Friend getting mixed up in the quixtar pyramid scheme

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joshmv

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Does anybody else have, or have had a friend that has been brainwashed into thinking the Quixtar (previously Amway) pyramid scheme is actually a solid business decision?

One day I get a call from him saying that I'd be PERFECT for this new business opportunity and I'd be hearing from someone about it. I immediately knew what it was so I let all of my other friends know what was coming, and wouldn't you know it, within a couple days everybody was getting called about this very vague opportunity.

Anywho, we go over to a meeting there just to make fun of the guys giving the presentation for "perfect water", and even though it was great fun giving them shit, it was even more surprising to me that anybody could ever fall for this. They have absolutely no information, or any idea of how to argue any reasonable comment about how worthless it is, they just tell you, "hey, I don't know, you just have to come to the big meeting."

One of the funniest parts was after the meeting when my friend that called us over was showing us this sweet watch he got that retailed for over $1400, which he bought for the low low price of $36, and got pissed when everyone laughed at his piece of shit watch.

This isn't one of my better friends or anything, but either way there's no way I can ever talk to him again, I've lost all respect for him for being such a fucking idiot.

WHAT THE FUCK? Who actually joins this cult of retards and becomes committed to showing his other friends how dumb he really is?

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All logic goes out the window when the idea of easy money is presented. One thing I have noticed is that the people doing this will always claim it is amazing and they are making the big bucks. A few months later you never hear another word about it....

I think we should start one up on WF and promote the shit out of it on DP....
 
This Quixtar pyramid is a plague on college campuses, I have several friends who are into it and bragging about how they made $300 last month from it. I always want to say that I make that much every day from AM, but it's hopeless these guys just have to learn that it's a scam the hard way, by buying their shitty energy drinks.

If not Quixtar, then something else would have surely parted these fools from their money anyway.
 
my parents spent the better part of 20 years involved with amway/quixtar. sad to say but they have nothing but debt and old age to show for it. never underestimate the power of brainwashing. if i could, i would plot their fucking downfall. amway that is.
 
My aunt got into something like this (not amway/quixtar specifically) for some make-up business model.

She called me and a bunch of other members of my family to try to get us to sign-up under her. I explained to her how it was just a pyramid scheme, that just because some people at the meetings are doing all right now everyone makes it.

Anyways, she got a couple of my other aunts and some of my cousins to sign up under her. All I hear about is these big plans, how they are all going to be rich, etc.

A couple of months later I see my aunt again and ask her how the "business" was going. Her response: "I decided it's not my thing."
 
I have a friend who has joined 2 MLM schemes... first one was some phone company endorsed by donald trump called ACN, second is 'my berry tree'. The guy just wont learn!!
 
theres some lame shit called Monavie that is similar. anyone heard of it?

I've heard of that as well. Back when I was in retail I was right on main street so I had a couple different guys coming in wanting to hang up flyers for the meetings.

It's supposedly some sort of juice in a fancy bottle that is supposed to be good for your health I believe, not too much different than quixtars "perfect water" they push and make crazy claims about.

The products are basically just a front for the actual business which is the pyramid part. This is where they make people pay to come to the meetings, and then sell them all sorts of motivational videos, tips, etc.
 
Had/have a girlfriend that told me she has "her own small business where she makes money by buying everyday things online" or something. Sounds like this. This is the same girl who told me I was stupid for believing in evolution.
 
Uggh. I had a (former now) friend who kept bragging about this "business plan" he was working on. Yeah, it was just the Quixtar crap.

I'm not gonna lie, back in my younger days I did some MLM stuff, but quickly learned my lesson. I did however learn how to write decent ad copy, and that turned out to be priceless. (this was back in the FFA days)
 
Yep I know a few people (including one who studies at Cambridge university) that got involved in pyramid schemes. It's pretty suprising how naive most people can be when it comes to 'business opportunities' and making money.
 
Pyramid schemes work for one simple reason. They answer the three questions on every greedy mind.
1. How do I make money?
2. Why do you need me to make money?
3. How do I get other people to make money for me like my boss does?

If a scammer can answer those three questions the final question flies out the window along with all sense of logic and reason.

4. If this is such a sure thing, why do i have to pay first?

That's why you can spend hours explaining to a chump why joining a pyramid scheme is a bad idea and they seem to not even hear it. The fourth question no longer exists to them like it did before they got brainwashed by dreams of big easy money.
 
Does anybody else have, or have had a friend that has been brainwashed into thinking the Quixtar (previously Amway) pyramid scheme is actually a solid business decision?

In the town I live in when people find out I work online there like ohh really I've tried those ads in the newspaper and how you sign up and make money by signing other people up, how are you doing with that?

At this point I shake my head and walk away (Its funny because some people consider that rude, even though if I was to open my mouth it would have been a lot ruder, anyway...) I too had a friend that I didn't know he was interested in this shit and he was getting into the MLM scams and didn't have a clue until I stepped in and bitch slapped him and showed him the true light.

It really is amazing to watch people who are not that good with computers and begin to fall into these online scams, its agrivating as hell to try to explain to these people as well that they are being ass fucked.
 
Speaking of scams theres this brilliant one that happens in portland every year and even way down here i see girls falling for it. It's like a modeling casting audition thing to make girls supermodels. They pay $750 and they get to go "audition" where they get judged on their talent and their "desire to be a model" then a certain percentage gets called back where they pay $500 for headshots and stuff and do another interview to see if the girls really have the ambition to be a professional model. Then a certain percentage of those get called back where they pay to get a portfolio made to be submitted to fashion magazines. It just goes on and on and on till the girls can't afford it and have to drop their dreams of being a millionaire supermodel. The whole time they're just being judged on how enthusiastic they are about parting with their money.
 
One of my friends a few years back got brainwashed into amway (he is no longer my friend).
He called all of us to go to a meeting in Athens. We went there, and there were a huge crowd of monkeys, cheering and clapping coordinated by the presenter. Amway members came to the stage one by one, showing off their checks and success, brainwashing the other failures sitting down. The whole thing was a complete joke, but the members where so happy about it...

That day, was the day I realized I wanted to own something like Amway, not be a seller for amway.
 
My folks did Amway for a couple years... All I really have to say is i'll be fine if i never eat another bag of Baked Jays again.. hahahah.
What's funny.. I don't know if any of you watch Survivor.. but their friend that actually got them into Amway was Bruce Kanegai (was on the last one or one before that I believe).
 
I have a friend who's involved in that quixtar crap... one time I was really stoned and he dragged me to one of their bloody meetings... which is a terrible thing to make a stoner sit through... my buzz wore off half way through the meeting, gawd it was so painfully awful :(

he keeps bothering me... asking me how to use the internets to get leads for his quixtar 'business' and other such nonsense... I keep telling him to ditch the quixtar scam stuff and focus on a real business... I even sent him a link to WF and told him to learn real marketing here, but so far he hasn't listened to me...
 
theres some lame shit called Monavie that is similar. anyone heard of it?

Yes, a 3 friends of mine are involved with this one. Friend one, is pulling in 8k per month in commissions (he's fairly high up the pyramid), Friend two and Friend three have spent more than they earned, so net loss.

Like all pyramid schemes, to get your share of the commissions as they bubble up the pyramid, you actually have to buy the product ($160 USD per month) for what amounts to mixed fruit juice (reservatol).

The twist that this one has is that it's mostly (!) zero upfront costs and apparently if you don't buy the product on a given month, all the commissions earned from people below you on the pyramid, skip you and goto the next person up. So you have to be "active" to get your money.

Big fucking scam really. All 3 friends have tried (and failed) to recruit into their pyramid, the friend earning cash even going as far to give me his user/password to "prove" how legit it is. (I never disputed that people higher up the pyramid could make some cash).

Is Monavie a Scam ? Plenty of suckers don't realize how these pyramid schemes work sadly.

Anyway, here is the url: Mona·Vie™
 
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