Well before you "run" I would do the real re-search and not listen to emotional blasts and such but really look at the company and then make a decision based on education. I of course think they are great!! As far as the Snopes thing. That was one person who wrote that letter and if you look at Melaleuca's policies ( which I can fax you over by the way) you can see that its against policy to do those types of things, but since they are global they can not control nor babysit all of their marketing reps. All they can do is send out warnings in their monthly magazine ( which I can also fax you) that they will not tolorate that type of behaviour because it hurts people. The ladies from Amitys really invaded the poor family's life. Its interesting that when people see something on TV or in the paper or even a tabloid you dont so the same sort of invasive re-search.
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20041015...ndersloot.html
Melaleuca Credentials
Melaleuca was founded and has been in business since September 1985. Melaleuca is registered with the BBB.
http://www.idahofalls.bbb.org/common...ompid=87100024
Melaleuca is also a member in good standing of the Direct Selling Association (DSA)
http://www.dsa.org/directory/index.c...&Compensation=
and uphold the DSA's standard of ethics.
http://www.dsa.org/ethics/
They have been listed in Inc. 500 as one of the top companies five times between 1990 and 1994. In 2001, they were inducted into the Inc. 500 Hall of Fame.
http://www.inc.com/inc500/fame.html
In 1991, Melaleuca was presented with the Blue Chip Award by the American Chamber of Commerce.
In 1991, Melaleuca's President and CEO, Frank Vandersloot, was also appointed to the Board of Directors for the American Chamber of Commerce.
http://www.uschamber.com/about/board/all.htm
Source for Objective Reviews of Network Marketing Opportunities
http://www.mlmreview.com/mlmreview/melaleuca020.html
The date of the Melaleuca review was in 2000 - but still very relevant. In fact, we now have the online enrollment he refers to in this review and have since had record-breaking growth! (over $500,000,000 annual growth in 2003 alone.)