A reader shares their experiences of being in the WWG World Wide Group also known as WWDB World Wide Dream Builders better known to us as World Wide Destructive Bastards. This is Amway’s most abusive cult sect.
So my wife and I were with WWG
a training and mentoring program for Amway for the last 2 years. We have
recently walked away from the organization due to a few things that I never
could agree with. I wanted to reach out to this community because I’m sure
there will be people who will search for answers while deciding to join or not.
Positives
He are a few things that I did like about WWG. I really loved the mentoring in
life situations. You have such a big group of people that there was always
someone who went through what you were going through and had great advice. I
did enjoyed the book list they had because the books were great for growing
personally & great low price. Honestly, that’s the only two things I truly
liked.
Negatives (this is my person experience)
The first thing that I truly didn’t like was the way we had to be sly when
talking to a potential business partner. We weren’t allowed to give to much
information and there couldn’t be any mention of Amway or WWG. When someone
asked what company we work for we would say “We work with a few company’s like
Nike, Apple...etc” which were all associated with Amway. I always felt like
that was lying because we worked for Amway but that was how we were trained and
it was always brought up to us “why change something that has made others
successful”.
The next thing that bugged me was that when someone was involved in their
church or community the upline would always “suggest” to stop everything until
you grow your business. Being a christian I couldn’t agree with that since
having fellowship with others is very important. It was not only that but they
made/ suggested us to miss weddings / family events / work events.. pretty much
anything that wasn’t for the business.
Then there are the major functions that drain your accounts because they are
every quarter, plus the rallies which are if I remember every quarter and then
there are 2nd looks. The only thing that was free were the house meeting every
other week. Before we joined they helped setup a budgeting sheet to save money
but I never saw that money because it went to all the events and products. I am
still using the budgeting but now that I am not paying for functions / hotels /
communikate and the WWG app I am starting to see my saving go up and able to
clean my debt up.
The next thing what really got to me was the way my wife began looking at me.
She would always tell me for the last two years “When you go out and meet
people and grow the business, that when I know you are fighting for our family”
It really made me feel like crap because I would over 40/hrs a week to support
my family but that wasn’t “Fighting” to her. We got into a lot of fights
because of Amway.
The fighting is what lead up to my wife and I separating for about a month and
a half. what made it worse so none of our upline ever wondered what happened to
us. Once they didn’t see any PV coming through it all the “doing Life together”
“always being there for us” all disappeared.
That is my personal experience with Amway / WWG. If your able to put all of
your time / money into it, remove all relationships besides IBO’s then this is
the business for you.
It wasn’t for me and I am happy to report that my wife and I are back together,
we are no longer part of Amway and I am perusing a business that I am
passionate about and don’t have to be “sly” about.
Finally, someone had the guts to stand up against the fraud of the "tools and functions" fraud of LTD. Larry Winters had his Amway distributorship revoked by Amway for deceptive ways. Someone also called them out for the tax frauds LTD commits. It's real simple. The don't charge or collect sales tax for events, meetings, tools sales, ect.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.unplugltdtools.com/ltd-s-nationwide-money-laundering-system
They are exposed for the frauds they are. Scheming on events and calling the fees they charge for rental of event rooms, arenas, etc. is a fraudulent money laundering scheme.
Any other sub-groups around the country should be shaking in their shoes now that that they're finally exposed.WWB or whatever otherAmway sub-systems will hopefully be shut down and prosecuted. The sales tax scheme is just the tip of the iceberg as the income tax fraud from ticket/tools monies these fraudsters pocket is deplorable.
Don't be fooled if you are schemed into attending a meeting, buying a book, subscriptions, etc.You're being played for a fool, while your upline steals from you.
Thanks Anonymous. That’s a good article. We have a post up here about how the Amway cult leaders wanted checks payable to cash because they can get away with tax evasion. Those were interesting screen prints. It almost appears like the Ambot is purchasing tickets online either with credit card or cash transfer and getting a receipt. Back in the olden days, we just showed up and bought our “ticket” at the door with check payable to cash. We had to write down the name of our sack of shit Platinum in case the check bounced the Diamond would know who to berate.
DeleteThe poor guy who wrote this account of his bad experience with WWG is a textbook example of someone who gets ripped off in the Amway racket.
ReplyDeleteIt starts out with everybody being super-friendly to you, and helping you out, and lending you books that seem to give good advice.
It ends up with the Amway cult getting its claws into your life and bleeding you dry of funds.
Hi Anonymous. Most of us have almost the same story when it comes to ScAmway. The details might be slightly different. But nothing ever changes in this pyramid scheme. Including getting sucked dry of your finances.
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