Rodan + Fields
TINA.org investigated Rodan + Fields as part of a larger investigation into atypical income claims used by MLM companies. To read more about TINA.org’s 2023 MLM Income Claims Investigation, click here.
How We Took Action
2024
February 14
As part of its 2023 investigation into 100 MLM companies, TINA.org notifies Rodan + Fields of its findings that the company has used atypical income claims to market its business opportunity.
2021
October 26
The FTC sends Rodan + Fields a Notice of Penalty Offenses Concerning Money-Making Opportunities putting the company on formal notice that it is an unfair or deceptive trade practice to misrepresent that profits or earnings are the ordinary, typical or average profits or earnings made by participants, and to fail to disclose conditions affecting income, such as expenses borne by the participants, among other things.
June 30
TINA.org sends a letter, along with a list of more than 660 direct selling companies that includes Rodan + Fields, to the FTC urging it to implement a penalty offense program targeting the direct selling industry and its market-wide practice of using deceptive earnings representations and false health claims.
2020
November 16
As part of its 2020 investigation into MLMs targeted by the FTC for making deceptive COVID-related claims, TINA.org notifies the FTC of its finding that Rodan + Fields continues to make atypical income claims.
April 24
The FTC sends Rodan + Fields a warning letter ordering it to cease and desist from making unlawful claims that products treat COVID-19 and deceptive earnings claims.
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