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!
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Amway IBOs Brag That Amway Invented The Refund Policy
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Hi Anna- first off, let me say I love your blog. Second, I was propositioned by an "ambot" for the first time on Saturday. What made it so strange was that the pitch occurred DURING A FIRST DATE.
ReplyDeleteI feel compelled by pride to state up front that I am a pretty girl. I watch what eat, I dress well, and I have great hair. It's important that I point that out, otherwise the whole story has a very sad "lonely lady" feel to it. I'm in my late 20s and like most singles I have an online dating profile. About 2 weeks ago I got a message from a guy on the site; he was cute and my age and sent a very flattering and detailed message to me. I responded back, and for about a week and a half we messaged a bit. Looking back there were some red flags; his profile said he was self employed and listed his income as $100k. That in itself is unusual; people rarely if ever list their personal income for obvious reasons. Also, when I told him I was a grad student he was like "well, that's good for you...I'm more of an independent ambitious type of guy so I could never work for someone else". Again- big red flag (because I'm in grad school for education, and he's the first person I've ever met to kinda scoff at teaching). But....he was cute. So when he asked me out for coffee I didn't think twice about going.
I get to the coffee shop on Sat afternoon, and the first thing I notice is he's dressed up. Like, he's wearing a tie. It's Sat afternoon in a coffee shop in Buffalo NY- no one wears a tie. So we started talking; at first light getting to know you chit chat but quickly it gets very focused on me. On my financial situation- how am I paying for grad school? Do I find the need to take out loans? Do I have to work a job on the side? And then he started saying things about teaching; about how hard it is to get a teaching job, about how little they get paid, etc. I actually started feeling a little shitty; teachers DONT get paid that much. Then he laid down his line; it was something to the effect of he didn't normally do this but he thought I was super cute and he liked me a lot, so he'd be willing to cut me in on this great business opportunity. Then he went into a pitch; he actually drew a profit to loss graph on a napkin. Ummmm....I may not be an MBA but I know enough about investing to never invest money for a scheme someone draws on a napkin.
He went on for about 15 min; I don't think I ever said a word. I figured out what was going on pretty quick- but I just could not believe this guys audacity. And also, his cluelessness. Because it's pretty audacious to say to yourself "Girls think I'm kinda sexy, so I'm going to hunt some down on OKCupid and scam them into a MLM". But it's also SO clueless. Here's this guy who's really good looking, he was charming and engaging....if he really wanted to dedicate himself to building a serious business, or working as a salesman in a well paying sales position (say at an auto dealership), he could do it. He's been blessed with the gifts of charm, attractiveness, and boldness and in other businesses he'd thrive. Instead, he's running a scam on 28 year old ladies- and the scam doesn't even work. I didn't sign up, he's still broke, and he didn't even get laid (which probably wouldn't have happened on Sat anyways, but at least he had a shot before he started the Amway shit)
Hi Anonymous. Thanks for stopping by with your story. Yup Amway ambots were hitting up females on online personal ads too when I was in, rotten lousy lying little bastards that they are! Anyway, I love your story and might use it in a future post. That's the thing with being in Amway and these guys can't figure out why they're not getting laid. Amway= huge turn off!
DeleteCASSETTE TAPE, here. I have to jump in here and say I returned a LOT of stuff to amway during our tenure and it always turned out O.K. Have things changed since 2000? I've read often on here about the difficulty of returns and found that perplexing since I had a decent experience.
ReplyDeleteOff topic (sorry, Anna), but has anyone read on The Blaze that Rush Limbaugh is predicting the left may go after Dick Devoss b/c of his political views? This could get unpleasant. Not sure what to make of it.
Cassette Tape - yup you have to jump through hoops to get a refund from Amway. First with the creeps who work at Amway's I don't give a fuck desk. But they're nothing compared to the hard time you'll get from the assholes in the Amway upline when everyone goes into the PV hole because of that refund.
DeleteYeah let the left go after him!
There are several reasons for a refund policy... at more reputable stores, you can buy something, and realize that if you didn't want it, you can go ahead and return it with relatively low hassle of driving back.
ReplyDeleteThe problem with Amway's refund policy is as soon as your realize these people are out to get your money by any means necessary, the refund policy now isn't worth the paper its written on. I'd imagine they'd shame you for doing so. I'd gander the refund department makes you jump through a lot of hoops too, like trying to quit AOL's internet service back over a decade ago.
ackmondual - nothing at Amway is worth the paper its written on! And the public shaming/ridicule the ambot goes through for trying to refund something just isn't worth it. As you've mentioned reputable stores give refunds with a lot less hassle than Amway and the upline assholes.
DeleteThe real scam, the cds books and seminars have no written refund policy that I know of.
ReplyDeleteJoecool - those scamming ambots are supposed to refund those tools but they don't. Mostly cause they don't have any money to do so. Just another way the tool scam is - well the tool scam. You get scammed so many ways from Amway.
Delete"There ain't no refund!"- Dexter Yeager
ReplyDeleteAnd speaking of scammers. The King himself!!!
DeleteHa ha. Yup good one!
DeleteJust curious with the refunds. Do ibos deal with upline or Amway customer service for refunds? I remember wwdb there was no such thing as returns or refunds.
DeleteHi Anonymous. We were in the same Amway cult sect and
Deletetechnically what you've said is correct. Its all about Amway ambots talking out of both sides of their mouth bragging about Amway offers refunds but don't you dare return anything or there will be hell to pay. If they're a good little ambot and ask their upline for permission to retirn something the ambot will be chastised and won't dare disobey their cult leader. If they go directly to Amway to get a refund, eventually that show up on the reports everyone upline sees about their downlines activity and thats when everyone goes into the hole on their points and the ambot will suffer more abuse from thier upline for daring to disobey.
Then I'm tempted to sign up and buy products. Then return everything to Amway. Might drop by a house meeting and be a dick.
DeleteYou don't have to sign up to buy products. Buy them and return them. The guy who sold them under his IBO number and everyone in his upline takes a hit when the PV goes into the hole. And yeah it'd be fun to go to a meeting and be a dick. Interrupt the meeting and say you're looking for investors for a gay porno movie you're starring in. The sack of shit running the meeting will be livid!
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