Talk:Multilevel marketing

Industry Example Section
Does anybody think we should add an industry example section? I know that Cosmetics, Fitness, Nutrition, and Insurance seem to use MLM the most. Additionally, online tutoring companies seem to be using an MLM model more and more.Klkevelson (talk) 22:24, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

MLM vs. direct sales
The article should make more explicit the distinction between direct sales (i.e. the ever increasingly archaic business model) and MLM (the scam). Here and here is something more about the differences, plus some more on how these distinctions have been increasingly blurred by MLM companies joining the Direct Sales Association, taking over it, and describing themselves as "direct sales" when they're clearly not. Faunas (talk) 19:15, 8 May 2016 (UTC)


 * The problem there is as pointed out on the talk page of wikipedia's article on this matter is that "MLM makes up over 90% of Direct Sales". Some of the pro-MLM "sources" presented for that page were a hoot.--BruceGrubb (talk) 22:12, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Scam
Can we re-categorize this with the "Scam" category? I think it's more specific and descriptive than either of the two category boxes that are there now. Spaceboyjosh (talk) 21:39, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Video + study on profitability of MLM's
good video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeDHHt26ibQ

ftc study https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/public_comments/trade-regulation-rule-disclosure-requirements-and-prohibitions-concerning-business-opportunities-ftc.r511993-00008%C2%A0/00008-57281.pdf

really really useful graph https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/public_comments/trade-regulation-rule-disclosure-requirements-and-prohibitions-concerning-business-opportunities-ftc.r511993-00004%C2%A0/00004-57286.pdf

02:43, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

Forex/IM mlm
Anyone here at RW care to do an article on the new phenomenon of IM academy mlm. Many “investment groups” have used this site to funnel people into the foreign exchange market. Many of these groups are made up of young college students who go around university campuses promising financial freedom and a way out of student loan debt. They also use social media as a way to lure potential recruits with pictures and videos of seminars or exotic locations. There was also some controversy surrounding the IM academy founder Christopher Terry when it was founded in 2013. https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b19fcfsc2n7jw6/Is-This-Company-a-Forex-Trading-Pyramid-Scheme SensaurC-137 (talk) 00:51, 8 September 2020 (UTC)