XanGo Distribution (MLM) , A Business or Scam?
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How would they fit into these requirements: *NOTE*- the responses in "( )" refer to the company I work with.\nWhat should you look for in an "ideal" internet business? \n\n- No or minimal start-up fees (Our business start-up is $29.00)\n- A product or service you feel good about  (Consumable products used in every home… safer, more effective, less expensive, things people use and need on a daily basis)\n- A duplicable system (work FOR yourself- NOT BY yourself… we are a TEAM of individuals working to help others… “Enhancing the lives of those we touch by helping others reach their goals from Home!!!”\n- Residual income (Residual Income PLUS bonuses for helping others!!!)\n- Customizable web sites to promote your business  (Free website for ALL Members)\n- Free training and support  (Free Company and TEAM Training… we will work with you to reach YOUR GOALS!!!)\n- Free marketing materials and ideas (Our support team has 70 members who are there to help you every step of the way… Training and support from people who have been there and done that.  Training provided via email, internet, or telephone)\n- Company in business at least 18 months and in good standing with the Better Business Bureau (Inc 500 Company in business for over 20 years with over 700 Million in annual sales. As for the Better Business Bureau: “The Eastern Idaho and Western Wyoming division of the Better Business \nBureau recently presented Our Company AND CEO with its 2005 "Hall of Fame" award. This prestigious award honored Our Company for its example of ethics and integrity in \ndealings with customers, employees, and the community. We have received many other Prestigious Awards.)\n\nFor more information... check out my websites:\nhttp://learn2.momsmakemore.com or http://learn2.ownanewbusiness.com
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Looks like a scam.  Like a new kind of pyramid scheme. I'd definitely keep away.  Stuff like that is around because most people have bad math and analytical skills, and don't see the scam until it bites them in the butt.
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yes it a scam.  You have to buy things to get them. Therefore it is not for free.
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No I believe not! If you are talking about Pyramidal schemes like Amway or Quixtar, then unless you are among the top people, you really dont make anything and waste time in Walmarts and Targets trying to get a scapegoat into your trap. Marketing is about understanding the customer and working with them directly rather than pyramidally. I see no good come out of MLM schemes.
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Barely veiled scam.\n\nAnd D below has been marketing this on here for at least a month.
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Many people who look for the miracle in a jar, home business, instant pudding jobs are also very aware of the hype most scams seem to use. Like a one page web site that scrolls on-and-on is the typical over sell stuff that most promoters use. Also, the over sell of one success upon another of glorifying how super simple it is to be so wealthy with the superfluous work-from-home program you push. Realistically, if there was such a fantastic program with abundance of wealth and ease of earning it, we would all be sailing around on our yachts and no one would be working in WalMart. Right? Well, how about making the web site look more like a real web site and not a hype-scam? how about working just as hard to make the customer feel confident in your service as any other business works at it? A phone number, and address, a money back warranty/ returns policy, practical information and multiple web pages. maybe a forum where all the wealthy people who use your techniques can provide information and private contact. If you are honestly trying to help out than maybe you can offer the service free and take only a percentage of what actually gets earned. Work harder at selling yourself than pushing the miracle business and that’s a big difference from the other kajillion get rich working from home scams. If you want a professional marketing team to help make your business a success please contact me through the source link below.
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MLM is a scam.  Stay away from that stuff.
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Isn't Quixtar really Amway?\n\nLife is so short, why waste your time promoting a pyramid scheme that you eventually will leave in disgrace?
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How effective this will be depends a great deal on the nature of the product or service. I've been in several "plans" and my dad was in Amway, always having meetings. I've still got a firm belief that there are GREAT benefits to this type of structure and that it is not necessarily a "scheme". For example, isn't it better to reward distributors instead of giving millions of dollars to advertising companies? I'd rather see the "underdog" rewarded for loyalty to a brand or product, than billions going to the next thing about to interrupt my favorite TV program.\n\nThe key, and the greatest potential flaw, is that the distributors/affiliates have proper training, especially in what sales techniques to avoid. For example, a potential downfall to an online business would be your website becoming a well-known source of SPAM as money-hungry affiates start promoting the product in all the most inappropriate, off-topic places.\n\nThis is true in the real world too. How many people have gone to Amway or Tupperware parties just to support their friend, and then avoid future contact because you know it will end in some sort of sales pitch? Word of mouth is great, but not if it turns distributors into some sort of social paria. I've actually seen Amway leaders telling new distributors that if their friend isn't interested in a better life through their business opportunity, then they shouldn't waste time with that friend anymore. Sounds more like a cult than a business to me.\n\nSo on to some actual TIPS...\n\nMake sure that, after all the commissions and multi-level rewards, you still have a product that, at the stated retail price, is something viable that a consumer would buy even if they were not interested in "joining the business". Because this is one area where many MLM plans have a bad reputation.\n\nThen there's the promise of income. People join because they see this neat structure where they tell 5 friends and THEY tell five friends and they tell THEIR five friends, then wow! That's 5 x 5 x 5 or 125 customers already! When THEY tell 5 friends that makes 625. Pretty soon if you go down deep enough in the structure you're getting commissions on millions of sales.\n\nThere is only one problem with that economic model... pretty soon you will run out of people, because (thankfully) we don't breed that fast.\n\nOne solution to this, which I plan on implementing in an affiliate system (I'm a web programmer) is a way to turn the structure on it's head. Have release dates for new products, and when a new product comes out, the LAST people to join are given the FIRST opportunity to sign on to the new product. In effect, each product has it's own unique MLM plan attached. I'm not sure how workable this will be, but the complexity should not be too much to handle when the whole thing is computer-automated.\n\nSo to sum up (for now), it seems that the ideal product for this would be one that had an extremely low production and distribution cost (downloadable online software or web access for example), something that could generate REPEAT as opposed to ONE-TIME sales, and that could still be sold at a competitive, even bargain, price, such that closing a sale would be almost a no-brainer.\n\nI'd love to expand on this already somewhat-lengthy answer with anyone who has an interest. See my Yahoo Group, MLM Strategies...
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Yes it's a scam, no you cannot make that type of money, the money comes in from selling their "Ideas", or "programs". If it was that easy, wouldn't everyone you know be rich?
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If it looks too good to be true, it is.\n\nBeware pyramid and matrix schemes (I've seen the slimy tentacles of their recruiters beginning to infect this site). Beware schemes that don't tell you up front what you're doing, charge money to join, or for a "decision pack", where the product comes second to gaining new recruits.\n\nBasically, anything that looks like money for nothing may well be, but you're going to be the one giving out the money and ending up with nothing.
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No, it's not a malprosism, it's a marketting scam. This scam has made the users billions of dollars, taken ioff people too ignorant to know better.
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Check out the webiste below for knowledge! That blogspot was from a member! Now check out a review by the Better Business Bureau.\nThe Nouveau Tech Society \nSending Deceptive Mailings\nCompany Offers Business and Self-Improvement Literature\nGrand Rapids, MI - October 19, 2005 - The BBB of Western Michigan has been alerted by a number of consumers about the receipt of a questionable mailing being sent by a company called The Nouveau Tech Society using a mailing address of: PO Box 5204, Clifton, NJ, 07015-5204, with a fax of: (716) 447- 7488. \nWhat is questionable about this mailing? It is 8-pages of typewriter-seeming print that uses high pressure language to gain your attention, and to try to get you to respond to a "free" offer of "secrets" (a 56-page mailing) as to how you can gain success in whatever you do personally as well as professionally. \nThe letter begins with a very strange request: "Please keep what I tell you secret, because this information is confidential. These words are meant for you only." The tone in this randomly sent letter gains greater lack of credibility when it states that you, the lucky recipient of this letter, have had your "profile" analyzed---(People receiving this mailing are receiving it randomly, so this is very hard to believe!) It goes onto mention "your unique traits," that you "possess very special and rare traits." (Hard to believe!) It also gives you a certain amount of time to respond to the mailing or you will never "be given this invitation again." \n\nWhat is the profile on this company? This company, which has been a member of the BBB of Southern Nevada (company is headquartered in Henderson, NV) since May of 1992 currently has its report in update at that bureau and its membership is under review for this questionable offer. \n\nHere is the description from the BBB of Central Ohio's report on the company (the Nevada company uses a direct mail service in Grove City, OH to send the mailings): \n\nIntegrated Management Associates is a Nevada-based corporation doing business as Neo-Tech Publishing Company and The Nouveau Tech Society, with corporate offices in Henderson, Nevada. The publishing company sells business and self-improvement literature to consumers through the mail. The company's direct mail campaigns, order processing and product fulfillment solutions are handled by Client Logic's offices. Client Logic's Clifton, New Jersey, location, handles all order processing, so anyone receiving the company's solicitations would reply to a Clifton, NJ address. Client Logic's Grove City, Ohio plant handles mailing of all direct mail literature and all products, so when a customer receives a product, the return address on the product is Grove City, Ohio. Client Logic's West Virginia office handles in- bound customer service calls, and would direct customers calling about how to return products to return the products to Grove City, Ohio, where returns are also handled. \nComplaints regarding this company concern advertising issues, selling practices, and refund promises. All complaints brought to this company's attention have been resolved but the ad appears misleading. TIPS: \nWe call foul on this form of selling, which we find to be deceptive and misleading, and wish to warn those who receive it to question it yourselves before entering into any agreement to receive the free booklet from this company. The letter does not give any form of contact other than an address and fax number with which to share concerns or to be taken off their mailing list. No web site, no phone number, no email address.
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Yes I agree with you. So many fake companies out there in the internet even in Ebay or Amazone. Don't trust any bull&*(t in the web that offering you business at home. Absolutely bull&*(t they are. Lately so money scam artists are offering sweeptakes, money loundry, and etc, please be carefull with that. The origin of email is from europe and africa. \n\nMost likely any company that are registered at a trade source should be legitimate because trade source is not cheap and they will investigate the company before selling but the problem is that you can not do business in retail, at least your class is around wholeseller or trading company. \n\nThe best thing to do business is trading - affiliate - agency (middle man). Find most demanded products in your area/country and get cheaper source outside worlwide and offer to some companies that need the products badly. You may learn it at alibaba.com or made in china.com. Enjoy!
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NO, no no no. It is just another site to get your money. They probably aren't doing too well, you can tell the web site is for sale.\nIt's just another link site by Grassroots.org
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I recommend that you search the web for "quixtar".   You will find comments by many people.  It rose in the aftermath of Amway, which I would definitely call the king of scams.   Often the fruit does not fall far from the tree.  Good luck and be careful with your time and your money.
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The Bottom Line About Multilevel Marketing Plans\n\nMultilevel or "network" marketing plans are a way of selling goods or services through distributors. These plans typically promise that if you sign up as a distributor, you'll receive commissions - for your sales and those of the people you recruit to become distributors. These recruits sometimes are referred to as your "downline." \n\nSome multilevel marketing plans are legitimate. However, others are illegal pyramid schemes. In pyramids, commissions are based on the number of distributors recruited. Most of the product sales are made to these distributors - not to consumers in general. The underlying goods and services, which vary from vitamins to car leases, serve only to make the schemes look legitimate. \n\nJoining a pyramid is risky because the vast majority of participants lose money to pay for the rewards of a lucky few. Most people end up with nothing to show for their money except the expensive products or marketing materials they're pressured to buy. \n\nIf you're thinking about joining what appears to be a legitimate multilevel marketing plan, take time to learn about the plan. What's the company's track record? What products does it sell? Does it sell products to the public-at-large? Does it have the evidence to back up the claims it makes about its product? Is the product competitively priced? Is it likely to appeal to a large customer base? How much is the investment to join the plan? Is there a minimum monthly sales commitment to earn a commission? Will you be required to recruit new distributors to earn your commission?\n\nBe skeptical if a distributor tells you that for the price of a "start-up kit" of inventory and sales literature - and sometimes a commitment to sell a specific amount of the product or service each month - you'll be on the road to riches. Often consumers spend a lot of money to "build their business" by participating in training programs, buying sales leads or purchasing the products themselves. Too often, these purchases are all they ever see for their investments. \n\nYour Responsibilities\nIf you decide to become a distributor, you are legally responsible for the claims you make about the company, its product and the business opportunities it offers. That applies even if you're repeating claims you read in a company brochure or advertising flyer. The Federal Trade Commission advises you to verify the research behind any claims about a product's performance before repeating those claims to a potential customer. \n\nIn addition, if you solicit new distributors, you are responsible for the claims you make about a distributor's earnings potential. Be sure to represent the opportunity honestly and avoid making unrealistic promises. If those promises fall through, remember that you could be held liable. \n\nEvaluating a Plan\nThe FTC suggests that you use common sense when evaluating a multilevel marketing opportunity and consider these tips as you make your decision: \n\nAvoid any plan that includes commissions for recruiting additional distributors. It may be an illegal pyramid. \n\nBeware of plans that ask new distributors to purchase expensive products and marketing materials. These plans may be pyramids in disguise. \n\nBe cautious of plans that claim you will make money through continued growth of your downline, that is, the number of distributors you recruit. \n\nBeware of plans that claim to sell miracle products or promise enormous earnings. Ask the promoter to substantiate claims. \n\nBeware of shills - "decoy" references paid by a plan's promoter to lie about their earnings through the plan. \n\nDon't pay or sign any contracts in an "opportunity meeting" or any other pressure-filled situation. Insist on taking your time to think over your decision. Talk it over with a family member, friend, accountant or lawyer. \n\nDo your homew