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Showing posts with label Herbalife. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Herbalife. Show all posts
Saturday, December 26, 2020

Herbalife 1: Science 0 -- How MLM gets away with SLAPPing science again and again

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BehindMLM just reported that Herbalife, through legal threats against scientific journal's staff and publisher, has forced a study find...
Monday, May 21, 2018

Bad Propaganda: MLM trying cheap photoshop tricks on its gullible members? Or just rogue member?

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Spotted this over in /r/antimlm: Apparently someone took the photo fo Meghan Markle at her baptism a while back, photoshopped (tm) a ch...
Monday, January 29, 2018

Herbalife's first post-FTC disclosure still uses funny math to manipulate impressions

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Herbalife settled with the FTC in 2016 in exchange for FTC not calling the company a pyramid scheme outright. The settlement included a long...
Saturday, November 18, 2017

MLM Basics: The eBay Test

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"Jason McRiffle" brought up an interesting test in a BehindMLM comment for the "legitimacy" of an MLM, and it's more...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

Bad Propaganda: "Alternative Facts" about MLM

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Recently the Trump camp used "alternative facts" when attempting to "defend" some numbers that are obviously bogus... wi...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016

MLM Basics: Why is MLM so... addicting?

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Many people who are NOT in MLM wonder WHY MLM seems to be so addicting to its participants, and even as members lose money month after month...
Sunday, September 11, 2016

Scam Psychology: The "Hard Work" Narrative vs. the Luck Factor

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The words "hard work" often appears in the MLM supporter's arguments or narrative trying to discredit their "opponents...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

Eric Worre is wrong about Dave Ramsey: or, why MLM advocates only knows truthiness, not truth

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If you are in the US, you probably heard of Dave Ramsey, who had been giving financial advice for decades as a radio call-in show (i.e. he g...
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Saturday, July 23, 2016

OPINION: With HLF consenting to reforms, and Burks of ZeekRewards Guilty, justice prevailed, but work is never done

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July 2016 has been a busy month. On July 15, 2016, news was released that Herbalife has reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commis...
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Sunday, January 3, 2016

What should you look forward to MLM and Direct Selling in 2016?

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It is now 2016, and as usual, positive thinkers are already out hating my blog posts already. First reader comment of 2016 starts with: ...
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Monday, July 27, 2015

Scam Tactics: Two-face... being very different things to different people

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One of the most memorable villains to Batman is Two-face , formerly district attorney Harvey Dent . After a severe injury that left him sca...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

MLM Basics: Is Multi-Level Marketing a Shared Delusion?

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In a blogpost back in 2014, author Robert Fitzpatrick, who operates the website PyramidSchemeAlert postulated that Multi-level Marketing, i....
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Saturday, March 7, 2015

MLM Basics: The Truth Behind "MLM Confidence"... When Being Confident Is Actually Stupid, not Smart

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It seems that MLM / NM placed a LOT of emphasis on "confidence". If you search for "mlm confidence" you will get 441000 ...
Friday, December 19, 2014

News Update 19-DEC-2014: Zhunrize Plea Deal; PlanB4You Busted; Zeek Money May Be Stolen; FDA Admonishes Herbalife

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Lots of little news this week... Remember folks, don't accept random news items without attribution. I link to my sources, and you shoul...
Friday, December 12, 2014

Bad Argument: Distributors can't lose money if they enjoy the product (WTF?!)

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One of the contentious issues between MLM proponents and critics is the definition of a "customer" vs. a "distributor". ...
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Thursday, December 11, 2014

MLM Mythbusting: Is MLM really a growth industry? (The Numbers May Surprise You)

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When you listen to MLMers / Network Marketers , you're often told that MLM is the big thing, it's "experiencing record growth...
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Sunday, September 21, 2014

NEWS UPDATE: Quite a lot of catching up with all sorts of news updates regarding Ponzi, potential Ponzis, and such

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Okay folks, sorry for not updating the blog for a week or so. Had been busy doing some other stuff... like playing way too much Doctor Who L...
Sunday, September 7, 2014

News Update 07-SEP-2014: Herbalife problem in Norway; TelexFree Brazil Exposed; Zeek, TelexFree, and WCM ponzi updates

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Remember folks, when you read "news", they better have a source, and it better be a reputable source (or links to a reputable sour...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

MLM Basics: Is MLM considered entrepreneurship?

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A recent discussion regarding a certain suspect MLM already fined in Europe for pyramid selling brought up an interesting point of discussi...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

A Belated Herbalife Update: 2 states launch investigation, and endorsers freaked out

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With TelexFree news coming fast and furious, other areas of interest aren't getting covered. Haven't covered any news about Herbalif...