Lyoness Europe AG and Lyoness Norway AS appealed against this resolution, lastly due to “procedural irregularity and disproportion”. The authority confirmed the resolution on 27 January 2019 according to which Lyoness’ entire business is an illegal pyramidlike trading system in accordance with § 16 (2) of the lottery law and announced that the ban of […]
The Italian competition authority (AGCM) adopted a decision (19 December 2018) – as the Norwegian competition authority did before – showing that Lyoness/Lyconet’s business practices are wrong (incorrect/irregular) and now prohibits its dissemination and continuation. Amongst others, investigations are currently still in progress in Poland. Page 35 of the Italian decision: (Decision Italy 19.Dec. 2018) […]
The Autorità garante della concorrenza e del mercato, also known as „Antitrust“ or AGCM, is the national Italian Competition Authority. On December 18, 2018, the judgement on whether Italy rates Lyoness as a snowball system or not, will be passed. The Situation seems to be quite similar to Norway. In the field of „Cashback-World“ Italy […]
INTERSPORT is the biggest medium-sized mail order business group in worldwide sports retail. Under, 5800 locations in 65 countries are united under the umbrella of the IIC-Intersport International Corporation GmbH, the purchasing and management corporation of the Intersport group. In 2014 they generated a turnover of EUR 10,5 billion. With market shares of around 36% […]
The Austrian High Court judgment passed on the Lyoness General Terms and Conditions (case ref. 10 Ob 45/16i of 18 May 2018) already cite EU directives in the statement of grounds for the judgement on pages 8/9. From the Austrian High Court judgement, 2.1.2: Any unclear or incomprehensible contract term in the general terms and […]
Mit Lyconet hat die Klägerin 2014 die sog. Customer Clouds ins Leben gerufen. Vertragspartner ist nach wie vor die Lyoness Europe AG. Die von Lyoness angebotenen Customer Clouds funktionieren auf die gleiche Art wie die Rabattgutscheine, mit dem Unterschied, dass die Rückzahlung auf dem Umsatz von Mitgliedern außerhalb des Netzwerkes des Mitgliedes beruht. Es gibt […]
On 31 May 2018, the Norwegian Gaming Authority made the decision in which Lyoness was notified that it must immediately cease all operations of, participation in and extent of its activity in Norway, as it is in violation of Section 16 second paragraph, cf. first paragraph, of the Lottery Act. In a supervisory case against […]
It is typical for Lyoness to play down in an “initial assessment” the decision by the Norwegian regulatory authority. As a matter of fact, Lyoness has been targeted by the Norwegian regulatory authority already since 2013, which I have also reported on in blog entries of June 6, 2014 on this website. The Norwegian authority […]
In a 16-page decision, the Norwegian regulatory authority “Lotteri- og siftelsestilsynet” (publication by the Norwegian authority) has classified the companies Lyoness Norway AS and the “new variety” Lyconet as illegal pyramide schemes and snowball systems and has demanded that the companies cease all business activities within four weeks. Should Lyoness Norway AS and Lyconet not […]
A trial at the Commercial Court of Vienna on January 12, 2018 (Case no. 11 CG 75/16s-23) did not go too well for Lyoness Europe AG. As a reaction to my reports (Mastercard lie, PUMA trademark infringement etc.) and the publications in the Austrian media, Lyoness AG Europe has filed a suit against me on […]