Unfortunately it wasn’t. He hadn’t yet received professional help for leaving a cult.
Someone upline who claimed to be a double eagle maybe he was once but now only had one active leg, phoned to hound Ambot to buy 150 PV worth of products because an upline couple wanted to reach their next goal of going Platinum.
Even though he’d stopped going to meetings, Ambot was still influenced by the cult and he dutifully pulled out his credit card and purchased $500 in Amway products after that phone call.
The bugger phoned again a few days later to hound Ambot to attend the next function.
“Can’t afford it,” said Ambot. “I spent all my money buying those products so those bastards (my word not his) would have enough PV to reach their next level.”
Oddly enough this weirdo still phones from time to time to ask Ambot how he’s doing even though we’ve cut ties with anything Amway.
Ambot is pleasant enough to him and will chat for awhile. In fact the fellow showed up at our house a few months ago to pick up a book that he’d leant us (that we’d never read). It wasn’t on the Amway reading list so he had to be rather hush hush about it.
Would be awesome if your hubby baught 500 in product and returned all of it for a refund just for laughs. I decided i wouldnt buy a dam thing associated with amway when i left the scam. Actually, i didnt think much of the products even when im involved as a ibo. I hope your ambot hubby stopped buying stuff from scamway
ReplyDeleteJust too bad your hubby is still nice to these people. Most people would just slam the phone down or tell them not to call again. He has to realize they arent his friends and dont really care much about him. Maybe get a new number or use caller id when they call.
ReplyDeleteColin, that was his last purchase on Amway and I believe he did return some of that last order for a refund so hopefully that screwed up his upline's dreams to become Platinum that month! Nope haven't purchased no Amway products ever since. Ambot does have caller ID but he still answers their calls. Yes he's too nice to too many people.
ReplyDeleteDoes "Ambot" have the email addresses of his upline? If so, I would be happy to send them to my site. You can even forward the email addresses to hawaiianibo@yahoo.com if you don't want to publish them online. LOL
ReplyDeletelol now im tempted to write a cheque to cash and having it bounce. Take all my money out and tell the bank my cheques where stolen. Just for kicks cause im bored
ReplyDeletecolin,
ReplyDeleteYou don't have to take your money out if you tell the bank your checks were stolen. LOL