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Originally Posted by DeborahDeGrande
I want to ask, How many of you here would join a company that clearly states in their policies and procedures you are not allowed to be involved in another MLM company even if it was a non competitive product line.
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My instinctive reactions to it would be:-
(i) It's an unreasonable term;
(ii) It's not legal ("in restraint of trade") and would never be upheld by a European court, anyway, and has been put in there as a deterrent (and will work well as one because nobody will test it in court, probably).
That said, I wouldn't dream of sponsoring anyone who was also in another company, and I do my utmost to get that duplicated throughout my downline and so do all the top distributors in our company.
Our company has no such restriction, but our distributors do. The successful groups, anyway.
But, to answer your question, I
think it probably wouldn't stop me from joining if I really wanted to.
I do understand a company wanting to try to ensure that they don't have distributors in other companies as well because of
all the downsides to this (as discussed here so repeatedly over the years!). And I do actually think that "wrong" though it is, and "illegal" though it probably is (maybe not "over there"), they'll do well by having that "rule".
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Originally Posted by DeborahDeGrande
For those who work ONLY one company I would think that most of them would not care and such a policy would not deter them as they do not try to ride two horses at a time anyway ( common phrase in the industry and not meant to be offensive)
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That's not really
quite my position. Well, it is in so far as it makes no difference to me because I won't work 2 companies at the same time anyway. But my real issue here is that I don't want anyone in my downline doing that either. Which is actually surprisingly easy to manage
reasonably successfully, if you choose to make it part of your "downline culture" and ensure that everyone willing to listen understands the reasons for it. So I'd rather have it as "unofficial distributor policy" (we're all free to decide whom we spend our time sponsoring, training and supporting, after all, and in our case we're
very selective over whom we'll sponsor) rather than "formal company policy".