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May 24, 2004
Views from a Quixtar Insider
By QBlog in
There's a new Blog in town. iBlogO (as in IBO... get it?) is a brand new blog run by none other than our good friend Dwighty! Yes, THAT Dwighty of Dwighty Show fame.
The blog only has four posts right now but looks very promising. Each post is a rather verbose examination of Quixtar's critics and criticisms. The post titled Hurray for Dateline! provides an IBO perspective of the Dateline NBC show about Quixtar:
...Dateline NBC has done up a wonderful job of a mock "investigation" on the company Quixtar. Quixtar is an incredibly huge network-marketing business that has been doing very well since 99. In this "investigation" Dateline interviewed a few people who tried the business and didn't make money. These people, rather than putting money into their business, gave it to people who were not Quixtar officials in a blind and sheepish pursuit of riches. And when it bit them in the rear, rather than blame themselves, they blamed Quixtar. They blamed the independents who gladly took their money (and rightfully so) but they also blamed a very innocent company...Shame on mean ole Datewine, picking on those wittle innocent multi-billion dohwar corporwations that do no wong. Datewine needsum a spanking. ;o)
In the Truth of the Tyranny: Part 1 we learn more about Dwighty's views on personal responsibility:
They are the victims. They are the hapless heroes who can do no wrong. If it's not Quixtar screwing them over, it's their parents. If it's not their parents, it's their friends. If it's not their friends, it's the convenient religion of the day. If it's not the religion, it's the government. If it's not the government, it's the world.I agree with personal responsibility. I think people today are too quick to yell "victim" instead of taking some responsibility for their own actions. One of the most visible "victims groups" is the smokers. So many lawsuits for so much money because "I was lied to and I can't quit smoking." Or, "My mommy died because of cigarettes." No, your mommy died because she didn't love you enough to stop smoking you idiot.
However, there are victims in the world, even victims of illegal business practices. Will anyone (except for maybe Ken Lay) say that Enron did nothing wrong and it's the employees who should be vilified for being "so stupid?" I think not.
Anyway, I won't dissect every post, just go read iBlogO. I hope it's regularly updated and doesn't disappear in 3 months like virtually every other Quixtar Advocate Blog. Good luck iBlogO. Good luck Dwighty. Let's get blogging. ;o)
Comments
When my sales are affected by the cataclysmic tides caused by the shift in the stratosphere caused by the changing of the axis caused by the nuclear destruction of the moon caused by world hunger caused by armageddon caused by the Great Revolution caused by the one world order caused by Hitler winning the second world war caused by money laundering in the Evil Amway business caused by kingpins and their tools systems within the Evil Amway business...
THEN I'll be pissed.
I'm not going to sink to the level of those that slam things they dont understand. In fact I know that you probably wont have the courage to put this on your site. The fact is, if you would do your due diligence that the people who succeed in any MLM business have plugged into the system and have used the bigger team that is available to them to help them succeed. Anyone who gets involved in a MLM business and does not want to use a proven system, will be spinning their wheels doing door to door sales of whatever the product of the day is. It is very important to find a trustworthy mentor, keep in mind when you slam quixtar that there are hundreds of different teams not all have integrity, there are some that have proven success systems. Case in point, my wifes father "gave Amway his best foot forward" guess what his mentorship sucked, he didnt't plug into any system to help build his business and he ended up selling soap door to door for a few extra bucks a month because he wasnt shown how to build a proper business, or he let his ego get in the way of allowing someone who had what he wanted in life to show him how to build a succesful buisness. 30 years later, I see the opportunity to operate a quixtar business. I took the opportunity. Now I could have chosen the route that he did and spun my wheels for a few years selling soap door to door, but I have an amazing upline who has shown me how to build the business properly. Neither one has ever lied to me and every bit of advice they have given me has been right on the money. Also remember that the tool systems that you claim are so "evil" are totally optional. To expand I will tell you from personal experience and opinion that they are key to success in the business and the people who dont use the tools end up quitting before they get started. It is not a get rich quick, and very rarely do people make money right away but I challenge you to find a majority of people who arent lying to themselves who actually followed a system STEP BY STEP for the 2-5 years that it is told upfront that it will take to build a succesful business who are not happy with what the business has done for them. Do your due diligence please, when people put there negative experience out here, find out 1. How long did they follow a system STEP FOR STEP before they quit. 2. What team were the a part of (TEAM IN FOCUS ran an illegal pyramid scam called binary scheme where people cant get the right structure to become profitable) 3. Were they CORE, if they dont know what this is then there is your answer as to why they didnt succeed. If you want to succeed in life take advice from succesful people, not some guy with a six dollar website!
I ran an illegal pyramid and now I am running another one called passport.com
Ha. Right. That's funny. Except that Microsoft owns Passport.com you silly person. When you make jokes like that it's always good to at least know what you're talking about.
And "ben," why do folks like you say, "I know you won't have the courage to post this" when you're doing the posting. This is a "comment" on a blog and whether it shows up or not has nothing to do with courage and everything to do with the software powering the blog working correctly. And, since I'm reading your comment, I guess it does. Very courageous software.
Maybe I could do that, start selling "courageous software." That would be pretty cool. Buy software that has the courage to work like it's supposed to. What a novel idea. I bet Bill Gates would like to have some of that ;o)
I am for personal responsibility. The only way one remains a victim in the books, tapes and seminars system is if they remain in it and realize that they are being worked over, complain, etc. but choose to do nothing, such as leave. Others have tried to confront the Quixtar company and it seems their complaints have fallen on deaf ears. Quixtar is not taking personal responsibility in putting ACTUAL company representatives in the field to promote the company and teach people how to somehow profit from selling their overpriced products. Their personal responsibility would be better respected by those of us who have witnessed the upline crap if they would develop a training system and make IBO's abide to using LEGAL methods that actually get RESULTS and not rob people for tapes and seminars that DO NOT give much if any business info, but talk mostly about the dreams. People can be lured by the hype and make decisions that are screwy, but when you are being told, REGARDLESS of the compendium statement that says books, tapes and functions are optional, that the way to be successful is to purchase such products and you don't have a clue otherwise and you are constantly being told to trust your upline and usually your introduction to the "business" it at a business seminar where they usually always say buy books, tapes and tickets to functions, WHAT IN THE HECK ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO THINK YOU SHOULD DO?
I am well aware of the victim mentality being used by people. The other day an African-American woman, her white male friend and his child came to eat in the restaurant where I work. We were busy and it was rather hectic. She complained upon leaving the restaurant that they were not treated well when they walked in the door, etc. and the only person who had been nice to them was the hostess she was complaining to. Then she went on to say she felt like she was being discriminated against because she was black. At that point the hostess offered to give their money back. I waited on them and treated them like any other customers and they had not complained to me at all. In that situation I would have listened and then told a manager to handle the matter. Quixtar is not handling legimate abuses. Just hearing Bo's remark about his upline saying he would put a bullet in the back of his head was shocking and if Bo was fearful of him, then what the heck else is he saying to his downline to keep them stuck in the "system".
There is legitimacy in peoples' rantings and ravings about Quixtar's abuse by those in the field promoting their company.
Either Dwighty is daft or not really that interested in operating a Quixtar business.
If he actually was interested in a retail business in Quixtar he would be pissed that the corporation has knowingly let the kingpins ruin the product branding with their shenanigans. All the honest people who want to run a Quixtar retail business have to deal with the embarrassment of associating themselves with a company whose name has been sullied by the cult-like practices of the systems' pyramid scheme. You'll continue to hear about it until the corporation puts an end to it. At the rate things are going they'll be changing the name again soon now that "Quixtar" is well on its way to becoming a household joke just like "Amway."
Dwighty, if you want to tie your business into a company that doesn't give a rat's ass about its image, be my guest. You need to take PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY for that decision though. Don't complain when people associate you with the scumbags that run the systems with the permission and assistance of the corporation. The reality is, if you were smart enough or honest enough you'd know to be embarrassed for having anything to do with Quixtar/Amway. Or at the very least angry about them pulling the rug out from under you.
Posted by: lawDawg | May 25, 2004 9:02 AM