Peloton Tread+

Allegations: Misleadingly marketing treadmills as safe to use in homes with families when the machines are unreasonably dangerous for children and pets

Dollar General

Allegations: Charging consumers more than the advertised prices

General Motors Diesel Automobiles

Dollar General’s Body Soothing Aloe Gel

General Motors Cadillac User Experience System

MLM News Alert

TINA.org’s curated list of MLM info and news of note.

Various Lines of Herbal Supplements: Finest Nutrition, Spring Valley, and Others

Annie’s Naturals® Salad Dressings

Allegations: Falsely marketing salad dressings as natural

YoPlus Yogurt

CATrends: What the Fudge?

Lawsuits allege brownie brands and others lack the essential dairy ingredients to call their products fudge.

Companies that Get Coal in their 2013 Stockings

Be careful, deceptive marketers — Santa was watching.

Primerica

TINA.org investigated Primerica, Inc., a Georgia-based multilevel marketing company that sells term life insurance and various other financial service products, and found that the company has used atypical income claims…

Stansberry

TINA.org investigated Stansberry & Associates, a subsidiary of Agora (aka Monument & Cathedral Holdings), and found that it was using deceptive testimonials to sell its investment newsletters. (TINA.org later investigated…

DealDash

TINA.org investigated DealDash, one of the world’s largest penny auction websites, and determined that the company operated a form of illegal gambling and used deceptive marketing tactics to lure consumers to…

Bob’s Discount Furniture

TINA.org investigated Bob’s Discount Furniture’s offer of “interest free” financing and found that the store deceptively advertised its financing by failing to make clear that interest on unpaid balances would…

Beautycounter

TINA.org investigated Beautycounter, a California-based multilevel marketing company that sells cosmetics and skincare products, and found that it used unsubstantiated, and therefore deceptive, income claims to market the company’s business…

Value Village

TINA.org chimes in on Washington regulator lawsuit against for-profit thrift retail company engaged in deceptive marketing.

Montefiore Ads Pollute NYC Highways

New York neurosurgery center features deceptive testimonial on billboards and website

Vapex

TINA.org investigated Vapex, a Utah-based company that sold e-cigarettes, and found that it falsely claimed consumers could receive a “Free Trial’’ offer, used fake testimonials, falsely claimed it won a…

DG Auto Motor Oil

Allegations: Deceptively marketing motor oils