Online Business Systems Review: At a Glance
Are you interested in working from home? Online Business Systems may be the right opportunity for you. This business is known as “the online business” and it is supposed to help you earn an income from home by utilizing pre-made websites. The opportunity promises that within minutes of signing up with them, you can be on your way to earning income. The website itself says to “go back to the person who told you about Online Business Systems.” The website wants their “sellers” to tell others about the earning potential located with Online Business Systems.
Online Business Systems Review: On the Web
Online Business Systems Review: A Closer Look
Online Business Systems seems like a unique opportunity for the right individuals. However, the business itself mentions several different names in which the opportunity operates under. If you order their system, then it is known as “The Online Business.” 
However, the website is referred to as Online Business Systems. The opportunity itself explains it was “designed and created by Online Business Systems in order to help people run a business from home using pre-designed web sites and an automated lead generation strategy.” Herbalife, a health and wellness company, appears to be a huge fan of Online Business Systems, and has been using it for years to help reach their maximum potential.
Online Business Systems Review: About the Founder(s)
There is not a lot of information about the founders of Online Business Systems.
It is a business that is registered with the Better Business Bureau and is licensed in the state of California. The BBB gives a real address for this business and proclaims that all “claims” have been settled according to the standards of the BBB.
Online Business Systems Review: Fees/ Guarantees
No noted guarantees seem to come with this business offer. Matter-of-fact the only way I can see to find out how much it costs is to follow through with the “cart process.”
Online Business Systems Review: What Are Others Saying?
It appears that people are split down the middle with this opportunity. Some say it is a scam and others say it is not a scam. Although it is registered with the BBB that registration, by itself, is no guarantee of legitimacy. Online Business Systems is given an “A” for following through with everything they have been given to deal with, customer wise.
Is Online Business Systems a Scam?
This is one of those opportunities that is hard to tell if it is a scam or not. If, as suspected, Online Business Systems is a marketing arm of independent Herbalife distributors then the “split” view makes sense. Herbalife employs a multilevel marketing sales model, and very often people group all MLM’s into the scam category whether warranted or not. The MLM sales model has been very successful for not only large companies but for many individuals as well. However it is clearly not suited to everyone.
Do you have any experience with Online Business Systems? I welcome your comments and thoughts below.
Sincerely,
Rich Riley
"Helping People Make Better Decisions Through Better Information"
Herbalife is simply a legit front for Online Business Systems. Basically you keep spending money trying to make money. For example, you pay $399 enter the business and actually learn how you will be compensated. To start out at the Supervisor level where you earn 50% profit on what you sell, you have to purchase $4000 worth of product, but your actual cost is $2000. I figure this is the way most of the actual products are sold. OBS main focus is for you to recruit more people. They could care less about how much herbalife u sell. Many people buy the supervisor package and get stuck with a lot of herbalife product because the products are too expensive compared to other products that are sold in stores. On top of all this if you want generate leads online you have to buy the leads, $500 for a list of 5 “HOT” leads which are people you could POTENTIALLY recruit to become distributors of herbalife. Also this company has had 3 different names in 20 yrs. Newest Way to Wealth, Global Online Systems, and now Online Business Systems.
They may be registered with BBB and are not a scam, but they are not up front about who and what they are until you pay (right now) $9.99 for the shipping of information. Then when you contact your coach, you hear what it is really about. I am still trying to find a legitimate address to send the packet back before they charge me $39.99. My “coach” will not email me back with that now that I am not interested.
Beth – where are you located? In researching this company, I found 3 locations: one in Colorado Springs, CO (I live in CO) this one is holding the BBB accreditation, the other two are in NM but do not have a BBB rating. Try contacting the one in Colorado Springs for help. Address is 6946 N Academy Blvd #166 Colorado Springs, CO. Phone number I have for them is 888.421.4850. They seem to be legit in that they do handle their customer complaints. Good Luck. I think after finding out that it is a marketing front for Herbalife (very expensive and hard to sell) I will pass on this. FYI – with any of these always check the link for terms and always verify that they have an actual physical address and legitimate phone number (I call it to see who or what answers). I hope you can get this resolved.
I’m sad to admit that I was taken in by Online Business Systems after hearing a prominent radio talk show host rave about it. So, here’s how it works. For $9.95 you get a small package raving about an online business opportunity that could potentially reap big money. No real information about how the business works is contained in this package. Very soon after receiving the package you’ll get a call from a person who will be your personal coach and who will try to talk you into going further and set up a 3 way call so can listen to recording of the head of Online Business Systems. Here is where you learn that you’ll be selling HerbaLife. You then decide whether to cut and run, or get pulled in like I did. If you go on you’ll be charged another $39.95 for for the initial information package and $399.00 for a distributor kit. This kit is a small black bag, a few sample items of product, some brochures, some order forms and training manuals. When you review the training manuals, you learn that the entire business is prescripted. There is literally a printed script that is followed by your “coach” through the whole process. There are even scripted answers for the questions most commonly asked. Here is where you decide if you want to stay at distributor level and make a 25% profit or, for $2000 more, move up to supervisor level and make a 50% profit. For the $2000 you receive around $4000 worth of product to sell, use yourself, or do whatever with. Now, after you’ve invested all that money, you want to recupe it. In order to do that, you can try to generate your own leads, or for $500 Online Business will supply you with 5 decision package leads and 10 or so call leads. A decision package lead is someone who has already invested the $39.95 and a call lead is someone who has invested the $9.95 to review the information package. So this isn’t so much about selling HerbaLife as it is about getting people to buy into the idea of selling it by guiding them through the process of spending $40, then $400, then $2000, then $500 for everyset of leads purchased. The “coach” gets a piece of every dollar you spend, their coach get a little piece, and so on up the chain. Some how Online Business Systems is a legal pyramid scheme. I made $1200 after having invested over $6000 before I called it quits. I should have listened to my wife.
Thank you for posting the valuable info. Someone I don’t know sent me the link with no personal contact info. He didn’t respond my questions either. Just feel there is a trap waiting for you to jump in. I am looking for something but definitely won’t be this one. Thanks again for sharing the truth with us.
Thank you sooooo much for your posting…I just paid the 9.95 myself and thought…hey it might be a good idea….glad I ran across your posting…we are looking to get a few extra dollars…not lose them!! lol.
Online Business System’s is just a really pushy way to recruit Herbalife distributors and sell product (but more to recruit people). They say that ‘anyone can do it’ which is a bogus claim, and if you start reading the fine print it even says that results will be based on your own business talent and that testimonials do not indicate what will happen in your business. There are also disclaimers to state that gross profit indicated in their marketing does not include marketing costs, and they recommend you buy around $1200 worth of marketing a month, so when they say $2000 profit, they really mean $800 and that would take an awful lot of hours to make, definetely not worth the time you put in. Some people have made a good income out of this, but their whole life is run by ‘Herbalife’ and they have meetings even at 9.30pm every night, and the uplines encourage you to keep working the business even during holidays. I could go on and on. It is a legitimate business with borderline false advertising (they get away with this false advertising with fine print disclaimers). I would suggest reading the fine print if you get involved in this business.
The leads are expensive and horrendous. As I agree with the previous reviewer, OBS model is based on recruiting not retailing Herbalife. Not a good area to start a home based online business.
Thank you. I have been thinking about signing up for the past week and almost decided to go for it TODAY. I am glad I only spent the $9.95 and not the $399.00
times are hard and I can not throw away $399.00 on a dream.