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Posted By: mark <mtran2000@aol.com> In Response To: Re: How I hate this kind of crap (excuse me)... (Dennis Bevers)
Sunday, 25 June 2006, at 8:53 a.m.
Quixtar is a subsidiary of Amway. I think a new name was created because just the word Amway can clear out a room faster than a skunk, so they needed a new angle to get members.
MLM can work for some but if don't be deceived that you don't have to sell. My way of thinking is if you are good at sales, then there are better sales jobs than selling overpriced products like Amway/Quixtar.
Mark
> Some years back, my daughter had a friends invite her to ride along with a
> group that was going to a business meeting in Baton Rouge. I warned her
> that it could be a set-up - that she and her friends were being duped. I
> specifically mentioned Quixtar, as the tactics and word games seemed
> similar.
> She explained that her friend had been invited to some sort of business
> seminar, and didn't want to make to 2 hour drive alone.
> That evening I got an hour-long explanation of how bad it was. First, they
> were going to wait and eat when to got to Baton Rouge. Then they were late
> arriving, so they decided to eat afterwards. The went to the auditorium
> and found a group of empty seats together in the middle of one row, only
> to find out later it meant they were trapped.
> After a very long time of talking in generalities, they finally spoke the
> magic word, "Quixtar". My daughter was furious at both the
> person who lured her friend into the set-up and herself for not listening
> to my warning.
> By the time they could finally extricate themselves from the meeting, with
> all the usual hype and attitude adjustments, my daughter was nauseated
> from hunger.
> My daughter got her introduction to the Amway/Quixtar mindset and
> manipulations early in her life. It was a lesson that will stick with her
> for some time. The next "It isn't Amway/Quixtar" promoter will
> have to use a different approach with her.
> By the way, one of the primaries behind Quixtar from the very beginning is
> a son of one of Amway-s co-founders. The acorn didn't fall far from the
> tree.
> The focus today isn't so much on recruiting as the fact that "You
> don't have to sell anything!". We all know here that you can't earn
> any money without selling either the product or the opportunity. The pitch
> is that you set up a website, and visitors there are expected to buy or
> become dealers. (That doesn't explain how my daughter's friend got invited
> to the "Big Room" meeting.)
> Same old, same old.
> Dennis Bevers
> By the way, Amway was the first, but not the last time I was lured into
> multi-level marketing. I learned that I wasn't cut out to be successful in
> that style of business. It can work, and pay huge dividends for people
> with the right timing and the right mindset.
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