This is a review of GOODLIFE USA with an example of the customer experience. There is nothing to buy here, nor will you be tricked into buying another product or being pitched a multilevel.
I own 2 local businesses in Oklahoma (one is 16 years old, and one is over 3 years old, so I am not just some random millennial internet mystery person trying to get someone to buy some other product) and I was working with a friend on a loyalty marketing program to help grow both companies, plus one other business that I had recently started. He told me about a new company that had just started up that he had just run across back in December 2016. This guy was on fire about this new company, the potential customer savings, the ease to expand it, and some income potential on the side.
The company he referred to was: GOODLIFE USA. He encouraged me to sign up in this social network marketing company and buy a few hundred cards to give out to my future and recurring clients. I did so back on January 10th. It seemed worth the risk to sign up at the highest level they offered if anything became of this, and I thought, what the heck, for well under $300.00 I can jump start what might be a phenomenal marketing campaign. Heck, one Google Adwords campaign runs more than that! Skeptical to say the least;I ordered 100 cards, then 200 cards, then 300 cards. I just received my first box of 100 cards on February 10th.
Before I get to the way the company works and their marketing and compensation, allow me to first look into the matter of whether or not these so-called $200.00 VIP CLUB Cards are even viable as a legitimate giveaway. These "$200.00 VIP CLUB CARDS have a subtitle on the front: "Exclusive Hotel Savings Worldwide.".
I really wanted to test drive this product to see if what I was actually going to be giving away to people was everything we were claiming. So, I went online, activated one of these cards by entering my name and providing an email address and my card went active. By the way, there was no sign up requirement, they did not ask for a credit card or anything in order to activate the card to use the savings. It was a very easy, quick experience where they asked for an email address, a desired password. They sent me an email verification, I verified by clicking the link and viol ah, this nice screen popped up giving me a chance to search hotels.
Once I logged on, I kind of did a bit of playing around the site to see if it was hype savings or really had the potential to save me and my customers any significant money. I did a little comparing room rates with Hotels.com, Expedia, Travelocity, and one or two others. I also called and checked a few hotel chains, but I also picked a few super cheap hotels for quick stops on the road like a little Days Inn in Sallisaw Oklahoma to check both ends of the travel spectrum. Savings on the cheap hotel was a bit over $5.00 off any rate I had ever been able to conjure up with AAA or senior discount or anything else. Hey, even helping someone save $5.00 on a $50.00 room is not shabby on an inexpensive overnight hotel.
Next, I clicked around and found "search by the largest savings" so I played with that one. Now things got interesting and this is where I started seeing the real potential for the card. By the way, do not underestimate this feature on the site, because sometimes there will be a world class hotel that has contracted special rates with Goodlife and you can get in there for the price of a 1 star hotel. An example of this was perhaps Tulsa's nicest hotel in all of South Tulsa- The Crown Plaza on Lewis Ave just across the street from Oral Roberts University. This is a hotel where rooms always run well up into the hundred/hundreds of dollar ranges, and yet I found a Goodlife Rate of $67.00 per night when I checked the 3rd week of February. So, do not underestimate this feature, because this is how I got a room Sunday March 6th for $184.12 that Hotels.com, Expedia, Priceline, and Travelocity all priced out at $429.00! Go try out that feature on this Goodlife site, it is a hidden gem. Now, back to the main story:
My wife and I have not traveled much in the past 3 years due to some family reasons, but I had just in the past few weeks agreed to attend a 2 day training session with one of my companies in Miami Florida on March 3rd and 4th. Money was tight, but right about the time I was looking at testing this GoodlifeUSA concept, here was a serious need for inexpensive travel to Miami. I was using my American Airlines air miles to fly for free, but if I flew back on Sunday, I would suffer a serious penalty using over fifteen thousand air miles needlessly.
I thought, hey, maybe I can talk my wife into coming and we will test drive a GOODLIFE USA VIP card to see if we can save some money. We were shocked at what this little card might do for us. We decided to break the trip into two pieces,one where we stayed close to my business training near Miami Airport for Friday night and Saturday, then I thought I would see if we could perhaps get a cheap deal out on South Beach Miami since we have heard so much about it. So, here is what we found.
We had a budget where we were trying not go over around $100 or $120 per night if we could help it while we were in town. We wanted to see what someone using the VIP card might experience if they simply took one of our cards and used it. We really wanted to see if the savings were real or just made up.
So, we activated a card, logged in with an email address and chose the upper right corner- "Search Hotels. We began searching Miami hotels. We searched by price and found that most hotels on the south side of Miami airport were running over a hundred, closer to two hundred dollars. There were a few low quality hotels, but they did not fit our criterion. We had 3 concerns: 1. A hotel that people did not think was a dump. 2. We really wanted one that had some kind of free shuttle service to the airport and a few local restaurants etc. 3. We were looking for something the closest to where I had to go for the training so I didn't run up high taxi or Uber charges. We then started searching for "largest savings" and boy did we stumble across a dream hotel for a super cheap price.
Our find: We found a hotel rated in the top 10% of area hotels that met our criterion, free airport shuttle, free local shuttle, close to the south end of Miami airport and close to the 6000 block of West 7th St. where I would be working. It greatly exceeded the quality expectations however, as this is on a private lagoon and is actually almost a resort.
6750 Nw 7th St Miami, FL, 33126
VIP card rate showed: Internet Rate; $175.29, VIP Club Discount: $58.50 You Pay: $116.79
THE KEY HERE IS IN THE GREEN PRINT- THE VIP Club Discount shown in the upper right is $58.50.
So, this is a screen shot from my phone on Feb 21st, the day room was booked. Notice the rate I would pay for this room was $116.79. Also notice the Green print above where it says "You Pay". It shows VIP Club savings: $58.50. This is the savings that anyone using this card would experience. This Green Print showing VIP Club Savings is where you will see the prices drop substantially from the lowest prices you will see on the Internet booking sites.
Think about this for a moment, someone has bought this card and given it away to someone else. The person receiving the card provides an email address and a password and no other information. There is no hidden agenda, no catch, there is no credit card requested or any other requirement. The recipient of the card simply goes to the site, searches for hotels and deals.
So, what you are seeing is where I actually used one of the $200.00 VIP savings cards we would normally give away. So, as you will see in the next picture, I booked the room for two nights. This is Thursday night and Friday night to check out Saturday since my training is scheduled to be over on Saturday and we are moving out to South Beach for the next two days.
Now, look at that picture above- we will be staying in this magnificent 3.5 or 4 star top rated hotel for a rate of $116.79 per night which is cheaper than any dump I could find anywhere near the airport. By now- February 23rd, I am starting to become a believer at least in the VIP cards.
Here are pics where I booked the room:
You will notice the $116.79 plus sales tax of $31.86 for a total of $265.43 two nights.
Think about this for a moment, someone has bought this card and given it away to someone else. The person receiving the card provides an email address and a password and no other information. There is no hidden agenda, no catch, there is no credit card requested or any other requirement. The recipient of the card simply goes to the site, searches for hotels and deals.
So, what you are seeing is where I actually used one of the $200.00 VIP savings cards we would normally give away. So, as you will see in the next picture, I booked the room for two nights. This is Thursday night and Friday night to check out Saturday since my training is scheduled to be over on Saturday and we are moving out to South Beach for the next two days.
Now, look at that picture above- we will be staying in this magnificent 3.5 or 4 star top rated hotel for a rate of $116.79 per night which is cheaper than any dump I could find anywhere near the airport. By now- February 23rd, I am starting to become a believer at least in the VIP cards.
Here are pics where I booked the room:
You will notice the $116.79 plus sales tax of $31.86 for a total of $265.43 two nights.
Now, I wanted to be super thorough on my review, so I went back to the net to double check to see if this was REAL savings that I could put to the test or was it bogus savings? Here are the actual screen shots of where I tried to find a cheaper online rate:
So here, we see the best online rates I could get at the time of $185.00 per night. I called the Hotel and the best rate was $209.00. So I will play apples-to-apples and compare the best internet rates as if I was just some guy off the street we gave the card to.
$185.00 per night- was the best online rate I could get-so for two nights- we take $185.00 times two = $370.00.00 plus tax of .1369% = tax of $50.47 for a grand total to pay if I had booked online right then: $420.47.
Best Internet Rate: as pictured above: $420.47. Rate actually paid by me or anyone using the GOODLIFEUSA $200.00 VIP Card we would give away: $265.43. Actual savings for a regular VIP card user for two night stay Miami Florida March 2nd and 3rd 2017 is: $155.04
So far, after having actually booked a hotel room and just using the VIP card as a test to see what a regular recipient of this card would experience while using the card, I am more than satisfied that the $200.00 VIP savings card we are encouraged to give away is truly a wonderful gift to simple give anyone you run across. I was actually blown away that I was able to save $155.04 over just a 2 night stay!
So, after having personally experienced very serious savings, we have begun the process of giving these cards out with a clear conscious that we will not be tricking or fooling anyone. So from reading this review, you are seeing first hand someone's brand new experience with GOODLIFEUSA. We are not experienced with this company at all. As far as giving out these VIP cards, we will be giving them out.
We personally have not started just giving them out to just anyone. We give them out to someone that has served us well at a restaurant, or someone that we have met out in public where we established enough rap pour to explain the card to them. I am still a novice in this area, and that is not the point of this review, it is simply to take a personal experience and review the GOODLIFE USA claims.
My quick review has no hidden agenda. I simply wanted to review my initial experience with the company and my initial experience to use a card as if I were a recipient of the card. I am a novice at giving out the cards, since this all happened in the past week and this review is only to show skeptics that if you receive a free GOODLIFE USA $200.00 VIP Club savings card- DO NOT THROW IT AWAY. It is a legitimate gift, and quick frankly worth purchasing from someone. In our case, in just a simple 2 night hotel stay, it provided a real cash savings of over $155.00 to a guy that is a very experienced older world traveler. I am an American Airline Platinum for life member with over 2 million air-miles on one airline alone. I am not claiming to be an expert, but I am much more than some novice pecking away on a keyboard.
This GOODLIFE USA $200.00 VIP Savings Card is legitimate, and it has no strings attached. If you want to save more, they give you an option to call customer service and become a customer or whatever you want to ask them. I am of the understanding that the card is somehow linked to the person that gave away the card and there {may} be some connection established between the card giver and the card recipient other than a commission paid to the card giver.
One comment for those of you that have looked at GOODLIFE USA and considered becoming an IBO (Independent Business Owner). It looks like you can make a great deal of money helping other people save money with these cards. For every card that gets used, whatever the person saves in the Green Print is supposed to be paid out at a rate of 50% to the person that gave them the card. This commssion maxes out at $100.00 commission for the person giving out the card. So with card holder savings up to $200.00, the person that gave them the card will be paid 50% of their savings up to $100.00. Example: In the above example we saved $58.50. After we check out of the hotel, GOODLIFE USA will send 50% of the $58.50 to place into the commission of the person that gave us the card. In this case-some time after we check out of the hotel the commssion would be sent out in the amount of $29.25.There may also be another payout to the IDO that enrolled the person that gave away the card as well depending on their level with the company. You can see where this is going. This company has a legitimate giveaway that helps people save money on travel. It has a legitimate commission offering on the person giving away the card, and has a legitimate commission offering on the person that helped bring them into the business.
You might be asking how can the company do this and how can someone get a $100.00 commission after someone uses the card and saves $200.00? Watch the math. I booked a room and would have paid $185.00 had I used Hotels.com. Hotels.com had probably negotiated the price of this room down to around $100.00 or $110.00 if they brought the hotel business electronically. Then Hotels.com would take the 70, 80, or 90 dollars of savings, paid their CEO several million, spent some that on almost billion dollar advertising budget, and numerous paid employees. The hotel is happy, it sold the room, albeit for a low profit, but this was pre-negotiated. GoodlifeUSA takes the difference between the Internet rate and the amount saved and passed out 75% of it back to the people on the street doing all the work to get the card in the hands of the actual buyer. There seems to be some additional payout money paid out down through their network as well. So Goodlife is simply shifting the 75% of the savings to the pockets of average every day people out there on the street and giving out cards instead of almost a billion dollars in global print, social, and TV advertising. This is simply a different business model than many of us are used to, but this is completely legit and seems to be a wonderful way to make money. My observation/review of Goodlife USA is that if you are an IBO, you spend your life giving away cards that improve the quality of life of the people you meet. You never sell anything, or ask anybody to buy anything. You just give away cards. If someone is interested in making a living doing this, you can show them some easy choices they can make to get into a risk free business based solely on giving. Whatever you do, I can assure you now from my personal experience that this is not a scam.
That is my review of the free $200.00 VIP Savings Card from GoodlifeUSA. If you have a point of contact to the person that shared GOODLIFE USA to you, please get in touch with them. Go to www.goodlifeusa.com and select signup- . If you do not know your enroller's name, or id, then you can actually search for it right there at signup.
If you need additional help, you are welcome to email me FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSE of helping you find the person that introduced you to GOODLIFE USA. I will not put my number on here as I do not wish to profit from this page. Besides- since I published this page, I have a fast growing group and I am busy signing up my own new IBO's that see this unbelievable opportunity so I do not need to poach anyone.
If you need help however- I can be reached at tulsagoodlife@gmail.com.
UPDATE: After trip pictures of our Miami stay. Hotel was MUCH NICER than we had anticipated. Checkin was easy and flawless: They said "sir, your room is prepaid" and simply took a card for a few incidentals, could not have been a nicer experience.
We were however shocked to find out that with our first travel experience with GOODLIFE USA VIP card the room was actually a beautiful suite. It had a small den with a nice couch and 2 big screen TV's. The room was one of the nicer we have stayed in, and the hotel was on a beautiful private lagoon. Great experience as pictured below.
