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!
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
You’re NOT Invited!
17 comments:
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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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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What was it Greg Duncan used to say? 'Make 'em want the next level?'
ReplyDeleteHe used to say people would do anything for a promotion at work even if it came with no pay raise.
Ever notice how they tell you exactly what they are going to do to you from stage and you welcome it like it's coming straight from the mouth of God?
They insulted every part of your life from stage and you acted like you'd just won an Oscar. You embraced their advice.
Had anyone on the street just shit on you like that, you would have clocked 'em.
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CT I don't remember Greg Duncan though I think its possible I may have heard him speak at some function. But he's wrong. I don't think most people would do anything for a promotion at work even if it came with no raise. My supervisor tried that to me once and I guess he knew the outcome because he sent me an email instead of talking to me. I figured two can play that game and later that night I faxed him in my immediate resignation knowing full well that my co-workers who arrived earlier than him and cleared off the fax would know about it first and get the rumor mill hopping!
ReplyDeleteInsulting, tormenting, abusing, all the while demanding complete obedience and they wonder why books get written about the Amway cult.
Greg would laugh at and demean those who got promotions w/no pay raise.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised you don't know more about him. They used to tell us he had the 3rd largest biz in all of amway; and supposedly the fastest growing.
I suppose every group spouted the same crap that their group was the latest and greatest, fastest growing, leanest and meanest, super-human, producing a millionaire a minute, etc.
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Every Amway leader I've seen in action laughs and demeans their followers so Greg would be no different. All I know about him is what's been reported on other websites - bankruptcy, foreclosure - I don't specifically recall hearing him speak though I'm guessing its very possible he was a speaker at some event I went to. They all said pretty much the same thing they all blended together.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the bankruptcy documents, Greg made about $500,000 a year from Amway. A nice income, but far less than what prospects or IBOs are led to believe about a triple diamond income. And after business expenses, I do not believe that kind of income, even augmented with tool income. is enough to buy mansions in cash, along with the other goodies they show off at dream night functions.
ReplyDeleteI agree that's a nice income. One can probably buy a house that's less than half of that amount, probably pay cash, or mostly pay it off and live a nice lifestyle. But when you're in Amway that means you'r a greedy liar and you have a fake image to portray and that means mansions and all the other trappings that put someone into bankruptcy. Nicholas Cage makes millions a year more than an Amway Diamond and he can't even sustain his movie star lifestyle.
ReplyDeleteMade me happy when Greg Duncan went bankrupted. I heard from a friend some other diamonds lost most of their money in the stock market and arent doing well. But that's just gossip from people who are still involved in the scam.
ReplyDeleteIts karma! How about all the people who went bankrupt trying to duplicate Greg Duncan?
ReplyDeleteAnna, did you hear Greg Duncans brother trash him online after the bankruptcy? Quite amusing how there's no loyalty in this scam.
ReplyDeleteI was stunned to hear Brad Duncan say in the video that he had millions in the bank. I'd be very nervous to tell the world my financial situation.
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Colin - nope don't know about his brother trashing him for filing bankruptcy. You're right no loyalty. Just like your Amway BFF's disappear when you stop buying products and tools. Loyalty only as long as the money is rolling in.
ReplyDeleteCT - you're right. I wouldn't be bragging about how much money I had squirreled away if my financial information and bankruptcy information was public knowledge on the Internet. Bankruptcy lawyers or IRS is gonna go hunting.
ReplyDeleteWith brad duncan he is just lying about his millions in the bank. Brad claimed to own a 14 million dollar jet with his brother greg duncan. Was told by a ex platinum that brad just gets free rides once in awhile in the amway jets and owns nothing.
ReplyDeleteThe people who are successful in Amway are the best liars.
ReplyDeleteMajor functions are nothing more than a way for the gods, er, leaders to see how many non-shareholders they have. WE are their 'millions in the bank!'
ReplyDeleteRemember how they would laugh and say you had to go to the bank dirve-thru to keep showing the bank what they bank still owned? Remember that slam?
I would go so far as to say the IBOs are a renuable resource for cash. It's endless.
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I never saw platinums with any type of power in my line of sponsorship. They were more like slaves to the diamonds. If they sucked up really well, they were edified by the diamond and their group would listen to them better. Our diamond was a tyrant and probably still is.
ReplyDeleteOur Platinum was a tyrant, like a cross between Hitler and Jim Jones. He probably spent a lot of time studying their techniques! He'd been a Platinum for about 15 years when we knew him but we don't know if that meant sliding in and out of qualification depending on how much his downline spent. Talk about frustration not getting any higher after all those years! I'm not clear on who our Diamond was. We got dragged out to so many meetings I must have heard the same 3 Diamonds every month but I never met any of them, they all lived in other states. I could easily see 2 of them as tyrants and the other probably was too.
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