How do you get paid?
My wife and I were coaxed into Quixtar about a year for a week. Foolishly we signed up and then did all the math. This is what we learned.
Before signing up we went to several functions and house meetings (free since we weren't IBO's) spent 2 nights a week for a month on these meetings. So in addition to these 2 nights a week we were supposed to show the plan 3-5 times a week, and we try to have a date night each weeek and a relax sit in our pj's and do nothing day. That makes 7 to 9 days a week which obviously does not offer much free time when you tack that on to an 8 to 12 hour work day. So the free time is there once you get the large group of IBO's and customers.
Another thing is when you actually look how you get paid according to the plan it is quite facinating. You buy the things you need at retail prices, pretend you bought them at wholesale and save the difference as profit. That is how they make the numbers look so lucrative. If I can recall, in the first two pay structure diagrams, I think between 70 and 90 percent of your 'profit' was done by doing this.
After we got out, my wife and i did an experiment. (understand we only do one major grocery shop a month and then staples like milk and eggs and fruit etc we go when needed) We also buy everything in generic labels. Except things like Coke and Heinz ketchup everything else is generic. In quixtar, everything is name brand and thus you obviously pay for that. anyhow, we went for our normal grocery shop and wrote down the price we paid for the generic and the price of the comparable name brand product. For $250 grocery shop buying generic products, we could have spent nearly $350 had we bought name brands. So we put that $92 dollar differnce in the bank as 'profit'. Therefore functioning similar to the early stages of quixtar and saving is 5 to 7 days a week of 'building the business'
One last thing to add, is that the real money is in the tapes and seminars (or pep rallies). Once you bust your ass and spend several thousands of dollars several times over, then you get to that point were you start making money off tapes and seminars. In the tapes and seminars we listened to, not one of them had been in the business less that 18 years. Never heard stories of people less than 5 years in the business making more than 2 to 3 thousand a month (Which I confess is not bad, but at the expense of what?).
Oh yeah, final point. does anyone tell you its Amway? Trying to say amway to people and they probably won't let you in the door. "But quixtar is not amway" is what they all say. "A rose by any other name is still a rose." Same company, same pressure tactics, same false promises, different name.
Hope this helps in your choice.
Rob
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