Here’s a comment left
by a reader who got the classic scam treatment to sign up to the Amway cult.
Thank you for your post, and I am very sad that I did not see
this sooner. I was introduced to Amway and WWDB (World Wide Dream Builders) by a
guy at my last job. I had just graduated college, and was pressured to get a
job quickly.
The place where I met my "Mentor's Disciple,"
because he refused to actually be my mentor was a call center. He said, he was
not in a position to be an effective mentor for me and that his mentor would be
the person I would truly learn from. That's awfully strange considering you are
the one talking to me about this business, but it did trick me into thinking he
was looking out for my best interest.
Needless to say, I went to his house meeting, and a meeting
at a church where I was told a lot of nonsense, and after the first meeting at
the church from the "Diamond" I said this guy is illiterate and I
don't understand what I'm supposed to do. The "Mentor's Disciple"
said maybe you didn't click with him, but someone else will hopefully make more
sense to you.
So they sent me to a 3 day meeting over 6 hours in travel
time combined to come to these seminars called Freedom something where I heard
from 15 different diamonds, and still had no idea what the business was. All
they did was show videos of their expensive life styles and tell people don't
listen to your friends, family, or any other naysayer because they will never
understand.
Finally,I told my real mentor after asking ten times if you
don't show me some numbers, I will never sign up. He then showed me how I have
to spend money on the dvd's, the membership, and the expensive trips out of
state to go to these meetings. It would've cost me close to 10k that year with
the products and I wouldn't have sold anything.
I was so frustrated with this, and when I confronted him he
basically taught me how to divert parts of my paycheck to cover these
expenses...What a joke, the guy had been in this business for 2 years, and was
an Island's Manager (Basically the same price point as a TGI Friday's). This
guy was getting nowhere fast and he only had 6 "followers" at this
point.
With all of this said, and it is probably very difficult to
follow due to my erratic thought process,I gave it a legitimate chance.This is
why I can fairly say there is no gold at the end of this rainbow. I am very
glad that I only wasted a small portion of my life to learn a valuable lesson,
and they got me at one of my most desperate times. I was getting married soon,
with no job security, and trying to have a kid. These people aren't just greedy
they are inhumane to hunt out people that were in positions like mine.
Amway thrives on NOT TELLING PROSPECTIVE IBOS THE TRUTH. They hide information from you. They cover up the facts with a lot of razzle-dazzle propaganda.
ReplyDeleteThe whole purpose of Amway is simply to rope people into buying "The Plan," but getting Amway recruiters to tell you all the details of what is involved in "The Plan" is like pulling teeth. In fact, their supervisors instruct them NEVER to be specific and detailed about what is involved in Amway.
Anonymous - ain't that the truth. Truth. A word foreign to the ears of Amway Ambots.
DeleteThat's why this blog and others talk about what its really like in Amway. The lies and lines the Ambots use to scam prospects.
And the other thing you didn't mention when Ambots are roping suckers in - never say the A word. How about that for never being specific and detailed if they don't say Amway.
Scamway!