A reader shares their Amway horror story.
My best friend of 10 yrs is an ambot. She is secretly dating
a guy in Amway, & tells us she doesn’t want their relationship to be
official & out on Facebook as they don’t want to mix business & their
relationship. After a month she told us she didn’t think Amway was for her,
& we felt relieved. The next time we saw her, she told us she was back in
Amway & her “passions were set on fire.” As her friend, I wanted to support
her happiness & knew if I expressed any concern, she’d view it as me being
a “negative” person.
My best friend is my maid of honor in my wedding (I’m engaged) & w/i a few
months, I watched my best friend give up: her videography business, Bible study
with us for Amway’s “church services”, working with a financial advisor for
retirement as “Amway has a better financial plan,” a European trip she’d been
planning for MONTHS because she “didn’t have time to travel,” & abandon our
friendship for amway
My best friend texted me asking what I was doing the next day from 7:40-9:00pm.
I told her I was free & she manipulatively invited me to an Amway event
& expressed that I could benefit from hearing it & it would mean a lot
to her. I responded saying I love & support her but no thank you, amway isn’t
for me. She was upset & ignored me & when I asked if she’d gotten my
previous text to talk, she she didn’t need to explain herself & that she
was going to be busy in the next weeks so we couldn’t see each other.
At this point, I knew I had to express concern because a good friend would do
that. Even if it meant it backfiring. We finally met up & after some small
talk I said, “I think this deserved a conversation & so I wanted to share
with you why I declined your invite to your Amway meeting.” I told her how my
grandfather was in Amway & it was a big reason he & his wife got
divorced. They were raising 5 kids & he was losing $ in amway. I also told
her I did a lot of research on Amway & concluded based on those 2 things
that it wasn’t for me, but that doesn’t mean I don’t support her & her
happiness. She got offended. She compared me to one of her other friends saying
this other friend would go to a meeting if she asked. She said she wanted me to
go so I could understand where her priorities were focused & so I could ‘understand
why we wouldn’t see each other that much’
She told me that I “just have to go to the meetings to understand why I’m not a
priority” & I told her if someone asked about my business, my faith, etc
that I could explain it to them in words for them to understand. She said “when
I achieve my dream, I’m going to take my friends & family on exotic
vacations all around the world!” I said, “so all the friends & family you
made not important in your life are just going to all of a sudden go on
vacation with you?”
I told her I missed her & feel that I’m losing my best
friend (i’m sobbing at this point telling her this). I asked her what she gets
from Amway that she wasn’t getting in our friendship. She brought up hanging
around successful people & I asked her what success means to her & she
said following her passions. I asked her if she thought I didn’t follow mine
(because I do). I asked her if she thought I was unsuccessful.
I asked her if she had any idea how hurtful it’s been to be penciled in &
put on the side. She got defensive & said “I’m done with this!” & left.
I said “you will always be my best friend & I will always be here for you.”
We haven’t spoken since.
Amway isolates people who aren’t in Amway. Amway encourages its IBO’s to break
it off with anyone who is ‘negative’ (i.e. anyone who isn’t in Amway), Amway
says those “negative people are close-minded” when in fact Amway is
close-minded to anyone who doesn’t believe in “their way to success.” If you’re
not making money for your upline, Amway doesn’t give a shit about you. Amway
positively reinforces those who are selling & who are remaining active by
buying or selling products--if you’re slacking (i.e. missing
meetings/conferences or not meeting sales, they will bully & manipulate you
to feel less than).
To my best friend who is in Amway: I know my best friend is still in there and
I’m angry that Amway has brainwashed you. I am very hurt by this but will
accept you in loving arms if Amway doesn’t work out the way it was sold to you.
This account of a wrecked relationship makes my blood run cold. It also stokes my anger, because it simply proves once more what a sick and destructive racket the entire Amway business is.
ReplyDeleteAmway survives by sucking the life out of people. It separates them from family, friends, and anyone else who isn't willing to be a slavish supporter of the Amway cult.
The woman who is being described here is actually on a suicide trip. She has disconnected herself from anything useful, productive, and good in her life, in order to be mindlessly obedient to Amway directives. Like 99% of everyone signed up in Amway, she will go broke after cutting herself off from her good friends, her business, her financial advisor, her Bible studies, her travel plans, and anything else that was promising in her life.
This is what Amway does, and I'm sick of people who argue that it's not the fault of the Amway Corporation but of the LOS subsystems. IT'S AMWAY'S FAULT! This goddamned corporation has been wrecking human lives in this manner since 1959!
The woman who posted this narrative has seen Amway screw her grandparents, and now Amway is screwing her friendship. I doubt very much that she will have this stupid and gullible friend as her bridesmaid for her coming wedding.
Anonymous - the Amway cult is all about destroying other people's relationships. Amway cult leaders dictate who the downline can associate with and if it's not another Ambot in crossline then that's a small circle of people Ambots are given permission to associate with. I wonder how many jobs out there where the boss dictates to the employee who they can have relationships with. I'm sure there are some jobs. Police officers come to mind. There might be something in their contracts that says they can not have relationships with criminals who break the law. Teachers might have a contract saying they can't have a sexual relationship with their students. Although I think there are some jobs that say who the employee can not have contact with the majority of employers out there don't care what their staff does on their own time. Amway is not that kind of company!
DeleteBut then Amway is all about disconnecting their commissioned sales reps from outside contacts who can reason with the Ambot and say you're a dumb fuck for throwing your money away at this pyramid scheme.
I'm sure that any Ambots who get asked to be a bridesmaid would have to get permission from their Amway cult leader first. DENIED! The Amway cult leader will tell them they should spend their money on "building their business" aka buying more shitty overpriced Amway products - instead of buying a bridesmaid gown, a wedding gift, etc.