Judge Paul Sullivan denied Quixtar’s motion today to halt a TEAM function being held in Louisville this weekend. Since the TEAM founders were terminated from Quixtar, they have been reportedly running as a neutral leadership training organization that does not endorse any one individual opportunity. However, Quixtar is claiming that the meeting will be used to encourage more IBO’s to [...]
Amway has terminated the businesses of another group of IBOs, this time across the Atlantic. The “Independent” businesses of Diamonds Jerry Scriven, Dave Butler and Pat Gregory, who operate the International Business Systems (IBS) group have all been terminated because of their lack of support for the changes being made with Amway UK’s business. These sounds very similar to the [...]
If you are here because of the prize I am giving away for John Chow’s RSS competition with ShoeMoney, I welcome you. John put a link to Shaun Carter dot Com in his newsletter because of the two $25 Barnes & Noble Gift Cards I am giving away. It turns out John will be offering these prizes to lucky readers [...]
There are going to be many publicly traded companies announcing earnings this week and it will prove to be a very volatile market in their wake. I have pulled almost completely out of individual stocks this week because I think there will be a lot of negative surprises. Already these negative earnings announcements have knocked the market down over 100 [...]
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 [...]
The local paper, The Grand Rapids Press, picked up the story about Quixtar suing 30 unknown individual bloggers and posters and added some more information about the case. For instance, Quixtar has now disclosed that the reason they chose to file the case in Ottawa County and not their home office location in Kent County is “so as not to [...]
Quixtar filed a lawsuit today in Ottawa County against 30 anonymous website owners and bloggers including the operators of: FreeTheIBO.com TheIBORebellion.blogspot.com QReilly.blogspot.com QuixtarLostMyCents.blogspot.com DrinkXS.biz ———————- Copy of Lawsuit Quixtar says they are suing the operators of these sites to determine if they are working for the individuals/companies that were named in a previous restraining order and barred from disseminating any [...]
In a surprise move, retail sales jumped in during the month of September. This news comes a day after most retailers projected lower than expected earning for the current and future quarters because of decreased consumer spending, but the retail numbers were held up by increased automotive sales. This unexpected increase in auto sales is a good indicator that people [...]
The US trade deficit has fallen to a 7 month low due in part to record exports of American goods. The recent rash of toy recalls from Chinese manufacturers has also had something to do with a decrease in certain types of Chinese imports. Even though the deficit is down, it still stands at a staggering $57.6 Billion for the [...]
The contestants of Top Chef Miami will be dishing about the behind the scenes action from their culinary competition during a reunion show being broadcast tonight at 10pm Eastern on Bravo. The promo clips being shown on Bravo this week definitely look interesting as the contestants seem to bash on Hung and his lack of kitchen etiquette. I can’t wait [...]
