CBS News has begun covering the drama between Quixtar and the bloggers they are suing and there are some interesting things to take note of in the article posted on their website.

The passage that stands out the most is:

“Quixtar develops and manufactures nutrition, beauty and cleaning products that are marketed in the United States and Canada through a tiered selling system, hiring entrepreneurs to sell its products.”

I added the bold for emphasis on the word “hiring” because it is ironic that this is one of the arguments that IBO’s are making about Quixtar… that they are being treated as employees of the corporation and not as Independent Business Owners.

CBS was also able to uncover the identities of several of the bloggers and page owners by simply visiting their web pages… something Quixtar apparently didn’t do and that would explain why they are suing to get the names of the people involved.

I think Quixtar is only further damaging its reputation by filing this lawsuit, because now major media is going to bring even more attention to what would be considering big bully tactics that Quixtar is utilizing against its detractors.

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