I've done a little research on this and have some concerns that perhaps you could allay. Can you tell me if I'm understanding this correctly?
LTW definitely appears to be a new twist on the standard MLM model. It seems that the selling of any actual products to anyone else is entirely removed. To me, having a good product to sell is the thing that distinguishes a good MLM business from those that too closely resemble some kind of tetrahedral monument, but there is a different aspect to this one.
The key feature - the sole thing that makes it legitimate and legal - is some kind of cashback arrangement on grocery shopping. A bit like Quidco, but restricted to a single retailer. We all use Quidco and occasionally benefit from referrals, no problem with that.
From what I've read, the prices of the groceries are a little cheaper than supermarkets on some products, but significantly higher on others.
The range is limited and in order to benefit fully from the "passive income" feature, you have to be doing £200 of your own shopping every month through the site.
Question 1: If you're hitting your £200 target, how does the total price compare with supermarkets? I've seen examples of individual products, but how does the whole basket compare? If you'd like to give us your last £200 shopping list, I'll run it through tesco.com and see how it fares.
The other aspect is the classic Egyptian-tomb-shaped "team" you can build up. This seems to happen in two ways:
Direct recruitment, like our new friend is doing in this thread, which gives you the bonuses mentioned when you grow to a certain size.
Question 2: I assume this is a one-off for hitting 6 people, and you won't be getting £750 every month?
Once I've alienated all my Facebook friends, I can see this drying up pretty quickly. Then the people I recruited will get disillusioned, because they'll be trying to market to all of our mutual friends, who are already sick of my spam.
Nil desperandum! There's also the passive minions that they might give you. They say they'll build up your team without having to bother people. This bit sounds fantastic. They'll give me 2 people. Then give 2 to each of them, maening I have 6 under me, and so on down 10 levels, giving me a maximum of 2046* when it's all full.
Question 3: Is there a set schedule for filling up my levels, or is it just as and when they feel like it?
The problem here is the typical issue with such schemes, surely you'll run out of people. Assuming I'm not one of the earliest sign ups, it must require an inordinate number of people to fill my structure. If I'm coming in as a level 10 minion for someone else, filling the tenth level for everyone at my level will require a million people. Filling the tenth level of my tenth level minions will take a billion. This doesn't seem sustainable.
It looks a lot to me like you have to rely on being one of the early ones in to make anything worthwhile of this.
Question 4: What makes you think this is sustainable in the long term?
*Level n has 2^n people, giving a total of 2^(n+1)-2 in the whole trapezoid.