Anyone here have any friends or family that is a part of this cult?
One of my old college roommates is practically a robot now that posts pictures of giant rallies in stadiums. They do these organized chants about how rich they’re going to be. Then they listen to motivational speakers who brag about all they wealth they’ve amassed (from the audience) and show sappy motivational videos.
My friend has been doing this since 2001 and has put way more into it than he has received…and still thinks he’s going to be rich from it. Even though we’re still friendly, he really doesn’t communicate with anyone other than his Quixtar buddies unless it’s to pitch the pyramid scheme them.
When I was in my first year of college (a crappy little JC in a small town) there was this one guy who was dressed all nice with his tie and ironed shirt and he started speaking to my buddy Dan and I about this great business he was working for and how he wanted to give us a chance to join on, blah, blah, blah. He invited us to a presentation from his boss. I think the company was called EQUINOX and they sold some faucet water filters and some health food products and other crap.
The guy started doing the diagrams showing how he’s at the executive level or whatever and he gets a piece of everything sold by everyone under him and everyone under them, etc., etc. The room was filled with about 20 jackasses, most of whom looked like they were collecting Welfare checks or disability and some of these hillbillies were getting really fired up. “A million dollars! Heck yeah!!!”
My buddy and I just looked at each other wondering how we ended up there. We waited for the end of the presentation then excused ourselves. They tried to strong arm us, “Don’t you wanna be rich? Don’t you wanna retire and be a millionaire by 25?”
“Don’t you wanna be rich? Don’t you wanna retire and be a millionaire by 25?”"[/reply]
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I was approached at Wal Mart buying some dog food by a Quixtar “independent”. Before he could finish his pitch I cut in and asked if it was Quixtar. When he confirmed I said “no thanks, not for me”. He came back with their standard response asking me why not, and I told him I would kill myself before I’d hang out in the dog food isle at Wal Mart at trying to recruit idiots to a giant pyramid scheme. He really wanted to punch me. I could see it in his eyes.
I’ve got a couple of friends at work that do the Amway thing. They’re well aware of how it’s perceived and never try to push their products on me or get me to join their pyramid.
One of them did, however, get me a much better deal on a new cell phone than the company stores were offering.
I told him I would kill myself before I’d hang out in the dog food isle at Wal Mart at trying to recruit idiots to a giant pyramid scheme.
HAHAHA!!! Beautiful. I had a guy hit up me and my pal coming out of a Carl’s Jr. on our lunch break. He didn’t even tell me what company he was with and he started hitting us with, “Do you guys work around here? Would you like to make more money?”
I told him we were fine where we were and he responded with “How much are you making?” to which I answered, “None of your business.”
He fired back with, “Well, if you’re not making at least 6 figures you should change . . .”
I couldn’t believe the nerve of this guy. Just accosting random people whom he knows nothing about and not even telling about what his company was. I told him a very similar response to yours.
“You’re begging people you know nothing about to come work for you in the parking lot of Carls Jr? If I were paying you 6 figures and I found out this is your business strategy I’d fire you so fast you’d crap your pants!”
I had never heard the name Quixtar before so I looked it up and it turns out it is owned by the same company that owns Amway . . . so yeah, one and the same.
And reading about it makes me remember more about my own “EQUINOX” experience as it sounds exactly the same. You have to pre-buy all the retarded products and then go out and sell the crap you bought. I remember, even as a stupid 18 year old who probably showed up stoned to the seminar doing the math and concluding that . . . “This company (and all their goon salesmen) makes all their money because retards buy these sales kits, 90% of which will never leave their garage or the trunks of their cars.”
It’s so hard to truly gauge the success stories of these pyramid schemes too. The people telling you that they’re making a million dollars are the ones whose success relies on idiots thinking that they can repeat the same success. If any of these jerks told the truth there would never be any new recruits. And there’s a bunch of Quixtar cultists on the net raving about their success, but again, these are all company folk that are trying to inspire others and spread positive PR.
Anyway, it’s an interesting topic to explore. I would love to see REAL figures on how many people have made it and what it takes (if it ever happens).
“Don’t you wanna be rich? Don’t you wanna retire and be a millionaire by 25?”"
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I was approached at Wal Mart buying some dog food by a Quixtar “independent”. Before he could finish his pitch I cut in and asked if it was Quixtar. When he confirmed I said “no thanks, not for me”. He came back with their standard response asking me why not, and I told him I would kill myself before I’d hang out in the dog food isle at Wal Mart at trying to recruit idiots to a giant pyramid scheme. He really wanted to punch me. I could see it in his eyes.[/reply]
BEST CALL I’VE HEARD ALL DAY.
Nonetheless…
I think it’s fascinating that such obviously predatory tactic work. That there’s enough of a percentage of people emotionally and materially needy enough to invest time, money and personal effort in that at the expense of how any of their peers may regard them.
It seems to prey on a certain pathology. The sort of people who want to be ‘something’. So they inevitably end up as countless drones part of ‘something’ when really that false sense of self worth and empowerment is really counting towards those with the guile to peddle this crap.
I had a Facebook “friend” once that sent out a mass invite to everyone inviting them to her Tupperware party. I deleted her IMMEDIATELY. Friends don’t invite friends to Tupperware parties.
I searched “Equinox Pyramid” for my own amusement and it turns out that, in fact, the company that tried to recruit me was a bonafide “pyramid scheme” to the extent that they were indicted by the Federal Government and forced to pay $40 MILLION in restitution.