Archive for the 'Network Marketing Laws' Category

azcentral.com: A City Council-appointed committee Tuesday recommended that Phoenix create criminal penalities for door-to-door solicitors who do not show a valid ID at the doorstep and for people who leave advertising on homes with “no soliciting signs.” The council is expected to vote in January on a new ordinance regulating peddlers plus amendments that would [...]

TheStar Online: The amended Direct Sales Act 1993, which is scheduled to be enforced early next year, will see heavier penalties for offenders. Deputy Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Minister Datuk Tan Lian Hoe said this in her speech during the launch of wellness company One Community Worldwide’s eMerchant phase. “My ministry is working hard [...]

azcentral.com: If Phoenix slaps licensing requirements on door-to-door peddlers, the move could hurt thousands of self-employed workers who sell products from Avon, Tupperware and similar companies. That’s the view of New York-based Avon Products Inc. and the Washington D.C.- based Direct Selling Association, a trade group that says it represents Mary Kay Inc., Tupperware Inc. [...]

PR-USA.net: Stream Energy Chairman Rob Snyder announced today that a federal RICO lawsuit filed in Georgia last fall against the retail energy provider and its Ignite marketing arm on behalf of a purported class has been dismissed by the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia, Rome Division. The Georgia case in question filed by [...]

Kentucky.com: Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing, the Lexington-based network marketing group, has agreed to pay nearly $1 million to Montana to settle allegations that the company was operating an illegal pyramid scheme there. Last month, Montana Commissioner of Securities Monica Lindeen ordered the company to stop operations in the state after the agency received a series of [...]

Bernama: The government will amend the Direct Sales Act 1993 to protect consumers from becoming victims of pyramid scheme scams, said Minister of Domestic Trade, Cooperative and Consumerism, Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob. He said the new Act will enable action to be taken against unlicensed companies. “We are now finalising this Act as it [...]

LegalNewsline: A cease and desist order has been issued by North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem against a Lexington, Ky., company for alleged violations of the state’s transient merchant, consumer fraud and home solicitation laws. The order was filed Thursday against Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing, which claims to offer consumers a “business and compensation plan designed [...]

PressTV: Iranian officials have arrested key members of GoldQuest, a controversial network marketing scheme which has allegedly defrauded thousands of people worldwide. Airport Police Chief Ahmad Asadian said at least 120 GoldQuest agents have been arrested in Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKA) upon arrival from a company meeting in Bangkok, Thailand. “There is a strong [...]

goldcoast.com.au: A Gold Coast mum will no longer have to fork out $12,500 for running a Tupperware business from her Robina home. Debbie Hert was forced to lodge a development application with the Gold Coast City council and was expected to pay infrastructure charges after council took exception to her running a home-based business. However, [...]