Anna Banana has been accused of running a scam from my Married to an Ambot blog from an anonymous poster from Bangalore , Karnataka , India
Maybe its the language barrier?
So I checked dictionary.com for a definition of scam:
a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle
For those of you who don’t know a confidence game is how “con” or “con man” came into being, just a shortened version of confidence game. If you are running a confidence game you are befriending someone and gaining their confidence so that you can swindle them out of their money or other belongings.
Just like what happened to us - or more specifically my Ambot! - when we were in Amway.
So I thought I would break it down for my ignorant Indian visitor on who is really running a scam here.
Anna Banana | Amway | |
Charges annual fee | no | yes |
Sells useless products | no | yes |
Sells overpriced products | no | yes |
Sells useless products | no | yes |
Sells any type of product | no | yes |
Sells motivational material | no | yes |
Exaggerates product benefits | no | yes |
Makes phony income claims | no | yes |
Sells tickets to seminars | no | yes |
Causes financial distress | no | yes |
Destroys marriages | no | yes |
Destroys relationships | no | yes |
Makes others ask permission | no | yes |
Controls information | no | yes |
Causes bankruptcy | no | yes |
Running a cult | no | yes |
Brainwashes people | no | yes |
Encourages people to lie | no | yes |
Labels people losers | Only ambots! | yes |
Cares about people | yes | no |
Tells the truth | yes | no |
To recap I do not charge anyone a fee either annually or per visit to read my blog. I do not sell any products to my visitors. At least not as of November 15 2011. Who knows what the future holds? Ha ha. Really I got nothing to sell. I do not ask any readers to send me money or material possessions. Oh. If anyone has any leftover Halloween candies they want to get rid of I’d be happy to take them off your hands! Ha ha!
The thing about Anna Banana is that I do not try to get money or other items off any of my readers. I am not collecting anything other than information about what really goes on when a person is involved in Amway. I am not lying about how much money can be made in Amway. How can I be running a scam if I don’t receive some kind of benefit? What’s in it for me?
I’m afraid I have fallen victim to a brainwashed ambot who doesn’t know they’re being scammed. In their anger and confusion this anonymous poster from India
People can come here and read my Married to an Ambot blog for free. They are not being fucked over and ordered to hand over some cash before reading the next post.
Very odd. Perhaps Anonymous from Bangalore , Karnataka , India
You don't get it. Your job is a pyramid! Read what the BBB and FTC says about Amway. Amway is debt free! If the dream is big enough the facts don't count! LOL
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about responding but sometimes its kind of tough having a conversation with myself.
ReplyDeleteThere was this successful restaurant/bar owner involved as a ibo. Use to wonder why someone which makes 6 figures or more would be listening to some shithead platinum and asking permission? Saw the diamond & platinums trash this guys business or income.
ReplyDeleteAnna - I've actually been cited in a libellous deposition to an American court. This grotesque document accused me of being the British agent of a millionaire inventor (whom I have never met or corresponded with) and it claimed that I'd been paid to tell lies about 'Amway'. However, this libellous deposition was quickly withdrawn.
ReplyDeleteYou possibly don't know, but 'Amway' was once sued by the British inventor, James Dyson, for breach of contract and infringment of his dual-cyclone vacuum-cleaner patent. This case arose when, decades ago, for just 150 thousands dollars, Dyson (who was then virtually unknown and struggling) sold the rights to 'Amway' to manufacture his (now world-beating) invention under license in the USA. 'Amway' then falsely accused Dyson of being a scam artist whose invention did not work, and he was forced to give the money back to 'Amway'.
Soon afterwards, 'Amway' started to manufacture and sell Dyson's cleaner unlawfully (and for a very high price), and the inventor was reluctantly forced to find US attorneys to sue 'Amway' to protect himself. After years of bruising litigation, he finally settled out of court for an undisclosed sum, believed to be around 15 millions dollars. Part of the settlement allowed 'Amway' to continue to manufacture and sell Dyson's invention, but under strict license and in return for additional annual payments.
Dyson later wrote about these disturbing events in his autobigraphy, 'Against The Odds', and he was sued by 'Amway' in the USA, on the specious grounds that his book broke the confidentiality terms of the original out of court settlement.
Whilst this second lawsuit was still in progress, I happened to mention what had happened to James Dyson when he tangled with 'Amway,' to my mother who was then under the influence of my Ambot brother. I only knew about these events, because they had been presented as part of a UK television documentary made in 1997, which began to expose 'Amway' as a cult and a fraud.
A few weeks after speaking to my mother in private, I received a call from James Dyson's attorneys. To my complete astonishment, they informed me that a deposition, signed by my mother and brother, had been introduced into 'Amway's' US lawsuit against Dyson, which made the absurd claim that I had confessed to my family that I was the inventor's agent in Britain and that I was being paid to tell lies to damage 'Amway's' business and reputation. Not surprisingly, Dyson's attorneys wanted to know what the hell was going on.
The deposition was later withdrawn when I contacted my mother's own attorney in the north of England and told him what she had done. My mother's attorney (who had known her for almost 50 years)was possibly more shocked than anyone. He couldn't believe that his long-time client could be persuaded to sign any from of deposition without first seeking his advice.
Dyson is now Sir James Dyson. His Dual Cyclone cleaner, which 'Amway's' attorneys once falsely claimed did not work, has been sold all over the world and brought its inventor a fortune estimated at $300 millions. Sadly, I never received so much as a thank-you for helping him to win the right to publish his autobiography in the USA.
David Brear (copyright 2011)
Colin - that's all part of the brainwashing IBO's process. Ask permission. Submit to upline. Cult!
ReplyDeleteDavid - there's no extent to the lies that Amway and their cult followers are involved in. I'm not sure why this cult is so hell bent on destroying people and their livelihoods or any other path of destruction the cult followers choose to take against whatever individuals they have selected for their punishment. Cult members on a power trip.
ReplyDeleteWhen I came across that Dyson case I was both shocked and I thought it was pretty juicy. Shocked because ambots have so much scamway crap hidden away from them and even if you hit them on the face with it they won't see it (or will choose not to see it.) It let me know exactly who I had been involved with and where to position them on my totem pole of life - we all have one, don't we. It helped to solidify my decision to leave the cult was a good a good one in deed. Further, you can't help to notice the arrogance with which scamway wanted to unlawfully dispossess Sir Dyson of his rightful invention! How dare them. A big corp. screwing a lone guy and they were intent on getting away with it, with no shame. It reminds me of the movie Flash of Genius - somebody should really make a movie out of this, I can see scamway not being exactly happy about that. Here's the kicker - they want to pass themselves over as exemplary Christians to their cult followers and the public. Jeez! The sheer audacity is grotesque! Christians are the worst offenders the Good Book; and these dudes are great offenders. And also because they (Xtians) tolerate scammers such as these to be in their midst and go on to welcome them full frontal with open arms because they come bearing scummy bags of cash. Can you imagine also that one of the owners, DeVos, actually went over the pond to the same England to get a heart transplant? He was jumped to the front of the queue because of the scummy bags of cash (scammed off of ambots and others.) The same England where earlier his company was trying to screw over Sir Dyson. And I am expected to listen and follow this guy that he is a Christian? Oh and if he is leading a prayer that I should close my eyes, yeah right. Hell to the NO! I will open mine eyes I want to see what his fingers are up to.
ReplyDeleteSubmit to upline - I remember that one. It's one of the three cardinal rules and three nevers, part of the of 9-5-3 bib mantra. Holy crap! Ambots submit to their uplines before they do to their significant others. That's not exactly good for a married woman. We used to hear talks of wives telling on their husbands to uplines for not being out there night after night building the "business." They were their upline's watch dog over their own husbands. It's deplorable! It's obvious where loyalty is placed first. As it is bound to happen affairs, hanky panky and monkey businesses have occured. It's just another way lives have been destroyed.
ReplyDeleteExAmbot - another thing we were taught was to trust your upline. They're the only ones you can believe. Do not believe outside sources such as the news and the Internet and your family and friends because they're all negative liars.
ReplyDeleteLet's see. I think I know who the real negative liars are! Those would be the people in Amway!
I never talked to my upline except briefly at various events. These are not people who I would have invited into my house or gone to their houses to socialize. Therefore no way I would have ratted out my husband about what he was doing or not doing. As long as he was not doing Amway I was happy.
Anna,
ReplyDeleteWriting this from Chennai, India now, but was in the US for nearly 10 years.
There are lot of Indians like Anonymous from Karnataka who become IBOs and approach other Indians in local supermakets and other local stores with the ubiquitous "I have seen you before. Do you live nearby?" or something similar. These b******* sell their souls and keep trying to pitch this m@#@$ f@#$@# up Amway to all and sundry.
I really wish these assholes would stop giving 'normal' Indians like us a bad name. It's really become pathetic.
Regards
Sam
Sam - there weren't any Indians in our line but I was aware of some in crossline. I read an article a couple of years ago by an Indian woman who said that she avoids contact with Indians she doesn't know because they always try to strike up conversations with her in the supermarket or social outings and undoubtedly they are Amway IBO's so they do the same thing here in the states!
ReplyDeleteOh no need to use ****** or @#@$ f@#$@#. Swearing at ambots is definitely encouraged here!
my cats breath smells like cat food. elc.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by to share that with us Peter!
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