The secret of the Amazon -- in a bottle
Lisa Viguera, my mail carrier, is now in the health food biz. Actually she is selling this great stuff called Mona-Vie. It's a juice consisting of the best antioxidants. I try to drink açaí (pronounced a-say-ee) berry juice every day and also pomegranate. This stuff has that along with grapes, pear, blueberry, wolf berry, passion fruit and so much more -- 19 fruits in all, you can see the list here. You probably all know Lisa, she has been part of the Grove for years.
The stuff retails for $45.00 per bottle and you only drink a small shot daily. I have been buying bottles of açaí juice at The Fresh Market for $2.50 per bottle and if I drink one bottle a day (it's actually cheaper at The Fresh Market than Pubix), that is $75.00 right there, and that's just the açaí juice. It doesn't include every other juice in the Mona-Vie. So I think this is a great deal.I know I got my cholesterol and blood pressure down by having açaí and pomegranate daily, along with other things. So this may be the solution to all my bottle juggling -- one small shot a day. :)
Anyway, Lisa is offering Grapevine readers a great discount if you call her at 786-487-3958. Just mention the Coconut Grove Grapevine. Hey, why not, Grapevine, grapes, açaí -- it all sort of fits in. You can get more info here: www.lviguera.com or email Lisa at lviguera@aol.com , but call Lisa today for the discount.
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19 Comments:
Monavie is the new MLM like Herbalife.
Acai is absolutely a great product. However, this stuff contains something like 5% acai. It is nothing but overpriced fruit juice. Are you nuts?
I like Lisa, I'm gonna try it.
It's the combination of juices that makes it so amazing. We have used it for months. Love it. The skins and the seeds are actually in the juice. It isn't a watered down juice like Ocean Spray or Minute Maid juices.
My Mom gets it four to a case for $35/bottle.
Try Basil in the Grove for their acai berry shake. It's delicious, has pure 100% acai, blended with one banana, ice, a dollop of honey and your choice of mango, guava, or passionfruit juice. $4.50
Mona Vie is a MLM scam plain and simple. If it wasn't they would sell it on the same shelf at the Fresh Market. The 'drinkers' of Mona Vie benefit from the people who sign up below them. Therefore, they all have the same song and dance talk about the drink's 'magical powers.' The company promotes it's use of acai berries from the amazon to make it sound exotic and interesting.
This same company used to be called Via Viente and back then they sold fruit juice that used the 'magical water' from a small town in Mexico where people supposedely lived the longest on earth.
If you want your cholesterol and blood pressure to go down just eat right and exercise. I wouldn't waist one cent on this 'placebo'!
Last but not least the sellers of this stuff become aggressive and down right annoying with their sucess stories and pushy marketing. If you sign up, get ready for emails, phone calls, pressure to attend meetings to sign up others, etc.
I met a girl who works for this company. She went on and on about religion and said I needed to accept God or her face would be the last thing Id see before I went to hell. Apparently God wasnt looking when I banged her later that night haha. Anyways, back to the product. Its a pyramid scam thats been around for a little over a year now.
mon aviedoes not taste anything like real acai u got o go to brazil to tast the difference this is all scam, and freaking EVERYONE is part of it , even one of the plumbers in grove Ruben is selling it, so how good it is figure that one out. Why do all fat people sell it i dont know.
everyone who sells monavie does so because they have the delusion that if they continue to sign other sellers up below them in the pyramid then they will get rich. the whole lie perpetuates itself in that each seller claims to make large amounts of money in hopes that these claims will drive the people in the pyramid below them to work harder and sign up more people to achieve the sucess of those above them in the pyramid.
grape --- did the mailwoman suggest you could sell the product? did she tell you how easy it is to get started? offer you free samples?
i am just curious because the tactics all seem the same - by doing a simple google search, you can find websites that help the seller deal with questions from skeptics by providing canned answers for those questions.
bottom line - if the product were worth it's weight in gold then people would buy it at the local store and rave about it. because it is a pyramid scheme, you can't believe the hype of the product when the seller stands to benefit from your purchase.
see you at jamba juice!
She just wanted my company to do some printing for her. She never tried to sell me the stuff, but I do drink a lot of those juices daily and I thought it would be a good idea to take them all in one concentrated shot as opposed to so many bottles of sugar filled juice a day. And much cheaper.
She never pushed the drink on me, she only wanted me to print her business cards and stuff. She is not a pushy person. In fact she was supposed to bring me a bottle today and says she'll bring it next week -- so she isn't even rushing over to sell me the stuff. And I am dying to try it.
PS. my blood sugar went through the roof from drinking so much Jamba Juice. Jamba Juice is what is actually killing people -- sugar on top of sugar.
Why not just get a juicer from the Juice Man? Just sayin...
By my calculations it is not cheaper than your store bought juice as you say.
Monavie comes in a 750ml bottle which equals 25.36 fl.oz.
They recommend a 2oz. shot in the morning and a 2oz. shot in the evening. (i.e. 4oz. per day)
Therefore you would drink 120oz. in the average month of 30 days.
This would equal 4.73 bottles of Monavie per month.
4.73 X $45 = $212.93 per month
A family of 4 could drink the recommended amount of Monavie for a mere $851.74. What a deal!!!
Come on Grape! You are smarter than to be sucked into such a scam! Wake up Grape, your mailwoman is selling you fruit juice and you have no idea who is behind the manufacturing process (not a reputable company like dole or sunkist or tropicana) and you are not the least bit suspect! You have even gone so far as to justify it as cheaper when that could not be further from the truth! Where is the old Grape???
And did you add the other things I eat and drink in a day that I would replace with the 2 oz. shot: Pomegranate fruit or juice, OJ, blueberry fruit or juice, V8, bananas (which I try to eat one a day, even though I don't like them), strawberries (which I also don't like), and all the other things that I also drink or eat in a day for heatlh reasons, not because I am thirsty or hungry.
I am thinking this will replace all those things, too. Not just the acai.
How about you let me do one test with one bottle and see what happens? If nothing happens, then I gave Lisa a little business. After all she has done for me all these years -- truly going out of her way on many occasions, I'll be happy anyway.
If I feel great, have more energy, lower my blood sugar levels, lower my cholesterol and blood pressure levels, then it works.
If I didn't ingest so many of these actual fruits and veggies in a day already, I would not bother with the product, but if I can get them all in one concentrated shot, it is worth the try.
Anon above,
That. Was. AWESOME.
Grape man has been served.
FYI peeps, all pasteurized juice has been zapped of all living enzymes, vitamins, and minerals, and amounts to dead, devoid, sugars. Sorry to burst bubbles, but living fresh squeezed/juicer juiced juices is the only way to ensure you get the nutrition you hope for.
V8 is pure sodium. Tropicana, Dole, Sunkist, Mona Vie and the like will make your blood sugar levels leap into the stratosphere with fortifies dead vitamins to satiate the masses. Not my opinion, just scientific fact. Eat/drink fresh. it's the way nature intended. Literally more bang for your buck too.
Wow....a lot of negative anonymouses out there who are truly aclueistic about the MonaVie manufacturing process and the idea of direct marketing. All corporate organizational charts are based on a pyramid scheme (about the same as schematic). Even the DOD is based on a pyramid scheme. As far as direct marketing goes, in an ILLEGAL pyramid, no one makes more than the person above them. In a LEGAL pyramid, anyone can make more than several people above them. But it doesn't come easy for most. For some it does. I've seen it too many times. Probably a lot of the negative anonymouses were in one or more MLMs and didn't do what was necessary to succeed and, therefore, became QUITTERS. Some of the others just plain don't know what they are talking about. Some may have heard negative comments from others and just simply agreed without doing the research. It's all relative. And I'll probably be attacked by a bunch of ravenous vultures because of my comments. Doesn't matter to me. All I know is that before I started drinking MonaVie I was not as healthy as I am now, after drinking it for almost a year. By the way, Devil inside (the term is fitting) mentioned that it's been around for a little over a year. Devil is also aclueistic. MonaVie began in January of 2005. Today is April 7, 2008. My calculations tell me that MonaVie has been around about 3 years and 3 months and is, by all estimations, the fastest growing company in the world. Go ahead....check it out; don't just take my word for it. I agree with those who made positive comments, although there was some truth concerning the pricing in one of the negatives. The key, if you can afford it, is to buy it in bulk to enjoy paying a lower price. Great for large families who just want to be healthy. Why should I buy a juicer and then all of the fruits and then slave over the juicer all day hoping to get all of the nutrients that my body needs to be healthy? That's why we pay someone else to do all of that for us. I agree that MonaVie is rather pricey. The manufacturing process of MonaVie is not an inexpensive one. Again, it's all relative. All I have to do is buy the juice that has the health benefits of 19 fruits and I have no choice but to get healthier.
To your health!!!!
Its true that network marketing is not a pyramid scheme, but a legitimate distribution and advertising method. in fact its the oldest advertising method in the world - person to person.
However I do take issue with this particular monavie product because it is COOKED. They call is "flash pasteurization", but its the same thing. If you really want to benefit from fruits and vegetables, you have to eat them raw. Its also WAY overpriced ($40 or $45 for 25.35 oz). Fact is, an antioxidant is an antioxidant is an antioxidant, and the ones from the acai are no "better" than any others, there are just more per gram of acai than other fruits. But so what. You can get the same amount of antioxidants from two ounces of monavie (which will cost about $3.20) as three strawberries (which costspennies, depending on the season). Or better yet, a quarter-ounce of dark chocolate (70% or better) will give the same amount and costs about 19 cents and you can stock up on that. Antioxidants come from the COLOR in food, none is better than the other.
The high price of the product vs. what you are really getting (cooked fruit) would concern me, not the distribution method, which is totally legitimate. I think monavie is a fad and will disappear soon. The product value simply isnt there.
HI--IN READING ALL COMMENTS--ABOUT COST AND VALUE OF MONA-VIE--TRY GOING TO THE ORGANIC HEALTH FOOD STORE OR GROCERY AND BUY THE 19 FRUITS--PUT THEM IN WHOLE FRUIT JUICER AND COMPARE COSTS, TIME AND THE MESS!!!---MONA VIE IS CHEAP !!!ALSO ONE OF THE LARGEST COMPANIES IN THE WORLD IS MLM AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN---AVON--ENOUGH SAID
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