MLM News Alert

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

This Gift Basket’s Got Some Shadowy Service Charges

1-800-Flowers.com and its basket of pricing problems.

Telebrands “Everyday Savings” Program

Allegations: Failing to tell customers who purchased products that they would be enrolled in its “Everyday Savings” program

Payday Lender Ordered to Pay over $1 Billion for Deceiving Customers

For the latest on this case, click here. A federal court judge has ordered AMG Capital and its chief operator, race car driver Scott Tucker, to pay more than $1…

Ad or Not? USA Today ‘Special Supplement’

This may not be such an impartial review.

Five Cat Ads for World Cat Day

Celebrate with cat ads from all over the world.

Days Inn by Wyndham Gulfport (Not Pictured)

Be wary of misleading photos on travel sites.

Ting Mobile

With the click of a button, a 90-day warranty shrinks to a 30-day warranty.

Vunella Naturals’ Mother’s Day Sale

This isn’t the mother of a deal it might appear to be.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Allegations: Falsely representing that donations would not be used for commercial, for-profit purposes when donated money was used to purchase a shopping mall

Holiday Shopping: Separating the Real Deals from the Fake Ones

TINA.org offers some tips on how to avoid a shopping mishap this season.

Carvana’s ‘7-Day Money-Back Guarantee’

Is it still a money-back guarantee if you end up paying hundreds of dollars?

DayQuil Medicines with DXM

Allegations: Misleadingly marketing medicines as “non-drowsy” when an ingredient in them causes drowsiness

DayQuil Cough Medicine

Allegations: Falsely marketing medicine as “non-drowsy” when an ingredient causes drowsiness

DayQuil Super C

Allegations: Misleadingly marketing products as if they alleviate cold and flu symptoms when fine print on the side of the product packaging discloses that the products are “not intended to…

Sudafed, Tylenol, DayQuil, NyQuil and Store Brand Cold and Flu Medicines

Allegations: Falsely marketing that phenylephrine products treat congestion and other cold and flu symptoms

10 Companies that Get Coal in their 2016 Holiday Stockings

Find out which companies are on TINA.org’s 2016 naughty list.

Testimonial Comparisons

Cancer Treatment Centers of America

TINA.org investigated Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA), a for-profit cancer center that consistently spent more on marketing each year than any other U.S. cancer center, and found that it promoted…

Coach

TINA.org investigated price advertising tactics used by outlet stores in Connecticut, including at a Coach Outlet store, and found that it ran perpetual – and therefore fabricated and deceptive –…