One of the biggest arguments
that people being prospected by an Amway IBO come up with are that they are not
salespeople and are not interested in being a salesperson. The brainwashed IBO
fights back with the response that Amway is not about selling: register, set up
a store, buy from your own store, convince family and friends to shop at your
Amway store, and sign up others to join Amway and teach them to do what you do.
Yeah almost anything looks possible on paper but the reality of trying to get
it off the ground is another story.
Ambots argue that Amway is not a pyramid scheme because they have actual
products for sale. Overpriced, substandard products, but nevertheless an actual
product for sale.
Amway’s own sales figures show that less than 4% of their sales are to people
who are not registered IBO’s so the other 96% are IBO’s who are self consuming
their own products or inventory loading. When the IBO’s are not self consuming
their own products or inventory loading they are on a rabid quest to recruit
others to do the same thing.
Self consuming, inventory loading, recruiting new cult followers. Pyramid
scheme!
I argued with Ambot that I am not a salesperson therefore Amway is not a good
business choice for us. I don’t have a sales type personality like many people
who are not comfortable approaching a stranger and striking up a conversation
and hope to sell them a house, a car, or a pair of shoes. Our upline told us we
didn’t have to be good salespeople to make our riches in Amway. That was one of
many lies told to us. Amway “independent business owners” are really
commissioned salespeople and to some extent everyone has to sell either the
Amway business module or Amway products.
Or those who can’t do either self consume and inventory load Amway products so
they can get the PV and into a higher bonus bracket for paltry commission
checks from Amway.
Ambot had been brainwashed by his upline to believe he didn’t have to sell
Amway products to make it big in the business which is what he tried to convince
me. What!? What do all those fucking board plans say? You make your money in
Amway buying their products and recruiting other people who will also buy Amway
products. You have to be good at selling Amway products and good at selling the
business opportunity to convince someone else to pay $150 to sign up and spend
$300 month buying Amway products to consume. In other words be good at selling
hope and dreams. You have to also be good at motivating any downline you sign
up not to quit and to keep buying Amway products and investing in the tool
scam.
Seeing as how I’m not good at selling I was unable to sell Ambot on the
truth that he was really a commissioned salesperson in a futile business
venture. Nobody wants to buy Amway’s shitty overpriced products and no one
wants to join the Amway cult. That has nothing to do with his sales ability.
Its just that he’s chosen a lousy product to believe in and a lot of people in
the states are already aware of the Amway scam.
Amway’s shitty reputation for overpriced substandard products and cult
practices makes it really hard to sell others on this poor business
opportunity no matter how good a salesperson you are.
The fact that your husband simply could not see that mere self-consumption and inventory loading was a financial disaster only shows how deep brainwashing can go.
ReplyDeleteNo business is real if it is uninterested in selling its products to the general public at retail. How could your husband not see that? Its different if you have a hobby -- nobody expects a profit from that, since the hobby is simply a personal amusement. But selling soaps and cosmetics and other stuff is supposed to bring in cash!
Anonymous - it's really frightening watching someone get brainwashed, the control the fucking assholes in the Amway upline have, and the helplessness when he won't listen to common sense. Like self consumption. If you "buy from your own store" and you're the only customer - then you're a fucking moron to think that you'll actually be able to turn a profit.
DeleteUsed to catch hell from my Upline in URA when I didn't have 300 points (approximately $900) locked in by the 5th of each month. They tried to make it sound like single guys "easily" spend $1,000 a month on themselves. High Pins used to say that "300 by the 5th is the URA Standard!" Then they openly stated that they were not able to use that verbiage. So they changed it to "300 by the 5th is the URA recommendation!"
DeletePlus, High Pims think it makes sense for customers to spend $47 on Petfect Water instead of $3.50 on Aquafina.
But I type this on a Thursday night which was Weekly Business Briefing Night for my team. And I am so happy to have freed myself from this garbage for almost three years.
Anonymous - that's a lot of money! That's rent or a mortgage payment. Except you probably put that $1000/month on to your credit card. The Amway cult sects operate very similarly. An Ambot has to buy at least 100 PV (around $300) a month to qualify for a commission check that's around $10. But the pressure is on from the fucking assholes in the Amway upline to buy more more more! Mostly cause some motherfucker further up the Amway upline has a goal then need to reach that month. So spending $1000/month in shitty overpriced Amway products happened more times than what I want to remember!
DeleteYeah spending around $50 on a case of water when you can buy a case at Walmart for $5 or less is STUPID. Just drink water out of your tap or buy a Brita if you want filtered.
Yay! No more stress from Thursday night Amway cult meetings. And lucky you only one cult meeting a week!
Cults function on a different plane of thinking than the one used in the real world. So the "special water" of the cult costs $47, but it's mysteriously "better" than the same ordinary water that costs $3.50.
ReplyDeleteWhen Amway assholes say "Wouldn't you pay more for quality?" it's nothing but a secret code. The real meaning of the statement is this: "Our cult magically produces a magic product, the value of which is immeasurable by the world's standards."
Everything in Amway works on a system that is utterly resistant to logic and reason. Remember what that lunatic Dexter Yager used to scream at his meetings: "If the dream is big enough, the facts don't matter!! DO YOU BELIEVE? DO YOU BELIEVE?"
Pure crackpot evangelical hokum.
Anonymous - that's right. Another way I looked at Ambots saying "Wouldn't you want to pay more for quality" is that they're snobs and the implication is that they're better than everyone else who doesn't "pay for more quality".
DeleteYup in Amway the facts don't matter. That's why Ambots are such big liars.