A reader shares his story about how Ambots follow the
Amway script. Thank you!
About a month ago I was informed by one of my Facebook friends (a guy that went
to my high school, goes to college with me, we’ve never been super close, but
he’s a trustworthy guy) that he had been introduced to:
“...a business opportunity I recently came across. I am working with some
successful entrepreneurs to expand business. I can’t say anything for sure but
I wanted to for sure put it out there and see if your open to looking at
different income ventures.”
That was the message I was sent. I was very skeptical, especially as he was
working with people that I had never met, although again, I do trust him and
have known him for a while, which eased my fears a bit. Yesterday, I was
convinced to be a part of a three-way phone call with him and his “senior
business adviser” (to be read as: upline!) and the details were exceedingly
vague. “I’m working on building a group of partnerships... It’s very hard to
explain over the phone... it’s very possible to make thousands a month.” The
thing that worried me the most was the fact that I was told “don’t talk about
this to your family or friends yet, you aren’t informed enough and will lose
credibility that you could use to build your business in the future.”
Everything about the call threw up red flags, so I decided to do my research. I
managed to find the Facebook profile of the upline guy, and soon realized that
this was all Amway. I hadn’t really heard of Amway in the past (and was even more
skeptical about the fact that it was obvious what business it was, but he made
no mention of it in the call), so I spent most of last night doing some
research. This is scary! You would think that people would learn to look into
the background of what they’re getting into before they commit and try to rope
others in. Another person I know has been caught up in this, and still appears
to be in the delusional stage of thinking success is still possible. No one
seems to realize that the market is exceedingly over-saturated and will keep
growing.
Anyway, at the end of the call, they convinced me to attend a meeting on campus
tonight, which I will still go to, just to listen to see how much BS is being
spewed, and how similar it really is to what I’ve read. However, I will not
being buying into this scam, when no room for new success exists. I would like
to not burn any bridges with the people I know over this, but they seem to be
very gung-ho about selling this idea. I’m going to ask a few questions
regarding MLMs, the taxes from this, how many people I’ll need downline to make
a profit, etc. and can’t wait to hear the answers. I expect the peer pressure
to be very large, but I’m going to fight it completely. It’s just sad how these
people use their language and speaking skills (the guy on the phone yesterday
kept trying to relate to me personally, it was a great tactic) to completely
brainwash others into believing everything they say.
Stay tuned. What happened at the Scamway meeting?
P.S. We all know it followed the old Amway scripture!