Amway, again: Alticor announces name change (Quixtar Being Phased Out)

Grand Rapids Press ^ | 6/13/07

[colorcountry]

Did someone have a “new” revelation?

[ConservativeMind]

Well, it looks like too many people found out what it was.

Gotta start over with a name no one knows...

[hunter112]

Same s***, different shaped turd.

[KarlInOhio]

Over the years, some of its "Independent Business Owners" have been accused of focusing more on high-pressure recruiting tactics and selling highly profitable motivational events, tapes and books -- known as "tools" -- rather than selling Amway's products.

Oh, really?

[jimtorr]

I like the Quixtar online ordering system. I used it for a few years, but I didn’t see enough benefit for the cost, so I started going to Costco, instead.

[freeagle]

To all of you who are slamming or are going to slam the Alitcor organization or Amway - stop now.

[Philistone]

What a bunch of scum.

My daughter’s sixth grade math teacher contacted me over the summer to ask if I wanted to help him with “an internet project.” Since that’s my field and my daughter respected him as a teacher I agreed to meet with him.

He began a long rambling spiel about how his project was just like “amazon.com”. Then started talking about how I could save money by purchasing products through his system.

I immediately smelled a scam and went home to Google the “company” that he was supposedly “working” for.

Needless to say, he got one VERY nasty e-mail from me after that.

[gcruse]

“eight years after leaving North America, the Amway name is stronger and better known than we realized.”

Yes, it is. Just like Edsel, Segway, Enron, and Ponzi.

[Gman]

“I have a business opportunity to tell you about, but I can’t do it here...When can I come to your house?”

How many times have you heard a variation of that? LOL

[DeusExMachina05]

These losers prey on people with the lure of quick and easy money. Then they get these people to “sign up” their friends. Its nothing more than a pyramid scheme that manages to barely be legal.
The name should be Multi-Loser-Marketing

[TomB]

To all of you who are slamming or are going to slam the Alitcor organization or Amway - stop now.

Are you the new hall monitor?

Can I see your badge?

(BTW, (Sc)amway and alitcor both suck...so there.)

[dighton]

To all of you who are slamming or are going to slam the Alitcor organization or Amway - stop now.

Red flag, meet bulls.

[JSDude1]

Why they tried to scam me into joining and have done so to a few of my friends (while in college)!

[sean327]

“To all of you who are slamming or are going to slam the Alitcor organization or Amway - stop now.”

Amway sucks! Amway sucks! Amway sucks! Amway sucks! Amway sucks! Amway sucks! Amway sucks!

[iowamark]

Can I have your address to send you some chain letters?

Please do not break the chain. You know what might happen.

[AlaskaErik]

When I was an IRS auditor we referred to it as Scamway. And when we audited a Scamway “distributer”, we knew we going to make money for the government that day.

[dighton]

My daughter’s sixth grade math teacher contacted me over the summer to ask if I wanted to help him with “an internet project.”

Many years ago, someone phoned from the police department, inviting me to a meeting at the Holiday Inn of “community-minded citizens,” or some such expression. You know where this is going . . .

[Larry Lucido]

Great. Now all my “friends” will suddenly start asking me to attend “Marklar, Inc.” or somesuch meetings in their living rooms.

Say, have they used “Kramerica” yet?

[Red_Devil 232]

I am ... So Surprised! I thought they had been taken over by Scientology years ago.