Coastal Vacations – Business Review
Coastal Vacations is a travel-based company with their corporate headquarters located in Kissimmee, Florida. Coastal Vacations offers a work from home opportunity by selling and marketing their vacation packages through the direct selling industry.
The Coastal Vacations product line consists of many different exotic vacation packages that offer travel to select destinations around the globe. This business opportunity consists of marketing these vacation destinations for a starting price tag of $1295.
The Coastal Vacations Internet business opportunity is known for their Australian 2-Up compensation plan. The payout is $1000 for every $1295 sale made by the qualified affiliate. The issue with this type of compensation plan is the requirement of two sales (hence 2-Up) before any commission can be earned. To get started with Coastal, a new person must pay $1295 to become a representative and then give up $2,000 ($1000 x 2) from their first two qualifying sales to their qualified sponsor. This means they must pass up $3,295 before they can earn any money with the program.
Another issue with Coastal Vacation’s 2-Up program is that if you bring in someone who makes a sale or two per day, you only get their first 2 sales and then you no longer get paid on their efforts. They then breakaway from their sponsor and actually end up becoming their competition. This doesn’t give the qualified Coastal sponsoring associate much motivation to help the new associate since they will ultimately become competition.
In conclusion, the Coastal Vacations has nice products. However, I decided not to join, because I was not satisfied on passing up my first two sales before becoming qualified. There are many other Internet opportunities where you can get paid on your first and every sale.
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