Multi-Level Marketing

Multi-Level Marketing By Any Other Name	Glossary
Money Games	Everybody throws money in the air & picks up what they can
MLM - the truth!	How to analyze MLM programs
Nonsense	Silly Statements About Multi-Level Marketing
"We'll Build Your Downline for You"	The truth about "spillover"
Rick Ross: "Commercial/Business Groups"	The "Cult Connection"
Specific MLM's
2Xtreme Performance International	How to Become an Extremely Unhappy Distributor
Amway	The one and only Amway!
Skeptic's Dictionary The Untold Story The Perils of Amway Amway Scams India Positive opinions of Amway Discussion of how Amway could work
Big Book Direct	The Usual Question: MLM or Pyramid Scheme?
Delfin System	Achieve personal happiness and get rich too?
Excel Communications	New Model for the MLM Industry
Family of Eagles	Gold Coin MLM
Global Interactive Investment Club	Credit cards for everyone!
Global Prosperity Group/ Global Prosperity Marketing Group	Multilevel Madness?
Herbalife	Read about the lawsuit against this MLM
High-Tech Safety	$4000/month, No Experience Needed!
International Metals & Trade (FL)	Yet Another Pyramid Scheme
Mary Kay	Personal Experiences
Rocky Mountain International Solid Gold [Wayback archive]	Real gold, all for you!
Strategies for Success	More coupons to buy!
Toward Ultimate Financial Freedom	Never work for a paycheck again!
In Memoriam
AdverWorld update	The Internet leader in expensive, useless home pages.
Beat the System	The best place to buy grocery coupons.
Destiny Telecomm International	Prepaid Long Distance
Equinox
Equinox Closed AG Press Release Message from Court-Appointed Receiver Rick Ross' Equinox Page Prior Articles Brief History of Equinox Litigation Metro article Consent Decree (WA) An Equinox Distributor's Experience
Five Star Auto Club	FTC says no such thing as a free car
Fortuna Alliance	Purchase hundreds of thousands of objects at a discount!
Freeway 100	Not just another long distance company.
GetGasFree Marketing Group	One bad program copies another bad program
Gold Unlimited (Idaho) [Wayback archive]	More gold than you can shake a stick at!
High Opportunity Petroleum Enterprise (HOPE)	Buy gas now, save later?
International Heritage Inc.	Personal experience [6/18/97]
JewelWay	FTC takes action
Orbit the Talking Computer [Wayback archive]	Make Money Fast parody? No, SkyBiz.

Analysis, Opinion, and Other Reports
Pyramid Scheme Alert
Legal Principles of Multi-Level Marketing (Grimes & Reese)
Shaking the Money Tree (Metro) alternate link
MLMs -- Call a Pyramid a Pyramid (salesguy.com) [Wayback archive]
Selling the Dream (Worth) [Wayback archive]
What's Wrong with MLM alternate link (Van Druff)
Building an MLM Empire (Fugi Saito) [Wayback archive]
Is this a pyramid scheme? (Clements)
MLM Legality Test alternate link (Nehra)
MLM -- Road to Riches or Road to Disaster? (Katharine Reader)
Why 90% Fail Miserably at MLM (Business Lyceum)
The Personal Consumption Dilemma (MLM Insider) [Wayback archive]
Don't Get Burned in MLM (Prodigy) [Wayback archive]
The Mirage of MLM
Make Money Fast...& more (Watrous)
False Profits (Fitzpatrick & Reynolds)
MLM Alerts on the Net
MLM Watchdog
MLM Insider Watchdog (sample issue) [Wayback archive]
Quatloos Guide to MLM
Make Money Fast & MLM Scams (Eli Teitelbaum)
Cagey Consumer's opinion

Other Advisories
U. S. Federal Trade Commission 11/96 12/96
U.S. Postal Service
Canberra (Australia) Attorney General
BBB Council
various state & national governments: Australia, California, Florida, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Utah, Virginia Washington Washington

FACE THE CONSEQUENCES
If the MLM you participate in is really a disguised pyramid scheme, here's what could happen:

LartBase Your participation may be noted on your Permanent Record.
Make Money Fast Hall of Humiliation You might get 15 minutes of fame.
MLM Legal Cases You cound find yourself spending a day in court.
If you're really successful at it, you could even go to jail. (see section 2B1.1)

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Updated April 7, 2004