Many business opportunity programs available today have some form of the "pass up pay plan-- Global Resorts, MyInternetBusiness, CarbonCopy Pro, and Passport to Wealth are a few of the many. They operate on the same principle, but for now let's take a closer look at Passport to Wealth. Passport to Wealth is an "automated" (their words) Internet business that markets reseller rights to an array of mostly digital products. However, reselling the products is not why most people join. The big money is made marketing the Passport opportunity.

The pay plan with Passport to Wealth (as it is with some other businesses such as Liberty League, MyInternetBusiness, EDC, etc.) is what is commonly called a pass up program. What that means is that you "pass up" your first X number of sales to your sponsor. You don't just pass up the MONEY for the sale, you pass up the person who enrolled. The videos or charts of how this works make it look great. After you make your qualifying sales, you get the first X number of sales from the next person, and the first X number from each of them, and so on. 2,4,8,16,32....

If you take a closer look at this, there is a larger problem: once you have made your qualifying sales and have broken away from your sponsor, your sponsor has no finalcial reason to help you. He does not get overrides on any more of the people you enroll. You are now in direct competition with your original sponsor. "Teams" do not exist. You help someone until they qualify, then say goodbye to them while you get busy helping the people they sponsored and passed up to you.

My advice is to give a pass to the pass up programs. There are numerous good, reputable companies out there, with good products and much better pay plans where you aren't required to give your work to someone else. It is much better for you in the long run if your sponsor earns some override on your work forever, thereby giving him the incentive to help you forever. When you pass up a sale, it isn't just the single sale that you pass up, but all of the sales that develop out of that entire organization forever.

Over the course of ten years and even more than one hundred business opportunities, I came up with my own "deal breaker" list for any opportunity. If an opportunity didn't pass muster on one item, I passed on them. One of the items on my list was pass up pay plans. Visit to see the only business that passed all 13 items on my deal breaker list.