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, November 18, 2015
Amway’s “Good” Products? LOL!
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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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Hi Anna,
ReplyDeleteYour blog posts have some Scamway jargons such as CORE, PV/BV, Emerald, etc. that non-Ambots like me are struggling to understand. There are also the ranks such as Diamonds or Emeralds that I find it hard to understand too.
Maybe you can write some posts on what these shit are for the benefit of non-Ambots?
- Gene
Hi Gene. I don't usually talk about the business bullshit around Amway. Besides Joe Cool just posted about CORE and you'll find similar breakdowns of Amway's "business" practices. Check the upper right side of this page for a link to his blog.
DeleteSome posts around here do make fun of the things that Amway teaches.
Can't verify this but I've heard that mountain lion urine or soil urinated on is a good repellant to keep deer out of your garden. My yard is no big deal but I do have a rose bush that the deer snack on whenever it blooms and starts to look nice. Maybe Amway XS (Xtra Shitty) cat piss water might keep the deer away but it might kill my rose bush and it probably costs too much anyway.
ReplyDeleteHi Ray. You never know. That XS has got to have something you can use it for! My aunt has that problem with deer but on the other hand there's got to be something out there that's cheaper than XS to repel the little buggers.
DeleteThere is truth to the old adage that if you build a better mousetrap the world will beat a path to your door...... Some of Amway's products were good, but they were in no way better than anything I could go out and buy at a fraction of the price at the local supermarket. If they were that good, the price would justify the purchase, if you subscribe to "you get what you pay for" you can justify paying more for something really good. And eventually supply and demand will cause that price to drop as production ramps up. Basic economics. Amway's products do NOT justify the price tag. period. Not one.
ReplyDeleteI usually buy cases of water 24 per case, for $1.15 a case. BTW.
Neal - some of Amway's products were OK but in no way better than lower priced similar products sold in retail stores. Most of Amway's products were substandard in comparison and the ones that were OK could be described as generic. If you got what you paid for in Amway they'd be sold in a store called nothing more than a buck.
DeleteIf you are what they call "CORE" in Amway, you are expected to have nothing but Amway garbage in your home. No competitor products whatsoever. And you are told the idiotic lie that buying exclusively from Amway will somehow make you rich.
ReplyDeleteIf you own stock in an oil company and you buy their gasoline exclusively, I suppose you are in some sense helping to boost the value of your investment. But an IBO doesn't have any tangible investment in the Amway corporation or any of its sicko offshoots like Quixtar or Alticor or WWDB or the other rip-off rackets. All the IBO has is a basement or garage full of crappy Amway products. How is this going to make him rich?
So naturally, if you are a stupid IBO, you convince yourself that these products are somehow intrinsically valuable in themselves. You refuse to hear any criticism of their quality. You insist that they are better than anything else on the market. You talk about how they are "concentrated," or how they deserve to be expensive because of their "special quality." You actually come to believe the fatuous lie that water bottled by Amway is somehow magically superior to other sources of water. You are convinced that Nutrilite vitamins are a panacea, even though the FDA went after the Nutrilite fraud in the late 1940s and 50s, and that is the reason why De Vos and Van Andel jumped ship on Nutrilite and founded Amway in 1959. They didn't want to be prosecuted.
In short, it's all pure superstition. Amway products are at best ordinary, and in many cases nothing more than generic or substandard. But telling this truth to an Amway freak will set him off like a grenade.
Anonymous - that's true. You tell an Amway Ambot that you can buy better products for lower prices in the store and that sets them off like a grenade while they defend Amway. The life of an Amway Ambot is to lie, deny, distract, and defend. It seems to me you can find a job with another company where you don't have to put some much effort in - and get paid more!
DeleteYeah CORE is a bunch of bullshit. Being bullied by the assholes in your Amway upline to keep your house full of shitty overpriced Amway products is a bunch of bullshit. Everything Amway is pure shit!
Amway is extremely good at extremely bad comparisons. Leaving everything else out perfect water sells for the same as the water you would get in a 7-11. Give or take. But Amway isn't selling a single convenience item, they are selling for bulk home use. I like the Costco comparison. Costco water comes out to a 1 cent an ounce compared to Amway's 11 cents an ounce. Buying three cases of Costco water instead of Amway water will save you enough money to get an executive membership with a 1% cash back program that pays for itself with regular use.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - yes just about everything you have to buy from Amway is sold in bulk and its way cheaper to buy similar items from Costco if going the bulk route is your thing. And as you said depending on your membership with Costco, which is about the same as a year's membership with Amway's expensive buying club, you get cash back depending on how much you buy. When you compare with the commission you make from buying minimum 100PV of Scamway products each month to earn around $10 commission, you'd be making better "commission" from Costco. And the big difference is when you go shopping at Costco you're buying stuff that you like and you need for a good price. At Amway you're buying shit that you never bought before you signed up for their expensive buying club and even more shit when the Amway cult leaders start cracking the whip to buy more more more.
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