: Hi, anonymous person. Could you please create an account and sign your posts? That would make discussion easier. 
 : The first reasonable third person who comes to mind is Rob Cockerham, who is a reasonable person who made serious accusations about how how little most vendors make from selling Herbalife products. Forbes made a similar point, if with less wit and drama.  
 : As to the question of bad franchisees, I didn't say that McDonald's or Curves are universally benevolent organizations of unimpeachable goodness. My point was that Herbalife, like many other MLM schemes, has a much more dubious reputation than traditional franchise operations. I was responding to an old version of the article, wherein somebody suggested that Herbalife's reputation was due to a few bad apples, and that all franchise organizations have these problems. If you'd like to follow the discussion, look at the article history around the same date I made my comment.