While The Sheep Are Being Fleeced, What About The Little Lambs? They Want Their Parents Back! Heartbreak In The Land Of Will!

I have discovered a web site that describes the teachings and deceptions of the "World Wide Dream Builders". You may view and read this site by clicking here. I am going to discuss a few of these teachings in today's post. I believe that World Wide Dream Builders oversee a pernicious business cult and their teachings provide the evidence. A pernicious cult is one that does harm. I care about the victims, who many times are carried along by the cult and have no real choice in the matter.

It is the children of cults who suffer. There has been a lot of national press attention being focused on the children of the Polygamist Sect cults. Polygamist cults tend to cut the male children apart and force them to leave the community. Intermarriage amongst the few husbands and the many child-wives may border on incest. Children suffer in polygamist cults, but they also suffer from neglect in the "business cult" of Quixtar/Amway Global and their motivational organizations.

In the article about the teachings of World Wide Dream Builders, parents of the cult are told to shuffle their children off into the hands of babysitters. Meetings and events are just too important to be missed. Children are not welcome at Quixtar meetings. For a organization which claims to be family friendly, this friendship really does not extend to the children of distributor parents.

Parent IBOs are told that children will be able to walk the world's beaches with them someday, but at present must be left alone with sitters. Parents spend most of their daylight hours working a JOB and then spend most of their evening hours showing the plan and working the biz. Children of Quixtar parents may come to feel like orphans in their own home! Children may come to view their care givers as the only real parental figures in their lives. I find this very sad. I've discussed so many other reasons for people to shun this business (to include the money extraction and social stigma issues), but it is this one issue, the children, that must be considered the number one reason to counter the cult. They do not have a voice in the matter.

Eric Scheibler, in his book "Merchant's of Deception", described his tremendous regret of missing out on his children's lives during their formative years. I am sure that there are any number of other former Amway parents who feel exactly the same way. In the quest for the pot of gold at the end of the AmQuix rainbow, the children should not have to suffer and be shuffled off onto others for their daily care. The WWDB teach new distributors to line up as many as twenty-five babysitters because the parent's AmQuix work is more important than time spent with the children.

Children are used in the recruitment spiel. The "dream" sellers describe children as a primary reason for joining. Amway has promoted a book called "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" which contains what many consider age old cliches about money and success. The name of the book calls into question issues involving dreams of success as they relate to ones own children. Parents are convinced to get into the Biz believing they are doing something great for their children's future. I must call this reasoning into question.

Parents that spend nearly half their day away from home working a real world JOB, and then must spend the second half working the AmQuix plan only have time left for sleep. Children are shuffled off to babysitters or placed into the care of relatives, grandparents, aunts and uncles who basically become a support system for the "business cult". Grandparents should not have to raise the grandchildren. That job is really for the parents. Strangers should not be clung to by children who really come to know them better than their own mother and father.

AmQuix teaches that money is more important than anything else--including ones own children. The plan must be shown, and meetings must be attended--even if time spent with children is forsaken. Quixtar has a promotional video which says "I live in the Land of Will". This video paints a very rosy picture of the AmQuix dream that includes time for children. Parents are shown with school age children and one might be lead to believe by this propaganda that working the Biz will allow more time to be spent with the children. This is an obvious deceit! Working a day job might keep a parent away from the children during the day, but working Quixtar keeps a parent away at night as well. The more enthusiasm for the Biz, the less quality time to spend with the children. Since couples are encouraged to work together, the children not only loose time spent with Dad, but also with Mom. Time with the children might be on an "appointment only" basis.

Dear Mr. and Mrs. IBO, have you passed your responsibilities onto other family members and babysitters? Do your children qualify as AmQuix orphans? I am very dismayed by parents who care more about working a MLM biz than they care about working their own family biz. World Wide Dream Builders and Quixtar/Amway are doing way more harm than just taking your money, they are taking away something more precious: time spent raising your own children. Quixtar Cult Intervention is the Real Opportunity Zone. Your opportunity to free yourself from the cult. You and you alone can only provide what your children need and that is you and your time!

Amway By Any Other Name: Just As Bad!

I have been writing a blog entitled Quixtar Cult Intervention. Due to Alticor's 2007 announcement that they are going to dump the Quixtar name and begin calling the North American operations Amway Global, I am also following suit and beginning my new blog: Amway Global Cult Intervention. To folks who read Quixtar Cult Intervention, this new blog will be more of the same Amway criticism and discussion begun there. I considered re-posting most of my QCI posts on this blog, but decided that I would begin posting original content here instead.

Most people are aware of Amway, which has since the year 2000 been operating their North American Multi-Level Marketing Company as Quixtar. Both the Quixtar name and the Amway Global name will appear together during the transition period. The name change is supposed to herald a new direction for Amway. It would appear that 2008 has seen a renewed emphasis on distributors actually retailing some product. Whether this actually happens is hard to tell. Amway's hands seem to be tied from the standpoint of carrying through on their retailing objectives. The reason being the top kingpin distributors, who basically hold cult-like control over their down line distributors. Their objectives and the company's objectives many times seem at odds.

Quixtar/Amway Global distributors have been lured into the business by tactics developed by the kingpin motivational organizations. Many people are recruited into the business after being told that Quixtar/Amway is merely a supplier. The Motivational Organizations claim to be in possession of all the "secrets" to becoming a wealthy big shot in their business. This creates a problem for Amway. Many of the distributors remain much more loyal to their up-line motivational organization than they do to Amway.

Last year, a large group of "Independent Business Owners" defected from Quixtar/Amway after several of the kingpin distributors quit/were fired from the IBOAI. Kingpin Orrin Woodward flexed his cult-like influence and IBO loyalty to Quixtar/Amway quickly became disloyalty; the IBO Rebellion was born. Estimates that as many as 100,000 IBOs soon resigned. Recently Amway has alleged that as many as 31,000 former IBOs have signed on with a competitor MLM, MonaVie, who market a health drink product.

Amway has operated a Multi-Level Marketing Business that has a nearly 50 year long history in the U.S. and has in recent years expanded into many of the world's economies. Emphasis on foreign markets is an attempt to exploit people who have not been exposed to Amway's bad reputation and scandals here.

Amway returns to a name that was the "poster child" for MLM reform in the States not so many years ago. Quixtar, Amway's more recent incarnation, has also been sullied by a pervasive "tool" scandal and the criticism of former insiders turned whistle blowers. Operators of MLM schemes and scams have a much harder time recruiting new distributors among a better informed public. The Internet has become the primary means for critical information about MLM corruption to be disseminated. Prior to the Internet age, Amway distributors basically could operate with a mostly uninformed public.

Amway Global Cult Intervention exists to help prevent good folk from becoming involved in Amway Global (or most any other MLM) which basically are money extracting scams. People signing on as a partner in one of these pyramid sham businesses generally become badly deceived dreamers who do all the buying of incredibly over priced products and the mostly worthless books, tapes, and function tickets: all in hope of keeping their “dream” of future wealth alive.

Sadly, the number of people failing in these phony recruitment businesses are nearly everyone--there being a 99.9% failure rate. Only a very, very small number of people succeed in MLM. They are the entrepreneur who started the MLM, and the early adopter kingpins. If you are not already in one of these two distinct groups of people, your dreams of success are destined to remain only dreams that will have you squandering time and money resources which would be better used elsewhere.