The new Amway.. anyone hear of Quixtar? (sales, profit, rich)

[NCMommy2-4]

I am still researching this get rich business my friend is looking into. I think its more an Amway style via the internet.

Anyone here nkow of it .. good or bad?

NcMommy

[virgo]

Originally Posted by NCMommy2-4

I am still researching this get rich business my friend is looking into. I think its more an Amway style via the internet.

Anyone here nkow of it .. good or bad?

NcMommy

Don't know if you've done this yet, but doing a Google search pulls up lots of hits about the company - its origins and such. Good luck.

[NCMommy2-4]

Oh yes.. I have seen enough.. this is not a good thing to get involved in and I am heading her off as we speak. I am astonished to see how people would pick on someone so innocent and helpless and really unable to afford this garbage. What a scam.

Thanks !

NcMommy

[bcfarmlady]

YUP... founded by De Vos... and the make up, Artistry, was from the Amway line. My sister sold it for a while... needless to say.. she did well for a little bit... but is by no mean RICH.

[NCMommy2-4]

Originally Posted by bcfarmlady

YUP... founded by De Vos... and the make up, Artistry, was from the Amway line. My sister sold it for a while... needless to say.. she did well for a little bit... but is by no mean RICH.

Glad she did ok but its just such a terrible thing for the "not so wealthy" to begin with to get involved in. I can't see spending the kind of money on stuff I can get at Walmart for SO much less. Unreal.

I am glad she came to me to find out about it. She is young, desperate and looking for money. It seems you end up spending more money in this company.

NcMommy

[Sage of Sagle]

Amway "repackaged" itself as a "wired" business and launched the Quixtar site in September 1999 to a resounding dud opening. Servers were under-provisioned and kacked...pipeline was pooched for a few weeks. I think a lot of the Amway folks thought they'd get rich by being an online business...like you'd start an online business and people would throw money in your lap or something...

[sunsprit]

Quixtar was the new century of internet Amway sales ...

The old reps would be set up with a more efficient way of servicing their downline ... internet orders, UPS direct delivery of the products instead of the old evening delivery program in person, etc.

I've several friends that did reach Emerald with Grape leaf clusters sprinkled with Diamond Dust three times over in Amway. The proof of their success was to see the mountains of Amway motivational tapes lining the shelves in their garage, workshop, greenhouse, and every nook and cranny in their house and cars and boats. They tried to get me into the Quixtar thing, too ... but knew better after all my years of refusing to join up with the older program. Fortunately, they all made enough money with Amway to invest in other things and have now retired .... I don't hear anymore about the meetings and the rah-rah they used to do, traveling throughout the USA and Mexico to promote recruiting and selling and the "good life" you could imagine having ......

[muffinman]

I went to school and lived in W. Michigan for several years. Amway is based nearby in Ada, MI. My alma mater always has a new crop of idealistic and broke freshmen who can be easy prey for someone talking about the "good life."

Quixtar is as good an example as any of businesses thinking simply that having a website meant huge profits. They also launched Quixtar towards the end of the Internet boom....oops, bad timing on that one.

The good life they sell is often used as part of the 'prosperity gospel' that is currently in vogue with some evangelists these days.

[Rapture]

Here is site I use to check out companies like this: http://www.ripoffreport.com/searchre...&Search=Search

[rcarrillo]

Yep, I heard the pitch for them and a few others. Great stuff... get rich quick and never sell a thing, just recruit 10 others, who recruit 10 others, etc. Its the bottom people that need to sell.... funny, just like any other pyramid (I mean MLM).