Category Archives: Commentary

Do 99% of Amway distributors lose money? Part 1

March 18th, 2013 | Posted in Amway Myths, Commentary

It’s a common claim among critics of multilevel marketing and Amway that “most people lose money”, some even go so far as to give specific figures. Jon Taylor of Consumer Awareness Institute claims loss rates exceeding 99.9%. Robert FitzPatrick of Pyramid Scheme Alert essentially just repeats Taylor’s analysis and claims the “loss rate” exceeds 99%. [...]

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What Howard Megdal didn’t want his readers to know

March 10th, 2013 | Posted in Commentary

I mentioned a couple of days ago that I had tried to reply to Howard Megdal on the three articles he wrote disparaging Amway and the Mets over the new Amway Business Center at Citi Field in New York. Despite initial denials from Megdal, one of his co-editors, Emma Span, admitted she was deleting my [...]

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The disgusting censorship of Howard Megdal, Emma Span, Sports on Earth and Capital New York

March 8th, 2013 | Posted in Amway North America, Commentary

Amway recently opened a business center at Citi Field in New York, home to the New York Mets baseball team. There was nothing secret it about, I published a story about it more than two months ago. The opening of the business center apparently came as a shock to some New York journalists, and in [...]

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Amway critics lie. Again.

February 26th, 2013 | Posted in Cheryl Rhodes (Anna Banana), Commentary, Critics of Amway

I’ve multiple times pointed out the lies of Amway critic “joecool”, who has been exposed creating false blogs and false identities simply to rubbish Amway. A reliable source contacted me a while back and told me that Anna Banana, aka Cheryl Rhodes, was doing much the same on her “Married to an Ambot” blog, and [...]

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MLM has too many middlemen?

February 10th, 2013 | Posted in Amway Myths, Commentary

One of the claims of critics of the multi-level marketing model is that due to having paying the independent distributors, there’s too many “middlemen” to be able to distribute products efficiently, thus it forces the prices of MLM products to be too high. Well, if you’ve been paying attention to European news in the past [...]

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Is India moving to ban all multilevel marketing?

December 5th, 2012 | Posted in Commentary

The Hindu newspaper in India has today reported on some proposed new guidelines from the Indian Government for State legislation regarding the “Prize Chits & Money Circulation Schemes” (PCMCS). The PCMCS law is, to say the least, not clear and this lack of clarity has allowed pyramid and other scams to flourish in India. Unfortunately, [...]

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Boycott Amway?

August 3rd, 2012 | Posted in Amway News, Commentary

Most Americans will have been aware in recent days of protests against and support for the restaurant chain Chick-Fil-A after it’s COO came out against gay marriage. Well, today the controversy has spread to Amway, after gay rights activist Fred Karger of Rights Equal Rights discovered that Amway President Doug DeVos has donated $500,000 to the National [...]

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