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!
Friday, June 21, 2013
Amway Dumb Shits
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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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Yeah, they all love to reference the BBB and how large the parent company's gross sales are. I always say, you got a company making billions, yet most distributors actually lose money, now that's a SCAM.
ReplyDeleteYup, true to the tee. Amway brags about how much money they make and all that, but how do they treat their employees? Most of their distributors would be lucky to sniff a tenth of what Amway the coporation makes. If it was a great business opportunity to actually make a decent amount of money, everyone would be doing it. Not too mention they wouldn't have to hide the word Amway when their sponsors show "the plan"
DeleteAs someone who hates job interviews, but obviously needs to be decent enough at them to be able to get the job and make $$, I hear the stuff they say at Amway meetings and it's been fun to think about how to refute a lot of their claims and lies...
ReplyDeleteFor the $$ part, you can counter that a company like McDonalds makes ALOT more $$ than Amway, but that doesn't mean many people should eat their food everyday, nor start a McDonalds franchise.
I used to work at Kmart as my first job, and I remember a young female employee who would be on the PA after closing hours talking about how Kmart makes $10,000 more a day then previously, while we were closing down shop for the night. We knew full well that we were still making the same $5.85 - $8.85 per hour, and that none of that $10K would come to us
"Wouldn't it be great to buy stuff and get paid for it?". What were the most recent figures...? when you buy $300 of stuff (or was it worse at 300 PV of stuff!?), they give you a $10 check. And that's the best case scenario assuming you have any interest in Amway products.
"how much do you pay for a bottle of water... $2? Might as well buy our brand water. It's good for you b/c it's oxygenated, and goes towards your PV". I fill my water bottles for pennies since I pour it out of my Britta filter. Others probably just buy a case of them on sale or at a wholesale club. And I recall and confirmed my online research... oxygenated water's good for you... if you're a fish. But people have no benefit of that.
"you're going to spend the gas money anyways, so check out the big convention coming up"... 115 miles from the meeting to where the convention's being held... all that time, gas $$, $100-something admission ticket, $120+/day for a hotel... you counter that you already had the "free sample"... the meeting you're about to leave
"what would you do if someone comes in and wants to take this oppornity?" I'd say great! "you see the what you're missing out on?" No let me be clear, great b/c I don't want anything to do with this.
"don't make any decisions until you know all of the facts". If gut intuition wasn't enough, there's plenty of Amway material online and this blog (keep 'em coming!)
Amway works with Fortune 500 companies... again a company can associate itself with good companies, but that doesn't make that company itself good. For example, if McDonalds now serves healthy, sliced apples... that still doesn't make up overall that it's still not a great place to frequent.
They say how successful Amazon is since if one product doesn't work out, they can just sell something else... they're not manufacturers, they just sell the goods. Nothing to do with Amway
Whoops... reached the 4K char limit!..
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"if you need financial assistance many years from now, do you think your friends are going to help you?". In all fairness, they probably won't be able to bail me out of a financial rut. But again with the gut intuition.. at least I'm willing to bet real $$ that a single one of my friends will do ALOT more to help me get back on my feet than ALL of the people in Amway will put together.
"We want our IBOs to be happy, so there's a 90-whatever day $$-back garuantee". I hear some have had enough hassles trying to get their money back within that time period. Even if not for that, Amway sounded bad enough that the correct preventative measure was to not even bother buying into the $115 opportunity kit or whatever. It was NOT worth the hassle even if they gave you double your $$ back
"An excellent way to start a business with little, upfront $$". Yeah, a real business has you getting a loan for $10K, $60K, or even $120K. But given the less than 0.8% average to success rate (defined by those that can at least make some $$ back to the super rich, not just the "super rich"), they're trying to sell you some awful thing for cheap that's not worth it anyways.
"It's better to ask [about getting downlines to join you and/or for others to buy off of you] then to not do so and regret it." Yeah... some people need to be more assertive and proactive in life... asking out a girl, getting more resources at work, getting what you want when buying stuff, and standing up to assholes, but becoming one just isn't the way to go.
"what is stopping you from joining?"... Wild card! Go freestyle here... try not to use cuss words if kids are around :)
When you mention that you have insider knowledge from friends that this is awful... "would you trust your friends with surgery advice?". Again, we're not dealing with Surgery... Amway is supposed to be MUCH simpler. Hell, uplines recite the line that the simplicity of Amway's business model often gets overlooked. If they insist these friends don't know a lot, then it looks bad when some of them being in the program for a long time didn't get good results... what incentive is there for you then?
"'what are your dreams'/what would you do with an extra [blah] per [time period]?'". It's worse when the context for this question is when they're trying to get you to sign the papers to join up, as I've repeatedly ask just what the F@#$ we're supposed to do in Amway to make money. I asked my potential to please just skip this bullshit and move on.
"layoffs occur constantly, I used to be on a government contract/management job/whatever, and got laid off years ago, we needed extra income security...blah blah blah". While that's true, flocking to Amway is just shooting yourself in the foot.
4k limit? Never knew that! Or maybe I did and I just forgot! Thank you for sharing your 4k+ insight! You've got it right but Smway dumb shits would disagree!
DeleteIm sorry anna, but given the nature of the subject at hand. Isn't*.
ReplyDeletePlease, Amway people are stupid morons! I heard some idiot at work once say “I buy quality, not quantity”…must have been one of those Amway cunts! I’m proud of buying quantity over quality any day…and if I EVER choose to buy quality, it won’t be fucking Amway shit!!! ‘PERFECT-WATER’, SA8, XS ENERGY-DRINKS…HAHAHAHAHAHA, HEY AMWAY-FUCKS, GET CREATIVE WILL YA!!!!!
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