On Craigslist their terms of use specifically state that MLM reps can not be posting there but they do anyway and Amway IBO’s are not the only guilty party but they are the majority of the offenders. Usually these ads get flagged off if they blatantly mention the MLM or one of the products which might alert some job seekers who it is.
It must really suck if you’re looking for a legitimate sales job and respond to an ad and get called for an “interview” at a local coffee shop only to be nailed with an Amway board plan presentation.
Finding a job is tough enough without these fucking MLM scammers trying to snipe you into their pyramid scheme.
Ambot and I noticed a sign posted on a telephone pole. I don’t recall the exact working but it said something to the effect of be your own boss and run a health, sports, and beauty business. Even though it was crudely painted it included a toll free number (Communikate?) to give it an air of authenticity. We’re pretty sure it was Scamway.
Likewise people who post resumes on various job sites end up getting trolled by MLM participants who are trying to “grow their business”. In fact you don’t even need a resume up you an just post an ad for something to sell on Craigslist and some demented ambot might phone to pretend they’re interested in buying and then spring an Amway presentation on you.
These ambots have to keep coming up with new ideas on how to trick prospects.
The thing with becoming an Amway Independent Business Owner is its just a fancy term for a commissioned salesperson. Amway is just a sales job no matter how much the upline tries to bullshit you that its not selling. I guess they were kind of right. Its more self consuming Amway products instead of selling them. But to succeed in Amway you do have to be good at sales, either selling the board plan and signing up IBO’s into your downline or selling overpriced substandard products and have the art of selling down to convince buyers this shit is really high quality.
Its like a vicious circle sales job cycle. Amway sells products to gullible salespeople and tells them to recruit other salespeople to sell the Amway products. Once the ambot has exhausted all friends and family and random people in the mall they turn to walking the neighborhood and leaving ads in people mailboxes, posting signs on telephone poles, or posting bogus sales job ads on Craigslist. Once they get a live prospect the Ambot assholes get the recruit in front of their cult leaders to close the sale. That’s because - according to the upline - people on the lower levels of the Amway pyramid are too stupid to close a sale when it comes to bringing in new cult members.
Bogus business. Bogus sales jobs ads. Yup it all seems to go hand in hand with Amway.
Anna - What you describe has been the experience of countless millions of people all over the world who have signed up for 'Amway', and it's many copy-cats, during the previous 50+ years.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, there is no quantifiable evidence anywhere (in the form of audited accounts) which proves that significant numbers of so-called 'MLM business owners' have ever received overall profits lawfully from regularly retailing 'MLM' wampum directly to the public. Anyone who fell for one of these bogus 'income opportunities', has actually been a de facto slave recruiter. The entire so-called 'MLM direct selling industry' has been a cruel criminal deception of titanic proportions. However, like an urban myth the 'MLM income opportunity' lie has been repeated so often, that it has now taken on a life of its own, whilst the extraordinary truth has become unthinkable to many casual observers. The absurd 'MLM income opportunity' lie has been sustained by a never-ending chain of ill-informed, silent victims who genuinely believed that 'MLM is a lawful and viable income opportunity,' and that their failure to make money must have been entirely their own fault.
Each time I have laid down the challenge for anyone involved in maintaining the multi-billion 'MLM' lie , to prove my analysis wrong, there has been stoney silence. In reality, these billionaire racketeers are bluffing and, because they are narcissistic cowards, they will do anything to avoid a public confrontation with any free-thinking individual who knows how their blame-the-victim racket functions and who refuses to be intimidated, or bought-off.
Today, when you join 'Amway' in the USA, you actually become the latest temporary link in a never-ending chain of recruitment and hidden financial failure, which stretches back to 1959 and comprises more than ten millions Americans. It is no wonder, that brainwashed 'Amway' de facto slave recruiters need to hide from the ugly truth that they are doomed to failure.
When hauled before the courts for running a dissimulated cloed-market pyramid scam with virtually no external retail sales to the public, criminogenic organizations like 'Amway' have hidden behind slick attorneys (who have been paid with piles of stolen money). These shysters have steadfastly pretended that, in their clients' 'MLM schemes', products and services are being sold to consumers' as allowed by legislation which governs 'direct selling'. In reality, 'MLM' bosses have corrupted US legislators in order to introduce their own essentially-meaningless terminology into 'direct selling' legislation. Thus the deliberately-vague term 'consumers' can be interpreted to mean virtually anyone, including the insolvent 'MLM' de facto slave recruiters themselves and their immediate family members.
David Brear (copyright 2011)
David - of course the only salesmanship thing that Amway ambots have to be good at is selling hope and dreams! Not so much profit in that unless you're at the top of the pyramid.
ReplyDeleteI guess that's what ambots are - temporary links. In a chain that always breaks. Hiding from the ugly truth is the ambot way of saying "don't say negative!"
Yup according to our upline it was all our own fault that we didn't make money in Amway. Those upline bastards refuse to take any responsibility in their part in spreading the Amway lie and a system designed for failure rather. Can't blame their fool proof system!
I'm surprised that there is not an Occupy Amway movement. The 99% of IBOs that lose money should be protesting against the 1% of the IBOs that make money (from them!)
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