Part of the dishonesty and deception when you get recruited into the Amway cult is that the Ambots and cult leaders do not disclose all the costs ahead of time. A reader shares his story:
I love your blog it cracks me up. Recently 2 days ago I left my amway/wwdb cult. Those fuckers signed me up knowing I’m only 21 years old living in an apartment making only $1400 a month.
They never told me about the costs I would have to pay for the trash ass wwdb app and communikate. I was also NEVER told about how ever 3 fucking months I would have to spew out more money for a “major event”. I can’t fucking afford that every 3 months. But my cult members kept telling me “It’s a privilege to go”, “you can’t miss out on this it will CHANGE YOUR LIFE”.
Those shit heads manipulated me and used their cult tactics to make me believe I was spending money for a good reason.
Don’t even get me started on communikate. That shit was fucking trash. I HATED having to do my “daily kate”. Near the end of me leaving the cult I wouldn’t even know what to communikate anymore. It became so fucking redundant and my upline would always reply to my kate like I had just said the most profound thing in the world. He would hype me up beyond believe. Almost like he railed 6 lined of coke and chugged a mountain dew just so he could reply to my kate and get me FIRED UP!
When I left the cult 2 days ago I felt like a thousand pounds was lifted off my shoulders. I felt like I had control over my life again for once. I went and bought some fucking take out food for the first time in forever because I didn’t have to watch my money under a microscope and pay for those shit products ever again. Those fuckers almost took away the best years of my life. I’m 21 for god sakes I should be hanging out and having a good time with the VERY friends they told me to avoid. Cult cult cult cult!!!
Anna Banana responds:
Yes the blog is meant to crack up people who hate
Amway and outrage Ambots all at the same time. Around here we aim to entertain
as well as educate.
You are prime meat to be recruited by the Amway cult. The right age, not
earning a huge income. They suck you in with dreams of owning your own business
and after working 10 to 15 hours a week for the next 2 to 5 years you can sit
back and do nothing for the rest of your life while bazillions of dollars from
Amway rolls in every month in residual income forever. You’ll be debt free and
pay for everything in cash.
Those are some of the fairy tales you heard, right?
Those fuckers tell you where else can you get started in your “own business”
for $200 but conveniently forget to tell you about all the monthly expenses
that you have to pay to belong to the Amway cult. Better known as the Amway
tool scam. And if you don’t buy that “motivational” shit the Amway cult leaders
will berate you and mock you and threaten not to work with you if you don’t buy
the tools. Though somewhere in Amway’s brochures it does say those “motivational”
tools are optional and the upline is still required to work with you whether or
not you buy them. But I’ve never met anyone in Amway who didn’t break Amway’s
rules! LOL!
Yeah Communikate is a bunch of shit. Smart phones and a good plan can do
everything and more that Communikate does. At least one of Amway’s owners is
invested in Communikate from when it was a start up. I read the article years
ago so I’m a little foggy on whether they’re a part owner, an investor or gave
them a loan to start up. Either way Amway has an interest in making sure
Communikate is profitable so they can get their loan back or their share of the
profits depending on the agreement. How else do they do this than push their
cult leaders to force the downline to sign up for this piece of shit
Communikate. And offer the cult leaders commission on each sucker that signs
up. A couple of years ago some lying sack of shit Amway Ambot shows up here and
tells us that Amway no longer uses Communikate and a wife of an Ambot called
out the liar and says her husband subscribes to it and since then people like
you stop by to say Communikate is still going strong in the Amway tool scam.
Every Amway major function will be exploited by the cult leaders as the not to
be missed event of the year, a life changing event, and will put you 6 months
ahead of those who didn’t attend. The bulk of income for Amway Diamonds is by
selling tickets to these brainwashing functions.
People in Amway are a bunch of losers who love bomb the other cultists and hype
them up with phony compliments. You had the normal experience.
And why are Ambots always FIRED UP!
I know what you mean when you get out of the Amway cult. It’s like a huge
weight is lifted off your shoulders and you start to get your life back under
control. Be prepared for those Amway fuckers to phone, text, email and insult
you. Tell them you’re calling the cops on them for harrassment and that might
stop them. Otherwise they’ll harrass you endlessly. Ambots are only your BFFs
as long as you’re in the cult. When you leave Amway they’ll drop you. After
they’ve finished their barrages of loser, quitter, etc.
Look at the bright side. You’re no longer losing fistfuls of money to a scam
and no longer hanging out with a bunch of Amway losers. You’re young enough to
bounce back financially and emotionally. All education costs you something and
you’ve learned never to get involved again with a pyramid scheme or any other
MLM.
Now take that money you were sinking into Amway every month and invest it
instead. Find a broker and buy some stocks. Buy lottery tickets. Go to a
casino. All of those activities have a better chance of you making money than
Amway does. Good luck to you. Have a happy Amwayless life!
Years ago I got sucked into another MLM pyramid scheme cult just like Amway. It's very hard to leave the cult/scam because they are very experienced and practiced at manipulating you. But I can attest to what this person here is saying, that once you do break free it feels great to get back your life, your friends and stop giving your money, energy and time to these wicked bastards. Most of the people in the cult are not really evil but rather they are suckers and losers so long as they follow and pay tribute to their cult leaders. It wasn't until after I left the cult that I learned that even most of the people I had thought were the "successful" ones weren't making any $$ either. If you are in the cult throw off your chains and learn from it. Best wishes to you.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - yes these pyramid scheme cults have brainwashing down and they'll manipulate you into staying when you've told the upline you want to quit.
DeleteYou can't quit now, not when success is right around the corner.
You're about to go really big, I can feel it.
Those are the some of the lines the Amway cult leaders use. They know they got to keep that Ambot in as long as possible to suck more money out of him because he's going to quit.
Yes its laughable these Amway losers who think they're big shot hot shit businessmen and sharp entrepreneurs. LOL! Just goes to show what brainwashing does. Delusions of greatness.
It's very true that Amway targets young persons above all. These young guys need money, they have energy, and they tend to be inexperienced and gullible. And they fall easily for the love-bombing.
ReplyDeleteWhen my cousin talked me into Amway, we were both 22. Neither of us knew much about the world. The promises of instant riches were designed to appeal to young guys who could only look forward to a lifetime of work, and who didn't know anything about investments, savings, and compound interest.
But the other thing about Amway is the crass vulgarity and philistinism of the majority of persons involved in it. They are greed-driven small-town schmucks who have complete contempt for anything that isn't connected with money. That was what repelled me about Amway right from the beginning, and which caused a breach between me and my cousin.
Anonymous - in addition to all that you said about how Amway targets younger people - add in they're too young to have heard about Amway. If they ask their parents or grandparents they've probably heard about Amway maybe even were involved and will warn then that Amway is a scam and to stay away. That's why Amway cult leaders tell prospects not to look up Amway online. Too many people sharing their true Amway horror stories on the Internet.
DeleteThe whole point of a dinner is good food, friendship, polite relaxation, and conversation. Turning a dinner invitation into a trap to spring a business proposition on your guests is utterly CLASSLESS.
ReplyDeleteOnly persons of no real culture or education would do such a thing. And feeding your guests water, energy bars, and packaged macaroni-and-cheese is a sign of real boorishness.
Anonymous - yup that's true. But Amway losers are counselled by the fucking assholes in their Amway upline to do dinner invites, BBQs, kids birthdays what have you and turn it into an Amway pitch.
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