Sly Amway Bastards

A reader shares their experiences of being in the WWG World Wide Group also known as WWDB World Wide Dream Builders better known to us as World Wide Destructive Bastards. This is Amway’s most abusive cult sects.

 

So my wife and I were with WWG a training and mentoring program for Amway for the last 2 years. We have recently walked away from the organization due to a few things that I never could agree with. I wanted to reach out to this community because I’m sure there will be people who will search for answers while deciding to join or not.

Positives

He are a few things that I did like about WWG. I really loved the mentoring in life situations. You have such a big group of people that there was always someone who went through what you were going through and had great advice. I did enjoyed the book list they had because the books were great for growing personally & great low price. Honestly, that’s the only two things I truly liked.

Negatives (this is my person experience)

The first thing that I truly didn’t like was the way we had to be sly when talking to a potential business partner. We weren’t allowed to give to much information and there couldn’t be any mention of Amway or WWG. When someone asked what company we work for we would say “We work with a few company’s like Nike, Apple...etc” which were all associated with Amway. I always felt like that was lying because we worked for Amway but that was how we were trained and it was always brought up to us “why change something that has made others successful”.

The next thing that bugged me was that when someone was involved in their church or community the upline would always “suggest” to stop everything until you grow your business. Being a christian I couldn’t agree with that since having fellowship with others is very important. It was not only that but they made/ suggested us to miss weddings / family events / work events.. pretty much anything that wasn’t for the business.

Then there are the major functions that drain your accounts because they are every quarter, plus the rallies which are if I remember every quarter and then there are 2nd looks. The only thing that was free were the house meeting every other week. Before we joined they helped setup a budgeting sheet to save money but I never saw that money because it went to all the events and products. I am still using the budgeting but now that I am not paying for functions / hotels / communikate and the WWG app I am starting to see my saving go up and able to clean my debt up.

The next thing what really got to me was the way my wife began looking at me. She would always tell me for the last two years “When you go out and meet people and grow the business, that when I know you are fighting for our family” It really made me feel like crap because I would over 40/hrs a week to support my family but that wasn’t “Fighting” to her. We got into a lot of fights because of Amway.

The fighting is what lead up to my wife and I separating for about a month and a half. what made it worse so none of our upline ever wondered what happened to us. Once they didn’t see any PV coming through it all the “doing Life together” “always being there for us” all disappeared.

That is my personal experience with Amway / WWG. If your able to put all of your time / money into it, remove all relationships besides IBO’s then this is the business for you.

It wasn’t for me and I am happy to report that my wife and I are back together, we are no longer part of Amway and I am perusing a business that I am passionate about and don’t have to be “sly” about.