Tag Archives: Pyramid Scheme Alert

Amway Success - What are your odds?

October 10th, 2008 | Posted in Jon Taylor

A common cry of the anti-Amway zealots is that the “odds” or “chance” of an individual being successful in Amway are low. They’ll typically look at some of Amway’s published statistics, such as the fact that in 2005, .0120% of “Direct Fulfillment IBOs of Record” qualifed at the Diamond level, and claim that your “odds” [...]

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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: 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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