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Are you recruiting your competitors?

September 28th, 2011 | Posted in Amway Myths, Commentary, Peter Bowditch, Robert T. Carroll, Steve Nakamura (JoeCool)

A supposed “criticism” of Amway, and indeed of multilevel marketing, that I’ve seen turn up regularly is the idea that it’s inherently flawed because “you are recruiting competitors”. For example, Robert T. Carroll, in his “Skeptic’s Dictionary” says – Why, you might wonder would you recruit people to compete with you? For, isn’t that what [...]

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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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Amway/Quixtar MYTH: No growth in IBOs in 30 years

August 25th, 2006 | Posted in Amway Myths

This myth seems to have been started in 2004 by the infamous lawdawg on his MLMlaw blog, with a post Zero Population Growth (update: the site has since been removed). Lawdawg takes a quote from a press release stating that Quixtar has a sales force of about 340,000 IBOs – Though it’s young, Quixtar already [...]

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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 [...]

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