{"id":49128,"date":"2026-03-19T20:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/?p=49128"},"modified":"2026-03-23T16:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:35:14","slug":"selling-sunsets-mary-launches-pyramid-scheme-travel-business-with-chatgpt-pic-captions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/03\/19\/selling-sunsets-mary-launches-pyramid-scheme-travel-business-with-chatgpt-pic-captions\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling Sunset’s Mary launches ‘pyramid scheme’ travel business with ‘ChatGPT pic captions’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mary from Selling Sunset<\/a> has worked her way up The Oppenheim Group<\/a>, but somehow real estate isn’t the only thing she’s wanted to stick her fingers into. Now, she’s launched a new travel business, with some people convinced it screams “pyramid scheme”.<\/p>\n

She’s put a spin on the Netflix<\/a> show’s name and called it Selling Sunshine Travel. Mary also made the Instagram page private, and often shares lengthy captions encouraging people to join the business, which people reckon are written by ChatGPT prompts.<\/p>\n

One of the captions went like this: “I hear it all the time. ‘I’ll think about it, let me ask my husband, I just need to wait a little bit’. I get it. I really do. Big decisions can feel scary […]. And the women in my community who are winning right now? They just started.”<\/p>\n

The company that Mary works with appears to be TrovaTrip, a travel business “that helps communities travel the world together”. It launched in 2017, and when asked if the business is “scammy,” they replied on a Q&A saying each person has control of booking flights.<\/p>\n

TrovaTrip refers to itself as a “three-sided marketplace” with content creators and community leaders in the role of hosting a trip, people looking to join pre-planned group travel experiences (travellers), and operators running the on-the-ground operations.<\/p>\n

TrovaTrip told Reality Shrine: “While Mary Fitzgerald is hosting a trip on the TrovaTrip platform<\/a>, her independent business, Selling Sunshine Travel, is not affiliated with or representative of TrovaTrip. These are separate, unrelated ventures.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Separately, TrovaTrip is not an MLM or pyramid scheme. We\u2019re a group travel platform that enables creators and community leaders to plan, promote, and host trips with their audiences. Hosts earn through a transparent revenue share based on curating, promoting, and leading the trip\u2014not through recruiting others.<\/span><\/p>\n

“TrovaTrip provides the platform, technology, and logistics that connect: Travel <\/span>Operators design and run the trips on the ground, Hosts <\/span>bring their community together and promote the experience, <\/span>Travelers book and attend the trip. <\/span>Importantly, there is no recruitment-based earning structure at any point.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Mary\u2019s new travel business<\/a>
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