Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Ambot Not Drinking Kool Aid Anymore?

Here’s a comment left by a former Amway Ambot who claims to no longer drinking the Kool Aid. But I suspect somehow is still hanging on to the Amway fairy tale of a lifetime of residual income. This is a highly unusual Amway success story because not too many Ambots make this much money a month.

 

I left Amway/WWG after 5 years. I remember your blog when I first got around "the business" and thought you were just negative and stolen your husband's dream. I remember feeling sad for you. Looking back, I know I just drank the Kool Aid!

It has been a very revealing process leaving the business. True colors of our upline and some downline have been shown. As expected, some of our business friends have completely turned their backs on us. Others have been wonderful and supportive. Our business generates about $1000/mo and when we announced we were going to be leaving, our upline told us the "honorable" thing to do would be to submit our resignation to Amway, thereby giving all our legs directly to our upline. Not a chance is that happening. After slaving away for 5 years we are going to keep the business and allow it to be residual, despite the unrelenting pressure to give it up.

We are so greateful to have woken up from the Amway slumber when we did before wasting any more time and money on it. Time and money freedom is NOT available in this business. If you want time freedom, don't even think about building your business to a profitable level. You will be doing presentations 5-7 nights/wk and all the other BS during the day. Don't think about planning anything in your life because a meeting for yourself or your downline might pop up. We were miserable building the business. Since we left our marriage and relationships with family and friends has DRASTICALLY improved. I'm actually happy again

Anna Banana responds:

Hi Anonymous. Thanks for sharing your story. From time to time a reader shows up who visited this blog back when they were a smug arrogant Ambot and then leaves a comment saying I should have listened to you.

When you're drinking the Kool-Aid you refuse to listen to anyone who has an opposing point of view from the Amway cult leaders.

But once you get out and can see Amway with a clear head you get it about how nasty the Amway upline are and the hell you went through emotionally and financially.

Glad to hear you got out and are getting your life back together. And really how long do you think it'll be before your residual income dries up when you're not there to motivate and bully the downline into buying more Amway shit. And way to go for getting that much in commission every month. That's a dream that will never come true for most.

 




4 comments:

  1. This is utterly horrific. Slaving away for five years in a pyramid scheme for your business to only make 12k a year? That's how much I made working part time for 7.25 an hour back in college!
    And the fact that that's so unusual in Amway yet people stay the course for years shows just how intense the brainwashing is. Amway is the mlm I hate the most and I hate how wrapped up in politics it is because that's given it a huge shield against anything that may have otherwise been able to take it down from the outside. That's why I'm so about the anti mlm movement and spreading awareness like this blog. Because if no one joins up to replace the ones constantly falling off, that'll be the end.

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    1. Anonymous - this Ambot's "success" at earning 12k a year puts him into one of the higher earning categories of Amway participants. But yes, when you compare how much this high earner in Amway is against a minimum wage job - where you probably work less hours than an Ambot - it shows the reality of pyramid schemes.

      Amway Ambots who actually have signed up downline have to browbeat them not to quit and then bust their asses to find more downline once they do quit. 95% of all participants quit Amway within two years so Ambots have to constantly be prospecting for new suckers to join the Amway pyramid scheme.

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  2. The person who posted this story has stopped building his Amway "business", but expects "residual income" from his down-line. Is that really likely?

    Without constant pressure and browbeating, a down-line just naturally falls apart and dissolves. IBOs drop out quickly, and when they aren't replaced the whole structure eventually collapses.

    Am I wrong about this, Anna?

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    1. Anonymous - I'd say you're correct. An Ambot must constantly be working the Amway business and keeping any downline motivated to keep buying Amway shit and not quit.

      Perhaps this guy has a really charismatic Amway cult leader who can do pressure and browbeat the downline. The upline is still making commission off these sales so they have an interest in keeping them around.

      At every ScAmway meeting we attended the cult leader would spout off some bullshit about build "the business" once the right way and then retire while bazillions of dollars in residual income floats in from Amway every month. And that you can also leave "your Amway business" in your will. There is an extreme interest in the upline to get the person who's quitting to sign over their downline to them and absorb them and cut out the middleman for commission.

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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.
10. Your comment got caught in the spam filter. Gets checked occasionally. We’ll get to you eventually and approve it as long as it really isn’t spam.