Quixtar Reviews

molly   ky

Amway is a valid business that does work. unfortunately you have to deal with some people who get too crazy and not put their families first. thats mistake #1. I find buying products from them are no different than a target. other than Amway does have better quality. The customer service people are great. and Ive seen people get in after me and pass me up. The difference for " us " was they had a unified team and family. your biggest challenge will be finding the right upline. just because your contacted doesn't mean you have to go with that person. study them and their team out. you really do have a choice. its your business. and make sure you do treat it like a business.

Anonymous   Location unknown

From Business Line

Kochi, Aug. 6:

The police on Friday carried out searches at nine Amway centres in three districts in Kerala as part of the ongoing drive against money chain activities and cheating through multi-level marketing campaigns.

The team under Mr J. Jayanath, Superintendent of Police, Wayanad, searched the head office of the Amway at Kochi and also its office at Kottayam. The raids were also conducted in Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Thrissur, Kozhikode and Palakkad.

The police said that cases had been registered against the company at Kannur, Wayanad, and Thrissur following complaints of cheating.

Meanwhile, Amway in a statement said the police action has come as ‘rude shock’ and surprise. A fair investigation demands that the company be notified about the nature of complaint received for such a sweeping inquiry, it said.

The multi-level marketing and direct selling company stated that it had been receiving complaints from distributors over the past one month that they were being called to police stations and being ‘harassed’ to give complaints against the company. This is another step in the direction of ‘high handedness’ of some police officials, the statement said.

Anonymous   California

I joined quixtar with my ex boyfriend when I was in college. We were a happy couple until this monster entered our lives. He started spending all his time and money on going to meetings attending functions and stopped all communication with any of our friends that did not agree to join the business. He started getting angry with me for not doing my quixtar duties and was obsessive over his upline. He would get mad at me if I ever even had the smallest complaint about the business. He ended up breaking up with me because I was not supporting his "dream" after two years of me investing money and time into this business he had the guts to tell me I did not do enough. He said if I was not in the business he could not be with me and I needed to treat his upline as if they were his parents! He expected me to give my life up to this business, and I was not about to do that.

Carolena   Utah

I attended my first Amway Global meeting tonight. It was absolutely amazing. I have had my share of MLM experience. This is the first MLM company that actually makes a lot of sense... NO pressure tactics, in fact you can't say you want to sign up unless they verify if you're a perfect fit.

I've had a lot of misconceptions about Amway, but I'm glad I've taken the opportunity learn a little bit more about the business instead of listening to my broke acquaintances. I see that they have implemented fresh new ideas in their business strategy. It's an excellent vehicle any person can utilize to become wealthy. You gotta put the work and effort in it though, and that's for sure.

Joe   Pittsburgh

Terry from Massachusetts. What part of Quixstar scam don't you understand - the part where you keep writing checks and handing in your cash for rally tickets, worthless cds, audio cassettes, VHS, books, etc OR the part where they ( your upline ) brainwashes you to save and pitch pennies around, but asks you a lot of money for promotional products?

Hey Terry think outside the box for once. Quixstar is nothing but a scam. I joined this company not once but twice. Both times, I never made a single penny, Terry, but I put over $1,000.00 into this scam. Second time I joined under a friend of mine. So, I thought friends to friends there maybe a good chance, this business may take off for the better. Nope. It didn't. I followed everything by the book as instructed by my uplines, went to group meets, bought cds, cassettes, rally tickets and even books. I even got over 6 people under me both times. I didn't see a single penny from Quixstar after 8 months of doing this scam.

so think twice.

Mom lost daughter to LTD Quixtar   Minn

Lost Daughter to this LTD Quixtar scam and cult...
My daughter and I were a very close family until she went to this church and met this guy who introduced her to this Quixtar scam and called themselves Born Again Christians. The more she became involved with this the worse it became. This CULT ruined my family life. On Mothers Day, she couldn't stay long because she had to be at a LTD Quixtar Cult meeting, same on my birthday, the 4th of July, Thanks Giving, Christmas and New Years...then she stopped coming around..she would call once in a while asking me if I had $10.00 to borrow her so she could get to her LTD Cult Meeting and ask for leads. If...I gave her any, my friends would call me up and ask me what was going on with her. She would pray with them and ask for an order. It was damn Weird. I have always wanted to call these LTD Quixtar Cult people and tell them off. Now I lost my daughter for good because of them. I hope they are happy and everyone....watch out....let them read this...hopefully these people will get charged for their scams and ruining families like they did mine. Lost, sad and broken hearted mom....

Concerned Mom   America

My son has been in this business more then once or maybe twice and each time he's had to pay $150.00 to get in. He met his girlfriend she came in and also paid the same, the cd's come monthly or byweekly the cost I have no clue, the seminars are pretty costly. They are going to a Christmas party today in a blizzard quite a distance from home. Unbelievable! Warnings on the news and major businesses closed for the storm and Amway/Quickstar is holding (optional to attend) their flippen party...This disturbs me I feel it's a scam they brainwash these young/naive adults into believing they're going to be rich while they sit back and reap the rewards. My son wants me to join the business I have no desire no intention to do so. It an aggressive approach and a little annoying. Plus they want whom ever it is that buys into this business (IBO) to pester every family member, friend, friends of friends and so on.

On a positive note my son has changed his ways and is a on a better path in life since he's joined and I do like a lot of their products. It is well scripted just seems a little to good to be true for those that go along with the regimen....

Craig   Arkansas

Life is what you make of it. For those who spent too much money on too many things that did not make you happy-shame on you. There is a handbook. If you play by the handbook, you will get rewards in proportion to what you do PROVIDED you research and manage it like a business. I made money when I did it right... selling (not a dirty word to me) and I lost money when I did it wrong... just going along for the ride to the seminars rallys etc. BUT as for the hoopla events, if you take away from the events good business advise and apply it you can go to higher levels without sacrificing your own or others honor.

Anonymous   Location unknown

Quixtar is the biggest scam out there!

Joe   Texas

Sure, Amway leaders will tell you it's not "get rich quick" so that the business doesn't sound too good to be true. But obviously, many people join because they had the impression that they would eventually get rich.

The products are much more expensive than retailers such as Walmart. To say otherwise is a silly justification that only works on the IBO's themselves. For one thing, Amway has to include their bonus payment in the prices of their products. It is why you might pay $10 for a small bottle of shampoo. It is also why IBO's justify the products by saying it is better or more concentrated. All justification so you don't feel like you're being ripped off. Instead of being more efficient, Amway is backwards. WalMart buys direct from the manufacturer and squeezes the best price. The savings is passed onto the consumer. Amway adds layers and layers of middlemen, all taking a cut. Amway doesn't advertise much so big name products are familiar and easier to sell. Amway loses and it's sales prove that.

Sure, you need books to get thru college. Some teachers may profit a bit from them. The difference is that you go to college to learn. In Amway these leaders are saying you will get rich using their tools, even when there is no proven track record of success. Also, Amway leaders will tell you that you need their tools. Really? What is so dang hard about selling products, using products and getting others to do the same? Why the endless number of cds and functions? Simple, because everything you buy something, upline says "cha ching".

Terry   Mass

I have read several posts on this topic and am confused how the same company can be both a Scam and a great business opportunity?? :)

As an IBO for the past 6 months I can honestly say I am not rich nor have I invested more money than I am comfortable doing.

Some of the comments both positive and negative are kind of accurate and kind of misleading.

I can only give my opinion based on my personal experience.

1.) This is definitely not a get rich quick scam....because I am not rich yet and quick has long since passed.

2.) Amway not only offers a business opportunity they actually do have products, which many many people are quick to point out cost equal or more than what they can get at the Dollar Store or WalMart. It is this point that I would like to spend most of my time addressing:

a.) Can you get similar products cheaper somewhere else....sure...similar is subjective, but for arguments sake I will comments as if you can get the exact same quality of product at a cheaper price somewhere else.
So why do this at all...? Like some have posted, and as the system is designed, you earn points (commission) off of products and services that you buy through Amway and their Partner Stores.
so lets say you overspend for approx $200 worth of "stuff" (products and services) every month that you could have purchased elsewhere for $150 and in turn you get $8 - $10 in commission at the end of the month.....Big Deal right?
If that is where the business model ended, you would be exactly correct....but it does not.
Amway teaches you that if you can share the same business model with others, their volume is added to your volume and for the same $200 you spend the following month (once again for "stuff" that you would have bought elsewhere anyway. And a few others spend the same $200 / month (for "stuff" that they normally would have bought for $150) they too will get their $8 - $10 at end of month but now you will earn between $25 - $50 / month in commission (these are theoretical numbers for ease of explanation)
Now the ones you brought in find a few more people as do you and once again for your same $200 / month in spending (never going up mind you) plus your new people, and original people and their new people all spending the same $200 month, now you are earning approx $150 / month, while the older ones are at the $25 - $50 and the newest at the $8- 10.
Now, this concept goes on and on. However, unlike a pyramid, anyone at any level can bring in or generate sales at higher levels than you at anytime and therefore their bonus checks would be higher than yours.
Now anyone who understands the full picture, realizes this going in and understands that by simply changing their own buying habits and sharing that concept with others, you can very easily surpass the difference between the higher cost that you are paying for similar products as your business team grows so that while you are paying $50 more per month for "stuff" you are receiving commission checks for 2x, 5x, 10x, 1000x that difference as you grow.
About the only people who don't make money instantly in the program are new IBO's the first month. But by month number 2, if they understand the system and honestly share it with the people they show the plan to, they can be at a level where they offset those cost differences easily.

3.) The tapes (now called CDs) and seminars are definitely available for those who want them. Do people make money off of them...sure. Although any book or CD or newspaper that I have ever purchased has worked that way, so I don't get too hung up on that. Is it mandatory...heck no. Neither are textbooks at school....oh wait a minute...they are....and they are more expensive...but passing without them would be nearly impossible. I feel the same way about these resource materials. Do you have to pay for them...no...will they help you follow the system and not make the same mistakes as successful people before you have made...I'd like to think so. And when did investing $30 or $40 / month in your own personal business become such a distasteful concept. Do this...go talk to any small business owner anywhere on the planet and ask them how much money they spent getting their business up and running. (insurance, product, employees, taxes, licenses, advertising, rent, maintenance, education etc. etc) first one that comes back with under $40 / month...start that business immediately.

Getting back to the products and services (a.k.a "stuff") Even if equal in quality to what you can get elsewhere, does "elsewhere" offer an unconditional 180 day (6 full months) 100% Satisfaction Guarantee...? Meaning, even if you don't like the color of a product, or taste, or weight, or size, or effects or anything...you can use it up 100% and still get 100% of all your money back and Amway even pays the return shipping on it..... C'mon..that's pretty ridiculous right there. Go buy some peanut butter or pasta sauce or laundry detergent or vitamins or lipstick or diapers from Walmart...use it all up and then 5 months later go back to them and ask for all your money back....good luck...

Ooooh, did I mention that if you grow your business (following nothing more than the concept laid out above) to a point where it is paying you hundreds or even thousands of dollars per week or month, that you can will it to your children and they will continue to earn the same residual income for the rest of their lives, and they can will it to their children etc. etc. etc.
I know when I retire from my job after 40 years, I may get a pension...actually wont cuz my current company doesn't offer one, but if they did, I may get it but it wont be for 100% of what I was making when I retired and they sure wont pay my children the same 100% + growth, until the retire and then their childern 100% +more growth etc. etc. As soon as you find another company that will.....sign up...

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Joe   Texas

Lisa from Michigan, you have been misled.

Helping others may be noble, and developing yourself as a person is all good and fine, but that is not a business. A business is to make a profit by selling goods and/or services.

Many MLM companies sell products, and have a side business of training materials attached to them, most prominently Amway. These side businesses priority is to sell people their training materials. The talk about being a nicer person or helping others is just a distraction so you don't notice that you aren't making money.

Helping people in MLM is a farce because you are only helping people who sign up with you or show interest in the business. The rest are cannon fodder.

Lisa   Michigan

It seems people have no vision and stop dreaming. What is THEIR plan? It's all about mindset, you won't get where you want to be in life (i.e. financial/time freedom) working for someone else. Being in any business, especially a MLM, is also about developing yourself as a person, and then helping others.

hate quixtar   raleigh

My ex boyfriend has been in quixtar for the past 10 years, when we were together i begged him to wake up and smell the coffee, that quixtar is just a scam, he is 33 years old and refuses to move out of his parents house because he wants to spend all his money on products, seminars, trips etc. IBO's, uplines, downlines, these people seriously need help. quixtar was one of the reasons we broke up, this company ruins people's lives. He can't even pay his own bills because he wants to invest all his money in this business, these people need prayer. It was so embarrassing going out with my ex and watching him do his quixtar pitch..I am glad i don't have to do that anymore.

Anonymous   Location unknown

CT California: That's right. That's how they make their money - through rally tickets, worthless books, cds, audio cassettes, etc. Meanwhile, you are working very hard to make your "business" grow. (LOL) Wait, what business? LOL. Tell your cousin to fall off the cliff and see if anyone of these Quixstar IBOs wackos come to her or his rescue as they time after time act like they are your best friends and buddies.

Tex Texas: I couldn't agree with you more. I guess, it started with Amway. Since Amway stayed in business without government giving them any problems all these years, they felt so sure that they can get away with more scams by starting Quxistar. As far as FTC goes, I believe FTC don't want to take their head out of their a-hole is because they are in this scam too or FTC was bought by Quixstar and Amway to keep their mouth shut. Let me put it this way, no matter how many laws and regulatory committees we create, they are only as good as the people running and executing them. So, in the other word, when it comes to government and laws, it is only as good as the people running the government. So, there I said it. They are all robbers.

CT   California

I had a wonderful opportunity to come to one of the conferences held by BWW (Brit World Wide). My cousin tricked me to come see her since she was in town. I was dragged to a nice hotel conference room where thousands of Indians gathered to here other Indians talk about how much money they make. These MLM companies are scams, they appeal to poor saps who aim to get rich quick or make an extra 30-40k a year working PART TIME. Sounds like a dream right? well it is. The only people who make money are those selling the CD's and conference tickets. The nutritional products are pure junk.

Here's a quick snip of what a conference entails. A couple people are introduced, they are always engineers or doctors (if they are doctors why do they need extra money?), alot of them are husbands and wifes. When they come out, a song is playing full blast with lyrics saying something like "Show me the money, i want the money" then all these little indian kids (assuming their downline or upline or whatever) come up to the stage and high fives them. so these people come on and talk about the wonderful help they have offered to others and how being mentors was the best experience ever. Then some other "emerald" or "eagle", "double eagle" or whatever guy comes on and talks about how much money one can make, he then draws out how to recruit people for your business and low and behold, he is drawing a (you guessed it) pyramid.

I feel terrible for my cousin but this cult has made her a believer for life. I yelled at her when she told me not only did she have to pay for the hotel room, she had to pay for a two day conference ticket which is 400 bucks. Dont buy into Quixtar/BWW/Usana etc companies. they are scams. They all sell the same products (let me guess SX energy drinks and nutrilite shakes right?) I know these because my own family and friends has tried to get me to join many different MLM type schemes.

Tex   Texas

Amway has ripped off millions of people for several decades, to the tune of 10s of billions of dollars.

Amway is a scam, and here's why: Amway pays out as little money as they can get away with, so they support the higher level IBOs ripping off their downline via the tool scam.

As a result, about 99% of IBOs operate at a net loss, while the top 1% make several TIMES more from their Amway tool scam than from the Amway products. This was made illegal in the UK in 2008, but our FTC is unable to pull their heads out of their butts to stop it here.

Joe Pittsburgh   Location unknown

Joe Texas: You hit the nail right on. My point exactly. These companies don't tell you the actual story but sugar code it with false statements blah blah to coax an innocent people off the street. So, they can scam them out of their hard earned money in giving them false hope. It's just like the late night infomercials. If you keep watching them, you will eventually buy their junk books and cds and what not. I never bought anything from infomercials for I know they are all nothing but phony. Remember the guy with question marks all over his shirt and pants running around Washington screaming his throat out saying, "Government has ton of money to give away for whatever purpose or reason you may have" like starting a business, for research on and on. I always had a kick out of watching this guy though LOL.

Eli Charlotte, NC: The thing is though, Eli. Once you fall in their trap they don't give you a chance to think or ask question. In way, they already have answers to anything you may ask and the whole business is very well scripted.

Jane Smith Palatine, Il: Jane Smith grab your daughters hands and drag her into her room and lock her up. Then, get your leather belt and wip her until she comes to her senses. Or, grab all of your credit cards and bank account statements and burn them. So, she won't keep coming to you to pay for this get-rich-quick scheme. I will say it again and again and forever. Quixstar and Amway are teamed up to scam the whole United States of America and the world. Hold on to your wallets, Jane Smith.

Anon Australia: I guess Anon didn't have a chance to read my past postings or she or he simply wants to be an ignorant and start opening his or her mouth only because she or he is part of this scheme and don't want to see others bad mouthing the "System." LOL. Anon wake up and smell the coffee. I do have a business of my won with very minimum investment today and from day one I have been making money. Before that, I joined Quixstar and stayed with them for 8 to 9 months, put a lots of money into the system and followed everything as I was instructed by my upline to the teeth. I myself had over 7 IBOs below me and do you think I was receiving big fat checks from Quixstar. In fact, uplines always kept asking me money for this and that and go here and go there. I saw not a single penny after everything was said and done. Any question Anon?

Former Quixtar Success US: Hello Former Quixstar Success. You are absolutely right that the money is made from the "System" not the products. I figured that out within the first month of becoming an Quixstar IBO. I kept writing checks and handing out money for this and for that - rally tickets, books, cds, audio cassettes, video cassettes.

Joe   Texas

It's very simple. The Amway promoters will say that it takes hard work, to give it the appearance that it's not too good to be true. But they do imply or even promise that you will get rich following their system. What they don't tell you is that the system is how many Amway promoters actually make most of their money.

For those of you who think the system works, can you name a few people who actually got rich and do not work anymore due to Amway income? Why do diamonds and crown ambassadors continue to work if they have mountains of cash coming in without working?

Why are there reports of diamonds quitting, resigning and why are there diamonds who had homes foreclosed and one prominent diamond in bankruptcy proceedings? Where is the success they brag about? Showing me a slideshow of fancy cars and mansions is not proof of financial security.

Eli   Charlotte, NC

I heard about this a couple of times but was very cautious. When you start a business, one that succeeds, you put blood, sweat and tears into it. There are no get rich quick outcomes out there. How do you believe what they show you? you need to question the things you see. I'm glad I never bought into it and saw the whole thing as BS from the beginning.
Joe from Texas...I like your style!!! :) You go!