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iMarketsLive Financial Document Debunks Income Claims

MLM’s long-awaited income disclosure statement, while confusing, packs some hard truths.

What You Should Know about LuLaRoe

Achieving financial freedom from this MLM is as hard as finding those unicorn prints.

Court Rules that Success by Health Was a Pyramid Scheme

Court also finds that defendants made false and deceptive earnings claims.

Forever Living’s Neverending Deceptive Income Claims

The MLM has been making deceptive earnings claims for the past decade.

FTC Actions against Payment Processors

A review of lawsuits the FTC has filed against companies and individuals that process credit and debit card transactions.

MLMs Continue to Break the Law Despite FTC Warning

Deceptive health and income claims, including some tied to COVID-19, persist in wake of warning from the feds.

Market America

TINA.org investigated Market America, a North Carolina-based multilevel marketing company that sells a variety of different products and services, including cosmetics, dietary supplements, jewelry, household products, and internet and financial…

2017 Princess House Income Claims Database

TINA.org investigation reveals misleading income claims used to market MLM opportunity.

2017 Avon Income Claims Database

TINA.org investigation reveals misleading income claims used to market MLM opportunity.

2017 L’Bri Income Claims Database

TINA.org investigation reveals misleading income claims used to market MLM opportunity.

Fifth Avenue Collection Income Claims Database

TINA.org investigation reveals misleading income claims used to market MLM opportunity.

Color By Amber Income Claims Database

TINA.org investigation reveals misleading income claims used to market MLM opportunity.

2017 Amway Income Claims Database

TINA.org investigation reveals misleading income claims used to market MLM opportunity.

Mary Kay Income Claims – 2017 Collection

Between June and November 2017, TINA.org investigated every company on the November 29, 2017 Direct Selling Association (The Direct Selling Association (DSA) is the national trade association for direct selling…

Multi-level Marketing: The Long and Short of It

The financial appeal of multi-level marketing companies attracts investors and swindlers alike.

Making Sense of Hedge-Fund Marketing

Hedge Funds can advertise now, but look before you leap.

Mary Kay Off-Roads into Deceptive Income Claims

The pink Cadillac is just one of many things top-selling distributors tout but few distributors achieve.

2017 Regal Ware Income Claims Database

TINA.org investigation reveals misleading income claims used to market MLM opportunity.

The Enduring Primacy of Retail Sales in an MLM Context

POST HIGHLIGHTS • Meaning of Amway rules (1979), especially the “70% rule” and subsequent deterioration • Koscot (1975), Omnitrition (1996), and BurnLounge (2014) provide seminal rulings on the determination of…