It is always good to end the year upbeat. There are many reasons to be upbeat, but one recent blog post really had me (as my kids might say) ROTFLMAO.The author was taking a shot at Joystar (I am no fan either) and some of the shots were amusing. For instance, he noted the following:
- He had covered the "exploits" of the Joystar CEO and his previous MLM. (Well, given that the author is in a MLM himself, dissing MLM does not seem right, but what about the Coach? Exploits? Lisa Marie...gas additives...AL Williams....come on)
- Joystar failed to pay commissions to agents. (This does indeed suck. But YTB just released a document that allows them to do the same thing.)
- Joystar laid off 14% of it's corporate staff. (Again, this sucks, but YTB also laid off staff. And when we commentexd on that, it was hailed as a good thing in a bad economy. But I guess it is not a good thing for Joystar.)
- Joystar did not renew SOTs and lost their CLIA accreditation and earned it back. (Well we all know that losing a CLIA accreditation is pretty bad--especiall when you don;t have IATAN to fall back on. Joystar did lose it temporarily. Unlike YTB who lost the IATAN accreditation, appealed the termination, and lost that. I shudder to think what might happen if CLIA wised up and closed the loophole and gave them the boot--back to the RTA caard for them.)
- Joystar is being sued by IHG Hotel Group for $163,000. (That amount is less than a month's new recruits to YTB. But last time I checked (and this may indeed change) but Joystar was not being sued by the Attorney General of California for $25 million nor did they have two separate class action suits filed against them in excess of $100 million.)
To the author I say it is really time to take off the blinders. Preferrably before sending in that next payment of $49.95. Do you honestly not see the trouble looming on the horizon?
