Who remembers going to Amway meetings and hearing the cult leader brainwashing and bullshitting the followers who are having difficulty overcoming customer objections to buying Amway products because the price is too high.
And who remembers the lying
scamming fucking Amway asshole who has the canned Amspeak response for
everything saying something like: “Amway’s products are priced high to reflect
their high quality.”
LOL! Bullshit!
Amway does NOT sell high quality products. Compare to similar items sold in the
retail stores Amway’s products are grossly overpriced, they’re usually
substandard or generic at best compared with similar lower priced products sold
everywhere else.
I never believed the bullshit from the fucking assholes in our Amway upline
about how Amway’s high prices reflect their high quality. I know good quality
and I know bad quality and I can tell the difference pretty damn quick by
trying the product myself.
I mean I am scared shitless to try energy drinks because the fucking assholes
in our Amway upline said XS is the best energy drink out there. XS tastes like
cat piss or depending on the flavor maybe a combo of cat piss and the worst
cough medicine out there. If that’s the best energy drink in the world then
damn right I’m scared shitless to try any other brand because what if. I mean
just what if this is the one rare time when those fucking assholes in our Amway
upline weren’t lying and there are actually energy drinks out there that taste
worst than Amway’s XS piss water.
Amway’s high quality LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL have got nothing to do with why their
products are so high priced. It’s all got to do with profit and commission.
Let’s take the $20 lipstick Amway sells. It costs about $1 to make lipstick and
that includes the packaging. Compare to Avon where I can buy a $3 lipstick and
there are lots of color choices. Amway only offers about 5 shades. Maybe more
now but I doubt it. Undoubtedly the price has also increased but we're sticking to $20 because it's an easy number to work with. So what’s the better deal. Avon of course. And Avon wins
everytime when comparing their products to Amway’s. Avon has better prices,
better quality, and better selection. The only people buying Amway’s lipstick
are female Ambots or the wives of Ambots. They probably have poor decision
making abilities too. When you only have 5 colors to choose from it shouldn’t
take too long to make a decision.
But go back to Amway’s $20 lipstick and my hypothetical guess at how the
dollars are distributed though I’m probably pretty close. After manufacturing
that leaves $19 proceeds. Amway’s owners need to jack up the price so they can
make a hefty profit plus every little thing they sale must have a portion going
to their overall operating expenses. So out of that $19 let’s say Amway’s
owners take $15. They put a bit of that back into their business operating
expenses but mostly its split between the owners. That leaves $4. Is that
the commission for the Ambot at the bottom of the pyramid who made the sale?
Hell no! That’s communal commission split many ways. The guy doing all the hard
work making the sale only makes pennies. Let’s say the Amway commissioned
salesman makes 6 cents after busting his ass begging and pleading with some
woman he knows to buy his overpriced shitty Amway lipstick. The rest of that $4
is split in commission in everyone in his Amway upline because that’s how this
scam works. Ambots way high up in the pyramid that he’s never met are making
money off his sale. And because they have a higher BV they’re making more
commission that that loser ambot who made the sale! LOL! Surely those dumb
fucks who want to be commissioned sales reps can find a better paying job than
Scamway.
The high price does NOT reflect Amway’s high quality. It reflects how many
people have to get a piece of the sale’s action.
The same scenario can be played out whether its Amway’s $40 laundry soap or
$100 vitamins. Again products that don’t cost a whole lot to manufacture
including the packaging. But Amway’s owners take a huge chunk of each sale for
their profit and the balance is left over for commission for everyone in the
upline of the jackass Ambot who made the sale.
So there you have it. The next time a lying scamming fucking Amway asshole
tries to bullshit you that Amway’s products are priced so high to reflect their
high quality tell the bastard the real reason. The products have to be so high
priced so everyone can get a piece of the commission and Amway owners can make
a huge profit of the sale. It ain’t got piss all to do with quality because the
quality of Amway’s products is the shits and if they were really priced to
reflect the quality Amway wouldn’t sell nothing that costs more than a buck..
You're right on target, Anna. The notion that high price reflects high quality might be true in some cases, as when you buy a top-of-the line Italian sports car from Lamborghini. But it is NOT true in many other cases.
ReplyDeleteHigh price sometimes is deliberately charged as a hidden form of snob appeal. There are certain idiots who think that a big price tag means they are getting something fine. But sellers realize that these idiots aren't focused on the product -- they're focused on the large sum that they are paying. The customers pride themselves on being able to shell out a lot of cash. Example: how many dopes insist on paying top-dollar for a Cadillac (because of its supposed prestige), even though a Cadillac isn't much better than a mediocre car?
Sometimes a high price is a function of rarity or scarcity, when an item is very hard to find. Other times it may be because of some special appeal to a niche market. Or perhaps it is made of some intrinsically expensive material, like gold or silver or or precious stones.
But in Amway's case, the high prices on the rather ordinary generic crap that Amway sells are due solely to the company's MLM structure. Everybody in your up-line has to get a small cut of whatever you have managed to sell. So naturally a stick of lipstick that costs one dollar to produce has to be sold for $20 -- first, so that the fat cats in Ada can rake in $16 of profit, and second, so that the remaining money can be doled out in dribs and drabs of a few pennies to everybody on the line above the actual IBO who sold it.
Amway's basic idea can be expressed this way: "Let's produce a cheap product, and then let's create a long line of linked middlemen who will pass the product down to the ultimate consumer. The consumer will pay a hefty price, most of which will come back to us in Ada. The rest will be split up by the long line of middlemen, who will continue to work for us while laboring under the delusion that they too can become rich by having a line of other middlemen underneath them." Every MLM racket works on this basic plan.
The problem for most IBOs is this -- the ultimate consumer, who is being asked to buy, is usually smart enough to realize that a $20 stick of lipstick made by some two-bit company in Michigan isn't worth it when you can get better lipstick from any major cosmetics producer in any good drugstore for a lower price.
And that's when you hear the usual bullshit from your up-line: "Amway products are of very high quality," or "You can buy the products and simply use them yourself," or "The real purpose of being in Amway is to become a better person." (This last is a truly stupid argument, made out of sheer desperation by up-line when an IBO has decided to quit.)
All of these excuses are complete crap, and the scumbags in Ada, Michigan know it. But they let the racket continue, because how else are you going to be able to sell a one-dollar stick of lipstick for twenty dollars?
I think this is the reef on which many Amway IBOs finally crash and sink. You can't sell low-grade Amway products to people who have a lot of other better choices! You can only expect your family and friends to buy a few items from you, purely out of sympathy.
When you realize that and quit, you're smart. When you realize it but still stay, you're psychologically damaged in some major way.
Hi Anonymous. You're on to something. High prices = snob appeal. Amway Ambots are a bunch of snobs going around saying they're better than everyone else because they're in the Amway cult. Amway's high prices don't reflect the quality - it's snob appeal to snotty snobby Amway losers.
DeleteLove this: Amway's basic idea can be expressed this way: "Let's produce a cheap product, and then let's create a long line of linked middlemen who will pass the product down to the ultimate consumer. The consumer will pay a hefty price, most of which will come back to us in Ada. The rest will be split up by the long line of middlemen, who will continue to work for us while laboring under the delusion that they too can become rich by having a line of other middlemen underneath them." Every MLM racket works on this basic plan.
That is so true! And like you said most Amway Ambots come to the realization that they're losing money and the only way they can make money is if they can scam others - and it will take many others to scam which is not really possible to find because of Amway's bad reputation. Plus add on that consumers who are not Amway losers don't want to buy shitty overpriced Amway products when there are so much more better choices for better prices out there in the real world.
Everyone Amway touches gets psychologically damaged in some way. It depends if you are the IBO or close to the IBO and how much money you got scammed out of.