Amway’s “Proven” System

I joined a retired businessman for lunch the other day and we got to talking about how nobody operates their business the same way. Take a gas station for instance. Some of them are open 24 hours. Others open at 6am and close at 10pm. Some gas stations have grocery stores, coffee, and fresh baked snacks available. Others just sell oil and car products and have a mechanic on site. Two people could run a similar business very differently. That’s not to say one is wrong and the other is right. They just have different business plans and different ways of doing business.

At every Amway meeting I attended the sack of shit Platinum would brag about Amway’s “proven” system. The old guard had blazed the trail for new IBO’s. They’d made the mistakes. The knew what worked. All we had to do was follow their “proven” system and we’d all succeed in Amway and be bazillionaires like the Diamonds.

Amway’s “proven” system is a system set up for failure. 99% of IBO’s do not make money in Amway. Most quit Amway within a couple of years - there’s only so long you can go into debt and keep losing money. 99% failure rate. Yup that’s a “proven” system for sure!

So what were some of the things this “proven” Amway system consisted of?

1. Duplicate your upline. - Yup that’s a good one seeing as how most of the people in our upline didn’t own their own homes and were renters we really want to step back in life and our lifestyle and become renters too. Good one. Mostly duplicating your upline meant attaching yourself to their ass, going where they went, observing, and doing what they do. Fuck that. Nobody in our upline was going places I wanted to go. Namely the poorhouse.

2. Submit to upline. In other words become a brainwashed slave and do whatever they tell you to do. Scrub their kitchen floor. Mow their lawn.

3. Buy at least 100 PV of Amway products each month. Cha ching. $300 minimum. Most ambots buy more than that.

4. Attend all Amway meetings. Gotta keep with the brainwashed flock and spend all your time with them. Brainwash patrol! Can’t spend free time with friends and family the way you used to because they might knock some sense into you and tell you to get out of this pyramid scheme. Cost for Amway meetings fluctuates. For living room board plans at someone’s house usually free. For other Amway meetings $10 to $25 to buy a ticket to get in.

5. Buy Premier Membership to WWDB. That’ll cost $50/month. Very important because well shit I don’t know why it was important. It gives you a web portal to your own Amway shopping page so you can refer customers to go directly there and buy Scamway products. You can also access their web page to buy tickets to major Amway functions and hotel rooms. You also get a small deduction buying Amway books and CD’s. You can also view your Amway statements from here too I think. There is also a calendar and contact list so you can keep track of your customers and events. The problem is if you put any customer information in here WWDB spams them. Is this worth $50? Hell no! But it is part of Amway’s “proven” system.

6. Sign up for Communikate. Cha ching. About $35/month. Dumb ass voice mail system. Every ambot is packing a cell phone that probably has this kind of feature as part of their plan. Those dumb fucks have been brainwashed to believe that Communikate is a personal assistant. Yeah bring me a Pepsi! Personal assistant gotta be good for something.

7. Attend all major Amway functions. Cha ching cha ching. Tickets, transportation, hotel, food. Plan on about $1000/couple depending on how far you have to travel and if you’re driving or flying. Maybe double it. How about skipping this “proven” system. Its just a bullshit brainwashing session where these Amway assholes gloat about their riches and don’t give any useful information about how to make money in Amway. That’s because its a scam! Very few scammers are good enough to climb to the top of the pyramid!

8. Listen to at least 15 minutes of an Amway CD every day all the better for brainwashing! Also read at least 15 minutes of an Amway recommended book daily. That’ll set back most ambots at least $25/week.

9. Show the Amway board plan at least twice a day to new prospects. Yeah good luck with that. Most prospects will tell you they’re not interested when they hear its Amway. Others will tell you to fuck off. Its very difficult to find people who will take time to listen to the plan.

10. Bring a new prospect every week to an Amway meeting. People will tell you they’ll come to the meeting just to get you off their back but at showtime they’re nowhere in sight. Stood up! Get used to it if you’re in Amway. Sane people don’t want to listen to some lying scamming piece of shit Amway cult leader for two or three hours. They especially are pissed off if they’re lied to ahead of time and told the meeting is only an hour. Its just about impossible to get someone to come to an Amway meeting.

11. Get 10 customers who will consistently buy $200 worth of Amway products each month. Yeah that’ll really happen! Customers really want to buy overpriced shitty products!

12. Invest all your profits back into your Amway business buying more tools and Amway products. What profits???!!!!

13. Be a dreamer. If you dream you can have it your dreams will come true. Yup ambots sit around with their thumbs up their asses dreaming of their future riches thanks to Amway.

14. Sign up a new IBO every month. Again a nearly impossible feat. Amway’s bad reputation with aggressive salespeople and known for its cult ties and being a pyramid scheme precedes itself. Smart people stay away. Some ambots might be able to occasionally sign up a new IBO but they usually do nothing or quit within months.

Just today I had a visitor come to my blog after searching for “how to get Amway off your ass”. I see lots of similar searches none that are complimentary. There are a lot of people out there who don’t like Amway for one reason or another.

Amway’s “proven” system involves things that are near impossible for ambots to accomplish. I’m sure I’ve forgotten some more of the things we had to do as part of Amway’s “proven” system for failure but that’s the general gist.

And from marriedtoanambot let’s just send another big old FUCK YOU out to Amway Scamway and their scammer army of Ambots.

 

World Wide Destructive Bastards

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How to be a Good Amway Cult Leader

Here are my observations based on observing our sack of shit Platinum on what qualities a person must possess if they want to be a good Amway Cult Leader.

If you don’t possess these qualities or unable to be coachable and learn them then Amway is a bad career choice. Well.....Amway is a bad choice all around no matter what your aspirations are!

1. Absolute dictatorship. This was mostly clear to me from our sack of shit Platinum who we heard speak more than we heard any other speaker, Emerald or Diamond. He demanded everyone in his downline to “ask permission” before doing anything. Constantly telling us to “submit to upline” and never question upline.
2. No accountability. Its OK to brag about your accomplishments, bank account, material possessions, business profits, etc but never show proof to anyone who asks. If anyone in your downline asks for proof fall back on “never question upline”.
3. Intolerance for questions. “Never question upline! Who do you think you are asking me something like that! Everything I say is the truth!”
4. Refusal to disclose financial information regarding budget, expenses such as an independently audited financial statement. Our sack of shit Platinum never showed us none of his financial information though he wanted to see all of ours.
5. Incite unreasonable fear about the world outside of Amway. Our Platinum was always preaching about impending catastrophe, evil conspiracies and all things negative. All the time! What else is out there except Amway? The answer to everyone’s prayers. Financial security for the rest of your life. Everyone else is doomed to have a J.O.B. and work for someone else.
6. Must be able to lecture long sermons about negativity. Negativity is the main topic at Amway meetings - doom and gloom, businesses shutting down, social security won’t be there when you retire, etc.
7. Must be good at insults, particularly mocking people who leave Amway. There is no legitimate reason to leave, not when success is right around the corner. Amway cult followers are always wrong in leaving and besides that they are also negative and evil. A good Platinum cult leader must ensure his cult followers understand that the people who leave Amway are quitters, losers, broke losers, negative, dream stealers, etc.
8. Promote ostracism. Ensure that IBO’s understand they are not allowed to associate with former friends who have quit the Amway cult.
9. Must be good at abusing cult followers. Hurling insults and then telling the ambot you are doing this for their own good and you still love them.
10. Must be good at destroying relationships. Platinums in the Amway cult must learn to separate the ambot from their friends and family.
11. Must be comfortable destroying other people’s finances, including but not limited to encouraging cult followers to run up credit card debt, take out line of credit or bank loans, telling them to skip mortgage payments so they can buy more Amway products or attend the next function, etc.
12. Good at inflicting emotional distress. This can be a combination of destroying marriages, causing bankruptcy, foreclosure, alienating cult followers from their friends and family, and anything else they can think of to cause unhappiness and stress in the lives of the cult followers.
13. Good at doling out punishment to cult followers who refuse to leave their wives or otherwise disobey the cult leader’s instructions.
14. Must always be RIGHT. No one is allowed to win an argument with the cult leader who is all knowing and always right. The news media and Internet are always wrong especially if they have different information than the Amway cult leader. The only one who knows the truth is the Amway cult leader. Everything and everyone else is wrong.
15. Able to control information as a means of brainwashing. Must be able to brainwash all cult followers to believe that the Amway cult leader is always telling the truth and the information must never be questioned. Do not believe any information from sources outside of Amway cult leaders. The cult leader must master the ability to control information in order to remove the cult follower’s ability to think for themselves.
16. Good at deception. Very important for promoting the Amway scam.
17. Ability to discredit an information source instead of debating the truth. Must excel at diversion techniques and character assassination techniques to distract cult followers from the truth.
18. Must have a huge ego and the ability to find many cult followers to stroke it.
19. Ability to use sleep deprivation as a means of brainwashing. This is done by keeping ambots at Amway cult meetings up to 1 or 2 or 3 in the morning until they are so tired that they’re willing to agree everything they hear at that hour is the truth.
20. Ability to argue for hours that Amway is not a pyramid scheme.
21. Good at love bombing - arranging instant friends for new cult members, lots of hugging, smiles, nicey nice behavior, etc.
22. Good salesmanship - must particularly be good at bullying people into buying overpriced products that they don’t want or need.
23. Knowledge of bible and biblical terms. All cult leaders must convince their followers that they are doing the Amway business all in the name of Jesus or God and Jesus wants you to do the Amway business. Must be good at twisting biblical references to suit Amway’s purposes. Love thyself first. Love thy money second.
24. No conscience. Very important not to have a conscience when you are in Amway and if you want to be an Amway cult leader because you are scamming people out of their money, lying to them, being negative, destroying families, and causing emotional and financial distress to others.
25. Must be greedy. All good Amway cult leaders must be obsessed with money and material possessions.
26. Must have a screwy, unbalanced, and evil mindset. Normal, well balanced, compassionate human beings need not apply to be cult leaders in Amway..
27. Ability to paint a dream land fantasy in the eyes of the cult followers of the lives full of riches they’ll have in 2 to 5 years with millions of dollars in residual income flowing in each month to easily afford their new luxurious lifestyles all thanks to Amway. In other words, the ability to sell the hope not the soap.
28. Must strictly follow Amway’s cult leader slogan: “Lie and deny.” That is the secret to success in Amway.
29. Must be good at bullshitting. This includes lying about your own (imaginary) accomplishments, pumping people up by whipping the crowd into a frenzy of excitement about belonging to the Amway cult.
30. Ability not to care about who you step on as long as you make a buck.
31. Most important. Must be able to lie and deny that Amway is a cult. The truth about the secret Amway cult must not be revealed until new recruits have been signed up and the brainwashing begins.

My list is based on my observations and it might not be a list of qualities that the Amway corporation necessarily wants their Platinums to have but this is the reality of how they turn out and behave. Amway the corporation turns a blind eye to this behavior - namely abuse from the upline - and refuses to take action against the troublemakers. Chop off a Platinum and there goes a stream of income. Its this kind of IBO antics and bloggers like myself who reveal them that contributes to giving Amway a bad name. Most companies take responsibility for the actions of their employees. Not Amway. Rather than take complaints seriously at the head office they prefer disgruntled customers and former employees to take to the Internet to make sure everyone searching for information gets the real picture. Being a good corporate citizen goes right out the window here!

Not everybody loves Platinum cult leaders the way Amway does!

Some of them, like myself, expose them on the Internet so everyone knows what hell awaits if they get involved in Amway thanks to lying sack of shit destructive Platinums!

And from marriedtoanambot let’s just send another big old FUCK YOU out to Amway Scamway and their scammer army of Ambots.

What's My Job?

I can’t tell you how many times some brainwashed ambot shows up to my blog and leaves a comment telling me I have a job and work for someone else and I’m a loser who is making my boss rich. Total amspeak. At every Amway meeting I attended the cult leaders would sneer at people who had jobs like its some kind of deadly communicable disease.

When I call the ambot a fucking liar and press the ambot for details on where I work, who my boss is, what kind of job I have, and most importantly where is all this money I’m supposedly making at my job - they retreat into silence. The lying bastards who’ve accused me of having a job like that’s such a terrible thing don’t respond.

It is inconceivable to brainwashed ambots that there are actually people in the world who do not have jobs. Their cult leaders say everybody has a job and everybody has a boss so the ambots blindly believe them. After all one of the cardinal rules in Amway is “never question upline!”

Ambots are mesmerized by Amway cult leaders who claim to have retired when they were twenty-one. If they can do it so can everyone else. Younger ambots become disrespectful to anyone who is still working a job. They are driven by greed for material possessions and don’t want to work a job for somebody else. Very obviously failing to understand that when you work for Amway as a commissioned salesperson, thinly disguised as being an independent business owner, you are still following Amway’s rules and policies just like in any other type of job.

A lot of people have jobs, particularly in their 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s. In their 50’s a lot of people are moving into semi-retirement and some are retiring from their jobs and starting up their own business. There’s a segment of the population in the working years range of 20 to 60 who are unable to work due to physical or mental disabilities. Also in that same age group are housewives or househusbands whose spouse is the sole income earner, lottery winners, heirs, people who live off their investments and others who are capable of working but for whatever reason choose not to do so.

I don’t judge people whether they work or do not work. But then I’m not an ambot!

Unlike the fairy tale that ambots believe from their cult leaders about how everyone has a job and has a boss, it just ain’t true. It must be mind-blowing to brainwashed ambots to discover that there are people in the world who for one reason or another are not employed by someone because their Amway cult leaders have brainwashed them into believing that everyone else in the world who is not in Amway has a job.

I have not had a job for years other than working our own business. Even now as we move into semi-retirement we talk about opening up a different type of business maybe within the next 5 years. And we’re not talking some phony ass Scamway business!

Maybe we’ll end up being like Amway Diamonds and never really fully retire!

Even though its been years since I’ve had a boss - and no my husband does not count he knows who the real boss is! - I see nothing wrong with people who hold down jobs. Not everyone is capable of being self employed or running their own business, whether it be finances, smarts, motivation, etc not everyone has what it takes. Ambots - who are better than everyone else because they are “business owners” - show their contempt and disgust towards workers while failing to grasp that not everyone has what it takes to be self employed. And again I’m not talking about signing up to be a phony ass Scamway IBO or similar MLM that pumps up their employees by pretending to them that they are real business owners. Just because I don’t work a job for an employer there is no need for me to look down my nose at those who do and sneer at them that they’ll always be a broke loser working for someone else.

That’s a job for fucking inconsiderate brainwashed Amway IBO’s and their better than everyone else attitude!

Despicable Amway IBO Ambots Should Be Bitchslapped!

I am the voice of the wives of all ambots. You know those nasty, horrible, despicable brainwashed robots who go around bragging that they’re “business owners” because Amway gives their commissioned salespeople the bragging rights title of “Independent Business Owners”.

Well fuck you Amway. There’s a lot more to being a real business owner and running a legitimate business than scamming people into signing a restrictive Amway IBO registration agreement that takes away their rights as American citizens and human beings, forcing them to buy overpriced products, and making them shell out big bucks to attend Amway functions.

I prefer to save my fuck you’s for my former upline but I’ll just send out a big fuck you to Amway. Mostly that’s because I’m still pissed off that a big corporation like them that sends out phony ass propaganda that they “care” about people and then has their employees come into work on Monday December 26 2011 instead of doing the decent thing and giving them a day off and turning the Christmas weekend into a nice long 3 day weekend that most other businesses gave to their employees so they could spend more time with their families. You can read that post here where I slammed Amway for being such a big fucking asshole because their Grand Rapids employee at Alticor who ratted them out surfing the Internet and reading my blog instead of getting their work done. Get a clue! Pissed off employees = low moral = low productivity. Actions speak louder than words. Have a little compassion for your employees especially at Christmas time. Don’t take advantage of Christmas Day falling on a weekend to say tough shit that’s just how it goes.

OK now that I got my Amway corporation fuck you rant out of the way back to the fucking upline assholes.

Amway is very much a good old boy’s club. There are no women in a position of power. There are the wives of the Diamonds who sit on the stage looking adoringly at their husband while he spouts off motivational propaganda to the audience of ambots who paid big bucks to be brainwashed. There are no women running the show. Never. Even the lousy $10 meetings the Diamond speaker who showed up was always a man. No wife in sight for these little chump change meetings.

All the living room meetings were run by either the male Platinum or Emerald. The wives never spoke. Well, they might have spoke briefly if they happened to be in the room and the husband asked them to clarify something.

All the living room meetings we attended there would only be us and another couple, a lot of single guys in their 20’s, and one or two single women also in their 20’s. For the larger meetings where a Diamond showed up the room was still predominantly male, but a lot of wives accompanied their husbands, so maybe a quarter of the room would be female.

Us women can look around and get the picture real fast, especially after the speaker opens their mouth and there is usually no doubt left. We are listening to a male chauvinist pig. Happy there living in Stepford? Assholes!

Women like me have no tolerance for these new male playmates in our husband’s lives. For the most part they are nothing but a bunch of fucking troublemakers ordering our husbands to buy shitty overpriced Amway products, shelling out money to attend Amway functions, demanding his presence at every living room meeting, ordering him to do this that and the other. These new fucking Amway playmates are destroying our lives and our relationships. Theses fucking Amway playmates demand our husband’s time and his money and plenty of both.

If the relationships can tough it out, the only thing us women have on our side is time. Most IBO’s quit within a year of registering with Amway. Unfortunately a few brainwashed idiots might stick it out a little longer but most quit eventually, except for maybe less than 5%. That would be a horror factory indeed if a woman is unlucky enough to be married to an ambot that is one of very few who stays with it, forever believing the brainwashed bullshit about the thousands of dollars in residual income that will come rolling in every month for the rest of his life.

So on behalf of women everywhere who have been tortured by the Amway cult, a big fuck you to the asshole that sponsored our husbands into this mess. A big fuck you to our sponsor’s sponsor. A big fuck you to every person in between them and the fucked up sack of shit Platinum. The biggest fuck you goes to the Platinum who is the evil bastard who carries out most of the dirty work. There may or may not be any legs between the Platinum and the Emerald but I don’t want anyone to be neglected so a fuck you to any ambots inbetween. The Emeralds and the Diamonds can share in the fuck you’s too. Miserable lying sons of bitches that stand up on the stage and scam you out of your money and insult you and call you losers if you don’t keep plugging your cash into the Scamway system.

So there you have it. Not everyone out there believes the bullshit propaganda that you must submit to your upline and you must worship your upline. Fuck you to everyone that tries to force that down your throat! Not everyone loves and worships their Amway upline and has nice things to say about them! I am living proof of that one cursing out you nasty shithead ambots.

On behalf of ambot wives everywhere a collective fuck you to everyone in our upline. The lousy bastards who’ve cost us a lot of money, cost us to lose sleep, cost us divorces, cost us bankruptcy, cost us foreclosure, cost us happiness, cost us peace of mind. You fucking Amway troublemakers aren’t happy until you’ve found some way to destroy our lives.

Not all of us are silent. Watch me. I have a blog and I tell it like it is. The way I feel about you lousy upline bastards and what you say and what goes on at Amway meetings.

The women who don’t have a voice. The women who are stuck in the Amway hell. The women who don’t like to swear even though they really want to curse out their upline, the women who have had their lives disrupted or maybe even destroyed by whatever involvement their husband dragged them into the Amway cult.

I will speak up for you voiceless women. Your upline is my upline. We are all helplessly adrift in the same lifeboat. I will say it for you. The one thing we wish on you fucking Amway ambot assholes is that you are exposed for the lying, scamming, evil demons that you are and that you go through the same hell that you put us through.

A virtual bitch slap to every asshole Amway IBO who has ever signed up a downline. That downline is me! And its always really nice to know what people really think about you isn’t it?

Amway People Assholes

I kid you not. Some poor soul who has been plagued with brainwashed ambots showed up at my blog after doing a Google search for “Amway people assholes”.

Boy did s/he come to the right place!

So what is it about Amway people - ambots - that makes them such assholes?

Loaded question! The list is endless!

Here it is from my perspective based on my experience with my upline. What makes Amway people such big assholes?

1. They’re liars.
2. They’re sleazy.
3. They’re swindlers.
4. They only like you for your money.
5. They’re arrogant pricks.
6. They’re full of shit.
7. They’re out to destroy relationships.
8. They deprive people of sleep.
9. They’re pompous bastards.
10. They think they’re experts on everything.
11. They make fun of people who have jobs.
12. They think they’re better than everyone else.
13. They’re the biggest bunch of phonies around.
14. They stalk you in Barnes & Noble.
15. They’re always right and everyone else is wrong.
16. They call people losers if they’re not involved in Amway.
17. They call their own cult members losers if they quit Amway.
18. They drop their friendship if you don’t buy their overpriced Amway shit.
19. They’re useless.
20. They accuse everyone of having a job and a boss even people who are retired or already own a business and don’t have bosses.
21. They justify their evil actions by claiming to “bless” or “help” others.
22. They’re unreliable.
23. They’re obsessed with all things negative.
24. They’re rotten bad ass fuckers.
25. They snipe you on Facebook.
26. They accuse others of “not trying hard enough” even if they’re busting their asses.
27. They cause others to suffer financial losses.
28. They’re fucking troublemakers.
29. They’re quick to point fingers and find fault with everyone else.
30. They lead people into bankruptcy.
31. They force their cult followers to “submit to upline”.
32. They waste everyone’s time.
33. They’re rude.
34. They pester you in grocery stores.
35. When not at Amway meetings they’re always on phones and sending texts.
36. They demand you attend all Amway functions.
37. They’re cultists.
38. They cause others to go into debt.
39. They’re close-minded.
40. They’re out to scam you.
41. They believe they’re smarter than people who are not in Amway.
42. They’re annoying.
43. They’re greedy bastards.
44. They peddle Amway shit.
45. They’re brainwashed.
46. They justify Amway’s high prices on a make belief high quality.
47. They make you pay to listen to their bullshit.
48. They’re deceptive about the tool scam profits.
49. They deny they’re with Amway.
50. They’re low life scum sucking bastards.
51. They’re obnoxious.
52. They’re full of self importance.
53. They unnaturally worship their cult leaders.
54. They’re freaks.
55. They incite hate.
56. They accuse people not on board with Amway of being dream stealers.
57. They refer to everyone not in the Amway cult as un-Christian.
58. They’re creepy.
59. They’re snake oil salesmen.
60. They’re in denial about their pyramid scheme.
61. They’re slimeballs.
62. They’re always holding grand openings.
63. They’re always pestering to show you the board plan.
64. They’re pretend business owners.
65. They’re under the impression Amway is the only recession proof business.
66. They’re secretive.
67. They can’t mind their own business.
68. They’re tax evaders.
69. They’re pests.
70. They’re self-righteous.
71. They’re out to piss everyone off.
72. They’re fucking inconsiderate bastards.

OK I’ll stop before I hit 101 again. When are they going to bring back 101 Ways To Leave A Game Show?

OK. Back to my Christmas baking. I’ve had enough fun today!

Ambot Kibbutzim

Our former Platinum is a very religious man, no work on Sunday the lord's day, yet he is an arrogant sack of shit who worships money. He didn’t care about us or our success. The only thing he wanted was to sell us websites, voice mail systems, books, CD’s, standing orders for Amway products, and buy tickets to functions. And preach religion like the good cult leader he is.

At every meeting he brought up God. He peppered the first hour of every meeting with religious references before he’d even get around to mention Amway. The next hour or two or however long he decided to torture us with his brainwashing session also had a good religious mix.

I’ve been to business meetings most of my adult life. Nowhere else have I ever been forced to endure someone else's religious beliefs in a professional business setting.

But then Amway is not a professional business. Its a pretend one. Part of the brainwashing process involves the religious teachings whether you want it or not because that’s how a cult operates.

Our sack of shit Platinum had a screwed up definition of friendship. His true friends signed up as Amway IBO’s and purchased to above mentioned websites, Communikate voice mail, books, CD’s, put themselves on ditto standing orders for Amway shit, and bought tickets to every Amway function and event. The sack of shit offered his undying friendship and assured the cult followers that he would always be their only true friend who understood them and supported them and loved them.

The Platinum is a friend who only loves you as long as your money flows in his direction. Shut the bank down and he shuts down his friendship.

That sack of shit Platinum was one of the biggest bastards around who couldn’t mind his own business and forced his personal beliefs on everyone in his LOS and ordered them how to run their lives.

Ask permission. Submit to upline.

It really bugged the shit out of that bastard that we had extra bedrooms in our house that were going unused - in his opinion. In reality the other bedrooms in our house have been assigned other tasks of our choosing. Spare bedroom for guests and an office. It works for us!

It didn’t work for that meddling sack of shit Platinum. He thought we should open our homes and our hearts to transients, ie IBO’s inbetween accommodations.

Uh no I don’t think so. There are homeless shelters in this town for people who need them. We don’t need our lives disrupted by brainwashed ambots taking over our house.

I have no idea why that sack of shit had such a bee up his ass about our house other than the fact we were one of very few downline who actually owned a house. He could count on one hand how many of his cult followers owned their own homes and still have fingers left over. Perhaps the bastard was brought up in a kibbutz.

That kind of living ain’t for everyone!

And neither is Amway for everyone!

And neither is belonging to a cult for everyone!

And neither is submitting to a sack of shit Platinum!

The Stepford Ambots

I remember seeing the original Stepford Wives movie on TV back in the days when the networks did more made for TV movies. I also have the DVD of the screen version starring Matthew Broderick and Nicole Kidman.

What was going on in Stepford is also going on in Amway. In the movie the wives are controlled by their husbands who are always attending men’s club meetings and are ultimately controlled by one or two men who are the leaders. Depending on which movie you’re familiar with the women are either murdered and robots take their place or they have a computer disk inserted in their brain that controls them.

Either way the women - or keeping up with the times in the newer version which included a gay couple and zapped one man - become mindless submissive robots controlled by their husbands. Oh and the wives fawn all over their men with unnatural over the top devotion and dedication. Very much like zombies.

This is what I saw in the Amway cult.

Men’s club meetings? The Amway meetings were male oriented always led by a male cult leader. Some wives attended Amway meetings with their husbands. Many men were single and coming stag to the Amway meetings. Many married men came stag too after their wives became fed up with the mind control bullshit and losing money. Some meetings were just men only no women allowed. Who remembers the clubhouses we had when we were kids and the boys usually had a “girls keep out” sign hanging outside. Like that. These men only Amway meetings are where the cult leaders try to cause trouble in their downline’s marriages and destroy their relationships.

To become a Stepford ambot one must do whatever the scum sucking upline demands. They have to say the things the upline wants to hear, wear the clothes the upline wants you to wear, eat the snacks the upline wants you to eat, buy the things upline wants you to buy, drop whatever you’re doing and rush to the upline’s side if they beckon, etc, etc.

I have to stop. Sometimes I find it really sickening to relive these memories but I know by writing them down and sharing the anguish I went through that I can help others.

Wives had to display this over the top zombie like devotion to their husbands. Just watch those Ken and Barbies stomping across the stage at Amway functions. Barbie might have a few words to say but mostly she stands there gazing adoringly at Warrior Ken.

I don’t know about the rest of you guys but my husband gets really nervous if I’m staring him down!

That’s what life is like once you sign up with Amway. Welcome to Stepford! Leave your brain at the door. You are now an ambot.

Who In The Room is a Brown Noser?

At every company I’ve ever worked for there was always at least one brown noser in the group.

Oh just in case anyone is wondering - that brown noser person was never me! Like there could be any doubt about that one!

I’m sure we’ve all seen them. The person that’s following the boss around holding a notebook and pen at the ready to write down whatever the boss is talking about. Offering to run to Starbuck’s and buy the boss a coffee. The first person to squeal to the boss about what the coworkers are doing or not doing. Staying late for no extra pay to help the boss complete a project. Usually doesn’t matter how far they have their nose up the boss’s ass they probably won’t get a big promotion or pay raise. But they will get a reputation around the company as a person who can not be trusted.

Every Amway meeting I can look around the room and pick out the brown nosers. That would be just about everyone present except of course me. Yes even Ambot was a brown noser.

What does it take to be an Amway brown noser?

1. When we’re meeting at a coffee shop the ambots would practically knock each other over for the privilege of buying the sack of shit Platinum a coffee or snack. For fuck’s sake if this lying sack of shit is making the kind of money he claims to be making in Amway then he should be able to afford to buy everyone in the shop a coffee.
2. Offering to drive the upline wherever they need to go.
3. Standing out on the street corner excitedly waiting for the upline to show up for the meeting.
4. Holding an umbrella for the upline if its raining. What’s wrong with the upline’s arms?
5. Holding a video camera or another type of recording device in the upline’s face not wanting to miss any gem them might share.
6. Knocking people over to get to the front row of the auditorium so they can be as close as possible to the Diamond’s greatness.
7. Rushing the stage after the Diamond has finished talking to shower him with praise and adoration for getting where he is by abusing and scamming his downline.
8. Obeying everything the upline tells them to do.
9. Offering to help out around the upline’s house for no charge.
10. Never missing an Amway meeting or event.
11. Dropping by the upline’s house for no good reason other than to be close to them. And for the bragging rights to get one up and over the IBO's who are not there.
12. Dropping whatever they’re doing and running to the upline if they’re summoned.
13. Kissing the upline’s ass so they can get their nose even further up there.

101 Reasons to Hate Amway

I had a visitor show up at my blog using the search criteria “reasons to hate Amway”. Nothing really extraordinary about that. I get many searchers who end up here with variations of the “I hate Amway” theme.

Seeing as how I already wrote a post about 101 Ways to Piss of an Amway IBO I thought I’d take it a little further and do 101 reasons to hate Amway. This is going to be too easy. All I have to do is look at their catalogue and list each product one by one. But that would probably end up being something like 2000 reasons to hate Amway but I’ll still put in the products that I personally hate.

So here goes. 101 Reasons to Hate Amway:

1. I hate throwing my money at the Amway scam.
2. I hate the horrible people we have to associate with in Amway.
3. I hate the overpriced substandard laundry soap that doesn’t get my clothes clean
4. I hate that every time I use Amway’s dishwasher detergent I still have to wash half the dishes again by hand.
5. I hate Amway’s dish soap because the bubbles don’t last long enough to clean for the second time around all the dishes that didn’t get clean in the dishwasher.
6. I hate that Amway allows cult leaders to brainwash IBO’s.
7. I hate that Amway does nothing to help IBO’s who are abused by their upline.
8. I hate that Amway customer service has a who-gives-a-fuck attitude when you phone in for assistance.
9. I hate that I have to read dumb ass books that don’t interest me because our Amway upline bullied Ambot into buying useless tools to “grow our business”.
10. I hate it when some fucking Amway IBO says “fired up”.
11. I hate attending Amway functions.
12. I hate that Amway makes us pretend we’re real business owners.
13. I hate pretending to be nice to people who don’t give a shit about me except for the money they can make off me.
14. I hate that Amway turns IBO’s into liars.
15. I hate overpriced Amway towels that fall apart.
16. I hate that Amway allows XS Gear to rip off IBOs by sending wrong products and then refusing to exchange or refund after bullshitting for 30 days and then saying their 30 day refund policy has passed.
17. I hate that everything about Amway is so secretive.
18. I hate that Amway makes us pretend to be interested in people we’re not.
19. I hate that Amway doesn’t encourage their cult leaders to hold meetings earlier in the day.
20. I hate that Amway is creepy.
21. I hate that Amway’s marketing literature doesn’t tell the full story when it comes to compensation that IBO’s can expect to receive.
22. I hate that Amway keeps it top secret which Diamonds are still active and which Diamonds fell out of qualification but are bullshitting their downline into believing they’re still Diamonds.
23. I hate that Amway doesn’t stop its cult leaders from lying that the corporation owns the Amway Arena when the city of Orlando is the owner.
24. I hate that Amway’s cult leaders tried to counsel us to take out a home owner equity line of credit.
25. I hate that Amway forces us to be what we’re not.
26. I hate that Amway makes us trick people.
27. I hate that Amway makes us lie about the company’s financial state. Made billions and billions of sales last year!
28. I hate that Amway makes us lie about how well we’re doing.
29. I hate that Amway makes us look at everyone as a potential recruit.
30. I hate that Amway makes unqualified people pretend to be “counsellors”.
31. I hate the side effects from Amway’s Double X vitamins.
32. I hate that Amway makes us manipulate everyone we meet.
33. I hate that Amway makes us worship money.
34. I hate that Amway makes us believe being wealthy means we’re better than everyone else.
35. I hate Amway XS Energy Drinks - aka cat piss water
36. I hate that Amway makes us treat upline like they’re royalty.
37. I hate that Amway takes advantage of people who can least afford to lose money.
38. I hate that Amway encourages us to make stupid choices.
39. I hate that Amway Glister toothpaste nearly makes me puke when I’m brushing my teeth.
40. I hate having to wear business attire for dumb ass late night Amway meetings.
41. I hate that Amway fills our heads with dreams.
42. I hate Amway CDs and tapes that we’re forced to buy and listen to.
43. I hate spending money on Amway meetings.
44. I hate that Amway uplines pretend they’re helping us and helping others.
45. I hate that Amway is the devil in disguise.
46. I hate listening to our Amway sack of shit Platinum.
47. I hate that Amway has us believing we’ll have residual income rolling in forever.
48. I hate how embarrassing it is to tell people we’re involved with Amway.
49. I hate having Amway assholes poking through my house to see if I have any “illegal” products.
50. I hate that there’s so much pressure to buy more and more Amway products.
51. I hate those nasty shitty Amway food bars.
52. I hate that Amway preys on people going through a difficult time in their lives.
53. I hate how fast we lose friends thanks to Amway.
54. I hate how we’re told that everyone will get rich in Amway.
55. I hate how Amway creates trouble in marriages when none previously existed.
56. I hate trying to find a parking spot at Amway meetings held in crowded neighborhoods.
57. I hate how Amway doesn’t disclose how much it costs to produce each product and how much profit they’re making.
58. I hate how Amway controls your life.
59. I hate trying to convince others to take home an Amway tape and listen to it.
60. I hate having to deny that we have anything to do with Amway.
61. I hate trying to beg people to go to Amway meetings.
62. I hate how Amway shampoo makes my hair oily.
63. I hate how because we’re in Amway we have to “ask permission” from our upline before we buy or do anything.
64. I hate how the upline forces us to buy Amway Nutrilite vitamins when we never used to take vitamins.
65. I hate how we spent hundreds of dollars on Amway Nutrilite vitamins that are sitting unopened on the shelf because nobody in the house will take them.
66. I hate how late at night we have to stay up for Amway meetings.
67. I hate how Amway makes everyone lie about their wealth.
68. I hate that I can’t buy lower priced, better quality products if Amway sells something similar.
69. I hate how Amway has us believing we’ll be millionaires in 2 to 5 years.
70. I hate wasting my time going to Amway meetings listening to lousy bastards.
71. I hate that Amway doesn’t make more of an effort to tell us that 99% of IBOs won’t make money.
72. I hate that when we’re in Amway we have to call everyone else “losers”.
73. I hate that we have to bullshit others to believe that Amway has a good rating with the BBB and approval of the FTC.
74. I hate how nobody loses weight on the Amway Trim diet system lose weight plan.
75. I hate trying to convince people that the reason Amway products are so high priced is because they’re high quality.
76. I hate that Amway makes us lie to others about their chance of succeeding.
77. I hate how we’re told that everything in Amway is tax deductible.
78. I hate that Amway makes unqualified people pretend to be financial advisors.
79. I hate how Amway makes us sell the hope not the soap.
80. I hate that Amway makes us poke fun at people who have jobs.
81. I hate how we have to convince everyone Amway is not a pyramid scheme.
82. I hate how we have to leave our children with babysitters because we’re too busy with Amway to spend any time with them.
83. I hate how Amway forces us to take advantage of people.
84. I hate that being in Amway means we have to alienate our friends and family.
85. I hate that no authority seems capable of shutting down the Amway pyramid scheme.
86. I hate Amway’s high shipping fees.
87. I hate in Amway that we must “submit to upline”.
88. I hate how Amway only sells cereals in multiple packs.
89. I hate that Amway makes us tell others we’re better than them because we’re in Amway and they’re not.
90. I hate how Amway charges an annual membership fee for the privilege of being ripped off by them.
91. I hate that we were lied to that we only have to spend 10 to 15 hours a week working on our Amway business.
92. I hate hearing the lies about how Amway’s Perfect Water is a miracle cure for everything that ails you.
93. I hate how Amway sucks the life out of us.
94. I hate going into credit card debt thanks to Amway.
95. I hate when Amway sends us expired food items and refuses to refund or replace them.
96. I hate how expensive Amway Artistry cosmetics cost.
97. I hate how Amway dog food caused our dogs to become shit machines.
98. I hate how Amway cleaning products come in these huge refill containers and we have to buy little spray pumps to put them in and then we don’t know what’s what.
99. I hate trying to convince people that Amway sells “prestige” toilet paper and that’s why it costs 4 times more than tp in the grocery store.
100. I hate that Amway doesn’t take some of its soap and clean up its act.
101. I hate that Amway is a cult.

OK I’ll stop now!

Trade Show at Amway WWDB Family Reunion

When we arrived at the hotel we stayed at during Amway WWDB Family Reunion we barely checked in and put our bags in the room when Ambot wanted to haul ass over to the convention arena because something was going on - meaning Amway products would be out on display. For lack of anything else to describe it I’d call it a trade show but that is using the term very loosely.

Now I’ve been to real trade shows. They usually revolve around a theme: boats, home & gardening, RV’s, etc. Trade shows are usually held in fairgrounds because there are usually exhibition halls or ice rinks (no ice), etc that can be converted into trade shows and plenty of parking. There are usually a couple of hundred exhibitors, maybe more depending on the venue. Usually the people who rent booths at these events either provide products or services roughly related to the theme of the trade show. However there are always the usual suspects who show up at these events even though what they’re selling has nothing to do with the theme. There will probably be booths selling nuts or fudge or cotton candy, probably some realtors have booths, maybe some tourism bureaus from other towns, and usually some MLM’s like Mary Kay will be flogging their wares. I have never seen Amway represented at any trade show. Whew!

OK so we bust our asses getting to the arena so we can partake of the world’s most awesome Amway trade show. Its a not to be missed extravaganza for serious business builders.

Ha ha! This was the shittiest, sorriest excuse for a trade show I’ve ever seen in my life. Well what else do you expect from Amway? There were only a few booths, maybe 10. One of them had Perfect Water dispensed in dixie cups. Artistry was there and they had little sample packs of face cream. You know the use it once kind. Someone from XS Gear was there with their products. This is where Ambot ran into trouble with getting ripped off by XS Gear. He got the guy’s business card and decided to be their best customer but it didn’t work out so well.

I don’t remember what else was there. I know it took less than 20 minutes to see everything. Pretty shitty. Surprisingly enough there weren’t the hoards of brainwashed ambots you’d expect to see here. There were maybe a hundred people and that includes IBO’s and the exhibitors standing behind the tables. Of course due to the shitty exhibits it only took minutes to see it all so its very possible IBO’s were trailing in and out over the 2 or 3 hours it was open. So there could have been another couple of hundred IBO’s viewing the trade show before and after we got there.

There was the Amway registration desk and we could pick up our “kit” - as I recall a ticket on a string that we hung around our necks. There was also early bird parking passes for the weekend for sale. A real screaming deal at $20. Only available to the poor suckers who showed up at the trade show. And yes Ambot bought one.

Shitty trade show aside going inside that arena brings back another memory.

Prior to our departure I’d been looking around to buy a cappuccino machine with all the bells and whistles and I brought an extra $200 cash with me because I thought I might find one on sale this weekend. I’d seen an ad at JC Penney with a one day Saturday sale and even though we’d be out of town I thought I could still find one while attending Family Reunion. The problem is big mouth Ambot blabs to everyone and anyone that we had extra money with us. Captain Fuck Up’s sponsor - Asshole Eagle - was at the trade show plus a few others in his downline. Like its any of their fucking business how much money we happen to have on hand! I was pissed off at Ambot because these kids in their 20’s probably didn’t even bring enough money to buy meals and would likely hit us up for a loan that they wouldn’t repay.

Apparently one of the people in Asshole Eagle’s downline claimed he bought his Family Reunion ticket online at the last minute. Except when he checked in at the registration desk they had no record of it. So there he was stuck at Family Reunion with no cash, a maxed out credit card, and no ticket. Because Ambot had conveniently blabbed about the extra cash Asshole Eagle asked him to buy the Family Reunion ticket for his downline and he’d get his money back once they got it all straightened out. Because Ambot has been brainwashed to “submit to downline” even though the fucking asshole is about 25 years younger than him he willing to fork over the cash. The problem is the cashola is in my purse so now he has to beg me for the money. I am pissed. I have the cash earmarked for the cappuccino machine. Their problems aren’t my problems. But because I am such a kindhearted soul I finally agree the bastard can borrow the money.

Ended up buying a $30 Mr Coffee machine instead. Brought it into action a few times when we tried to trick people into coming over for coffee klatches when it was really an Amway event in disguise. Nobody every showed up anyway. What? Nobody likes lattes?

10 Warning Signs of a Dangerous Amway Leader

This is an excerpt from the Rick Ross web site. The original can be found here. http://culteducation.com/warningsigns.html 

 

This page is worth a read. In addition to warning signs of a leader it includes a list of warning signs that people might be involved with a dangerous leader. Interestingly there is also a list of 10 signs of a safe leader. Ha ha! Nothing on the safe list can be said about our former sack of shit Platinum! He’s the complete opposite!

Anyway Rick Ross’s list is called Ten warning signs of a potentially unsafe group/leader but it could just as aptly be named Ten warning signs of a dangerous Amway leader. The comments in black are Rick Ross’s warning signs. The comments in red are mine. Get it. Red is a color warning of danger.

1. Absolute authoritarianism without meaningful accountability. This was mostly clear to me from our sack of shit Platinum who we heard speak more than we heard any other speaker, Emerald or Diamond. He demanded everyone in his downline to “ask permission” before doing anything. Constantly telling us to “submit to upline” and never question upline.
2. No tolerance for questions or critical inquiry. “Never question upline! Who do you think you are asking me something like that! Everything I say is the truth!”
3. No meaningful financial disclosure regarding budget, expenses such as an independently audited financial statement. The sack of shit never showed us his budget, his profit and loss statement, tax returns, etc. though he wanted to see all of ours.
4. Unreasonable fear about the outside world, such as impending catastrophe, evil conspiracies and persecutions. All the time! What else is out there except Amway? The answer to everyone’s prayers. Financial security for the rest of your life. Everyone else is doomed to have a J.O.B. and work for someone else. Nothing but negativity at Amway meetings with all the talk of doom and gloom and businesses shutting down and social security won’t be there when you retire, etc.
5. There is no legitimate reason to leave, former followers are always wrong in leaving, negative or even evil. The ones who leave are quitters, losers, broke losers, negative, dream stealers, etc. Nothing but insults for those who have quit Amway and current IBO’s are not allowed to associate with them anymore.
6. Former members often relate the same stories of abuse and reflect a similar pattern of grievances. Our stories are all over the Internet. They’re all the same story: upline abuse, brainwashing, financial losses, house foreclosures, bankruptcy, emotional distress, destroyed marriages, alienation from friends and family.....
7. There are records, books, news articles, or television programs that document the abuses of the group/leader. Again all over the Internet are blogs written by former IBO’s. NBC Dateline did an expose. Many former Amway cult followers have written books. Abuse from the upline and lives that have been destroyed by Amway is well documented.
8. Followers feel they can never be "good enough". A good example of this was the attempt our WWDB group made to sell Amway items for Christmas and rented a community hall for the event. Ambot had several friends show up and one person made purchases. Ambot had the only sale there all day and was rather pleased with himself. When it was over the Platinum highlighted Ambot who was expecting praise but instead he was criticized that only one of his friends purchased Amway products and that meant they weren’t his true friends. It was a constant cycle of abuse where the Platinum would punish, scold and berate and then say “but we still love you”.
9. The group/leader is always right. The sack of shit Platinum is always right. Pompous son of a bitch even told us once that his wife never wins an argument with him because he is always right. Oh gee, one of the top criteria for a happy marriage. According to Amway cult leaders that is.
10. The group/leader is the exclusive means of knowing "truth" or receiving validation, no other process of discovery is really acceptable or credible. Its all about information control. Our Platinum wanted to control the information the IBO’s received. Cult followers are brainwashed to believe the Platinum is always telling the truth. He gave his version of the news and told IBO’s not to listen to the news or read the Internet because it was wrong and could not be trusted whereas he would always tell the truth. Discrediting an information source is easier for the Platinum than debating the truth. By controlling the information the Platinum removes the IBO’s ability to think for themselves. Sleep deprivation also helps the cult leader in the brainwashing. Keeping IBO’s up to 1 or 2 or 3 in the morning and they are so tired that they’re willing to agree everything they hear at that hour is the truth.

Of course we can see it now. I’d say I saw this within a month of knowing the Platinum and getting involved in Amway. Too bad for the bastard that I wouldn’t drink the kool aid. Like we need any further proof that Amway leaders used cult techniques to brainwash their downline.

And then these same cult leaders claim Amway is not a cult. Deny, deny, deny. Lie, lie, lie. That’s the secret to success in Amway.

I’ll just send out another big old fuck you to everyone in our upline.