Amway warning

[cusm]

If someone excitedly tells you about a work at home business opportunity regarding web portals to popular stores like Circuit City and Barns and Nobles, be warned. Its Amway. The devil has resurfaced under the name of Quixtar

Comments

[roseseule]

Amway is still out there? Since moving away from small town IL, I hadn't heard anything about it, and I thought it had gone under over the last 20 years or so.

Weird.

[helen99]

We used to have Amway cultists where I worked a while ago. Amway is similar in feel to current MLM fundamentalism. Amway has a pronounced Christian identity feel to it (they sound the same whether they're talking about religion or Amway). They would cutely refer to work as their "j. o. b." and treat their jobs as something that should be eliminated in favor of the "independent business" they were growing.

How being at the bottom of a pyramid scheme whose main income derives from sucking others in to do the same is an "independent business" was never explained...

[magentamom]

I remember sitting through one of those meetings when I was a kid. I guess they try to get the whole family involved, because I was only 11 or 12. Weird stuff. Even as a kid, I could see that there wasn't really a lot of product selling involved, and that made no sense to me.

"So, we're not selling the product but rather recruiting other people to also not sell the product? What's the point of the products?" I think I was too shy to ask, but I definitely thought it. My mom, brother and I laughed for hours after that thing.

[kierya]

I just got a call from someone who "referred" me to Quixtar, thank goodness I already knew wtf it was. Seething anger and the referrer though :/