People might join Amway because they listened to the fairy tale about how they’d have more time and money. Reality? You’ll have less of both.
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!
Monday, February 17, 2020
Don’t Smash The Alarm Clock
People might join Amway because they listened to the fairy tale about how they’d have more time and money. Reality? You’ll have less of both.
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I wanted to inform you that, Amway is getting sued. It's pretty old news, but they're getting sued!
ReplyDeleteWhich lawsuit Anonymous? LOL! Every time you turn around Amway is being sued again! Are you talking about the one in California and the new law about gig employees who are entitled to at least a minimum hourly wage? That's really going to fuck up these scam MLMs like Amway!
DeleteYeah, the California lawsuit. And there's another one where they are being sued for the ibo ibo status to employee status. They're being hit with so many lawsuits.
DeleteHello Anna, I am awaiting Amway 2019 sales statistics to appear, but still nothing. 2018 sales had been released on 11. February 2019. Now it is 18. February 2020 and still nothing...
ReplyDeleteWhat we know as of now is, that Nu Skin fell dramatically in sales and especially in China, which makes almost third of sales of Amway too. Seems chinese guys find out already, what MLM is.
Also have heard a lot of news about layoffs from Amway in Ada and some other Amway plant, 171 people in total.
Put it all together and I guess what is going on, is that Amway does not want to share the bad numbers from 2019, as in MLMs there are only successes, everything is growing, people get positions, etc. etc.
But when things go wrong, usually the currencies exchanges rates are to be blamed.... :-)
Funny is, that I heard many Ambots repeating cca 2014 sales numbers, when Amway was growing, they were totally unaware, that their company shrinked by cca 30% within last 4 years.
One day, when Amway bankrupts, I am afraid year after that there will be still some IBOs recruiting and promising millions of residual income... :-)
LOL Anonymous! Great minds think alike! I was just looking for that yesterday myself! LOL!
DeleteUsually Amway reports their sales figures in February. They got to get ready to report their corporation's earnings and pay taxes pretty soon. Though Amway seems to be very comfortable cheating on their taxes and that's taught at Amway meetings. Could be nothing more than they're behind. Or could be trying to figure out how to cook the books. Who knows?
Yeah generally speaking when a company starts shutting down warehouses and massive lay offs that's not a good sign of financial stability.
Yeah one day an Amway loser shows up here bragging that Amway made 13 billion in sales the year before. I said Amway only claimed 9 billion so if you have proof Amway is lying about their income you need to report those tax cheats to the IRS. Never heard from that Amway loser again!
Keep in mind: in China, MLMs are actually illegal. Flat out illegal! They're allowed to sell their products as just retail, but not to employ the MLM model to pay salespeople. Unfortunately, there's no profit whatsoever in doing things the legal way. There's no market demand for any MLM's products. So recently, it came out that MLMs still operate on the sly there--they pay massive bribes to the government and various officials, as well as to the media to keep negative news from the public. Two Herbalife managers got in trouble for that just this past November I think.
DeleteIn China, MLM owners get involved in organized crime -- and it can get really violent. A few years ago, one of these MLM-pushing gangs beat a college student to DEATH because he didn't want to recruit for their MLM anymore. And MLMs sucker in various poor people in China and keep them living in tenements and barely fed, forcing them to recruit more suckers.
USANA is another MLM that's been caught breaking Chinese law there (they do overpriced supplements of dubious value). The gubmint has said it's gonna crack down hard on MLMs.
But you have to think Amway and other MLM scams must eye the Chinese market with great lust. When USANA operated illegally there, they brought in about $1Bn a YEAR in annual revenue. Herbalife's illegal operations made up damn near 1/5 of their take annually before the gubmint caught up with them.
It's like fundies know that they MUST expand to overseas nations like India and China to have any hope of survival. MLMs are the same way for the same reason. Americans see them and know them for what they are. But the Chinese just don't have our decades of experience to tell them to steer clear of these scammers.
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Cas - when we were in ScAmway our cult leaders were always looking for recruits who were of Chinese descent who could help them get downline in China. So I doubt that's changed.
DeleteJust because something is illegal that won't stop Amway or their army of Ambots. These fucktards all have these overly high opinions of themselves and believe that they're above the law because they're worshippers of the Great Amway God.
That's the kind of arrogance that usually does them in!
Although there might be some profit in retail sales because Amway overprices their shit, what kind of profit can they make in countries where there's a lot of poor people who can't afford basic necessities. You're looking at a government that controls the income of their citizens. The government kind of operates the same way Amway does and doesn't need the competition! It's not a society that wants an American company to show up on their soil and make a profit.
The fake story about "quitting your job," and "walking out," and then going home in a limo to "smash your alarm clock" is nothing but an Amway myth, told over and over again in many forms. Its purpose is to fill stupid IBOs with ecstatic expectations, and to keep them locked into the Amway racket.
ReplyDeleteThe aim of the myth is to generate false hope, and to convince losers that some day they will be winners, if only they hang in there and keep on spending money month after month in the Amway bullshit game.
Anonymous - yeah it's just another Amway fairy tale. As you said to provide false hope and keep the Ambot hanging in long enough for the day they too can smash their alarm clock.
DeleteI mean really you don't need to be in the Amway cult to go out and smash up your alarm clock.