Tag Archives: FTC

How to improve Amway & Quixtar - Part I

October 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Amway North America, Commentary

This was originally posted back on August 9, 2007, however it got buried in events later that day and Part II was never written. A few folk have suggested the topic is worth revisiting, so here it is! Some changes, such as shipping cost changes in the US and the whole new setup in the [...]

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Great News for all Network Marketers

March 26th, 2008 | Posted in Commentary, Critics of Amway, Jon Taylor, Robert FitzPatrick

As many North American readers would know, in 2006 the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a new Business Opportunity Rule which, as written, would require multi-level marketing opportunity promoters to provide prospects with a whole range of new information, such as names of other local participants, lawsuits, etc etc etc. It also imposed a [...]

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MYTH: It’s a pyramid if most products are bought by IBOs

May 14th, 2007 | Posted in Amway Myths, Eric Janssen, Robert FitzPatrick

Many critics like to claim that Amway and other MLMs are a “product based illegal pyramid scheme”. The claim is that they are illegal pyramid schemes because the majority of products are consumed by “members of the scheme” and not retail customers. It’s quite common for them to also claim that in the FTC vs [...]

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MYTH: 70% Retail Sales Rule

August 20th, 2006 | Posted in Amway Myths, Robert FitzPatrick

Is it dishonesty or just ignorance? If you search around the posts of critics of Amway and Quixtar on the internet, something you’ll see regularly is reference to something like “The 70% Retail Sales Rule”.
Here for example, on Pyramid Scheme Alert, the claim is made -
A 70% retail requirement level has been applied in various [...]

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