Multi-level Marketing: The Long and Short of It

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

Multilevel Marketing: The Day Job that Doesn’t Pay

More than 97 percent of DSA member companies use or have used misleading income claims.

American Travel Planners Exclusive Memberships

Travel Scams Can Ruin Your Super Bowl Trip

Make sure your luxury Super Bowl hotel isn’t really an abandoned house.

How to Avoid a Summer Vacation Nightmare

Before you book that great getaway deal, you need to ask some questions.

NourishLife speak (Lifetrients)

TINA.org investigated NourishLife (which later changed its name to Lifetrients) and found that it was deceptively advertising a potentially harmful supplement called SpeechNutrients speak by, among other things, claiming it…

The DSA Waffles Over AdvoCare

Former MLM holds onto its DSA membership in the aftermath of $150 million pyramid scheme settlement.

Grand Getaway Travel Membership Benefits

Ad or Not? USA Today ‘Special Supplement’

This may not be such an impartial review.

What You Should Know about Bulletproof School Supplies

TINA.org examines holes in “bulletproof” product claims.

Multi-Level Marketing v. Pyramid Schemes

What is multi-level marketing? Multi-level marketing (Multilevel Marketing – a way of distributing products or services in which the distributors earn income from their own retail sales and from retail…

Deceptive Income Claims – How Not to Market Your MLM Business

How income claims, even truthful ones, can be deceptive when marketing the MLM business opportunity.

Airbnb’s Travel Insurance Policies

Allegations: Failing to include an “assistance fee” in advertised insurance premiums and then attributing the fee to services that are already part of the insurance contract

FTC and State AGs Need to Take Their Relationship to the Next Level

TINA.org files comment concerning coordinated efforts to protect consumers.

Jeunesse, Top Distributors Face Pyramid, RICO Allegations

Few Jeunesse products are ever sold to anyone but distributors, lawsuit contends.

Travel Insurance from JetBlue Airways

Agoda Travel Website and App

Tickets on Peek Travel

Allegations: Failing to disclose taxes and fees in advertised prices and using a countdown timer to give consumers a limited amount of time to complete their transactions

Promise of Big Bucks is Really a Pyramid Scheme

Resorts360 at center of complaints filed by truthinadvertising.org.

TINA’s List

Readers have told us to look into these MLMs.