In a long-overdue step in the right direction, the California 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has declared the odious Amway/Quixtar dispute resolution process (and, because it forms part of the IBO Agreement, the entire IBO Agreement) procedurally and substantively “unconscionable”.

[Unconscionable: adjective — not right or reasonable : the unconscionable conduct of his son.
• unreasonably excessive : shareholders have had to wait an unconscionable time for the facts to be established.
ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from un- 1 [not] + obsolete conscionable, from conscience (interpreted as a plural) + -able .

In other words, it’s a blatant abuse of the company’s superior negotiating position that stacks the process against the IBO and in the company’s favour. Download the court’s ruling here (PDF).

This is precisely the kind of abuse that I wrote about in my 2007 Insight Report “Is Network Marketing REALLY Dead? (Or does it just smell that way?)” — download your FREE copy from http://isitREALLYdead.com.

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