to pay monthly fees just for the opportunity to sell these third-party products the touchstone of a pyramid scheme distributors who the case says are doomed from the start are allegedly required to pay an initial startup fee of NUMBER_TOKEN. followed by a monthly fee of NUMBER_TOKEN additionally each enrollee according to the complaint must spend at least NUMBER_TOKEN a month on URL_TOKEN the website operated by defendants in order to maintain and release status the lawsuit attests that over NUMBER_TOKEN of market america distributors lose money and only those at the top of the so-called pyramid are able to earn a lucrative salary and bonuses represented by the defendants and it's the same complaints over and over and over again these plaintiffs have lost thousands and thousands of dollars trying to make this work one of them lost seven thousand one another was ten and another was thirty five thousand dollars so when distributors and higher ups say oh well if you don't try and work hard it won't work i'd love to see the reasoning that they would give these individuals as far as i can tell this is still in the works and while i'd love to think that they'll face some consequences for this i'm doubtful they will as for what market america has been up to recently they've had quite a few issues throughout NUMBER_TOKEN. some have been related to covid others are about their income claims some health claims we've got a little bit of everything here and there i highly recommend truth in advertising's page on market america if you want to stay up to date with them in more detail as things are probably going to continue to unfold through the end of NUMBER_TOKEN and NUMBER_TOKEN but according to their NUMBER_TOKEN article while market america has so far escaped scrutiny from the ftc this year it has not had the same luck with the fda in february the agency sent market america a warning letter over among other things its failure to report complaints it had received from customers who experienced serious side effects as a result of taking the company's supplements one of the complaints that went unreported to the fda detailed the need to be hospitalized for abdominal pain dizziness shaking and chills one week into a NUMBER_TOKEN day weight loss challenge that included a supplement regimen the fda warning letter was addressed not to rittinger but to the company's president and chief operating officer mark ashley lauren rittinger's brother rittinger made some incredibly false income claims throughout the pandemic on his twitter as well which caused truth in advertising to send market america a warning letter promising to notify federal regulatory agencies as well as the direct-selling self-regulatory council specifically unless they took their income claims down market america did actually listen and address the deceptive marketing issue though as you can imagine they're still being closely monitored market america may not have a current income disclosure listed however given everything we've read today i'm pretty confident in that saying you can't earn a living in market america all in all while this mlm may not have potentially killed people like herbalife they're like the baby of herbalife and amway if i had to explain it to someone they can grow up to be a real monster one day too if they continue to go unchecked hopefully something does come of this pyramid scheme lawsuit and just they face some sort of punishment but i guess for now we just have to wait and see
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