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Who Is Quixtar Ignoring?

Now, in response to the first part of the Quixtar Response web site, Dateline did not ignore the" hundreds of thousands" of IBOs who are achieving their goals. Dateline, as well as we, doubts the veracity of the claim of that there are many successful IBOs. Dateline appropriately asked the tough questions on behalf of the many thousands of IBOs who were not achieving their goals. It is Quixtar who is ignoring and discounting those IBOs who, in spite of the teaching and the expected investment, were forced to leave the business with far less than they had when they registered. There is no harm in asking questions and seeking answers. The harm comes in ignoring and deceiving those who would seek to correct inequities, and when no response is forthcoming, complain about those abuses.

Quixtar claims that, in spite of not being "perfect," they do a lot of things right. Perhaps they could answer why more than 50% of IBOs do not renew every year and 99% of IBOs never achieve profitability. Perhaps they could explain why the overwhelming majority of IBOs work their businesses as we did, with complete faithfulness to the teachings of the system, fail to profit in their business, and lose year after year. Perhaps they could explain why they fail to acknowledge and attempt to hide the existence of documents like the Blakey Report and the Postma Memo.

Tools Are Optional, and So Is Success

Quixtar's claim that the tools are optional doesn't preclude the fact that IBOs are pressured into buying them. With repeated messages that "the tools are optional, and so is success," IBOs have little choice in the matter. An IBO not subscribing to the tapes and not participating in the seminars is ignored and shunned by their upline, despite very clear rules to the contrary. Additionally, and very importantly, when we signed up for the business, no one informed us that anyone derived income from the sale of tools and function tickets, and our upline denied that such profiteering was occurring.

Values

Doug DeVos spoke of "the values of the business," not elaborating on what those values might be. Given the inaccuracies and the deception surrounding this business, one has to wonder. The Dateline program was about the motivational systems, the leaders of which are the defendants in various lawsuits. It was not necessarily about Quixtar, the company. Mr. DeVos, you would do well to heed the words of your own father:

"Let me talk to you about the legal side, beyond price fixing, that deals with pyramids, that deals with the illegal operation of a business that does not have an end consumer, where the product is not retailed. That would include all books and tapes. The sad news, folks, is that when those things go out that way and they become excessive, beyond my ten or twenty percent theoretical guideline, hopefully acceptable, to where it's a reasonable support system, but not beyond the reasonable element, then it becomes an out and out illegal pyramid."

That Quixtar chooses to align itself with the few who are making over 90% of their Quixtar-related income from the motivational system, which the founder of Amway deems an "illegal pyramid" and less than 10% from product sales, preying on the hopes and dreams of thousands of IBOs, often leading to derailed careers and ruined finances, speaks volumes about the truth of Quixtar and its goals.

Quixtar, and its predecessor, Amway, has allowed these abuses to continue for more than twenty-five years. Quixtar's propaganda campaign cannot hide that fact.