Has anyone ever heard of Market America?
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I have not personally, but here is what I found from what other people on the web have said about it...\n\n"Market America is the definition of a pyramid scan or MLM or whatever you want to call it. This is an unassailable fact. The business model is not legitimate.\n\nDo not be confused - joining Market America is probably the stupidest thing anyone can do. You will not make money and the "successful" members are called "schills" who go into enormous amounts of debt to buy nice cars and houses solely for the purpose of suckering you into it.\n\nIdentifying any pyramid scam such as Market America can be tricky - because the people in it are unbelievably wonderful sales-people and can be so convincing it's intoxicating.\n\nWarning signs of a pyramid scam:\n\n+ They start off by saying you'll get paid $150K a year, for example, in 68 months or some period of time. They say there is no risk or you can't fail.\n\n+ Key  such as "residual income" and/or "kickback" are used. This is almost an immediate give away.\n\n+ If you have to pay them something up front to start but you still have to work. They call this an investment, but investors don't work - they have their money work for them.\n\n+ You have to get people under you to sell stuff.\n\n+ You don't even understand what they are selling. Legitimate companies (NOT Market America) sell products and services and can explain what they sell to you in 1 sentence."\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n"Market America, a North Carolina corporation, is a multi- level product brokerage company which distributes approximately 300 consumer products through a network of approximately 75,000 independent distributors. The distributors earn money by purchasing products from Market America at wholesale prices and then selling those products to consumers at retail prices. Distributors also build sales organizations of other independent distributors and earn commissions from training and managing those sales organizations. Market America's distribution system is based on a binary matrix marketing plan whereby each distributor recruits, trains, and manages two sales organizations of other independent distributors. "\n~~~~~~~~\nSome lady tried to recruit me today for Market America. I knew right away that it was a scam and I felt sorry for her. I did some research on MLM, and I formulated a "big picture" of how the whole multi-level marketing works. \n\nFirst off, a pyramid scheme is marked my 2 traits: hierarchical payment structures (aka "pyramid"), and unsustainability (aka "scheme"). \n\nThe big picture is this: pyramid schemes are temporal, and when they finally die, all they've achieved is merely a redistribution of money. A few people come out ahead, but the majority come out behind (aka suckered). \n\nSo is Market America a pyramid scheme? No, it's just a pyramid. It is actually sustainable believe it or not. They'll defend their pyramidal traits by comparing themselves to other businesses, but here's the big difference: MLM's pyramid is a seller's pyramid, whereas a corporation's pyramid is a managerial pyramid. (A managerial pyramid is just beurocracy and is understandably necessary.) MLM may even compare their pyramid to the middle-manned process of factory-to-supermarket. But the factory-to-supermarket line is usually short and one of necessity. Bottom line: a pyramid is just a shape. Analogies using shapes are weak at best. \n\nSo how is Market America sustainable? You have to see the big picture once again. Product exchanges hand rather inefficiently down the pyramid, yes, but it ultimately gets sold! If you produce XXXX units of product_x, generally speaking, XXXX people will ultimately buy it. That net profit is real, although the profit gets distributed oddly. \n\nIt's in every member's best interest to keep the demand for their products high, so
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The name alone tells me that it is probably another BS multilevel marketing scheme, designed to make money by selling books, memberships, training, etc. to people like you.\n\nAnyone who claims to have a "proven system" for generating wealth is usually full of s**t.
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has anyone every heard of this dude?
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marketresearch.com has information for sale.
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No, I have not heard of it.  Maybe go check it out.
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LensCrafters is running a scam. \n\nI went there yesterday and showed them the box I'm living out of, and I even blew some of my unimaginable halitosis on the lady who was fitting a frame on my face.  I thought for sure I was going to get hooked up!  But they pointed at my "Will Work for Food" sign, and noted that I used a "Sharpie" Brand marker to write on the sign (instead of using my own feces - oops, my mistake),  and they said that *I* was too rich, too.  \n\nIt must be a marketing strategy.
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No. It is an offshoot or maybe a name change of a legitimate 50 year old US company. If it was a fraudulent business it would have been shut down years ago. By the way the former name of this company was AMWAY. Ever heard of it? The original CEO and primary stockholder is Rich Devos. He is the owner of the "Orlando Magic" NBA basketball franchise. This is all as legitimate as any company in America.
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They seem as legit as the companies who run them.I know people who have done coupon entries for national newspapers and stuff. I think the thing to look at is \n\nIF IT SEEMS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE \n\nThen it probably is.
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No.Never heard of them.Do a search on the internet.
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I was unable to locate any reference to such company on BBB, US and UK government records, or major search engines.\n\nIf this is a scam, which is possible, it is not widespread to trigger any news, or records yet.
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I heard that management makes a ton of money there - like close to 6 figures.  Maybe it's just a rumor but if that's the path your offer could lead to it might be worth looking into.
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Yes.  It's one of the ten most common email scams.  Don't EVER trust them.  Most likely, it's being emailed to you from Nigeria, where it is very popular and the laws of the country allow the scammers to steal every cent from you without being punished for it.  The scammers in question don't know you from Adam.  They've just got the email written to imply they know who you are.  These guys literally send out millions of these emails per day hoping to get a bite from someone looking for some free cash, and then they pounce.\n\nDon't ever, ever, EVER trust an email like that.\n\nEVER!  Did I mention that?  \n\nEEEEEEVVVVVVEEEEEERRRRRRRR!!!  =)
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Never heard of it before...
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I never heard of them before. I don't want to discourage you. If you interested I think you should look at what you getting and what is will actually cost in both time and money. \n\nMy experience with a similar deal was that most people don't find that they end up losing money.
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Craigslist founder Craig Newmark talks to Clare Goff about classified ads, the future of print journalism and his belief that gaining the public's trust is the key to success \n\nCraig Newmark isn't enjoying the media attention he's receiving during a visit to the UK. "I like to reassure people that I don't exist," he says, sipping green tea and nursing a cold in his London hotel. The founder of Craigslist.org spent the previous day speaking at the Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford conference, exploiting what he describes as "my George Costanza-like magic". \n\nThe 53-year-old San Franciscan, who founded Craigslist in 1993 as an email service to tell his friends about local events, is far from the stereotype of the dotcom millionaire. \n\n"We all like some attention, but we each have a threshold beyond which it's too much," he says. "My threshold is very low." \n\nHis eponymous classified ad site, which now lists ads for jobs, property, dating and local services across 35 countries, is estimated to be worth around $10m (#5.79m) and is causing consternation among offline media owners in the US, which claim that its free ads are eating into their classified business to the tune of millions. \n\nTo Newmark, valuations of the company - which has a staff of just 18 but clocks up almost as many page views as Ebay - are a "distraction". \n\n"We feel no need to get rich," he says, adding that the only thing he needs at the moment is a humming-bird feeder for the bottom of his garden, and "possibly a larger TV". \n\nHe has repeatedly turned down offers to sell out. Last year one of his former employees sold his 25% stake to Ebay, and both Ebay and Google have launched rival classified services. But Newmark is keen to ensure that the community values that launched the service remain intact. \n\n"When I launched Craigslist I was giving something back to the community and almost everything on there is there as a result of community participation," he says. \n\nHaving handed the reins of the business to Jim Buckmaster, admitting, "I'm not a good manager," Newmark's main role at Craigslist is now customer services representative, ensuring that the site continues to serve the community. \n\nIt now charges for employee listings across three US cities and is planning to charge apartment brokers for rental listings in New York. \n\nNewmark monitors the discussion boards and ad listings and has been surprised by the ability of the general public to uncover abuse on the site, which ranges from miscategorisations ("I had to remove an ad for spanking, not because of content but because people complained it was in the wrong category") to "disinformation attacks", including uncovering the Swift Boat Veterans smear attempt against Democrat candidate John Kerry. Disinformation is a big worry for Newmark, who believes that in the US the public has lost its faith in mainstream news media. \n\n"When it comes to certain matters, people daren't ask difficult questions," he says. "Journalists and editors are afraid of sometimes being seen as oddball, and fear losing access, which they don't have anyway." \n\nHe's currently investing in and acting on an advisory basis to a number of community journalism ventures, aimed at redressing this lack of trust. He's keen to stress that such projects are personal ones rather than part of Craigslist, having been the subject of a disinformation attack himself - his Oxford speech was taken out of context by the British press. \n\nOne of the ventures he's involved in is headed by Jeff Jarvis, a former TV critic and columnist for Media Guardian. While still in development, the company aims to create technologies that help readers find the most trusted version of important news stories. \n\nNewmark is interested in "accelerating the movement"
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never heard of it. contact the direct selling assoication. try searching rip off report on the web or ann sieg scam - I wish you the best
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I havn't really heard of it. But you can search on google.com and I wish you luck finding the location.