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cosmetics, health food, sanitary products, bodybuilding equipment and kitchen utensils, and they require
Chinese or foreign companies ("FIEs") who intend to engage into direct sale business in mainland China to apply for and obtain direct selling license from the Ministry of Commerce ("MOFCOM"). In 2016, there are 73 companies, including domestic and foreign companies, that have obtained the direct selling license. Some multi-level marketing sellers have circumvented this ban by establishing addresses and bank accounts in
659:. In jurisdictions where MLM companies have not been made illegal, many illegal pyramid schemes attempt to present themselves as MLM businesses. Given that the overwhelming majority of MLM participants cannot realistically make a net profit, let alone a significant net profit, but instead overwhelmingly operate at net losses, some sources have defined all MLM companies as a type of pyramid scheme, even if they have not been made illegal like traditional pyramid schemes through
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majority of MLM companies are recruiting MLM companies, in which participants must recruit aggressively to profit. Based on available data from the companies themselves, the loss rate for recruiting MLM companies is approximately 99.9%; i.e., 99.9% of participants lose money after subtracting all expenses, including purchases from the company." (By comparison, skeptic
570:", etc.), are authorized to distribute the company's products or services. They are awarded their own immediate retail profit from customers plus commission from the company, not downlines, through a multi-level marketing compensation plan, which is based upon the volume of products sold through their own sales efforts as well as that of their downline organization.
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that it can become the revenue and profit of the MLM company, of which the MLM company shares only a small proportion with a few individuals at the top of the MLM participant pyramid. Other than the few at the top, participants provide nothing more than their own financial loss for the company's own profit and the profit of the top few individual participants.
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Based on the results of a 2018 poll conducted with 1,049 MLM sellers, the majority (60%) earned an average of less than $ 100 in sales over a five-year period, and 20% never made a single sale. The majority of sellers made less than 70 cents per hour. Nearly 32 percent of those polled acquired credit
1021:"Roland Whitsell, a former business professor who spent 40 years researching and teaching the pitfalls of multilevel marketing": "You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone making over $ 1.50 an hour, (t)he primary product is opportunity. The strongest, most powerful motivational force today is false hope."
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were all originally single-level marketing companies, using that traditional and uncontroversial direct selling business model (distinct from MLM) to sell their goods. However, they later introduced multi-level compensation plans, becoming MLM companies. The DSA has approximately 200 members while it
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Many MLM companies generate billions of dollars in annual revenue and hundreds of millions of dollars in annual profit. However, profits accrue to the detriment of most of the company's constituent workforce (the MLM participants). Only some of the profits are then shared with individual participants
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MLM companies are also criticized for being unable to fulfill their promises for the majority of participants due to basic conflicts with
Western cultural norms. There are even claims that the success rate for breaking even or even making money are far worse than other types of businesses: "The vast
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Not all multilevel marketing plans are legitimate. Some are pyramid schemes. It's best not to get involved in plans where the money you make is based primarily on the number of distributors you recruit and your sales to them, rather than on your sales to people outside the plan who intend to use the
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Much has been made of the personal, or internal, consumption issue in recent years. In fact, the amount of internal consumption in any multi-level compensation business does not determine whether or not the FTC will consider the plan a pyramid scheme. The critical question for the FTC is whether the
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reveal that 30 percent of its representatives make no money and that 54 percent of the remaining 70 percent only make $ 93 a month, before costs. Fortune was under investigation by the
Attorneys General of Texas, Kentucky, North Dakota, and North Carolina with Missouri, South Carolina, Illinois, and
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Although the emphasis is always made on the potential of success and the positive life change that "might" or "could" (not "will" or "can") result, disclosure statements include disclaimers that they, as participants, should not rely on the earning results of other participants in the highest levels
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article that "MLM organizations have been described by some as cults (Butterfield, 1985), pyramid schemes (Fitzpatrick & Reynolds, 1997), or organizations rife with misleading, deceptive, and unethical behavior (Carter, 1999), such as the questionable use of evangelical discourse to promote the
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The main sales pitch of MLM companies to their participants and prospective participants is not the MLM company's products or services. The products or services are largely peripheral to the MLM model. Rather, the true sales pitch and emphasis is on a confidence given to participants of potential
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The overwhelming majority of MLM participants participate at either an insignificant or nil net profit. A study of 27 MLM schemes found that on average, 99.6% of participants lost money. Indeed, the largest proportion of participants must operate at a net loss (after expenses are deducted) so that
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points out that "only 97.14% of Las Vegas gamblers lose money .... .") In part, this is because encouraging recruits to further "recruit people to compete with " leads to "market saturation." It has also been claimed "(b)y its very nature, MLM is completely devoid of any scientific foundations."
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with one stating "Multi-level marketing companies have become an accepted and legally sanctioned form of pyramid scheme in the United States" while another states "Multi-Level
Marketing, a form of Pyramid Scheme, is not necessarily fraudulent." In October 2010 it was reported that multi-level
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and as disruptive to social and economic order. MLM companies have been trying to find ways around China's prohibitions, or have been developing other methods, such as direct sales, to take their products to China through retail operations. The Direct Sales
Regulations limit direct selling to
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Scheibeler, a high level "Emerald" Amway member: "UK Justice Norris found in 2008 that out of an IBO population of 33,000, 'only about 90 made sufficient incomes to cover the costs of actively building their business.' That's a 99.7 percent loss rate for
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the few individuals in the uppermost level of the MLM pyramid can derive their significant earnings. Said earnings are then emphasized by the MLM company to all other participants to encourage their continued participation at a continuing financial loss.
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dangerous? Because plans that pay commissions for recruiting new distributors inevitably collapse when no new distributors can be recruited. And when a plan collapses, most people—except perhaps those at the very top of the pyramid—end up empty-handed."
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marketing companies were being investigated by a number of state attorneys general amid allegations that salespeople were primarily paid for recruiting and that more recent recruits cannot earn anything near what early entrants do. Industry critic
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for the MLM industry, reported that in 1990 only 25% of DSA members used the MLM business model. By 1999, this had grown to 77.3%. By 2009, 94.2% of DSA members were using MLM, accounting for 99.6% of sellers, and 97.1% of sales. Companies such as
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business (Höpfl & Maddrell, 1996), and the exploitation of personal relationships for financial gain (Fitzpatrick & Reynolds, 1997)". In China, volunteers working to rescue people from the schemes have been physically attacked.
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A February 10, 2011, article stated "It can be very difficult, if not impossible, for most individuals to make a lot of money through the direct sale of products to consumers. And big money is what recruiters often allude to in their
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revenues that primarily support the commissions paid to all participants are generated from purchases of goods and services that are not simply incidental to the purchase of the right to participate in a money-making venture.
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of the MLM participant pyramid as an indication of what they should expect to earn. MLM companies rarely emphasize the extreme likelihood of failure, or the extreme likelihood of financial loss, from participation in MLM.
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Florida following up complaints against the company. The FTC eventually stated that
Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing was a pyramid scheme and that checks totaling more than $ 3.7 million were being mailed to the victims.
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Students Focus on Ethics: "In the USA, the average annual income from MLM for 90% MLM members is no more than US $ 5,000, which is far from being a sufficient means of making a living (
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MLM companies are designed to make profit for the owners/shareholders of the company and a few individual participants at the top levels of the MLM pyramid of participants. According to the
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The origin of multi-level marketing is often disputed, but multi-level marketing style businesses existed in the 1920s and the 1930s, such as the
California Vitamin Company (later named
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Carl, Walter J. (2004). "The Interactional Business of Doing Business: Managing Legitimacy and Co-constructing Entrepreneurial Identities in E-Commerce Multilevel Marketing Discourse".
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Because of the encouraging of recruits to further recruit their competitors, some people have even gone so far as to say at best modern MLM companies are nothing more than legalized
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has been named the "unofficial world capital of multi-level marketing and direct sales companies" and is home to at least 15 major MLMs, more MLMs per capita than any other state.
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improbability of this is de-emphasized. MLM companies have been made illegal or otherwise strictly regulated in some jurisdictions as merely variations of the traditional
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financial independence through participation in the MLM, luring with phrases like "the lifestyle you deserve" or "independent distributor". Erik German's memoir
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1101:. Multi-level marketing was banned on the mainland by the government in 1998, citing social, economic, and taxation issues. Further regulation "Prohibition of
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direct selling. Other terms that are sometimes used to describe multi-level marketing include "word-of-mouth marketing", "interactive distribution", and "
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Independent non-salaried participants, referred to as distributors (variously called "associates", "independent business owners", "independent agents", "
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as fellow salespeople so that these can become downline distributors. According to a report that studied the business models of 350 MLM companies in the
670:(FTC), some MLM companies already constitute illegal pyramid schemes even by the narrower existing legislation, exploiting members of the organization.
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in backroom deals where secret compensation packages are created between the MLM company and a few individual participants, to the detriment of others
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Vander Nat, Peter J.; Keep, William W. (2002). "Marketing Fraud: An Approach for Differentiating Multilevel Marketing from Pyramid Schemes".
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selling the company's products or services, while the earnings of the participants are derived from a pyramid-shaped or binary compensation
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at the top of the MLM distributorship pyramid. The earnings of those top few participants are emphasized and championed at company
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of 1978. This rise in multi-level marketing's popularity coincided with economic uncertainty and a new shift towards individual
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structure. The blue individual at the top will receive compensation from the sales of the downline red members.
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of MLM companies, recruited participants (as well as those whom the recruit recruits) are referred to as one's
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Multi-level marketing is also known as "pyramid selling", "network marketing", and "referral marketing".
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1584:"The Perils Of Multi-Level Marketing Programs"
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2454:"What kind of business do you want to start?"
2185:Sheffield, Michael L. (February–March 1999).
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1702:"MLM law of China 'Prohibition of Chuanxiao'"
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1517:The Law (in Plain English) for Small Business
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2077:"What's Wrong With Multi-Level Marketing?"
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3148:Cruz, Joan Paola; Camilo, Olaya (2008).
2604:"সব এমএলএম অবৈধ (All MLMs are illegal.)"
2259:Ziglar, Zig; Hayes, John P. PhD (2001).
2238:"Direct Selling Organization Membership"
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1314:List of multi-level marketing companies
784:Direct selling versus network marketing
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2479:O'Donnell, Jayne (October 15, 2010).
1586:. Texas Public Radio. October 4, 2017
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3295:Abdul-Rahman, Muhammad Saed (2004).
3201:. American Board of Sport Psychology
2815:Lindsey, Daryl (September 8, 2016).
2548:Del Valle, Gaby (October 15, 2018).
2370:Berkowitz, Bill (January 28, 2009).
2022:. FTC. December 2012. Archived from
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1821:Herb, Greenberg (January 17, 2013).
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2873:Kohm, James A. (January 14, 2004).
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1197:The Federal Trade Commission warns
832:, Aerus (formerly Electrolux USA),
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3171:"Skeptoid #176: Network Marketing"
2967:Amway, the Cult of Free Enterprise
2690:"Chinese Law | China: Direct Sale"
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2344:Brown, David (November 27, 2007).
2218:. Direct Selling Association. 2010
1669:O'Regan, Stephen (July 16, 2015).
1607:"Chapter 7: MLM's Abysmal Numbers"
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1231:Western Journal of Communication
1229:Walter J. Carl stated in a 2004
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1677:. Dezan Shira & Associates
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2261:Network Marketing for Dummies
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668:U.S. Federal Trade Commission
3554:Discount Home Shoppers' Club
3544:Crowd Sourcing International
2945:"Multilevel Marketing Plans"
2781:Nestorović, Čedomir (2016).
2240:. Direct Selling Association
1900:"Selling the American Dream"
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3894:International Heritage Inc.
3301:. MSA Publication Limited.
3070:Hu Yongqi (July 29, 2010).
2634:. In Chen, Nancy N. (ed.).
2427:. Vol. 8. New Jersey:
2305:Management Research Journal
2213:"US Direct Selling in 2009"
1513:DuBoff, Leonard D. (2004).
1433:Mendelsohn, Martin (2004).
1389:. Kogan Page. p. 112.
1361:10.1509/jppm.21.1.139.17603
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3798:Nature's Sunshine Products
3574:Fuel Freedom International
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368:Promotional representative
3884:Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing
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2787:. Springer. p. 242.
1415:Kitching, Trevor (2001).
1011:Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing
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3788:LifeVantage Corporation
3604:The Longaberger Company
3564:Forever Living Products
3128:Taylor, Jon M. (2002).
1521:. Sphinx Pub. pp.
1157:method instead of MLM.
1153:sell their products by
1095:Chinese economic reform
1055:Multi-level marketing (
1034:Legality and legitimacy
928:converting this section
742:of products or services
706:converting this section
363:Promotional merchandise
348:Out-of-home advertising
137:Account-based marketing
3714:Southwestern Advantage
2983:"FalseProfitsHomePage"
2659:Lin, Chunfeng (2023).
2576:Singletary, Michelle.
2429:Transaction Publishers
2052:"Multilevel Marketing"
2045:"Multilevel Marketing"
1955:. Wiley. p. 168.
1951:Coenen, Tracy (2009).
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3854:Black Oxygen Organics
3818:Usana Health Sciences
3754:World Financial Group
3519:Arbonne International
3456:Multi-level marketing
2965:Stephen Butterfield,
2374:. Inter press service
2162:The New Professionals
2029:on September 20, 2018
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1749:John Wiley & Sons
1385:Clegg, Brian (2000).
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3874:European Home Retail
3659:North American Power
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2191:Direct Sales Journal
2047:. FTC. May 18, 2021.
1751:. pp. 235–236.
1739:Carroll, Robert Todd
1560:Blackwell Publishing
1487:. FTC. May 18, 2021.
1222:was found guilty of
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770:False product claims
661:legislative statutes
373:Visual merchandising
303:Behavioral targeting
177:Vertical integration
157:Influencer marketing
3803:Nu Skin Enterprises
3366:on January 18, 2009
3227:. February 10, 2011
2854:on October 19, 2004
2700:on January 21, 2015
2582:The Washington Post
2286:McGeorge Law Review
1708:. September 3, 2005
1167:affiliate marketing
1067:traditional Chinese
323:In-game advertising
313:Display advertising
189:Promotional content
4015:Types of marketing
3844:Aman Futures Group
3739:Usborne Publishing
3724:Success University
3390:"Multi-Level Lies"
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3136:on August 27, 2018
2999:(Herald Pr, 1997).
2985:. Falseprofits.com
2762:. October 31, 2013
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864:. You can help by
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328:Mobile advertising
280:Sex in advertising
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3308:978-1-86179-461-1
2926:In re Amway Corp.
2794:978-3-319-32754-9
2736:on April 28, 2016
2694:www.lehmanlaw.com
2112:978-0-470-53805-0
1962:978-0-470-38796-2
1923:"Pyramid Schemes"
1880:. January 8, 2013
1852:Knowledge@Wharton
1569:978-0-631-19229-9
1552:Xardel, Dominique
1532:978-1-57248-377-4
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2721:直销企业信息披露网站
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1080:chuán xiāo
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