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!
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Buy Your Tickets for WWDB Amway Puryear Family Reunion 2012!
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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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I saw all of these diamonds when I was an IBO some years back. I don't see a single new one on that list, although I see some who are no longer there. LOL
ReplyDeleteJoecool - the good old boys club Diamonds really can't afford to let any new Diamonds crash their ranks and cause more fighting within their group of how to split up the proceeds from the Amway tool scam.
ReplyDeleteI looked up the Centurylink Arena and it seats 5000 plus can accommodate more people on the floor. Lets just say for arguments sake that its 5000 people cause thats easier number to work with. Everyone pays $225 that includes one night hotel, one meal, and tickets to the arena. Lets say hotel, meal, and arena rental cost $125 per person. And that's being pretty generous because mos of the people going are sharing a hotel room so there'd be 2 per room in the majority of ambots. Hotel room group rate call it $100 a night or $50 per person. So due to sharing I'm probably on the high side at guessing the expenses. But I wanted to end up with an easy amount to work with - $100 per person profit. Times 5000 ambots = a cool half million. We have no idea how its split but lets say the Puryears take half of that. Not bad for a weekend's worth of bullshitting because the majority of the people speaking are Platinums and some other Diamonds. That leaves $250,000 to be split amongst the others. Oopes got 9 Diamonds leftover. That makes it like an awkward 27k per couple. Again not bad for showing a face over the weekend and speaking for a short time.
Hi AnnaBanana
ReplyDeleteI went with my friend (IBO) to one of his meetings after getting ambushed on one of our morning jogs. He was babbling on and on about this year’s family reunion thing coming up July. I guess it’s a “must attend” function or convention (or something…WHATEVER). For starters, let me admit I’ve never before seen such mediocrity in my forty years on this planet! He insisted I borrow and listen to a couple of cd’s from some ‘money-guru’ he says he knows personally. I’m not really into listening to anything that’s not accompanied by some kind of music…and of course makes sense to my mood at that moment. Well anyway, back to the meeting on Friday night, we get there and of course, the place is pact! There are no more chairs, one of the best-dressed guys in the back of the room ushers my friend’s ‘sponsor’ to give up his seat so I’ll have a chance at enjoying the speaker’s slander. This ‘meeting’ felt more like a revival of some sorts to me than anything close to a business meeting. I guess there wasn’t any religion involved, yet it was carried on in a fashion resembling that of religious doctrine. After being formally introduced to most of the attending IBO’s in the room one of the attendees (seemed rather prospected), and his wife were being badgered by a group of IBOs to attend that July convention –thing, in a matter of seconds the rest of the group joined in and the guy who urged my friend’s sponsor give up his seat to me walked right in front of them to make certain they would go (he kept insisting they attend in a very weird manner).
He and a few others (they seemed like the diamonds in the group) carried themselves extremely comfortable! After battling with that couple, he made his way to me and asked a few question about my employment (I lead Pioneer-A medical equipment distribution center for medical schools). Impressed, he seemed to veer towards my personal ambitions, at which I admitted I was going to medical school this fall. Before moving on, he suggested I attend this ‘ function’ insisting “I might learn something” and commented that my friend’s sponsor was someone going places and I should maybe meet up with the sponsor and him for coffee some time. I told him no thanks, that I just did this as a favor to my friend whom seemed relentless about this ‘industry’. He became uncomfortable with my comment and with a smile corrected me indicating “this is not a company…it’s a world-wide opportunity for independent business owners with BIG dreams and not afraid of getting their hands dirty”. I smiled back and nodded “most-definitely”, thinking how pathetic this all was! Anyway, a little after 11pm…I told my friend I was heading home, he asked what did I think about the people and the testimonials and I replied they were fine. He asked about my availability to get together for coffee during the weekend and I turned him down telling him I’m not really a “deodorant and soap-door to door kind of guy”. Now, he didn’t show offense to this, but I’m certain he’d love to have retaliated instantly, instead he asked for my cell-phone number and or my email, I gave him one of my email address in case I want to humor myself someday soon. He insisted though, we definitely HAVE TO TALK, and that they could use someone like me in their venture (I’d rather drown myself than tolerate another one of these pitches).
Anonymous - thank you for stopping by and sharing your experiences! Actually I think I will copy and paste this and use it for a blog post later this week in case anyone misses your comments.
DeleteFunny I just wrote a post a couple of days ago about the old Amway line of "must attend biggest event of the year"!
If you'd gone to a few more Amway meetings the psycho religious babble would have come out in great fervor. The 4 major Amway functions come across more like those revival bible groups under a big tent.
They always want to drag you around to meet everyone at the meeting because it makes the IBO look like a big shot that he actually got someone to show up for an Amway meeting! A rarety!
They always want to meet for coffee. He will bring along his Platinum who is probably one of the best sales closers in the room to badger you.
I got a good tip from a reader last month. When the ambots pester you about your dreams and goals the correct answer is you are saving up to start your own porn movie company so that you can produce and act in porn flicks. That really shocks those prudes. If that doesn't work you could ask if you could bring along your gay lover to the next Amway meeting and those homophobes will drop you fast. Amway is a religious cult with very strict ideals of what is a proper family and the man is always the head of the household and the woman is a Stepford wife.
Thanks again for stopping by to tell it like it is at an Amway meeting!
No problem AnaBanana, thanks for your blog. I've never been part of an MLM before, so I didn't have an idea of what to expect. At best it served as amusing and there would be no actual purpose in us getting together again (this friend of mine, the Diamonds and I). Even if they happen to be the greatest sales-people on earth, there is no sales-pitch they can use to render me helpless (they're not really selling me anything). Not to gloat, but in my forty years on earth I've battled against the greatest and most feared-car sales people you'll ever want to deal with, and not once have I finished my car-purchase session in less than eight hours (car-sales people are the piranhas of the sales-pitch) Like I've told many before, you have to sell me something I like, and I'm already looking for in order to real me in so we can fight over the appropriate fee...and I'm always incredibly cheap!
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by Anonymous. Yeah Amway meetings are amusing in a creepy kind of way. Mostly I was just really pissed off that I was there listening to those fucking assholes lying to us and brainwashed ambots who were drinking up the kool aid.
DeleteI think time shares businesses have better closers than Amway does!
$480 for a couple to go this year if you buy your tickets early. That includes the hotel for Saturday night, Saturday dinner and Sunday breakfast. A "Ruby" as far as I know is someone who has 15,000 PV (points). On Sunday mornings they do pass buckets at the end of church service but it's for either Paul Tsika's thing he does..The Ranch? .. or for Rick Green's (forget the name)..or John Maxwell's Equip team..it all depends on which person they have speaking that morning. My husband gives $50/month to Rick's and then $50/to Maxwell's :/
ReplyDeleteThanks for the update on the tickets Anonymous! One of those deep dark Amway secrets they don't want to get out there! Wow! Thats $100 at least your husband is donating! Its still staying within the group and not going to a good cause like helping out victims of a natural disaster that is happening somewhere else in the world.
DeleteSo you failed at being an IBO, so the blame goes to Amway? I know the people I put myself around take responsibility for their own decisions.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous from Everett Washington searching for "2012 Amway Portland Family Reunion" - in order to fail at something one first has to try. I never tried to be an IBO so how could I fail at it dumb ass?
DeleteThe people I put myself around take responsibility for their own decisions too. Whew! What a relief. When my husband was an ambot those fucking assholes we knew in Amway never took responsibility for sweet fuck all. Pointed fingers and blamed everyone else for everything. I'm sure glad I don't have to put up with those fucking assholes I knew in WWDB Amway and now only put myself around responsible human beings who take responsibility for their own decisions. So how do you put your self around people who take responsibility for their own decisions because people like that are NOT in Amway and the assholes in your Amway upline won't let your associate with outsiders.
Figure that one out asshole!!!!
I guess Anonymous has fallen for the usual line of upline bullshit that "anyone who fails at Amway didn't try hard enough and is a lazy loser". It's their way of not taking responsibility for pushing what is a truly flawed "plan". Even when IBOs follow the instructions of their upline to the letter, do every single thing they are told to do, put in tons of hours, go to every function, buy every "must have for success" CD and book, more than 99% of them will still lose money. Those are the factual statistics. And the upline will simply say "well, I guess you didn't work hard enough". It makes it easy for them to avoid responsibility since there will never be a clearly defined concept of just what "working hard enough" really means. All a part of the big scam.
Delete~Dave
Dave - anonymous from Everett comes across as a self righteous arrogant bastard who's better than everyone else. I wonder if that's my husband's sponsor and he's moved there wherever the hell it is in Washington! He comes across exactly the same as every asshole I met in Amway. Just wait until he quits Amway and the shitkicking he'll get from his upline about how he's a loser.
DeleteYou didn't do the work
ReplyDeleteHow come none of you fucking Amway assholes who bitch at us that we "didn't do the work" put down your criteria of what "doing the work" means to you and then we can tell you whether or not we measured up to your standards? Instead you show up with you snide Amway asshole attitudes and spout off random Amspeak that we've heard plenty of times before. Not interested in your Amway bullshit and your attitude that you're better than everyone else just cause you're in Amway so fuck off and take the fucking assholes in your Amway upline with you.
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