Paypal doesn’t want your business, even if it is perfectly legal.
Paypal: Multi-level marketing plans, also known as “network” or “matrix” marketing, include any business in which a person receives proceeds from his or her own sales of goods or services, of recruited members, or any combination thereof. Similarly, PayPal prohibits as a Multi-Level Marketing plan any business in which payouts occur at two or more levels (both by the individual who actually sold the product as well as by the person(s) “upline” that recruited the selling individual). PayPal prohibits Multi-level Marketing plans whether or not they are legal under the laws of one or more states.
Paypal Prohibits Your Legal Business
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Don L. Nelson on August 29th, 2006 at 11:41 am
I do not envision Papypal maintaining that position for very long. Per MLM Buzz, my company YTB International (www.ytb.com/dln) is the #1 Referral Marketing Company of 2006. As a company we decided to offer our reps paycard.
No need for paypal… I think many other companies will start to go that direction to circumvent the paypal issue.
J on December 20th, 2006 at 9:41 am
If “network marketing includes any business in which a person receives proceeds from his or her own sales of goods” then every single business in the world is network marketing.
You seem to be lacking a degree of basic intelligence.
Janet on January 3rd, 2007 at 8:39 am
Paypal DOES promote you advertising for them and if someone signs up they will give you a percent of what that company’s revenue is….referral marketing? Yes it is.
Brian on February 7th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Pay Pal just seems to parrot an anit MLM mantra in an attempt to pander to a more socially acceptable employeeistic mindset which they believe is representitive of the demographic that utilize their services.
In other words they are avoiding any controversy with their main client base by blanketly criminalizing anything MLM and try to maintain a stance of not being a participant in what the majority may view as a scam or scheme.