Monthly Archives: July 2012

Quixtar class action settlement – a brief analysis

Regular follows of this blog will be aware of the settlement in a class action case against Quixtar by Pokorny, Blenn, and Busiere. Today most IBOs and former IBOs covered by the class action have received their second notice about the settlement, so I’ve been receiving a few inquiries about it. The case was originally against Quixtar, [...]

Who is Amway critic Joecool? And does he owe me $50000?

I’ve occasionally participated on a website called scam.com. There’s regular duels there between MLM supporters and anti-MLM zealots with their usual falsehoods and misconceptions. Back in August 2011 a poster joined using the nickname Joecool44. As of writing this post, he has, since joining scam.com contributed 3,473 posts, at an average of nearly 10 posts [...]

Nothing much to say except ….

 ….. I WANT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Though I suppose I should probably mention the reason for it. Amway is now a major triathlon sponsor, starting with the following four events – Lake Placid, New York (Full): July 19–22 New York City, New York (U.S. Championships): August 8–11 Las Vegas, Nevada (World Championships – 70.3): September 6–9 Panama [...]

Class action against Amway Canada thrown out

Well, “thrown out” is probably not a technically correct legal term, but the result is the same. Back in 2009 a pair of disgruntled IBOs, husband and wife Kerry Murphy and Cheryl Rhodes, of Cloverdale, British Columbia, filed a class action lawsuit against Amway Canada. This  of course made news with the anti-Amway brigade, but funnily [...]

Amway and Euromonitor

Most IBOs would be aware of various “claims” about Amway’s products and sales that are backed up by research done by Euromonitor International. I’ve just discovered Euromonitor actually has a page on their website describing some of the claims and their methodology. Worth a look! The claims listed are – Since 1959, Amway has paid [...]

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