Reminiscience fails to offer possession or government data on its web site.
Reminiscience’s web site does have an “about us” web page, nonetheless it’s solely used to market the corporate.
Reminiscience’s web site area (“reminiscience.com”), was first registered in November 2018.
The principally non-public registration was final up to date in Could 2022, itemizing Acti Laboratories by way of a UK tackle because the proprietor.
Acti Laboratories goes by “Acti-Labs”, or a minimum of they did.
A go to to Acti-Labs’ web site right now reveals the corporate now goes by City Retreat:
A go to to City Retreat reveals a message claiming the corporate’s
central distribution heart was completely destroyed by fireplace on the thirteenth March 2023.
Because of this City Retreat plans is in “full restoration mode”, with plans to relaunch out of France.
We’re shifting our enterprise operations to function totally to France.
Our groups are working intently and our aim is to relaunch in early September 2023.
If City Retreat owns Reminiscience I’d assume this additionally impacts their operations. At time of publication nonetheless there’s no point out of a disruption on Reminiscience’s web site.
Neither is there any indication something is amiss on Reminiscience’s official FaceBook web page, relationship again to March 2023.
What I did discover although is that the majority of Reminiscience’s merchandise are out of inventory.
On its web site City Retreat claims to be a “household run enterprise” servicing Russia.
Initially created as a small, bespoke producer of luxurious skilled merchandise for quite a lot of unique Spas the world over, however primarily in Russia.
Following a transition to “promote its merchandise direct to shoppers”, City Retreat claims “all cash had run out” by 2011.
ActiDerm was launched within the UK in June 2011 with simply 11 nice skincare merchandise.
The model rapidly grew to become common sufficient to attain our aim of preserving the manufacturing workers employed.
We’re eternally grateful to the founding sellers who joined us in the beginning, and we’re very proud to say {that a} good variety of them are nonetheless with us right now.
Oddly, there is no such thing as a point out of Reminiscience on City Retreat’s web site. There’s additionally no point out of City Retreat on Reminiscience’s web site.
City Retreat is headed up by co-founder John Miller. James Miller (John’s son?) is co-founder and CEO of City Retreat’s French operations.
Final October a BehindMLM reader knowledgeable me that Caius Hale was fronting Reminiscience.
Caius Hale and the critically terrible CEO of Acti-Labs, now City Retreat have relaunched TS-Life as ‘Reminiscience’.
What’s attention-grabbing is that the ‘leaders’ try to make out that that is new and never affiliated to TS-Life, whereas it’s been devised by precisely the identical two administrators below a special title.
Cutesy packaging, daring claims of sustainability, however basically the identical low-cost shit below a special title.
TS-Life was a vitamin area of interest MLM firm launched in 2018. The corporate was abruptly shut down with out warning in early 2022.
I’m conscious of claims TS-Life was working illegally and Hale fled Eire following its collapse. I wasn’t capable of independently confirm these claims.
That stated, right here’s what I can confirm.
After TS-Life shut down Hale disappeared. Hale scrubbed his FaceBook profile of content material, earlier than remerging on the platform in December 2022.
This coincides with Reminiscience’s launch in October 2022.
Hale ran TS-Life with Company Response Supervisor Jade Coyle.
On Jade Coyle’s FaceBook web page we study she is engaged to Hale.
Coyle additionally cites herself as a founding father of Reminiscience.
On April ninth Coyle posted this photograph to her FaceBook account:
Within the backside left of the photograph there’s a menu for McCafferty’s Irish Pub.
McCafferty’s has a number of places throughout the UK, Eire, Spain and… Dubai.
I used to be capable of pinpoint Coyle to McCafferty’s Al Furjan over Easter weekend:
What stays unclear is whether or not Caius Cale and Jade Coyle are visiting Dubai or residing there.
Dubai is the MLM crime capital of the world. Cale and Coyle fleeing Eire would assist claims the pair escaped an investigation.
The murkiness surrounding Reminiscience’s company construction suggests Cale and Coyle don’t need to related to the corporate on its web site.
FaceBook posts however, scrubbing one’s profile sometimes isn’t one thing you do except you’re attempting to cover one thing…
…like, for instance, Reminiscience being a reboot of TS-Life.
As at all times, if an MLM firm shouldn’t be overtly upfront about who’s working or owns it, suppose lengthy and laborious about becoming a member of and/or handing over any cash.
Reminiscience’s Merchandise
Reminiscience’s markets a spread of non-public and physique care merchandise.
Private Care
- Eye Serum – “a light-weight serum that targets the delicate eye contour space”, retails at $35.50 for a 15 ml bottle
- Face Oil – “multi use oil that’s virtually solely formulated from 13 powerhouse botanic oils identified for nourishing, hydrating, firming, and repairing”, retails at $34.95 for a 30 ml bottle
- Face Cream Regular – “a light-weight but active-rich moisturiser that restores and nourishes”, retails at $38.25 for a 40 ml tube
- Face Cream Drawback – “active-rich moisturiser that’s mild, helps to scale back breakouts, scale back extra sebum, and calm downside pores and skin”, retails at $36.75 for a 40 ml tube
- Cleaning Gel – “mild purifying cleaning gel enriched with pure extracts to take away impurities”, retails at $25.95 for a 150 ml bottle
- Physique Lotion – “rejuvenating and tightening balm enriched with hydrating botanicals for restoring pores and skin”, retails at $26.50 for a 200 ml bottle
- Sheer Tint – “tinted medium buildable base with pure SPF25 safety”, retails at $33.75 a tube
- Lip Gloss (Rose/Caramel) – “repairing and hydrating method with a wealthy tint”, retail pricing not offered
- Mascara – “lifting, lengthening, volumizing mascara. Buildable and enriched with fibre impact botanicals, deep nourishing extracts, and nutritional vitamins”, retails at $17.95 a bottle
- Conditioner – “fully nourishing and hydrating, with the power to calm flyaway hair”, retails at $23.75 for a 200 ml bottle
- Shampoo – “wealthy in important oils resembling Bergamot and trusted proteins like keratin this shampoo delivers wanted vitamins from root to tip”, retails at $22.75 for a 200 ml bottle
Physique Care
- U-Lixr – “highly effective collagen and Vitamin wealthy liquid complement”, retails at $68.95 for a 250 ml bottle
- Ultranova – “full physique tonic with a extremely concentrated spectrum of life enhancing botanics”, retails at $45.50 a bottle
- Detox Tonic – “alkalising superfood shot enriched with digestive enzymes, prebiotics and probiotics”, retails at $35.50 a bottle
- Supanova – “full physique tonic with a concentrated spectrum of life enhancing botanics”, retails at $27.25 a bottle
- Physique Lotion – “rejuvenating and tightening balm enriched with hydrating botanicals for restoring pores and skin”, retails at $26.50 for a 200 ml bottle
- Contouring Gel – “tightening, contouring, and silhouette lowering gel”, retails at $39.75 for a 200 ml bottle
- Volt Daytime Capsules – “improve your day by day vibration with these daytime capsules enriched with immune assist nutritional vitamins and stimulating botanicals”, retails at $31.75 for a field of 30 capsules
- Zeto Keto Expertise – “improve your day by day vibration with these daytime capsules enriched with immune assist nutritional vitamins and stimulating botanicals”, retails at $29.95 for a field of 30 capsules
Reminiscience’s merchandise are additionally accessible in numerous bundle packs.
Marked as “new” on Reminiscience’s web site, the corporate now additionally resells Organo Gold ganoderma espresso merchandise:
Reminiscience’s Compensation Plan
Reminiscience’s compensation plan combines retail gross sales with a bonus, residual binary commissions, an identical bonus and assured pay.
Retail Commissions
Reminiscience associates earn a 30% fee on sale of merchandise to retail clients.
Reminiscience Affiliate Ranks
There are sixteen affiliate ranks inside Reminiscience’s compensation plan.
Together with their respective qualification standards, they’re as follows:
- Affiliate – enroll as a Reminiscience affiliate
- Crystal – generate and keep 100 PV a month
- White – keep a minimum of 100 PV a month and recruit and keep a minimum of one Crystal or greater ranked affiliate
- Yellow – keep a minimum of 100 PV a month, generate 500 GV a month in weaker binary workforce aspect quantity and 525 GV a month in personally recruited affiliate quantity
- Pink – keep a minimum of 100 PV a month, generate 1500 GV a month in weaker binary workforce aspect quantity, 1555 GV a month in personally recruited affiliate quantity and be recruiting a minimum of one new affiliate every month
- Blue – keep a minimum of 100 PV a month, generate 3000 GV a month in weaker binary workforce aspect quantity, 1785 GV a month in personally recruited affiliate quantity and proceed to recruit a minimum of one new affiliate every month
- Inexperienced – generate and keep a minimum of 250 PV a month, generate 5000 GV a month in weaker binary workforce aspect quantity, 2380 GV a month in personally recruited affiliate quantity and proceed to recruit a minimum of one new affiliate every month
- Orange – keep a minimum of 240 PV a month, generate 10,000 GV a month in weaker binary workforce aspect quantity, 3230 GV a month in personally recruited affiliate quantity, proceed to recruit a minimum of one new affiliate every month and have a minimum of one Blue ranked affiliate in your downline
- Purple – keep a minimum of 240 PV a month, generate 15,000 GV a month in weaker binary workforce aspect quantity, 3570 GV a month in personally recruited affiliate quantity, proceed to recruit a minimum of one new affiliate every month and have a minimum of two Blue ranked associates in your downline
- Purple – keep a minimum of 240 PV a month, generate 30,000 GV a month in weaker binary workforce aspect quantity, 4380 GV a month in personally recruited affiliate quantity, be recruiting a minimum of two new associates every month and have a minimum of three Blue ranked associates in your downline
- Black – keep a minimum of 240 PV a month, generate 50,000 GV a month in weaker binary workforce aspect quantity, 5270 GV a month in personally recruited affiliate quantity, be recruiting a minimum of two new associates every month and have a minimum of three Inexperienced ranked associates in your downline
- Silver – generate and keep a minimum of 360 PV a month, generate 100,000 GV a month in weaker binary workforce aspect quantity, 8840 GV a month in personally recruited affiliate quantity, be recruiting a minimum of two new associates every month and have a minimum of three Purple ranked associates in your downline
- Gold – generate and keep a minimum of 360 PV a month, generate 150,000 GV a month in weaker binary workforce aspect quantity, 10,710 GV a month in personally recruited affiliate quantity, be recruiting a minimum of two new associates every month and have a minimum of three Purple ranked associates in your downline
- Platinum – generate and keep a minimum of 360 PV a month, generate 300,000 GV a month in weaker binary workforce aspect quantity, 13,260 GV a month in personally recruited affiliate quantity, be recruiting a minimum of two new associates every month and have a minimum of three Black ranked associates in your downline
- Diamond – generate and keep a minimum of 360 PV a month, generate 500,000 GV a month in weaker binary workforce aspect quantity, 17,850 GV a month in personally recruited affiliate quantity, be recruiting a minimum of two new associates every month and have a minimum of three Silver ranked associates in your downline
- Crown Diamond – generate and keep a minimum of 360 PV a month, generate 1,000,000 GV a month in weaker binary workforce aspect quantity, 20,100 GV a month in personally recruited affiliate quantity, be recruiting a minimum of two new associates every month and have a minimum of three Gold ranked associates in your downline
PV stands for “Private Quantity”. PV is gross sales quantity generated by gross sales to retail clients and an affiliate’s personal purchases.
GV stands for “Group Quantity”. Usually Group Quantity is the sum whole of an affiliate’s PV and that of their total downline.
For the aim of rank qualification, Reminiscience makes use of solely GV generated by personally recruited associates and weaker binary workforce aspect quantity.
Word that required rank associates should every be in a separate recruitment leg.
Retail Rank Rewards
Reminiscience rewards associates with bonus merchandise for reaching retail gross sales quantity milestones:
- Pink – generate 500 PV in collected retail gross sales quantity and obtain one free product
- Blue – generate 5000 PV in collected retail gross sales quantity and obtain two free merchandise
- Inexperienced – generate 10,000 PV in collected retail gross sales quantity and obtain 4 free merchandise
- Orange – generate 20,000 PV in collected retail gross sales quantity and obtain six free merchandise
- Purple – generate 40,000 PV in collected retail gross sales quantity and obtain ten free merchandise
- Purple – generate 80,000 PV in collected retail gross sales quantity and obtain twenty free merchandise
- Black – generate 160,000 PV in collected retail gross sales quantity and obtain forty free merchandise
Reminiscience’s compensation plan states associates are in a position to decide on “quite a lot of free merchandise from a menu relevant to the rank standing”.
Assured Pay
Reminiscience ensures month-to-month pay to Yellow and better ranked associates:
- qualify at Yellow and obtain $137.50 a month
- qualify at Pink and obtain $262.50 a month
- qualify at Blue and obtain $468.75 a month
- qualify at Inexperienced and obtain $812.50 a month
- qualify at Orange and obtain $1750 a month
- qualify at Purple and obtain $2812.50 a month
- qualify at Purple and obtain $6000 a month
- qualify at Black and obtain $10,625 a month
- qualify at Silver and obtain $22,500 a month
- qualify at Gold and obtain $35,625 a month
- qualify at Platinum and obtain $75,000 a month
- qualify at Diamond and obtain $12,500 a month
- qualify at Crown Diamond and obtain $256,250 a month
These minimal quantities are paid on high of earned commissions and bonuses.
Residual Commissions
Reminiscience pays residual commissions through a binary compensation construction.
A binary compensation construction locations an affiliate on the high of a binary workforce, break up into two sides (left and proper):
The primary stage of the binary workforce homes two positions. The second stage of the binary workforce is generated by splitting these first two positions into one other two positions every (4 positions).
Subsequent ranges of the binary workforce are generated as required, with every new stage housing twice as many positions because the earlier stage.
Positions within the binary workforce are crammed through direct and oblique recruitment of associates. Word there is no such thing as a restrict to how deep a binary workforce can develop.
On the finish of every month Reminiscience tallies up new gross sales quantity on each side of the binary workforce.
Associates are paid a proportion of gross sales quantity generated on their weaker binary workforce aspect:
- White and Yellow ranked associates earn a ten% residual fee charge
- Pink ranked associates earn an 11% residual fee charge
- Blue ranked associates earn a 12% residual fee charge
- Inexperienced ranked associates earn a 13% residual fee charge
- Orange ranked associates earn a 14% residual fee charge
- Purple ranked associates earn a 15% residual fee charge
- Purple ranked associates earn a 16% residual fee charge
- Black ranked associates earn a 17% residual fee charge
- Silver ranked associates earn an 18% residual fee charge
- Gold ranked associates earn a 19% residual fee charge
- Platinum and better ranked associates earn a 20% residual fee charge
As soon as paid out on, weaker aspect quantity is matched towards the stronger aspect and flushed.
Leftover quantity on the stronger binary workforce aspect carries over.
Matching Bonus
Reminiscience pays a Matching Bonus on assured earnings and residual commissions.
The Matching Bonus is offered to Pink and better ranked associates, and pays on as much as two ranges of recruitment (unilevel):
- Pink ranked associates earn a 30% Matching Bonus on stage 1 (personally recruited associates)
- Blue ranked associates earn a 30% Matching Bonus on stage 1 and 5% on stage 2
- Inexperienced ranked associates earn a 30% Matching Bonus on stage 1 and 10% on stage 2
- Orange ranked associates earn a 40% Matching Bonus on stage 1 and 15% on stage 2
- Purple ranked associates earn a 40% Matching Bonus on stage 1 and 20% on stage 2
- Purple ranked associates earn a 40% Matching Bonus on stage 1 and 25% on stage 2
- Black ranked associates earn a 40% Matching Bonus on stage 1 and 30% on stage 2
- Silver ranked associates earn a 50% Matching Bonus on stage 1 and 35% on stage 2
- Gold ranked associates earn a 50% Matching Bonus on stage 1 and 40% on stage 2
- Platinum ranked associates earn a 50% Matching Bonus on stage 1 and 45% on stage 2
- Diamond ranked associates earn a 50% Matching Bonus on stage 1 and 50% on stage 2
- Crown Diamond ranked associates earn a 50% Matching Bonus on stage 1 and 55% on stage 2
R-Money
If a Reminiscience affiliate generates 100 PV inside the first ten days of a month, they obtain $18 price of R-Money.
You might be rewarded R-Money in quite a lot of different methods too like one off promotions and specials.
What R-Money can be utilized for isn’t specified however I’m assuming it may possibly solely be used to buy Reminiscience merchandise.
Becoming a member of Reminiscience
Reminiscience affiliate membership is free.
TS-Life additionally did not disclose membership prices and had numerous product pack bundles associates may enroll with. Whether or not that is the case with Reminiscience too is unclear.
Reminiscience Conclusion
Let’s get Reminiscience’s crimson flags out of the way in which first:
- Reminiscience possession or company data not offered (FTC disclosure failure)
- circumstances TS-Life closed and was rebooted stay murky (potential due-diligence failure)
- Caius Cale and Jade Coyle turning up in Dubai (keep away from any MLM firm primarily based out of or with ties to Dubai resulting from non-regulation and sheltering of criminals)
These crimson flags alone are sufficient to keep away from Reminiscience.
Whereas I can’t verify something, I discover City Retreat’s sudden warehouse fireplace a bit suspicious.
This is because of rumours that TS-Life’s issues in Eire have been resulting from unlawful importation of merchandise.
There’s additionally the name-change away from Acti-Labs. Maybe not eyebrow elevating itself, however a possible tie-in to TS-Life closing.
If City Retreat shifting operations from the UK to France is in any method tied TS-Life’s regulatory issues, that hasn’t been disclosed.
In any occasion, with Reminiscience now we have an MLM firm seemingly unable to replenish inventory till September 2023.
I shocked to see Reminiscience reselling Organo Gold merchandise. I didn’t understand Organo Gold was providing its merchandise to different MLM firms – I assume that’s a factor now.
I did be aware Reminiscience prevented utilizing Organo Gold’s title on its web site, as an alternative referring to the adopted vary as “Organo”. Not disclosing these merchandise are from Organo Gold is unusual.
After fascinated by it a bit extra, I spotted the swap to espresso is to maintain Reminiscience promoting one thing till the City Retreat restock.
Seeing as mushroom espresso has nothing to do with Reminiscience’s different merchandise, it’s a little bit of an odd place to be as an affiliate.
In the event you construct a espresso buyer base, you’re relying on Reminiscience persevering with to inventory Organo Gold’s merchandise. Failing which you lose your buyer base.
And that’s on high of probably shedding your present buyer base, as September 2023 remains to be 5 months off as I write this.
All of it is a disgrace contemplating Reminiscience’s compensation plan itself didn’t have any main crimson flags.
I wasn’t impressed with PV being known as “Private Retail Quantity”. That is deceptive given it counts an affiliate’s personal purchases.
I’d thought-about an affiliate’s purchases may be excluded, however primarily based on the compensation plan documentation wording that doesn’t appear to be the case.
Each product could have a CV (fee quantity) and RV (retail quantity) worth assigned to it.
Please be aware that it’s towards phrases to bulk buy of hold extreme inventory.
An absence of required retail quantity for rank qualification means a possible affiliate has to question their upline on how a lot retail PV they’re producing every month. This was the case with TS-Life too.
One large distinction between TS-Life and Reminiscience is the assured earnings. It’s actually attention-grabbing however may gas a pyramid scheme if associates are self-purchase PV qualifying and principally recruiting associates who do the identical.
All in all I feel the crimson flags I introduced up earlier are sufficient to warrant a go on Reminiscience.
The MLM firm may be price a revisit later within the 12 months – however between at times there’s quite a bit of disclosures that should be made.
Replace 18th April 2023 – In going by way of among the threads I’d saved as a part of my analysis into this evaluation, I got here throughout one I’d forgotten to discover pre-publication.
That thread led me to a March twenty eighth FaceBook video, through which Organo Gold Chairman Paul Caldwell reveals Organo Gold has bought Reminiscience.
[5:46] Organo has now publicly introduced the acquisition of Reminiscience.
And Reminiscience is a model, it’s a model acquisition. Out of um, manufactured in France. It’s a French model.
Organo’s world subsidiaries are concerned on this acquisition, considerably and considerably.
Whereas this does reply why Reminiscience is now promoting Organo Gold merchandise, it solely raises extra questions with respect to Reminiscience as an MLM alternative.
Caldwell states Reminiscience has been acquired as a “model acquisition”. Does that imply Reminiscience will proceed on as a standalone firm, or will it will definitely be folded into Organo Gold?
Why does Acti-Lab/City Retreat nonetheless personal Reminiscience’s web site area?
Will Caius Hale nonetheless run Reminiscience, or has he cashed out? If Hale has cashed out, which may go a protracted strategy to explaining why he’s turned up in Dubai.
Caldwell goes on to state;
[6:39] This transaction’s been labored on for fairly a number of months.
Contemplating this was introduced in late March, “a number of months” prior places us in direction of the tip of 2022.
Reminiscience solely launched in October 2022 – why did Organo Gold transfer to amass the corporate, coming off the again of TS-Life’s closure murkiness, so rapidly?
And why on earth did Organo Gold announce its acquisition of Reminiscience, two weeks after it was made public the corporate would don’t have any product stock until a minimum of September 2023?
Regardless of Caldwell making it sound like this has all been addressed publicly and clarified – it hasn’t.
I couldn’t discover any company stage clarification as to why TS-Life shut down, why Caius Hale disappeared, City Retreat’s involvement within the firm and now Organo Gold’s acquisition.
Following on from crimson flags raised within the evaluation above, there at the moment are main disclosures being withheld with respect to Reminiscience as an MLM alternative.
Pending these questions being addressed and that data being made public to shoppers, full due-diligence isn’t doable.
I’d keep away from Reminiscience till these disclosure points are satisfactorily addressed.
For now I’m leaving BehindMLM’s Reminiscience evaluation right here. If there are any updates with respect to lacking disclosures I’ll depart an replace beneath.
