1.   Although there is no fee for either for service providers or the customers, the idea is that the sites will eventually charge merchants for customer referrals.

2.   In addition, bank tellers or others without NASD clearance could not be offered cash or any other incentive for customer referrals that result in fund sales.

3.   People could receive cash bonuses for new customer referrals, but they could not set up any network-retailing organization.

4.   To compete with the Loudclouds of the world, she said it is not enough to rely on customer referrals.

5.   Under a deal with Ashford, Amazon had agreed to provide customer referrals.