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[codeyf]

SMC FTMFW!

I used to work at a SEO company (also, borderline scam as it turned out). People would get these SMC (Service Merchandise Corporation) websites all the time with thoughts of making big $$.

Also, my step siblings mom/her husband are all up in to the Quixtar/Scamway and have been for a long time. They've tried to get my parents in to it as well, but they weren't dumb enough to fall for it.

 

[mugs]

Some idiot tried to get me signed up for that Quixtar crap or whatever their Internet version is. I was so pissed that he wasted my time. I stopped answering the phone when he called.

 

[Cristatus]

What is Amway?

 

[compuwiz1]

Originally posted by: logic1485
What is Amway?

You don't want to know

 

[BriGy86]

i had a guy offer me a job in "helping people set up their own internet business"

his card had a number on it, no address, no e-mail, no website

i was clueless at this point and gave him a call (before i heard that little quote) he had told me earlier that he was in a field related to computer networking

after i couldn't get a straight answer from him on the phone about what exactly he did, or any examples, i told him i would call him back (never did)

 

[Goosemaster]

with all my intellectual might, it took me a YEAR to get my step dad to quit.

shrug.. it was brutal. they totally fvking brainwashed the dude he stopped goign to church, was always away at convensions, had meetings here at the hosue with all these hicks from Richmond..it was really awful.

Worst of all, these people were in my FVKING HOME, and pestering me about their sh!t. He too wouldn't stop.

I finally put my foot down and told him something like this:

Francisco, you have atalent few pocess. you have the ability to wield wood like no man I have ever met, and seeing you throwing your life away for what is obviously a dead end is jsut saddening. Me and my mom won't hate or loath you, but we do and will continue to feel pity that you are throughing your talents away. YOu know I love you, and would do anythign to help you, but havign to listen to you preach this stuff and see you ignore things you used to like like goign to church and stuff, is just depressing.


We are in the process of starting our own contracting business right now.

We jsut had yet another 12+hr day ..I am exhausted...and couldn't be happier.


If anything, his quixstar episode is what motivates me.


BTW, he rakes in $80k by himself...we are hoping to pull well over 6 figures as a team this year...



All I telll them if they ever bother me is that my goal in life is to bring meanign to my life. Their organizations remove meaning from my life. I do not want to be rich. I want to work for every fvking dime, thorugh the mud and rain, so then, whatever it is that I make, even if I live day by day, is worth the world to me.


Edit: and my step dad is now a sunday school teacher at his church and regularly helps out


<---doesn't goes to church but very glad to see my step dad doing well and I support him everyday 100%

 

[Goosemaster]

Also, if they EVEN THINK about talking technical with me I go ape sh!t on their asses and send them running.

<---remembers pissing them off when they were showing me their website templates

 

[AdamK47]

I worked at the world headquarters for 3 years near Grand Rapids, MI. This was at Quixtar after Amways "globalization" which turned Amway into parant company Alticor and under it Quixtar, Access, and Amway. Quixtar is their online distribution system for IBOs to buy and sell their products. They wanted people to forget about Amway because of it's bad reputation. Quixtar was what they wanted everyone under to forget about Amway.

I hated working there. The management is lacking in making any good decisions. Quixtar is all web based and there are people in management positions with mainframe programming backgrounds. They have the skills of a programmer from the 1980s and it shows. One other thing that pisses me off about Amway/Quixtar as a whole is their ultra conservatism. Very very Republican and they don't hide their political views. HATE HATE HATE!!

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

I think generally that Amway is a waste of time for almost everyone. BUT!!! I also personally know a man named Clark Broome, who made millions with Amway. In fact, he speaks (or used to speak) at many of the conventions and stuff. They say it's something everyone can do do be rich, but that's the paradox. How can everyone work the system when there's only a fixed supply of people who you can sell to? Eventually they'd all run out of customers. The ones who made it rich don't do the selling; they were able to maneuver themselves enough and generate a long downline full of really excited people. It's kind of like a large store: If you're big enough, you'll have customers even if you are a total prick. i.e. walmart. But there's not room for everyone to develop their own walmart. So it is with Amway... One in a million will succeed, the rest will be the suckers.

 

[nerp]

So what would you do with an extra $200 a month? What about $2,000 a month?

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: nerp
So what would you do with an extra $200 a month? What about $2,000 a month?

expenses here are reaching the halfway point to 10k/month....


$200 is nothing......$2000....not worth it if it detracts from worth (which it would do no questions asked)

 

[Hammerhead]

Originally posted by: AccruedExpenditure
12dailypro, ftw.

QFT!

 

[cubby1223]

I saved a couple of friends from Quixtar hell, I was with them when one picked up his starter kit from his uplink & I agreed to hear the sales pitch. When a company is supposed to be focused on selling products... why does their sales pitch contain less than 1% discussion of the products?

I just wish the government would shut them down one way or another. Hell, we've got plenty of other laws that are there for the sole purpose of protecting ourselves from ourselves...