Talk:Nu Skin Enterprises/Archive 1

removal of promotional text on Photomax

Text I removed:

"In 2005, Nu Skin, through its Big Planet Division embarked on a new journey. They launched a new internet based service called Photomax. Photomax is a service that is positioning itself to be the leader in the $70 Billion Photographic and $150 Billion Entertainment industries by providing it's distributors and consumers with a service that focuses on the preservation, organisation, sharing and enjoyment of all their old paper based photographs and new digital photographs taken from both camera phones and digital camers, as well as the digitisation of old videos, negatives and slides.

Users are able to sign up for a free account where they can store up to 5GB of data (videos or images or a combination) for free. There is then a fee based subscription for further storage space. Consumers are then able to place those images and videos onto a number of output products such as DVD's, photobooks, calendars or even broadcast them on their very own internet based TV channel for a small monthly subscription. There are many more additoons and advancements planned for this service."

• positioning itself to be the leader..., sign up for a free account..., for a small monthly subscription..., smells like violating WP:NPOV and therefore WP:SPAM to me. Incidentally, there is also a question about notability of Photomax, see WP:CORP for more info -- drybittermelon (talk．contribs) 10:49, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

I think there should be some coverage of NuSkin's scam-like MLM structure from the late 80's and early 90's. Either Forbes or Fortune ran an extensive article on how people getting involved in NuSkin lost their shirts because they had to buy all of the company's products at inflated prices in order to keep their place in the pyramid. 4.17.193.130 16:50, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Fear not, citizen. All has been taken care of. Well, except the whole POV thing in the rest of the article. Sorry, I ain't got time to play janitor. --132.69.234.73 21:48, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Disclaimer in the criticism section

I removed the following paragraph from the article because it looks like original research. Come up with a source (any source) and I'll gladly put it back in. --132.69.234.73 19:03, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

NOTE: In the direct selling industry, particularly in the network marketing arena, it is a common malpractice for unsuccessful individual distributors to publish highly critical and heavily biased material of this type. In order to obtain a more balanced view of the business or organisation in question, it would be advisable to consult a mix of successful and unsuccessful people. In addition, consulting professional advisors to the industry will assist you in understanding the numbers and the reasons for the high drop-out rate at many companies.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.78.240.165 (talk • contribs)