This is a short post, but recently I was having a look around at some potential future business plans and one that came to mind was selling direct selling products online.

Having checked with friends and relatives who have been in the business (such as Amway), they’ve told me that you are NOT allowed to sell direct selling products on the Internet.

You are not allowed to show the brand of the product, show a product shot or say that it is an Amway product.

If you try and sell Amway products online in breach of any of the above rules, there have been cases when Amway has sued people for breach of regulations.

The reason these rules have been put into place are to make the direct selling newbie non ‘fair ground’ with anybody else. So it does not matter if you have a bigger budget than someone else to advertise your products, it’s all down to meeting people face to face and selling the products to them.

Selling the Amway product online, because you have more Internet knowledge than someone else who is new to the trade would be deemed as an ‘unfair advantage’ and this is not what Amway want.

So if you want to sell your direct selling or MLM products online, you’d better check with their internal rules and regulations first.

E-bay, for examples, won’t accept ANY direct marketing products on their website.

-William Lee