Coastal Vacations Info Wanted

Would someone with more experience in the business be more apt to give better training?

When I pay the $1295 to join, is that just for starting the business, or is it also to get access to the discounted travel opportunities?

(What if people want to purchase discount travel but not start a business? Is there a product for them?)

Is the business opportunity open to prospects outside the US? I know a number of people in Europe, South America, and Asia who like to travel and might find this a wonderful opportunity for themselves. Is that possible?

Can you please list out and explain all the different option of leads plus costs. Also can you tell us on average how many sales you make per lead, per different type of lead as well as the people you have sold to. The more clear you answer, the more possible sales you can make off this response! Greatly appreciate it. Thanks

I see you have been hearing some positive thing. Now hear the negative ones.
Most of their ads on line say, "No Cold Calling !". My experience was nothing but that. All their system does is send out automated emails as reminders and with email systems like Yahoo and Hotmail, those emails end up in the junk mail anyway.
The idea of CSG is good but their product is anything but that. I too was on cloud 9 that this will be the last job I'll have and that I will retire after this. It became a nightmare trying to arrange a trip for myself. Their affiliates would not fulfill for them which would have to be reported to the CSG management so they can find someone else. You don't get to take a good look at their product until it's too late. All of the money exchanged is with money orders or certified checks. Need I say more ? I tried to find a place in Hawaii and all they had was a 1 star resort. Only one for all of the hawaiian islands !! They have $1000 shopping sprees that you purchase for $6.95. When you go on line, they say the item is free but you pay for shipping and handling when you can actually buy the same item thru someone else for lessINCLUDING S+H. Their gas cards, car rental, etc, COMPLETE JOKE !! I have no idea how the hell they could be making the money they are claiming in all of their webcasts and advertisements selling a product like this. My package is now in the garage collecting dust and for the hawaii trip I am dealing with a travel agent. I find it to be a complete waist of my 1300 dollars.

Hi there,
I've been researching Coastal for about 2 weeks, checked BBB and the whole nine yards. Everything seems to come out clean so I am getting closer to making the jump onboard. After searching out different potential directors, I stumbled across one that displayed "proof" of some checks he had received. Those checks were paid out by a company called Clear Business Solutions. I noticed on the BBB site that there was one complaint against this company in the past 36 months and that the owner of the company failed to respond to the complaint. Now given that you can't please 100% of the people 100% of the time, I didn't let that discourage me in my due diligence but it really confuses me when it comes down to how you get paid in this company. After reading all the threads in this forum, I understand that you get paid by the customer or new client, not the company, so if that is true, why are all the directors checks made out by a company. Please help me understand so I can get on with what's important, like signing up to Coastal. Thanks

Oh yea, I almost forgot. In doing my due diligence with Coastal, I also have seen that there is a $700 charge for a "Call Center". An automated closing system that does all the selling for you. You just have to run 4 line ads and let the Call Center take over. Can someone please tell me if this is a legit system and is this system approved by Coastal Synergy Group? Can it be trusted and is it being accpted by all or just a few. Thanks.

Wealthy WAHM,
I need to correct some of your info. I am a member of the "We Close Your Sales" call center which is the one you are speaking of. The business name of the call center is Clear Business Solutions and NONE OF THE EMPLOYEES ARE COASTAL MEMBERS. This is simply to ensure to us who use the callcenter that they are NOT stealing our leads. They have no reason to do that since they are not members. They make their commission off of the $700 extra that it cost to join. It's more than that for the upper levels. We have GREAT training on our back office website and being able to offer people who are not great at talking to leads a way to not to have to do that is awesome. All of my sales so far have been made for me before I ever even talked to them except for one time. After the sale is made you dive in and train them. You can still do it the old fashioned way if you choose to do so but using the call center where they have experienced sales people is the way to go in my opinion. After you start making money you will build your confidence and you will like talking to people. As far as not knowing if you have sales or not, the sales associates record notes when they talk to a lead that came from your advertising and you can access those notes in your back office. You will see how the conversation has gone and when they are making a follow up call or if they went ahead and joined. The call center called me to inform me of my first 2 sales and to see how I wanted to get payment. They don't take credit cards so if someone wants to use a credit card then they have to pay you through paypal and as soon as the comfirmation email is sent to you , you tell the guys at the callcenter and they send out the package for you and then you send the call cente a check for their part of the deal. It's a GREAT system and over 1 million dollars in commissions have been made through the call center in less than 18 months. That's pretty darn good. They close about 18% to 22% of all the calls that come in. That's some good ratios. I hope I have cleared up some of the questions.

Harold Simpson