These are legal direct selling companies in Malaysia as listed in website
http://www.dsam.org.my/members-list
AMC Allied Metalcraft Corporation Sdn Bhd
Americ Corporation Sdn Bhd
Amway (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
Avon Cosmetics (M) Sdn Bhd
Best World Lifestyle Sdn Bhd
Blondal Sales & Service Sdn Bhd
Brilliant Point Sdn Bhd
Cadware Sdn Bhd
Chini Enterprise (M) Sdn Bhd
CenGreen Global Sdn Bhd
CNI Enterprise (M) Sdn Bhd
Creative Dreams International Sdn Bhd
Crony Beauty (M) Sdn Bhd
Diamond Interest Sdn Bhd
DNMC International Sdn Bhd
DXN Marketing Sdn Bhd
Elken Sdn Bhd
Enagic (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
Flantech Asia Sdn Bhd
Forever Living Products (M) Sdn Bhd
Gano Excel Enterprise Sdn Bhd
Grolier (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
Hai-O Marketing Sdn Bhd
HDI Network (M) Sdn Bhd
Healthy Homes Marketing (M) Sdn Bhd
Herbalife Products Malaysia Sdn Bhd
Infinitus International (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
Lanfar (M) Sdn Bhd
Leroy International Sdn Bhd
Le Reve (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
Lion Best Sdn Bhd
Luxor Network Sdn Bhd
Mangosteen Beverage (M) Sdn Bhd
Mary Kay (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
N.Z. New Image Sdn Bhd
Neways Worldwide Sdn Bhd
Nu Skin (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
OMX Nutrition Sdn Bhd
OSN Network Sdn Bhd
P-Life Marketing Sdn Bhd
Perfect Pentagon Sdn Bhd
PHHP Marketing (M) Sdn Bhd
QNet (M) Sdn Bhd
Reliv International Sdn Bhd
Revell Sdn Bhd
Shaklee Products (M) Sdn Bhd
Shuang Hor Enterprise (M) Sdn Bhd
Sophie Paris Sdn Bhd
Stemtech Malaysia Sdn Bhd
Tahitan Noni International (M) Sdn Bhd
Taiway Marketing (M) Sdn Bhd
Totalife (M) Sdn Bhd
Total Reach Marketing Sdn Bhd
True Mix Sdn Bhd
Tupperware Brands Malaysia Sdn Bhd
UGS Network Service (M) Sdn Bhd
UHS Essential Health (M) Sdn Bhd
Unicity Marketing Sdn Bhd
Unilever Malaysia Aviance Sdn Bhd
Vita Life Sciences Sdn Bhd
Viva Life Science Sdn Bhd
Wonder Way Marketing Sdn Bhd
Worldwellness Network Sdn Bhd
Zhulian Marketing (M) Sdn Bhd
Members List | Direct Selling Association of Malaysia (DSAM)
What is pyramid Selling?
http://www.dsam.org.my/industry/what-is-pyramid-selling
Legitimate Direct Selling Companies
1. The start-up fee for all ethical multi-level selling companies is generally low, primarily to cover training materials, sales aids or demonstration kits.
Pyramid Schemes
1. Pyramid schemes often disguise high entry fees as part of the price charged for required purchases of training, product inventory etc. Pyramid schemes make virtually all their profits from recruiting.
Legitimate Direct Selling Companies
2. Such companies sell a wide range of quality products to the general public. The bulk of the sales are on repeat sales form satisfied customers. This is only possible because these companies spend millions on research and development to develop quality products.
Pyramid Schemes
2.Pyramid schemes are frequently disguised to appear as legitimate direct selling companies. Such schemes are not interested in marketing these products which are of dubious value. Instead, money is made in typical pyramid fashion, from recruiting, with new distributors being pushed to purchase high cost/large inventory when they sign up.
Legitimate Direct Selling Companies
3. Many companies have a 100 percent money-back guarantee. Dissatisfied users (and there are relatively few) could exchange the products back for money or for an equivalent amount in other products.
Pyramid Schemes
3. Pyramid schemes will not buy back unsold inventory. Such schemes will collapse very quickly if there is this condition for re-purchase of goods.
Legitimate Direct Selling Companies
4. These companies are interested in long-term business. In every country that they operate, this criterion is important because the companies have an obligation to their distributors who are small businessmen in their own rights.
Pyramid Schemes
4. Pyramid schemes are get-rich quick schemes. The nature of the pyramids, in which large numbers of people at the bottom of the pyramid pay money to a few people at the top, clearly explains why the scheme cannot sustain itself for long.
Legitimate Direct Selling Companies
5. Recognition of achievement is based on efforts. This means that a distributor’s income is commensurate with the efforts he/she puts into the business.
Pyramid Schemes
5.Position could be purchased.
Legitimate Direct Selling Companies
6. Established companies depend on selling to customers quality products which offer value for money in order to establish a market.
Pyramid Schemes
6. Pyramid schemes are not concerned with repeat sales to users of the products. Profits are made on volume sales to new recruits who buy the products not because they are useful or attractively priced, but because they must buy them to participate in the scheme. As a result, new participants are stuck with products that are way below the market value in relation to the high entry fees paid by them. Should the pyramid scheme collapse, there is no way for the participants to recover their “investments”.
Legitimate Direct Selling Companies
7. These companies build up networks of independent distributors to sell products.
Pyramid Schemes
7. Promoters of a pyramid scheme are engaging in fraud, knowingly deceiving participants in the schemes.
Legitimate Direct Selling Companies
8. They have strict Rules of Conduct which, among other things, forbids its distributors to load up on inventory.
Pyramid Schemes
8. Participants in a pyramid scheme have no choice but indulge in inventory loading/high fees to participate.
Legitimate Direct Selling Companies
9. Distributors sell products and or services.
Pyramid Schemes
9. Participation is essentially based on recruiting, not necessarily on the sale of products or services.
Legitimate Direct Selling Companies
10. Direct selling is a popular method of retailing which is recognised as a lawful and legitimate business in many countries including the U.S.
Pyramid Schemes
10. Pyramid schemes have been outlawed throughout the United States and many countries many countries around the world.