I’d say my husband is average when it comes to figuring out
how long many IBO’s stick it out with Amway. Most ambots will quit Amway
somewhere between 3 months and a year. That can be an eternity to a wife as she’s
subjected to the abuse from upline, their attempts to destroy the relationship,
and the money going down the drain while the upline badgers her husband to buy
more products, attend all Amway meetings and functions, and invest heavily into
the Amway tool scam. Depends on how much money they had in their savings
account or how much room is available on his credit card, the losses could be
small in the hundreds of dollars or more substantial in the thousands.
The time frame could vary too. I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that
there are a small number of Amway cult leaders who don’t badly abuse their
downline and chastise them and insult them and try to destroy their
relationships. These slightly kinder cult leaders may have the power to keep
their ambots toeing the line for a longer period of time in order to suck more
money out of them.
Amway is a vicious cycle. It starts off with some asshole sponsoring your
husband into Amway. Then he must go to two or three Amway meetings each week
generally held in someone’s living room but might occasionally be held in a
hotel meeting room. There usually is no charge for the meetings held at someone’s
house but there will be a fee if the Amway meetings is at a hotel. At least a
couple of times a month a Diamond in need of a few thousand in cash will show
up to speak to the masses. Again could be a hotel meeting room or maybe a
school auditorium or something that can accommodate a few hundred brainwashed
ambots. These cost $10 to attend but I’ve heard some former IBO’s show up
recently to say it costs more but lets stick with $10 nice round figure. About
once a month there will be a rally where new pins get to “walk across the stage”
which also costs $10 or so to attend and is held somewhere with a stage. There
has to be a stage otherwise those brainwashed ambots would be unable to brag
about “crossing the stage”. Also about once a month is some useless product
seminar probably held in a hotel meeting room where an Amway product is
showcased. Probably costs $25 to $50 maybe more to attend. So in an average
month there will be 10 to 20 Amway related meetings the ambot must
attend.
If the ambot stops attending he will be chastised by the Platinum cult leader
who will be relentless in phone calls and text messages bullying the IBO until
he buckles down and starts attending again.
That’s why I call Amway a vicious cycle. Once the wife has hope - and remember
Amway is all about selling the hope! - that her husband is getting ready to
quit because he’s stopped attending all these damned Amway meetings, some
upline asshole badgers him and reminds him of his duties to the cult until he
breaks down and goes back and buys more Amway products.
Eventually the ambot will find the strength to stop and this will be difficult
because of all the love bombing the ambot actually might like some of these
Amway assholes. Quitting Amway means quitting all these new friends because no
one is allowed contact with former ambots. Quitting these new friends may be
hard for the brainwashed ambot because he’s been cut off from his former
friends for months now and he’s spent maybe 20 hours or more each week with
these new friends attending cult meetings. His priorities are screwed up over
who the real friends are. I’ve said it before - if friends are only interested
in you for your money then they’re not real friends at all.
Amway is a vicious cycle. Always on the lookout for its next victim. And not
discriminatory. Amway will recycle former victims of its cult.
Financial roller coaster. Emotional roller coaster. All I wanted is for this
terror park ride to end.
End the Amway cycle.
It will never really end until Amway is shut down and closes its doors forever.
Not everyone learns their lesson the first time around.
Amway is a vicious cycle.
You have no friends when you're in Amway. Your associates are just bloodsucking scumbags who want to drain cash out of you every month.
ReplyDeleteEndless meetings. Endless tapes and CDs. Endless stupid "night owls" where you learn nothing. Endless purchases of Amway crap. Endless fees for CommuniKate or for standing orders or for get-togethers with your asshole Platinum. The hemorrhage of money never stops!
Amway is a disease, like drug addiction or alcoholism. For many people it is a hard thing to kick.
Anonymous - Ambot mentality is who care about old friends when your new friends are all Amway losers LOL!
DeleteThe Amway Ambot will have no friends outside Amway losers, no family and no money. Because all money must be spent tithing the Great Amway God.
And you're right. Like other diseases Amway is a hard habit for many to kick.
@Anonymous and AnnaBanana; That is so true about it being so hard to leave the Amway cult. The newly minted Ambot is told by his/her asshole upline and other Scamway cult leaders to recruit all their friends into the cult. It doesn't take long for the Ambot to learn that no one wants to buy overpriced shitty Amway products but the Ambot has already placed him/her self way out on a limb in front of everyone they know. And, like Mark Twain said, "It's easier to fool somebody than it is to convince them they've been fooled" and that makes it hard to leave the cult. It's so embarrassing to have been suckered into Amway.
DeleteHi Ray - that's a great Mark Twain quote. And fits Ambots perfectly. Ambots deny Amway is a scam. Ambots deny Amway is a pyramid scheme. Ambots deny Amway is a cult. It's easier to fool an Ambot than to convince an Ambot they've been fooled! LOL!
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