MLMs Scurry To Rhode Island

Well, as expected, Rhode Island has opened the floodgates for the MLM crowd. As the Craigslist post from last month showed, they are justs foaming at the mouth to get the pyramid built in Rhode Island.

But Travel Weekly is reporting that the Governor has opened the floodgates. While Rhode Island is one of the few states that DOES have a requirement, I feel that it is a horribly wrong move to rescind it. This will be a terrible move for consumers and I an anxious to see how the number of scams and travel rip offs increase. Remember, Rhode Island is in a hugely populated area drawing from New York and Boston!

This Week's Top 5

Wanna know what everyone is reading? Here are the week's top 5 blog posts:
5. It Seems Like Yesterday
4. Rhode Island Refunds
3. Travel Training MLM Style--What A Crock!
2. TICO, The New Enemy

and the number one blog post of the week........

1. Travel Weekly Asks About Trip Whores

Rhode Island Refunds?

Since I have been accused of constantly digging up "old dirt", I figured why not let my accusers be happy on a Monday. So here is Rhode Island AGAIN.

It seems the Rhode Island issue might not be dead after all. The other day, I was reading the Google Finance Forums and came across this post regarding YTB and Rhode Island:

I haven't followed it too closely lately...but yes, I d o live in Rhode Island. And there hasn't been any word about the sites coming back up. Many RTA's here were refunded up to $600-$700. From my experience, when a company starts making refunds for that amount of revenue, there is definately an error/mistake on their end. For them to fullfill the refunds without any effort to retain the RTA in a different cappacity displays the lack of hope that the sites would be returned to their active status.

After a bit of googling myself, I discovered that the Rep sites in Rhode Island are indeed up and running. Makes sense as they do not fall under any travel requirements. But I could not find a single RTA site available for booking travel. You can check out the Rep site like this one; but when you click to book travel, you get the dead page.

In late February, there was an article in Travel Weekly which discussed the possibility of the state legislature considering a repeal of the bonding requirements. But so far no word on if the measure passed or failed.

So, were the RTA sites all pulled in order to comply? Are they planning on reinstating if the repeal is successful? Did YTB really refund the money to the RTAs? And if this is indeed factual, is anyone surprised that YTB is operating on the fringe yet again?

Before all the YTBers jump up and say I am wrong; I contacted a Rep via his Rep site and asked about how I could go about booking an airline ticket to Florida., Here is the response:

We are ahning a licensing issue in RI. I would like to tell you more about the travel beusiness.

I was wondering John what your last name is> I looked for your email in my files and I could not find it.

I could not find your phone number either.


Sincerely yours;

Jorge Muralles
401-849-5323
401-855-1335

www.locopro.com
Jorge@pronewport.com
www.locopro.com/rentals