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Sites opposed to business opportunities (especially MLMs).

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• Amway and Quixtar
• Carleton Sheets
• Cutco Cutlery and Vector Marketing
• Don Lapre
• Excel Communications
• Herbalife
• Institute for Global Prosperity
• Internet Treasure Chest
• Medco
• Pre-Paid Legal Services
• Primerica
• World Financial Group

Resources in This Category

• An Employment Scam in the Financial Services Industry

  http://www.financialindustryscam.com/
  Describes an employment scam that finance grads and those considering financial, insurance and securities sales should be aware of. What to do if you've been scammed; links to similar sites.

• Anti-MLM and Anti-Amway Webring

  http://www.cocs.com/jhoagland/webhq.html
  Sites containing informational material regarding the MLM industry, especially Amway.

• Cagey Consumer: Multi-level marketing

  http://cageyconsumer.com/mlminfo.html
  Analysis and debunking of Multi-Level Marketing as an industry as well as scrutiny of a number of specific MLMs and complaints generated about them.

• False Profits

  http://www.falseprofits.com/
  About the book, an exposé and analysis of the multi-level marketing (MLM) industry

• MetroActive: Shaking the Money Tree

  http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/10.03.96/cover/multilevel-9640.html
  by Amy Chen Mills- "From Amway to Equinox, multilevel marketing schemes have won 7 million devotees on the promise of unlimited wealth and freedom. But when the numbers don't add up, distributors lose more than their dreams."

• MLM Survivors Club

  http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/mlmsurvivorsclub/
  A discussion group for people who've survived MLM.

• Personal Experience: Mary Kay Cosmetics

  http://cc.edumacation.com/mlm/marykay.html
  Associate recounts her negative experience with the company.

• PinkLightHouse.com

  http://www.pinklighthouse.com/
  Ex-Mary Kay consultants offer news, stories, testimonials and forum on negative experiences with the company.

• Pyramid Scheme Alert

  http://pyramidschemealert.org/
  Exposes, studies and aims to prevent illegal pyramid schemes. News, alerts, resources, legal information, updates and consumer information about a number of companies and MLMs operating suspected pyramid schemes.

• Skeptic's Dictionary: multi-level marketing

  http://skepdic.com/mlm.html
  Encyclopedia-type article about multi-level marketing.

• The Bottom Line About Multilevel Marketing Plans

  http://business.ftc.gov/documents/inv08-bottom-line-about-multi-level-marketing-plans
  Tips from the Federal Trade Commission regarding MLMs.

• The Mirage of Multilevel Marketing

  http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/mlm.html
  Article by Stephen Barrett, M.D., on bogus health products.

• The WorldWide Scam Network

  http://worldwidescam.com/
  Parodies of and information about the multi-level marketing scams, frauds, and rip-offs.

• What's Wrong With Multi-Level Marketing?

  http://www.vandruff.com/mlm.html
  Business analysis of 4 major systemic problems with MLM: 1) Market Saturation, 2) Pyramid Structure, 3) Morality and Ethics, and 4) Relationship Costs

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