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A pyramid scheme...sorry..."Multi-level marketing" company is accused of scammy practices? Color me shocked! There are whole blogs, podcasts, message boards, e

• smacktoward 8y ago
  The article makes it pretty clear that LuLaRoe went above and beyond even the normal MLM scuzziness: > [A]t the national level the job of spotting [pyramid schemes] falls to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. It primarily does this by checking to see if a company abides by a standard established in the wake of a 1972 lawsuit against a now defunct beauty products company called Koscot. The Koscot standard, as it’s known, says that while a company can compensate people for recruiting new sellers, it can’t base that compensation on how much inventory the recruits buy. Most state laws, including California’s, also require compensation plans to be based on sales. It’s a simple rule. The DSA requires it of all its members. LuLaRoe didn’t follow it for the first four years of its existence, instead basing its bonuses on wholesale orders. For a while it apparently neglected to track what types of clothing actually sold.
• Scoundreller 8y ago
  “The Dream” was a great podcast on the topic.