re: How shady is Advocare?

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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) states "Steer clear of multilevel marketing plans that pay commissions for recruiting new distributors. They're actually illegal pyramid schemes. Why is pyramiding dangerous? Because plans that pay commissions for recruiting new distributors inevitably collapse when no new distributors can be recruited. And when a plan collapses, most people - except perhaps those at the very top of the pyramid - end up empty-handed."

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I don't know much about pyramid schemes but I know Advocare has been in business for a very long time. If they were doing somethig illegal, I'd think they woulda got shut down by now. Same goes for amway, Mary Kay, arbonne, etc You wanna see a crappy one, look up Mona Vie and the dude who created it. He's always getting sued