But first you should ask if it's the company Monavie you are nervous about, or the Acai berry juice trend in general. Is the product Monavie just too good to be true? We'll cover both issues below in this article.

The Company: Monavie Inc. - Are they scamming us?

The company named Monavie, based in Utah with distributors around the world, is a very successful MLM business by anyone's standards. If you feel that all MLMs are scams then you have your answer already, Monavie is without a doubt a full-fledged MLM company and makes vast the majority of its' income selling directly to their own distributors.

Selling mainly to their distributors, who have to pay first to become distributors, is simply their business model. Some find this distasteful, but they do not hide these facts and it is neither illegal nor immoral. The company of Monavie has not been found guilty of any wrongdoing, either, despite the few recent lawsuits.

Monavie's Product - Is it simply too good to be true?

High international transportation costs for the ingredients is the excuse Monavie gives for the exorbitant price of $40 per bottle. It seems more likely that they are building a lot of room into the price of each bottle so that their distributors have a chance to profit. Even still, you can see the word Acai anywhere online these days without a link to some film where a distributor is telling you how Monavie is curing his heart disease or has saved his child's life from cancer! This is strictly against the Monavie terms of agreement, by the way.

The 19 exotic fruits inside are very difficult to preserve. Most notably the Acai berry, which makes up the majority of the bottle, is very expensive to properly process and export without losing its' high level of antioxidants. So maybe the price isn't as heavily inflated as it appears The main problem with the product is clearly all of the extreme hype that is perpetuated by greedy and overzealous distributors.

So in summation, the only scammy element to Monavie is the lies that distributors tell in order to sell you their products. They are not in compliance with Monavie Inc., despite the fact that most of them feel that they are being 100% truthful. This is the same in all MLM businesses and should not be attributed exclusively to Monavie. To call Monavie a scam is to call all MLM businesses a scam too.