Amway HATES The First Amendment

The last time we published the post about the ebook Merchants of Deception, one of our readers helped answer the question:

 

I have some information as to why Scheibeler's book is so expensive.

Amway did everything in its power, legally, to stop the publication (and later on, the distribution) of the book. When those efforts failed, Amway did the next best thing: it attempted to buy up every available print copy of Scheibeler's book and destroy them. Amway succeeded in making it very difficult for people to find a hard copy. Scores of copies were trashed by Amway freaks.

Naturally, the law of supply and demand kicked in. People who were curious to read the book checked the on-line bookstores and found very few copies available, and the price of every copy was high because the text was rare. Many people like me HATE reading long texts on-line, and prefer a hard copy.

The other thing is this: people who buy books at Alibris or Amazon are paying not just for the book itself, but for the sheer convenience of getting it without any trouble. It's much easier than searching in book stores. If you combine these two things (the comparative rarity of Scheibeler's book in hard copy, and the price you pay for convenience), it means that a hard copy of Merchants of Deception will inevitably be expensive.

There's a certain book that I have been wanting for over ten years now. It was withdrawn from the bookstores soon after publication because the author changed his mind about revealing some private information in it. He went around buying up every copy he could find, and destroying them.

A few copies managed to escape, either because they were bought before he changed his mind, or because he didn't get to some bookstores to buy them.

The last time I saw a copy at Alibris was three years ago. The asking price was $5000.

 

Merchants Of Deception Is A Free Ebook

Someone showed up at the blog with the search criteria “why is Merchants of Deception so expensive”.

Hunh? Free is expensive?

I wondered where this guy was looking. I’m aware that Eric Scheibeler did put his book into print and sell it for a few months. Then for reasons I’m unaware of though I suspect Scheibeler decided it was time to finally put the Amway horror behind him, he announced he was closing his website and the book would only be available for a couple more days.

I don’t recall what he was selling the print version for $15 or $20 perhaps.

I didn’t buy a copy of Merchants of Deception seeing as how I already had the free ebook version. Apparently the print version had some updated information in there.

So where is this guy looking that the book is so expensive? I checked ebay. Nope. Nothing there. I went to Amazon. Ah ha! Got it! There are 7 copies available ranging in price from $95.00 to $175.58 (those prices when this post first appeared on this blog). Yikes! What the fuck!

Years ago I read an article that when Amazon only has one or two copies of a new book available and that’s it its no longer being printed there are some book buyers who keep an eye out and buy these books hoping that there will be a demand for them later on when they’re out of print. When the book is out of print and no longer available new the sellers who have used copies think they are rare collectibles and list them with outrageously high prices. Kind of like what Amway does with its products! They can ask any price they want. Doesn’t mean they’re going to get it unless there is some cult leader putting pressure on the downline to buy.

Crazy about the high prices on the used books! Especially since most books being sold on Amazon’s used book section are books published within the last 20 years and sold for $20 or less and there is really nothing special about them to command that kind of high price. The seller can always hope that someone is desperately searching for a used copy and willing to pay any price to get it. I can’t imagine paying $100 (or more!) for a paperback book especially when its available for free as an ebook.

Click here for the website where you can download a free copyof Merchants of Deception.

 

 

You Got Amway? You Got Chairs?

BYOC = Bring Your Own Chair

Not counting living room furniture because couches and recliners are cumbersome to move, in our possession we have a handful of chairs that can be moved around fairly easily, probably the same as most households. We have 6 dining room chairs, 4 patio furniture chairs, a couple of camp chairs and two or three folding lawn chairs. All put to use whenever we held Amway meetings at our house. We also borrowed stacking chairs from my parents, about 10 or 12.

Luckily for us the pompous sack of shit Platinum only held a couple of meetings at our house. He refused to show the plan at our house because the Ambot couldn't sucker any prospects into attending.

The Amway meetings were held at the homes of the pompous sack of shit or cross line and our presence was mandatory. Also mandatory were our chairs. In particular the chairs that did not belong to us but belonged to our parents. If the upline commanded the Ambot to bring the stacking chairs he busted his ass driving to the next town where my parents lived, picked them up, and transported them to the meeting, meaning he had to get their early to help set up like a good little IBO.

It bugged the shit out of me. This was our crossline, occasionally upline. Why the hell couldn't they find their own chairs. Or contact my parents themselves to ask about borrowing the stacking chairs and making their own arrangements to pick them up and bring them back?

We were always told until we became 1000 pins that we weren't expected to supply various things for the Amway meetings, that the upline and people who were 1000 pins were the ones responsible for everything required at the meetings. A bunch of liars! But what else do you expect from a bunch of fucking lying scamming Amway assholes.

One time Ambot could not attend the Amway meeting due to a previous committment. He still busted his ass getting the stacking chairs across town for the IBO who was holding the meeting at his house. And get this. The Platinum sack of shit phoned Ambot and chewed him out for not attending that meeting. Ambot just sat there with the phone stuck to his ear taking the abuse from the pompous sack of shit, Amway motherfucker!

We're all adults here. Why phone and scold someone? No adult appreciates being treated like a child. Adults have discussions not scold other adults. I guess that doesn’t include Amway cult leaders who bitch and scold and berate. And get this according to the pompous sack of shit's order of importance:

1. god

2. spouse

3. family

4. job

5. Amway

Ambot was involved in one of the top 4 on the list on that particular night.

The sack of shit Platinum is a fucking phony. Fucking fake. Fucking control freak.

And one more time I send out a big fuck you to that fucking pompous sack of shit Amway platinum asshole! FUCK YOU!

Oh and a footnote about those stacking chairs. My parents got so tired of loaning them out to us that they gave them to us and now they borrows the chairs from us whenever they needs them.

 

 

The Evil Land Of Amway

Who remembers what its like sitting in Amway cult meetings and hearing all about how the exclusively chosen Amway ambots will live happily ever after in the Land of Amway. After putting in 2 to 5 years selling shitty, overpriced products, drinking one Amway beverage daily and eating one Amway food bar daily, and signing up 6 others and teaching them to duplicate what you do, and they find 6 others and they find 6 others and they find 6 others…… Then all the ambots will gain entry to Amwayland funded by pure greed. Everyone lives in showpiece mansions and hires losers who were too stupid to sign up for Amway to be their servants. They have a fleet of expensive sports cars in the 30 car garage. There’s a private jet parked in the backyard to take the ambots to whatever beach of the world they want to walk on. In the land of Amway everyone worships the cult leaders who go by dumb ass names like quadruple crown Diamond ambassador and they meet in big arenas to rewrite the bible to suit their twisted cult of greed. Their private jet takes them to Peter Island whenever they want so they can huddle together and laugh at dumb losers and quitters who didn’t try hard enough. In the land of Amway ambots have gazillions of dollars rolling in in residual income and they leave messages on Communikate to their cult followers bragging they just made more money taking a shit than the losers made in a whole year of working a J.O.B. and making their boss richer. And now they’re FIRED UP!!! So all you ambots go take a shit and see if that fires you up too!!!! And oh yeah in the land of Amway everyone pays for everything with cash.

Yup Amwayland is the place all Amway ambots want to live in.

There’s other lands that I prefer to visit if you get my drift – Adventureland, Frontierland, Tomorrowland, and dare I say it Fantasyland.

Amway ambots live in a different kind of fantasyland. Enjoy this little show about the Land of Amway.

 

Amway Ambots Claim To Be Better Than Everyone Else

One of the things that really disturbed me about our Amway upline was their shitty attitude towards people who weren’t in Amway. These ambots were of the mindset that they were superior over the rest of the population.

They bragged to others that they drove BMW’s and Cadillacs. They neglected to mention their cars were 20 or 30 years old rust buckets falling apart and in poor mechanical condition. How can someone driving an old clunker be superior over someone who has purchased with cash a newer model car, maybe not of the expensive luxury type, but looks good, has a clean interior, and isn’t breaking down all the time I’ll never know. But then I was never a brainwashed ambot.

The IBO’s put on business suits and tell everyone they dress for success and that makes them superior to everyone else wearing casual attire. Wearing suits to all Amway meetings and functions is the dress code for these 8pm Amway warriors and in their delusional minds that makes them superior over everyone else who at that hour is relaxing in shorts and T’s, chilling out on the patio with a beer or watching TV. That also makes ambots superior because they would sneer at people relaxing in the evening and say how is watching TV making any money for you. Well at least they aren’t losing money by shelling out ten bucks to go to an Amway brainwashing session.

We’d have to arrive at Amway cult meetings an hour early because the cult leaders had brainwashed Ambot into believing that “serious business builders” arrive at least an hour early. So the early bird IBO’s are even more superior than the rest of the IBO’s who arrive closer to 8pm.

Yeah get there early enough and you can set up chairs! That’ll really make those IBO’s feel superior because they got assigned that task by some Amway cult leader.

So these superior ambot bastards get to the meeting an hour early and what do they do? They stand around with their cell phones plastered to their ear trying to show off an air of superiority over any ambots who aren’t on the phone. The superior ones on the phone are obviously conducting Amway business. Business is going great! Can’t you tell by the amount of time I’m on my phone?

Then they show off their superiority by being the first to kiss the Diamond’s ass who is speaking that night. They rush the stage after he’s finished brainwashing the crowd. Got to get close enough to press flesh and to have some of the superiority aura to rub off on them.

Add them all up and its what makes Amway IBO’s superior to everyone else in the world. That’s what their little brainwashed brains believe.

I fail to see how some brainwashed ambot who’s losing fistfuls of money in the Amway scam is superior to me.

I guess I’ll never get it. But then I’m not a brainwashed ambot.....