With minimal effort and revolutionary methods, you should be able to easily earn huge amounts of money. Something similar is promised at shopwithme.biz, for example. A closer look suggests that you don't make money by selling products, but rather by recruiting new customers. The classic pyramid scheme. We strongly advise you to keep your distance here! Our partners at Watchlist Internet have taken a critical look at this online phenomenon.

Quick money in a pyramid scheme? Beautiful dream!

The sentence “If something sounds too good to be true, then it probably is!” is rarely more appropriate than with the countless advertising videos for quick, big money. With just a few hours of work per day, no previous experience, from home and without any risk, you are promised that you will be able to break out of your everyday life and make all your dreams come true. All you have to do is take an online course or buy a starter pack and everything should run smoothly.

Never buy a pig in a poke!

Attention: Most of the time the descriptions of what you are supposed to pay money for are completely vague, so you don't know exactly what to expect and what you are actually paying for.

Multi-Level Marketing Ad: Big Promises in a Recruitment Attempt for shopwithme.biz. Screenshot Watchlist Internet
Big promises in a recruitment attempt for shopwithme.biz. Screenshot Watchlist Internet

Example shopwithme.biz

The shopwithme.biz website has a modern design. Happy and friendly faces smile at you everywhere and the texts on the website promise great things. Quotes like “Social Commerce gives people back the power over their lives” or “Nothing is as powerful as the idea whose time has come!” are intended to make you want to use the offer from shopwithme.biz or the much-quoted “Social Commerce”, but they do This is exactly where things become unclear.

Product or offer at shopwithme.biz unclear

In our opinion, it is not clear what the actual product or offer from shopwithme.biz is. What is being advertised is a type of sales platform on which you can run your own online shop without having to own a warehouse or bear the usual risks of an online shop. The products from these shops should be available to end customers for up to 90 percent cheaper than in usual shops, provided they recruit other people, and you should also be able to earn money from other shops that were opened by people who were recruited in the same way. For example, on shopwithme.biz it is described like this:

“Shopwithme is a 100% turnkey social commerce business that helps everyone participate in the social commerce mega trend, without prior business experience or traditional business costs.

Why is Shopwithme better and easier than traditional e-commerce businesses?

Shopwithme shop owners earn thousands of wellness, beauty, personal care and fitness products without ever having to invest money in a warehouse, customer service or complicated product approvals and goods imports.

All this complicated, time-consuming and expensive work is completely done by Shopwithme, so that you as a Shopwithme shop owner can focus exclusively on making money from day 1.

Simply by inviting new members to your shop who can save up to 90% on their favorite products, by inviting their friends to your shop in turn, this always automatically means new customers for your shop!”

Self-description shopwithme.biz

 The following can also be read in the descriptions:

“The fastest way to earn from 20,000 customers:

If you have 10 direct partner shops, each with 20 partner shops in their team, each of which has 100 direct/indirect shop customers, then that is 200 partner shops x av.100 customers = 20,000 team customers from which you earn money every month can!

Self-description shopwithme.biz

Classic snowball system

This description suggests a classic pyramid game in which the only goal is to recruit new people to open so-called partner shops on shopwithme.biz in order to in turn earn money from their new recruitment. The graphics on shopwithme.biz also reinforce the impression of a pyramid scheme:

Classic pyramid system at shopwithme.biz, graphics: shopwithme.biz via Watchlist Internet
Classic pyramid scheme at shopwithme.biz, screenshot: Watchlist Internet

Unclear product descriptions when concluding the contract on shopwithme.biz

Anyone who decides to take part here will end up with a registration process that is suddenly only available in (sometimes imperfect) English and will have a choice of different registration options with different prices:

Registration process at multi-level marketing provider shopwithme.biz, screenshot: Watchlist Internet
Registration process at Schneeballsystemshopwithme.biz, screenshot: Watchlist Internet

Legally stipulated information obligations are not adhered to here. It is not clear what the individual products actually contain. According to Section 8 Paragraph 1 FAGG, an online shop is obliged to provide such information immediately before concluding the contract. Otherwise, the contract will probably be considered as invalid.

Problems with the right of withdrawal at shopwithme.biz

Those affected report that it was difficult to revoke the contracts and, in particular, that the full amounts were not refunded. For example, the terms and conditions, which are extremely difficult to access in English, state that “earned bonuses” over 40 percent of the original price and 10% “processing costs” cannot be refunded. However, such an approach is not provided for by law.

Have you signed up with shopwithme.biz or a pyramid scheme?

If you have registered with shopwithme.biz, we recommend that you exercise your right of withdrawal. As a consumer, insist on a full refund of your money.

In the case of pyramid or snowball systems, we advise you to keep your distance.

And briefly to differentiate: In so-called multi-level marketing systems, pyramids can also be formed by successful entrepreneurs recruiting additional members. The big difference is that every entrepreneur who is within the pyramid can earn money independently by selling products and is not dependent on constantly recruiting new members who invest fresh money in the system, which then goes up hikes to the top of the pyramid. The pyramid system, on the other hand, is all about recruiting new members who first pay and then look for additional participants who then pay again.

Source:

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