Thanks to a reader
who shares a story about a birthday “gift” they received.
My son's friend, who unfortunately is caught up in the Amway scam, came to my
son's birthday party at our house the other night. He stayed until after
everyone else had gone and his dad arrived and was chatting with us. Then I
watched the kid come into the room holding a box in his hand and stood there as
his dad smiled and said "Chris has something he wants to say". I felt
the blood running out of my face as I thought "Oh God, no! Is this going
to be a fucking Amway pitch?" Sure enough, he pulls out a box of Nutrilite
Cranberry Crunch bars and some other Amway snack and told about how good and
healthy they are and that he wanted to give them as his gift. My son thanked
him and, luckily, the pitch ended there with that being his
"present". I'm not sure if there was the hope that we'd become
"addicted" to them and start ordering more, but no way in hell that
is going to happen. I did a google search and found that other Ambots were selling
them online for as much as $16 dollars a box!!!! 12 bars. And they are TINY!!
Each bar is like 3 inches long.
Again, I don't know if the intent was to try to get us as a
"customer", or simply because since Amway is purely self-consumerism,
he uses Amway as gifts to get his "sales" totals up and get a pat on
the head from his upline.
Just thought I'd share that. Amway is such a sad thing to see happen to a
person. I don't know what hope this kid has since his college roommate is the
one who got him into it, so he gets daily brainwashing. I know that his dad
allowed him to have one of their stupid circle meetings at his house which got
another kid hooked into the Amway scheme, and the dad of THAT kid still hasn't
forgiven the dad of my son's friend for helping his son get sucked into the
cult.
It's more and more the case that Amway IBOs will try to recruit younger persons -- either college students, or even teenagers in high school.
ReplyDeleteThe reason is simple. It's easier to fool younger people. Most adults are experienced enough to know a scam when they see one, and the reputation of all MLMs (especially Amway's rep) is now really bad. Amway can't stop the flood of bad stories and testimonies of abuse and lying that now fill the internet, and that have reduced recruitment to a trickle.
I notice that now, when you try to Google an anti-Amway website, Amway has placed six or seven sponsored pro-Amway links at the head of your search. You are forced to scroll down to find the anti-Amway website that you want.
What a cowardly thing to do. Amway is terrified of the anti-MLM and anti-Amway websites, and they are trying to prevent persons from having easy access to them. Instead of answering the criticisms, they try to silence the critics.
Anonymous - years ago our Amway cult leaders told us to recruit younger people because they're less likely to have heard of Amway. Or any other pyramid scheme. It's life experience. They're figure it out. After spending too much time with lying scamming Amway losers I am really good at figuring out real fast if someone is a liar. And what kind of scam they're trying to pull. I tried to warn a friend about someone she just hired because I could tell real fast what kind of person this was. Yup a few weeks later she said she should have listened to me.
DeleteI think most people scroll down past sponsored ads on Google. But that is interesting because at Amway cult meetings the cult leaders would always be spouting off the bullshit that Amway doesn't advertise. LOL! Amway has paid advertisements out there. Maybe less than they did 10 or 15 years ago but the advertising budget has likely decreased the way their sales have.
Amway is in a state of mental confusion about the internet. On the one hand, up-line orders low-level IBOs not to consult it, because it is "just a bathroom wall, where anybody can write anything." But on the other hand, up-line is always preaching that on-line marketing is "the wave of the future," and that every IBO has to set up his own website.
ReplyDeleteWhich is it, you Amway freaks? Do you hate and fear the internet, or is it the wave of the future?
Anonymous - at Amway meetings the cult leaders were always comparing Amway to Amazon for online sales. One of these companies made about $575 billion last year. If anyone needs a hint - it was not ScAmway LOL!
DeleteSo yeah Ambots can't go around bragging about owning their own business in online sales and also avoid being on the Internet. But that's just typical Amway bullshit propaganda where Ambots talk out of both sides of their mouth.