“We want to show you how to
save money buying from your own shop and then you find other people who want to
save money and teach them how to set up their own shops so they can save money
too.”
I heard that phrase many times - or similar wording - at every Amway meeting I
attended.
The statement sounds reasonable enough. Shop from your own store and save money
buying products that you would purchase anyway. Yeah, sounds good. Everyone
wants to save money and get good deals on products they regularly purchase.
The problem is our upline bullied Ambot into changing his spending habits to
buy shit that we never bought before, that I didn’t like, and often we didn’t
end up using. He didn’t save money because he spent way more money than if he’d
purchased comparable products at the grocery and drug store. And we ended up
wasting money by throwing out a bunch of useless, shitty Amway products.
How is that saving us money? We’re spending hundreds of dollars a month on
Amway products that we’ve never had on our shopping list. Energy drinks, food
bars, bottled water, and vitamins to mention a few.
I don’t consider myself an avid shopper but I hit the drug stores and grocery
stores enough times that I have a good idea of prices and quality and good
value.
Ambot does not. Oh he might spot a good deal and stock up on the item but for
the most part he doesn’t know how much things cost at the store.
He blindly accepted the upline’s (bad) advice that Amway’s products would save
us money and these items were better quality than what could be purchased at
the local retailers and that he should buy, buy, buy! He MUST be his own best
customer. Including himself and a few occasional pity purchasers his customer
base was five.
Because of the upline’s influence over Ambot being his own best customer
I got stuck using inferior products that did not save us money.
The real damage with the “save money” by shopping at your own store philosophy
is IBO’s like Ambot do not do price comparisons with other retailers and
overspend by buying stuff that they normally would not have purchased.
I know how to save money when I’m shopping. Its by having a good idea of what
the prices are of groceries and sundries that I regularly purchase at the
grocery and drug stores and recognizing when something is on sale at a decent
enough price to buy it. Then I watch the flyers and when I see something on
sale that I regularly purchase I stock up. If I see something in the flyer
that’s a good price but its not something I need - I don’t buy it. See? Saving
money?
I save a lot of money now that we don’t have to buy shitty overpriced Amway
products.
Whenever anyone tries to compel you to buy things that you don't want and don't need, you know that you're dealing with a con-man.
ReplyDeleteThat's all Amway is -- a collection of confidence men trying to con each other, and trying to get others to join the racket as well.
Anonymous - for sure once you've made it clear that you have no interest in buying someone's product and they continue to harass you - they are very likely a con man. That may or not may be true of encountering pushy salepeople while lying on a beach in Mexico. No I don't want to buy your ugly hat. Can't you see I'm very obviously wearing a much nicer hat than what you're peddling. Same with your sunglasses. Are you blind? I'm already wearing sunglasses. I get it. They're just trying to make living in a country that's becoming increasingly expensive to survive in and are straddling the con man line by selling inferior products for as high a price as they can get. But why don't you sell something I actually want. The guy selling cups of sliced mango has a better chance of making a sell. Amway doesn't sell nothing that I'm interesting in buying. Their snake oil salesman are con man. And only out to scam you.
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