When we
attended Amway functions the Diamond leading the cult meeting would often brag
about how he tells people he gets paid to shop online. The story usually goes
he’s standing in line somewhere or at the doctor’s office – you know places
where you’re most likely to strike up a conversation with a stranger – NOT! –
and they’ll ask what he does for a living and he says I get paid to shop
online.
Said like that it might draw a question from the victim like how do you do that
– are you a secret shopper - and the next thing you’ll know they’re duped into
coming to the next Scamway meeting.
Do a Google search that says get paid to shop online and see if what comes up
sounds like a scummy Amway bait & switch scam. Here’s what I got on
Craigslist but whether or not this particular ad is still up is hard to say.
Most get flagged off as MLM scams.
Earn MASSIVE INCOME$$$ Helping Others Get Paid
to Shop Online!!!
- IF YOUR LOOKING FOR A JOB, THIS IS NOT IT!
THIS IS A BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY FOR YOURSELF TO HAVE TOTAL CONTROL OF YOUR OWN
TIME AND INCOME EARNING!
-LOOKING FOR: -OPEN/BUSINESS MINDED INDIVIDUALS
-THOSE WHO WANT MORE IN LIFE
-SERIOUS ABOUT BUILDING A LARGE INCOME ON THE SIDE
-WANTING A HOME BASED BUSINESS
-GET PAID $$$ TO HELP OTHERS DO WHAT THEY DO ALL THE TIME WITH OR WITHOUT YOU!
-EARN UP TO "$1,500-$25,000" (PER WEEK)-- !
-NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY-- HELP IS PROVIDED! HOWEVER, IF YOU HAVE EXPERIENCE IN
SOCIAL MEDIA, MARKETING, PUBLIC RELATIONS, SEO YOUR DEFINITELY SUITABLE TO
EXCEED QUICKER!!!
IF YOU FEEL LIKE THIS IS TO GOOD TO BE TRUE(WE HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON). I
DARE YOU TO TAKE YOUR FIRST STEP ON REACHING SUCCESS WHICH IS GETTING KNOWLEDGE
OR ASKING QUESTIONS! PLEASE EMAIL ME ASAP AND I'LL GIVE YOU THE ANSWERS RIGHT
AWAY!
OK lets point out the obvious. The fucker who placed this ad can’t figure out
how to turn off the caps lock button on their keyboard! LOL!!! Ha ha ha ha ha
ha!!!! That’s an Amway scammer for you. Has to ask permission from the assholes
in his upline first. LOL! Fucking Amway loser.
This ad was accompanied by a whole bunch of photos, mostly beach shots and Las
Vegas. A sign that said “what would you do with $25,000” and a picture of a
bunch of things one could conceivably buy online like camera, watches, perfume
iPad, etc.
So let’s analyze this MLM scam ad starting with the headline that just screams
“I’M A SCAM!” What do you hear at every Amway meeting, all about the massive
incomes you can earn. And usually due to helping others, teaching them what you
do and they do the same. You know the Amway plan to have gazillions of dollars
in residual income rolling in every month. Eat one Amway food bar and drink one
Amway drink everyday and teach 6 others to do what you do and they teach 6
others and they teach 6 others…….
Part of the ad talks about the old “business opportunity”. Amway ambots do that
all the time but avoid saying the dreaded A word. Instead ScAmway is referred
to as “the business”.
Looking for open minded people who want more in life, want a home based business,
want to make gazillions of dollars as a side income. Yup more bullshit Amspeak
that can be heard at every Scamway cult meeting.
Get paid to help others is more bullshit Amspeak. They fuck with Amway ambots
and brainwash them to believe they’re part of the Amway cult to “help others”
like some bullshit noble cause. You want to help others get a job as a nurse or
a cop or firefighter for fuck’s sake and stay away from Amway scammers!
Get paid to do what they do all the time (with or without you). Could that be
shopping? That’s more ScAmway Amspeak. You’re going shopping anyway, this way
you get paid for shopping. Followed usually by “stuff that you buy for everyday
use anyway”. I can tell you that I never used vitamins, bottled water, and
energy drinks every day before Amway. Or after Amway. Only during. So how does
this apply to me? It doesn’t. A better slogan is join Amway and get forced to
buy overpriced shitty products that you never had any use for in the first
place!!!!
Earn anywhere from $1500 to $25,000/week. Yup heard just about every number
under the sun tossed out at Scamway meetings. And you can earn all this with
“no experience necessary”. LOL! People who are really earning that kind of
money received training and are well experienced at what they do, like say
heart surgeons and airline pilots. Would you want to get on a plane with a
pilot who has no experience flying a plane and gets paid $10/month, the same
amount an Amway ambot makes if they’re CORE? And he makes more than that
airlines mechanics! There’s a reason why these guys make the big bucks.
Experience! Extensive training! If you’re told you can make thousands of
dollars a week no experience necessary that just screams SCAM all over it.
Then the old bullshit about how this seems too good to be true then a dare to
phone to get more info. Some bullshitter named Lew put this ad up and his phone
number but I won’t post it here.
Some
words of wisdom from one of our readers: Nobody “makes money by shopping.”
When you shop, you pay out. Getting a small discount for your purchase is not
“making money.”
It's unbelievable that Amway can spread an impudent lie like that, but it's
profoundly more unbelievable that so many idiots accept it as the gospel truth.
To wrap it up, it is highly unlikely there will be a legitimate job waiting to
any ad about how to make money shopping online. Its another Amway scam, as
taught at Amway cult meetings.
Those sucked in advertise like that sometimes.
ReplyDeleteWhat is really ironic (there are many ironies, but this is mine of the day): if you ask someone who got sucked in, after a good while, why the business is not making any money at all and/or why he can't give a specific answer how things are going, then guess what? He would lecture the person who asked the question, that there is no such thing as get rich quick! It is if people learn that they should sell the idea of get rich quick, but for themselves they should not ask questions if they don't make any net profit after months or even years.
The other funny thing which just shows what a screwed up "business" it is, let alone asking upline permission, Amway itself needs to be asked permission if a "business owner" (I chuckle every time I type that) wants to advertise. Because by default it is against the rules.
Take this from the rules of conduct I got from google, from Amway's own site:
"Under no circumstances may ABOs advertise or promote Amway products and services or
the Amway Business Opportunity through the use of mass communication methods such as radio, television,
facsimile services, computer communication networks, including the Internet, national or international advertising,
or any other form of promotion where the person-to-person nature of the business is not present ABOs/ may
advertise only with the express approval of Amway in writing".
One would have to ask why? What could be the possible reason a supplier of products don't want their products pushed in public? The only possible reason is Amway itself wanting to protect the network (which is Amspeak for pyramid).
Because people won't buy the products for long if they can be ordered freely online, anonymously, in large volumes from the same distributor.
So why won't Amway just let it? Well, the price and what you get is not convincing. People just won't keep buying it. It will destroy the networks, and with that, all their sales. Because the networks are the only place people would buy this month after month.
Even people who quit Amway and who still fail to admit it was a scam, always stop buying the products the moment they quit. If the excitement about the "business" wanes, so does the excitement about the products. (some sadly move on to other scams and buy their products).
The bottom line is that Amway needs the cult hype so consumers buy it while thinking they are building a business. No advertising allowed, you can only get the products from a cult group near you.
Kwaaikat is quite correct here.
DeleteAny normal business wants its products to sell widely, and is glad for the opportunity to advertise. More sales, more profits, right?
No. WRONG. The Amway Corporation knows very well that its products are not competitive with major brands, and are consumed for the most part by Amway members. And they also know that the various AMO subsystems make the bulk of their money by selling tools and training and conference tickets.
This explains the strong disapproval that Amway shows for wide advertising by individual IBOs. If it's easy to obtain and sample Amway products by ordering on-line, then the products have to make it on their own quality and price. They won't compete well with standard brands, and Amway will lose money. And if customers buy from just a few well-advertised and easily available sources, the AMO subsystems will not be in a position to recruit new members and suck them dry of money for endless fees and training.
Amway and its crucially linked AMO subsystems desperately need endless recruitment, which is always accomplished by personal, hands-on connection with prospective recruits. That's where you get the membership fees, the tool income, the assorted annual payments, and the forced monthly purchase of $300 worth of products for PV. The Amway Racketeers know that LINKAGE HAS TO BE PERSONAL for that kind of ripoff to be successful.
Major advertising is a threat to that kind of linkage.
kwaaikat - even though Amway's regulations don't allow Ambots to advertise - most Ambots give the big old fuck you to their boss and do whatever. Same as how the rules say Ambots aren't supposed to engage people onlline who have differing opinions and that Ambots aren't allowed to state any affiliation Amway might have with the BBB. Ambots do whatever they want and violate the IBO agreement.
DeleteAnonymous - most legitimate businesses would hope that advertising their product or service would bring in more customers and dollars. Pyramid schemes like Amway have different methods. And as you stated one of the biggest problems Amway has is their products are not competitive with similar products already in the marketplace. So Amway is all about recruitment. Sell the hope, not the soap. Sure sign of a pyramid scheme when recruitment is the emphasis instead of sales.
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