A former Amway Ambot who was in the URA cult sect dropped by to share some of the Arrow program:
When I was in URA, they had the "Arrow" program
which kind of morphed over time. Basically, you needed to sponsor 12 with 20 at
least 20 people on our $49 membership (there as a $39 option but Upline never
pushed those of course) with 20 people "regularly coming to major
events" such as $93 quarterly conferences and $15 bi-annual seminars.
There would be a big Arrow ceremony at the big Diamond's estate where Upline
would pass out $2 arrows which one could get at Hobby Lobby. But of course, it
signified "much more" per them and that the qualifications for Arrow
meant that you were a "business owner." Whatever.
Amazing how they would only push a $49 and above option up to an unlimited
package of $89 or $99 (maybe it's more, I forgot) when people were already
spending quite a bit anyways on weekly meetings and other things.
I did have a crossline buddy once who I think had made Q12 or was close to it
at that time tell me that he had an IBO who wanted to still be signed up to
Amway but didn't want to pay the monthly membership fee to be on the URA app
(so pay the annual fee to Amway and have your own Amway account, IBO number,
etc. but leave the team). He told me that you have to be on membership (in this
case URA) in order to still keep your IBO number through Amway. Therefore, he
had to make this person a customer. Good for the person in not having to pay
the annual fee to Amway anymore to be an active IBO, but kind of a crappy way
to go about it.
Does anyone know if this is true? That is...if you are signed up to Amway as an
IBO (paying the annual membership dues) that you HAVE to be a part of an AMO
and pay the active fees to be a part of that said AMO? If this is the case,
then so much for being an "independent business owner."
I have asked the same question about this. When I was in Amway back in 1970, there were no AMO subsystems. If you were a "Distributor" (that's what they called an IBO back then) you simply were signed up directly with the Amway corporation. There were no super-expensive "functions," though the Amway people did have a convention every once in a while.
ReplyDeleteIf you simply wanted to sell Amway products to the public and make whatever money you could by doing that, an AMO subsystem is pointless. An AMO is simply a teaching service that charges you for tuition and training. And its only interest is for you to pay your many fees, and recruit as many new IBOs as possible.
Anonymous - it's pretty much impossible to do that since like you said back in the 70s. An eager beaver can't just contact Amway and sign up. I think Amway might steer them towards a cult sect in their area. This is why Diamonds still have to recruit direct downline and their referrals might come from Amway's head office. But really anyone who hears about Amway and does an Internet search first would steer clear!
DeleteIt's pretty much impossible to be an "independent" distributor in Amway. So much for using the word "independent" in IBO. LOL! Around here we call them like we see them. Low paid commissioned salespeople who earn a few pennies commission whenever they happen to pressure someone into buying shitty overpriced Amway products.