There was a book that was a must read for all ambots called The
Slight Edge. One of those expensive Amway tools that all good little ambots
must buy. I don’t recall what Ambot paid for it maybe $20 because he had to buy
it from the upline bastards at their inflated price instead of finding it
cheaper on Amazon or Ebay. You’d think one copy would be enough but Ambot
bought at least 5 copies of this book over the months we were in the Amway
scam. Had to put something on those tools orders to get his upline richer!
We’ve long since given them away. Typical return on your Amway dollars spent!
I remember going to an Amway function and just about every Diamond couple that
marched across the stage was holding a copy of The Slight Edge. They’d
wave it around and encourage all their cult followers to buy it. They neglected
to say that they’d probably bought a container load for a stinking deal of a
dollar each and they were selling them for $20 each on the tools orders and
what a profit they’re making!
I’m pretty sure The Slight Edge was the book that had a story about a
man on his deathbed and he called his sons over and gave them a choice of a
million dollars or a purse with a penny in it and every day for the next 30
days the penny would be doubled. One son took the million dollars and went out
and had a good time spending it on stuff that I’ve long since forgotten about.
The other son took the purse with the penny. His brother predictably taunted
him because after a week the penny brother has 64 cents in his purse and the
million dollar brother has a new house and new car and whatever. By 30 days the
double your penny brother has over $5 million. Who gets the last laugh?
So many people lose money in MLM’s and many keep trying over and over trying
new MLM scams. Take that penny doubled story and put it in a chart with a
people doubled theory like the Amway cult leaders preach – remember eat and
drink one Amway product daily and find 2 people who do what you do and so on
and so on and so on. Except they leave out the part that with pyramid schemes
like Amway the pyramid collapses sometime between one and thirty. Millions is
the stuff of ambot dreams but it won’t happen.
So why do the assholes in the Amway upline want everyone to read The Slight
Edge - other than the obvious profit they make from selling it - and why
they tell the penny doubled story from the stage to convince every ambot
recruit how they too can succeed at Amway. Damned if I know but I do know the
upline liars conveniently forget to mention that this pattern will not work
because of the high number of drop outs at the lower levels. IBO’s leave when
they realize they’re not making any money at Amway.
Oh and if anyone approaches you with a reading suggestion on a great book
they’ve just read and loans it to you and its called The Slight Edge -
RUN! Its an ambot!
Like most rubbish that the scammers put out, this is a stolen story. The original involves a king wanting to thank one of his people. The request was for an amount of rice starting at 1 grain for the first square of a chessboard and then for each successive square on the board, double the amount of rice as per the previous square. Of course by the time you reach the 64th square and in fact long before, you have exhausted the wealth of the country.
ReplyDeleteThis example that the scammers use is completely taken from the pages of fables as well and has just as much chance of becoming reality. If you even wanted a slight chance of it coming true, you would have to do everything you could to get a consumer to buy from you. Yet nobody in the scam cares about end consumers. It is always about some magic that will take place causing you to be rich just by buying stuff from the people above you, using money you earn from your 'just above broke' job. You will never leave that 'job' by doing this scam.
You can read all the fairy tales and fables you want and even enjoy them. Believing that any of those things will happen to you is absurd. In fact the original story is telling us all that exponential growth is never actually going to take place. Hundreds of years later scammers are still peddling this story as though it is real as opposed to cautionary tale. Instead of making you smarter as the story was meant to do, the scammers sell it as some sort of exhortation to work in their scam.
LOL Aussie Hillbilly - everything connected with Amway is all about thievery!
DeleteAmway Ambots are all about playing games of make belief. They are pretend business owners and hot shot businessmen living in fairy tales. And the rest of the world is laughing at them.
And ironically one of the Amway fairy tales is that they're all going to be rich and then they'll be laughing at everyone that laughed at them. LOL! Not so far.
You're quite correct about the fraudulence of these "doubling penny" stories. The idea might work mathematically, as an abstract idea on paper, but in the real world of Amway recruitment it is totally irrelevant.
ReplyDeleteYou CAN'T assume that your down-line is fixed in place, like a steel girder in a cement base! When IBOs make no money, or get fed up with up-line arrogance, or start thinking clearly instead of dreaming, they are going to quit.
And this is why very few people ever make serious money in the Amway scam.
Anonymous - it's every business owner's dream that every day profits will double from the previous day and keep on going like that into infinity. In reality there are profits and some months are better than others and if things are going well annual revenue always increases.
DeleteAmway Ambots like that fairy tale that every day they will double the amount of downline. LOL! There's just not that many suckers who want to sign up to the Amway cult. And those who do quit after a few months when they get fed up with being abused by the fucking assholes in the Amway upline and losing their money.
That's reality not a fairy tale.
Amway freaks are always demanding that you read some book or other. The fact is that these books are all hyped-up propaganda for a certain kind of go-getter capitalism. There's nothing wrong with making money honestly, but these books are designed to create inside you a mindset of rapacious, non-stop, cutthroat self-promotion and lying. You have to be fixated on becoming a millionaire tycoon at all costs.
ReplyDeleteCapitalism may or may not be what makes you happy but ask yourself how many people have become a tycoon through the MLM process. Not people claiming they made it to the top but actual documented wealth and not just credit card debt inflated asset numbers. If you can look objectively at what MLM offers and work out how anyone except the few at the top make any money in it then by all means go for it. What is more likely is that you realise that it is completely non viable. Better to spend every hour that you would have wasted on MLM meetings and conferences on actually developing your skills or doing something you actually love doing.
DeleteAnonymous - I definitely have different reading tastes than Amway cult leaders! But the boxes they're shoving are all part of the Amway tool scam and how they make money from the losers in their downline.
DeleteI'm not against capitalism. In fact, I'm a hard-right-wing reactionary who hates Communism and socialism with a true passion. I'd like to see every leftist on this planet dead.
DeleteMy anger is against a ferocious, predatory, unethical capitalism that has no other interest except raking in huge sums of money, and that has no concern for anything except amassing wealth endlessly and expanding its power exponentially.
Amway and all MLMs preach this kind of out-of-control greed, and brainwash IBOs into thinking that the only criterion of success in the world is measured by the sums in one's bank account.
Just look at Amway. The people in it have nothing but contempt for art, literature, music, drama, history, philosophy, or any other cultural activity. For them, everything is being in Amway, and going Diamond. They are culture-less buffoons, driven by the worst kind of rapacious capitalist thinking.
Anonymous - Amway the Cult of Greed. But for sure all MLM scams are greed driven. And the participants don't care whose lives they destroy in the pursuit of making a few pennies. I think you got it there. Amway Ambots are capitalists driven by greed and the worship of all things Amway and going Diamond. Nothing else in the world matters to them.
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