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Nu-Life Owns The Trademarks For Innovage AND DS-MAX

Nu-Life, the company so mad at us about "adversely" affecting its DS-MAX trademark, saying that old DS-MAX became Innovage and Nu-Life has nothing to do with the actions of old DS-MAX or new Innovage...

12:56 AM on Wed Jun 13 2007, by Ben Popken, 3,666 views, Comment

13 Confession Of A Former DS-MAX Manager

This is almost everything you need know about DS-MAX (now known as Innovage), the super-shady multi-level-marketing group whose business practices seems to have inspired the Midtown Promotions office we're looking into. It's culled from an...

5:57 PM on Tue Jun 5 2007, by Ben Popken, 5,164 views, Comment

CPSC Recalls DS-MAX-Made Toy Trucks For Choking Hazard

Washington, D.C. - In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), DS-MAX U.S.A. Inc. (formerly Wholesale Warehousing Industries) of Irvine, Calif., had voluntarily recalled about 82,000 "My Alphabetic Truck" toys, style...

4:13 PM on Mon Jun 18 2007, by Ben Popken, 716 views, Comment

Man Escapes Working For DS-MAX-esque Charity Scam, Lives To Blogs His Tale

A reader who used to work for Quantum Marketing, one of the "Aftermax" companies, (the term for companies that old DS-MAX (now known as Innovage) spawned), wrote several posts describing how his company scammed people who thought they were...

4:07 PM on Tue Jun 12 2007, by Ben Popken, 2,943 views, Comment

DS-MAX Tries To Shut Down Our IDT-Energy Investigation

UPDATE: Nu-Life Owns The Trademarks For Innovage AND DS-MAX

3:13 PM on Tue Jun 12 2007, by Ben Popken, 9,501 views, Comment

Consumerist Undercover At IDT Energy: Day One

For months, readers have told The Consumerist of fake Con Edison employees showing up on their doorstep. The story is always the same; they open their door to find people in Con Ed outfits almost demanding that the customer sign a form to save 7%...

5:47 PM on Wed May 30 2007, by Ben Popken, 19,990 views, Comment

The Best Sales Line Ever

I walked by this DS-Max/Innovage type salesguy who was trying to sell cheap merchandise on the street one and he started to walk by my side. "Who are you voting for?" he asked. Just to mess with him, I said, "Nader." He screwed up his face like he...

3:04 PM on Tue Apr 29 2008, by Ben Popken, 4,142 views, Comment

How To Spot A DS-MAX Style MLM Scam Job Ad

Here are some of the qualities of a "business" operating under DS-MAX (now known as Innovage, though the same company owns both trademarks...) principles, an organization responsible for many complaints alleging scams, fraud, and general employee...

6:13 PM on Mon Jun 18 2007, by Ben Popken, 4,634 views, Comment

IDT Energy's MLM Salesforce

Reader J. used his powers as recruiter to mine through the resumes on Monster. He found two companies that seem to have run door-to-door campaigns for IDT Energy.

9:15 AM on Fri Jan 26 2007, by Ben Popken, 401 views, Comment

Consumerist Undercover At IDT Energy: Status Report

If you're just now tuning in, we've been doling out daily pieces of our multi-part investigation into IDT-Energy. They're an energy reseller in the New York area and we've received multiple complaints about their salesperson's dressing as ConEd...

3:11 PM on Thu Jun 7 2007, by Ben Popken, 2,334 views, Comment