Critical mass was something we heard at Amway meetings. “Now is the time to get into Amway and start building your Amway business! The Amway business is exploding and now is the time to get in and collect the benefits of getting into Amway in time ($$$$$$$$$$) before we reach critical mass. Before its too late. Don’t miss the bus.” Blah blah blah. Bullshit to that effect.
We were always told that we’d come “on board” at just the right time. “Now is the beginning of what is gearing up to be a huge increase in Internet sales of Amway products. Exciting changes are just about to happen in the Amway business. This is huge!”
Yup all the rah rah hype the cult leaders use to brainwash their followers.
I heard that same bullshit propaganda pitch years ago the first time we signed up for Amway! And people leaving comments on this blog are saying they heard it too from the Amway cult leaders like last week. The only change is losing more money thanks to more Amway tools being on the scene - Communikate, WWDB premier membership, etc - and we had to invest more heavily into Amway’s tool scam.
To further punctuate that we’d gotten on board with Amway at just the right time when the Amway business is about to explode we were shown charts of how this trend was supposed to occur over the next few years with sales going up. This chart was part of the business plan flip cards that were shown at every Amway meeting.
The sack of shit Platinum used to flip the chart upside down and say those were the statistics of people who aren’t in Amway. Doomed not to have any savings and work a job until they were 65 years old at which time
they’d automatically either die or be broke.
There might have been some changes in Amway but whether or not they’re exciting depends on whether or not you’re an ambot. Or married to one.
Once Ambot was immersed in the Amway cult these are the (not) exciting changes I observed in him:
1. he got into huge arguments with people he normally got along well with because they didn’t want to come to Scamway meetings
2. he sneered at people who had J.O.B.s and wouldn’t consider Amway a viable career choice
3. he was very rude to friends who weren’t interested in supporting his business by buying overpriced Amway products
4. he dropped whatever he was doing to respond to phone calls or text messages from the bastards in his upline who wanted him to haul his ass to wherever they were for whatever they deemed was more important
5. he quoted Amway speak constantly and parroted whatever his upline brainwashed him into repeating. Like just shut the fuck up! Nobody gives a shit about goddamned Amway! Notice how everybody avoids us and no one invites us over anymore?
6. he questioned everything I did and how it was making him money in his Amway business.
7. he had the brainwashed delusion that his upline sponsor was some sort of god only by virtue of the fact that he had brought him into the Amway cult and therefore we must lick his asshole
8. he became a slob around the house littering his Amway garbage wherever he happened to be and refused to put the consumed items containers into the garbage or recycling bin. Part of the Amway male chauvinist pig club’s teachings. The only use for women in the lives of Amway warriors is to pick up after them.
9. he used his previously debt free credit card for Amway related purchases including treating the entire upline out for meals and maxed it out buying Amway shit so he could impress the assholes in his upline.
10. he became increasingly agitated, argumentative, rude, and snobbish
11. he accused everyone with different points of view (from his upline) of being negative
12. have I mentioned how fucking OBNOXIOUS he was to anyone who didn’t share his view on how wonderful, amazing, etc etc the Amway cult is.
Yeah that was a real joy to live with! The ambot monster from Amway hell! Created by the fucking assholes in our upline. A frankenambot!
The changes since Ambot got out of the cult and away from being brainwashed by the assholes like our sack of shit Platinum have been a lot more positive such as becoming a nice person again. Despite the upline’s bullshit claims that being in Amway makes you a nicer person - a tactic used to distract ambots from paying attention to the money they’re not making - I’m here to say that NO WAY IN HELL does being an Amway IBO make someone a nicer person. As a brainwashed group of cult followers they might all put on a fake nicey nice act at Amway functions and seminars but in private they’re nasty, surly, unapproachable sorry excuses for human beings. Losing money in the Amway pyramid scheme can change a person’s personality and make them nasty
demons. Dealing with the upline asshole cult leaders who brainwash IBO’s into thinking the reason they’re not succeeding in the Amway scam is because they’re not trying hard enough or because they’re losers is another part of belonging to this shitty MLM scam.
No matter what some lousy brainwashed asshole might say about how Amway brings exciting changes to people’s lives, I’m here to say watching someone getting brainwashed by the Amway cult is not an exciting change. Its a descent into hell.
Hi Anna Banana, I’m new to your blog
ReplyDeleteFirst and foremost, I want to say “thank you” Anna for the blog, very interesting read! Second, I would like to ask you a question about these so called Amway “Ambots” friends of your husband.
But first my tiny story I guess. I have a friend whom joined this venture recently and he’s still as friendly with me and approachable as before. However, whenever we’re somewhere hanging out and he comes upon some of his Amway-friends, his introduces me and they but look at me and barely notice me. They’re not unfriendly per say, however they don’t really care to take the time with anyone not associated with this ‘business’ thing they’re in!
They all act cold and indifferent when we’re together, as they seemed to prefer to keep their Amway-circle exchange intact…I guess?
Now that comes down to my question for you Anna. Were your husband’s Amway-friends also indifferent and cold to you? Did they only acknowledge you for a few seconds while you were with him and then they acted as if you didn’t really exist?
At first I assumed maybe it was something I said, how I looked, or my face…I’m not that appealing you know hehehe! But then I started to notice it was only his Amway-friends acting this way.
Do you have to LITERALLY be in Amway for these people to give a shit about you? Is even a five-minute conversation out of the question if you’re not in Amway? I mean, holly-shit…I thought these people were trained to be happy 24/7, and to love everyone and everything!
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Hi Gator. I'm glad you found us and sorry to hear about your friend.
DeleteYou nailed it. You got to be in Amway for ambots to give a shit about you.
When we were stuck in the hellhole it's very male chauvinist pig in its attitude towards women. Usually I was not acknowledged by the males in the group other than a quick hello how are you not that I give a shit kind of thing. Then the men would huddle together and ignore the women. The women were friendlier but still all they'd want to talk about is Amway.
Your friends Ambot friends ignore you not only because they don't give a shit about people not in Amway but because they ain't gonna make no money off you. These people are only your friends as long as they can use you and make $$$. When your friend quits they won't give a shit about him anymore either.
Amway the cult of greed.
They probably aren't acting any differently than any other cult.
If you went to an Amway meeting these bastards who usually ignore you will be all over you with their phony nicey nice act. So unless you have some obscene desire to be love bombed by these cult followers don't go to any meetings!
I can attest that the ambot men are chauvinist pigs as I witness, first hand, the activities at fun days sponsored by a diamond couple. Everyone gathers together at the home at the appointed time. (Be it known that NO ambot minion is allowed to park in the large driveway--all must park on the street.) The men and women separate. The men must participate in some "male" activity--a sport of some kind and pretend that they are having fun in a very restricted environment. The women huddle together in a separate are of the yard where not enough chairs are provided, forcing some to either sit on the grass or stand if they do not wish to dirty their dressy casual clothes. Later, they are called back together again. I believe I forgot that toys are "shown off" during the gathering before or after the separation of men and women. The overall time period is short and witnessing these events is unsettling and creepy.
ReplyDeleteHi Anonymous. Oh yes only the hallowed Amway cult leaders can have the prime parking spots. All lowly ambots park down the street! Yes men - join Amway and learn how to become a male chauvinist pig. Its all in their teachings. How to turn your wife into a Stepford Amford wife. Yup been to fun times like you've described where men and women separate and its creepy. Amway is creepy.
Delete@Anna Banana, LOL, halfway reading through Anony's post, I thought "this is scene right out of Stepford Wives". And the men and women separating... like in cults, or slaves in ancient times.
DeleteHa ha. The Amford Wives. Somewhere n this blog is a post about that! Yup in Amway meetings boys over here and girls over here. Cults and slaves in modern times : Amway.
DeleteOh, Anna, I remember the incredible build up to 9-1-99. It was going to overwhelm the internet. People would be clammoring to order amway on the net. I woke up that day barely able to breathe from expectation. it was to be the introduction of Quixtar.
ReplyDeleteAnd then? Nothing. Nothing at all. Absolutely nothing changed. Not even a blip. There were thousands of us in California for Free Enterprise Day awaiting this huge announcement.
By then we had been hard core times ten on steroids. We dragged very successful high profile friends all the way to CA for this. I was overwhelmingly embarrassed. The weird silence in the auditorium couldn't have been more profound. Everyone was confused. I couldn't even look at our friends.
Amway changed for me that day. It was the beginning of the end. 3 yrs. later I up and quit, no longer caring what it would cost to do so.
We had no friends left, so what could possibly be worse?
It's now been 10 full years away from Amway. I still carry the shame. I am still angry at what A stole from us in every possible way. 6+ years of devotion. Life is too short to throw it away chasing mlm illusions.
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Hi CT. I feel your pain. The embarrassment of Amway. Years afterwards struggling to get life back on track. Yeah the upline assholes are still saying people are clamoring to buy Amway products and this shit sells itself. Nothing changes in Amway except the new victims.
DeleteAnon,
DeleteDid they claim something crazy would happen on 9/1/99?
Pretty cult like behavior (IE Jesus will show on TV on X date)
WHILE YOU ALL TALK BULLSHIT ABOUT SOMETHING YOU ALL HAVE NO IDEA, US THE AMWAY PEOPLE MAKE MORE MONEY AND LIVE BETTER LIVES, WITH OR WITHOUT YOUR OPINIONS BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE OPINIONS, FAR AWAY FROM FACT!
ReplyDeleteAt least I'm not some dumb fuck who doesn't know how to turn off the caps lock button on my computer! Or do you have to ask permission from the fucking assholes in your Amway upline before you can do that?
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