Amway Versus The Internet
Oct 13th, 2007 by Shaun Carter
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 slow down a pending case against Woodward and other former distributors in Kent County.” They also continue to insist that the lawsuit is not aimed at the bloggers just giving their opinion but is only meant for those who are operating as an arm of the TEAM or Woodward organizations who would be in violation of a court order by speaking out against Quixtar. However, the lawsuit doesn’t state that anywhere. It says they are seeking damages in excess of $25,000 against each of the individuals for damaging the reputation of the company.
If Quixtar fails in its quest to discover these sites are operated by Orrin Woodward, he may have a good case against Quixtar for libel. I really don’t think Woodward is stupid enough to be operating any of these sites. When the gag order came down from the judge, he immediately took down all the updates he had been posting on all of his blogs, which number around ten. Since that court action I haven’t seen anything on the Internet purporting to be him. If anything, these people are disgruntled former IBO’s who’s businesses have suffered as a result of the lawsuits.
I am hearing from many TEAM IBO’s that volume in their organizations is down over 50% and some have lost nearly all of their volume as the TEAM IBO’s abandon the Quixtar ship. It will be interesting to see how much of an effect this will have on Quixtar/Amway sales for the year.
More Quixtar Information:
Quixtar Files Suit Against Bloggers
TEAM Loses California Court Battle
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