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!
Monday, April 29, 2013
Life Changing Event or Just More Amway Bullshit?
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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Oh I know all too well. They are all the same, every meeting, or function is a "once in a lifetime" opportunity for IBO's to attend these boguses conventions. All it is is Friday night session 5 hrs of B.S, followed by a nightowl depending on who's the diamond on your team. AFter that, the saturday sessions are one during the day for 7 hours, then a 2 hour break and then another night session that last for about 4 or 5 hours. Then there is another night-owl smh. On the sunday, there is an "optional" church session followed by the final session til about late afternoon. So the who weekend is to have IBO's plugged in. Im glad that I didn't go to the last major function. A function that is dubbed as a "training and business" session is really a conference that involves the diamonds telling the IBO's how rich there are and feed brainwash them to praise the uplines and diamonds.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - you have summed up an mway function. Except you forgot to say on the 2 hour dinner break ambots have to stand in line again. You get back 20 minutes before the doors open and ambots have clogged the entrance doors. They think they won't get in unless they're at the front of the line. Nobody's that lucky!
DeleteAnna it's weekends that cram and sleep deprieve their IBO's to keep them "tuned in" I made the right decision by NOT going to an amway function that went on in the Amway function in Louisville a few weeks ago. Saved myself money, and being able to enjoy that weekend eating real food and getting sleep
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - sleep deprivation is a common tactic used by cults. Yup good decision not going to Amway's latest brainwashing conference. Maybe you're not making any money by staying home for the weekend but you're sure not losing any blowing it on a Scamway convention!
Deleteactually I've made money that weekend because I have that thing that Amway acts like it's the devil and that is a JOB where I actually MAKE money
DeleteHi Anna:
ReplyDeleteI've read and commented on your blog in the past. It's great to be free of this stupid and destructive cult and getting some of my own goals in life achieved. Been free since September of 08!
I don't exactly know what has made me think about this, but do you know what ever happened to Tex? I think his website is now shutdown. Any info about what happened? I don't think anybody really misses him, myself included.
Hi David. The person who moderates the blog comments just checked the spam filter and found this comment sitting there and gave me a heads up. Not sure why it hit the spam filter??? Looks OK to me! Oh well not the first time this has happened.
DeleteCongratulations on being free from Amway for nearly 5 years now! Kind of like AA hunh? Ambots Anonymous!
Sorry can't help you on the Tex thing. I didn't read his blog or keep in contact with him. Maybe someone else reading this knows?
"...a once in a lifetime opportunity, that is until the next Amway once in a lifetime opportunity rolls around in 3 months."
ReplyDeleteHilarious, that is genius!
"The main reason the brainwashed ambots show up for these Amway functions is to swoon and worship the Diamonds the way their upline has taught them to behave when they come to one of these events and are in the presence of Scamway royalty."
ReplyDeleteLOL CHECK!
They expected ambots to run, no sprint, to the front of the stage and pound on it when their upline diamond came out. I started thinking at a certain age this is not exactly adult behavior, ha?
I never hauled my ass down to the stage. Now maybe if George Clooney had been there that'd be another story! Yes from where I was sitting close to the exit door those ambots all looked like a bunch of fucking morons rushing the stage just because the head honcho scammers are up there. Gotta worship the cult leaders.
DeleteIf they approach anybody at BnB the conversation should flow thusly,
ReplyDeleteAmbot: The function is a mirror of where you will be in five years, watching all those diamonds on stage.
Prospect: Wait a minute how long have you been doing scAmway?
Ambot: That is not...
Prospect: Is it not six years? You are not even a platinum? Why you lying, ambot, why?
What's with all these ambots who've been in the scam for 10 or 20 years bragging about how you'll be Diamond in 2 to 5 years with gazillions of dollars rolling in every month and they can't even break 1000 PV. If you can't do it then what does that tell the rest of us.
DeleteI remember when the irony hit me. I had been so brainwashed there was a serious disconnect between my reality i.e. not a diamond yet after 5 years, and parroting the same 2-5 year crap to a live thinking human being. I could see the unspoken question staring back at me on their forehead. Yep it was irony live!
DeleteFunny thing is my erstwhile uplines gave me a line for that too and yes it was a lie and more trickery because there's some lie even thy own mind won't bite.
ExAmbot - I'm glad the irony finally hit you! Did your momma ever say do as I tell you not as I do? That works in Amway too!
DeleteI heard all those lines too. You go to an Amway function and nothing useful is shared. No valuable business advice. Just a bunch of dopes on the stage bragging about how rich they are and showing videos. I suppose this motivates some people but there is no actual advice given on how to find prospects, where to find them besides B&N, and how to sale the products. All the upline tells you is that Amway products sell themselves. No they don't. It's not like they're cronuts.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet for every Amway meeting, every seminar they say the same thing to their downline "you CAN'T miss this one! All the serious business builders will attend and if you don't go you'll fall behind and miss out on valuable information. This is the most important one of the year!" And then you get there and, as you said, they trot out the same line of bullshitting, bragging diamonds, show the same "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" videos, get people chanting slogans and "rah-rah"-ing, and you come out even more brainwashed and yet not having learned one single useful thing. That's not the point. The point is motivating (brainwashing) people to keep losing money to the scam. That's it. That's what it's all about. Period.
DeleteAs for the products "selling themselves", that might be easier if it weren't for the fact they are generic at best and usually horribly over priced. Not a very good "sales" feature.
Hi Anonymous. Well I can miss all Amway meeetings and be happy I'm not wasting my time, money, and brain cells. No matter how much they tell me I'll be 6 months ahead of everyone else who didn't go! I'll be 6 months ahead in reaching bankruptcy. Don't miss the brainwashed masses chanting and cheering everytime the next Amway asshole walks across the stage.
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