banned from craigslist?

It's very common indeed.

Especially among MLM companies, who (perhaps rightly) fear that the public will thereby be able to buy the products at lower prices than those for which they can order them from active distributors.

Clearly it's restrictive. It's designed to be: it's a "restriction", isn't it?

(The extent to which companies can really control/prevent it is sometimes another matter.)

To prevent price-undercutting for the purpose of distributors "qualifying artifically" for monthly volume requirements?

Perhaps in an attempt to make it harder for inactive/former distributors to off-load non-refundable stock, which looks very bad for the company? The last thing they want the public realising is that their distributors have a garage-full of the stuff that they can't realistically hope to sell off any other way?

I don't think there's any objective "right" or "wrong" about it: different people just have different opinions.

It's very mild indeed, when you compare it with the artificial price-maintenance activities of non-MLM companies in some industries (I'm thinking, for example, of high-end perfume manufacturers whose products I can effectively buy at a discount only in an "airport duty-free").

When the FTC did that crack down a few years ago, the fast and loose mlm industry tightened their belts a little.

Yes, it's restrictive...but necessary.

Most affiliates don't know what is or is not legal.

For example, all the income claims -- even if they're real -- illegal (unless its the average of all affiliates and that just doesn't happen).

Guarantees? Hyping up the product in a way the company can't deliver on? And on and on...

You see mlm companies getting sued and/or fined everyday...not just because of their bad behavior, but because their affiliates, did something out of line.

Here's the deal: The company is just protecting their business as the person who contacted you on FB should be doing.

Unfortunately, most of those mlmers don't set their business up the right way so they're just winging it and building the companies or the leaders business.

She can easily get around this company ban by doing what she needs to do for her business anyway...

Produce her own front end product and sell that where ever she wants to, to presell her mlm company.

Of course she can't refer specifically to the company or use any of their marketing materials but she can create an offer so she builds her own buyers list and has a real business that she owns and controls so she can make her own rules.

Rainee

Obviously, the company doesn't want to see multiple ads from affiliates pushing the same product bunching up side-by-side on one site. Or perhaps the company itself advertises those products there, and wants its affiliates to work harder at it elsewhere.

Was going to ask if this is a network marketing company... Those guys hate Craigslist, because it shows how many people are actually selling the product and, because for this, many of the offers have really low prices in order to compete, which hurts the non-CL outlets.

A little known fact about Craigslist is that they disallow any "Get Rich Quick" or "Pyramid Schemes".

As you may imagine; this is typically a topic of conjecture, so basically ANY Internet marketing product / MMO product could be classified under these forbidden subjects.

Hey,

I do think that is a bit weird. Although Craigslist has cracked down on the marketing of business opportunities, I would say that it boils down to HOW you would market it on Craigslist.

Many people just go posting their link all over Craigslist talking about their business opportunity, but if you think outside the box and actually market something valuable and useful about the program, then I would think that you can effectively market there without getting banned.

Hope this is helpful info!

-Josh