I’ve heard from a reader who mortgaged their house to buy Amway products.
Why the fuck do people do things like this?
Its all part of Amway’s sell the hope not the soap campaign. We go to Amway functions and the Diamonds stand on stage and tell their hard luck story. They all have the same story told slightly differently. I swear these bastards got together to figure out what fables to tell to the ambots in the audience anxious to devour every bullshit word from their beloved cult leaders.
The Diamond’s hard luck stories usually go to the effect that both the husband and wife were working minimum wage jobs when a dear friend came along to show them the Amway business plan. Every one of them seems to have borrowed $20 from their aunt to put gas in the car to get to the first Amway function. And the rest is history. The stuff that Amway fairy tales are made of. Ambots are ordered by their cult leaders to do whatever it takes to get to Amway functions. They fail to say the real reason they need high attendance is because those functions are how the Diamonds make most of their money from the tool scam. They give shitty advice to skip a few meals or skip the mortgage payment or take out a 2nd mortgage on your house. That way you’ll have the money to get to Amway functions.
The brainwashing that goes into these ambots to make them do dumb things just to make their cult leaders richer is incredible.
Mortgaging your house to buy Amway products? Just how many shitty overpriced Amway products does one person need? I guess that depends on if they play to single handedly - no downline or customers - get to their 1000 pin that month. Or maybe 2500 pin or 5000. Take any of those PV pin amounts and multiply by 3 to get the approximate dollar value of what those products cost.
How did the upline brainwash the ambots to mortgage the house for no other reason than to help their upline meet some goal that month. Probably had something to do with an upline Diamond falling out of qualification and everyone downline who owned a house was ordered to mortgage it and buy Amway products. You help your upline and one day there will be someone downline who will do the same for you.
Fuck that shit!
Can we say inventory loading?
I’ve never been brainwashed by a cult so I can’t pretend to understand what is going through the minds of these people who do crazy dumb ass things like mortgaging their house to buy Amway products just so they can get a little recognition and praise from their upline.
I thought it was bad enough to drain the savings account and run up the credit card debt just to keep the Amway cult leaders happy. Risking your house, probably your biggest investment, the place where you have a roof over your head and a warm dry place for your family to live and keep their stuff just because some upline asshole needs more PV to reach their monthly goal is stupid.
I’ve seen too many stories from former IBO’s who’ve lost their house thanks to the Amway scam. A little maneuver our upline tried to do with us too to take out a 2nd mortgage so we could buy lots more Amway shit. Ambot was convinced this was the right thing to do just because some upline Amway asshole said so. Too bad for him he’s not the only name on the deed and I ain’t putting up the house because some fucking Amway asshole that I despise says to do so.
Ah yes. No wonder those fucking assholes tried so hard to destroy our marriage. Once the ambot’s money supply runs out and the wife/husband refuses to use their credit card or sign away the house or car there’s nowhere else for those bastards to go except to destroy the relationship.
As all good little cult leaders must do.
Call it revenge for the PV not being as high as they want.
Can you image what becomes of a house that goes into foreclosure due to the Amway scam. The sherrif evicts the family and goes in with a crew to remove the belongings and put them into storage. And what are they removing? Boxes and boxes of $50 bottles of Perfect Water, boxes of XS piss water, boxes of shitty Amway Nutrilite food bars, and enough bottles of Nutrilite vitamins to clog every toilet in the Trump Tower
And then when the evicted don’t pay the storage fees it gets auctioned off. Can you see that one on Storage Wars? Jarrod and Brandy pay a few hundred bucks for the unknown items inside the abandoned locker and end up with boxes and boxes of Amway shit.
Bring the dumpster over!
Anna - Cults have been compared to theatrical performances, where the usual barrier between the performers and the audience has completely ceased to exist. Core cult adherents unconsciously accept fiction as fact, to the point where, in the very worst examples, they have taken their own lives, and/or the lives of others, in the deluded belief that this was a proven means of achieving exclusive salvation in a secure Utopian existence outside of the Earth. Suicide bombers and the Kamikaze of WWII, are amongst the most extreme examples of this type of totalistic brainwashing.
ReplyDeleteHowever, imagine how much easier it is to use essentially the same fairytale to persuade individuals to commit financial suicide in the deluded belief this is a proven means of achieving exclusive salvation in a secure Utopian existence on Earth
What you have described in your latest post, is one variation of the standard fairytale, presented, and peddled, as total reality, by all cultic charlatans.
No matter how mediocre they might be in the adult world of quantifiable reality, cult instigators all pretend to have exclusive access to a superior, or superhuman, knowledge by which they claim to have transformed from ordinary beings into superior beings. Cult instigators offer to share this secret knowledge with anyone (for a price).
In a 'Prosperity Gospel' group like 'Amway' , the leaders all duplicate the example of the instigators, and tell their own variations of essentially the same rags to riches fairytale.
To date, acceptance of the 'Amway/MLM' fairytale as total reality, has produced millions of Kamikaze businesses and generated billions of dollars of unlawful profits for a handful of racketeers. Sadly, because it remains largely-unrecognized, 'MLM income opportunity,' or 'prosperity gospel,' cultism has become one of the most-pernicious forms of fraud, since WWII.
David Brear (Copyright 2012)
David - our resident Amway cult specialist. I don't think I've heard from you in awhile. I was beginning to wonder if you'd been captured by the enemy!
DeleteI love the term kamikaze business owners! How appropriate a description is that for any ambot who signs up for the Amway scam!
Anna - If the billionaire 'Amway' bosses had been running Japan during WWII, they would probably have charged the poor little Kamikaze pilots for their uniforms, maps, fuel, training, toilet paper, etc.
ReplyDeleteSadly, there are currently more Kamikaze 'Amway' businesses taking off to certain insolvency, than ever before. However, there are few American volunteers, because it's common knowledge in the USA that, no so-called 'IBO' has landed safely in the promised-land called, 'Total Financial Freedom.'
You might be interested to know that the Amway Ministry of Truth has recently claimed more than $10 billions of annual sales. In reality, this impressive figure represents the total sum of money extracted unlawfully last year from all insolvent Ambot businesses (in return for the effectively unsaleable wampum). When you factor-in the related advance fee fraud (a.k.a. 'tool scam'), the actual scale of the 'Amway' racket has become truly astounding.
David Brear (copyright 2012)
David - you're right. If Amway had been running Japan during WW2 they would have charged their warriors for everything. Oh wait I think they do that today. Amway warriors are how ambots refer to themselves.
DeleteAmazon had $34 billion in annual sales and you don't hear anyone claiming its a cult. Some people might complain about the prices but for the most part Amazon sells products at better prices than in the stores, sells products that people actually want, and has free shipping on orders over $25. Tell the Amway Ministry of Truth to stick that in their pipe and smoke it. Amazon makes 4 times as much money as Amway and does not destroy lives.
Heard many stories of Wednesday ibos moving in with their parents so the can afford products. Usually a married couple doing this
ReplyDeleteWednesday IBOs? Never heard that term before!
ReplyDeleteNow there's a good definition of loser: IBO's who have to move back in with mommy and daddy! And where are those parents and the tough love thing? Sure we'll support you in this cult you're involved with so you can throw away all your money, go into debt, and scam others.
Have a new smartphone and it auto spells or put in words like Wednesday
ReplyDeleteColin - Damn auto correct! I do my grocery list on my phone and sometimes I get to the store and pull it up and say what the fuck was that supposed to be????
DeleteYou need to read this but beware you'll be laughing so hard you'll cry. http://likeandshare.blogspot.com/2011/12/15-funniest-autocorrects-from-november.html
Anna - Colin might be interested to learn that, back in the 1990s, my thirty-something Ambot brother, and his younger Ambot partner, moved in with my widowed-mother (when she had just been diagnosed with chronic illneses and was experiencing a severe identity crisis). He then gave up his detested job as a high-school teacher, and was able to finance his Kamikase 'Amway' business, by lying to me and to my vulnerable mother in order progressivley to mis-appropriate my family's substantial capital assets and by renting out his own little home, whilst his partner continued to work as a teacher.
ReplyDeleteTypically, my Ambot brother justifyed his crimes against his friends and family, by constantly repeating the scripted lie that he was a 'selfless positive winner building a secure residual income' for himself whilst helping others to do the same, and that anyone who opposed him (like me), was a 'selfish negative loser' motivated by 'jealously.'
During his time as the de facto slave of the 'Amway' crime bosses, my brother and his brainwashed little squandron of fellow Kamikaze 'Amway' business owners, were responsible for recruiting around 50 further victims each year - most of whom ran out of cash, and abandoned the commercially-suicidal '2-5 year MLM plan for total financial freedom' within a few months.
After several years, and many thousands of dollars, wasted, my Ambot brother achieved the insolvent hierarchical level once known as 'Gold Producer.'My Ambot brother's chronic 'MLM' addiction generated several hundred thousand dollars for his masters.
My Ambot brother bedazzled most of his temporary Ambot victims by pretending that his retirement, and expensive home, had been achieved as a result of his 'Amway business ownership.' He also posed as a 'financial consultant.'
My Ambot brother was, in fact, the equivalent of a brainwashed Kamikaze flashing a fake commercial pilot's licence and offering to sell commercial flying lessons.
David Brear (copyright 2012)
David - yup your brother has all the qualities of most ambots I've met. Greedy materialistic bastards who don't give a shit about anyone else and destroying other people's finances and emotional well being while hiding behind their lies.
DeleteI wonder if IBOFB lives in his mum's basement?
ReplyDeleteJoecool - if I was IBOFB's mom I wouldn't want the little ambot living in my basement and giving me application techniques for make up and tampons like I haven't already gotten this far in life and figured it out!
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