New MLM Business Opportunity Success | MLM Industry (?) Attorney's Response to e-Mail

Thursday, 2005 January 6

I sent out a short e-mail message with links to an old MLM list I had.  This was to publicize my website and this Blog having my scam slam pages.  One response was from an attorney obviously having some connection with the industry.  Is it funny or just pathetic?

Key to my and respondent's comments:
O:   from my original e-mail
R:>  the attorney's response

----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 11:17 PM
Subject: Any non-scam MLMs? I don't know of any.

O: Any non-scam MLMs? I don't know of any.

R:> I do.

O: I regard as a scam any MLM that has a pay plan where most of the commission money goes far upline rather than to the two distributors closest to the sale.

R:> I appreciate your definition, however, I subscribe and defer to the myriad consumer protection laws at the federal and states levels that are the products of tens of thousands of hours of thought and deliberation by thousands of our elected officials around the country.

R:> There is no statutory definition in the country that is even remotely close to yours.  Perhaps you should consider revising your definition?

R:> In the final analysis, there is no law in the country that criminalizes or makes illegal a program that pays more than the two levels immediately above the sale.  If you feel strongly about your definition, perhaps you should lobby your state legislators or Congressional representatives to enact such a definition.  I feel relatively confident, however, that such a definition will never be adopted by any legislative body or court.

R:> That said, we enjoy unparalleled freedoms in the United States.  If you choose to continue define a scam in the manner you have define (sic), that is absolutely your prerogative.

(Page and Blog links in my original e-mail have been moved to bottom of this entire post.)

O: P.S.: I am NOT promoting ANY MLM company.
O: I think the whole "industry" is populated by two types of people:  Charismatic scammers and naive wannabes.  Am I wrong?

R:> Yes, you are.

O: P.P.S.:  Do not send me information about your "latest and greatest" ...

R:> I am happy to honor your request.

O: ... "MLM of the month" unless you also arrange to pay me an evaluation fee of $100.  (If your opportunity is REALLY all that great, that is just "chump change", right?  So you should make that back many times in overrides, right?)

O: Seriously, read and heed before you waste (more) time and money.

R:> Will do.

(Closings and signatures/names deleted.)

My reponse to the interspersed responses above:

I don't have a problem with more than two levels.  What I have a problem with is that the aggregate above the first two levels is more than the first two levels.

And I'm not counting the phony "retail" profit.

You can quote the law all you want.  But, generally, "the law is an ass", and is written by lobbyists for the industry supposedly regulated.

Get real!

Oh, I see that you are an attorney.  That explains much.

(end e-mails)

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DB

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