Consumer Warning: The Direct Selling Association Wants Consumers To Believe Fairy Tale Lies About the MLM Industry!

Amway/Quixtar Global are members of (and probably biggest contributor) of the Direct Selling Association.  This DSA supposedly represents all its members, businesses (usually MLMs that market products directly to consumers through company distributors; you know, that annoying guy next door who has tried to enlist you into getting involved with his business opportunity).

The DSA paints a pretty picture of Direct Selling, a term that I really dislike.  Most of the direct selling that is done by direct selling companies are to their distributors.  The DSA would have anyone stumbling into their web site believe that this direct selling is to outside customers, not the distributor. 

Most sales in MLM are made to the distributor who really should be considered the customer for direct selling companies.  This fact is not a good thing.  In past years the Federal Trade Commission has taken a dim view of this type of direct selling. Statistics show that one of the largest direct selling companies in the U.S. is Quixtar (soon to be Amway Global) who only make an estimated 3 to 4 percent of its sales to non-distributors.

Other direct selling companies actually may have a slightly higher outside sales ratio, and that is why it is commonly said that Quixtar is not Avon, who put more emphasis on sales to consumers and less emphasis on recruitment.  Anyway, the DSA operates to keep direct selling businesses in business.  They operate in Washington, D.C., and are one of the many special interest groups you hear politicians claim to not be receiving money from.  What deceptive folk our governmental elected officials are!  The DSA probably manages to put mucho cashola in Senate and Congressional pockets very effectively. 

Publicly, the DSA works to put lipstick on all of the bad pyramid scheme operating businesses who claim membership to the organization.  They act to whitewash MLM and put a good face on bad operators, like the 800 lbs. gorilla in the room: Quixtar/Amway.  Their descriptions of the industry are mostly fictional.  They claim that they maintain standards which require outside sales, and less emphasis on recruitment of new distributors; all designed to appease Governmental regulators like the FTC. Anyone with any common sense knows that Quixtar and other MLM scams do not really roll like that in your town or in mine.  The DSA treats the public like small children who will still believe fairy tales. 

The Direct Selling Association should be treated with the same lack of respect that the MLM companies they represent deserve.  The Devos and Van Andel Don's have basically lined the pockets of each and every politician they could find that would accept their dirty money to keep their money extracting pyramid business in operation. What is sad about this corruption of our Governmental regulative bodies is that it is all part of "business as usual" in Washington.  The Consumer is left to fend for him or herself.  Quixtar Cult Intervention would not have to speak out to warn people of money extracting con jobs if our own Government wasn't being subverted by the big money extracting pyramid purveyors of corruption.

Money flows to the top of these MLM pyramids while everything else flows down.  Things flowing down: lies, deceit, over-priced products, and mostly worthless tools (tapes, books, and function tickets). Some of this corrupt money floating up goes to politicians on that take.  Their re-election coffers become full of it.  Where the law allows, and many times where it doesn't allow, it goes into the pockets of politicians who permit the fleecing of thousands of dream believing people to continue!  Many of these politician receive $100,000 (plus) speaking fees to appear on stage at Quixtar/Amway Global Rallies.  These rallies become a platform to further the corruption of the company and the government.  There is no end of back scratching here! 

Consumer Warning: The DSA has launched a web site, a web-log actually, that attempts to further the aims of the DSA and the many pyramid scheme companies it represents. Quixtar itself, through another of its many pro-Quixtar/Amway propaganda dishing blogs, is directing readers to also read this new DSA blog. This is an obvious attempt to paint their business with respectability, while in my opinion it is just an effort to smear more lipstick onto the MLM pigs including their own fat hog.

Now that you have been forewarned and forearmed, you may examine these blogs at:

http://insidequixtar.opportunityzone.com/2008/04/16/Whats-the-411-on-direct-selling-A-new-DSA-site-has-the-word.aspx

http://www.directselling411.com/

Quixtar Cult Intervention calls aces aces and spades spades. Businesses and Organizations whose main purpose is to basically swindle the consumer must be pointed out for scrutiny. If you are in the sad situation of being involved with corruption, you can do the right thing now: Quit. Otherwise you will not only be victim but victimizer in a recruitment and money extraction con job. Sadly, most of the money extracted will be yours!