MLM Income Disclosures: When Average Does Not Equal Typical
September 9th, 2020
Pyramid scheme experts explain how MLM income disclosures can be deceptive.
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Deceptive Income Claims – How Not to Market Your MLM Business
September 14th, 2020
How income claims, even truthful ones, can be deceptive when marketing the MLM business opportunity.
TINA.org Pushes for New Enforcement Tactic Against MLM Industry
June 30th, 2021
MADISON, CONN. June 30, 2021 – Ad watchdog truthinadvertising.org (TINA.org) sent a letter today to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) urging it to initiate a penalty-offense program targeting the direct selling industry and its market-wide practice of utilizing deceptive earnings representations and false health claims. For years TINA.org has taken an active role in holding
TINA.org Pushes for New Enforcement Tactic Against MLM Industry
June 30th, 2021
And if you don’t know, now you know.
LuLa-NO: Clothing MLM Violating Court Order
April 5th, 2021
TINA.org alerts Washington AG’s office to deceptive income claims and more.
Mary Kay Off-Roads into Deceptive Income Claims
March 4th, 2021
The pink Cadillac is just one of many things top-selling distributors tout but few distributors achieve.
Mary Kay Income Claims
March 4th, 2021
A TINA.org investigation has compiled a sampling of 200 examples of Mary Kay and/or its distributors making atypical income claims to promote the company’s business opportunity. *Claims collected by TINA.org in 2017 as part of its investigation into all DSA-member companies are available here. **TINA.org has shortened the length of some videos in the database
MLMs Continue to Break the Law Despite FTC Warning
December 15th, 2020
Deceptive health and income claims, including some tied to COVID-19, persist in wake of warning from the feds.
2020 FTC MLM Database
December 15th, 2020
In 2020, TINA.org investigated the 16 MLMs targeted by the FTC for making deceptive COVID-related claims and found that each of the MLMs has continued to make unsubstantiated health claims and/or deceptive income claims, either directly or through distributors. A majority of the MLMs (10 out of 16) have also continued to put these claims
Regulatory Inquiries Put Essential Oils MLM doTerra on the Defensive
November 19th, 2020
MLM’s health claims fail to stand up to an increased level of scrutiny amid a worldwide pandemic.
Market America Takes Down Deceptive Income Claims in Response to TINA.org
November 2nd, 2020
MADISON, CONN. November 2, 2020 A truthinadvertising.org (TINA.org) investigation has found hundreds of atypical and exaggerated income claims made by multilevel marketing company Market America on its website and social media platforms. The ad watchdog issued a warning letter alerting the MLM company to its findings and urging that it promptly remove the deceptive marketing
19 Things Le-Vel and Its Distributors Deceptively Represent Are Attainable with MLM
April 17th, 2020
Exaggerated earnings claims are not hard to find.
5 Things MLMs Need to Worry About after FTC’s Action against SBH
January 27th, 2020
Latest FTC pyramid action should serve as a warning for the MLM industry.
iMarketsLive Financial Document Debunks Income Claims
August 15th, 2019
MLM’s long-awaited income disclosure statement, while confusing, packs some hard truths.
Trump’s MLM Pitch Misled Consumers, Lawsuit Says
October 30th, 2018
Complaint alleges Trump secretly received millions of dollars in payments while deceptively marketing ACN.
TINA.org Complaint Throws Water on Stream’s Income Claims
September 10th, 2018
TINA.org calls on regulators to put an end to Texas-based MLM’s illegal income claims once and for all.
TINA.org Fast-Tracks Team National’s Checkered Income Claims to FTC
June 14th, 2018
The truth is — and the MLM admits — the vast majority of distributors make no income at all.
