I had long since stopped attending cult meetings. Ambot told me this after the fact.
One night at an Amway meeting the Platinum told everyone in the room that no
one was leaving until they gave him a check for the next function.
Ambot was pissed off enough to challenge the pompous sack of shit Platinum.
That is a major no-no for an IBO.
NEVER QUESTION UPLINE!
He angrily told the sack of shit he’d write him a check and then he’d pull all
the money out of his account so the check would bounce. The Platinum started
yelling at him: “You’re writing a check that will bounce and you call yourself
a business owner?” Ambot stood up to him and pointed out it was against the law
to refuse to allow people to leave of their own free will. Telling people they
can not leave until they pay him money? Essentially the sack of shit was
holding everyone hostage until they paid him the ransom money for the function.
Perhaps Ambot wouldn’t have reacted this way if that Amway meeting had gone
another way but this was the night the cult leader led his flock in a
prayerfest that I would find another man and leave Ambot.
Ambot never wrote that check, pushed past the bouncer downline flunkie who was
guarding the door and stormed out of the meeting. The cult followers followed
their leader’s example and yelled jeers after him. Apparently they dutifully
stayed and wrote their checks before being allowed to go home.
Dealing with a demented cult leader who tried to force his personal views on
the cult followers and being held hostage was finally too much for Ambot.
That was the last meeting he attended.
Anna, that Platinum was a vicious piece of shit.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, many other Platinums in the Amway racket are exactly the same. The sheer arrogance of refusing to let people leave until they gave him a check... it's extortion and kidnapping combined.
I only wish you would release the name of that goddamned Platinum, so that we can publicly mock him. He had to quit Amway, and he then failed in Monavie, from what I remember you telling us. I'm sure the little fuckheads at that meeting who jeered at your husband also lost their financial shirts in Amway.
Anonymous - from comments left around the Internet most Platinums in the Amway cult are just as vicious. Nice when you first meet them then once you pay the admission fee to the Amway pyramid scheme their true colors show. I have no idea what MLM scam these losers are participating in these days. I heard it once shortly after Monavie shut down but don't remember the name. The fact that the fucker was able to drag along most of the downline is something other cult leaders have done to Amway over the years too.
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