stable. And a further advantage is that other companies packaging "magical" berries, etc... are at the mercy of weather, etc... and there are things that could potentially upset the supply - but this is medical grade sodium chloride that is masterfully rearranged and stabilized and bottled. If anything, this company's product is probably more stable (pun intended) than every other consumable health product in the world.
The product is fairly priced in my opinion. I personally know people that also think it is too expensive, while they have a cable television bill of about the same price because ESPN or HBO + their netflix subscription takes more of a priority than their health. I don't believe in convincing people. Give the options and people will take advantage of it or not.
Again, there are PLENTY of things people can do to better their health regardless of income. Qigong, red light therapy (cost is no longer a real excuse these days - look at the cost of red and infrared led's), changing up their diet, etc... so, there are no valid reason to blame this product. Anyone with an issue with price could easily take the other recommendations of things to do because they will still be greatly benefiting their health.
Instead of blaming the price of this product, why not spend the same time utilizing other things that are recommended where price is obviously not an issue. If you are so concerned about helping people in a less expensive or free way, why not organize Qigong classes in your area promoting a local teacher? Or go into business selling red light panels on ebay or whatever? What about organizing a class teaching people about dietary changes that would benefit them without changing their monthly expenses?
Are you personally willing to do any of these things? You would be doing what you appear to want to do and that is help people with health issues in a way that cost isn't an issue. Here are some ways, maybe you can come up with others, but again, are you actually willing to do something like this? If not, how are your concerns even justified?
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