Category Archives: Eric Janssen

MYTH: It’s a pyramid if most products are bought by IBOs

Many critics like to claim that Amway and other MLMs are a “product based illegal pyramid scheme”. The claim is that they are illegal pyramid schemes because the majority of products are consumed by “members of the scheme” and not retail customers. It’s quite common for them to also claim that in the FTC vs [...]

QBlog aka Eric Janssen Propaganda

Eric Janssen over at his Webraw forum “Quixtar Blog” has been obsessing recently over this video on the Quixtar Facts website. In the video, Quixtar’s Rob Davidson, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, says about web-based critics of Quixtar – “most of the people have never contacted us, many of them have never even been [...]

BLOG: What does QuixtarBlog look like to an independent observer?

Have you ever wondered what an independent observer thinks about the conversations that go on over at QuixtarBlog forums? Read on and find out. In my commentary about the new site Quixtar Conversations I mentioned the possibility that Quixtar had been "Scobleized". Scobleizer is a blog by ex-Microsoft employee and general tech geek/guru Robert Scoble. In the post [...]

BLOG: Eric Scheibeler & Pyramid Scheme Alert – Scammers?

I was visiting the website of Pyramid Scheme Alert, a bogus "consumer organization" that purportes to target illegal pyramids, but instead spends most of it's time targetting legitimate Multi-level Marketing companies. While browsing through the site, I noticed this – The Amway/Quixtar Scheme is seeking to suppress the research and testimony of PSA Director, Eric [...]

BLOG: QuixtarBlog’s Eric Janssen supports unethical behaviour?!?

According to this post on Eric Janssen's (QBlog) QuixtarBlog, Amway/Quixtar critic Scott Larsen emailed him and told him he'd received yet another letter from Alticor lawyers about his website. The problem this time was that he'd posted a link to a news article about Alticor leader's being sued by former Amway shareholders in a dispute [...]

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