Open Directory - Business: Opportunities: Opposing Views
See also: This category in other languages: - Describes an employment scam that finance grads and those considering financial, insurance and securities sales should be aware of. What to do if you've been scammed; links to similar sites. - Sites containing informational material regarding the MLM industry, especially Amway. - Analysis and debunking of Multi-Level Marketing as an industry as well as scrutiny of a number of specific MLMs and complaints generated about them. - Press release about FTC lawsuit against StreamLine business opportunity. - About the book, an exposé and analysis of the multi-level marketing (MLM) industry - A discussion group for people who've survived MLM. - Associate recounts her negative experience with the company. - Ex-Mary Kay consultants offer news, stories, testimonials and forum on negative experiences with the company. - Exposes, studies and aims to prevent illegal pyramid schemes. News, alerts, resources, legal information, updates and consumer information about a number of companies and MLMs operating suspected pyramid schemes. - Encyclopedia-type article about multi-level marketing. - Tips from the Federal Trade Commission regarding MLMs. - Article by Stephen Barrett, M.D., on bogus health products. - Business analysis of 4 major systemic problems with MLM: 1) Market Saturation, 2) Pyramid Structure, 3) Morality and Ethics, and 4) Relationship Costs - Parodies of and information about the multi-level marketing scams, frauds, and rip-offs. - Metabolife International, the leading seller of the controversial weight-loss supplement ephedra, is the subject of a criminal investigation by the Justice Department. (August 15, 2002) - Federal Trade Commission press release announces that Darrin Epps and Edward Lamont are barred for life from participating in multi-level marketing schemes. (August 09, 2001) - by Amy Chen Mills- "From Amway to Equinox, multilevel marketing schemes have won 7 million devotees on the promise of unlimited wealth and freedom. But when the numbers don't add up, distributors lose more than their dreams." (October 03, 1996)
