Success is judged by attendance at Amway meetings?

We were always told that the more Amway meetings and functions we attended, the more successful we will be.

Of course my Ambot bought that hook, line, and sinker and rushed all over town attending multiple Amway meetings each week night. He couldn't get enough of listening to his cult leaders.

"Your business is going to be huge just because you showed up." The cult leaders yelled at their followers. "Forget about the time away from your family and loss of sleep because you are a winner, a leader, and an inspiration to all those downline beneath you."

The only success would be to the upline who bragged to their upline how many of their downline showed up for meetings.

The truth is no matter how many meetings and funtions Ambots attend, they are probably not going to be successful. Amway literature states that less than 1% of IBO's actually earn money. That's a 99% failure rate.

Work "the business" 10 to 15 hours per week

At every Amway scam meeting we attended we'd hear the same things over and over. One of them was that we would become rich by working only 10 to 15 hours per week. The upline starts off small and says we can earn an extra $800 to $1000 a month by working only 10 to 15 hours per week. As we attended more meetings that figure drastically inflated.

At one meeting where Brad Wolgamott was the speaker he "fired up" the crowd by promising $100,000 a year by working only 10 to 15 hours a week. In your spare time, working part time. A few minutes later he'd up that figure to $750,000. If it was really that easy to make close to a million dollars a year working 10 to 15 hours per week then everyone in the world would be doing Amway.

Scammers!

Spending 10 to 15 hours per week working on "the business". I wish that was all the time Ambot wasted. Unfortunately his negligent sponsor and upline forgot to mention all the time spent showing the plan several times a week to prospects or trying to convince prospects to show the plan to them. They also forgot to mention all the time driving around to Amway meetings, picking up tools from upline's house nearly an hour's drive away and back home again late at night because the bastard didn't get home from his "day job" until after 10pm. The negligent cult leaders forgot to mention all the time spent on the phone or text messages with upline, placing orders, hunting down prospects, going to Amway meetings at least one a week, going to Amway seminars at least once a month, going to major Amway functions 4 times a year and the costs associated with getting there, food, and accommodation.

Upline also neglected to mention when people are supposed to fit in their jobs to pay for all this Amway shit.

Junk in the Trunk

In the Amway cult Ambots are taught to bring Amway products to the Amway meetings for show and tell or to provide refreshements. They refer to carrying product around in the car as "junk in the trunk".

I pointed out that phrase is very true and those shitty tasting Amway products are indeed junk. Then the Ambot would retort not to speak negative about Amway junk.

Very contradictory. Its the upline cult leaders who teach the phrase "junk in the trunk", thereby saying its OK to call Amway products junk.

As I've said before the upline are the most negative people around.

Don't say negative!

I can't tell you how many times I heard the Ambot parrot his upline "Don't say negative!" This was usually after I commented on how expensive an Amway product is or how shitty it tastes.

The upline cult leaders, usually the pompous sack of shit Platinum, but occasionally the Emerald, would jabber on about don't let negative influences into your life.

What a sheltered life that would be for people. I suppose I can see why the cult leaders don't want their downline to be influenced by outside forces who can reason, tell them the truth, and show the IBO's that they're wasting their time and money on trying to build an Amway business.

They'd say don't read newspapers, don't watch TV, don't listen to the radio. Most of all they'd say don't listen to people who aren't in Amway.

Yet these same cult leaders all seemed to know what's going on in the world. How can they do that unless they're watching TV or reading a newspaper?

And these bastards were the most negative people around, ironically enough despite all their sermons not to allow negative influences into your life. At every Amway meeting, they'd jabber on about Starbucks locations closing down or other businesses closing their doors. They'd spout off tons of doom and gloom about the recession and people losing their jobs. The upline were the most negative people around!

Drop out of Amway and that's a big load of negative you'll also be dropping.

The $150 opportunity

Where else can you start your own business for only a $150 investment?

I can't tell you how many times I've heard those taunting words from someone upline. Usually punctuated by how your $150 investment will give you a million dollar business.

Well, if you really could get a million dollars by simply plunking down a $150 investment, everyone in the world would be doing it.

The cult leaders also promised the dollars would keep rolling in while we walked the beaches of the world. Do the work for a couple of years and then sit back and earn residual income for the rest of your life and never work again.

Yeah right.

The pompous sack of shit Platinum has been wasting his time on Amway for 20 years and he still works a day job and he spends every spare hour on Amway.

Unfortunately my Ambot lapped up every word the cult leaders said.

Unfortunately for our finances, those asshole cult leaders conveniently forgot to mention the costs of attending meetings, seminars, rallies, and major functions. No one mentioned buying CD's and books, premier membership in WWDB, Communikate, and extra phone bills. And absolutely none of those bastards told Ambot how he'd be paying higher prices for household items and the shipping costs of Amway products.

How did the Amway $150 opportunity now turn into costing several hundred dollars a month with no return on the investment?

How do those cult leaders convince their followers to keep throwing good money after bad?

I spent too many days feeling hopeless and powerless as I watched Ambot run thousands of dollars on to the credit card that previously had a zero balance.

Scary.

Bring a Note!

The pompous sack of shit Platinum used to ride everyone's ass about not missing any Amway meetings. "There is no excuse to miss a meeting!" The cult leader would yell from his pulpit.

Let's see. Let's go back to the 5 things in order of importance that the sack of shit wrote on the whiteboard every night.

1. God
2. Spouse
3. Family
4. Job
5 Amway

It would appear to me that there are 4 things higher on the list of importance than Amway that would give a cult follower an excuse to miss an Amway meeting.

But when the sack of shit finished hollering about there's no excuse not to miss a meeting, he would add that if we missed an Amway meeting, that we had to bring him a doctor's note.

What the fuck?????!!!!!

Uh, we're all adults here. Perhaps the reason we're missing an Amway meeting has nothing to do with illness or requiring a visit to the doctor. It probably has something to do with one of the other 4 reasons that are higher in importance than Amway.

Like we are really going to get a doctor's note because we had something better to do than attend an Amway cult meeting.

Perhaps the reason we're not going to an Amway meeting is we've had enough of listening to a pompous sack of shit who loves the sound of his own voice spouting off lies.

Get Permission to talk to Crossline

Ambot needed a new radio put in his car and one of the crossline worked independently installing electronics such as this. It would seem easy to just approach the dude at an Amway meeting and ask if he can do the job.

But no, that logical thinking that most adults would use does not apply to Amway cult followers. They must go upline and ask permission to speak to the crossline about doing the job.

So Ambot dutifully went to the Platinum sack of shit and asked if he could speak to the crossline dude about getting a radio installed in the car. Once he received permission to speak to the crossline about the job it was done.

The radio would have been installed a whole lot faster if we'd gone just about anywhere else and hired someone to install it rather than asking permission, waiting for permission to be granted, and then waiting for the next Amway meeting to discuss the job.