Quixtar Strikes Back
Oct 26th, 2007 by Shaun Carter
It seems that Quixtar’s post a couple months ago named “Just Go, Team” didn’t accurately convey Quixtar’s feelings toward TEAM.
Quixtar is now filing a lawsuit against TEAM’s parent company, Signature Management Team LLC, and seeking any and all damages possible. The lawsuit claims that TEAM is soliciting IBO’s, using confidential and proprietary company data, disparaging Quixtar, and more.
I think the most humorous analogy that Quixtar posts on their blog announcing this lawsuit is:
“If you leave your place of work today, you would leave behind your tools and information so that those who remain can carry on the business. You can’t help yourself to your computer, the stapler, the coffeemaker—or the company’s customer list.”
This just doesn’t make any sense whatsoever… if Orrin Woodward or Chris Brady stole a coffeemaker, computer or stapler from Quixtar’s Ada, Michigan headquarters, then by all means prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law! But he didn’t steal anything, Quixtar is trying to reach much further than they legally should be allowed to - claiming that any customers and IBO’s that Woodward brought into the business are the property of Quixtar just like their computers, staplers, and coffeemakers within their walls.
I disagree with Quixtar that all the people leaving the business are only doing it because Orrin Woodward or Chris Brady told them to. A lot of people I talk with are simply upset with the way Alticor is handling this whole situation and dragging their name through the mud. There are also many people upset with the pending name change back to Amway. People still haven’t forgotten all the negative stereotypes associated with Amway and I think that will come back to bite the company in the ass.
Another interesting accusation from Quixtar is that the recent Louisville convention that TEAM put on was a meeting designed to coerce people out of Quixtar and into the TEAM system. But nobody who was at the event every recalls the name Quixtar even being brought up. I’m sure Quixtar had its employees or private investigators in the convention recording everything that was said the entire weekend.
This lawsuit fails to show specific examples of the accusations and just brushes some broad strokes which, I’m assuming, will be filled in with more detail when the case goes to court. It is very possible that a Quixtar win in this case will cause TEAM to go out of business.
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