it's a boxer

ever take a nap at an unusual time of day and wake up all confusey-headed?

I am, too

i want to work from home every day the rest of my life.

drsmooth wrote:ever take a nap at an unusual time of day and wake up all confusey-headed?

way too often

Amway is a pyramid scheme, isn't it?

Rev_Beezer wrote:Amway is a pyramid scheme, isn't it?

In as much as the Amway corporation is the Egyptians and you're a pre-Moses Jew.

Rev_Beezer wrote:Amway is a pyramid scheme, isn't it?

do you cherish your relationships with friends and family?

I signed up for an internet site (non porn) and it automatically re-upped my subscription. What chance do I have of getting my money back if I complain?

what site

Just a job search site, used of course when I was still looking.

azrider wrote:

Rev_Beezer wrote:Amway is a pyramid scheme, isn't it?

do you cherish your relationships with friends and family?

There's just some fishy things going on around that company.

First of all, I was invited to a meeting back in 2003 that wanted me to sell things through something called "Quixtar". There's no official documents that I can find, but Quixtar was known as Amway, and is now known by that name again. They restarted and went through a very deliberate advertising blitz to paint themselves as a family oriented company that "frees" people from their employment.

The meeting I went to was horrible. A guy told lame jokes, drew pictures, and wanted everyone to be "in". He apparently sold his own mother their products, which went from pants to microwavable dinners to vitamins to all kinds of health care and beauty products.

One of my friends from college called me up, signed me up and I was supposed to pay him $500 to "buy in" to "the business". My old friend went from a close contact to a strange dude who only talked about "the business", and didn't care much for catching up. I neer paid him the $500, I got a bunch of product things that I was supposed to sell to people, which I never did, and I got a ton of stuff indicating that I was now a part of Britt WorldWide. This is Bill Britt, who apparently went through a messy divorce around the same time I "joined".

I never did anything with it in part because everyone I met seemed slimy and manipulative. Years later I would bump into the same old friend and he acted like the whole Quixtar thing never happened.

It was kind of freaky. Chris Wheeler would say "spooky". But I still don't know if it was a pyramid scheme. I think so, because I know a percentage of my sales would go to my "upline", which would be my old friend, but being that I never sold anything, he never got anything from me.

and I see that now they have the name of the Orlando Magic's arena.

Amway is the archetypal pyramid scheme.

It's a pyramid scheme and a cult.

has anyone not been able to connect to spotify the last 2 days?

Seems to be okay here.

apparently my firewall is blocking it. never had this problem before 2 days ago, though. strange.

can't figure out how to allow it, though...

Rev_Beezer wrote:

azrider wrote:

Rev_Beezer wrote:Amway is a pyramid scheme, isn't it?

do you cherish your relationships with friends and family?

There's just some fishy things going on around that company.

First of all, I was invited to a meeting back in 2003 that wanted me to sell things through something called "Quixtar". There's no official documents that I can find, but Quixtar was known as Amway, and is now known by that name again. They restarted and went through a very deliberate advertising blitz to paint themselves as a family oriented company that "frees" people from their employment.

The meeting I went to was horrible. A guy told lame jokes, drew pictures, and wanted everyone to be "in". He apparently sold his own mother their products, which went from pants to microwavable dinners to vitamins to all kinds of health care and beauty products.

One of my friends from college called me up, signed me up and I was supposed to pay him $500 to "buy in" to "the business". My old friend went from a close contact to a strange dude who only talked about "the business", and didn't care much for catching up. I neer paid him the $500, I got a bunch of product things that I was supposed to sell to people, which I never did, and I got a ton of stuff indicating that I was now a part of Britt WorldWide. This is Bill Britt, who apparently went through a messy divorce around the same time I "joined".

I never did anything with it in part because everyone I met seemed slimy and manipulative. Years later I would bump into the same old friend and he acted like the whole Quixtar thing never happened.

It was kind of freaky. Chris Wheeler would say "spooky". But I still don't know if it was a pyramid scheme. I think so, because I know a percentage of my sales would go to my "upline", which would be my old friend, but being that I never sold anything, he never got anything from me.

I had a similar experience back around 2001 or 2002 maybe.... a co-worker and friend at the youth detention camp we worked at invited me and my wife and 3-4 year old son to dinner at his house so my son and his daughter could have a play date... when I got there, I found out the Quixtar rep was coming too. Some other co-worker was supposed to come but no showed it. The guy gave his presentation and I had a bad vibe the whole time... very cultish feeling. My wife and I gave him nothing to work with either... no sold everything, made jokes about the whole deal... guy wasn't happy... thinking back, he was like Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite. I read up on it tonight and see that it was basically a ploy to sell motivational tapes and tickets to rallies and stuff... I still remember being very uncomfortable and realized the friend was a slime ball and a Mets fan to boot... ugh

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4375477/ns/ ... xe2K_nsYTA

TenuredVulture wrote:It's a pyramid scheme and a cult.

Ding ding... We have a winner.

If the Giants win the Super Bowl I will go the remainder of February without consuming alcohol

*offers to the football gods*