Comments about ‘Just juice? 'Super fruit' beverage spawns $1B multilevel business for XanGo’

What a crock. It's sad that anyone thinks this --- or any other supplement --- is endowed with significant properties. These companies prey on people's hope that somewhere, somehow it is possible to surmount the limitations of the body, age, lack of exercise, illness, etc. As the article indicated, there is no reason to buy XanGo juice. A $4 carton of blueberries would be superior. Instead, a host of multi-level sycophants will continue to tout its non-existent benefits. Pathetic. And, sad to say, they aren't the only Utah company doing much the same thing.

Drink the mystery juice. It works wonders. There is no reputable scientific evidence to support Xango and other Neutraceuticals claims.

This is just a puff piece to get support for Utah's Snake oil industry because the industry will be fighting off efforts by the FDA to make them have evidence to support their claims.

Yes fruits are healthy, eat and drink the, and you'll feel better, but this industry is a crock.

Is it gullibility or greed. Certainly at the top it is greed.

It's free enterprise, plain and simple. Mixed, of course, with lots of Wizard of Oz magic and hype. Go by the same product at Costco for a fraction of the price and the XanGo folks will tell you they have a "secret" process and superior fruit. I say, "let the buyer beware."

Only in Utah... At the exhorbitant prices they are charging per bottle, it is definitely curative for those at the top of the pyramid of this MLM marketing ploy.

Snake oil.

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At $40 a bottle, that's a pretty expensive placebo.

How quick so many are to jump on these bandwagon medicine traveling shows!

Xango, Noni, etc., are all snake oil juices. Blueberries are so much cheaper and accessible.

Buy this stuff so that others can make big bucks. It costs them practically nothing, but they sell the bottles for tons.

If they help people, and saves the rain forests of the world, isn't that a good thing? I recently was reading about MonaVie that was also mentioned. I am not sure whether these drinks are worth it or not, but I would rather people made money selling stuff like this, than the legal or illegal drugs that cause more damage than they help.

Whenever the word "MULTI-LEVEL" is in any enterprise,there is only one thing certain-YOU PAID TOO MUCH.I have seen SO many people go bonkers in these efforts,to little long-term good.If NONI is good,I buy it at Kroger for $8.00 a bottle when it is 2 for 1 sale time,like yesterday.The Alovera juice is cheap w/o the ML penalty.The NU-SKIN stuff can be equaled for a fraction of the price.Why are people so willing to be sucked in by these schemes??Shop wisely and put your EMOTION into REAL worthwhile endevours.

Let's be honest here. The only health the founders and top distributors are after is their healthy bottom line. If they were really interested in the health their product provides they would actually perform clinical trials to assess its benefit instead of try to discount anyone trying to independently assess its validity. I have such a hard time understanding how these people can justify the fleecing of hundreds of thousands of people. I'm sure many of the distributors have the same goals as the founders, but I'm sure there are many innocent victims. I get so tired of these multi-level scams. If it were a legitimate product it would be available in stores. You can't tell me that a multi-level marketing structure makes it cheaper to sell when it sells for $40/bottle. It's just one of many get rich quick scams that Utah County seems to cultivate. I find it equally appalling to see the company sponsor billboards talking about "giving" and their philanthropic efforts which appear to be further evidence of their guilt ridden conscience for ripping off so many people with their unproven, expensive product.

There are no miracle juices or foods. Man has been eating and drinking everything there is on the planet for thousands of years; there are no magic secrets to health--eat a varied diet, exercise, keep your weight down, work, laugh, and avoid harmful drugs. Anyone who would pay $40 for a bottle of this or any other drink should feel good...about making somebody else rich.

What a ripoff. Don't buy it. Multi-level marketing schemes are alive and well. Look at "The Secret" writers and contributers. They recently had a cruise to try get people to give 10K to publish a book. They are just as twisted as the Amways of this world. Go out and work hard, eat well, be nice and you will be happy.

There's no proof any of these drinks do anything. Anyone that buys them is a fool. Government studies show that Utahns are more likely to get ripped off by people like Xango than anyone else in a America. We're too trusting and will lose our money to scams like this because of it. Apple juice from Wal-Mart is just as healthy as any of the juice these mulit-level scam artists sell.

I have worked for a 'multi-level marketing' company in their customer service department and I believe they are ALL unethical. They all have a monthy quota of product you are required to buy if you want to earn profits. This promotes purchases of the product beyond what poeple would naturally want or need in a month. All these companies also come up with an excuse for why they are a multi-level company instead of trying to sell product openly in stores or without having to become a member. Usually they will say that they do this to save on advertising costs and pass them along to the distributers.
Utah, unfortunately, is a hot spot for these. The keeping-up-with-the-Jones' mentality and get-rich-quick mentality in Utah is really rampant.
Folks would be happier if the decided they don't need a high-def TV, the house on the hill, or the 2009 Honda Odessy...the old tube TV does just fine.

That's all it is. How can these people look at themselves in the mirror every morning knowing that for money, they're willing to bilk their fellow human beings out of their hard earned money?

And that goes for all these crazy supplement companies.

And Hatch? Ridiculous. I hope he feels warm and fuzzy when innocents have died related to various unregulated "supplements" containing ephedra.

I agree, you can receive the health properties of necessary vitamins and minerals by eating healthy and to gain better health, exercise.

Xango won't be around in 5 or 10 years.

It is very costly, but the bottle is cool. Who buys it?

I also find this disheartening. Why is Utah the home of so many multilevel marketing businesses? I find them manipulative and greedy both attributes that are not healthy for society. Honesty, it seems, is no where to be found. Take for instance the $40 per bottle juice that is at the heart of this "business". There is no way I would pay that amount for a small bottle of juice that has no evidence of its effectiveness. In my mind, there has to be people covering the truth, saying things like 'it's cured me from (fill in the blank)' so many times that they believe it themselves. This is all based on greed and money, not on the health of those who are sucked into the lie. Pathetic.

Steve - you missed the point. People are lemmings - they fall for stuff like this all the time. These guys may be somewhat unscrupulous about the health benefits, but they are brilliant marketers. Ironman Joe even has Orin Hatch talking about the stuff. The juice doesn't hurt anyone and its probably a lot better for you than diet coke which you probably drink every day.

Go XanGo!!