Comments on: More bullying of bloggers by Shop To Earn attorney Gerald Nehra

By: Video Professor doesn’t want you to know how their scam works : Sequence Inc. Fraud Files Blog

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:14:22 +0000

[...] And I’ve been down this road before with a company called Shop To Earn. They were trying to scare bloggers into not writing about their opinions and criticisms of the company, even when they had no legal basis for doing so. (No, I’m not a lawyer and I [...]

By: Pedro Menard

Pedro Menard — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:41:22 +0000

I’m almost tempted to hire Mr. Nehra to prosecute a handfull of million-dollar budjet, multinational MLM companies, because the things he estates in this article (as in others he has written) are the ones that demostrate they are illegal, if (big IF here) taken into account seriously and propperly addressed by the authorities (regulatory agencies, like FTC).

However, there are serious flaws in his logic, one being the complete lack of information about actual retail sales done by distribuitors, as companies do their very best NOT to register them (and that would put an end to A1), and other being the rewarding of downline purchases rather than downline sales (and that would put an end to C2). No MLM company pays comissions based on actual sales. C’mom, M. Nehra, who are you trying to fool here?

Finally, I should point out that Mr. Nehra’s saying that the non compliance with this basic set of rules will lead to a “dis-allowece to continue long-term activity in the United States or Canada” (presumably because of the prompt actions of regulatory agencies – haha) doesn’t make it so!

How many companies brake this rules and remains untouched for years (and for decades)?

I wonder who else, besides Shop to Earn (or Earn to Shop), is a client os his…

Best Regards.

By: GD

GD — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:24:11 +0000

This guy is a career MLM shill. A snip of his work:

“”What percentage of sales to non-representatives do I need to be legal?” You do not want to ask the question, and you do not want it answered for you by government agencies.”

http://mlmstartup.com/articles/abc-art.htm

By: Michael Goode

Michael Goode — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:31:30 +0000

It appears that like most people, the blogger at Everyday Finance does not understand the limited liability shield of an LLC or corporation. If the blogger has his blog in an LLC, that offers no protection whatsoever, because his or her own actions are at question. The LLC would only shield that blogger from nonrecourse debt or the actions of employees.

If the blogger has his/her assets in the LLC and blogs as an individual, the assets could still be seized in the case of the blogger losing a defamation lawsuit. I am not a lawyer, but I have talked with a few over these issues.

That being said, I do not think the Everyday Finance blogger has a need to worry. In my non-lawyerly opinion, nothing that blogger has said even approaches defamation.