What's Up With TVI Express?

TVI Express

Lately, I've been bombarded with boatloads of TVI representatives pushing their opportunity online. Facebook, Better Networker, Ezinearticles directory, Squidoo Lenses are just some of the places I've encounter TVI. Opinions of the business are mixed as expected of any network marketing company. However, I do have some trepidation on TVI's operation and management.

A few days ago, I decided to take a closer look at the business and comp plan myself trying to understand if the hype is justified. I must admit, there are many aspects of this business I do not feel right and overall raise my concern of the legitimacy of TVI Express in general.

TVI Express, short for Travel Venture International Express originally operates out of London, UK, expanded its operation in America and many other countries last year. Its historic rise was unprecedented. I've never seen a start up network marketing company that originated outside of United States grew so big so fast.

Its selling point was that you pay $250.00 to establish your business with TVI and you get a e-voucher for a 6 night 7 day vacation. On top of that, there are no recurring charges to maintain your TVI account.

TVI has a revolving matrix compensation plan where after you filled your initial 2 by 3 matrix Traveler's Board you will receive another e-voucher worth $250.00 and a cash payout of $250.00, hence, you double your initial cash layout after first level.

All that sounds great until I find out a couple more things...

First: Its corporate office apparently has moved out of UK. It is now believed to be somewhere in India or Cyprus, as there is no real address published on its website. This is alarming fact since most of the flights by night MLM schemes hesitate to publish their whereabouts to avoid local enforcement.

Second: As of last year, TVI has stopped sending their travel vouchers to representatives. There is no official explanation of why travel vouchers were not sent, but one can assume that they are out of stock.

Third: TVI has delayed paying commission to their representatives twice; once in December for 15 days and second time since January 10th.

Fourth: Customer support is nonexistent when I tried to contact the corporate regarding issues I find with the vouchers and commission payout.

I'm afraid with all these issues I've experienced with TVI, I have to conclude that either TVI executives are exceptionally incompetent, or that TVI is a scam operation setup to swindle funds from unsuspecting multi-level marketers.

Either way, it is bad news for all who are involved with TVI.

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