Preferred Customer Placement
All sales, whether they be retail or to Personal Customers (PCs), must be properly credited to the individual who actually generated the sale to avoid downline purchasing. Downline purchasing occurs when an individual is credited for a sale that he/she did not actually make and thus earns a commission on a sale that he/she did not make. Not only is this a manipulation of the compensation plan, but it also raises issues relating to pyramid schemes.
Although you cannot place your own retail sale in another Associate’s business or attach your own PC to another Associate, it is possible and sometimes advisable to give a PC to a member of the team or refer a retail customer to the member of the team. But in doing so, the customer will be counted as a customer of that member of the team, not your own.
All Associates are required to meet certain sales requirements to earn commissions, including the five retail/PC sales each month requirement. A PC you give to a member of your team will not count toward your own sales requirements but rather to the Associate to whom he/she is attached. With that said, it still could be a wise business decision to give your PCs to members of your team, after you have comfortably fulfilled your own sales requirements, as a motivational tool for your team.
Last modified: June 7, 2023
