
Lyoness
Lyoness Overview
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Lyoness has 1.9 star rating based on 50 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
- Rating Distribution
Pros: Big opportunity to have a share of retailers around the world, Regular cash deposts to my bank account, Idea of investing in new business.
Cons: Too complex, Sales pitch, Being ripped off.Recent recommendations regarding this business are as follows: "Keep trying. They are still in business.", "It truley is a scam".
The aggregated data is based on reviews and questionnaires provided by PissedConsumer.com users.
Lyoness has 1.9 star rating based on 50 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
- Rating Distribution
Pros: Big opportunity to have a share of retailers around the world, Regular cash deposts to my bank account, Idea of investing in new business.
Cons: Too complex, Sales pitch, Being ripped off.Recent recommendations regarding this business are as follows: "Keep trying. They are still in business.", "It truley is a scam".
Most users ask Lyoness for the refund as a solution to their issues.
Consumers are not pleased with Reliability and Customer service. The price level of this organization is high according to consumer reviews.
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Lyoness SCAM. STAY AWAY.
I am a gold member of lyoness. Lyoness is a true scam. I can responsibly tell you this. STAY AWAY FROM LYONESS. Do not ever buy gold membership. I am going to tell you why.
First of all, I just spoke with their representative on the phone. They officially confirmed to me that all the discounts that you get in a form of cash back to your account are only redeemable towards purchases through Lyoness. You will never get any real money from them. I called to find out how to withdraw the accumulations in my cash account. They said - only by purchasing vouchers. Period. This means the stories of people making large amounts of money monthly are simple lies. Anyone who states otherwise is either a dreamer or is paid by Lyoness to say so.
Secondly, if you've seen the Lyoness videos, you've noticed that there is a complicated system of units that is very hard to grasp. Why do you think these units were created? Why not just stick with good old numbers - you spend this much, you get this much in cash, this much in bonus, this much in affiliated bonus, whatever else they may offer, everything can be expressed in dollars. No! Lyoness created units for you not to think of numbers. Why? Because if you start thinking numbers, you'll be running away from Lyoness as fast as you can.
Let's translate units into dollars.
When you, being a Lyoness member, make a purchase from a Lyoness merchant, you receive a small discount (0.5% for buying from Coles Express, for example), and a larger loyalty bonus. Of course, knowing that Lyoness charges up to 10% from the merchants, no one would go for 0.5%, so they created a loyalty bonus system. tOn top of 0.5% cash (just discovered that this cash is only redeemable towards purchases from Lyoness merchants), you receive 2-3-5% of loyalty bonus that eventually forms your UNITS. Every time you loyalty bonus accumulates to $75, you get one unit of Accounting Category I (ACI). How much do you have to spend to get an ACI? If you only buy expensive things from merchants Lyoness scammed for a higher discount, you might be able to get a unit by spending $1,500.00. But if you do what Lyoness advertises – “spend money on your everyday needs, just like you always do”, the realistic number will be closer to $2,500.00 You don’t get anything by forming a unit. The first bonus of $675 Lyoness pays you is when that unit “matures”. In order to mature one unit of the Accounting Category I (ACI) and receive $675, your entire lifeline (you, people you subscribed, people they subscribed) has to make purchases for $183,750.00, provided that the your lifeline only loses 5% of the units because of the imbalances. Yes, remember that in order to mature a unit, you have to deliver 70 units under it. 35 above the centreline and 35 below. So, if you have 335 units above the line and only 34 below, your initial unit will not mature until you get one more unit below the centreline. Smart, isn’t it.
Let’s take this number for further calculations. Since you are not allowed to market Lyoness to people you don’t know, and you are only limited to your friends and acquaintances, you can organise them yourself to make large purchases collectively and realise much higher discounts without being a Lyoness member. A 10% discount on total purchases of $183,750.00, which is relatively easy to negotiate these days, is $18,375.00, not $675 generously promised to you by Lyoness.
To mature a unit of the Accounting Category II (ACII), you have to accumulate 60 units of the ACI, so multiply $183,750.00 by 60. You underline will have to spend a total of $11,025,000, to mature one ACII. All for you to receive the most generous bonus of $1,275.00 from Lyoness. When is that going to happen?
To mature an ACIII and proudly receive $2,400.00 from Lyoness. Remember, this is not real money. Only spendable within Lyoness merchant network. So, to mature an ACIII, you lifeline will have to accumulate 50 ACIIs, meaning to spend $11,025,000.00 multiplied by 50 for a total of $551,250,000.00.
To mature an ACIV, your lifeline has to accumulate 25 ACIIIs, so multiply $551,250,000.00 by 25. You lifeline will have to spend $13,781,250,000.00, and you will receive $7,200.00 from Lyoness.
Finally, to mature an ACV and receive $24,000.00 from Lyoness... Wasn't that you goal? Are you ready?... Completely ready? Sitting down, listening to the drum beat, waiting for the number?.........
To mature one ACV, your lifeline will have to accumulate 25 ACIVs, meaning they will have to spend $13,781,250.000.00 multiplied by 25 for a total of $344,531,250,000. Three Hundred Forty Four BILLION, Five Hundred and Thirty One Million, Two Hundred and Fifty thousand dollars spent by your lifeline to receive a generous bonus of $24,000. So, when do you think all your relatives and friends that are *** enough to subscribe for Lyoness membership will spend that much money if they start today?
This is 0.00000007% of a discount. Imagine yourself walking to a local retailer and asking for a 0.00000007% discount on your purchase. (Especially if the purchase is for one third of a trillion dollars) There is no way for you to get that discount without Lyoness, of course.
As internet marketers say, BUT WAIT! THERE IS MORE!
So, if Lyoness negotiates a discount of 10% with the merchants, and you only get 0.00000007%, where does the difference go? Oh, yes, you get a regular discount of about 2% that is given to you in a form of cashback and is, by the way, taxable. We are still missing about 8%. Let’s not count 0.00000007% anymore. You’ve got to be Lyoness to call it money. So, on a $344 billion dollar purchase, Lyoness pockets about 8%, which is somewhere in the vicinity of $30 billion dollars. Not that it’s going to happen. All I’m trying to illustrate is that Lyoness gets you to run around subscribing people for 0,00000007% savings (not real money) and they get 8%. Isn’t it a little bit too fat? And if you have so much free time, wouldn’t you be better off just visiting your local stationary wholesaler, buying $10,000 worth of stationary from him at a 20% discount and selling it to the same relatives and friends? You’d make a solid $2000 profit over a school season, and your relatives and friends wouldn’t call you a scammer.
Another thing Lyoness doesn't tell you is that to use their system, you, all the people you refer and all the people they refer will have to permanently change their shopping habits. Have you seen many people happily changing their good lifelong habits over a 2% discount? Well, these are the people you will have to find and subscribe to earn your pennies from Lyoness. Now, if you want to make a little more pennies from Lyoness, these people will have not only change their shopping habits, they will have to be actively running around finding others alike and subscribing them to Lyoness. What a job! What a pay!
Do you buy from Woolworth? Well, forget it. With Lyoness you only earn your bonuses if you purchase from Coles. You probably know, that in most cases you have to purchase vouchers and gift cards of the merchants you want to use before you can get any benefit from Lyoness. That means, you buy a $300 gift card from Coles, wait for a week or two for it to arrive in the mail, and then, every time you walk by your favourite produce shop that's not a part of Lyoness, you have a dilemma. You can go and buy low priced quality produce from your favourite shop or you can buy Coles *** for about 50% more, but you'll get a 2.5% discount. And you will go and buy from Coles because you've already spent this money. That's right. You've already bought the gift card. Whether you use it or not, it is your problem now. Lyoness has already made their money and Coles too.
One of the few freedoms we have left in the modern society is the freedom to buy what you want and to spend your hard earned money the way you want. You don’t vote for the Prime Minister of this country. You don’t vote on carbon tax, bank deposit levy or cigarette tax. You don’t have those freedoms. Yet you still have a freedom to vote for your favourite shop by going there and spending your money. Lyoness takes this freedom away from you. From the moment you join Lyoness, you'll be buying from merchants that pay Lyoness to be in the system. You will have one freedom less. Form many people this is their last freedom.
This all means that you will be running with your tongue on your shoulder subscribing other people (paying $1.5 for each subscription from your pocket, by the way), convincing your friends and relatives to join Lyoness in a hope to get some retirement passive income for yourself, and at the end your entire lifeline, including yourself, will realise that the system is a pure scam. It takes your freedom away; it pays pennies for major inconveniences; and a little bit more pennies for hard work of selling memberships.
Stay away from Lyoness. Spread the world about this scam.
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Verified Reviewer |Pagamento
quando viene corrisposto importo di 10 su conto da me predestinato per cashback contanti?.........................................................................................................................................................................................................
Cashbacks not received
Hello
The email address I am registered with you is lorrainec1@***.com however I am no longer using that emai.
I have received several messages stating money would be transferred to my account but nothing has arrived at my bank
Would you please rectify this?
thank you
Lorraine Critchlow
Could not find their website
When I tried to contact Lyoness' website I got sent to Pissed Consumer so have made the assumption others have had difficulty contacting them. Within days of asking for assistance in locating them I was contacted by them and I'am working towards resolving my questions.
User's recommendation: Keep trying. They are still in business.
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Verified ReviewerReturn my money
not resolved
no one replied to me
Dear Sir/Madam,
I joined Lyoness many many years (cant remember which year) which I have also established my team in Brisbane. Because I always so busy for other businesses and a lot of overseas travelling, so I don't have time to do this business.
I have been asked Lyoness to return my $3000 investment, but no one ever interested to get back to me. However, I really don't have the time to do this business, especially now I am no longer living in Australia.
So, I wish just to get my $3000 money back and moved on to my life. Thank you!
- No refund
Preferred solution: Full refund
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Verified Reviewer |Return my money
I have invested $3000 Australian dollars many many years ago (forgot which year I have joined) for Lyoness, and I have also established a team under my umbrella. However, I am too busy for other things and travelling around the world, so I could not keep this membership going. In the previous time I have asked Lyoness to return back my investment, but never hget it back.
I have not received my cash back into my account
I have not received cash back that is owed to me. I got it in March...then nothing..why hasnt the money gone in. Also I must have so many points I have never used them and dont know how to use them.
False representation
They said we would get cash back. Never did.
Not for local purchases or for overseas start up.
I want my money back and my friend's money too.
Count me in for the class action. Abbotsford Canada.
Preferred solution: Full refund
User's recommendation: It truley is a scam
Run the other way
TOTAL SCAM-would give negative stars if possible
- Misrepresented themselves
Preferred solution: Deliver product or service ordered
Anyone in the UK looking to claim
There must be many people wanting to make a claim/lawsuit against Lyoness in the UK.
I believe there is a bigger chance if more people get together and make claims and then also we could split expensive lawyer costs.
for people invested more than £3000 email me and I will look into this.
larsliss@***.com
Here's a lawyer in Austria that seems legit, but I rather found one in the UK
https://www.breiteneder.pro/en/cases
Personally, I think this Ben Ecker, Dr Joseph Fromhold and BE Konflikt Management seems very unprofessionally and is possibly another scam to get more of your money.
Preferred solution: Full refund
Tesco online gift card
I bought £20 Track eGift Card on 16 Aug 2018 through Lioness and when I tried to use a few days later I got told there was zero balance. When I contacted Lioness they said it was used in full on 18 Aug 2018 by someone in a place I have never been to im my life.
I can not believe this could happen. I wasn't helped further.
Lyconet Marketer gets FULL REFUND
Australian ‘Lyconet Premium Marketer’ gets a full refund of lost monies, paid into bank account.
You can view and read his testimonial at: https://youtu.be/x6JXcPaSXAE
Scam - fake promises of passive income
I live in the uk. I invested 20,000
Me, my wife, my sister, and both my parents are all premium members.
We were promised many things and 4 year later nothing has happened. Is there anyway we can get our money back?
Sinking ship that emerges an ever new places
I was part of the lyoness family from the beginning (dont believe me check up the names, Freidl, Kaiser, Seebacher, Orregio, Freidinger, Galler, Kapun... most of them are presidents or higher and you never hear from them, some are official positions)
The system is working with no product, which means the system works if new people join and pay, big time!!!
Since the beginnnig they are in trouble with the law.
Norway banned it in 2018, lyoness has entered revision and lost in 2019.
So in Norway Lyoness is officially banned ... also in Italy ....
Many many people lose money.
Since 2003 it has been said at every event "this is only the beginning" in 2019?
It is the beginning of the end
And if you want to get money back, they tell you no no no!!!
BUT don´t shy away!!! There so called "contracts" are not legally, as soon as a lawyer sends them a letter they call you and pay you!!!
Same with me!!!!!
- Promises
- False partnerhips
- Flase statements
Preferred solution: Full refund
The clouds
In lyoness you can buy a cloud in a market.
The first cloud was austria with 888.888 cloud units a 1500euro (sold out).
The cloud buyers gets aprox 2.5% return on all the trades in that cloud.
Austria was where everything started and had been running for 12 years befor the cloud started.
Austria have aprox 600k members and majority of members was connected before the clouds. The trade of members joind outside the cloud does not give the cloud investors any %.
But lets say (for fun) all the austra members contributed to the payout for the investors.
According to several cloud investors they got a payout of 750euro after 2 years.
If all the 600k members was in the cloud the had traded an averege of 1850euros a month!!
Possibole? No!!
So where do the payouts come from? Newer country clouds!
Whats the name of a game like that? Ponzi scam!
You better turn around and run when you hear someone say Lyoness/Lyconett/Cashback world.
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Lyoness is an international shopping community providing its clients with cash back opportunities. It means a customer can buy any product and get a certain amount of money back. Founded in 2003 by Hubert Freidl in Austria, Lyoness has become one of the biggest loyalty companies in the world. By 2012 the company has expanded to more than 40 countries including USA, Australia and Southern America. The company’s motto is: "Cash back with every purchase". To receive Lyaness Cashback card customers should create a profile on company’s website and print out a card or save it to the smartphone. Cashback card works in all Lyoness Loyalty Merchants. Also clients can shop online using their Cashback cards and getting benefits 24/7.

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