Traveling Vineyard Compensation Plan

Basically, as a DSA member company, we’ve promised to be honest and above-board with our Wine Guides in every situation, to set them up for success as best as we can, to treat them with courtesy and consideration, and to both hold them accountable for their actions as our representatives and be held accountable in return.

(There’s also a bit about fair treatment in buying back overstock, but that’s not really applicable to Traveling Vineyard Wine Guides since, apart from the initial purchase of the Wine Guide Success Kit, they don’t keep stock on hand.)

If you’re interested, the DSA summarizes our responsibilities to our Wine Guides like this:

• Provide you with accurate information about the company’s compensation plan, products, and sales methods.
• Describe the relationship between you and the company in writing.
• Be accurate in any comparisons about products, services or opportunities.
• Refrain from any unlawful or unethical recruiting practice and exorbitant entrance or training fees.
• Ensure that you are not just buying products solely to qualify for downline commissions.
• Ensure that any materials marketed to you by others in the salesforce are consistent with the company’s policies, are reasonably priced and have the same return policy as the company’s.
• Require you to abide by the requirements of the Code of Ethics.
• Safeguard your private information.
• Provide adequate training to help you operate ethically.
• Base all actual and potential sales and earnings claims on documented facts.
• Encourage you to purchase only the inventory you can sell in a reasonable amount of time.
• Repurchase marketable inventory and sales aids you have purchased within the past 12 months at 90 percent or more of your original cost if you decide to leave the business.
• Explain the repurchase option in writing.
• Have reasonable start-up fees and costs.