The last time we ran the Anything But Amway – Unlesss You’re A Broke Ambot Loser! post one of our readers pointed out how Amway appeals to losers. Yes, Amway cult leaders make ScAmway sound very attractive to losers who don’t have a shot at anything to make their lives better.
The reason Amway freaks scream “What
else is there?” when talking about their goddamned “plan” is this:
Amway is designed to appeal to LOSERS. To people who don’t actually have a shot
at ANYTHING worthwhile. To people without much education, without serious
skills, without resources to fall back upon. In short, Amway appeals to schlubs
and schmucks.
So quite naturally, when they get all those dimwitted IBOs at some big arena
for a “function,” they are going to press home the idea that there’s isn’t
anything else but Amway. That will tie in with the hopelessness, the
defensiveness, the desperation of people who really can’t do anything
exceptionable or very profitable.
At those “functions,” don’t those half-assed couples who come out to strut on
stage all tell you that before Amway, they were living out of garbage cans? Or
that they had dead-end jobs at the lowest level of factory production? Or that
they worked behind a counter, or waited tables, or were mechanics in a garage?
Or that they had to borrow money to get gas to go to their first Amway meeting?
Hi Anna, keep up the good fight against this insidious cult masquerading as a business. When I was briefly in another, different MLM scam I saw exactly what you described here. Funny that I never thought about getting rich, believe it or not I thought at first it was an honest business where I only hoped to make a livable income. My upline, whom I will call Dave because that was his name, was a little bit full of himself but his motivation was that he wanted to do better for family. Not long after I saw through and left the cult, I ran into Dave on the street where he was desperately trolling for suckers to join the cult and somehow save his ass from from failure. The poor b.....d didn't yet realize that he had failed (to use good judgement) as soon as he signed up. I approached him and talked to him like a smart ass but then saw something really sad. Dave had become a broken man. He had sold his house, hoping a la Hail Mary to somehow succeed in that rotten "business". I looked him up a while back and learned he was living in another state and incredibly his wife was still with him. I was happy about that. In the end those greedy ruthless cult bastards didn't manage to take from Dave what turned out to be the best wife any man could hope and pray to have.
ReplyDeleteHi Ray. Nice to see you back again! People inside the Amway cult are all about denial that Amway is a scam, a pyramid scheme, a cult, seller of overpriced shitty products. By sharing our real life Amway horror stories we hope to prevent others from making the mistake of getting involved with the Amway cult.
DeleteAs you pointed out there are other MLM scams out there that are also business cults. But Amway is the granddaddy of pyramid scheme business cults. The other MLM scam cults learned from Amway. It's no different than grandparent scams, exiled royalty, romance scams or you owe taxes scams, once word gets out about people getting scammed then other scammers will put their own spin and offer up a similar scam.
As you mentioned with Dave most people that get involved with Amway and other MLM scams want to have a better life for themselves and their family and as you said, not so much about getting rich but hoping to make a liveable income. Amway is the Cult of Greed where everyone is going to get rich. Another MLM scam might do better at promising a better income that the current job but not at highly exaggerated levels like the Amway cult promotes - bazillions of dollars in residual income rolling in every month for life. That's attractive but unattainable for pretty much all participants. Probably even unattainable for those with the last name of VanAndel and DeVos but millions monthly for those last names would be realistic for those at the top of the pyramid. As you found out from Dave, Amway isn't the only pyramid scheme cult out there that breaks its followers and brings them financial and emotional distress. It doesn't sound like Dave has hit rock bottom yet and only then he might be able to escape the clutches of the cult and create a better life for himself and his family instead of squandering it on a scam MLM.