Amway, Is it the greatest con game since the shell game?

Published September 15, 2010 | By Bman

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MLM or Pyramid Scheme?

Cagey Consumer MLM and Financial Scams Exposed

False Profits Analysis of Network and Multi-Level Marketing (MLM)

How do MLMs manage to recruit and retain enthusiastic distributors, even when those distributors lose money year after year? A close examination of the mind control systems of cults reveals disturbing similarities between MLMs and cults.

This web site supplies a generic checklist for identifying cults:

Let’s go through the list and comment:

Based on this analysis, I think the notion that MLMs have cultish tendencies has merit. I’ll be the first to admit that excellence in any endeavor requires a passionate dedication. But that dedication is usually internal rather than external. When external “authorities” begin overwriting people’s identities with their own

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