Companies offering to make people into home-based travel agents via multi-level marketing are facing official scrutiny. Controversial travel company YTB, which formerly sold websites to people who wanted their own Internet travel business for several hundred dollars, then charged them monthly fees, settled early last year with the Illinois Attorney General's office. Although YTB has been accused online many times of running a scam, the company didn't admit any wrongdoing. It did agree to pay a fine, and it has since changed its business model. You can find the story
here, and
this website details other problems YTB had with authorities in other states.
Remember, being asked to pay a big upfront fee and ongoing monthly fees to be a home-based travel agent is a danger sign. It's even worse when you're expected to recruit other people into the business to make any real money, which means that it's an MLM.
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