Amway has pulled a Monsanto.

[Shakespeare]

They've changed their name--now going by "Quixtar." Just saw my first EVER Amway commercial during the local news. Weird.

This is a public service announcement so that you may all avoid being sucked into Quixtar/Amway presentations by well-meaning but misguided friends and family. :7

[Digit]

1. I already for like the 4th time was slimed

Luckily for the internet, I was able to Google Quixtar and found out it was Amway.

I hate being misled!

[petronius]

2. That's gotta be about the stupidest fake business name I ever heard

:puke:

[Wapsie B]

3. I thought the name for the umbrella corporation was Alticor.

Quixtar has been around for a few years as the old Amway corp. tried their hand at E-commerce.

[LeftyMom]

4. They did that like 10 years ago.

When they started their website, and had all their sales droids convinced they'd be fucking rich within days of it going live.

[Midlodemocrat]

5. I have a friend that sells Shaklee.

She drives me crazy asking if I need anything. I bought the clean earth cleaning supplies, which are concentrated and supposed to last a year.

So why is it that four months later, she's asking me if I need replacements? :grr:

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. I remember, in 1992, the reps for Amway starting to call it

"networking" instead of "bug all your friends and family and totally alienate yourself from society".

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. "Quixtar", combining the best of

Quixotic and Ishtar

Success is certain.

[TZ]

8. Actuallty some people do well with it...

But not by selling the product per se....But by selling motivational books and tapes..This has been around for awhile and its successful...for a few people (yes I have direct personal experience with it). But its a pyramid scheme and a successful one for those top tier people

[graywarrior]

9. Huge lawsuit up here involving AMWAY

They'll sue you if you say anthing bad about them

[DarkTirade]

10. Fairly old news for me...

but that's because my parents were in Amway until they got so poor that they ended up doing office work for their upline. When they ended up doing his books for him, they discovered that a grand total of 3% of his income was from Amway, and the other 97% was from selling promotional 'How to build the business' books and tapes to schmucks like them.

[TZ]

12. Yep exactly, n/t

[noonwitch]

11. I'm from Grand Rapids (Amway land)

We always called them "Scamway". Even the people who worked in the factory knew the stuff they sold was crap.

Amway owns two of the four hospitals in Grand Rapids-Butterworth and Blodgett are no more, they are Spectrum and Spectrum-East. A helicopter crashed into the downtown Spectrum (Butterworth) last week.
The other two hospitals are St. Mary's and the osteopathic one.

Not a good city for a woman to need the full range of legal obgyn services, if you know what I mean.

[DS1]

13. Quixtar the Trickstar?

and what was the name of that green alien in the Flintstones? I'm drawing a blank, but it's reminding me of it.


Anyway, Qiuxtar sounds like a cheap chain of desert gas stations.