Easy1Up
Six course tiers from $30 to $2,500 in which every product link on the site routes to the same join page - there is no price at which a non-participant can buy anything, and no income disclosure statement has ever existed.
Every product tier links to join.php, so buying the course and enrolling as an affiliate are the same transaction - and 90.9% of your payment goes straight to your sponsor as a private member-to-member transfer the company never touches.
Can you actually make money with Easy1Up?
No, and the reason is one click. Every one of the six product tiers on the company's own products page is hyperlinked to the same destination, join.php. There is no customer price, no customer tier and no path by which anybody could buy these courses at any price without enrolling as an affiliate in the same transaction. Buying the product and joining the program are one button. So every commission in the plan originates in an enrollment payment, and the company states that all payments are one time, meaning no repeat purchase exists to fund one from anywhere else.
The rule the field repeats is the one that decides the money: you can only earn what you own. Sell a $2,000 package while holding the $25 tier and you are paid $25, and the other $1,975 passes you and travels up the line. Upgrading costs the full price of the new tier rather than the difference, so climbing all six rungs runs to $4,565 to reach a position $2,500 buys outright. That is the mechanism turning a $30 offer into a $2,500 one, and it makes every conversation about the plan an upsell conversation.
The money never touches the company either. Sign-up produces two payment links, a small one to the company for the admin fee and the package price direct to your sponsor as a private transfer, and clause 15 disclaims the company's involvement in it outright. Clause 14 reads in full: "All sales are final. No refunds." A chargeback against the company recovers at most the admin fee, Bitcoin and Tether are accepted and those transfers are irreversible by design, and no 1099 is issued because nobody at the company handled the money. There has been no income disclosure in ten years.
What is true on the other side is worth saying properly. The floor really is $30, being $25 plus a $5 admin fee, so somebody can test the whole thing for the price of a takeaway rather than the $2,000 usually reported. There are no recurring charges at all: no autoship, no renewal, no maintenance fee, no minimum volume, no inventory to write off. Commissions arrive instantly and in full with no float, no threshold and no withdrawal friction, and reviewers specifically note the absence of payment complaints. The plan is four paragraphs long and describes its own pass-up honestly.
$25 Elevation package plus a $5 admin fee, paid as two separate transactions - the genuine floor, and materially lower than commonly reported; the top tier is $2,500 all-in
- A price at which somebody who does not want to join can buy the course. While all six tiers route to join.php, the model contains no buyer who is not also a participant.
- One published earnings distribution. Ten years with no median, no mean and no zero-earner rate means nobody can compute an expected value before handing over up to $2,500.
- A refund window of any length at all. Clause 14 runs to four words, applies to a sight-unseen purchase at every tier, and there is no company in the payment path to refund anybody anyway.
- Charge the difference on an upgrade, or drop the earn-what-you-own rule. Asking $4,565 to arrive where $2,500 lands you is what pushes a $30 buyer up the ladder.
That call is computed, not chosen - the rule reads three of the nine published dimension scores and is printed on the methodology page. It describes this company's plan and the figures it publishes about the people already in it. It is not a prediction about you, and nothing on this site is advice.
Legal status
LEGAL BUT UNTESTED - no FTC action, no SEC action, no state attorney general action, no state securities order, no court finding and no regulator warning naming Easy1Up, Multiplex Systems, Inc. or Peter Wolfing could be located anywhere. That is across ten years of this program and roughly a dozen related brands going back to 2012, all of them publicly criticized throughout. The absence is real, it is reported here as a fact, and it counts in the operator’s favor on the narrow question of enforcement history. The other half has to be stated with the same plainness. Both elements of the Koscot test are present on the company’s own documents: payment for the right to participate, and compensation unrelated to sales to ultimate users, because there is no category of ultimate user who is not a participant - every product link on the products page routes to join.php. That is structural exposure, not adjudication. No tribunal has applied Koscot to this program, no agency has charged it, and this report does not assert in its own voice that it is an illegal pyramid. The mechanics are severe and evidenced; the verdict is unwritten. The confident "pyramid scheme" verdicts published about this program online are trade journalism and commentary, not findings.
Confidence: Medium
Primary sources fetched directly where possible. Everything we could not verify is listed at the bottom of this page by name.
Follow the money
A six-tier bundle of pre-recorded digital marketing courses sold at $30, $110, $275, $550, $1,100 and $2,500 all-in, operated since 2016 by Multiplex Systems, Inc. of New York on what the company itself calls a "Reverse 1 Up" plan, in which participants are paid directly by the people they enrol rather than by the company.
Several things here are genuinely good and they should be said first, because they are unusual in this category. The entry price is really $30 - $25 plus a $5 admin fee - so the floor risk is a takeaway meal rather than a five-figure coaching ladder. There are no recurring fees whatsoever: the company states "All payments are one time", and there is no autoship, no annual renewal, no maintenance charge, no minimum volume and no qualification purchase, so a participant cannot bleed money passively. There is no inventory, no physical product and no stock to write off. Commissions are paid instantly and in full with no company-held float, no threshold, no wallet and no withdrawal friction. The compensation plan is four paragraphs long and states its own mechanics plainly, including the pass-up and the earn-what-you-own rule - deceptive plans hide their mechanics, and this one does not. There is a real corporate entity, active in New York since 1998. And after ten years of operation and a decade of public criticism, no regulator anywhere has acted against it.
Then the structure. There is no retail channel at all. Every one of the six product tiers on the products page is hyperlinked to the same destination, join.php, so buying the course and enrolling as an affiliate are one transaction. No customer price exists, no customer tier exists, and no non-participant can buy at any price - which means 100% of the money paid to any participant comes from another participant’s buy-in, and the company itself confirms there is no repeat purchase to fund anything else. The plan is a Reverse 1-Up: your second sale at your highest purchased tier passes up to your enroller, along with the recruit, who is permanently reassigned into their organization. Sale one you keep, sale two you lose, sales three onward you keep. In return, you receive the second sale of everyone you personally enrol. And you can only earn what you own: sell a $2,000 package while holding the $25 tier and you are paid $25 while $1,975 passes you up the line.
The economics are set by two terms working together. Upgrading costs the full price of the new tier and not the difference - the company’s own FAQ says so - which means climbing all six tiers costs $4,565 to reach a position available for $2,500 outright, an 83% penalty for taking it slowly. Combined with the earn-what-you-own rule, that is a permanent, structural pressure to buy high on day one. No income disclosure statement has ever been published, so nothing about outcomes can be checked. Where the money goes is checkable: on a $550 purchase, $500 goes to the sponsor, $50 to the company, and $0 to producing the product.
The organizing fact behind the paperwork is that commissions are member-to-member direct payments and the company is not in the payment path. Sign-up produces two payment links, one to the company for the admin fee and one to your sponsor personally. That single design decision produces the refund position ("All sales are final. No refunds."), the absence of any chargeback route for the 80 to 91% that went to a private individual, the absence of a company-issued 1099, the acceptance of Bitcoin and Tether on rails that are irreversible by design, and the fact that roughly nine-tenths of the money moved by this program has never appeared in any company account.
Where every dollar of a $550 purchase goes
Worked at the Vertex Elite tier - $500 package plus a $50 admin fee - from the company’s own fee schedule as corroborated across four independent reviews. The two zero rows are the point of the exercise, not padding.
| Product | Price | Pays |
|---|---|---|
| Elevation Two video series, fifteen modules total, on network-marketing basics and autoresponder setup. The genuine floor of the program and the only tier at which the downside is trivial. Note the fee here is 16.7%, not 10%. |
$25 + $5 admin = $30 one-time |
$25 per same-tier sale |
| Elevation Elite Eighteen modules including Google Plus, which was shut down in April 2019, and live events embedded in Google Hangouts, retired in 2022. Also includes a module teaching participants how to use a large open course marketplace that sells comparable material for about $15. |
$100 + $10 admin = $110 one-time |
$100 per same-tier sale |
| Vertex Fourteen modules on mindset, offers, list building and affiliate marketing. Three sources give the admin fee as $25 and one gives $50; the better-corroborated figure is used here and the conflict is flagged. |
$250 + $25 admin = $275 one-time |
$250 per same-tier sale |
| Vertex Elite Five modules only - the thinnest catalog of any tier - plus reported access to a team rotator distributing incoming sign-ups. The rotator is described by one secondary source, has no official company description, and is unverified. |
$500 + $50 admin = $550 one-time |
$500 per same-tier sale |
| Vertex Pro "Connect" Twenty-five modules, including Google Hangouts Marketing, Tumblr training, SlideShare, traffic exchanges, USFreeAdsTraffic, a Snapchat "Business In A Box" and a duplicate of a module already sold at the tier below. |
$1,000 + $100 admin = $1,100 one-time |
$1,000 per same-tier sale |
| Vertex "Live" Fourteen modules plus an event replay, including Periscope Marketing Excellence - Periscope closed in March 2021. The admin fee here is 25% of the package, two and a half times the rate at every other tier, and the company has never explained why. |
$2,000 + $500 admin = $2,500 one-time |
$2,000 per same-tier sale |
| The admin fee (all tiers) A separate payment, on a separate link, to the company - the only money Multiplex Systems, Inc. receives from the transaction. 16.7% at entry, 9.1% in the middle, 20% at the top. |
$5 to $500 one-time, per purchase |
— |
| Upgrading a tier The company’s FAQ: "The price is the full price of the new product and not the difference between where you are and where you are going." Climbing all six tiers costs $3,875 in packages plus $690 in admin fees - $4,565 - to reach a position that costs $2,500 bought outright. |
the full price of the new tier per upgrade |
— |
Who runs it, and what they ran before
Self-describes as ex-military, entering network marketing as a distributor in 1990 and founding Multiplex Systems in 1998 to provide "support services and training products to network marketing companies". His connection to this program is established three ways: the BBB listing of easy1up.com under his company, his own LinkedIn profile as owner of Multiplex Systems since August 1998, and a promoter-published video titled "Welcome Video By Peter Wolfing - Founder of Easy1up". He is not identified on the website a participant actually buys from. One consumer complaint alleging non-payment of commissions appears on an unmoderated, self-published complaint site; that is not evidence of anything beyond the fact that someone posted it, and no weight is given to it here. No regulatory action, fraud judgment, criminal proceeding, bankruptcy or civil judgment against him could be located in any source reviewed.
The BBB file for Multiplex Systems, Inc. lists nine program domains; trade coverage documents at least twelve brands. Turbo Cycler (2012), Ultimate Cycler (around 2013, collapsed the same year), Business Toolbox / Lead Toolbox, Infinity 100, National Wealth Center - which is the alternate business name on the BBB file - Pay Me Forward, Easy1Up (2016), Ueconomy (2017), Hand of Heaven (2018), Direct Mail Pro (2019), Daily Digital Club (2020), Phone Broadcast Club and Bootcamp Webinar. Roughly one new brand a year, most lasting one to three years, all built on the same mechanic: buy a tier, recruit, be paid directly by your recruits. Two fairness points. The existence and ownership of these brands is corroborated by the BBB’s own neutral domain list, which matches trade coverage domain-for-domain on five of them; the characterisations attached to them in that coverage ("gifting scam", "pyramid scheme") are an opinionated critic’s labels and are treated here as commentary. And Easy1Up is the survivor of the portfolio - nine-plus years is by a wide margin the longest-running program in it, which means the operator did not vanish, which many collapse-and-relaunch operators do.
Beyond Wolfing there is no named officer of any kind: no chief financial officer, no compliance officer, no legal counsel, no board, no corporate office. The registered address is an apartment; the mailing address is a PMB mail drop. The BBB rates the parent entity A but simultaneously records it as not accredited, and states as its reason for rating "Failure to be transparent about ownership, location, or products/services offered" - a private ratings body’s finding, not a regulator’s, and it should be read as exactly that. The BBB’s own business categories for the entity are "Not Substantiated Wealth Building Training, Multi-Level Sales"; "Not Substantiated" is the BBB’s category language for wealth-building claims it has not verified. A separate BBB search for "Easy1Up" as a trading name returns no results at all.
Registered address
New York, New York, USA
The website carries no corporate identity at all - no About page, no company name, no registered address, no officer, no company number, nothing beyond a footer reading "©Copyright 2025, Easy1Up.com". The entity is nevertheless establishable from third-party records: Multiplex Systems, Inc., New York DOS ID 2282625, active, with Peter Wolfing recorded as both chief executive and registered agent at an apartment address on East 96th Street, and a PMB mail drop and a PO box on the Better Business Bureau file. The BBB profile for that entity lists easy1up.com by name under "Additional Websites" alongside eight sibling domains. So a real, long-lived corporate entity exists - twenty-seven years old - and the finding is not that it is a shell, but that it is undisclosed. A person paying $2,500 is given no company name, no jurisdiction and no officer, only two payment links. There are no company financials of any kind: no audited accounts, no unaudited statement, no filing obligation. Two third-party numbers circulate - an automated data-broker firmographic estimate of roughly $6.4 million and a promoter’s own marketing claim of "well over six million dollars" through one downline - and neither is a company figure. Both should be treated as unusable. The structural reason matters more than either: because the tier price is paid directly from the new participant to their sponsor and only the admin fee reaches the company, roughly nine-tenths of gross participant outlay never enters a company account at all.
The veteran's checklist
Eight questions that decide whether this is a business or a transfer mechanism. Same eight, every review.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who legally owns it? |
RED
Multiplex Systems, Inc., a New York corporation active since July 1998, DOS ID 2282625, with Peter Wolfing as chief executive and registered agent at an apartment address. None of this appears anywhere on easy1up.com, which carries no company name, address, officer or company number.
|
| Can a non-participant buy the product? |
RED
No. Every one of the six tiers on the products page links to join.php. There is no customer price, no customer tier and no purchase path that does not also enrol you as an affiliate.
|
| What does it really cost? |
CONCERN
$30 at the floor - $25 plus a $5 admin fee - and $2,500 at the top. Nothing recurs. But upgrading costs the full price of the new tier rather than the difference, so climbing all six costs $4,565 to reach a $2,500 position.
|
| Published income disclosure? |
RED
None, ever, in ten years - no median, no mean, no zero-earner rate, no tier breakdown. In its place, a clause saying "We make no claims on how much money you can make with our program."
|
| Who actually pays you? |
RED
Your recruit does, directly, by a payment link at sign-up - card, Bitcoin or Tether. The company only takes the separate admin fee and its terms disclaim any role in the rest. No company-issued 1099, no company chargeback path, and no reversal at all on crypto rails.
|
| Can you get your money back? |
RED
No. Clause 14 reads in full: "All sales are final. No refunds." No cooling-off period, no trial, no buy-back. Clause 10 additionally pre-waives the operator’s liability if the program shuts down.
|
| Regulatory action against it, ever? |
OK
None found. No FTC, SEC, state attorney general, state securities or court matter names Easy1Up, Multiplex Systems, Inc. or Peter Wolfing anywhere in ten years. The pyramid verdicts published online are trade commentary, not adjudication.
|
| Merchant play or miner play? |
RED
Miner, without qualification - there is no merchant option available. Selling a course and enrolling a participant are the same transaction, so every dollar earned is paid by someone who joined, and break-even is always counted in recruits.
|
What has to be true for you to get paid
| To cover | You need |
|---|---|
| Recover a $30 Elevation entry, no advertising | 3 recruits at $30 sale 1 pays $25, sale 2 passes up to your sponsor, sale 3 pays $25 - cumulative +$20 on the third recruit |
| Recover a $1,100 Vertex Pro entry, self-funded | 3 recruits at $1,100 - or 46 recruits at $30 you are paid at the tier your recruit buys, capped at the tier you own; the spread between 3 and 46 is decided entirely by what your recruits buy |
| Recover a realistic first year at Vertex Pro | 6 recruits at $1,100, or roughly 62 at a blended mix $4,223 in: $1,100 buy-in, $2,400 of advertising, $228 autoresponder, $180 hosting, $15 domain, $300 of solo ads |
| Recover the top tier the marketing pushes | 4 recruits at $2,500 $2,500 in, plus $1,823 of running costs; sale 1 +$2,000, sale 2 passed up, sales 3 and 4 +$4,000 - and the admin fee on this tier is 25% |
Read this twice
Every line above is counted in recruits enrolled, and that is not a stylistic choice - it is the only unit available, because selling a course and enrolling a participant are the same event in this program. There is no version of this model in which someone breaks even by selling to the public, because there is no public price. Three things make the arithmetic harder than it looks. First, the pass-up: your second sale at your highest purchased tier is forfeited to your enroller, along with the recruit, so every plan needs one more sale than it appears to. Second, you can only earn what you own, so a $1,100 participant whose recruits buy the $30 entry is paid $25 a time and needs forty-six of them rather than three - and no data exists anywhere on what tier mix actually occurs, because the company publishes none. Third, upgrading costs the full price of the new tier rather than the difference, so the participant who starts small and climbs pays $4,565 to reach a $2,500 position, and every dollar of that superseded spend has to be recovered too. Against all of that, one genuine credit: there are no recurring fees at all. No autoship, no renewal, no monthly qualification. A participant who buys once and stops has lost exactly what they chose to spend and nothing more, which is a materially better failure mode than the categories where losses accrue monthly whether or not anyone is selling. Note finally that the blended-mix assumption in line three is our modeling, not a company figure. The company has never published a tier mix, which is precisely why no prospect can run this calculation before paying.
Run your own numbers
Drag the sliders. Nothing here is stored or sent.
Modeled at the Vertex Pro tier, where a kept sale pays the full $1,000 straight from the buyer to you, because that is the tier the marketing pushes. Three rules make the headline figure worse than it looks and all three are in the plan rather than in the criticism. The second sale at your qualified level passes up to your enroller, so one of your first three sales is worth nothing to you. You can only earn at tiers you have personally bought - if a recruit buys above your level, the difference goes past you up the line. And an upgrade costs the full price of the new tier, not the difference. The $1,000 also assumes your recruit buys Vertex Pro; on an ordinary high-ticket funnel mix the blended average per enrollment is nearer $70, which is a modeling assumption the report flags as unverifiable precisely because the company publishes no tier-mix data. Cost is the $1,100 Vertex Pro entry spread over twelve months plus about $35 a month of autoresponder, hosting and domain; advertising belongs on the slider. Of every dollar a recruit pays, about 90.9% goes to their sponsor, 9.1% to the company as the admin fee, and 0% to producing the product - and because payment is member-to-member, the company is not in the payment path, so there is no chargeback route, no refund (“all sales are final”) and no 1099. No income disclosure statement has ever existed. Your own subscription cost of $127/mo is included.
What it costs to replace this yourself
The $2,500 top tier against what the same stated capability - digital marketing, affiliate marketing, social media, funnels, dropshipping, SEO and email - costs on the open market, using ordinary course marketplaces and subscriptions at their real published prices and the free certification academies run by the platform owners themselves. Prices verified July 2026 except where noted.
| What they sell you | What you'd use instead | Your cost |
|---|---|---|
| Vertex Live, $2,500 - fourteen modules and an event replay, non-refundable | A major university-and-industry course subscription, unlimited access, graded assessments and certificates, money-back guarantee on the annual plan | $399/year |
| Vertex Pro, $1,100 - twenty-five modules, several on closed platforms | Five individual marketplace courses on ads, SEO, email, dropshipping and funnels, lifetime access, 30-day money-back guarantee on each | ~$75 |
| Vertex, $275 - fourteen modules on offers and list building | A general creative-and-business class subscription, 25,000+ classes, free trial | ~$165/year |
| Elevation Elite, $110 - includes a module on how to use a course marketplace | That course marketplace, used directly | $10-25 per course |
| Facebook and Instagram advertising modules | The social platform’s own official advertising training, from the company that owns the ad system | $0 |
| Traffic, search and analytics modules | The search platform’s own official Ads, Analytics 4 and video certifications, updated whenever the platform changes | $0 |
| Email, content and inbound marketing modules | The free academy run by a listed CRM company, with employer-recognized certifications | $0 |
| Solo ads, Pinterest, Reddit and funnel modules | The same tactics taught free by named creators on video, updated continuously | $0 |
| Modules about autoresponders and funnels | An actual autoresponder - the capability rather than a course about it, which participants pay for on top regardless | ~$19-49/mo |
| Total as sold $2,500 one-time, non-refundable |
Total, built yourself ~$639 for a full year - or $0 for the free stack |
Price-to-value
Roughly four to one against on the paid comparison and unbounded against the free one. But the ratio understates it. The replacement stack is current, refundable, taught by named institutions and instructors, carries assessments and certificates, and is produced in three cases by the owners of the very platforms being taught - who have a structural incentive to keep it accurate that a resale licensee does not. The catalog being compared against it still lists Google Plus, Google Hangouts and Periscope modules in 2026, names no instructor beyond "Steve & Peter", publishes no runtime or update date, and cannot be returned. The honest conclusion is not that the courses are overpriced. It is that nobody is buying the courses: they are buying the right to be paid for enrolling the next person, and the courses are what makes that a purchase rather than a payment.
Three operators, five horizons
Probability of cumulative net profit
Hover any point for median, top decile and bottom quartile.
The $30 tester
buys Elevation to see what is inside, posts a link a few times, stops
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | 10% | −$30 |
| 6 mo | 12% | −$30 |
| 1 yr | 13% | −$30 |
| 3 yr | 13% | −$30 |
| 5 yr | 13% | −$30 |
The upgrader
starts at $30, is told the money is at the top, climbs tiers at full price, adds a small ad budget
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | 4% | −$700 |
| 6 mo | 5% | −$1,900 |
| 1 yr | 6% | −$3,600 |
| 3 yr | 7% | −$5,100 |
| 5 yr | 7% | −$5,600 |
The paid-traffic recruiter
experienced media buyer with a list, buys the top tier on day one to unlock every commission level
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | 18% | −$2,900 |
| 6 mo | 26% | −$2,400 |
| 1 yr | 33% | −$1,200 |
| 3 yr | 36% | +$1,500 |
| 5 yr | 36% | +$2,500 |
Methodology note. These are modeled outcome ranges, not claims, and they are modeled from a thinner base than any other file on this site - which is itself the finding. No income disclosure statement has ever been published by this program, so there is no median, no mean, no zero-earner rate and no earnings-by-tier table to anchor to. ANCHORED to what is verified: the six tier prices and their admin fees; the $25, $100, $250, $500, $1,000 and $2,000 commission ceilings; the pass-up on the second sale at your highest owned tier; the earn-what-you-own rule; the full-price upgrade rule; the absence of any recurring fee; and the published running costs a promoter-recommended setup requires - roughly $200 a month of advertising, $19 a month for an autoresponder, $15 a month of hosting, a $15 domain and about $100 per solo-ad buy. MODELED by us: the share of each cohort in cumulative profit, the tier mix of recruits, the pace of enrollment and every dollar figure above. Two calibrations that cut in the program’s favor and should not be buried. The tester’s downside is genuinely bounded at $30 and stays there, because nothing recurs - a floor that is lower than almost anything in this category. And the third cohort is real: a competent media buyer with an existing list can profit here, and does. Their profit is funded entirely by the people below them, most of whom sit in the second cohort, which is the outcome the upgrade rule and the earn-what-you-own rule are jointly engineered to produce.
Where you are actually allowed to promote this
Platform policy reads, not verifications. Check every one before you spend a dollar - enforcement changes faster than the written policy does.
Red flags and green flags
Red flags
151No retail channel exists at all
2100% of compensation originates in enrollment payments
3No income disclosure statement has ever been published
4"All sales are final. No refunds."
5Upgrades cost the full price of the new tier, not the difference
6"You can only earn what you own"
7The operator is named nowhere on the website
8A serial-launch track record of roughly twelve brands since 2012
9The published course content is demonstrably obsolete
10Content appears to be mass-licensed PLR with no named instructors
11Member-to-member direct pay strips every consumer protection at once
12The company’s own marketing is explicitly get-rich-quick
13Promoter income projections run unpoliced
14The top tier carries a 25% admin fee against 10% everywhere else
15A pre-written shutdown liability waiver sits in the participant agreement
Green flags
91No securities exposure to the participant, on any reading
2The entry price is genuinely $30, not $2,000
3No recurring fees whatsoever
4No inventory, no physical product, no stock risk
5Commissions are paid instantly and in full, with no float
6The compensation plan is simple and honestly described
7A real, long-lived corporate entity sits behind it
8No regulatory or court record of any kind
9The operator has not absconded
We would like to be wrong about this
Upward
- Publishing an income disclosure statement with median and mean earnings, the percentage of participants earning nothing, and a breakdown by tier - the single highest-impact change available, and the only one that would let a prospect compute anything at all before paying.
- Opening a genuine retail channel: a published customer price, a buy-without-joining path, and audited data on sales to non-participants. This is the only change that could move the compensation score off the floor, because it is the only one that addresses the Koscot question directly.
- A refund window - even fourteen days on the higher tiers - plus crediting prior purchases against upgrades rather than charging full price, and naming the legal entity, jurisdiction, registered address and a compliance contact on the website itself.
Downward
- Confirmation that the sibling brand marketed under the same initials is the same operator’s current offer, and that participants are being moved into a $25-to-$8,000 credit ladder promising passive Bitcoin with no recruiting required. A promised passive return on capital would engage Howey and collapse the one dimension on which this program currently scores well.
- Any regulator action, enforcement matter or court filing naming Easy1Up, Multiplex Systems, Inc. or Peter Wolfing - of which, as of this review, there is none.
- Non-payment reports at scale between participants, which is the classic terminal signal in a direct-pay program whose inflow has stopped; or evidence that the pass-up applies at every level rather than once at the top tier, which one secondary source claims and which would materially worsen participant economics.
Grade is F at 2.08. A $30 floor, no recurring fees and instant full payment - attached to a plan in which no non-participant can buy anything at any price, and no income disclosure has ever existed.
Start with what is real, because it is more than the category average and it belongs at the top. The entry ticket is $30, not the $250 to $2,000 band commonly reported - $25 plus a $5 admin fee - so the floor risk is trivially small. Nothing recurs: the company states "All payments are one time", and there is no autoship, no renewal, no maintenance fee and no monthly volume to hold, which means a participant who stops has lost exactly what they chose to spend. There is no inventory to write off. Commissions are paid instantly, in full, member-to-member, with no float, no threshold and no withdrawal friction, and reviewers consistently report no payment complaints. The plan itself is four paragraphs of plain description that tells you it takes your second sale and that you can only earn what you own. There is a real New York corporation behind it, active since 1998. And after a decade of visible operation and continuous public criticism, no regulator anywhere has acted against it - which should be stated as the fact it is, and not inflated into a defense it is not.
The structure is where it fails, and it fails on the company’s own documents rather than on anybody’s characterisation. Every one of the six product tiers is hyperlinked to join.php, so there is no price at which a person who is not becoming a participant can buy these courses - no customer tier, no retail list, no wholesale differential, nothing. That makes 100% of commission enrollment-derived, and with no repeat purchase to fund anything, the only money available to pay anyone is the next person’s buy-in. On top sits a Reverse 1-Up, not a two-up: your second sale at your highest owned tier is forfeited to your enroller together with the recruit, who is permanently reassigned. Then the two rules that decide the economics - you can only earn what you own, and upgrades cost the full price of the new tier rather than the difference. Together they mean that a participant who starts at $30 and climbs pays $4,565 to reach a $2,500 position, and that a $25-tier participant who enrols a $2,000 buyer collects $25. The ranking called this textbook Koscot exposure and the mechanics support it; what does not exist is any tribunal that has said so.
The fact that ties the paperwork together is that the company is not in the payment path. You pay two parties: the company for the admin fee, and your sponsor personally for the package. Clause 15 disclaims the company’s involvement in the second one. That is why "All sales are final. No refunds." is not merely a harsh term but a structural inevitability - there is no company holding your money to give back. It is why a chargeback recovers at most the 9 to 20% admin fee while the rest sits with a private individual, and why Bitcoin and Tether acceptance matters, since those rails do not reverse. It is why no 1099 is issued by anyone and every participant is self-reporting peer-to-peer income with clause 16 making bookkeeping their own problem. And it is why roughly nine-tenths of every dollar this program has moved has never appeared in a company account at all. One structure decision, five consequences, all of them landing on the participant.
If you are going to test it, test it at $30 and nowhere else
The Elevation tier is $25 plus $5 and there is nothing recurring behind it. You will see the catalog, and the catalog is the point - if the modules being sold at the tiers above still list platforms that were shut down in 2019 and 2021, you have your answer without spending $2,500 to get it. What you must not do is treat $30 as the first rung. The upgrade rule charges you full price for every step, which is precisely how a $30 decision becomes a $4,565 one.
Ask for the retail price, in writing, before you pay anyone
Ask your sponsor what a person who does not want the business opportunity pays for these courses, and where that page is. There is no such price and no such page - every tier links to join.php. That single question separates a program that sells something to customers from one that sells participation, and the answer here is available in ten seconds from the company’s own site.
Buy the education for $639 a year, or for nothing
A major university-and-industry course subscription is $399 a year with a money-back guarantee, a general class subscription about $165, and five marketplace courses on ads, SEO, email, dropshipping and funnels about $75 - around $639 for twelve months of current, refundable, credentialed training. The free version is better still: the official academies run by the search platform, the social advertising platform and a listed CRM company cost $0, are updated when the platforms change, and are produced by the people who own the systems being taught.
If your actual skill is buying traffic, sell something that has customers
The one cohort that profits here is the experienced media buyer with a list, and their profit comes entirely from the people they enrol. That same skill applied to any affiliate offer with a genuine customer base earns as much or more, is not capped by which tier you happen to own, does not forfeit your second sale, does not require the person you sell to become a seller, and leaves you with an asset - a list, a domain, a body of content - rather than a position in someone else’s line.
Nine dimensions, weighted
Dimension profile
Further from center is better. Hover any point.
Hard caps that bind here
The lowest binding cap wins, regardless of the weighted arithmetic.
What we read
Every source below links to the document itself. Tier 1 is a primary record - the company’s own plan, policy or disclosure, a court filing, a regulator’s decision or an SEC filing. Tier 2 is a self-regulatory or secondary regulator record, tier 3 reporting or academic work, tier 4 an open-market price comparison. Where a document can be moved or withdrawn, an archived copy is linked beside it. If a link is dead when you try it, that is a correction we want.
- Easy1Up product page - the six-tier price list (Elevation $25, Elevation Elite $100, Vertex $250, Vertex Elite $500, Vertex Pro "Connect" $1,000, Vertex "Live" $2,000) with every tier image linking to join.php
easy1up.com/products.php (live, July 2026) - the six-tier price list, per-tier module lists including Google Plus, Google Hangouts Marketing and Periscope Marketing Excellence, and the fact that every tier image links to join.php
- Easy1Up compensation page - "The simplicity and power of the Reverse 1 Up is amazing! Your first referral stays with you!"
easy1up.com/comp.php (live, July 2026) - "The simplicity and power of the Reverse 1 Up is amazing! Your first referral stays with you!"; footer reading ©Copyright 2025
Not established by this document: The live comp.php page is served only with a sponsor identifier appended (comp.php?id=…); the sponsor parameter has been stripped to the canonical path under the no-tracking-parameter rule, so the URL is cited as listed rather than fetched.
- "So how does easy1up really work?" - easy1up.com/how_does_it_work.php, archived copy: "You want to make BIG MONEY and FAST?", "Let E1U be your own personal ATM.", "as little as $25 + $5 admin", "All payments are one time"
easy1up.com/howdoesitwork.php, archived 2 July 2022 - the full official compensation description, "as little as $25 + $5 admin", "Vertex Pro $1,000 + $100 admin", "All payments are one time", "BIG MONEY and FAST", "your own personal ATM"
Not established by this document: The Wayback availability index returns no capture of this page dated 2 July 2022; the nearest retrievable capture is 3 August 2019, and it uses the "Vertex Elite $500 + $50 admin" worked example rather than the "Vertex Pro $1,000 + $100 admin" figure quoted in the prose. The $1,000/$100 pairing is therefore not confirmed by the archived copy cited.
- "So how does easy1up really work?" - the live page, describing the reverse funnel and the one-time payment structure
- Easy1Up "Affiliate Terms and Conditions" - archived copy of easy1up.com/terms.php, seventeen numbered clauses covering claims proof (3), spam (7 and 13), termination at sole discretion (9), shutdown liability waiver (10), no-income-claims (12), refunds (14), payment-processor disclaimer (15) and independent-contractor tax (16)
easy1up.com/terms.php, archived 7 August 2019 - the seventeen-clause affiliate terms: clause 3 claims-proof rule, clause 7 spam prohibitions, clause 9 termination at sole discretion, clause 10 shutdown liability waiver, clause 12 no-income-claims disclaimer, clause 13 enforcement, clause 14 "All sales are final. No refunds.", clause 15 payment-processor disclaimer, clause 16 independent-contractor tax provision
Not established by this document: Material correction: in the 1 July 2022 capture - the fullest retrievable version - clause 14 reads "There is a 3-Day refund policy. All sales are final afterwards," not "All sales are final. No refunds." The Wayback availability index returns no 7 August 2019 capture of terms.php, so the flat no-refund wording attributed to 2019 could not be reproduced from an archived copy.
- Easy1Up Review - Set Affiliate Business, reproducing the screenshotted Easy1Up FAQ upgrade rule: "You can upgrade at any time. The price is the full price of the new product and not the difference between where you are and where you are going."
Easy1Up FAQ upgrade rule, quoted and screenshotted in a third-party review - "The price is the full price of the new product and not the difference between where you are and where you are going"
- "Compensation Structure" - Easy1Up affiliate team page corroborating the rule in the company's own promotional material: "You will have to pay the full $1000, not just the difference of $500"
- BBB Business Profile: Multiplex Systems, Inc., 745 5th Ave PMB 542, New York NY - not accredited, categories "Not Substantiated Wealth Building Training, Multi-Level Sales", business incorporated 27 July 1998, business started 9 August 1998, alternate name NationalWealthCenter.com
Better Business Bureau business profile, Multiplex Systems, Inc. - entity, addresses, A rating, not accredited, reason for rating "Failure to be transparent about ownership, location, or products/services offered", categories "Not Substantiated Wealth Building Training, Multi-Level Sales", alternate name, and nine associated domains including easy1up.com; separate BBB search for "Easy1Up" returns no results
- New York Department of State corporate record: MULTIPLEX SYSTEMS, INC., DOS ID 2282625, domestic business corporation, initial DOS filing 26 July 1998, status ACTIVE, chief executive officer and DOS process agent Peter Wolfing
New York Department of State corporate record for Multiplex Systems, Inc., DOS ID 2282625, initial filing 26 July 1998, status active, chief executive and registered agent Peter Wolfing; LinkedIn profile listing him as owner since August 1998; his own self-authored biography page
Not established by this document: The New York Department of State's own public inquiry portal (apps.dos.ny.gov) returns entity records only through a session-bound search form with no stable per-entity URL, so the two registry mirrors above are cited in place of a direct state URL. The mirrors disagree by one day on the filing date (26 vs 27 July 1998) and give different historical addresses for Wolfing.
- MULTIPLEX SYSTEMS, INC. - New York corporate record showing registration date 27 July 1998, CEO and DOS process agent Peter Wolfing (second registry mirror)
- Certificate of service, Cunningham v. Enagic USA et al., No. 3:15-cv-00847 (M.D. Tenn.) - federal court filing identifying "Multiplex Systems, Inc. c/o Peter Wolfing, Registered Agent, 175 E. 96th St., Apt. 18G, New York, NY 10128" and Peter Wolfing appearing pro se (PDF)
- Peter Wolfing LinkedIn profile - Owner, Multiplex Systems Inc., since August 1998
- Peter Wolfing self-authored biography - "he decided to found his own company called Multiplex Systems in 1998"
- "Easy1Up MLM Review: Read Before Joining" - MLM Reviewed: the two-payment-link sign-up flow, the $5–$50 admin-fee schedule, and the earn-only-what-you-own rule
Independent review corpus, 2016-2026 - the admin-fee schedule corroborated across four reviews, the two-payment-link sign-up flow, the earn-what-you-own rule corroborated across five, the reassignment of the passed-up recruit, Bitcoin and Tether acceptance, and the reported team rotator at the $500 tier and above
- "Easy1Up: Complete Review Including Compensation (Referral) Plans" - Marketing by Kevin, tier-by-tier breakdown of the six packages
- "Easy1Up: How It Works, Costs, and What to Expect" - The Side Hustle Site: no refund policy, no free trial, and the rule that a participant only earns at the level they own
- "Turbo Cycler Review: Cash gifting with a monthly fee" - BehindMLM, first tying Peter Wolfing and Multiplex Systems to the brand portfolio, and quoting Quackwatch on the North Carolina Attorney General's inquiry into Multiplex Systems
Trade-press coverage of the operator’s brand portfolio since 2012 - Turbo Cycler, Ultimate Cycler, Business Toolbox, Infinity 100, National Wealth Center, Pay Me Forward, Ueconomy, Hand of Heaven, Direct Mail Pro, Daily Digital Club - treated here as journalism and commentary, with the existence and ownership of the brands cross-checked against the BBB domain list
Not established by this document: Individual BehindMLM reviews of Hand of Heaven (2018), Direct Mail Pro (2019) and Daily Digital Club (2020) are referenced by title in the related-post lists of the pieces cited above but their own URLs were not separately confirmed, so they are not cited. The Quackwatch article by Stephen Barrett describing the North Carolina Attorney General's contact with Multiplex Systems is quoted at length in the Turbo Cycler review above; the original Quackwatch page was not located at a live URL.
- "Ultimate Cycler Review: Peter Wolfing's latest cycler scam" - BehindMLM
- "Business ToolBox Review: Multiplex Systems cycler scam #3" - BehindMLM
- "Infinity 100 Review: $100 cash gifting from Peter Wolfing" - BehindMLM
- "National Wealth Center Review: Infinity 100 gifting reboot" - BehindMLM
- "PayMeForward Review: 2010 gifting scheme gets a relaunch" - BehindMLM
- "Ueconomy Review: $52,495 to $100,000+ cash gifting" - BehindMLM, listing the full Wolfing brand lineage to 2017
- Coursera Plus - university-and-industry course subscription pricing page (monthly with a 7-day free trial, annual with a 14-day money-back guarantee)
Open-market price checks, July 2026 - a university-and-industry course subscription at $59 monthly or $399 annually with a money-back guarantee; a general class subscription at roughly $165 a year on a third-party pricing guide; individual marketplace courses at $10-25 with 30-day guarantees; free official certification academies from the search platform, the social advertising platform and a listed CRM company
Not established by this document: The individual marketplace courses at $10–$25 with 30-day guarantees, the roughly $165-a-year general class subscription taken from a third-party pricing guide, and the free official certification academies run by the search platform, the social advertising platform and the listed CRM company were not pinned to specific retrievable pricing URLs during this pass; the entry is a five-vendor market comparison and is cited to the single best-documented comparator.
- Coursera refund policy - 14-day money-back guarantee on annual Coursera Plus subscriptions
What we could not get
- Whether a sibling program marketed under the same E1U initials - a $25-to-$8,000 matrix promising "passive Bitcoin" with "no recruiting required", currently showing a relaunch holding page - is the same operator’s current offer. The branding, the $25 entry and the 10% admin fee all point one way, but no ownership record was located. This matters more than anything else on this list: it is the difference between no securities exposure and a promised passive return.
- Federal court dockets could not be searched directly - the docket database was unreachable from the research environment, so the negative finding on federal litigation rests on web-index searching rather than a completed docket query. A paid docket sweep should be run against "Easy1Up", "Multiplex Systems", "Peter Wolfing", "National Wealth Center" and "Ultimate Cycler" before this is treated as settled.
- The current terms of service and FAQ. Both live pages render empty to crawlers and the fullest reliable capture of the terms is 7 August 2019. Reviews published between 2023 and 2026 quote those clauses as still operative, and the upgrade rule is verified only through a screenshot-and-quote in a third-party review, but no 2026 version of either document could be read.
- Whether the program is still processing payments today. The site serves marketing pages and the footer reads ©Copyright 2025, but the join flow did not resolve to a usable checkout during this research, and a traffic-measurement service reports no data at all for the domain - an absence of measurement rather than a measured zero.
- Any income figure whatsoever - no median, no mean, no percentage earning nothing, no earnings by tier, no participant count, active or cumulative, at any point in ten years. Nothing exists to be verified.
- Company revenue. The only figures in circulation are an automated data-broker firmographic estimate of roughly $6.4 million and a promoter’s marketing claim of "well over six million dollars" through one downline. Neither is a company figure and neither should be presented as one.
- Whether the pass-up applies once at your highest owned tier or at every level. The company’s own text supports once; one secondary source says every level, which would materially worsen participant economics. The Vertex admin fee is similarly contested - three sources say $25, one says $50, and the better-corroborated figure is used here.
- PLR provenance as documented fact, and the members-area content. The private-label-rights sourcing is strongly indicated by module naming and asserted by one reviewer, but no license agreement, vendor invoice or content credit was obtainable; and runtimes, module counts, video quality and last-update dates all require purchase to verify.
Not advice
This is independent analysis for decision-making, not legal, financial or investment advice. Allegations reported by third parties should be verified against primary court and regulatory records before any decision.
Researched by Claude. Reviewed by an editor.
Every report is researched and written by Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant, from the company’s own plan documents, policies, terms and regulatory file - then reviewed before publication by Rob Fore, who checks the sources and the stage-label on every allegation.
- Nine weighted dimensions, published with their weights
- The editor checks the evidence and cannot change the number - the build rejects any page whose grade does not reconcile to its own arithmetic
- Every affiliate position we hold is disclosed on the report it touches
- No company has paid for a grade, and no report carries an affiliate link
Looking at something else?
Enter any company name or website. If a report exists it opens instantly; if not, we start one.
Easy1Up - frequently asked
QIs Easy1Up a pyramid scheme?
QHow much does Easy1Up cost, and how much can you earn per sale?
QWhat exactly is passed up in the Reverse 1-Up?
QCan you get a refund from Easy1Up?
QWhat do you actually get for the money?
Author, editor and publisher
This report was researched and written by Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant, working from primary documents - Easy1Up’s own compensation plan, its policies and procedures, its terms of service, its income disclosure statement where one exists, and its regulatory and self-regulatory file. It was scored against nine weighted dimensions that are published in full, with their weights, on the methodology page.
Before publication it was reviewed by Rob Fore, who checks every source link, every figure against the document it came from, and every allegation against its stage-label - an investigation is not a finding, a warning letter is not an enforcement action, and a filed claim is not a verdict.
The editor does not set the grade. The published score is the weighted composite of the nine dimension scores, and the build refuses to emit a page where the two disagree by more than 0.06. A grade moves when the evidence moves it and not otherwise.
Rob Fore has marketed online since 1996, wrote Online MLM Marketing (2014), and is CEO of Listech Inc, the Nevada corporation that publishes this site. He holds affiliate positions in companies graded here - including LiveGood, which this site grades D, SendOutCards, which it grades C−, and the Home Business Academy, which it grades B−. Those positions are disclosed on the reports they touch, and changed nothing on this page.
About the author and our conflicts · Contact the editor · Corrections: corrections@opportunitygrade.com
Tell me if this grade changes
Easy1Up is graded F as of July 31, 2026. Grades move when the evidence moves - a new income disclosure, a regulatory action, a rewritten compensation plan. Leave your address and you will get one email if this one does.
One email when the grade moves, and nothing else. We will never use your address to promote an income opportunity of any kind, we do not sell, rent or share the list, and it is stored on our own infrastructure rather than with any company graded here. Unsubscribe removes everything.
Corrections
Every factual claim on this page is sourced, and the ones we could not stand up are named in the unable to verify list above. If something here is wrong, we want to know, and we would rather hear it from Easy1Up than from a reader.
Write to corrections@opportunitygrade.com. Point at the specific sentence and send the document that contradicts it - a plan document, a filing, an income disclosure, a policy page. We will check it against the primary source, correct the page if it is wrong, and say in the report that it was corrected and when. A grade moves if the evidence moves it.
This address reaches a person, not a form. We do not require a takedown demand, an NDA or a lawyer to accept a correction, and we do not remove a report because a company disputes its conclusion - only because the underlying facts turn out to be wrong.