quixtar anyone in this program ?

[zuki]

tell me anything .

[lets-retire]

It's Amway on the internet.

[justin]

Just paypal me the few hundred dollars they want to scam out of you, and it'll save you a bunch of false hope.

[peggy]

Here's a link to documents retrieved from the Federal Trade Commission under FOIA:

http://www.ftc.gov/foia/quixtar.pdf

And another link, in case the first one isn't sufficient:

http://www.amquix.info/

It's not pretty.

Run away.

[zuki]

how can this pyramid be working at all then ?

is this a long range scam where it takes years vs. months, before some get left holding the bag,so to speak.

?

[peggy]

I'm no expert on these things; you might checkout www.mlmwatch.com for more details.

And yes, from what I can tell, the early people in the pyramid make all the bucks, and it takes a while for the essential nature of the scheme to manifest.

As for how it can be working at all--well, people can be gullible. They (we; I'm as guilty of it as anyone else) would love to be rich by working "only a couple of hours a day" or even "making money in our sleep." It's the hopes and fantasies of thousands (millions?) of ordinary people that keep scams like this working.

[yakers]

To me, AMWAY and the like, multi level marketers are not ethitical because they are not about selling a product but about selling others on selling the product (and them selling others....) rather than simply being about selling a product.