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- From: dao4@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DONALD A. O'SHALL)
- Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
- Subject: Re: ILLEGAL TO OPERATE MULTI-LEVEL WITH PURE MONEY TRANSACTIONS??
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.095609.37083@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 09:56:09 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
- Lines: 33
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- In article <26490026@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM>, fritz@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM (Gary Fritz (
- tmp)) writes:
- >In misc.entrepreneurs, moser@sw.stratus.com (Tom Moser) writes:
- >
- >>You are allowed to form a pyramid based on a service rather than a product.
- >
- >This is true. However:
- >
- >>One legal way to do this is to sell mailing lists, participation in the
- >>pyramid invloves paying to have your name put on a mailing list which is
- >>subsequently sold. The sales of these lists is necessary legally but it is
- >>secondary to the main thrust of the group - which is the pyramid.
- >
- >I am almost certain this is wrong. You can't slip around the pyramiding
- >laws with a sham product. You must have a product that people would buy
- >EVEN IF THEY WEREN'T IN THE PYRAMID -- otherwise the pyramid IS the product,
- >and that's illegal.
- Be certain. Not only is it limited as you describe, but the product sales MUST
- be a separate entity from the membership fees, etc., and the fee charged for
- the product must be reasonable with its fair market value outside of the MLM.
- DARE TO BE GREAT was taken down for lack of product when its product was a set
- of inspirational tapes on the MLM... and the SEC confiscated virtually
- everything the High Rollers involved had at that stage. Koscot Enterprises, on
- the other hand, had a mink oil based product line in sufficient quantities to
- be legal product, the higher fees for product based on a perceived value in
- the derivation from Mink. ( I am not advocating this, so animal lovers should
- find another target... I am merely relating the events. )
-
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- I am not licensed to practice Law or Medicine in any State, so my opinions are
- just that! DAo4@NS1.CC.LEHIGH.EDU (Don)
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