Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

There are many translation tools you can use in the internet like Google translate to communicate with your PSA while on the SFIM. There seems to be not much of technicality here but it appears to be straight forward which may need to involve the following:

1. Ascertain the language your PSA understands

2. Open the internet translation tool you want to use in a separate window and select the main and source languages e.g. English To Spanish, with each having its own box ready to insert texts/contents.

3. When you receive a message from your PSA, copy and paste it into the appropriate box. If for example, your PSA communicates in Spanish and you in English, copy and paste his/her content into the English box of the translation tool. You may understand some or all of the English translation, so you will prepare your English language reply and paste it in the Spanish box to translate it from English to Spanish, then copy and paste the translated version into your SFIM chat box to your PSA. In case your PSA has no clue about this, then teach him/her to do the same.

4. You may have a clue as to the effectiveness of the translation tool based on the exchanges between you and your PSA; the more the misunderstanding, the less effective the translation tool will be, so at this stage you need to source for another translation tool online. Some translation tools are more tailored to particular languages, so do an online search like 'best English translation tool for Spanish language' and you will get better results than Google translate, which is not very effective in some languages.

5. Finally, I will also advice that you do a study on how to prepare text for translation purposes because the use and positions of some characters in a text or content may significantly obstruct the translation process and come up with an unintended translation outcome. Some translation tools have help and support centres, so ensure you make use of them.
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There are many translation tools you can use in the internet like Google translate to communicate with your PSA while on the SFIM. There seems to be not much of technicality here but it appears to be straight forward which may need to involve the following:

1. Ascertain the language your PSA understands

2. Open the internet translation tool you want to use in a separate window and select the main and source languages e.g. English To Spanish, with each having its own box ready
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

Team Leader (TL) rank comes with a lot of benefits so you can aspire to become one at any time or as soon as it becomes feasible to do so. However, you may not want to become one for the sake of becoming a TL without adequate support for a successful and more beneficial outcome.

The best time will actually depend on your objectives, goals and may be your budget, but not withstanding, I suggest the following:

1. If you can afford it, set up a standing order of around 2000 VP for the maximum sales VP required and squeeze out around 500 VP from your daily, weekly and monthly actions. If your standing order is on Tcredits then you may be able to participate in auctions to earn more VP and some MRP which you can use to purchase more Tcredits and do more auctions to increase your VP.

This approach may not be sustainable or yield good returns (without active team) apart from may be winning some business building auction products like PSA/CSAs, receiving your share of second home CSAs and some free Tcredits. However, I do not necessarily consider this a very good business option.

2. If you have an active team where some members, may be 3 PSAs are consistently maintaining at least EA2 rank monthly, then you may start prepping for a TL rank. This is because these 3 PSAs will earn you 300 AVP which will contribute towards the VP required to become a team leader, plus direct commission which you can use to partly/fully pay for your standing order or to make other business related purchases. Also, take note of any CSA who consistently maintain EA2 rank as an additional benefits plus your PSA who are at least EA2 because you will earn VP Match from the TC Executive Pool as a result, if you become a BTL provided you meet other conditions.

As you can see, this appears to be a good time to advance from EA to TL in order to increase your benefit and enjoy other TL perks/benefits as stipulated in the Compensation Plan and Benefits Chart. More so you are not going to remove your foot from the pedal, but you are going to be consistent in working your business and expanding your team of active affiliates and as you go, the potential to get more benefits and earn more income will be enhanced.

I will conclude by adding that you do not need to remain an EA until everything is ok or set before you advance your rank, but if the potential has started to manifest you can advance in anticipation that it will even get better, in order to start enjoying the benefits and to use your rank for duplication purposes. Also note that it is not a crime to degrade from a TL to an EA if circumstance dictates so, which is akin to a strategic retreat, in order to re-strategise and probably come back stronger.


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Team Leader (TL) rank comes with a lot of benefits so you can aspire to become one at any time or as soon as it becomes feasible to do so. However, you may not want to become one for the sake of becoming a TL without adequate support for a successful and more beneficial outcome.

The best time will actually depend on your objectives, goals and may be your budget, but not withstanding, I suggest the following:

1. If you can afford it, set up a standing order of around 2000 VP
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

There are 3 main types of laziness; intellectual/metal, physical and spiritual but for the purpose of this discussion the first 2 are pertinent to SFI business. A lazy person is a lazy person, so how do you motivate a lazy person? It is extremely difficult because they are either your colleagues or team members and not your children or employees, so does it mean you have to work their businesses for them? No. Does it mean they have to put their businesses on auto pilot? Not a successful strategy.

However, this does not stop you from trying some suggestions below:

1. Encourage them to work at their own pace because they are the owners of their businesses; no boss, no time constraint and no floor/ceiling on how far they want to go.

2. Offer some incentives/gifts if they achieve certain level of activity or success. However, I may not want to encourage you to reassign your PSAs to a lazy person or include them in your co-op until they flip their lazy attitude.

3. You may encourage them to let you know what they derive pleasure in doing and who knows, they may just say games, so direct them to EZ games as warm up or as alternative platform to commence building their businesses.

4. Try some encouraging quotes:

“If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl. But by all means, keep moving.” – -Martin Luther King Jr.

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
-Bruce Lee

"The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action."
-Alexander Graham Bell

It may be a lot more easier to motivate the unmotivated and affiliates are not motivated for several reasons and as a sponsor/team leader you may have the benefit of hindsight occasionally to understand the basis of un-motivation, which makes your work easier by applying a pinpoint strategy to address it, otherwise you may consider the suggestions below to motivate unmotivated affiliates:

1. Where possible, develop a simple and easy to understand plan of action on how they can be successful and forward it to them as a guide. This is because some affiliates are discouraged and demotivated when they are overwhelmed.

2. Encourage them to participate in the forum, especially in the My Region/My country forum in order to draw inspiration from successful and motivated affiliated from the same country or geographical location. Here may also be a source of support to resolving issues that are peculiar to their region.

3. In the same vein, you may help them to make a2a friends with serious and motivated affiliates from the same country, who are willing to assist and provide source of motivation. For example’ ‘we are from the same place and with similar circumstances, so if I can why not you.....come on try this, this and that....’

4. Always highlight the importance of reading training materials in order to develop an understanding of what this business is all about and how it works, in order to appreciate and be more prepared for the challenges ahead.

5. Organise contests and offer attractive prizes for winners and communicate them, including the winners of your contests in your team mails and stream posts. Also, inform them of the importance and benefits to be up to speed in the E365 contest and Fast Track where necessary. People are motivated more when they know the benefits they stand to derive from their actions.

6. You may need to provide tips and other helpful contents in your leadership page and encourage these affiliates to also visit your leadership page but make it attractive, worthwhile and keep it updated.

7. It is also a good strategy to recognise and offer gifts to members of your team who achieve certain milestones and ensure you communicate this to specially target these unmotivated affiliates.

8. Again, you may send them some encouraging quotes like the one below:

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”
–Frank A. Clark

Let me conclude by adding that, no matter what you do and how far you try, you may be unsuccessful and at some point you need to realise you are flogging a ‘dead horse’ and therefore make a decision to let go, and divert your energy to working with the workers in your team.


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There are 3 main types of laziness; intellectual/metal, physical and spiritual but for the purpose of this discussion the first 2 are pertinent to SFI business. A lazy person is a lazy person, so how do you motivate a lazy person? It is extremely difficult because they are either your colleagues or team members and not your children or employees, so does it mean you have to work their businesses for them? No. Does it mean they have to put their businesses on auto pilot? Not a successful strategy.
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

A team leader needs to have an active team in order to sustain the status. Although some affiliates make it to team leader status without an active team, by essentially spending money to purchase some products which contribute a large chunk of VP that qualify them to TL statuses. However, as a sponsor, it is important to help your team members who show signs of hard work, dedication and progression, to become team leaders by the following approaches:

1. Guide and assist them to embrace and put into practice the 3 basic steps;
- Make EA status every month
- Recruit 5 affiliates
- Teach these 5 affiliates to do these same 3 steps

2. You may complement the efforts above by reassigning some of your active PSAs to them and advise them to do the same to their own PSAs. This will ensure your PSAs are not only building their teams of active affiliates, but also building deep through duplication which is an incentive to go for a team leader status because of the benefits of increasing leverage income.

Again, do not restrict your reassignments to your generation 1, so make do with the newly introduced policy where you are allowed, if you are at least a silver team leader, to reassign your PSAs up to your generation 13, in order to increase the chances of your team members reaching team leader ranks and encourage them to duplicate your strategy.

3. Encourage them to make efforts to ensure they earn all available VP as much as possible, by performing all daily, weekly and monthly actions. You see, not taking these seriously may constitute a shortfall in the VP required to become team leaders, especially where VP from other sources, including team support VP, are not enough.

4. We all acknowledge the importance of building an active team to enhance and sustain a team leader status but you should also help, guide and encourage them to do sales and refer TC members and recruit ECAs. This is because they can earn sales VP from the purchases of their PRMs as well as 100 AVP for each ECA signup that achieves certain sales level.

5. It is not enough encouragement to assist them as mentioned above without driving home the benefits of each team leader ranks, so draw their attention to the Benefits Chart and Compensation Plan to see for themselves what they stand to gain/benefit from each team leader rank, from BTL to DTL.

6. Use the power of gifts and recognition to reward team leader status. Also, you may set up contests among your team members and give appropriate rewards for those who achieve certain milestones, including achieving team leader ranks.

In conclusion, your PSAs will be motivated and encouraged to make some more financial commitments to push them to TL ranks if required because of the potential to earn more income and receive more benefits. However, in whatever you do, please note that for your efforts to be successful and not to be perceive as dubious or exploitative, you need to lead by example, be selfless and respectful, earn their trust and be a hands-on sponsor.
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A team leader needs to have an active team in order to sustain the status. Although some affiliates make it to team leader status without an active team, by essentially spending money to purchase some products which contribute a large chunk of VP that qualify them to TL statuses. However, as a sponsor, it is important to help your team members who show signs of hard work, dedication and progression, to become team leaders by the following approaches:

1. Guide and assist them to embrace
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

This is a very straight forward answer; yes, why not? To be clear the Plan does not say 'five future PTLs' but 'Develop 5 PTLs (Platinum Team Leaders) on your first level'. This does not mean you should neither call it a day when you have 'potentials' nor call it a day when you have 'developed' them.

Having 5 PTLs in your team is not an end in itself but a means to an end, so in as much as you are still active, there is nothing unusual to keep developing future stars because there may be so many others reasons why you should aim to earn as high as you can in life. Have you thought of the possibility of one or some of your PTLs having a bad time and dropping out? Have you thought of the potentials of bequeathing a very successful, formidable and sustained business to your beneficiaries?

The Plan is a guide to the highest rank, DTL, which does not necessarily imply that at that level, your financial problems are over, so to be at that rank or have 5 PTLs that have qualified you for a DTL rank does not mean you are at the pinnacle of success where there is no more space available to be more successful. This simply means that the journey is heading towards the right direction, so maintain the course and do not deviate dangerously into rough terrain.

This is how I see it, keep developing more stars because it is the surest bet to mitigate against any curve balls life may throw at us without notice.
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This is a very straight forward answer; yes, why not? To be clear the Plan does not say 'five future PTLs' but 'Develop 5 PTLs (Platinum Team Leaders) on your first level'. This does not mean you should neither call it a day when you have 'potentials' nor call it a day when you have 'developed' them.

Having 5 PTLs in your team is not an end in itself but a means to an end, so in as much as you are still active, there is nothing unusual to keep developing future stars because there may
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

Glossary definition: My To-Do List
"A list of actions SFI suggests you perform to help you build a successful SFI business. Each action you do earns you VersaPoints. The more points you earn, the higher your SFI commissions can go and the further up you go in the Power Rankings." https://www.sfimg.com/Support/Solution?id=34254&referrer=search

The above glossary definition appears vague and capable of being misconstrued, to mean that all they need do to maximise commission is to click away the actions and earn some minimum of 11 VP daily, so in most cases we have affiliates asking what to do next after completing their daily To Do List actions in maybe 15 minutes and this is where you come in by:

1. Guiding and assisting them to understand that to become really successful here requires more than just clicking away the To Do List actions, but that there are other information on that List that do not necessarily required clicking to earn a VP, that are very pertinent to helping them build a successful business.

2. Highlighting some of these information and directing them on how to access them, either by informing them to always click on the 'More/Less' button in blue colour for more or less info on specific actions on the To Do List (TDL) or sending the direct url to your team members. I am referring to actions like sponsoring and duplication, sales, TC and ECA referrals, including SFIPPA. Apart from SFIPPA, info and materials on how to pursue other income generating activities are in the TDL but most affiliates are either not aware or simply ignore them.

3. Making continuous and consistent efforts to educate your team on the benefits of engaging in each of these income generating activities, rather than just guiding them to where they can access the info may be more convincing, appealing and encouraging to them.

4. In whatever you do to assist your team, thrive to be a good example and use yourself as a testimonial of success, by linking your success to your ability to engage in other activities and encourage them to duplicate your efforts.

5. Encouraging your team to participate in the Forum and engage with the Ask SC in order to improve their knowledge and understanding of the necessity of engaging in other various activities and to not be perpetually tied to the apron strings of the TDL. You may also need to get used to sending them urls of pertinent for forum threads and Ask SC answers.

In conclusion, the TDL itself is not a bad thing because it contains a lot of information necessary to help us build our business, but the problem is that some affiliates are carried away by the daily min of 11 VP and loose track of other very useful info contained in it.

My recommendation is that the TDL should incorporate the Compensation Plan and the Benefit Chart, so that affiliates will appreciate the usefulness of the info they ignore on the TDL, assuming they will not also be clicking these away without reading them.

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Glossary definition: My To-Do List
"A list of actions SFI suggests you perform to help you build a successful SFI business. Each action you do earns you VersaPoints. The more points you earn, the higher your SFI commissions can go and the further up you go in the Power Rankings." https://www.sfimg.com/Support/Solution?id=34254&referrer=search

The above glossary definition appears vague and capable of being misconstrued, to mean that all they need do to maximise commission
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

Please find below action VP:


1. You receive 100VP for any ECA you refer to list their products for sale at TripleClicks and have made at least $10 in sales.

2. You receive between 100 and 300 VP for any of your PSAs that achieves between EA2 and PTL rank.

3. You also receive 1 VP per bid if you participate at the auction and you are allowed a maximum of 500 VP monthly.

4. You also get 10VP for each gift card you distribute to prospects.

5. Set up a co-op to receive 100VP

6. Each product review is 25 VP. When you buy TC direct products or ECA physical products, you receive a mail after a couple of days, informing to rate/review the product.

7. Also, you can earn VP by submitting your answer to ASK SC tab. Most popular answer will receive 100 VP, second most popular answer will receive 50 VP and 25 VP for the third to the tenth most popular answers

8. You get 5 VP each for any of your PSA you reassign provided the PSA has accumulated at least 600 VP in the last 90 days.

9. 1VP for each TC music download, up to a maximum of 50VP a month

10. 1VP for each member listing, that is stuff you don’t want which you list for sale at TC, up to a maximum of 50VP a month (including all other DAILY ACTIONS on your To-Do-List

11. Also note that all your Getting Started, Intermediate, LaunchPads, Weekly and Monthly actions on your VP Ledger (https://www.sfimg.com/MyAccount/MyReports/VPLedger) or your To-Do-List (https://www.sfimg.com/Home?tab=to-do_list) are action VP

In addition to the above, you may win VP if you participate in the following draws:

1. Daily Grand draw to receive up to 200 VP. In this Daily Grand Drawing, 40 Affiliates will win 50 VP, 10 Affiliates will win 100 VP, and 5 affiliates will win 200 VP

2. Wave3 draw to receive various amount of VP and for a chance to win $250 cash price also.

3. As E365 contender, you receive a total of 600VP in your first 30 days in SFI provided you are not below the Green Line before the end of the contest period. As a finalist you have the chance to win various prizes including VP. You are automatically entered into the finalist draw if you are a finalist and any day you earn at least 10 VP

4. Enter the Eagle Game for 1VP per entry per day, up to a maximum of 200VP a month



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Please find below action VP:


1. You receive 100VP for any ECA you refer to list their products for sale at TripleClicks and have made at least $10 in sales.

2. You receive between 100 and 300 VP for any of your PSAs that achieves between EA2 and PTL rank.

3. You also receive 1 VP per bid if you participate at the auction and you are allowed a maximum of 500 VP monthly.

4. You also get 10VP for each gift card you distribute to prospects.

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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

The ECA program is one of various ways to earn income as an SFI affiliate, so it is good for affiliates who have the potentials or wherewithal to engage in it. It is very important to have the capacity and requisite skills in order to provide satisfactory services; before, during and after sales to customers, so that the competitiveness and integrity of The ECA program will be at acceptable business levels.

The ECA program is very attractive because participants may not necessarily incur some overhead costs or operating expenses, variable and fixed costs associated with physical stores because to a large extent, SFI/TC infrastructure provides cover for these. Again you can see that participating in ECA program has the potential of maximizing your bottom line as a direct consequence of the cost advantage to participating affiliates.

Another good reason to encourage affiliates is because there is the potential to tap into the huge market of affiliates and TC members who are also customers of TC. The availability of a ready and active customer base is a huge incentive in any marketing endeavour like the ECA program. This benefit is even more if you consider the fact that our affiliates who purchase from TC are encouraged by the benefits that accrue to them for buying products and services from like VP, commissions and royalties.

Again, as affiliates we benefits when we refer customers to purchases from ECAs, so there is this desire to promote ECA products to the outside world on behalf of the ECA and by so doing, ECAs will not only benefit from the huge customer base of our affiliates, but also a multiplier effect resulting from the potential number of customers each interested affiliated will expose ECA product to.

On a personal level, remember that your earn 10% royalty from qualifying sales of your referred ECA and 45% CV when your PSA make qualifying purchases from your referred ECA. This means you have the potential to earn 55% (CV+Royalty) from a single transaction between your PSA and your referred ECA, which is another good reason to encourage affiliates to become ECA.

Finally, it is important to bear in mind that ECA sales are part of SFI revenue and when you encourage affiliates to become ECAs, you are indirectly contributing to TC revenue, which is also where our shares in the TC Executive Pool come from.

To conclude, I will advice that we should not be encouraging every affiliate, especially those who are not capable, not competent and unscrupulous to become ECAs just for the sake of it or because of the potential benefits associated with it, otherwise we will be contributing to the lack of competitiveness and lack of integrity of TC, which will negatively impact on the executive pool to the detriment of TC and ourselves.


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The ECA program is one of various ways to earn income as an SFI affiliate, so it is good for affiliates who have the potentials or wherewithal to engage in it. It is very important to have the capacity and requisite skills in order to provide satisfactory services; before, during and after sales to customers, so that the competitiveness and integrity of The ECA program will be at acceptable business levels.

The ECA program is very attractive because participants may not necessarily incur
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

I do not think this should be a serious barrier to recruitment and sponsorship because there are tools available within and outside of SFI to resolve the associated problems of language and limited internet experience for the following reasons:

1. There is on the job training in many organisations including SFI exemplified by various training materials and helpful resources here.

2. Enthusiastic and knowledge seekers are often very eager to develop themselves and acquire pertinent skills in areas of their business.

3. You as a sponsor have a crucial role to play in assisting and developing your sponsored affiliates.

4. There is undoubtedly, language problems here but it is exacerbated by the inability of affiliates to deploy appropriate translation tools to improve their understanding of the contents on SFI/TC websites. However, if you appropriately direct your PSA to translation tools on the internet including how to select his language when browsing pages on SFI site, then any language problem will be minimised. For example, you see many affiliates here who don't understand English doing very well in SFI.

5. Another reason why this may not be a huge problem is the availability of reassignment tool, which makes it easy to place affiliates in the team of another affiliate with similar cultural and language background.

Finally, as you can see, the major problem in most cases may not have to do with the language barrier and internet experience of your PSA, but how you as a sponsor are able to deploy the necessary assistance needed to prevent these from having a devastating impact on your team members.

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I do not think this should be a serious barrier to recruitment and sponsorship because there are tools available within and outside of SFI to resolve the associated problems of language and limited internet experience for the following reasons:

1. There is on the job training in many organisations including SFI exemplified by various training materials and helpful resources here.

2. Enthusiastic and knowledge seekers are often very eager to develop themselves and acquire pertinent
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

You can receive more VP by:

1. Selling at TripleClicks. Once you sell a product, you will receive all the VP attached to the product, provided the person you sell to is not an SFI affiliate.

2. You also get all VP attached to any product you personally purchase at TripleClicks.

3. You also get 100VP for any ECA you refer that list his first product for sale at TripleClicks.

4. You receive between 100 and 300 VP for any of your PSA that achieves between EA2 and PTL rank.

5. You also receive 1 VP per bid if you participate at the auction, max of 500vp/month

6. You also get 10VP for each gift card you distribute to prospects, max of 300vp/month

7. Set up a co-op to receive 100VP, even if it is not operational yet.

8. Each product review is 25 VP. When you buy TC direct products or ECA physical products, you receive a mail after a couple of days, informing you to rate/review the product.

9. Also, you can earn VP by submitting your answer to ASK SC tab. Most popular answer will receive 100 VP, second most popular answer will receive 50 VP and 25 VP for the third most popular answer

10. You get 5 VP each for any of your PSAs you reassign provided the PSA has accumulated at least 600 VP in the last 90 days.

In addition to the above, you may win VP if you participate in the following draws:

1. Daily Grand draw to receive up to 200 VP. In this Daily Grand Drawing, 40 Affiliates will win 50 VP, 10 Affiliates will win 100 VP, and 5 affiliates will win 200 VP

2. Wave3 draw to receive various amount of VP and for a chance to win $250 cash price also.

3. As E365 contender, you receive a total of 600VP in your first 30 days in SFI provided you are not below the Green Line before the end of the contest period. As a finalist you have the chance to win various prizes including VP. You are automatically entered into the Finalist Draw if you are a finalist and any day you earn at least 10 VP




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You can receive more VP by:

1. Selling at TripleClicks. Once you sell a product, you will receive all the VP attached to the product, provided the person you sell to is not an SFI affiliate.

2. You also get all VP attached to any product you personally purchase at TripleClicks.

3. You also get 100VP for any ECA you refer that list his first product for sale at TripleClicks.

4. You receive between 100 and 300 VP for any of your PSA that achieves between
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