How Amway Went Wrong Way: the Quixtar Blunder

Amway went entirely the wrong-way with Quixtar. Supposedly the 'Quixtar Revolution,' as they called it, would play on the average person's belief that Internet commerce was where all the money in the future could be made. This, even though Amway has always been and still remains, a 'huckster-like' (face to face) recruitment scam, and in so many ways is an inefficient distribution system altogether (i.e. too many middlemen).

People falling for this Internet wave of the future 'ruse' discovered that Quixtar hadn't really changed after they dumped the Amway name in the U.S.. (They did engineer a online ordering, tracking and delivery system, but then, ironically, prevented the newly recruited supposed 'independents'--by contract--from using the Internet to advertise.)

A 'Quixtar Powered Business' really became an isolating affair for the duped so called 'independents' falling for all the talk about it being a 'Internet Powered Revolution' and other such stupidity. Quixtar 'reps' were--for all intents--the only customers Amway really had, and it did not serve their purpose to have each and every one of them operating their 'own' online store, after all, that is Quixtar/Amway's business; it's their house, it's their store! The Amway Corporation brags about their online sales, but it is only their own 'reps' who make up the customer base (as retail sales to outsiders are only about 4% of total sales).

Oh, sure, a 'distributor' might pay for his own web page on the Amway/Quixtar server, but these could not be accessed by the public as they were password protected. Amway knows how to take the 'independence' out of the word 'independent'. Former Amway 'defacto slaves' were forced to continue operating their recruitment schemes the way they always had before.

Even today, Amway makes the claim that they are the #1 Online Retailer in health and Beauty--a very dubious claim indeed! They obviously represent that these sales are retail, so they ironically admit that their own supposed sales people are their only real retail customers.

Who are Amway's retail customers? They would have the general public believe that it is someone other than their very own 'distributors' who never sell much of anything. So, these so called 'business owners' have always been the only significant customers Amway has ever had. They are the only jack-asses willing to pay extortion like prices for vitamins and cosmetics; all to play in Amway's prosperity dream con game.

All the 'reality inverting' books, tapes, and CDs sold by the 'kingpins' as business training tools (a secondary closed market swindle) contain 'thought stopping' logic (like the term PRO-SUMER) are designed to convince those (gullible enough to believe such blarney) that paying more for anything is a good deal; all while the Devos and Van Andel families continue to 'extract' their cash.

Amway ironically brags about how much cash they sucked out of their own 'reps' pockets; all as if to say that this represents success for those doing the paying?

Devos and Van Andel grew wealthy by operating a monopoly-like 'closed market swinde' on people who believed they could get rich by paying more.

'Pro-sumer' logic isn't anything new. It has been around a lot longer than this reality inverting 'neologism.' Ironically, people falling for such stupidity are also taught to blame themselves for failure. Most quietly leave Amway at some point, all the poorer for their troubles.

Recently it had been revealed that Amway Global's online ordering system had been 'hacked' into (for the second time). In response Amway claimed that "our house' had not been broken into. It had been reported that critical customer information (IBO contact information) had been stolen. Amway's business has always belonged to Amway, and this drives home the point that their so called independents are really the only online customers of any significance that they can brag about. Of course these IBOs are always represented as online customers when Amway makes their glorious reality inverting claims about being the #1 online retailer in the health and beauty, which in my opinion is a crock of pooh. How do they magically represent that purchases made by distributors are retail sales if their distributors aren't retail customers? Riddle me this?

Dear reader, if you've discovered this blog while researching the Amway 'Opportunity' that someone has shown you, you've found the right place to really find out about Amway. Now You Know!

Who Really Needed the Exorcist--Amway or Proctor & Gamble???

I suppose the 1970's horror classic, The Exorcist, seems rather 'old school' today, but it was a disturbing story about a young girl who was possessed by Satan, or one of his direct 'downline' minions in his own pyramid scheme where the devil reigns as tyrant-in-chief over his own totalitarian state. How fitting then, that I must bring to readers attention to the Amway and Proctor & Gamble scandal, where P&G accused Amway and some of its Kingpins of organizing and intentionally spreading rumors that Proctor and Gamble was satanic based on a symbol which had appeared on some of P&Gs products over time.

I can only surmise that the spreading of these slanders was with the intent to instill fear in the Amway 'core' adherents minds about their chief competitor's extensive line of products. Adherents in the Amway cult are taught to be core--100% product loyal to Amway. (Proof by the way that Amway operates a 'closed market' swindle primarily focused at its own distributors, nearly the only customers of any significance for Amway's over-priced household products.) Readers should realize that by comparison, Amway's sales and market share (even now) is so puny compared to marketing giant Proctor and Gamble. Amway is small potatoes compared to the marketing power wielded by others, although Amway claims to be the #1 health and beauty retailer online--a very questionable claim indeed. Avon I believe might contest issue of size. Avon specializes more in the cosmetic field and actually retails much more product to non-distributor retail customers so Amway's claim to #1 must be quantified by adding in 'health' products which Avon doesn't market.

Was the Devil in P&G or was the devil really in Amway?

Amway, always the author of incredible reality inverting myths, or the publicly traded Proctor & Gamble who market their products in an open market? Knowing how the Devil's organization is structured, might it actually have been Amway who was in dire need of the services of a priest?

World cults always can be identified by their exploitation of their own 'core' adherents. Amway realizes that it must take full advantage of each and every one of their customer/IBO believers as true retail customers only make up less than 5% of their total sales revenues. The best way to retain market is to control the monopoly buying behaviors of the exploitable 'prosperity believing' cult associates which are ironically called Independent Business Owners. Amway has always sought to take undue advantage of those whom they consider 'cattle' grazing in their pasture, always ripe for the milking.

To help convince the IBO bovine to remain on the Devos - Van Andel plantation, the Kingpins cooked up this P&G Devil rumor and told it to their cultic downlines. As I recall the story, some of the Amway Kingpins recorded and then sent to their downline organizations the slanderous information through an Amway telephonic voice message system which Amway distributors had in their homes. Proctor and Gamble eventually sued Amway over this and eventually won a settlement against certain Amway Kingpins, with Randy Haugen coming immediately to mind. Of course these allegations were denied and Amway sought to distance themselves from the perpetrators (whom they claimed acted on their own in the disparaging of P&G).

Amway has long drilled the fear of liberalism into their core believers for some time, but some in their organization proved that they weren't beyond promoting the the fear of 'other' satanic organizations when it was really them in the end who were acting satanically.

If one can allow oneself to believe in Satanic myths, then within whom was the devil really in here? Which of these organizations actually needed to have the holy water sprinkled on them? Amway, inadvertently this time, was involved in just another of its major legal blunders, like their Canadian import tax fraud debacle that might have landed the Amway cult initiators (DeVos - Van Andel) in Canadian jail cells, and forcing Amway to pay a near king's ransom to keep the old Amway 'gentlemen' free to continue operating their schemes.

Of course other scandals came and went over the years, all nearly making Amway an extinct entity in the United States. Amway hid out in the North American market under the name of 'Quixtar' from 1999 to 2007 when they announced a phased in name change back to Amway.

A cat by any other stripe is still a cat, and in the end Quixtar turned out to be a failure as it was just as beset by scandal as Amway had been. Amway executives watched as North American Amway sales and recruitment declined. Quixtar Kingpin distributors and many loyal people in their downline groups left in what is now known as the IBO Rebellion, all just giving more bad press to Amway who has been operating as Alticor--seemingly ashamed of the bad reputation the 'Amway' moniker has developed. Even today, Amway must grind its teeth over the ire just the name 'Amway' creates in the minds of many people in the United States, some of which openly display their sentiments online via comments and blog posts usually critical of Amway and their MLM pyramid scheme.

Below is the symbol which Amway Kingpins alleged linked Proctor & Gamble to Satan:

There is a Traveling Sales Crew Werewolf at the Door Jim!

My wife and I were riding in the car when a rock classic from the 70s came on the radio, the Werewolves of London. I was chuckling about how funny this pop song seems in retrospect all these many years later, when I realized that one verse of the lyrics fit perfectly with the Traveling Magazine Sales Crews that fall upon neighborhoods in the United States throughout the warm months of the year, usually just as many colleges and universities take their summer breaks. Think of some of these folks as the werewolves in the Warren Zevon song:

If you hear him howling around your kitchen door,
better not let him in.
Little old lady got mutilated late last night;
Werewolves of London again
(Think traveling sales crew or Kirby salesman again)

It was about ‘the little old lady getting mutilated last night' verse that first made me chuckle, and then I became sober as a judge! I just happened to recall at that moment all of the real life horror stories reported involving the door to door selling industry, where real little old ladies do indeed get mutilated--raped, robbed and even murdered--a gruesome reality and a theme repeated over and over again in the door to door selling industry where even sweeper salesmen have carried out atrocious crime. So when you have these people ‘howling around your kitchen door, you better not let them in!’ All good advice from Warren Zevon in this classical rock song from back in the day.

Not only are these door knocking youths possibly putting their own well being in danger; other 'down and outers' also recruited for the ride--usually with no background check--are free to prey on the vulnerable, those living alone, the elderly, and those physically or mentally impaired that are encountered along the way.

Werewolves, vampires, murderers in the rue morgue, all horror films remembered from my youth, all of which seem rather campy when compared to the true stories of the traveling magazine sales crews as well and the dark side of the door to door selling industry, a topic that I have examined in past blog posts. These crews are usually a mixed bag of ‘down and outers’ and the college aged youths all caught up in what I believe is a traveling circus, a veritable circus cage on wheels where youths travel like sardines in a tin can which can potentially be a one way a ride to dusty death.

People in these traveling sales crews are all generally in the hands of unscrupulous types who take orders from some boiler room call centers which might be operating in your home town. Some of these boiler rooms actually might look like Hitler’s war room in the Wolf’s Lair Bunker during World War II. Managers move the crews around on what most likely is a computerized map where complexities of managing so many dispersed personnel are indeed complex. Instead of Adolf moving little tanks around in his imaginary war, these folks move van loads of youths from town to town in their war on the pocket books of mostly vulnerable women who most likely are doing laundry or preparing the evening dinner. These boiler room managers have been operating these shady ‘boiler rooms’ for so long, they are old hat at it. For those working in these settings, the work is most likely tedious and the pay most likely low--as it is for nearly all boiler room call center operators who process sales orders made by all the door knocking salespeople.

Here in my home town, there exists a large complex of office suites, all of which are available for lease as call centers. A smorgass board of closely aligned tables and phone jacks. Many times one group of telemarketers move out and another unscrupulous bunch moves in. Local folk, many times displaced workers in other industries, line up for these boiler room jobs. Each of these operations I have noticed go by some sort of deceptive name, sometimes having little to do with what they are actually doing, this all to disguise from casual observers-- the town's people--what the real nature of their affairs is. These fly by night operations can in general involve any type of traveling sales/delivery operation. Some may seem more legitimate than others, but they all generally fall into the same loose fitting basket of telemarketing boiler room operators. Many of these people are subcontractors of magazine publishers, of traveling auditors, or traveling sales crews of one type or another, all offering any number of products or services door to door; some to organize the delivery of telephone directories.

Magazine publishers contract--many times with unscrupulous subcontractors--to sell magazine subscriptions door to door. Product sellers, to include bibles, books and sundry cleaning supplies may operate their own door to door operation directly. One example of this is Southwestern Company whose home offices are located along the skyline of Nashville, Tennessee. Most likely they have their own version of the boiler room as well, where managers move sales crews around like ponds on a chess board. Possibly direct operators also sublet some of their door to door operations as well, being able to conveniently lay these folks off at the end of the selling season.

Obviously the people operating traveling sales crews view their operations as sales generators where all expenses are closely evaluated and weighed so as to be a ‘penny pinching affair’ where the ‘take’ or margin is of more concern than the sales people, who might be forced to sleep 6 to 8 or more persons to a room or be put up in questionable locations and circumstances.

Indeed these operators set up what I would term to be 'safe houses' not so different than the 'safe houses' terrorist organizations set up for traveling bomb makers. Most likely many of these waysides residences become party houses, where almost anything imaginable is possible. Where the local crack and meth dealers hang about. Youths traveling in these caravans will be exposed to all the pitfalls of modern society, alcohol, cigarettes, pot, and drugs of every imaginable sort. Worse even, they will be bedding down with those who may have sexual intentions that absolutely are not honorable. Young people, many experiencing sexuality for the first time should not be allowed to go out on these magazine sales crews period! I single out magazine sales crews, because they are the worst of the worst of the entire bad lot of subcontractors, all intent on squeezing every conceivable penny out of their contracts with the magazine publishers and who do the dirty work that the respectable magazines--like Vanity Fair, or Time--do not want to actually do themselves.. The only label I can put on these fly by night operators of boiler room and traveling sales crews is: disreputable!

Not only are youths exposed to these potential vices and sexual experiences on the road, they are generally taught by others exactly how the traveling sales sub-cons works. I will not go into details here, but check washing, comes immediately to mind. I will put a link at the bottom of this post for anyone desiring to do a more intensive study of traveling sales crew horrors.

No one reading through the traveling sales crew horrors will ever think the same way about door to door sellers and door knockers ever again!

The Direct Selling Association (the DSA) oppose the proposed changes in Wisconsin law, which if enacted would prevent those who profit from these gypsy sellers to shield themselves from responsibility for crime committed against the dignity of the citizens. At present, the magazine publishers, and those they contract invoke a loop hole which makes these sellers 'independent contractors' solely responsible for their individual actions. Malinda's law would close this loop hole and hold those who stand to profit responsible for the actions of all their sales people. The DSA oppose all efforts to reign in the known abuses as proposed by 'Malinda's Law' where hearings are to be held in March 2009 in the Wisconsin state legislature.

The DSA trade organization is made up of some disreputable 'supposed' direct sellers and multi-level marketers operating extremely questionable product pyramid schemes of every sort, known to prey upon their 'distributors' (heavy irony) for nearly all of their sales. Many of these companies, like Amway operate under the disguise of being door to door sellers. Retail sales to non distributor customers has been reported to be a dismal 4 to 5 percent of total sales. Amway distributors are therefore, for all intents and purposes, the company's only customers, where no practical door to door selling is actually encouraged or significantly carried out. Amway focuses primarily on recruitment of new distributor customers through social networking.

New Amway distributors usually start out trying to recruit family and friends and then move onto those they meet in public places (like McDonalds) and possibly even coworkers in their day jobs. Door knocking is generally not taught as a primary sales strategy where recruitment of new buyers (self consuming 'distributors') is the primary method of operandi. Indeed, most distributors view direct selling as something which is unnecessary even though it is contractually required. Ironically, Amway and other DSA MLM member sellers operating 'join and buy from yourself' schemes represent that their 'self consuming distributor customers' as 'door to door' sellers, an elaborate reality inverting hoax all cooked up to appease the Federal Trade Commission who at one time tried to roll Amway up as a pyramid scam. While retail sales are required by fine print in every contract an independent signs in order to be eligible to receive commissions/bonuses (which in actuality are a form of rebate in a self consumption type distributorship), nearly all distributors conveniently disregard this rule. I invite concerned readers to more fully understand how these deceptions work by reading Continued Exploitation of Traveling Sales Crews Supported by the Direct Selling Association.

I have advocated my support for the adoption of Malinda’s Law in the state of Wisconsin, even though I live in a different state. If passed, other states may seek to implement change designed to protect young adults from unscrupulous greedy types seeking to take undue advantage of those just getting started on their journey through life. A journey through the horrors of the traveling sales crew shouldn’t be included. My heart goes out to Phil Ellenbecker, who lost his daughter in a traveling sales crew disaster that WAS NOT an accident but a negligent act. It didn’t have to happen! The elected representatives of the citizens of Wisconsin will have a chance to save the lives of those traveling through their state and set a precedent that other states should follow. The independent contractor loophole being the fine print that has shielded the magazine executives and their subcontractors from blame for way too long. Significantly, independent subcontractor fine print also has helped Amway avoid the misrepresentation their independents many times make about potential wealth (lifestyles of the rich) in the independent’s recruitment ‘dream selling’ scheme that I‘ve also blogged extensively about.

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Alcoholic Acquaintance Finds Work Driving Door to Door Salespeople Around

It has been some weeks back, but my wife told me that her drunken male friend for some years had called her 'from the road'. He had managed finally to find some part time employment, that of driving some door to door knocking youths from town to town while they performed some undisclosed task. As some readers of QCI might recall, I have previously written some blog posts about the Horrors of the Traveling Sales Crews, so news that this fellow has found work behind the wheel of one of these traveling vans made me think, how appropriate and frightening!

My wife's friend, which I will call Denny (not his real name), had been hired by me and my wife to paint our house. My wife felt sorry for him, as he had told her he needed money to make his child support payments or they would toss him into the county jail. I was dead set against hiring him to do the work, preferring to do the painting myself. From experience, there has rarely been an occasion when I've seen Denny without a beer in his hand and a 30 pack of Busch close by. Anyway, the house only got partially painted, as Denny never stayed sober long enough to navigate the ladders for more than an hour or two a day before drunkenness made it impossible to work at height. It did not surprise me that he didn't manage to complete the work, and I have since had to finish the painting myself, all after my wife mistakenly, and without my knowledge paid him in advance for the work. I was so mad about the entire affair that I told my wife I never wanted to see this Denny fellow here at the house again.

So, when Denny called my wife from the road recently to tell her he was working ferrying around youths door to door while they were performing sales or 'deliveries', I thought: how appropriate--a fellow who has had more than a hand full of driving under the influence charges against him (but somehow miraculously still has a drivers license and is the town drunk) can find employment behind the wheel of a traveling crew van full of youths?

I guess a simple background check might have revealed the past drunk driving red flags and prevented another potential traveling sales crew disaster much like that which happened near Janeseville Wisconsin ten years ago.

To Denny's credit, he hasn't wrecked the van, yet? Support the passage of Malinda's Law in the State of Wisconsin, potentially the state leader in protecting its own citizens; the life you save may very well be your own!

Many people are asleep to the danger that lurks in their own state. Word up friends, and follow this link to discover a dirty little secret of their little traveling sales crew cult.

As an update to this story, my wife told me that this Denny called to tell her he had been let go--basically fired--while he was in New Jersey, hundreds of miles from where Denny usually calls home? Seems these drunken desperadoes like Denny, who in the end are left somehow in the lurch, possibly without all their pay, and then just dropped like so much trash by the side of the road, all because there always are more willing desperados ready to take Denny's place behind the wheel on these van rides, all which potentially could result in additional rides, that in long black limousines on the way to the eternal rest.

***About the picture near the title of post above, click here. You do not have to be from Wisconsin to understand that this disaster did not have to happen!

Amway Global - Another Historical Mistake?

Renaming Quixtar Amway Global--specifically the global part, most likely is another major Amway/Alticor blunder, much like other historical blunders; one, for instance, being when Jay Van Andel and Rich DeVos got caught red handed swindling Canada out of extensive import taxes. These two rich cult business scammers believed they could avoid a Canadian jail cell? In another historical debacle, the 2004 Dateline expose on Amway corruption, exposed the Amway tool scam and that scandal has never disappeared from the view of potential recruits in the five years since. I have asked how many of those enthusiastic believers have truly lived their Quixtar inspired dreams? The present truth reflects the historical financial holocaust these folks fall victim to.

Now, AmScam (Amway) stands at the end of their first widely heralded 'year of change' while these shadowy AmScam scoundrels continue to confront an avalanche of bad domestic and global news; the landslide election of Barack Obama being the most prominent. AmScam's year of change was a carefully planned, concerted effort to bamboozle the public and deflect scandal and criticism and manipulate public policy that potentially could turn on them.

Changing the name to Amway with the Global adjective tied on may just be another of Amway's blunders. Had they remained Quixtar, they potentially could have flown under the Obama Administration Regulatory radar, but now, who can miss this stinker of an Amway business that has been smelling up the airwaves in their recent spate of commercials, some of which have aired during the national infatuation with the National Football League.

Global news isn't any better than news in the US mother land for AmScam. The United Kingdom is a potentially troublesome 'global' consequence. Potential earth shattering bad news could be in the works for MLM scammers in the US as well, and I will continue to update readers as new information emerges.

British author, David Brear, has called for the Obama Administration to finally and quickly move against corruption and those shadowy individuals who have conspired to override the interests of the people of these United States and indeed of the World! An Open Letter to Barack Obama

Amway's recent debacle, proclaiming that Amway in North America is now going to be named Amway Global emphasises the general direction of their affairs and intention to defraud on an incredible global scale. Of course they expose themselves to scandal and potential scandal which always will be widely reported. Legal developments in Great Britain could turn potentially sour as wide scale corruption continues to be uncovered. All of this has potential repercussion for those true believers wanting desperately to live their own prosperity dream

At a time when Amway wants to desperately expand their scam, they merely hope to hold onto their current, very flat North American market, while potential global problems make their criminal pursuits precarious at best; after all, the average people everywhere, the dudes, have been accurately describing the Amway Scam!

Amway Taken In World's Fastest Man Scam

Nutrilite athletes MUST perform, or sadly get 'offed' by those shadowy scoundrels behind Nutri-Scam: Amway Global, Quixtar, Amway, Alticor. I have it on good authority that Amway has been knocking off the finances of their cult drones so long that problems with 'washed up' fastest men, like Olympic also ran Jamaican, Asafa Powell, shouldn't be very difficult for these evil white men to handle; Asafa must sleep with the fishes!

After being taken in by a swindle, normally wouldn't a mafioso crime family--Amway--want to at least do something dramatic, possibly put a bloody horse head in Asafa's bed?

After all, Powel indeed laid a big egg in the China Bird's Nest stadium this summer past. World's fastest men, just like strawberries, don't stay fresh very long, and now Asafa can sing Glory Days with Bob Seger and chuckle that he swindled the AmScam swindlers in the World's Fastest Man Scam!

How very appropriate!

Desperados

While writing Quixtar Cult Intervention, many times I focus my research on current affairs topics, something of particular interest to me, and of course, Amway corruption.

Many times it is a current news story, or a fellow blogger who sparks my interest in doing a little more research on a topic. It has been some months since I researched a post on the traveling magazine sales crews. After reflecting subconsciously on what I learned at that time, I have developed some insight into that particular pernicious affair, and I've began to develop insight into how many truly crooked roads meet at this intersection in the road to perdition.

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Desperados

-desperadoes of all sorts, runners from life, the drug users, the mentally ill, the lost, the abused, the cast offs, and the abusers themselves-

Many times these traveling sales outfits employ people who were in--or potentially in-- a state of homelessness--possibly one of the most desperate situations anyone could ever find themselves in--where victims are exposed to the predatory school of hard knocks. They come from all segments of society; the majority being temporarily homeless youth, first timers experiencing life on the street for the first time; rebels, many times heading down a road that may be decades long. They find themselves in a market that makes them the unfortunate near slaves of unscrupulous predators and predatory mafia-like organizations which stand just out of view in their corporate offices. The predators:

--boiler room

--sex trade

--traveling sales

--day labor

--agricultural

--panhandling; begging industries

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly


For the people are locked into pernicious affair, the lines seem to blur between the good, the bad, and the ugly. You have potential predators riding along side of naive youths, many already out looking for a good time; a situation absolutely rife with the potential for corruption, sexual perversions, physical abuse, and cult-like control. When do the abused cross over and become the abuser in these situations? How many potentially good college aged kids drop out of school and follow these caravans of society destroying misfits?

The urban drug world operates similarly to these traveling horror caravans where the abused in the end may become the abuser. The pusher many times has been victimized by the very drug that he must now peddle to either support a drug or even a cash habit. Aren't these drug dealing types always heralding the cheese, the ends?

Persons easily attracted into a life in a traveling sales crew many times are tapped for special roles supervising and moving the college recruited door knockers from town to town in their gypsy like caravan of greed. Are these people really ever screened for honesty/integrity whatsoever?

Unscrupulous affairs always require willing unscrupulous types, generally more easily recruited from the dregs of society. Not exactly a position for honest upstanding citizenry after all. Add in other similar desperados for the journey, and you have the wonderful traveling sales crew horror, a corrupt industry. Victims and victimizers locked in a potentially dangerous situation. Drug use, sexual deviation and cult-like control maintained over the tender minds of their exuberant youthful charges. Good people caught up in a carnival of door knocking corruption. The door to door sellers of fraud, involved in corruption, victimized, by it and the victimizers as well.

Imagine Ted Bundy at the wheel of one of these van loads of youths traveling down our highway system to a neighborhood near you? The good, the bad, and the ugly. Sales fraud, order destruction, and check washing are taught on these caravans to hell. If only this were the worst of the crime, but sadly, murder, rape, robbery, theft, treachery and the devil himself ride on these traveling vans from hell!


Knock, knock, who's there?


Did you know that any number of direct sellers claim to be door to door salesman? One of these of course is Amway. You know, AmScam. They always like to defend themselves from pyramid scheme allegations by perpetuating the myth that they also are door to door sellers. They seem to find some degree of legitimacy for their particular fraud. People familiar with the Amway organization know this to be a retail sales farce fabricated defend their self consumption fraudulent scheme from governmental regulators.

Amway stands behind the Direct Selling Association. The DSA, opponents of laws to regulate the traveling sales crew and door to door selling industries is supposedly made up of several hundred (mostly shady) companies who generally ply their wares using the Multi-Level Marketing model--an industry where many pay to play but few ever win in. Most are money extracting affairs operated in cult like efficiency. Their corrupt money fund the DSA to actively oppose any law which would regulate the traveling sales crew and door to door sales industry.

Kirby and Amway, strange bedfellows indeed, both DSA companies, strongly opposes and work against passage of Malinda's Law in the State of Wisconsin, all the while being are engulfed in a history of distributor fruad, and in the case of Kirby, horrific capital crimes, all of which they conveniently have passed responsibility off onto their 'independent door knockers. Malinda's law seeks to establish an employer-employee relationship, currently lacking, which permits corruptions to hide and escape liability in an affair where they are the capitol benefactors of.

Significantly, State and Federal governments regulate or outlaw other industries that prey on the dignity of people--like the sex trade. Why allow loopholes exist which make the traveling sales crews avoid scrutiny? Out of the list of industries that prey upon the downtrodden, only the traveling sales and door to door knocking industries are not regulated to protect the dignity of the citizens of these United States. Laws already are enacted which regulate the employee/employer relationship. These companies operate schemes which rely on the current 'independent contractor' loophole to carry their pernicious affairs forward. Malinda's law would be a great start toward doing something that can be done, regualte a industry that will continue to prey on the weak otherwise.