LegalShield
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Overall Rating: | Overall Rating |
| Type of Business: | MLM | |
| Skill Level Needed: | Intermediate to Advanced | |
| Income Potential: | Not Specified | |
| Website: | http://legalshield.com | |
| Recommended: | No |
LegalShield Review
by David Harris
LegalShield, formally known as “Prepaid Legal” is found at LegalShield.com, is a multi-level marketing business that sells legal aid packages as its product.
There are so many issues with LegalShield I don’t even know where to begin, but I’ll start here.
There are so many bad reports and complaints about them that it’s amazing they are even still in business.
They have changed names at least once from Pre-Paid Legal Services to LegalShield.
And I know for certain they had a bad reputation with the previous name, too.
LegalShield claims that for as little as $20 per month you can have access to help from the participating attorneys.
The actual help you get is bare-bones minimal, shoddy at best.
Then it was transformed into a Multi-Level Marketing business and that is where most of the problems began.
As so happens with most MLM business opportunities.
More than three-quarters of LegalShield’s sales reps can’t sell more than 1 plan.
But fail to divulge this information to prospective sales representatives prior to them joining.
In fact, average LegalShield sales commissions are about $250 or so per year.
This means that there aren’t many people making any substantial money with this program.
The company pays an advance commission for the customer’s full 1-year service they sign up for.
However, many cancel before that year is up and LegalShield then takes back a portion of those commissions.
Besides getting others to sign up, you must also be signed up first yourself.
And sign on to their associate agreement, too while maintaining your membership or making 3 sales per quarter, or 6 sales a year.
If you do not meet their requirements, you will get dropped and lose your whole downline.
Yes, this includes all future commissions, etc., which LegalShield gets to keep all of…
Huge red flag!
This alone is reason enough to never have anything to do with this company.
How convenient for LegalShield, since most Legal Shield Independent Associate sales reps get the drop before they get the chance to enjoy any substantial earnings.
Most earnings would have gone to your upline anyway, but when they drop you it all goes to them after all.
In order for any of this not to happen, you must continually be a recruiting monster.
Remember, the majority would only ever get 1 sale per year if they are lucky.
You are clearly set up to fail from the beginning.
Many, many years ago when I was looking for work, someone contacted me saying they had a great job offer.
It turned out to be a recruiter for LegalShield back when it was still called Pre-Paid Legal.
It felt a lot like a timeshare presentation, only a lot more greasy.
Needless to say, I passed on this “fantastic opportunity”.
LegalShield continues to crank out similar reps today.
There are many limitations to the service Legal Shield’s participating attorneys provide that it does not seem like a worthwhile product.
Contracts over 15 pages cost extra.
One call or letter per legal matter to your participating law firm only.
The list just goes on.
Among complaints registered by upset users of LegalShield include incorrect contract evaluations, incorrect information on crucial forms like Medicaid, etc.
That and unusually long times to complete simple forms, failure to call back on time-sensitive matters and so on.
Hundreds of more complaints I can’t list here makes LegalShield a dicey proposition to say the least.
Something you have no business trying to sell to others.
Having had an unpleasant recruitment experience, and having looked further into Legal Shield and its rather pyramid scheme like structure and rabidly aggressive recruitment tactics by desperate reps I can say one thing.
Legal Shield is a multi-level marketing scheme that falls short of so many I come across, and that is saying something.
As most MLM business opportunities go, they all suffer the 99% failure rate as it is.
However, when you consider the substandard product on top of a terrible compensation plan designed for failure, you can see that LegalShield falls short of the mark in so many ways.
I can’t call it an outright scam since they don’t actually rip people off.
But it’s as close as you can get.
But nevertheless, I do not recommend doing business with LegalShield – as a network marketing rep nor as a customer.
Thanks for reading the review…
– David
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