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Articles on PRODUCT-BASED PYRAMID SCHEMES (PPS)
PLEASE HELP! I believe this site presents information about MLM/network marketing that is as close to the truth as can be found. It can save you much time, money, and grief, as it has done for many others. And since law enforcement has essentially looked the other way on this type of consumer abuse, it is left to informed consumers to inform and warn their friends and relatives about the potential losses they could suffer from participation in a “recruiting MLM.” So please print and distribute at least 5 copies of the answer cards to those you care about – and ask each of them to share answer cards with 5 people, and each of them with 5 more, etc., etc. . . . In this way, you can influence many people for good – through an endless chain of truth-telling. Click here to see these handy answer cards (4 to choose from) that you can print and distribute now – as well as carry with you for those awkward moments when you are recruited by a well-meaning friend or relative. For more information, click on the appropriate links above.
This series of articles by Jon M. Taylor, Ph.D., on product-based pyramid schemes (PPS), or recruiting MLM's*, is provided for consumers, consumer protection agencies, legislators, media representatives, and other officials - to encourage understanding of and appropriate action against fraudulent multi-level and endless chain “opportunity” recruitment schemes that dupe and defraud millions of participants world-wide out of billions of dollars every year.
PPS #2: A wise appointment of Director of Consumer Protection can help slow a financial tsunami
PPS #3: What are the various types of pyramid schemes and what harm do they do?
PPS #4: Six reasons for silence of the victims of product-based pyramid schemes (recruiting MLM’s)
PPS
#5:
MLM – a business of deceptions – and “The Sting”
PPS #6: The Parable of the Missing Children
PPS #7: What is wrong with Multi-level Marketing? – Experts speak out.
PPS #8: Gambling a safer bet than MLM/network marketing
PPS #9: Any truth to MLM claims? — RESEARCH to the rescue!
PPS #11: Legislators and Regulators: BEWARE the DSA (Direct Selling Association)!
*A "recruiting MLM" is a multi-level marketing program that rewards the recruiting of a downline more than it rewards legitimate sales to non-participants in the system.