Many people still fall for new forms of network marketing, multi-level marketing (MLMs) and other organizations that, despite their products, strongly resemble pyramid schemes. However, Claudia Groß (Radboud University) and William Keep (College of New Jersey) discovered that scientific research is remarkably lenient in its assessment of this business model.
Dangers of direct selling and network marketing are rarely mentioned in research
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