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March 25, 2003
The Jig is Up
By QBlog in
Well, we haven't received the letter telling us to shut down the site and now I don't think we ever will. My wife has decided to "quit" the business. For reasons of her own she's letting her IBO number go inactive and won't renew it. She's still technically in Quixtar but isn't participating, much like myself. Therefore, it won't really matter to the uplines whether this site stays up or down.
I feel sad to be honest. We've done our taxes and it turns out we spent about 1,000% more than we made from Quixtar. Almost all of that money was spent on tools, trips, hotel rooms, tickets, etc. and is a business expense so some amount of it is tax deductible. This doesn't make it any more pleasant knowing that we suffered this great monetary loss and now will have no way of recouping the loss because our family's only active member (my wife) is no longer active.
I also feel sad because everything seemed to end on such a bitter note. Mainly the controversy surrounding this Web site by uplines has contributed to the sourness of it all.
The ironic thing (to me anyway) about this is that this site was up since November of last year and nobody knew about it and so it made no impact. This site's existence had zero effect on uplines, Quixtar, the business, individual successes and my wife. It was only after learning about this site that anyone started to get upset. Why? That is still a mystery to me. Why get upset? It wasn't affecting your business before, why is it affecting it now. I've never made my skepticism of the business a secret but it seems that once they realized that I'm telling others and publishing it for the world to read they get upset. Weird. Similar thing is happening to the music industry but I'll save that rant for another site.
Anyway, this does not mean the end of this Blog. It is really the beginning. Some changes may be coming soon and I think they will be quite welcome. At least to me they will be. Thanks for visiting and don't forget to tip your waiter.