Original sentence: -based company which has often been accused of operating primarily on pyramid schemes.The affiliate offers typically consist of trial memberships, service subscriptions, credit card applications and the like; some require credit cards during registration, and a few involve payment of some kind (starting with a refundable $1 purchase), causing critics to claim the "free" label a misnomer when there exists even a possibility to choose even one option that requires any amount of payment)
Edited sentence: -based company which has often been incorrectly accused of operating primarily on pyramid schemes.The affiliate offers typically consist of trial memberships, service subscriptions, credit card applications and the like; some require credit cards during registration, and a few involve payment of some kind (starting with a refundable $1 purchase), causing critics to claim the "free" label a misnomer when there exists even a possibility to choose even one option that requires any amount of payment