FROM A FORMER QUIXTAR MEMBER - EVALUATED BECOMING AN IBO FOR ABOUT A YEAR UNDER MY POTENTIAL UPLINE
Let's start with my short story: I met a great person who tried to sell me on Quixtar/Amway. In the end we are still friends, I never became an IBO, and he quit after several years although he started with them before the launch of Quixtar.com when they were only Amway. Below are 2 Internet References, and the "DETAILS" section is what I learned first hand and from research.
INTERNET REFERENCES:
Good Links From DMOZ:
http://dmoz.org/Business/Opportuniti...y_and_Quixtar/
Good Links From Google (many shared with above):
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...xtar+nightmare
DETAILS
Some major problems with Quixtar:
1) TIME AND MONEY: Although the presentation they gave me was basically make good money, have loads of family time, and retire with good income, I found out that you actually need to sacrifice lots of time to make it to the point where you have enough downlines to be successful. Also your downlines have to have downlines that have downlines that have downlines - which insures that you don't lose your immediate downlines since they would quit if they are not successful ;)
2) TRAIN TRAIN TRAIN: It gets worse. Once you have a good pyramid building downline, you still need to host and train your downlines (if you want them to be successful, which you do!) until they get to the point where you (at this point) would be aiming for - and that is giving speeches at Quixtar Training seminars to make the really big bucks! If you ever think you are going to have MAJOR free time like a millionaire should, think again! For your downlines to be successful and to increase your income you have regular meetings at your house - or a downline's house - where you might do training or try to follow up on contacts. The wives meet, etc, its all nice, but you must continue to do this. Where is the free time?
3) TRAINING TOOLS - BUY BUY BUY: If you have not already been told, many or all of the tapes you have been given for FREE cost money to your upline, and these tapes are these IBO's who have "made it" and are being paid big bucks to speak at Quixtar Training Seminars (as mentioned in #2 above). You will find that your upline expects you to start buying these tapes, and other training tools down the road. To take this into the future, you must also push all of your downlines to buy these training materials from you on a regular basis also (more on this below if you're not bored already;) )
4) STAY AWAY! That's what you are told. If people do not fit your profile (that is, want to do 'the business') you are told to stay away since they are "normal people" that don't "have dreams" and they will hold you back! You do not have to listen, but you will be pushed over and over to sever non-income producing ties, or even family ties that are negative (like your Mom wants you to "get away from those Amway people").
5) SPEAK SPEAK SPEAK: When you "make it" you will have downlines who are holding their own training meetings at their house, so you are freed up. Even better is when your downlines get to the point where
their downlines have reached this point. Even now, you have unhappy tasks such as making sure you are still selling those tools to your downlines and making sure they attend those Quixtar Training Seminars - that they have to pay to get into. Oh, I have not mentioned that yet. For the speakers to get paid well, someone has to pay. The IBO's attending the seminars pay. You had better have your downlines attending these seminars by now, and you had better attend them as well! At this point you'd be saying - where is all of my "free time" - that is what I was promised.
I decided to "try it out" with my IBO for a long time, he let me 'hang in' for a year because I was going to join, I just had to get more info and be totally sure. I signed up as a member on the Quixtar.com website and bought some (slightly more expensive) products that I could afford. In the end when he met with me, his wife and my wife, it was my wife who saved me, she said flat out said "No". Since the deal was "spend more time with your family" and "you'd get to work with your wife" and "oh, your wife is really expected to host the other wives, not really sell as much as you do", this sunk the deal. I backed off and looked at Quixtar, finally finding some nightmare stories posted on the net. A former downline of my upline (would have been a brother IBO to me if I joined) sent me these URL's, and it was worse than I ever thought it could be.
MY OPINION: If you don't mind an organization making promises that can't be kept, a company that forces you to turn your personal life into a business life, a business where you sell a mixture of things that are needed and things that are bought solely to make good income for your upline, a business that I feel really pushes you to push other people to do things that are not so great - then you are set. If you have a conscience, (
again my opinion, it will either wither away, or it will force you to leave Quixtar.