Amway/Quixtar: Opportunity to Flush Your Money Down their Loo !

Here is how multi-level marketing works in the direct selling industry. Almost all businesses operate off of some variation of the Amway system. Regardless of the hype recruitment people try to make recruits believe about their opportunities; these supposed opportunities almost always work out the same way for people foolish enough to believe the claims which are complete Du Du.

What follows is a description of how direct selling schemes really work out for people foolish or desperate enough to believe in them. The money that is supposed to come your way after striving and struggling in a MLM pursuit is always at the end of the rainbow where the little green suited Leprechaun plays a shell game with the MLM Pot O' Gold and even if you were lucky to locate the end of the rainbow you are only left so much further behind the eight ball.

Recruitment made during periods of recession, where many people have lost traditional jobs, seek to attract desperate people into their direct selling schemes like Amway, MonaVie, Usana, Herbalife and many others. Recruits will be asked to squander what resources they do have buying what most people would consider unnecessary overpriced products or services. You will be encouraged to do three things with an emphasis being placed on the first two:

(1) buy products
(2) buy training (to include attendance at meetings, rallies, and seminars)
(3) sell products

All three require you to send your money to the company with the third hopefully allowing you to retain a margin between your price and the retail price.

Buying MLM overpriced services or crap when you are operating on emergency unemployment funds makes little sense. Providing a company with overhead expenses to promote their profits makes no sense at any time. Even if you manage to recruit or sell a few bottles of "Dr Du Du", you still do not come out on top after figuring in your overhead costs which you must provide out of pocket.

Expenses, considered overhead include the following:

(a) transportation
(b) use of your facilities, phone
(c) time
(d) accommodations
(e) applicable taxes

One of the biggest scams in almost every MLM proposal is that you are convinced that you own their business. Please, don't swallow that camel! They own the business contractually speaking. You send them money for (1) and (2) and then you may also send them the majority of the money you receive selling a few bottles of Dr. Du Du (or whatever product or services your company offers) while you get to retain the marginal difference between your price and the retail price: the gross profit. I've noticed many distributors sell the product at their cost and make zero margin which makes the pursuit a sham business.

You become the “mark” that is supposed to sell the company's products, which, by design, are so priced as to make this very difficult, if nearly impossible. Even if you are persistent and succeed to sell a few bottles of the Dr. Du Du, then the margin between your price and the retail price will provide you with what your company attempts to make you believe is your profit, which in reality isn't unless you manage to sell enough to overcome your own costs; the overhead I described above.

It shouldn't be any surprise that your real profits from selling a few bottles of Dr. Du Du will most likely only offset a substantial loss in the end, especially if your time is factored in correctly as a monetary amount; after all your time is worth something isn't it? And even if you do not use “universally accepted accounting principles” and provide your time as "gratis", most likely the bottom line will still result in a significant loss. Most distributors will never actually be able to sell enough Du Du to realize a profit even where their time is considered free, which really is an impossibility.

You therefore find yourself flushing number (1) and (2) down your MLM loo which is what these sham MLM businesses are designed for you to do! You end up with the crap and they end up with your cash!

The Coyote is Warning the Sheep Dog That The Wolf Wants To Munch Sheep For Dinner! Amway Global's PR Department Is as Ingenious as Wylie Coyote!

No, I don't have to make this stuff up. It is way too ironic to ignore and again, I cannot resist making Amway's Public Relation hacks the subject of todays posting on my blog. Of course, there is always some type of scheme or scam going around in an attempt to raid someone's checking account or steal someone's identity. This is what Beth Dornan, a Amway/Quixtar company blogger is warning her readers about in a post that went up on Amway's Inside Quixtar website.

What we have here are Public Relation folk at the AMERICAN SCAM warning folk (mostly their own con men and women) about another scoundrel's scheme to wipe out their checking and savings accounts and/or usurp their identity by purporting to be phoning about jury duty and fooling dupes into giving out their personal information allowing the schemer to exact the dirty deed. This is not the first time the Scamway folks have warned about another's scheme as I reported in an earlier article you can also read here.

The not so good folk at AmScam are placing themselves at the helm of their Consumer Alert desk once again and are acting as if their very own schemes, scams and cons do not exist and are self righteously pointing their own badly blackened pot handle at the black bottomed kettles again! I don't know about you, but the release of these warnings by Scamway about another feller's scam is so very funny! I've been laughing about it for nearly a whole day now. It is not that the scam Amway is warning about which is comical, but the audacity of Amway/Quixtar to raise any issue about another's misdeeds while they themselves have a huge “mote” in their own eye: The American Scam!

Might we not examine this situation just a little closer? Amway, which has recently been operating under the name of Quixtar, who have their own army of con men and women, actively hope to raid their own distributor's bank accounts with an overblown dream selling pyramid con job. People believing the AmScam con many times find that after years of striving to make it big in the "business cult" have themselves been wiped out by the “dream sellers of deceit.” These "merchants of deception's" have the potential to make anyone involved with their scam just as destitute as the jury duty scheme that the “home office” is warning about now. Believer's in the Amway nightmare might find that foreclosure, bankruptcy and despair is every bit as real as the agony of having one's identity stolen by a common jury duty scam. This is all way too ironic: the coyote is warning the sheep dog about all the wolves who want to munch a few of the sheep for dinner!

Amway Global Cult Intervention makes sure that the ENTIRE CONSUMER ALERT gets issued, not just HALF of the alert that Beth Dornan issued from the Quixtar pedestal. She also goes on to warn about other common thieves wanting to siphon gasoline so I must also warn you of Amway/Quixtar's "un-common" thieves offering their own thieving bait and switch con. Gasoline thieves by comparison sound like the better deal to me, what do you think? Amway has a big camel they want you to swallow: bon appetit!