Whatamp;#39;s everyoneamp;#39;s take on the Amway/Quixtar business; was the experience good or bad? -

About three months ago, I joined the Amway business and signed up as an LTD member, and let me say, it s been stressful ever since. All the relationships I formed at the function in Kansas City are fakes. They are just after my money. You see I m a graphic designer, a recent college grad that has a job that doesn t pay me good enough to move out of my parents house. So I have been looking for a full time job in a tight economy which is stressful alone. I m kinda going back to school part time to better my skills and built a website for my mom, and got paid really well for that. Three months ago, I was suckered into Amway hoping that I would make enough money and be a multi-millionaire and be what every calls quot;freequot; but it didn t happen. My upline kept pressuring me to talk to people that I haven t seen in years and try to get them to sign up as IBOs, spend my hard earned money on products just to meet the 150 PV each month so I would get a check which is not much in return, and pushed me to talk to family members to get them as customers, and drive everywhere to do QI s. Luckily, I have four people on me as customers, but they can t afford to buy from me cause the economy, and there s my boyfriend who is my first downline. However, I d rather have my boyfriend sign up under my upline instead of me because I suck at the Amway business, since I m not making hundreds of dollars. I hate selling products. My boyfriend and I are starting our own business in graphic design and 3D work, we re working on this website of ours and hope to have it completely launched this January. I was always told if you stick with what you re good at, then you will definitely make it big. What I m good at is art; graphic design, NOT AMWAY. My upline said graphic design is something I do on the side, not as a career, and that p**sed me off greatly; that crossed the line--GRAPHIC DESIGN AND ART IS MY CAREER, NOT AMWAY!! I was so hurt and angry, I told my upline to go f**k himself. I think I could be a millionaire selling my talents instead. I wonder if there is anyone else out there whose in Amway? Is your experience with the business good or bad? Is the money actually real?? I hope to God that I m not the only one going through is bad experience with Amway/Quixtar?|::::|I wrote a post a while back titled Amway is not a Scam but you can still be scammed in which I spoke about th fact that Amway is a great business but you can have a bad experience, even be scammed, depending on who you re working with. It s all about people. You can join one person and/or group within Amway and not relate to them at all (and vice versa) and have the worst experience of your life. Or you can join another person and/or group, also with Amway, and relate fantastically (and vice versa!) and have the best experience in your life. The funny thing is of course that a group you feel terrible in, someone else may feel great it, and a group they thought was horrible, you d adore. It s one of the things about Amway, and network marketing in general, that is both a strength and a weakness. One thing to always remember with Amway though is that it s *your* business, not your uplines, so you re well within your rights to tell him to go f**k himself if you don t like the way he operates. While doing so it s probably important to remember that he probably actually does mean well, but clearly there s a communication issue and you don t relate well together. So ... there s plenty of folk who ve had bad experiences in the Amway world, again mostly to do with who they re working with rather than Amway per se, but there s also been plenty of people (such as myself) who have had great experiences. Best of luck whatever you choose to do.|::::|quixtar is not amway but it used to be, they changed their name because of the bad conotation of the name amway.they will change it back to amway. it is a great business. you can start when ;you are sixteen and can start sining people up when you are 18. the support of your business depends on your depth or how many people you have under you and the profit of your business depends on how many groups you have. quixtar is an amazing business that has great oppurtunity. i know a few people that are living on quixtar alone and have no other source of income. you dont even have to put that much time into it. the secret to earning a lot of money in this business is to set up a customer, or someone under you that is not an ibo but that can order products. you get mor pv and bv than if you order it yourself, i think it is 1.5x. in order to set someone up as a customer they must have a seperate adress. once you start a new group your profit doubles, just stick with it, it will take about a year for it to really kick off. quixtar is great with all of the products that they have and the ability to start making money in a system where you dont have to trade time for money. when your career with quixtar starts to get very expensive you dont have to quit what you are doing and you dont have to tell the world about quixtar either. you can still do graphic design and be putting a few hours into quixtar a week. your upline might not have known how you felt about graphic design and even if he did it isnt a good enough reason to quit a business as great as quixtar you dont have to try to sign up people you havnt seen in years just tell people that you meet at work or whatever. just go at your own pace with it and itll work out good.|::::|I was in amwy 12 years ago before it became Quixtar. I do believe the company was good and the products are still to this day phenomenal but because of the tarnished reputation amway got out of the 50s it is an extremely hard product to move and the baby boomers especially tend to stay away. My wife on the other hand was with Quixstar when we met 7 years ago. She was doing make overs with their make-up line. She loved the products as did everyone who tried them. The problem with Quixstar today is there are many more MLMs that now have equally good products, you don t have to spend as much per month to earn your 100 PV and there are much better pay structures. Coincidentally my wife happened to get back in touch with her diamond from Quixstar just a few months ago. The news was intriguing. We found out that the business had been passed down to Dexter s son s who, once got control, restructured the company for the worst, in most people s opinions. In fact it was so bad that they lost half of their distributors. So now my wife s ex-diamonds from Quixstar Their names are Jack amp; Effie by the way, are now involved in a business called Mona Vie. They couldn t say enough good things about it. Apparently almost everyone that left Quixstar is now involved with Mona Vie. And what took some people years to create just a couple thousand dollars a month in Quixstar, people are doing this in just months with Mona Vie. So my Wife and I checked out this Mona Vie. Let me tell you what a fantastic product and a great compensation plan. After we were shown quot;the planquot;, we signed up right away. I can t say enough good things about the compensation plan the product and the community of people. And no they are not out just to get your money. They really do care and will go to lengths never seen before to make sure you get what you need to succeed. My wife and I are getting ready to retire and Its all thanks to Mona Vie, my upline, my downline and of coarse there if an awesome training system that will accelerate your success. I know this sounds like I m probably trying to sell you something, but I assure you I m not. I m only providing you with the information you need to succeed. As I said earlier, my wife and I are ready to retire. We have been doing Mona Vie for 11 months and we are 33 years old. You do the math, but to me that sounds like a pretty good deal. Here is a link to check out. Do your research, check out every page of this website, they all have valuable information. http://www.mymonavie.com/quality4life/op... Good luck, and if you have any questions feel free to contact me. Bye for now, and have a great day. Jason