The last time we posted about Amway Ambots getting paid to shop online scam, one of our readers shared their Amway experience from the days before the Internet existed:
In the old days of Amway (the
1970s) you never heard any of this crap about "making money by shopping in
your own store" or "getting paid to help others." There wasn't
even any emphasis on "self-consumption" of the Amway products, or
"becoming a better person."
The only thing that was said was that you had to sell Amway stuff, and recruit
others in your down-line to do the same. Period.
The changeover to the new rhetorical bullshit came about years later, in order
to answer a pressing question that too many IBOs were asking. The question was
this: WHERE'S MY PROMISED PROFIT IN THIS AMWAY PLAN?
This was an embarrassing question, and the AMOs had to think up of something
that would redirect and deflect the attention of dissatisfied IBOs. So the
con-men came up with a whole new approach. They told IBOs that a crappy little
discount was the same thing as making a profit, and that recruiting a down-line
was really a form of altruistic social work because it gave others hope and an
opportunity. They also said that self-consumption of Amway products was merely
a way to replace what you were already buying elsewhere, and that the inflated
prices of these Amway products were because of their high quality and
concentration.
Finally, they came up with the most stupid and impudent lie of all -- namely,
that being in Amway "made you a better person," and therefore it
didn't really matter that you were losing your shirt.
All this baloney developed in the late 1970s and the 1980s, as the various AMOs
began to take over Amway totally, and change its entire emphasis towards
recruitment and rah-rah hype. This is when Amway started to become truly cultic
in its mentality and practice.
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