Thursday, August 16, 2007

[MLM Survivors Club] Re: Best. Quixtar. Quote. EVER. Now you tell us!

Well said Adrienne!

Jen

--- In mlmsurvivorsclub@yahoogroups.com, "Adrienne" <diamond3010@...>
wrote:
>
> It's also interesting that the blog entry is entitled "Board Members
> Resign in Protest". They're trying to save face to keep their
> downlines intact -- I was under the impression that they didn't
> resign, but Alticor terminated their businesses. Or perhaps it's
more
> along the lines of Alticor firing them, and them replying, "We
quit!"
>
> Thanks for posting that blog link. There are several things in that
> post you can see are just spin.
>
> "The main issue in our opinion is that the Quixtar opportunity as a
> business is not viable."
>
> As you pointed out, they're only just *now* acknowledging this? It's
> never been possible to make more than a very modest supplemental
> income with Quixtar (and only if you're good at sales), instead of
the
> great wealth the kingpins have touted from the stage.
>
> "The bottom line is that Quixtar's prices are so non-competitive
that
> our people cannot retail the products."
>
> Translation: they can no longer tell people to "buy from themselves"
> because that make it an illegal pyramid. The prices have always been
> much higher than comparable products in regular stores, and there
were
> shipping costs on top of that.
>
> "Secondly, in our opinion, the changes being implemented by the
> company including the name change to Amway and the new product
> development does not include a significant competitive pricing
> strategy which means that the business will become even more
difficult
> for the new person to build."
>
> Translation: people are so soured on the name Amway that it won't be
> possible to get any new recruits into the biz."
>
> "Meanwhile, the Team continues to operate as a leadership
development
> organization that teaches leadership principles..."
>
> Translation: they're going to keep selling their books, tapes, CDs,
> and "seminars" for as long as they can, because that's where their
> real source of significant income is.
>
> Adrienne
>

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