Personally, I think too much emphasis is put on the tapes and cd's. This only helps make look anti Quixtar advocates appear to have a point. Even as a strong beleiver in Quixtar it appears to be a racket to me. Think about it. Upon entering the business you're told the best thing to do is to go to a function such as FED. You go and pay $100 for the whole weekend which is a good deal compared to other financial seminars. Then, you come home and they're pushing tapes and Cd's. But, everything you here is the same thing you just heard at the function. You end up paying twice for the same information. I have a big problem with that and seriously question a system where the same people making money off the functions , and the same people making money off cd's/tapes are the ones pushing you to buy them. And of course "if you don't buy them you're not going to go anywhere because you're not completing the nine steps". Furthermore, the cd's /tapes can usually be summed up to be a lot of useless stories and bragging surrounding maybe a halh hour of good, solid, useful information. I'm sorry , just the way I see it. I feel that it has become more of a business tool business than a wholesale /retail business.
As far as the prices. I don't care what you say. They need to come down. I'm sorry but you will be hard pressed to convince a Walmart shopper to switch to exclusives with the difference in price. I recently purchased Satinique shampoo and conditioner(small size),Satinique shaping creme(two bottles), Tolsom aftershave splash, and a bottle of Tolsom shaving creme.My total was around $70 after the tax, shipping, and shipping tax. Do you understand what a person can get for that amount of money else where?
Please don't get me wrong. I am an advocate of the business, but I feel we have a few issues we need to work out and until we do we're leaving ourselves vulnerable to critics. That is what gave Quixtar/Amway the bad name in the first place?
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Yeah, I've always found it ironic that I pay $100 for a function ticket and then they they want me to buy CD's of -guess what- the function I just went to. I used to record a lot of them live. Then they promote the next great CD on standing order- that I had already heard live, recorded, and listened to.