For those of you who have
had to put up with listening to the Amway band the Goads and occasionally stop
by here looking information about them, you’ve come to the wrong place! Ha! I
remember hearing them. I guess they’re good enough, but not memorable and not
interesting enough to write about. Someone once left a comment with the titles
of the songs they sing and yeah they’re all about motivating Amway ambots.
Time to really know what an Amway goad is. To be goaded by an Amway ambot.
Here’s a few things I found in online dictionaries for the meaning of the word “goad”
all that apply very well when used to describe an Amway IBO.
- to make a person or an animal react or do something by continuously annoying
or upsetting them
- a pointed rod used to make an animal move forward
- someone or something that urges or forces someone to do something
- something that pains as if by pricking
All of those apply to what its like being abused by the fucking assholes in
your Amway upline! The most fucking annoying goading bastards around are all in
Amway.
Is it any wonder that Amway uses a musical group at Amway functions and names
them “the goads”? Hua hua hua. Very fitting description for anything Amway!!!!
A former Amway lifer shares their story:
I stumbled upon your site after searching for “The Goads”, since I was curious
if they existed, let me explain.
I was a “lifer” in Amway back in the 80’s-90’s.
I was quite fluent in “the plan” and could “persuade” (I have to be careful how
I say that, since if you “chose” the right people, they didn’t need
persuading), and “candidate” that this was the best way to financial freedom.
It certainly makes sense that the most common persons to approach are young
unassuming “go getters” (I never used so many quotation marks) or someone who
is a solid business man. One has no idea what is ahead of them and the other
has the money to “invest”.
Anyway all that has been said is true in that there is a clear deception in
what is going on there. Yes, I know a person who still has their “dream” does
not see it that way, but lets look at a few thing they don’t tell you.
1. “If you work hard at it, you will succeed”. Now they carefully don’t tell
you how long that will be, since they have no idea. That works in their favor
both ways. One, as long as your in you purchase the products and “essentials”,
which leads to at the next question, but I’ll get to that. On the other hand if
you decide to leave for ANY reason, you’ve lost your “dream”.
2. It will cost you now, but when you make it, it will be a business that
allows you the free time to do what you want. Cost? That’s an understatement.
If you’ve got kids, sorry, if you’re struggling to pay off debt, don’t worry
about it, once your business kicks in, you can pay for all that and more.
(Heard this all before?) So after putting in countless hours showing the plan,
driving to meetings and getting out to “contact” people, that doesn’t leave
much time for the family. Again, this is why to seek out the young and “unattached”
(no kids). Now how long was that again until I can be successful? You just have
to work at it hard, uh huh.
3. You MUST attend the “functions” (another word for con-vention, good choice
by the way). Now let me get this right. I can’t take my kids anywhere and have
no money to take my wife out to dinner, but I NEED to spend money I don’t have
so that I can keep my “dream” alive? Don’t worry, we can get a room that you
and 12 others can split to make it less expensive...
I guess that brigns me back to why i was searching “The Goads”. (Sorry it took
me so long) Our pastor today brought up the story of Paul and how Christ said
to him that it was hard to work against the goads. He explained what a “goad”
was and it was like a light went on. A goad, he said is a sharpened stick that
allows the user to guide the sheep in the direction he wants them to go. (ding,
ding ding.) Got it yet, The Goads, perfectly and carefully named so, are the
sharpened stick that guided the blind sheep ( Amway followers) in the direction
of the dream. Well, I have been saving individuals, for sometime, from the
misnomers of Amway. I even got “contacted” to a plan showing (that was
interesting). It was nice to see good people leaving with me saying thanks.
Keep up the good work.
"Goad" is the family name of that singing group. They got involved with Amway after they were heard by Dexter Yager, who loved them and convinced them to perform at WWDB functions. They also wrote a number of songs specifically connected to Amway propaganda. Here are some lyrics from the ones I recall:
ReplyDeleteOne, two, three -- four, five, six
I'm goin' Diamond - that's it, period.
(This is designed to suggest the 6-4-2 plan of IBO recruitment that you need to hit the Diamond level.)
Some will, some won't -- so what?
(That's to encourage you not to give a fuck if prospects don't join up in Amway after you show the plan. The basic idea is that you should simply forget about such people, and go on to the next possible prospect.)
Anonymous - definitely heard some will some won't - so what? That's the snotty Amway attitude. Ambots think they're so great that everyone wants to join the Amway cult. And if they don't they take on a so what attitude like they're so big and important and make so much money in ScAmway that so what if some measly little person doesn't get on board.
DeleteWhen the reality is more like Ambots have to beg everyone they know just to come to an Amway cult meeting and when that doesn't work - trick them into coming. Sheer desperation!
And these are the same people that think the Goads are the best music group out there.