Thursday, May 31, 2018
Gloves Come Off When Dealing With Amway Scammers
One of our readers is being harassed by his boss at work to sign up to the Amway scam:
Just wanted to stop by and say I really enjoy your blog! I've been reading it from start to finish, and I enjoy your candid commentary along with the horror stories other victims of Amway have shared.
My boss, of all people, brought me here. He doesn't know he brought me here. He doesn't know I know he's part of the Amway pyramid scheme. He thinks I'm easy prey; a new recruit ripe for brainwashing.
He's been subtly grooming me to become part of his scam, or "business opportunity" as he calls it.
The way he's doing it is devilishly sly, and had I not had a bad run-in with Primerica (another pyramid scheme), he may well have gotten me.
The subtle product placement - he always has an XS energy drink in plain view, or a bottle of his Perfect drinking water nearby. The Tip/Balance/Twist tests he performed when I questioned the claims of his miracle water. Boasts that he would be a millionaire within a decade. Mysterious meetings that required a suit and tie. Talks about how I could save money on household goods if I bought them from myself.
This all built up to a discussion one day after work, when he talked about an upcoming business meeting he was having with his partners. I asked for more info, but he said it was very secretive and he'd have to talk to his partners first.
The next day he said he'd talked to his partners, and that they thought I'd be a great candidate. Could I come to their next meeting, and did I own a suit?
Recalling my experience with Primerica, I wanted to know more about the business so I could research it a bit, and be able to make informed decisions. I asked what exactly this business was and if he had any literature on it.
In response, I was given a link to WWDB and asked to read testimonials by the Puryear and Duncan families.
Right then and there I knew something was very, very wrong. The whole testimonial was a bunch of feel-good ass kissing, along with these people rubbing their wealth in my face. I don't care how big your yacht is, I want facts and figures about your business. None of these testimonials provided any factual business information.
Frustrated by this secrecy, I Googled WWDB and the Puryears and the Duncans. This led me to Amway, and to countless horror stories of people whose lives have been ruined by it.
After much work, I did find the facts and figures I was searching for. And as I suspected, it was all a sham. These "Diamonds" at the top of the chain live a charade. They barely pull in six figures, most of which is from their tools/speeches (NOT the Amway business plan!). They put themselves in financial peril to fool their cult into thinking they're rich!
And if you're not that fraction of a percent on the top, you are losing money! You are bullied into buying junk you don't need, alienating friends and family, taking on debt, and told that success is right around the corner!!
No thank you. I'll keep my J.O.B. At the end of the day, I know I earned my paycheck and didn't have to sell my soul to get it.
So thank you very much for this blog! Your efforts, as well as the wealth of knowledge here, spared me a lot of pain and heartache. I'm so glad I was able to avoid going down the scAmway path.
When I speak to my boss again regarding his "business opportunity" I will politely say I'm not interested. If he persists, then the gloves come off.
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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!
If your comment didn’t get published it could be one of these reasons:
1. Is it the weekend? We don’t moderate comments on weekends. Maybe not every day during the week either. Patience.
2. Racist/bigoted comments? Take that shit somewhere else.
3. Naming names? Public figures like politicians and actors and people known in Amway are probably OK – the owners, Diamonds with CDs or who speak at functions, people in Amway’s publicity department who write press releases and blogs. Its humiliating for people to admit their association with Amway so respect their privacy if they’re not out there telling everyone about the love of their life.
4. Gossip that serves no purpose. There are other places to dish about what Diamonds are having affairs or guessing why they’re getting divorced. If you absolutely must share that here – don’t name names. I get too many nosy ambots searching for this. Lets not help them find this shit.
5. Posting something creepy anonymously and we can’t track your location because you’re on a mobile device or using hide my ass or some other proxy. I attracted an obsessed fan and one of my blog administrators attracted a cyberstalker. Lets keep it safe for everyone. Anonymous is OK. Creepy anonymous and hiding – go fuck yourselves!
6. Posting something that serves no purpose other than to cause fighting.
7. Posting bullshit Amway propaganda. We might publish that comment to make fun of you. Otherwise take your agenda somewhere else. Not interested.
8. Notice how this blog is written in English? That's our language so keep your comments in English too. If you leave a comment written in another language then we either have to use Google translate to put it into English so everyone can understand what you wrote or we can hit the Delete button. Guess which one is easier for us to do?
9. We suspect you're a troublemaking Amway asshole.
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You should ask your boss this: "If Amway is making you so rich, why the hell are you still running this business where I work?"
ReplyDeleteAnonymous- that’s always a good question to ask an Ambot. They’ll probably mutter some response about how they’re helping the boss who would be lost without them staying with the company out of the goodness of their hearts even though they’re a big shot “business owner”.
DeleteThis boss has no right to use his authority to force an employee into an investment of time and money that the employee doesn't want to make.
ReplyDeleteWhat pathetic schmucks these Amway freaks are -- they actually bother persons on the job to sign up in their lousy soap-suds racket. It's contemptible.
Anonymous - but they do. This isn't the first person who's stopped by to say a boss has tried to get the to sign up to Scamway.
DeleteAmway losers have no morals when it comes to making a buck.
Already said something about that back 2 months ago back then...Ambots will harass anybody that say shit about their company whether is opinion or fact. Anything to make themselves feel taller, but know they're just fooling themselves...anything personal they can get their hands on your info is even "better" to mock you as this is most likely part of their indoctrination as an effect during the brainwashing phase. Best advice is to ignore them as reasoning is not part of their logical process anymore. If they admit they do have logic in them there are 2 ways. One that they now don't need to work for Amway w/e decency they have left or They that fucking dirty to be manipulative...Those types can go rot in hell.
DeleteAnonymous - one could say that Amway Ambots got apeshit insane and harass anyone who has this to say about their beloved employer!
DeleteAmway losers love to mock everyone who isn't in their cult.
This blog exists to mock Amway losers. And curse them out too! LOL!
Amway Ambots hate that. How dare anyone mock the highly esteemed cult followers of the Great Amway God.
Yup all fucking dirty Amway Ambots can go rot in hell!
My advice to this employee is be very careful how you say no to this reptile of a boss as he might fire you in retaliation!
ReplyDeleteBe polite and blame yourself, for example, say I have no friends and so I have no one to possibly invite to a business such as Amway!
If he persists go over his head in the organization as I believe the schmuck will retaliate!
Just please be careful.
K
KMB - that's the thing to be worried about - getting fired. Though it's unknown if the boss is the company owner or a manager. One way the employee can go over their head to complain.
DeleteOh - that "I have no friends" line that you might try to use on an Amway Ambot. I heard this one at an Amway cult meeting cause you know how they have an answer for everything. It's "how'd you like to have some friends" insinuating that the other Amway Ambots will now become instant friends. The problem with that of course is that you still have no one to sell your shitty overpriced Amway products too or harass to come to Amway cult meetings because all your "friends" are also trying to do this.
What stress to have your boss be an Ambot as it would probably be a good idea to get ones resume out or if fired over the issue hire a lawyer as I believe that this is not legal of course I could be wrong!
ReplyDeleteMy natural instinct in a situation like this would be seriously to pound the fuck out of the person!
But I am retired and my former employer had a union as none of this would have flown there.
Actually, about 20 years ago a guy was jailed for fraud for computer use on the job with an other MLM while he was suposed to be working along with theft.
Just sick.
K
Hi KMB. Well most states there aren't any laws other than discrimination where you can be fired for any reason.
DeleteI'd say if your boss is an Amway loser it would be a good idea to get your resume up to date and start looking for jobs elsewhere because that Amway asshole will only make your life hell.
Oh yeah you can get fired and maybe jailed for fraud for stealing from your employer if you're doing stuff on the clock that is not job related. I'm sure most bosses are tolerant of emergency calls but conducting other business while on the company's dime can you send you packing. A lot of Ambots are unemployed or lose their jobs after joining the Amway cult because they now go around with that snotty snobby Amway attitude and they're better than everyone else and most employers won't put up with that.
neither does the customers too...we're similar to employers in a way, however we don't work with them. We can just report those type of behaviors in order to get that Ambot asses kicked in.
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