My story of what its like to be married to an Amway cult follower. I expose the lies that our upline told and what happens at Amway meetings and functions. I leave the explanations of why Amway is a poor business opportunity or the tool scam to other bloggers. This blog mainly exists to curse out my former upline, aka the cult leaders, and to let everyone know what kind of idiots I had to put up with. Feel free to join in or live vicariously!
Friday, January 28, 2011
Best Friends ForNeverMore!
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Comments are moderated but we publish just about everything. Even brainwashed ambots who show up here to accuse us of not trying hard enough and that we are lazy, quitters, negative, unchristian dreamstealers. Like we haven’t heard that Amspeak abuse from the assholes in our upline!
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1. Is it the weekend? We don’t moderate comments on weekends. Maybe not every day during the week either. Patience.
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3. Naming names? Public figures like politicians and actors and people known in Amway are probably OK – the owners, Diamonds with CDs or who speak at functions, people in Amway’s publicity department who write press releases and blogs. Its humiliating for people to admit their association with Amway so respect their privacy if they’re not out there telling everyone about the love of their life.
4. Gossip that serves no purpose. There are other places to dish about what Diamonds are having affairs or guessing why they’re getting divorced. If you absolutely must share that here – don’t name names. I get too many nosy ambots searching for this. Lets not help them find this shit.
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I agree with wanting to be a fly on the wall....
ReplyDeleteAnd Ambot is wrong, he's not allowed to make decisions about friends any more. Look where it got him the last time :-)
Of course, it's easy for me to listen to my wife, she's got a Mensa level IQ and is so good with money that my Mom (who could squeeze quarters out of a rock herself) is in awe of her. I bet that my wife could have convinced someone to pay her to take the rock, squeezed the quarters, then sold the rock as a residual income source. LOL!!!!
Yeah most of you guys learn the hard way to listen to your wife! I was on a cruise ship and the cruise director was asking the audience who'd been married the longest and there was a couple who'd been married 63 years. The cruise director asked what their secret was and the husband said he learned very early on to say "yes dear". Good advice for all married men!
ReplyDeleteKudos to your wife, Graham. I love a sale when it is truly a good deal.
ReplyDeleteEverything I buy has to earn its keep in my home. No slacker crap allowed.
I remember sneaking phone calls to my upline when they quit. We were best friends and Christians, to boot. I simply couldn't believe this is what Jesus would do - not speak to someone over *amway*??????
We are adults. No one tells me who I can or cannot speak to w/o a .38 pointed at my temple. Even then my last words would be, "Duck."
CASSETTE TAPE, Anyone?
Cassette Tape, I'm with you. I wrote a little bit about my story on Anna's Walking Away From Ambot post and I told a little about how I lost my "BEST FRIEND" because of Amway. Its been 8 months and she won't speak to me. She told me that I had turned on all of the people who had been there for me and that it was her duty as my friend to tell me I was settling for an average life. Then she told me that with all she had going on in her life, she couldn't afford to be a garbage can. This was after I told her I had been suffering with a life threatening illness and just needed a friend, not Scamway. I certainly learned a lot from Amway: HOW NOT TO TREAT PEOPLE!!
ReplyDeleteGraham,
Thanks for sharing part of your story on the other post as well. I appreciate the support more than you know. I am reading MOD right now, and it makes me want to puke. I still have a really hard time feeling like I'm not a loser, even though deep down I know I'm not. I guess its the guilt I still feel for watching TV. But I love TV and my upline can suck it...in general.
Former Ambot
Anonymous - Just another fake best friend. IBO's own pretend business. They're fakes. I discount pretty much everything they say.
ReplyDeleteDid you ever ask your friend what is so wrong about settling for an average life? Who's your friend to judge what's an average life anyway. Oh I forgot. That's what IBO's do. Judge people and look down their noses at them.
Today my husband was telling a friend of ours that he had a hard time too after leaving Amway because of the damage done by the Platinum brainwashing them to believe everyone who leaves Amway is a loser. He said he really believed that about himself for some time afterward.
Anna,
ReplyDeleteYeah. I'm working on that one still. But you're right, reading MOD is really helping me cope. And coming onto your blog. Its like having a sudden virtual support group.
I never asked my friend any real questions as to her opinions. I knew what kind of mind control she was under and honestly she was too busy yelling at me. I just didn't want to fight about it. I knew that I was making the right decision for my future and just felt that maybe if I pray for her instead, maybe one day she'll come around. The sad part is that I was just as defensive and brainwashed at one time, although I never screamed at anyone because they quit!
All I know is I'm BEYOND grateful that my real friends are there for me and don't judge me for trying to get them into a cult!! LOL...
You live you learn:)
The thing that really pisses me off about this friend thing is that it's a tactic used to keep us plugged in. It has NOTHING to do with friendship. These a-holes use access and friendship as a carrot. When us good little ambots do our job...errr I mean build our business by showing the plan, buying audios, reading books, attenting seminars, attending opens, we are given "access" we get to rub elbows for the elite. When we don't we are cast out and cut off.
ReplyDeleteThat message is further reinforced by all the crap we are force fed - the constant stream of "positiveness" that tells us that if we want to be a winner we must associate with winners, and what's the only way to do that?? PAY FOR IT!!!! UGH, seriously?!
These jackwagons have no intention of making friendships, they are simply using tactis and psychology to manipulate the masses that follow them.
At a major function I listened to a Diamond "overcome an objection" when you tell a prospect that they sell Amway products to friends and family and the response is they don't really have any friends or a lot of friends. The IBO should then "Would you like to have some?" Instant friends once you join Amway though the prospect has no chance of selling them on the system because they're already on it!
ReplyDeleteYou're right lobotomotized. They're not interested in friendship, just manipulation and brainwashing and get their hands on your money.
amway poop heads have an answer for everything.
ReplyDeleteI love the word 'jackwagon.' Every time I hear it I think I need a Kleenex.
But then I just skip on on over to 'mamby pamby' land and listen to another CASSETTE TAPE.