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May 14, 2006
Bruce Anderson Returns
By QBlog in Arbitration
Scott Larsen reports that former Quixtar Diamond Bruce Anderson has brought his site back online after taking it down for a while. If you're not sure who Bruce Anderson is you can read my comments from April, 2005, or follow Larsen's detailed report.
Comments
Anderson is simply a former lying cowardly "kingpin" who is squealing about the excessive tool profits ONLY because he was booted from the business. Why is he your favorite?
Tex, LCK (Lying cowardly kingpins). What's new? Save some keys and type LCK. we'll understand.
Bruce was never a kingpin, (those are like 20 or so). He was a mere diamond.
Bruce story explains how BSMAA makes it so easy to screw you even if you go Diamond, you have no security, and you become slave of the top 20 or so kingpins + Devos and co.
Imran, you forgot to mention ETP (excessive tool profits).
Tex, you really are beginning to sound like a broken record, and your credibility isn't looking good. If you could perhaps talk about or at least acknowledge something other than LCK making ETP, that would be great. At least from my reading of past blog posts, Jim Reed expressed his TPIN sentiments in different ways.
I don't mean to offend, but I've been noticing this for a while and I just had to speak up. You really are beginning to seem nutty. (No offense meant.)
I have stated the tools profits are the major source of profits for the Emeralds and above. In other words, tool profits are the major economic source of wealth in a business that is described to prospects (and uninformed IBO's) as an A/Q products and services business.
However, you could be agreeing with me and become part of a movement to change this business, rather than "shooting the messenger".
Anderson was a "kingpin", or a person who was massively benefiting from tool profits, making about 2/3 of his profit from tools, by his own admission. He was not a "KINGPIN", or one of the 20 or so individuals who owns the tool companies, and make 80-98% of their money from tools. I used to say 67-90%, but a quote from Eric Scheibeler caused me to modify the range.
I write these entries for the new reader, so you are welcome to skip over my entries. How can I lose credibility when I am being proven to be correct, and how can I sound like a broken record, when I have a consistent and solid message to deliver?
Regardless of your opinion, I will continue to comment on my position as events unfold.
By the way, I will NOT abbreviate these terms as you suggest. As noted above I am writing for the new readers, not for you. The new reader would not know what the abbreviations mean.
The abbreviation bit was a joke.
I have seen Jim Reed's past postings and had to ask what TPIN stood for, so I didn't take it as a joke. By the way, TPIN (The Pyramid Is Negative) is also a joke, as the "pyramid" is very positive for the "kingpins" because of massive tool profits. If it weren't for excessive tool profits, TPIP (The Pyramid Is Positive) would be true for most IBO's, not just a few lying cowardly "kingpins".
I think the joke is on the average IBO, to the benefit of the lying cowardly "kingpins", if the IBO's don't collectively wake up and smell the tool profits. What we need is REAL reform, such as average tool profit figures for Platinums and above.
I'm sure Bruce would still be preaching salvation through Quixtar if he had not been beat down by Quixtar and the Kingpins.
That being said, reading his story adds fuel to the fire as to how bad a company Quixtar and the Kingpins really are.
Why does Quixtar need a non-compete and an arbitration process that they control? Because their business is soooo good?
You either believe in free enterprise or you don't. On the one hand they preach about how great it is to be involved with free enterprise, and then in the next sentence they teach how it's critical they buy everything they can from Quixtar. If you only have one place to buy products, there are no incentives to lower the costs.
As I have said before, If Quixtar had competetively priced products that the average person believed had real value, they would be knocking down your door to buy those products and sign up as IBO's.
Bruce Anderson is by far my favorite Diamond. As far as I'm concerned, his site is the best read on the Web. I haven't checked out his updated site yet, but I'm pretty sure the videos that appeared on the old one were recorded between shock therapy treatments and spongebaths from his government-appointed handler. Hopefully they're still up. Those things were absolutely insane, and I'm not talking about Doc Brown from Back To The Future funny insane. I'm talking baby-eatingly.
Posted by: Your Boy Fleak | May 14, 2006 9:39 AM