Entries for September, 2009

Is the ACCC going after Polaris Media Group?

Over the past few weeks I’ve been in communications with various associates (ex and current), the QLD and NSW office of fair trading and have suspected that something has been building behind closed doors. I can’t prove or confirm my suspicions at this stage but I thought I’d put together what I’ve observed and heard [...]

Figuring out the Polaris Media Group compensation plan

Ever since the Polaris Media Group launch, Polaris distributors and the general public alike have been trying to get their heads around the hugely complicated compensation plan. There’s been emails, tables, diagrams, conference calls, videos and even a recently announced EMC (the guys who make all the money) Aussie tour between the 18th and 22nd [...]

Polaris Media hire Wilkinson PR for crisis management

With the official launch of Polaris Media group just hours away, it seems the company has gone into a massive scale crisis management. Things haven’t gone as smoothly as the company’s head honchos would have liked. Polaris Media Group advisors are running around issuing legal threats, the NSW government have declared Liberty League to be [...]

Polaris Media Group Advisor threatens to sue OzSoapbox

With the Polaris Media Group launch just around the corner on the 9th of September, it seems some advisors have had enough of being called out on their scam. Understandably tension appears to be high as all sorts of wild accusations and claims fly in the days before the company’s launch. This evening the following [...]

Polaris Media Group in denial over Liberty League scam

With the recent NSW Office of Fair Trading press release going out yesterday there’s been a bit of an awkward silence over at the Polaris Media Group camp. You’re trying to sell a scam that’s worked previously but now even random prospects are starting to ask some very uncomfortable questions. So what do you do, [...]

NSW publicly lists Liberty League as a pyramid scam

Despite months of telling you it wasn’t a pyramid scheme, telling you to trust the EMC marketing committee, lying to your faces and declaring bloggers like myself to be posting “unconfirmed information and opinions” (Tony Rush)…, Today the NSW government finally went officially public with its findings:

Polaris Media Group: Analysing the new product line

The biggest problem with the Liberty League sales model was that everybody knew nobody was paying those prices without the pyramid scheme business opportunity attached. Effectively you weren’t buying retail products, you were buying the right to resell the business opportunity you were buying into to others. What this meant was that if you got [...]

Liberty League a scam in Oz, Polaris Media Group next?

After being tipped off by OzSoapbox reader Rod late last week that the NSW office of fair trading had classified Liberty League International as a pyramid scheme, I lodged my own complaint and then called them up on Thursday. In talking to a representative I was told a report had been concluded back on the [...]

BREAKING NEWS: Confirmation of Liberty League report

Just a quick update, after being in communication with the NSW office of fair trading I now have in my hands written proof (according to their legal advice), Liberty League International has been classified a pyramid scheme in NSW. Expect a full writeup along with documentation uploaded tonight.