DeVos touted the Amway distributorships in a 1998 speech in California as “the best business opportunity in the world,” even as the average active distributor grosses very little — just $115 a month, according to promotional material given to new distributors. In the United States and Canada, Alticor’s 370,000 distributors shared $345 million in bonus and incentive payments in 2005, the company said.
The Federal Trade Commission investigated Amway in the late 1970s and concluded that the company was not an illegal pyramid scheme, but the FTC also found that it misled potential distributors and ordered the company in 1979 to spell out how much money distributors earn. As a result, current promotional materials say that only 2 of 1,000 distributors will earn $47,000 a year and 3 in 10,000 will earn $72,000.
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