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About GRN:
The Global Resorts Network offers a luxury travel membership at plush resorts all over the world while simultaneously offering the ability to enroll you in a home marketing/sales Internet business. Let it be clear you do NOT need to work the business in order to own the membership and enjoy your travel discounts. GRN is not a fly-by-night get-rich quick scam–it's been in business for more than 23 years–but conceptually some find it difficult to grasp immediately. They sell two levels of membership: As of 2011, Gold memberships last three years at $1,495 and lifetime Platinum memberships cost $2,995. That entitles associates to vacation for a week at costs that are a fraction of what they might otherwise cost online or directly from the timeshare world.
The Critics:
Critics have likened the Global Resorts Network to a Ponzi scheme or pyramid scheme, except GRN is actually selling a product, which is luxury vacations membership that gives you deep discounted rates on travel. For an associate to make money, they have to start selling the membership to others. That means they become associate members too, you become their sponsor and make residuals on their sales and residuals on those they sign up. The more people you sign up and the more people they sign up, the greater the residual commissions for everyone.
How it actually works:
The reality is GRN is not running a Ponzi scheme or the Better Business Bureau would have a substantial log of complaints (and they don't) and the Federal Trade Commission would have shut them down long ago. GRN enters into bargain basement agreements with timeshare companies, resorts, owners of villas and hotels for an untold number of accommodations. No timeshare, resort or hotel posts 100 percent occupancy 100 percent of the time. So that limits certain locations to certain times of year. The vacationer may not get exactly what they want at a specific time. That's one limitation of the program. One associate couple in 2008 claims to have taken a Hawaiian vacation for under $500 for a week, including airfare. At regular rates the vacation would have costs seven times that plus the airfare.
The Business Side:
A certain percent of people browse the Web who want a plush vacation and also want to start a home business. Even if it is only one-one-thousandths of a percent of 1 million people sign up, you earn $1,000 commission for each sale. The more people under the sales associate, the more residual commissions you earn from their sales. The more people they sign up, the more residuals those associates earn, as well as their sponsor. In a sense, everybody becomes their own pyramid, reaping residuals of those selling trips and signing up new associates
