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Silakan baca dan nilai fakta berikut di FAQ di: Ministry of Trade and Industry Singapore.
1. What is Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) and Pyramid Selling?
A Multi-Level Marketing or Pyramid Selling scheme will typically require participants to pay an upfront charge. In return, the participants are promised financial rewards for each additional participant recruited, as well as all new participants who are in turn brought in by their recruits - hence the pyramid-like structure. As more salespersons are recruited, participants hope to recover their upfront charges and earn sizeable profits. However, such a pyramid schemes will eventually collapse when they run out of new recruits, resulting in those salespersons at the bottom of the pyramid losing all their upfront charges. In the interest of consumer protection, the Government's regulation effort is targeted at preventing the proliferation of such high-risk schemes.
Aidid >> MLM atau pyramid-selling adalah model bzns di mana ahli perlu bayar yuran bila dia join, dan ahli pula dijanjikan keuntungan daripada pencarian ahli (downline), di mana ahli baru itu jugak akan mencari/membawa ahli baru yang lain - itulah struktur piramid bzns tersebut. Skim piramid sebegini akan "collapse" bila tiada lagi ahli baru didapati, dan menyebabkan ahli yang paling bawah kerugian. Itu kata kerajaan Singapore - hari itu aku cakap apa dey? Ah! Itu jugak la aku cakap berulang-kali kat blog neh! Haiiisshh!
2. How do I recognise a pyramid selling scheme?
Many pyramid schemes often disguise themselves as sellers collectors' items, software, training programmes, etc, when all they are interested is to make a quick buck through recruitment. Members of the public who attend sales talks must be vigilant to such schemes. Illegitimate MLM schemes usually share the following characteristics: When the promoter hype about how easy it is to earn money, people can get very rich in a very short time and that the way to earn money is by recruiting others to join the scheme; The so-called product that you are supposed to sell is not something you would normally buy at its price; Participants are required to invest money into the scheme, whether in the form of a joining fee, or buying inventory. Remember - there is no easy money, you must believe in what you are selling and you should not put your money at unnecessary risk.
Aku >> Intisari artikel 2: MLM cilanat ada ciri berikut - boleh kaya dengan cepat dan caranya adalah dengan mencari mala'un lain untuk join, dan harga produk mahal gilabab (macam jus buah manggis/acai berry Peel Fresh atau Fruit Tree yang jual RM5.30, tapi dengan MLM jual RM192.50 eXfuze, RM135.00 Monavie, RM171.00 Vemma, RM160.00 Xango - bahalol nak mampos orang Melayu nye pun buat keje yahudi-style!)
3. How are MLM activities governed in Singapore?
MLM activities in Singapore are governed by the Multi-level Marketing and Pyramid Selling (Prohibition) Act. The Ministry of Trade and Industry administers the Act. The original Multi-Level Marketing and Pyramid Selling (Prohibition) Act was first passed in 1973. In June 2000, Parliament approved an amendment to the Act to widen the definition of pyramid selling to catch all business schemes that were multi-level in nature. However, as not all multi-level marketing techniques are undesirable, the Government concurrently enacted the Multi-Level Marketing and Pyramid Selling (Excluded Schemes and Arrangements) Order (hereafter, referred to as the 'Exclusion Order') to exclude legitimate businesses from the Act, such as insurance companies, master franchises, and direct selling companies which fulfill certain criteria. This Exclusion Order was implemented in June 2000.
Dey >>Pengharaman MLM daripada tahun 1973 lagi wei! Patut la orang Singapore punya life tersusun rapi dan culture perniagaan kat sana 1st class! Hidup rakyat Singapore restrictive - true, but they're happy with their government. Takde nya ahli politik nak bercakaran tak tentu hala beb. Kerja birokrasi semua jalan. Dan kaum Melayu di Singapore happy aje aku tengok. Perkauman pehal?
6. What were the amendments made in 2001 to the Exclusion Order?
The Exclusion Order 2001 continued to maintain that insurance companies and master franchises would be excluded from the MLM Act. However, it also introduced the following rules for direct selling companies:
Safeguards - A participant cannot be required to provide any benefit or acquire any commodity in order to become a participant in the scheme, other than the purchase of demonstration equipment which is not for resale, at no more than cost price and for which no commission can be given out. A legitimate multi-level marketing scheme would not impose a financial risk on salespersons. For example, salespersons should be entitled to full refunds, under reasonable commercial terms, for any inventories kept or purchased by them which are not sold to end consumers, so long as the inventories are returned within a period of 60 days.
Behavioural checks - The companies must not misrepresent the scheme as get-rich-quick opportunities, and should not use fraud, coercion, harassment, or unconscionable means to force people to join the scheme. Instead, the companies should focus their efforts on promoting the quality and features of the products. If a company wishes to show potential participants the earning potential, they must keep records of the maximum, minimum, mean, mode and median earnings of their salespeople in the past.
Sharing of commission - It is all right for a salesperson to share commissions from several layers of salespersons recruited by him. However, such commissions must be generated by sale of the product or service in question, and not through the recruitment of additional participants into the scheme.
Anak Mu'addib >> Simple premise:
Safeguards - skim MLM tidak boleh meletakkan risiko perniagaan yang berlebihan kepada jurujual, dan boleh dapat full-refund dalam masa 60 hari dalam pemulangan produk.
Behavioural checks - Tidak boleh menggunakan penipuan, hasutan, ugutan dan perkara yang tak wajar dalam mengajak bahalol lain untk join skim. Syarikat mesti fokus kepada kualiti dan kegunaan produk. Kena ada rekod keuntungan dan pendapatan jurujual yang lepas-lepas dari segi maksimum, minimum, min, mod dan median.
Perkongsian komisen - hanya melalui penjualan produk dan bukan pencarian downline baru.
