Lyoness @ BehindMLM

Last month we brought you the story of the council of a town in England, gearing up to encourage local businesses to sign up as Lyoness merchants. That town was Hailsham, with our coverage attracting the attention of town council staff. In an attempt to answer some of the questions raised in BehindMLM’s initial article, John [Continue reading…]

Lyconet are gearing up to release what they’re calling “Customer Cloud” in Europe. The basic idea is that “organizations” sign up to Lyoness and in turn sign up shoppers (typically members of the organization). Through Lyconet’s “Cloud Sponsor” program, shopping points generated by the shopping activity of these members are allocated to Lyconet Premium affiliates. [Continue reading…]

Hailsham is a civil parish and the largest of the five towns in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England. Back in February, “representatives from Lyoness” were invited to give a ‘short presentation to the Hailsham Forward Executive‘. According to their website, the Hailsham Forward Executive was born out of the Mary Portas Vision for [Continue reading…]

Following similar charges filed against Lyoness in Australia, five Lyoness investors have now been charged with conducting pyramid scheme fraud in Greece. At this stage only three of the investors have been named, Herbert and Anna Teissel, two Austrians and Fokion Fountoukidis, a Greek national.

Last Friday saw the conclusion of a five day trial which saw Lyoness defend pyramid scheme allegations, brought about by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). At the conclusion of the trial Justice Flick reserved judgement. And while I had hoped we might see a judgement handed down this week or the next, it’s been [Continue reading…]

Lyoness’ Wikipedia entry was created on November 18th, 2009. It read: Lyoness is an independent international shopping community, linked by a single country- and sector-spanning customer card that enables Lyoness customers to get their “money back with every purchase” benefit. Hubert Freidl took up this inspired business idea, and many business partners soon joined him. [Continue reading…]

In late August 2014, almost a year ago now, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission sued Lyoness for being a pyramid scheme. To date updates on the progress of the case have been scarce, so today we’re taking a look at where things are currently at.

For some months now an alleged business relationship between Lyoness and Mastercard has been used as a major marketing point by Lyoness and their affiliates. As with most third-party brand promotions, the idea is to create the illusion of legitimacy through association with an otherwise reputable company. In the case of Lyoness, they don’t want [Continue reading…]

I first took a peek at Lyconet earlier this year back in February. Launched in response to ongoing criticism of Lyoness’ accounting unit investment scheme, the purpose behind Lyconet was to completely separate the affiliate side of the business from that of the MLM opportunity. Unfortunately nothing much has materialized on Lyconet since my first look [Continue reading…]

Back in August we reported that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) had filed a lawsuit against Lyoness. As with our own Lyoness review, a press-release from the ACCC indicated that they had taken issue with Lyoness’ accounting unit investment scheme. Today we take a closer look at particulars of the ACCC’s case.