Tag Archives: Robert FitzPatrick

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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Critiquing the Critics

April 16th, 2012 | Posted in Critics of Amway

Bloomberg Business Week has today published an article about the direct selling industry that appears to be little more than a propaganda piece straight from the pen of MLM critic Robert FitzPatrick. It astounds me that supposed journalists do so little research on these self-declared “experts” and even less on the claims they’re making. So I’m going [...]

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Len Clements launches a podcast

February 10th, 2009 | Posted in Commentary, Jon Taylor, Robert FitzPatrick

One of my favourite commentators on the Network Marketing industry is Len Clements of MarketWave Inc. Len has been very much at the forefront of defending the industry against anti-mlm zealots like Robert FitzPatrick and Jon Taylor. He unfortunately has had a tendency to repeat some of the unfair generalizations about Amway that are based [...]

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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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Pokorny and Blenn vs Quixtar et.al update – Arbitration denied

April 1st, 2008 | Posted in Commentary, Robert FitzPatrick

In a California case two former IBOs, Jeff Porkony and Larry Blenn, are attempting a class action lawsuit against Quixtar, Britt WorldWide, World Wide DreamBuilders and associated parties, alleging Quixtar is an illegal pyramid scheme in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). As per most previous litigation, Quixtar’s first step was [...]

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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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