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February 4, 2003
Upline and help
By QBlog in Miscellaneous
I called my upline the other day asking for help or advice or direction or something. This whole Mortgage thing (see previous post) had me pretty scared and I began to realize that my wife was convinced that spending for Quixtar stuff (tools, conferences, etc.) was inherently beneficial no matter what the cost to our family now. After all, every business requires some investment to achieve success, which is true but hardly what I wanted to hear when I was pulling money out of retirement to pay our mortgage.
So I called my upline and basically just ask for any tips, guidance or advice on how to present the reality of our situation to my wife in relation to Quixtar. I was just asking because he's a "friend" and "mentor" and NOT because he has any sort of responsibility for my present financial situation. I made this extremely clear, that I was simply looking for pointers and didn't know who else to call. He got a bit aggressive and began telling me that he undoubtedly spent as much or more money coming to my home and helping my wife build our business than we had in the past month. This did not make me happy. It suddenly seemed like a competition to see who was MOST devoted to Quixtar and that maybe he was suggesting that I just not worry about all the money I spent on Quixtar this past month.
So I asked him if he had spent close to 50% of his net income on Quixtar and Quixtar related products in the past month. He suddenly didn't want to compare our expenditures any more. Ha. And I'm not making that up...my wife spent about 46% of our Net income on Quixtar tools, trips, products, etc. and you know how much Quixtar paid her this month? Less than 1/2 of 1% of our Net income.
In all fairness, my upline is a decent guy and graciously offered to go over my finances to see what could be done. I didn't ask for this but he offered. My only hope is that when he sees how bad our situation is that he will quit pressuring my wife to spend so much on trips and tools and crap and we can begin repairing this financial mess and maybe even building a business where expences won't exceed income by 1000 to 1.
Comments
Totally. There was an extensive supplemental part of the agreement that i signed today, outlining the legal usage of the supplemental materials. NO i'm not going to subscribe to them, or buy any right now, but they seem to have been a problem for Amway/Quixtar in the past. After all , that's where a lot of money is made. Information about how to get people to do the same thing you're doing, so you can quit doing it and make passive income. It's classic MLM, and that's what bugs me.
Oh yeah thats the other thing that bugs me is that there is no rollover on PV from month to month. If you dont earn 100 PV in a month, you lose your credit. I have to spend at least $200 a month ... to get any credit at all. That is impossible on my minimum wage job. It just doesnt compute. There will be one route for this and that will be signing up more people, if i can work up a convincing spiel.
These people are sick and pathetic. All over the Quixtar material it states that tools - tapes, books, meetings etc are OPTIONAL
This business, like any business, is for energetic and vibrant people. Not brain dead morons looking to make a quick buck.
Posted by: Anonymous | February 5, 2004 1:53 PM