“直销”和“传销”两词的确切含义有多少人能说清楚现在还是个未知数。即使是那些认为自己说得清楚的人,也没有谁能保证不会有人来争辩。产生于美国二十世纪二三十年代的这种无店铺的、通过人和人之间进行的商品买卖方式在世界各地有很多种叫法,在台湾它被叫作直销,而在香港 The exact meaning of the words “direct sales” and “multi-level marketing” is still unknown. Even those who think they say it clearly cannot be guaranteed that no one will argue. This kind of non-storey, person-to-person merchandise buying and selling method that originated in the 1920s and 1930s in the United States has many names around the world. In Taiwan, it is called direct selling and in Hong Kong,