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!
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Amway S.C.A.M.
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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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"Educated, creative, ambitious people get sucked into scams like Amway more often than we’ll know because too many are embarrassed to admit they weren’t smart enough to figure out they were being scammed."
ReplyDeleteI read this book called Excellent Sheep and reflected on my college experience. From what I understand, people never get out of the whole "I have to make a lot of money because that's what people expect" mindset. So, they could easily fall for the whole "sell you the Brooklyn Bridge" bit no matter having gone to college. People go to college not knowing what to do and leave not knowing what to do. So, they go for what everybody is doing: "going for the big bucks," instead of finding their purpose. They leave college that way because they didn't take the time to explore and feed their minds. They go with what people would think would be best.
This doc touches on the themes talked about in Excellent Sheep: http://rachelbwolfe.wordpress.com/2014/06/26/losing-ourselves/
Hi Anonymous - there are people out there who have the mindset from early on that they have to make a lot of money because that's what people expect. A lot of Amway ambots probably never had that mindset until they got into the Amway cult and had it brainwashed into them.
DeleteMany ambots are college age or in their 20's. Our Amway cult leaders said those were the best age because they'd probably never heard of Amway before and were unaware its a scam. And as you said at the age of not knowing what they're going to do and here are some Amway ambots showing up and saying join our cult and there'll be big bucks in it for you.
Anna, I Also noticed especially in bww that the main group of newer diamonds are east Indian. They spoke very little English or struggle with the language. Same with wwdb Korean leaders in north american who made a big pin level. So they hear hardly anything about Amway and since they hardly ever read anything in English online. Any time you deal with someone older who surfs the net often. Its nearly impossible to sign them up.
DeleteAnonymous - I guess that would be a good way to find prospects. Look for those who don't speak English or have Internet access to find out what Amway really is about. I remember reading a sad story on the Internet about a retired couple and they blew their $50,000 retirement savings on Scamway. They listened to the lies about how they'd have bazillions of dollars rolling in every month for the rest of their lives and all they'd have to do was be CORE for 2 years and the riches would be theirs.
DeleteI was at Denny's the other day with my family and at the table next to me were 3 well dressed Korean men on one side and 3 older casually dressed Koreans on the other, 2 women and a man. And even though I couldn't understand the language, it was obvious the older Koreans were getting some kind of "pitch". It didn't look like the well-dressed ones ate anything, or maybe they just had coffee. It very well could have been an Amway sighting I had, and if not, it certainly underscored the similarities to the way anyone is pitched into any kind of cult, business or religious. The old man had his arms crossed and never smiled so I'm hoping his mind was thinking "scam! bullshit!" as the main well-dressed guy did his smiling, animated pitch. If I thought they understood English I would have gotten into a conversation with my two sons at the table about the horrors and dangers of MLM scams like Amway so that they could hear me. lol Afterwards driving home I did bring it up. I've already talked to both my sons about the tactics they use as they are both in college and I know there are a lot of Ambots who troll the kids, so I don't want them to fall into the trap ever.
DeleteAnonymous - yeah it was probably Amway ambots. We've gone to Denny's too in the past with someone who was prospecting a man who didn't speak English all that well but he'd brought along a friend who translated the "we'll all make money" bullshit. Yeah hopefully the guy with the crossed arms can smell an MLM scam going on. I'm sure your sons will get prospected by an ambot at some point either at college or by an old friend suddenly popping out of the woodwork asking if they're retired yet and if not would they like to be in 2 to 5 years.
DeleteWhat I hate more than the Amway sales pitch. Is these ambots don't ever order any food lol. Only thing I'm thinking is why don't you wait outside in the parking lot while I eat? They have very thick skin and don't mind babbling their scam while I chew my food. Can't stand people watch me eat and not order.
DeleteAnna, I had two ambots try sign me up ages ago. Told them I quit the first week. Said one of the wwdb that they dont seem to be going anywhere. One of the Ambot snapped. Saying you don't understand. Were doing all the core eight or however many steps. That even his diamond leader and edc was impressed. Saying both are going to make it big in wwdb Amway. They also did additional steps of extra tools,function tickets,and hours spent showing the plan lol. Majority of the world hardly care if you're core. Its about the bottom line and they haven't ever made a profit
DeleteAnonymous - Amway is a blame the victim scam. If you were in WWDB before and they're trying to prospect you they'll blame the assholes in your former WWDB upline. They're all assholes getting the same brainwashed pitch from the kingpin cult leaders of that sect. Yeah they're all going big in Amway. The majority of the world's population don't give a shit about Amway.
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