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January 17, 2005

Lawsuit Never Served?

By QBlog in

According to a letter recently obtained by Quixtar BLOG the complaint that Joe Land filed against Scott Larsen in 2002 was probably never served. If true, then it looks like Scott Larsen removed Joe Land's name and audio from his Web site to avoid a lawsuit, not as a result of any official court ruling.

After reading the letter (pdf) I'm struck by a few things:

  1. Land's attorney, Marcos A. Manos, says that Larsen appears to have done extensive research regarding the Lands and their Quixtar business. Research indicates an understanding of the issues, at least to me.

  2. Manos seems to be saying that the Lands made their fortune before joining Quixtar and that their involvement in Quixtar was a way for them to help those less fortunate. One quick question: weren't the Lands in Amway before Quixtar and how long were they in Amway?

  3. Manos says the Lands claim "economic and reputational" harm resulting from Larsen's Web site. Looks like Quixtar ended up doing much more harm to his business than Larsen ever could have done.

  4. "Indeed, the Lands have found information contained on your website informative. Information from your website led the Lands to question how business support materials were handled in some Quixtar organizations. This caused the Lands to form their own business support material enterprise, AllianceNet, to change some of the practices your criticized. Your response to this surprised the Lands." So, wait a second. AllianceNet was formed because of Scott Larsen's criticisms of the tool businesses? Read that quote again. This is very telling.

Please pay special attention to number four. Read the letter and see it in context. Understand that this clearly says that the Lands listen to a critic, believed that his criticisms were on target and reacted boldly to those criticisms.

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Joe Land had a HUGE trucking firm before they got into Amway.....at a function, I recall he said they were quite wealthy before the biz, however the trucking business had fallen on some hard times (don't recall the actual circumstances) so they decided to "Do Amway" to support the trucking business through the slump. I recall that ultimately he ended up losing the trucking business. But I doubt that they got into Amway to help the unfortunate, and they were wealthy before Amway. I don't know how long they were in Amway before Q, maybe 4-5 years, but they were already diamond.

Posted by: ladytw | January 18, 2005 9:34 AM

Well IMO he was terminated also because he was supplying tools at cheaper rates and was a threat to other pins. That and OASIS thingy.

Posted by: Imran Aziz | January 18, 2005 2:09 PM

So much for Quixtar being your OWN company, building YOUR OWN business, and having control of your personal freedom. What freedom is there is you have to be a puppet to your upline?

Posted by: DW | January 18, 2005 2:19 PM

A puppet to your upline? The words of someone who knows not what he speaks! Contact me if you ever wish to have a mature discussion.

Posted by: Marc Watson | February 2, 2005 10:06 PM





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