quixtar? Options

[rnicron]

my brother's ex girlfriend is trying to get me in on this. i find out today through a mutual friend that it's quixtar and start looking up information on it, finding out that it all just seems like a big scam. it's nothing like they preach to you in the seminars. she then texted the mutual friend asking if he had told me the information.

don't come in here and say i don't know anything about it. i don't give a shit. i want real opinions on if it's worth it or not, and if the goals are obtainable.

[Just_Dream]

Lol my friend an acquaintance of mine tried to get me into that crap. Yea, it's a total scam. They ask you to fork over $150 to join. Might as well join a fraternity - at least you get to party if you join a good one.

It's basically a pyramid scheme/scam, but the thing is that they preach to you so much that they almost force you to buy their "books" about how to be a business man. "Be your own business owner!" or "Buy things online for a little bit cheaper than what you buy at the mall, and you make money off of it as well!" or some crap like that. Basically, they sell stuff like cereal and makeup, but the cereal is overpriced ($5 for a regular size of cereal? No thanks, Costco's got me covered), and the make-up is their OWN line. How do I know about this? The acquaintance almost got Tony to do it, but Tony called in the next day to get a refund of that $150 or whatever it was to join. I kind of knew it was a scam since my friend tried to get me to join some other scam thing too. ROFL those books practically teach you shit that you, if you have common sense, SHOULD know.

There is no easy way to make it rich - we live in a "dog eat dog" kind of world, so there's always people trying to make the bigger buck. Most likely what you make isn't really worth your time. Oh yea and they say you can make so much money but seriously you can't unless you have a shitload of people below you who've bought into this scam as well.

BTW you have to put a lot of time into it - get people to join so that when people join and sell stuff, you can actually "make money" off of them. It's time consuming, since you have to go to their meetings. The acquaintance is flat broke right now, his car(s) are all fucked up, AND his life is going downhill. Too bad he already put so much time and money into quixtar and ended up quitting. He never explicitly that he quit, but I KNOW he did since I asked him if he was still in it, and he said he found another job to focus on but that he'd still continue quixtar.

[rnicron]

yeah, i ask because it seemed completely legit last night, but i guess that's the point. they compared it to facebook networking, where when you first started, you had no friends, but now look where you end up. i feel torn because the "recruiter" is my brother's ex-girlfriend, and her and i got along really well. i told her that she better not be lying to me, and all she can say is that she's seen the money they can get and that it's amazing. almost every text i got from her was "it's amazing!" it was really redundant. i got really confused when she asked why i was asking if it was quixtar, and upon telling her, she said there are many different programs associated with amway. she kept telling me that's a really good deal, but i guess any business person looking for a quick buck would do the same thing. like my mom said, she's only recruiting me so that i start to sell stuff, and in turn, gain her money while she does nothing. it's kind of sucky that it comes down to that given how close we were, but i guess you gotta do what you gotta do. i would like to strike it rich easily, but i guess i'll go back to the basic means. after all the reviews i've read, i don't even see how anyone could fall for it, unless you're at the top and leading the seminars, in which you would have everyone that signed up linked underneath you and you're raking in thousands a day. i don't think i'd ever plan on getting to that point, so i guess i'll just be the measly employee they talk about. damn.

[Just_Dream]

I remember reading something about amway getting sued or into deep shit, so they changed to quixtar or something. Okay seriously, that acquaintance DID get a check in the mail, but he bought a LOT of shit from them (you get like idk, 5% back or something, not worth it) and got a bunch of people to buy stuff. I think he got a check for $150 or something. BUT some of the money comes from recruiting people AND he got his mom to spend quite a bit and a bunch of his co-workers and extended family to buy stuff. That means even though he got $150, Quixtar was making $10000+ (if you include the 5% back WITH hi recruitment money he got). It's a total scam.

Friends don't let friends get scammed.

And dude, no way are you gonna strike it rich with that unless you were the one who started it in the first place, and even then wtf so much time you have to put into it in the beginning. Cause then you'll end up a money-grubbing whore, lol. Someone said from quixtar they made like $35,000 but they were practically doing it like a full-time job. That's hella sad, since they lie about being rich so quickly. And if your friend is making so much money, does she look like she's ballen'? My friend didn't. He ended up having a lot of money problems.

[T00000]

RUN AWAY FAST!!!

A year or two ago some dude conned us into it at a grocery store. We went to a "seminar" which was supposed to be a job seminar, but instead they started preaching about the quixtar sh*t.

And it started REALLY creeping us out, and we left. I researched a lot of info online about it, and found out that not only was it a scam if you don't get really into it, but if you DO get really into it, it becomes a cult-like mentality. You can only buy their products, associate with quixtar people, and they pressure you to convince your friends to join. Most of the time your normal friends realize that you have become another quixtar lunatic and they run far, far away from you.

Anyways, after we politely declined this dude (the guy who initially got us to go to the quixtar seminar) started harassing us!!! He kept calling us, and thank the good lord he didn't know where we lived!! He'd leave us long messages like an obsessive girlfriend, and it got so bad that my bf at the time had to change his number!

Then we started seeing him at our neighborhood grocery store, wtf? He even chased us out one time trying to talk to us. And this is so ridiculous... after we changed groceries stores, we ran into him in a completely different grocery store in a completely different side of town! Luckily, before he spotted us we hid behind some bottles of wine and tried to sneak away... and we overheard him approaching another group of 20-something year old kids trying to convince them to go to a "job seminar"...

Seriously, that's the kind of loser that does quixtar. That guy was a total tool.