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YTB International, Inc / YTB Travel
Your Travel Biz

YTB Travel "was founded in 2001 in greater St. Louis by J. Lloyd Tomer.  His vision is to build the largest online travel company in the world while changing the lives of tens of thousands of people in the process  The company mission is to be the largest on line travel company By 2011. The number 1 selling product is travel. Since the inception the company has merged with Rezconnect.com and is now a publicly traded company. "  -- YTB International website

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"Rep commissions are paid exclusively on the enrollment of new Referring Travel Agents (RTAs) and on their monthly license fees."  -- Your Travel Biz website

 

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Illinois wants to shut down YTB
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - St. Louis, MO, USA  05/16/2009
If the just-settled lawsuit in California was meant to make YTB International change its ways, the suit filed Thursday by the state of IL just might force it out of business. ... IL AG, Lisa Madigan, is asking a court to shut down the Wood River-based online travel company, charging that it broke state fraud laws by peddling travel sales websites that generated little income ... YTB ""primarily emphasizes and pays commission on the recruitment of others into the marketing plan, rather than the sale of product to the ultimate user."

 

California settles with Internet travel business it accused of ...
Los Angeles Times - CA, USA 5/15/2009
YTB International agrees to pay $1 million in penalties, attorney costs and restitution to consumers. The settlement ... would prohibit the company from charging customers $450 each to buy a personalized website and about $50 a month to operate it ... Chief Executive Scott Tomer predicted that the settlement could help YTB to "emerge a better company" by updating its franchise model while maintaining an effective sales incentive program.

 

Two leave YTB board
Alton Telegraph - Alton, IL, USA May 5, 2009
By SANFORD J. SCHMIDT WOOD RIVER - The troubled YTB Internet travel company based here has seen some turnover at the top with the departure of two of two of its board members, and its profits have plunged ... YTB also announced it has reached a tentative settlement of a civil lawsuit filed against it by the state of California. The California suit was one of the factors that touched off a string of bad publicity and legal troubles for the company.

 

YTB Reports Loss: Future In Doubt
Travel Agent Central, George Dooley - New York, NY, USA  March 17, 2009
YTB’s independent accounting firm has issued an opinion that questions YTB's “loss from operations and working capital deficiency raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.”  YTB said it had incurred a loss of$4.1 million from operations in 2008 ...

 

Trial for California's lawsuit against YTB set for September
SmartBrief - Washington, DC ,USA  01/08/2009
California has accused YTB, a multilevel marketing/online travel firm, of using deceptive business practices and running an illegal pyramid scheme. ...

 

YTB Travel raises money by selling jet, land
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte, NC, USA  December 1, 2008
YTB also said it plans to sell ten acres of land near its headquarters in Madison County, Ill., to WR Landing LLC for $1,000,000 according to the filing. ...

 

Your Travel Biz posts meager 3rd quarter earnings
St. Clair Record - Edwardsville ,IL, USA  11/18/2008
By Chris Rizo ... YTB International Inc. ... that is the target of investigation by 2 state attorneys general, posted meager earnings ... The company - which operates through three subsidiaries: YourTravelBiz.com, Inc., YTB Travel Network, Inc., and REZconnect Technologies, Inc. -- said in filings Friday that it plans to raise cash by selling an office building in Edwardsville, as well as its Learjet ... Net loss for the 9 months ended Sept. 30 was $3.4 M or $0.03 per diluted share, compared to a net income of $1.6 M, or $0.01 per diluted share, for the same period a year ago.

 

YTB’s “Coach” and Elvis’ plane  9.02.2008  St. Louis Post-Dispatch
If it's [YTB] a pyramid scheme, it is not the first one J. Lloyd  Tomer has been involved with ... the fifty state tour that Philpott and Tomer planned for the Lisa Marie never got off the ground. By June of 1978 the Texas attorney general had quashed the marketing plan as being in violation of the state’s deceptive trade practices law. Philpott was discovered to have had problems with the Internal Revenue Service and  the Securities Exchange Commission.  By July the Lisa Marie had been repossessed (it’s now parked near Graceland in Memphis). And a lot of people were stuck with ,,, cases of a useless oil additive.

 

YTB clarifies cuts: Seventeen positions
Alton Telegraph - Alton, IL, USA  August 29, 2008
WOOD RIVER - YTB International says it has cut seventeen positions at its local headquarters, clarifying reports earlier this week that put the figure ...

 

NEW: YTB, Execs Sued in federal court in Illinois
Alton Telegraph - Alton, IL, USA  August 11, 2008
St. LOUIS - The Wood River-based YTB ... and several of its executives are being sued in federal court by past travel agents who claim company ... $100,000,000 class action lawsuit

 

Illinois launches probe into YTB International travel company
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 08/08/2008
...pressure built Thursday on a Wood River-based travel company ... The Illinois Attorney General's Office said it has launched a probe into YTB International ... YTB has denied any wrongdoing.

 

BBB received Ninety complaints about YTB
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte, NC, USA
Consumers said ... YTB International, misled them with offers of inflated earnings, refused refunds when consumers ...

 

Brown Sues To Topple Online Pyramid Scheme
News Release  August 05, 2008  Gareth Lacy (916) 324-5500
Los Angeles, CA  California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced a lawsuit against YourTravelBiz.com for operating a "gigantic pyramid scheme" that recruited tens of thousands ... In 2007, only thirty-eight percent of the company’s members made any travel commissions ...

See Len Clements comments to better understand the issues

 

YTB International posts 77% increase in 1st Quarter sales, Loss widens
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte, NC, USA May 16, 2008
Increased promotion and international expansion helped YTB post 77% increase in 1st quarter 2008 sales, ... loss primarily attributable to stock awards, and promotional and expansion expenses totaling approx. $3.1 million ...

 

YTB International stock to trade on Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board
St. Louis Business Journal - St. Louis,MO,USA  Thursday, April 17, 2008
... YTB International Inc. said Thursday, its Class A common stock was approved for quotation on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board and will move to the OTCBB within the next thirty days.

 

YTB International Reports Total Revenue of $141 Million and $3.2 ...
Earthtimes - London, UK   Tue, 01 Apr 2008
"2007 - banner year for YTB. ... we more than doubled the size of our network of RTAs to approximately 131,000 strong in addition to ...

 

YTB buys Canadian travel agency Sunrise Travel Service  St. Louis Business Journal  Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - 4:35 PM CST  Sunrise Travel Service's travel agents will remain with the agency as YTB employees, YTB said in a release. By acquiring Ontario, Canada-based Sunrise ...

 

'I'm not running a pyramid scheme'  1/25/2008 11:10:00 AM Bermuda Sun; A Bermuda Sun investigation suggests that most people investing in YTB in the U.S. make their money by recruiting new subscribers, rather than from selling travel.

 

Card Mills Take 'agents' for Ride  Chicago Tribune - United States ... In a video on its Website, YTB urges prospective customers to get involved in the "$7 trillion" travel industry ... the total U.S. GDP in 2006 was about $13 trillion. "It's a number that's been published," said J. Kim Sorensen, president and CEO of YTB Travel Network ...

 

RI Agency Investigates YTB Business Model  TravelTrade.com  Fri Nov 16 2007 ...The Rhode Island state Department of Business Regulation (DBR) confirmed ...reviewing and evaluating the YTB business model ...

 

Beware: Online Travel Agencies Not Always Reliable 6:01 pm EST November 15, 2007 WBAL - Baltimore,MD,USA
The I-Team learned that Stylistic Traveling is associated with another Internet company known as Your Travel Biz, or YTB, based in Illinois ... "reservations had been canceled ... was no airfare, no airline -- nor did we have a hotel" ... YTB said [to it's credit] it is not at fault but will refund the group's money ...  Video report

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YTB International Recognized by Travel Weekly as Leading Travel Agency in 2007 Power List  PRNewsWire News Releases  WOOD RIVER, Ill  July 11, 2007  YTB International, Inc. (YTBL) ... announced that the Company has been named as one of the country's leading travel agencies in Travel Weekly's 2007 Power List.

 

Better Business Bureau Advertising Review: Your Travel Biz February 2005, Los Angeles BBB ... Better Business Bureau challenges claims that appear to be misleading and publishes the results of its review ... Your Travel Biz, also known as yourtravelbiznet.com and YTB Net.com, as well as various other names of individuals who are representatives of the company ... We believe this company may be engaged in a pyramid marketing plan because of their apparent emphasis on recruiting rather than selling travel. Those who buy into the company's team become legally responsible for the claims they make about their company, its product, and the business opportunities it offers.

 




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