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Originally Posted by Josh
The other business is the seminars, where you go and buy their tapes etc and "motivational" materials for thousands of dollars. But are told you will recoup the costs with all the selling you will do. This is the only side of the business that actually makes money.
Don't be a part of the amway/quixtar cult.
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I've been a part of the Quixtar buisness concept for a while, well I still am. I neglect the wholesale club and just sell products.
I also participated as an IBO in the Britt World Wide organization, one of three motivational buisinesses that deals exclusively with Quixtar, their products, and how to build a sucessful buisness (other two being Dreambuilders and Yager Enterprises). Yes, if you are a certain pin level with Quixtar you will earn a profit off of the tapes/CD's/Book purchased within your organization. The amount of profit earned off of each will depend on the organization you are a part of, and the pin level that you are officially recognized at. As far as I know, the Founders of Yager Enterprises and Britt World Wide are billionaires because of the money they made off of the support systems they founded.
What struck me as odd was their penchant to combine theology and politics with buisiness. A good Quixtar IBO didn't just try to sell this plan to individuals. They went to Church (preferably Baptist) and they voted Republican while Canadians voted Alliance. Strict adherance to social folkways and morays was heavily relied on, applying very simplistic generalizations as to why people fail or succeed in life then placed the blame squarely on their shoulders ("it's the schizophrenics fault that they didn't get exorcised"
or "their internal dialouge was to blame"). They also seem to have an inferiority complex, relying on the same one liners to refute anyone who pokes fun at them for what they do. Simple minds are amused by the phrase "Oh yeah? Well at least I'm not broke", repeated ad naseum.
I'm the type that needs ten hours of sleep a day, thanks to my medication, they were hardly forgiving. It was not uncommon to be woken up in a seminar and then asked if I was a winner or a loser. I would then be told to drink tons of coffee, despite having an already unhealthy amount in my system, I understood that they had the best intentions but my doctor has told me countlessly I'm not supposed to have caffine with my medicine and to sleep as soon as I feel drowsy. These actions were not officially endorsed but falling asleep after being up 18 hours straight was considered inappropriate.
Oddly enough I took a course of the most basic Sociology I could think of, just for fun. Ever since I started that course I was able to achieve a third party perspective of what went in those meetings, their idealolgy became blurry (not only that but strikingly similar to Hutterites in many, but not all, fashions). I was given a means to succeed beyond what I desired since I was a kid, but they coerced me to change many of my beliefs and a huge part of my identity to achieve this. Something I could never run along with.
PS I know this is my first post, but I plead ignorrance when it comes to the Flames. My desire is not to saturate your forums with rehashed opinions, as a result I've remained a long time lurker and will likely remain unless there is something that I have a profound degree of untouched insight in. Cheers.
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