Quixtar is a multi-level marketing company, founded in 1999 by the owners of Amway. Quixtar is owned by Alticor which also owns Amway. Quixtar took over the Amway business operations in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean between 1999 and 2001, replacing Amway as the marketing venture for products such as Nutrilite vitamins, XS Energy drinks and Artistry cosmetics in those North American regions. ==Business== People can join Quixtar as "Clients," "Members" or "Independent Business Owners" (IBOs). IBOs pay a registration fee and build their businesses through retail sales (to clients and members) and by helping other IBOs build similar businesses. Their earnings are based on sales and the volume of sales and purchases of other IBOs recruited below them. The primary way to join and buy products at Quixtar's web site is with a referral number from an IBO. Quixtar sales for fiscal year 2003-2004 were over $1.1 billion with over $373 million paid out in bonuses and incentives. Quixtar offers a wide range of products for its IBOs to purchase and sell through the Quixtar.com website. Quixtar currently sells one of the leading vitamin/suplement lines in the world - [http://www.nutrilite.com Nutrilite], a top five prestige cosemetic line - [http://www.artistry.com Artistry] (*Euromonitor Global Sales Survey 2001. Others in this distinguished group include: Clinique, Lancome, Estee Lauder and Sofina) and the 2nd largest selling energy drink in America - [http://xsgear.com XS Energy Drink] ([http://bevnet.com/news/spotlight/xs/default.asp see bevnet.com]) ==Controversy== However, Quixtar and its predecessor Amway, have been controversial for years because of allegations that these companies are pyramid schemes. Critics claim that most of the products sold by Quixtar are to its network of IBOs for personal consumption rather than to retail customers. Because there is no mechanism in place to distinguish personal consumption from retail sales many IBOs practice the "buy from yourself and teach others to do the same" method of multi-level marketing. The business skills of IBOs are honed by business support material and tools sold or provided by select distributors within the higher ranks of the organization. It is claimed that the support material can be of help to an IBO if he wants to build a big business, however undercover investigations (like one done by [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4375477/ MSNBC Dateline] in 2003-04) suggest that most the money being earned by these distributors was coming from the hidden "tools" business rather than through selling the products of Quixtar. In the summer of 2004 Quixtar launched a sophisticated Web initiative designed to manipulate search results. The [http://www.webraw.com/quixtar/archives/2004/10/the_quixtar_web_initiative.php "Web Reputation Task Force"] tried to influence search engines in such a way that links to sites critical of the Quixtar business would be replaced by links to sites Quixtar controlled. The Task Force's primary tactic was a form of Google bombing that vigorously [http://www.webraw.com/quixtar/archives/2005/01/so_busted.php exploited blogs]. ==Litigation== In a 1979 ruling, the Federal Trade Commission determined that Amway was not an illegal pyramid scheme because it enforced rules requiring distributors to sell to at least 10 retail customers per month and to sell 70% of the products to customers. Critics state that Quixtar does not enforce the retail sales rules. Quixtar maintains that the 70% rule is only meant to prevent product stockpiling to achieve certain bonuses. ==External links == *[http://www.quixtar.com/ Quixtar] *[http://www.amquix.info/ Archive of Quixtar information] *[http://www.quixtarfacts.com/ Quixtar's Official Facts Site] *[http://www.quixtarblog.com/ Quixtar Blog - One man's perceptions of Quixtar] *[http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4375477/ ''Dateline NBC''' s story about Quixtar]
*[http://www.quixtarresponse.com/ Quixtar's Response to Dateline Story]
*[http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/050601glaser/ Companies subvert search results to squelch criticism]
== The Quixtar Corporation is removing criticism == Resolve the IP addresses of those who are interested in this page. None trace back to Alticor, which is the parent company of Quixtar and happens to share the same IP address. Wikipedians get very curious about corporations that generate large profits. Successful corporations are complex, employing thousands of people. Public perception of a company can rarely, if ever, accurately reflect what goes on during day-to-day operations. Some will always be suspicious of a profitable endeavor. This is sad. The risk-takers and producers in any society will always be villified by the neo-Socialists. == Credible Sources == Because this is a free encyclopedia and not a smear campaign, my recent mods removed sources based on blogs and added credible sources. I mean really, if you were told to research something would you quote the national enquirer? Then why would you quote a blog? I also placed some facts regarding Quixtar in the marketplace. == Partial revert to Apr 19 == Feco, explain why you removed factual information and links? Your revert is negatively slanted and biased. Partially reverted back to Apr 19 for to bring closer to an unbiased entry and restoring factual data. :I tracked down edits by the anon IP address across a couple of different articles. In general, they were a mix of good- and bad-faith edits. Rather than wade through each individual edit on this page, I rv'ed them all. As expected, someone came back and re-added the less-NPOV items. I have no problem with how the article stands now. User:Feco 03:11, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC) There is no "fraud" in the Quixtar business, and judging by the verdict in the 1979 case, claiming it to be a "fraud" violates NPOV on wikipedia. This opinion about Quixtar is actually reserved to a very small minority of people who are shown the actual business plan. User:Salva31 00:23, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC) == who keeps removing my links == Looks like some one has a problem when I quote ,Frank Feather, Business 2.0 , D & T and New York Times and are more interested in quoting negative stuff than looking at articles/references from an outsider's prespective. Wikipedia is an open community and why does anybody have a problem in quoting references,which are in no way associated with Alticore/Quixtar,exept for making a positive remark on the business model
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Quixtar
Quixtar is a multi-level marketing company, founded in 1999 by the owners of Amway. Quixtar is owned by Alticor which also owns Amway. Quixtar took over the Amway business operations in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean between 1999 and 2001, replacing Amway as the marketing venture for products such as Nutrilite vitamins, XS Energy drinks and Artistry cosmetics in those North American regions. ==Business== People can join Quixtar as "Clients," "Members" or "Independent Business Owners" (IBOs). IBOs pay a registration fee and build their businesses through retail sales (to clients and members) and by helping other IBOs build similar businesses. Their earnings are based on sales and the volume of sales and purchases of other IBOs recruited below them. The primary way to join and buy products at Quixtar's web site is with a referral number from an IBO. Quixtar sales for fiscal year 2003-2004 were over $1.1 billion with over $373 million paid out in bonuses and incentives. Quixtar offers a wide range of products for its IBOs to purchase and sell through the Quixtar.com website. Quixtar currently sells one of the leading vitamin/suplement lines in the world - [http://www.nutrilite.com Nutrilite], a top five prestige cosemetic line - [http://www.artistry.com Artistry] (*Euromonitor Global Sales Survey 2001. Others in this distinguished group include: Clinique, Lancome, Estee Lauder and Sofina) and the 2nd largest selling energy drink in America - [http://xsgear.com XS Energy Drink] ([http://bevnet.com/news/spotlight/xs/default.asp see bevnet.com]) ==Controversy== However, Quixtar and its predecessor Amway, have been controversial for years because of allegations that these companies are pyramid schemes. Critics claim that most of the products sold by Quixtar are to its network of IBOs for personal consumption rather than to retail customers. Because there is no mechanism in place to distinguish personal consumption from retail sales many IBOs practice the "buy from yourself and teach others to do the same" method of multi-level marketing. The business skills of IBOs are honed by business support material and tools sold or provided by select distributors within the higher ranks of the organization. It is claimed that the support material can be of help to an IBO if he wants to build a big business, however undercover investigations (like one done by [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4375477/ MSNBC Dateline] in 2003-04) suggest that most the money being earned by these distributors was coming from the hidden "tools" business rather than through selling the products of Quixtar. In the summer of 2004 Quixtar launched a sophisticated Web initiative designed to manipulate search results. The [http://www.webraw.com/quixtar/archives/2004/10/the_quixtar_web_initiative.php "Web Reputation Task Force"] tried to influence search engines in such a way that links to sites critical of the Quixtar business would be replaced by links to sites Quixtar controlled. The Task Force's primary tactic was a form of Google bombing that vigorously [http://www.webraw.com/quixtar/archives/2005/01/so_busted.php exploited blogs]. ==Litigation== In a 1979 ruling, the Federal Trade Commission determined that Amway was not an illegal pyramid scheme because it enforced rules requiring distributors to sell to at least 10 retail customers per month and to sell 70% of the products to customers. Critics state that Quixtar does not enforce the retail sales rules. Quixtar maintains that the 70% rule is only meant to prevent product stockpiling to achieve certain bonuses. ==External links == *[http://www.quixtar.com/ Quixtar] *[http://www.amquix.info/ Archive of Quixtar information] *[http://www.quixtarfacts.com/ Quixtar's Official Facts Site] *[http://www.quixtarblog.com/ Quixtar Blog - One man's perceptions of Quixtar] *[http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4375477/ ''Dateline NBC''
Quixtar
== The Quixtar Corporation is removing criticism == Resolve the IP addresses of those who are interested in this page. None trace back to Alticor, which is the parent company of Quixtar and happens to share the same IP address. Wikipedians get very curious about corporations that generate large profits. Successful corporations are complex, employing thousands of people. Public perception of a company can rarely, if ever, accurately reflect what goes on during day-to-day operations. Some will always be suspicious of a profitable endeavor. This is sad. The risk-takers and producers in any society will always be villified by the neo-Socialists. == Credible Sources == Because this is a free encyclopedia and not a smear campaign, my recent mods removed sources based on blogs and added credible sources. I mean really, if you were told to research something would you quote the national enquirer? Then why would you quote a blog? I also placed some facts regarding Quixtar in the marketplace. == Partial revert to Apr 19 == Feco, explain why you removed factual information and links? Your revert is negatively slanted and biased. Partially reverted back to Apr 19 for to bring closer to an unbiased entry and restoring factual data. :I tracked down edits by the anon IP address across a couple of different articles. In general, they were a mix of good- and bad-faith edits. Rather than wade through each individual edit on this page, I rv'ed them all. As expected, someone came back and re-added the less-NPOV items. I have no problem with how the article stands now. User:Feco 03:11, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC) There is no "fraud" in the Quixtar business, and judging by the verdict in the 1979 case, claiming it to be a "fraud" violates NPOV on wikipedia. This opinion about Quixtar is actually reserved to a very small minority of people who are shown the actual business plan. User:Salva31 00:23, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC) == who keeps removing my links == Looks like some one has a problem when I quote ,Frank Feather, Business 2.0 , D & T and New York Times and are more interested in quoting negative stuff than looking at articles/references from an outsider's prespective. Wikipedia is an open community and why does anybody have a problem in quoting references,which are in no way associated with Alticore/Quixtar,exept for making a positive remark on the business model
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