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!
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Amway Mantra – You WILL Be Dead Or Broke By Age 65!
15 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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Back in the 80s when I was buying life insurance the illustrations used, no idea how accurate they were, was that a third of people died before 65. I suspect with medical advances lower now, thanks, James
ReplyDeleteThats what I think too James. Up to that point there were more war casualties too. How accurate it is - well a third is a lot different than the ambot 95%.
DeleteHi Anna, I found your blog early last year and I have to admit I love it! It's so real and sometimes personal. I find myself feeling bad for some of these lame-saps, and to tell you the truth, I knew someone back in my day who was part of this. Now that was maybe a good thirty years ago, however, you know...there's something that surprices me!
ReplyDeleteThese Amway recruiters are teaching the same old information that they used to back in my day! I guess I just find that so difficult to believe. There was alaways something that didn't sit right with me about this company though. Sometimes I would look at them and I would try to imagine what it would feel like to try to move past a dead-end.
I mean, a dead-end will never take you anywhere, there is no further road from a dead-end! I feel strongly for those poor souls.
Thank you for your blog Ms. Anna-Banana, you are doing something, which will soon save so many victims, you're god-send, thank and hugs and kisses.
Sincerely,
Maggie
Thank you Maggie. Nothing ever changes in Amway except the faces and the $$$ keep going up.
DeleteStats for you.
ReplyDelete1940 = 2559000 approx births (in US)
2005 = 2448000 approx deaths (in US;65 years)
Divide the number of deaths from the number of births = 95%
Anonymous - thanks for clueing us in on how those dumb ass Amway ambots manipulate the cult followers. Those lying assholes in the Amway upline appear to be claiming that everyone who died in the US in 2005 was born in 1940. Those lying Amway assholes refuse to believe that anybody who died in 2005 could have been born in another year than 1940. Those lying Amway assholes also can't take into account since 1940 the US has had a population explosion and lots of immigration. But thanks for giving us a peak into how those lying Amway assholes scam their way through that dead by age 65! Holy shit!
DeleteManipulating facts the support theories as opposed to manipulating theories to support facts.
DeleteHow many of those who had died in 2005 were 65 or younger?
At that rate, according to your logic, the population of the US would have remained nearly constant, not grown as census stats would show, as 95% of those born in 1940 were part of that death total.
Also, since Amway has been around roughly that long, I'd say Ambots were part of that figure, right?
Better get living, instead of chasing money around.
-Jerry
-Jerry
Jerry - yesterday at 1:29 an Amway employee at Alticor's head office in Michigan was fucking around on the Internet instead of getting their work done and was looking at this post. At the exact same minute those 1940-2005 statistics are posted on the same post the Amway employee is looking at. Coincidence? You be the judge. Their must be an Amway bible at their head office full of lies and statistics the ambots can manipulate to scam others.
DeleteI have to disagree with fact that nothing changes in Amway. I know because my husband is involved and I have been out to meetings, a dream night and prospecting. The way they recruit prospects involve a qualifying them through a series of 5-7 meetings, ultimately with a mentor agreeing to mentor the new ibo. There is a specific dialog that ibos use when prospecting where they basically state they own a small business, they are looking to expand and they're always looking for sharp and ambitious people to work with. I got pissed because I posted an ad on Craigslist and some other ibo contacted me saying that he owned a 7/11 and a Subway, and then gave me the same speech I've heard others in Amway spout off. I was pissed. This business is only semi feasible if you're already making a certain level of income. You need about $500 extra a month just to maintain your amway ditto order and the communikate fees, and the wwg website membership and the digital delivery. This does not include gas to and from functions, board plans, meetings with prospects etc.... My husband to his credit, tells people he's in amway, but he literally makes phone calls to anyone whose number he has to make a sale...it doesn't matter that he hasn't spoken to them in a few years. We can't make simple trips out to the store without him getting pissed off if wasn't able to prospect or even talk to someone else. There are way too many variables for this business to work. You have to find someone to sign up, make sure they maintain personal use, and sign up others, and that they don't quit. Finding this not as easy as your upline claims. Our upline always talks about living out of your car if you have to in order to maintain your pv or more..... I can assure you that our mentors have never "lived out of their cars" so to speak. I pray every night that we can escape this and be normal.
ReplyDeleteYou know, it's the second time I heard about this 5-7 meeting thing to recruit prospects. While it might be common where you live, I can confirm it's not a tactic that's used everywhere. Where I live it's all about finding people who are "hungry for more" and sign them up. No interviews necessary, just show the plan and see what happens next (clue: most people say 'no' with varying levels of politeness).
DeleteAnd it's true... finding people who are interested in this is next to impossible. Hell, if you have a 10% conversion rate, you can consider yourself lucky. Especially when you exhaust your "warm" list and you have to start talking to complete strangers.
I sincerely hope you can escape this hell.
Tobbi,
DeleteDoesn't it make you wonder, have they actually turned anyone down? Has a recruit come about that, though thoroughly excited and fired up, did not meet their qualifications? And what are these qualifications 'mentors' are looking for, aside from being fired up and the lack of will to ask questions?
I know when I was asked to join, they wouldn't let me make a decision for at least one private plan, one plan at a weekly, and another meeting to give my decision. Because of my situation at the time with an Ambot, I gave them a run around until finally telling them no, and that I would not discuss it further. Maybe this is a state to state, or province to province, rule requiring a cooling period.
I'm not sure, but it would provide a more stable down line, albeit smaller and therefore, less profitable.
Also, wouldn't it alleviate the need for the tools if they are looking for qualified, enthusiastic new members? Who needs to pay for encouragement if you already hold the proper qualifications to be successful?
Or it could be a ruse to trick newbies into thinking they are significantly better than someone who wasn't asked to join, giving them an initial boost of confidence, though anybody with a pulse would qualify.
-Jerry
Yes, there were 5 - 7 meetings in Amway. Kind of pre-meeting to the 8pm Amway warrior meeting. It didn't always last the whole 2 hours, depends on how many ambots had been summoned. Mostly it was 1 on 1 with some upline asshole like the sack of shit Platinum where you'd get bitched at because you hadn't been bringing prospects to Scamway meetings.
DeleteThe 5-7 meetings is something that WWG is specifically doing. I know there are other similar mentoring groups affiliated with Amway, but I know nothing about the prospecting techniques. I wasn't clear in my last message, but I was upset about the Amway ibo contacting me from my post on Craigslist because I was looking for a legitimate job to pay bills. Amway is not an immediate way to earn money. A person needs to have an income in order to be involved with any mlm company. The way WWG is handling things is during the first meeting, the prospect is given a book to read in 4 days. In 4 days they meet up again, discuss what is in the book, and then lock the prospect into a board plan with an upline. The meetings at that point forward are to be with the prospect and a mentor they've been introduced to during the board meeting. One of the meetings goes over finances, but does not discuss everything the prospect will incur, such as gas.... just that all business related expenses are tax write offs. The final meeting is to sign up the prospect. Some of the habits they try to instill in ibos aren't bad. Reading from a educational book on relationships or successful business practices is great. However, I am not a fan of having to listen to WWG produced cds. It's annoying. I don't find them inspiring. The products (most of them) are good, but overpriced for retail. I am surprised we've found people to buy them.
ReplyDeleteAnother thing we are taught not to do is consult or research online. There is too much negativity, and it's done by anonymous bloggers who are "too scared" to put their names out there. I post anonymous at the moment because my husband is an active ibo. I am only posting because we are told that the majority of anti amway blogs are written by the same person(s). I know this isn't true because I have put my voice out here.
Those fucked up Amway ambots are all over Craigslist with their phony help wanted ads. That's what scammers do.
DeleteIts really embarrassing for people to admit they're in or used to be in Amway that's why most people don't use their real names so people don't laugh at them for getting involved in the Amway cult.
I hope you find a job.
Thanks Anna and everyone else. Due to my husband's level of commitment, I fear I personally won't be able to help him escape this in a timely manner. It sucks, but I will continue to read this blog and help comment to give people searching for current information on the WWG/Amway debacle a more informed decision before deciding one way or another. I know a lot of ambots show up and get mad and say Anna is spewing garbage and doesn't know anything about this business, however, I can personally attest to the fact that everything I was asked to consider prior to getting involved are things I have seen go awry. Some people might see Anna and other ex ibos as bitter, but I personally don't.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous aka Missing Life