As I have mentioned before my wife signed up with "Team" around
the beginning of summer. It wasn't until the Amway shake-up in
August that I became serious in learning what "Team" was about
and the conflict taking place.
As a note: Personally I have always found business news
fascinating/
I'm not sure if anyone is interested but I thought I would share
the website created by those who left Amway/Quixtar. FreeTheIBO –
"Home of Woodward et al. v. Quixtar"
www.freetheibo.
IMHO, I found most interesting the Blog section:
"Free The Quixtar IBO Blog" -
http://freetheibobl
All the blogs are an interesting read, if you like this kind of stuff.
lol
Here's a summary from former IBOAI Board Member Chuck Goetschel
answers the question "How did Amway/Quixtar get in this mess?"
According to him all the problems stem from the fact that Amway products
became much higher priced that the marketplace and from there the Domino
effect begin — one fall causing the next…
Despite the high products price Amway was able to continue to sell
products, but they were being purchased by the business owners for
personal use in order to achieve bonuses. The high prices made it
nearly impossible to retail the products.
A legitimate business opportunity slowly and unnoticeably slide into a
pyramid status.
New IBOs not able to retail products the focus became registering as
many people as you can. Motto "Register 9-12 and you'll find
your three."
The high ratio of fallout/failure, a negative image grows. With a
negative image it becomes even harder to sponsor people and the cycle
continues.
Then after enough failure occurs, lawsuits are filed.
As a result of all the lawsuits that threaten the very existence of the
business, Amway/Quixtar attorneys are now running the show. There
decision are based on whatever makes the business more legally secure.
Legally secure and making a profit are not necessarily the same.
A segment from Former IBOAI Board Member Chuck Goetschel blog:
"…….We have continually requested that the Company allow us to
share the income opportunity of the system openly. They have denied us
that ability citing that being transparent with the potential system
income is wrong, as it could be considered "enticement" to
register in the Amway/Quixtar business. Meanwhile on many websites and
blogs throughout the internet, the IBO leaders are being painted as
crooks by not being open about their system businesses. How ironic is
that?
In fact, Ron Simmons as recently as June 5, 2007 emailed the Company
attorney Gary VanderVen, requesting that at least on Company blogs they
share the truth that the Company "has prohibited IBOs from being
transparent about system income."
Orrin and Chris Brady attempted to start this process through their
explanations in a book and online and, even without disclosing incomes,
were threatened with suspension by the Corporation.
Orrin and Chris disclosed that there are really multiple sources of
income: Amway/Quixtar products, sales of ticket events and BSMs, and
speaking at events. Each of these is based on a compensation plan where
any individual can achieve the same or more income than anyone in the
upline business support team.
An analogy they used was a car dealership.
Say you wanted to sell new cars and started a business doing so creating
income.
As people wanted to trade-in their cars to buy a new one, you found
yourself additionally in the used-car sales business, now with a second
income.
Next, people came in with their car wanting service so you start a
service business—income number three.
The service business needs parts so you start a parts
businesss—income number four.
Certainly, there is nothing wrong with these other sources of income. If
you made more income in your service business than in selling new cars
(your original business) is there anything morally wrong with that? Is
your primary business selling new cars or are you just in the car
business with multiple businesses interlinked? Finally, what if someone
was considering starting a new car sales business and you were to share
your knowledge of it with them? Should you not share the other
interlinked businesses in the discussion even though they may never get
to that point?
Open disclosure on this topic is a large battle between the field
leadership and the Corporation. I believe the Amway/Quixtar reputation
suffers less when this knowledge is hidden.
They can then discredit the IBO leadership rather than allow the public
to learn the truth of how little profit margin remains in the
Amway/Quixtar products after the DeVos and VanAndel families take their
cut. However, as the Company takes over the BSM business with their new
contracts, this will be a moot point, as they will have the power to
regulate pricing and profits on BSMs as well……"
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