You speak like a true MLM’r. Ambit energy is a joke and a scheme. Anyone who would pay $427 just to sell their product which they are ALREADY making a good profit from is ludicrous. You all should be shot. Oh and by the way Ambit is NOT the ONLY one who has partnered with Royal Dutch (Shell). There is another who has Star Tex. Do not unwisely spend your money buying that Ambit crap. Just to put things into perspective for you.

Say a company or residence is paying 10 cent per kilowatt back in 2007 and they signed a contract or are going month to month (makes no difference). This year in Texas depending on which part you live (some areas lower or higher than others) you can get rates for 7 cents. So this is where they really nail you BESIDES the entry fee you pay of over 400 dollars. So they can sign you up say for 8 cents per kilowatt per hour. That means they tagged 10 mils on it. And let me tell you folks 10 mils on something is substantial depending on how much they use.

In my opinion you guys working at the bottom for either company are SUCKERS and those at the top can burn in hell. My hats off to you for getting people sucked in but seriously f u.

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Another erroneous statement made was that the initial fee paid in to become a consultant adds to Ambit’s profit margin. Reality is, 100% of that money is paid out in Bonuses to the field.

Probably the biggest factor in our profitability is our Patent Pending Proprietary Energy Purchasing system, designed by Jere Thompson. This system allows Ambit to forecast our energy needs with a 1% margin of error. This compares to the industry average of around 20% for other providers.

In addition, our customer acquisition costs are virtually zero, because Ambit doesn’t spend millions of dollars advertising. They pay commissions to the field only when a customer pays their bill. Therefore, no money is wasted on hopes of acquiring customers. We don’t get paid unless we actually acquire a customer AND they pay their bill!

On the subject of stability, Ambit has been chosen to partner with Dutch Royal Shell, the third largest company in the world, 2nd most profitable. This alliance gives us the ability to purchase electricity up to a year in advance. Many companies struggle to buy it two months in advance as is required by the PUC.

Also, by the way one other key difference between Ambit, Ignite and Zurvita…Ambit is the actual Retail Electric Provider, not a marketing arm reselling another company like Zurvita and Ignite. Zurvita is marketing for MX Energy and Ignite represents Stream Energy. Ambit is just Ambit.

Hope this clears up some of the mis-information.
Thanks for the opportunity to set the record straight!

Terri Hammack
National Consultant
Ambit Energy

Ambit is a franchise-like business. You have a start-up cost (with NO annual renewal) and a small monthly overhead. You can become profitable in less than a day. Compare that opportunity to something like a Ben & Jerry’s franchise. Go to their website and see how much it costs. It is almost $500,000 out of pocket. It will take you a while to even start breaking past your monthly costs and start making positive cash flow, much less how long it will take before your original investment is covered and you actually start making a profit. Ambit is so much better than that.

Some more erroneous information that you have is the customer churn. Ambit was actually praised by the Texas Public Utilities Commission for having such a low turnover rate. The great majority of Ambit’s customers are very happy and therefore loyal.

Ambit is not an illegal pyramid scheme. They have been looked at and approved by the utility commissions in four states. Shell had their team of experts look over everything with a fine-toothed comb before asking Ambit to partner with them. BTW, they just recently renewed that strategic partnership. David Biegler, the former COO and President of TXU, retired from that company and came to Ambit asking to be an investor and advisor. None of these would have anything to do with Ambit if it were a scam.

Speaking of pyramids…did you ever consider that the CEO of a major corporation makes millions (even when he does a bad job and gets fired), the other executives make a little less, the management levels even less, and the individual contributors never even make close to what the executives make? Sounds like a pyramid to me. Not illegal, but still a pyramid.

BTW, did you know that Ambit customers now have the ability to earn a credit on their energy bill that can reduce or even eliminate that monthly payment by simply referring other customers? So…you can become an Ambit customer for free, enjoy very competitive rates, get a free 3-day/2 night hotel stay, earn travel reward points every month, refer some friends/family and get a free cruise, refer a few more and get a credit on your energy bill. Even better—the credit is applied every month! That means an average family in Texas can save about $3,000 a year! If that same person had decided to become a consultant too, then they would also be making a residual income off all of those referrals every month.