Is Real Time Pain Relief A Scam? A Painful Pyramid Scheme?

Real Time Pain Relief (RTPR.com), founded in 1998, and headquartered in Cabot, Arkansas, is a multilevel marketing company in the health and wellness market that, as their name suggests is focused on pain relief. 

Their founders are Ron Snodgrass And Tim Flatt whom make no claims to cure your pain relief but to provide temporary relief of your muscle strains, backaches, sprains, foot pain and knee paid and 100+ types of arthritic pain.

The company's mission statement is to help you to get your life back using "ingredient based therapy"

As a business they currently generate and estimated US$1 million per year in revenue.

Worthy of noting is the Real Time Pain Relief did not start out as a network marketing business, for their first 13 years from 1998 to 2011 they operated using a more traditional business model before making the change in 2011. 

Who Is Ron Snodgrass?

There is not much known about Ron Snodgrass in the MLM world nor online. Some people just like to be quiet I suppose!.

He was involved another network marketing business in 2009, Global Traffic Matrix, which was short lived and collapsed before Real Time Pain Relief adopted the MLM model.

Who Is Tim Flatt?

Tim Flatt is life long involved in fighting pain relief and helping people to find solutions to what blights and inhibits their enjoyment of life, as well as his business founding Real Time Pain Relief he is the Executive Director Of The National Christian Home School Championship. 

His pet project is PainKillerAwareness.Org and questions why the government of the US make it easy for a Doctor to write a prescription of Opoids and why drug manufacturers make lethal doses available over the counter and why they are permitted for sale by the government!. 

Besides starting and running a million dollar a year business in Real Time Pain Relief, Tim is an expert in lead generation and has been named as the CEO a various lead generation businesses over the past 20 years.

Real Time Pain Relief Lawsuit

At the current moment in time there appear to be no lawsuits against Real Time Pain Relief by any private citizens, corporations or regulatory authorities.

This is pretty good as lawsuits often go hand in hand with network marketing businesses. 

As Real Time Pain Relief is a network marketing business, there are two main ways in which you can generate revenue for your business with them: 

• Retail Sales: You sell products ane earn a commission, with this company 20% commission. 
• Recruitment: Recruit people into your team and earn residual pass up commissions.

The Real Time Pain Relief Compensation Plan In Detail

• Direct Retail Commissions

Direct retail commissions are earned when you make a sale to a retail client on your duplicate Real Time Pain Relief Website. 

A straight fixed rated of 20% is earned when you manage to sell their products. 

Residual pass up commissions from your downline team is calculated using the Unilevel compensation plan. 

The unilevel compensation plan is easy to follow. You are placed at the top, your direct recruits are placed below you on your level 1, your level 1 recruits when they recruit someone their recruits are placed on level 2. This model continues in this format. 

See the image for details. 

The number of levels on which they pay out on are capped at 7 levels deep. You can earn 5% pass up commissions on your direct recruits (level 1) and 2% of the subsequent levels. levels 2 through to 7. 

• Affiliate Ranks

Rank qualification is centred around obliged product purchases that are "State/regional/national Aggregate Volume". 

Those names might sound complicated what they are, are your own product purchases and your retail sales and that of your recruits in your downline. 

• The State Aggregate Volume: A combination of your own product purchase plus your retail clients and the wholesale products purchased by your personally recruited distributors

• Regional Aggregate Volume: A combination of the wholesale product purchases made by distributors on your unilevel team levels 2 and 3

• National Aggregate Volume: The aggregate volume of the wholesale product purchases made by the distributors on levels 4 to 7 of your unilevel team

There are 9 ranks with the Real Time Pain Relief Compensation Plan as indicated: 

• Basic Affiliate Rank: Join as a reseller which will cost you US$100 or as a vendor which will cost you US$300

• State Director Rank Level 1: Buy a minimum of $200 worth of product every month and reach US$500 state aggregate volume

• State Director Rank Level 2:  Buy a minimum of $200 worth of product every month and reach $1000  state aggregate volume

• State Director Rank Level 3:  Buy a minimum of $200 worth of product every month and reach $1500 state aggregate volume

• State Director Rank Level 4: Buy a minimum of $200 worth of product every month and reach $2000 state aggregate volume

As matter of habit I always check out a business opportunities standing with the Better Business Bureau. 

From there we can garnish a lot of information and see how professionally they conduct business. 

Real Time Pain Relief are not accredited and hold a A+ rating.

Some complaints that I have found were related to their products. For some people the products were ineffective, one or two people had complaints about the pump system not working. 

There were no complaints about the business opportunity site. 

There are no specific side effects stated relating to the products by Real Time Pain Relief. 

It is advised to seek medical advice if you are pregnant or breast feeding and to discontinue use if you are experiencing irritation or no effect. 

The FDA published a general warning about topic pain relief causing burns.

No, 

The majority of the products manufactured and sold are regulated by the FDA and are considered an Over The Counter drug.  

There are a few things that I do like about Real Time Pain Relief:

• The company are perfectly rated by the BBB
• They have a very unique and much needed product line. Very targeted.
• Earn 20% on all your own sales.

There are some things that I don't like about the Real Time Pain Relief Business Opportunity: 

• In all essence you can buy your rank. Looks like a "pay to play" deal
• You must pay US$200 auto ship to remain an active distributor
• You are paid to recruit. 
• The compensation plan is entirely based on auto purchases and not sales.

I most certainly think that it is possible for you to earn money from this business as a seller of their products. 

I do think their products will sell well. Given the opioid crisis many people will fear becoming addicted and seek natural topical solutions for their aches and pains. 

Despite having a full retail element to their business and fully compliant with all the laws and regulations in regards to anti Pyramid scheme laws due to the autoship obligation there is high potential for the compensation plan to be abused and operated as a pyramid scheme.

Why seek out sales when you can bung someone onto an obliged US$200 per month autoship and teach them to do the same?. 

Yes, 

Real Time Pain Relief Operates as a multilevel marketing business. This is easily deducted given their business model and compensation plan adopted. 

In my opinion Real Time Pain Relief is not a scam. 

There is no deception or act of intentional deception that leads to a financial loss. By definition, not a scam. 

I am not going to tell you that this company is legit either. If you focus on distributorship and direct selling yourself - eveything is good.

But on the MLM side of the business there are a lot of questions to be asked as this really does look like a pay to play system and then there is being paid directly for recruitment. 

I'm not saying this company are completely legit either. "not a scam and somewhat legit" is what I'll say. 

This is a difficult one to call and I will leave it with you!. 

If you are interested in selling their products, then yes you can make a good business with them. Naturally it all depends on your ability to sell. 

It great to see the changes that they have made to their compensation model and moving to wholesale - even better is the addition of an affiliate program with share a sale making a better and more passive income possible for you - with no stock to hold. 

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