Anyone ever hear of Quixtar/Amway

[Dufman]

My friend is giving this a shot. They have him going to "trainings" and the like.

Has anyone here ever heard of this company, better yet has anyone tried this out, and if you tried it out, did you make any money?


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[michaels]

SCAM

 

[jpeyton]

Door-to-door sales and pyramid schemes FTL.

 

[KillerCharlie]

Your friend is an idiot. Sorry.

 

[Mermaidman]

Originally posted by: michaels
SCAM

And that's coming from the Black Guy avatar. Heed his word.

 

[Looney]

LOL i remember when i first ran into Amway. Gf and I were invited to dinner with her friend... and her friend and the husband spent the entire dinner trying to pitch it to us.

You'll probably have better luck selling Cutco knives than you do with Amway.

 

[everman]

Run away!

 

[TheNinja]

they don't call it scamway for nothing. there certainly is money to be made in it but you have to be very dedicated and you have to move up the ladder and get a bunch of chumps under you that sell a lot of stuff. I'd say 5% end up making good money, 15% make some money and 80% wonder what the hell they got themselves into and end up quitting.

 

[thejnaitor]

Hahaha... Amway/Quixtar is quite big where I live (Utah). It's a total pyramid scheme, obviously.

Here's a couple of blog posts of a friend of mine who has had experience fighting Quixtar fanatics off: http://billystyle.com/category/amwayquixtar/

 

[Dufman]

Originally posted by: Mermaidman

Originally posted by: michaels
SCAM

And that's coming from the Black Guy avatar. Heed his word.

He hates peta as well.

Thats tripple goodness!

 

[GPett]

Originally posted by: TheNinja
they don't call it scamway for nothing. there certainly is money to be made in it but you have to be very dedicated and you have to move up the ladder and get a bunch of chumps under you that sell a lot of stuff. I'd say 5% end up making good money, 15% make some money and 80% wonder what the hell they got themselves into and end up quitting.

Is it worth receiving a commission when you loose all your friends and family because you are always pimping these generic products?

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

My aunt and uncle did Amway about 20 years ago. They did ok. Not great, but Ok.

I used to know someone who sold Herbalife too. She could swing $3000 a month doing that part time. But you have to be able to sell it to everyone you know to make it work.

Some people scream "scam" about these things, and to be fair, they are over-hyped and people who think they can make a fortune working from home (because they are too lazy to work for a living) are the last people who should try it.

But direct marketing plans are what you make of them. If you can hustle you can probably make some money at it.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Tell him to check out being a Schwanns driver. He gets a regular route with a guaranteed number of clients and he just has to buy the inventory he sells. Truck, catalog and, support are all payed and maintained by the company.

 

[George P Burdell]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_marketing

 

[avash]

i was approached by someone about it but they didn't tell me what it was about .... i had time to kill so i went to one of the presentation/seminar events out of curiosity, turns out it was quixtar which was founded by amway people but operated much the same.

at the seminar, they put people up on stage, said they made so much money that they quit their jobs to do it full time.

what i got out of it ... only the people on top make money because it's based on sales and commissions ... pyramid scheme. the hopefuls go in hoping to make money but will spend too much time hoping to become like the top people and very few will succeed. most will quit or stubbornly continue hoping to make it big.

why i didn't sign up:
- the guy who tried to recruit me claimed to make a 6 figure income but drove a beat up old caddy ... it didn't seem right
- they wanted me to pay something like $50 to start ... logic dictated that if they were so sure that was going to make a ton of money, they could just take the cost of the startup kit out of my 6 figure income AFTER i started getting my 6 figure income, not before.
- i hate trying to sell things to friends and family or strangers minding their own business in walmart ... exactly how i was approached. doesn't sell

 

[Cattlegod]

it works, BUT it takes more work than the lead you to believe. to make 50k/year you will have to put the hours in of a full time job.

edit: and just like all sales. some are better than others at it.

 

[Rogodin2]

It's a complete pyramid scam, and it's amway.


Tell him to leave the program.

Rogo

 

[FeuerFrei]

I use an Amway product called Industroclean.
Family's used it for years.
I get it from my dad who knows a source.

 

[avash]

Originally posted by: Cattlegod
it works, BUT it takes more work than the lead you to believe. to make 50k/year you will have to put the hours in of a full time job.

edit: and just like all sales. some are better than others at it.

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you only make money if you sell stuff because it's based on sales and commission. how good of a seller you are will directly influence your income factor.

you make more money if you then recruit people under you who also sell a lot of stuff, who in turn recruit more people under them who also sell a lot of stuff, and so on .... then you get a commission for every sale done by everyone under you.

pyramid

 

[fire400]

getting ripped off sounds about right.

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: Rogodin2
It's a complete pyramid scam, and it's amway.


Tell him to leave the program.

Rogo

it's not a scam, I know people who make money doing it, sure they work pretty hard. But to me, a "scam" would indicate a person not making shit and getting ripped off in the process. A person who's great at selling shit could make a good living working for Amway. There are people who will buy anything, hell I saw a guy today buy a case of Voss water, the shit is like 3 bucks a bottle. Something tells me a person like that wouldn't be a hard sell for some knifes or whatever Amway peddles now-a-days.

 

[sandorski]

Not a "Scam", but not as easy as they lead you to believe.

 

[zinfamous]

You've never heard of Amway?

then by all means...try it out!!

 

[dabuddha]

Had a friend of a friend (from New Jersey) come to dinner one night and he spent the whole evening trying to get us to join. He even said, "I have financial independence. If I want to, I can take my kid to mcdonalds for breakfast on Monday morning since I don't have to work anymore." We asked him if that was the case, why was he 2 states away from his family on a Sunday night trying to sell his stuff. After that, he kinda let it go.

 

[TwiceOver]

Scamway "We got sued into oblivion so now we go by the name Quixtar!"