Quixtar Myth Busters

Prior to 2000, Q employees were not allowed to be IBOs. The rules were changed at around that time, and now there appear to be a fair number of employee/IBOs.

(God only knows why... Must be a pretty insulated job.)

There are still some employees who are not permitted to be IBOs. I believe people in their legal dept. would be one example.

PW

Posted by: PW | February 8, 2005 4:48 PM

Hard to believe that they'd be on the inside, know how evil the world of Quixtar is, and yet still want to be IBOs (or it could just be that all of the bitter people simply had bad experiences and others' mileage has varied).

Posted by: nb1ks | February 8, 2005 7:59 PM

I don't think being an IBO in and of istelf is a bad thing (from experience I say this), it's the business teams that make it so ugly. I don't know this as fact, but it is possible that the closer to the mother ship you are, the less the AMO's are involved. I could be wrong though. Quixtar the company is about retail, it takes the AMO's to make it the nightmare tool business it is.

Quixtar employees seem to like thier jobs so Q itself can't be that bad.

*shrug*

Posted by: SheepNoMore | February 8, 2005 11:54 PM

Yup, mostly these IBOs, despite being much less in number, post on internet and usually quite capable of expressing independent thoughts.

Also, can any body name a critic / blogger whose website is ranked higher on search engines than main company's site :)

Posted by: Imran Aziz | February 9, 2005 12:34 AM

Isn't that the old movie cliche: The drug dealter that gets hooked on his own product always goes down in flames?

Same thing here, with the "MLM Narcotic"..

Posted by: df | February 9, 2005 4:13 PM

Some but not all Quixtar employees can be IBOs. Those employees in a position to adjudicate over IBO behavior or IBO bonuses cannot be IBOs so there is no conflict of interest.

Posted by: fact revision | February 10, 2005 7:34 PM