James Ridinger founded market America in 1992, in Greesnboro, SC. James had been involved with Amway previous to this. Market America specializes in selling Internet Marketing and brokerage products, as well as health, beauty and nutrition products, of course. James Ridinger was later found to be fraudulent in setting up stock for Market America and selling it to distributors. You can find this information at the SEC Website. Where you will see that there was a bit of wrong doing and taking