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If you don’t make a Dollar, I won’t make a penny!

Have you heard this: If you don’t make a Dollar, I won’t make a penny?

Yes, may be many times from the mouth of your upline! When he sponsored you or when he was showing the plan for sponsoring somebody for you!

You’re impressed! I too was impressed with these words.

So, I got a feeling that he will make $$ only if I make $$!

So, he will work hard to make my business successful!

That’s how I felt when I saw the Quixtar business plan. That’s the commission structure of quixtar!

Wow I am relaxed; somebody will work for me. He started calling me every night over phone. He is guiding me to go to Open meeting. He’ll follow up with me for attending the PASE meetings. I am so happy. It doesn’t cost me much.

I was happy about this business. An open meeting is just $5/ week. Not bad at all! By going there, You learn to show the plan! Great! You can take any of your friends as guest FREE OF COST! Great Great! After a while you’re told to attend a conference which cost $100 in which 30,000 millionaires will come and teach you to be successful! Another couple of bucks for stay at the hotel and traveling!

And this conferences happens 4 times a year…And you’ll have to attend all these to learn more. It all costs couple of dollars as per my upline!

I already spend $1500 in the past 6 months for sustaining “my business” just for purchases. And I got $ 45 as performance bonus.

So what would you think?

I just made $45 from my business. So, my upline will get just $ 7-8 as commission from my business.

If you think so, you’re missing something! Seriously something!!

It took me little while to realize that “REAL MONEY” (I mean Profit) IN QUIXTAR BUSINESS DON’T COME FROM PURCHASING. BUT FROM OTHER SOURCES: BUT WHAT ARE OTHER SOURCES?

Before going into that, let me glance my other expenses:

Now I really started estimating my cost benefit proportion in this business, even though I know that it’s too early to do that while running a businesses. Still I’ll have to do it as I’m spending all my money!!

I’m in the 6′th month of my business and already attended 2 major conferences. But my business is at the place where I started. just one down line, that too my close friend!

This is my expenditure statement :

24 Open meetings in 6 months : $120 + gas

24 PASE meetings in 6 months: $ 0 + gas

2 Major conferences in 6 months: $ 400 for tickets (me and my spouse)

: $ 160 for accommodation

: $ 400 for bus travel

TOTAL expenses in 6 months: $ 1080


These are the other sources I was mentioning previously. Did any of these RING ANY BELL FOR YOU?

If not! These are money which goes to your upline even if you do or don’t do the business!

They are not bothered whether you sponsor anybody or not. They want you to sponsor anybody to just increase your confidence level in this business and YOU DON’T QUIT!

ALL THEY CARE IS WHETHER YOU’RE ATTENDING CONFERENCES, PASE MEETINGS AND OPEN MEETINGS! THAT’S THE SOURCE OF THEIR MONEY. BWW PAYS LEADERS THE SHARE OF COMMISSION FROM THE TICKETS!

Comments

Anonymous said…
broke people make excuses - people who want to achieve their goals DONT-

EXPENDITURE STATEMENT - HOW MUCH DID U SPEND FOR UR EDUCATION AND DEGREES AND HOW MUCH ARE U GETTING IN JOB WHEN U START-??? ANSWER YOURSELF- DOES ALL COLLEGE GOERS FINISH COLLEGE- DOES ALL JOBBERS RETIRE FROM SAME JOB? no---so no offence to your BLOG MY FRIEND- BUT HOW MANY YEARS DID U DO THIS BIZ-? IF URANSWER IS 1 OR 2 YEARS -I THINK ( IS NOT- EVEN 1 YEAR) BUT IF SO - CAN U ATTEND FINANCIAL SUCCESS IN UR FIRST 2 OR 3 YEARS IN JOB AND ENJOY EVERYTHING?- U GOT THE ANSWER URSELF- DONT EXPECT MIRACLES TO HAPPEN IN THIS BIZ TOO-HAVE TO BE PERSISTENT AND CONSISTENT-!!!
Ann Crystal said…
Hi Eagle: First thing is -if you are not broke, then you may be new to the business and just spreading the EXACT words wht your upline has taught you!

If you're in the business for long and not broke yet, then you're not spending a single penny on purchasing the overpriced Quixtar stuffs and BWW tools and conferences:). If that's the case, they might have kicked you out!

Don't EVER compare job with this Amway distributorship! Your question is after getting a degree, how much you get from a job? You'll get what you and your degree is worth. It pays for all your bills, bread and butter and a decent life style. But the "so called business" you're talking about, it needs the pay from your job to sustain. that means that you're PAYING FOR THIS DISTRIBUTORSHIP from the JOB and your SALARY. And that too HOW MANY years? You think about 5 years? That's what you upline keep on telling you? No way! Quixtar ship is already sailed. You've to pay from your salary for another couple of years till you're broke. Still you curse your boss and job and praise the "business" which eats your salary. Install COMMONSENSE DUDE!
Anonymous said…
Hi Ann, great blog!

You might enjoy reading and posting on my blog as well:

http://joecool-quixtar-thedreamorthescheme.blogspot.com
Emm Gee said…
I am not a 'quixtar' IBO; I am familiar with this term, though -- I meet them every once in a while in malls, school, work... and its not hard to tell you are talking to an IBO.

But, as a business owner, I have to say this -- the expenses you mentioned are minuscule compared to what you would incur when you start a 'real' business. Which one becomes more successful is everyone's guess. But these IBOs claim that their method is proven to lead you to success if followed diligently. Dont know -- time will tell.
Ann Crystal said…
Emm Gee: I know the expenses I have shown is negligible as far a real business is concerned. But, when it comes to Amway or Quixtar, it's not a real business as they advertise. They usually hunt students and people and give them fake promises of making millions. Then, they sign them up for the pyramid scam named Amway as an IBO and demand them to buy/consume overpriced products every month. The expenses I mentioned is over the top of all money-- which is spent on Motivational products by Motivational scammer organizations like BWW, Network 21, WWDB etc for "educating" them. Everything is a scam. IRS will hunt you down and penalize you, if you file tax as a business owner!!!
Ann Crystal said…
J: 3 months in the business, you're a kid in this Amway business. Now, you're really in the honeymoon period of the so called "ideal environment". You're still on the test drive, you're not really on the real time driving yet. Now, your upline will give you a glimpse of the "bad things" in Quixtar\Amway. That's reverse psychology..it is aimed to increase your trust because now everybody know the scam of Amway and BWW thru' all people writing about it. So, if your upline itself will speak out about the bad things-NOT EVERYTHING but just like the preview of it so that you can be really sucked into it perfectly. As you said, Sponsor 12 people and Do the Math about how much you make, it's not the money you imagine- it is way less than that. Also, there is nothing like RIGHT TEACHING:) You'll realize when you really start sponsoring people, so I'll leave that experience to you by giving no further comments. Please comeback and write another comment after an year about how much money you're making. I'll publish your comment ONLY if you've sponsored atleast 1 active IBO and your monthly check is more than $20 ( I mean monthly and NOT in a month or so). Good luck with your new life. Don't stay there till it sucks too much. Here is my advice: Whenever you feel that Amway sucks, just get out..Don't ever do more thinking that it'll get better next month. That was the mistake everybody DID when they were in Amway. !!!
Ann Crystal said…
J: Since you invested a lot of time in writing the detailed comment, I should give credit for your time. Hence, I published your comment.

Your story may be exaggerated! However, I'm neither contradicting any of the facts you wrote in the comment nor doing a commonsense fact check as you're the one who decides which direction your life should go. Lies does not help you in long run as you may realize it sooner or later. The purpose of my blog is to give consumer education in the lies and crooked nature of the Amway\BWW cult. As far as people reads it and understand what they are in and what they get out of it, my job is over. It's up to the individuals to decide what they want to do with their life. My goal of this blog is that THERE SHOULDN'T BE ONE MORE AMWAY VICTIM DUE TO THE LIES, FALSE HOPES AND FABRICATED INFORMATION PROVIDED TO THEM. No more mis informed innocent victim should fall as a prey of this BWW Amway cult.

As you're from the NJ area, hopefully you may be working in the IT sector (as a desi consultant or may be NOT). Whatever be the case: here is my advice for you:

Irrespective of how good your upline is or irrespective of how good (or bad) you're doing with Amway business, NEVER EVER quit your job and take a job with Upline or his acquaintances (shady consultant companies). Always keep job and Amway\BWW cult as two unrealted entities. That way, you are not a SLAVE of your upline when you decide to quit. You'll still have a life.
Now J, I expect your reply only after an year! Good luck!
Anonymous said…
I am just getting started in this, and i am little unsure of it to be honest...i haven't even registered, but i am having issues with the trust of this because it is all wishy-washy on both sides. i can't hardly trust anybody in a blog, but i am just wanting some advice for this to work instead of telling advice on how it won't work...i would rather make the thousands extra a month then give up on this idea now. so if anyone might help, please just post something on here or you may email me at footballdude7777@hotmail.com
Thanks,
-JW
Peter said…
Thanks for putting up this blog. We need more people like you to bring light to these Quixtar scammers.

If any of you have not yet seen the Dateline NBC expose on Quixtar, you really need to check it out. I showed it to the fraternity brothers at my house shortly after they were almost scammed by one of the Quixtar losers. The show exposes them for who they really are and what they are about - scamming you!

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-215989802739458876

Another awesome site to visit is the Amway/Quixtar site of professor David Touretzky. This man has the stones to expose Quixtar even after it's lawyer threatened him using BS laws. Hats off to you, professor.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Amway/index.html