Beware of long lost friends
who contact you out of the blue who want to tell you about this new business
they’re involved in or asking you if you’re free or if you hate your job or if
you want to start up your own business. If its not some Amway asshole its
probably a similar MLM scam. Here’s a reader’s story who tells us that nothing
ever changes in Amway. The same old 8pm Amway witching hour meeting time. Get
there early to find good seats. Insults flung at J.O.B.s. A story from the cult
leader preaching to the followers about how poor they used to be and now thanks
to someone who showed them the Amway plan they’re rolling in riches.
And of course the right attitude from anyone who attends an Amway meeting –
getting the hell out of there thinking this is fucking creepy!
So here’s what you say to those Amway ambots with their bullshit once in a
lifetime opportunity – SHOVE IT WHERE THE SUN DON’T SHINE!
Hi Anna, first, I have to say I love your page and “thank you-straight from my
heart for your blog!” Second, I went to a night-meeting this past Tuesday with
a LONG-LOST-COLLEGE friend I forgot I EVEN knew! We bumped into each other at
the gas station…talked some business and before you knew it, I WAS BOOKED in a
network business systems, marketing meeting taking place at a Holiday Inn in
town.
Currently I’m working on my MBA, certified in bookkeeping with a 9-5 with an
“okay” benefits package. So we get to this meeting, it starts at 8 sharp, but
we want to be there a few minutes earlier, he said it gets packed and we want
to find seats! I ate before we got there, but still asked about snacks, he said
there would be (WATER FOR EVERYONE!). We sit, I was introduced, first to a GOOD
colleague of his, and later to the business EXPERT at the front of the room
chanting away about why a JOB is being a DEAD-BEAT! I heard some “ I used to
eat from the dumpster” stories and “we shared a bed-all four of us, at the
homeless shelter” testimonials. Then someone showed them the PLAN, and BOOM,
they’re RICH!!! All this time I’m waiting for some relevant Independent
Business Owner strategies, customer-base, product-marketing, business-promotion
techniques…licensing, location…ANYTHING! At around 10pm, the EXPERT guy goes
around the meeting room finalizing the recruitment process on some of the other
prospects… “Say you’re joining the business to bring change to your family, to
bring your family together, to one day provide them with a brilliant future…say
it to them with me now (his holding some young couple’s hands and their friends
saying this really loudly).
He does this all around the room, holding hands with couples, instructing them
on what to say, telling them there is no other way to bring their families hope,
support, and unlimited money.
He told me it will never be too late to join, just to make sure I think about
it quick, so I can join right in time with the rest of them and be able to
retire, making about $20, 000 a week managing my own company and not having to
pay for my groceries or having endless discounts on everything I buy or lease
(apparently this includes vehicle-leases or financing…HAHAHAHA). My ‘SO-CALLED’
friend said we could get together the following day to help me DIGEST all this
NEW information and ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME opportunity…I just had to name the
place, the time, and he would bring some of his business partners and if need
be someone with a Master’s in Business Administration, they have people from
ALL WALKS OF LIFE!!!!!!
I haven’t answered my cell-phone or looked at my email, and if I see him I’ll
just say it’s not for me…EVER! That FUCKING meeting gave me the creeps…the way
they look at you and the way their voice sounds makes my skin crawl…AND I’M A
DUDE!!!!!
Anna, this guy's story is proof positive that Amway freaks are getting VERY DESPERATE! He was roped into this crazy meeting where some Amway "expert" went around the room holding people's hands, dictating what they should say, and orating about how they HAD to join, and how they would be RICH!
ReplyDeleteThis is a sign of desperation. It's a very real HARD SELL technique, used when you want to force someone into something while they are a captive audience. People are embarrassed and repulsed by it, but it works on some simple-minded types who are too shy to say no or argue.
The signs are unmistakable -- Amway is slowly (but surely) going down the tubes. If this is how recruitment is being done now, the structure of the company is getting very shaky.
Anonymous - also add in that the Internet has become Amway's worst enemy LOL. Too many people sharing their stories of financial and emotional distress thanks to the Amway Cult of Greed. Hard sell techniques punctuated by twisted religion hoping to drag in simple minded types. It's like don't hold my hand motherfucker and try to spin your black magic on me.
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