{"id":234,"date":"2010-01-02T19:10:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T02:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/?p=234"},"modified":"2010-01-02T19:10:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T02:10:36","slug":"direct-sales-flourish-in-china-but-not-without-criticism-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/direct-sales-flourish-in-china-but-not-without-criticism-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Direct Sales Flourish in China, but Not Without Criticism – NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Avon and Amway, two other American companies that use independent representatives, have even larger sales forces here. Avon says it recruits up to 50,000 women a month and now has one million agents.<\/p>\n

via Direct Sales Flourish in China, but Not Without Criticism – NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But that growth has not come without controversy. Many direct sellers in China have been accused of operating sophisticated pyramid schemes and other sales swindles. (In one widely publicized case a few years ago, people were conned into buying stakes in ant farms.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Avon and Amway, two other American companies that use independent representatives, have even larger sales forces here. Avon says it recruits up to 50,000 women a month and now has one million agents. via Direct Sales Flourish in China, but Not Without Criticism – NYTimes.com. But that growth has not come without controversy. Many direct … Continue reading Direct Sales Flourish in China, but Not Without Criticism – NYTimes.com<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}