Until this month, WOW Mobile was a division of Liberty International, an eleven-year old company headed up by Randy Jeffers, former leader of the troubled Destiny Telecom. WOW Mobile is a network marketing company, although it does not identify itself as a multi-level marketing company.
When I got involved with WOW, the company identified itself as an authorized reseller for T-Mobile and stated over and over that it was in the process of negotiating contracts with AT&T and Sprint. This was in February, 2010.
A key draw was their refer 3, get yours free program. If you sold phone service to three other people, you got free monthly service for life. The highest service plan a person could purchase at that time was the $89.99/month plan. This included taxes and fees. If you sold three other people the $89.99 plan, your service became free, as long as your three referrals remained customers. Additionally, there was a monthly autoship of $29.99.
The main benefit was derived, however, by selling the business opportunity. Liberty International has an octonary compensation plan. This means that you can have 8 legs where you can place people you sign up.
I personally got frustrated by a myriad of SNAFUs and glitches and became inactive as a distributor. However, I kept the service, since I had previously been with T-Mobile and the service was still coming through T-Mobile.
However, one day in June, my service got cut off. Come to find out, so did thousands of other people’s. I had the pleasure of spending hours on the phone with T-Mobile, converting back to T-Mobile. According to WOW Mobile, there is some big dispute over long distance charges and the two companies are now in litigation.
According to Troy Dooly at a website called MLM Help Desk, Liberty’s merchant accounts were frozen and head of company Randy Jeffers is presently paying distributors’ commissions out of his pocket. Troy also stated that WOW Mobile does NOT have contracts with any of the four Tier 1 mobile companies (T-Mobile, Sprint, AT&T or Verizon).
A new entity has now been created called Liberty Freedom Network, and it seems that the company is attempting to hold it together and regroup.
I don’t believe WOW Mobile is a scam. I think it has the potential to be a good opportunity. However, it has a few too many kinks for my blood right now. I’m also not all that impressed with the veracity of the information given to distributors upon joining. I hope they do better in the future.
I personally chose to join an internet marketing company, where I can make large commissions up front, rather than having to develop an extensive downline as one must do to be profitable in network marketing.
Lori Somekh is an attorney and a business owner (although the information contained herein should not be construed as legal advice). She resides in New York and helps women transition into online business ownership. http://FastProfitWeb.com.
