Thanks to a reader who shares a story about a birthday “gift” they
received.
My son's friend, who unfortunately is caught up in the Amway scam, came to my son's birthday party at our house the other night. He stayed until after everyone else had gone and his dad arrived and was chatting with us. Then I watched the kid come into the room holding a box in his hand and stood there as his dad smiled and said "Chris has something he wants to say". I felt the blood running out of my face as I thought "Oh God, no! Is this going to be a fucking Amway pitch?" Sure enough, he pulls out a box of Nutrilite Cranberry Crunch bars and some other Amway snack and told about how good and healthy they are and that he wanted to give them as his gift. My son thanked him and, luckily, the pitch ended there with that being his "present". I'm not sure if there was the hope that we'd become "addicted" to them and start ordering more, but no way in hell that is going to happen. I did a google search and found that other Ambots were selling them online for as much as $16 dollars a box!!!! 12 bars. And they are TINY!! Each bar is like 3 inches long.
Again, I don't know if the intent was to try to get us as a "customer", or simply because since Amway is purely self-consumerism, he uses Amway as gifts to get his "sales" totals up and get a pat on the head from his upline.
Just thought I'd share that. Amway is such a sad thing to see happen to a person. I don't know what hope this kid has since his college roommate is the one who got him into it, so he gets daily brainwashing. I know that his dad allowed him to have one of their stupid circle meetings at his house which got another kid hooked into the Amway scheme, and the dad of THAT kid still hasn't forgiven the dad of my son's friend for helping his son get sucked into the cult.
My son's friend, who unfortunately is caught up in the Amway scam, came to my son's birthday party at our house the other night. He stayed until after everyone else had gone and his dad arrived and was chatting with us. Then I watched the kid come into the room holding a box in his hand and stood there as his dad smiled and said "Chris has something he wants to say". I felt the blood running out of my face as I thought "Oh God, no! Is this going to be a fucking Amway pitch?" Sure enough, he pulls out a box of Nutrilite Cranberry Crunch bars and some other Amway snack and told about how good and healthy they are and that he wanted to give them as his gift. My son thanked him and, luckily, the pitch ended there with that being his "present". I'm not sure if there was the hope that we'd become "addicted" to them and start ordering more, but no way in hell that is going to happen. I did a google search and found that other Ambots were selling them online for as much as $16 dollars a box!!!! 12 bars. And they are TINY!! Each bar is like 3 inches long.
Again, I don't know if the intent was to try to get us as a "customer", or simply because since Amway is purely self-consumerism, he uses Amway as gifts to get his "sales" totals up and get a pat on the head from his upline.
Just thought I'd share that. Amway is such a sad thing to see happen to a person. I don't know what hope this kid has since his college roommate is the one who got him into it, so he gets daily brainwashing. I know that his dad allowed him to have one of their stupid circle meetings at his house which got another kid hooked into the Amway scheme, and the dad of THAT kid still hasn't forgiven the dad of my son's friend for helping his son get sucked into the cult.
It's the height of bad manners to use a private birthday party as an occasion to push some business product or idea.
ReplyDeleteI recall once I was at a gathering of friends, and all of a sudden one couple asked for our attention, and brought out several racks of cheap clothing for the guests to examine (and perhaps buy). It was the usual junk, similar to the LuLaRoe line of shoddy stuff.
I was angry at them, but even angrier at the party's hosts, who had allowed this stupid intrusion. We didn't show up to hear a shpiel about crappy clothing!
This is a core problem in Amway and in all MLMs. They simply refuse to make a distinction between private life and public activity! In Amway, you have to think, breathe, and shit Amway, 24/7. There is no place in your life where things are off-limits and private.
Anonymous - another requirement to be an Amway Ambot is bad manners. One of our readers left a comment she was horrified when an Ambot showed up at her sister's funeral and started prospecting attendees.
DeleteBecause Amway refuses to distinguish between private life and public business activity, they feel that they have the right to pry into your sex life, your family arrangements, your domestic habits, and your private property. They can dictate to you about your vacation, your relations with friends, your choice of clothing, and even your religious views.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - very true and very disturbing when you're inside the Amway cult and see how the Amway cult leaders are brainwashing the Ambots to ask permission for everything. You can't buy anything or make any decisions unless it gets approved by the fucking assholes in the Amway upline. Though I suppose its the same thing in other cults too.
DeleteAmway is pure poison.
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