Multi-level Marketing, Pyramid and Matrix Programs

The listing and advertising of multi-level marketing programs (including online payment randomizers), matrix, pyramid, Ponzi schemes, and all similar programs are not permitted on NWMarketplace. Such programs are often regulated or illegal.

Violations of this policy may result in a range of actions, including:

• Listing cancellation

• Limits on account privileges

• Account suspension

• Forfeit of NWMarketplace fees on cancelled listings

Multi-level marketing:

• This includes any business in which a person receives proceeds from both his or her own sales, as well as those of recruited members.

• Online payment randomizers (because the majority of commissions are paid for recruitment of new members, and typically operate by random placement within the program.)

Pyramid schemes: Pyramid schemes generally ignore the actual selling of products and services, and concentrate on the commission’s one could earn by recruiting new distributors. Pyramid schemes may or may not involve the sale of products.

Matrix Programs: These are defined as business models that involve the exchange of money primarily for being added to a waiting list for a product, if the person at the top of the list receives a product only once a set number of people have joined below him or her.