Amway Rule To Live By If You’re An Ambot: Be Your Own Best Customer

The upline would tell the IBO’s when purchasing Amway products to be your own best customer. Why would you go out and support other stores when you can be buying from your own store?

Let’s see. Price? Quality?

When did we ever buy energy drinks before getting involved in Amway? Never. When did we buy food bars and protein bars and all those other nasty tasting Amway bars? Rarely. I buy granola bars a couple of times a year but its not a regular purchase. When did I ever buy vitamins before Amway? Never.

So now I have to buy all these things from “our” (pretend) store that I never bought before. So we can save money?

Are you kidding me????

I can save even more money by not buying stuff I never bought before anyway.

Ambot would be outraged if I went to the drug store to buy toothpaste. “How come you won’t buy from our store and support our business?” He’d ask. Oh, a couple of reasons. First off we’re a bunch of fucking idiots for having the items in our store too high priced to get any real customers. Oh, I guess its not really “our” store otherwise we can put a price tag of our choosing on the product. Second that nasty Glisten toothpaste makes me gag when I brush my teeth. I had a similar problem with a fluoride toothpaste we used when I was 10 years old. I prefer not to puke when I’m brushing my teeth thanks just the same!

 

The Horrors Of Being Sniped By An Amway Ambot!

I wanted to share a comment left in a post about buying tickets for Puryear Family Reunion in case readers missed it.

It just shows that nothing ever changes in Amway. The same pitches are going on today that were going on 5 years ago, 10 years ago, and probably since time began with the Amway pyramid scheme.

I separated his/her comment into smaller paragraphs to make it easier to read and to insert my own comments in red!

I went with my friend (IBO) to one of his meetings after getting ambushed on one of our morning jogs.

Ambushed? Check. Ambot sneaky ass strategy.

He was babbling on and on about this year’s family reunion thing coming up July. I guess it’s a “must attend” function or convention (or something…WHATEVER).

Family Reunion coming up in July? Yup. WWDB Amway function. Another “must attend” brainwashing convention. Aren’t they all? Yawn. Ambot trying to build up some excitement so he can be one of very few IBO’s who actually brings a guest and that makes him look all big and important to the upline that he worships.

For starters, let me admit I’ve never before seen such mediocrity in my forty years on this planet!

Mediocrity? That’s one of the nicest things I’ve ever heard anyone say about Amway!

He insisted I borrow and listen to a couple of cd’s from some ‘money-guru’ he says he knows personally. I’m not really into listening to anything that’s not accompanied by some kind of music…and of course makes sense to my mood at that moment.

Those CDs are the shits! Especially when they’re cranked as loud as they can go. Sounds like we’re out in the boonies under a big tent with a preacher screeching a sermon at us.

Well anyway, back to the meeting on Friday night, we get there and of course, the place is pact! There are no more chairs, one of the best-dressed guys in the back of the room ushers my friend’s ‘sponsor’ to give up his seat so I’ll have a chance at enjoying the speaker’s slander.

Sounds like someone on the Amway chair committee fucked up!

This ‘meeting’ felt more like a revival of some sorts to me than anything close to a business meeting. I guess there wasn’t any religion involved, yet it was carried on in a fashion resembling that of religious doctrine.

I guess they held off on the religion because they had a rare appearance of an outsider at this Amway meeting. Usually Amway meetings are peppered with religion as is the norm for any cult's meetings.

After being formally introduced to most of the attending IBO’s in the room one of the attendees (seemed rather prospected), and his wife were being badgered by a group of IBOs to attend that July convention –thing, in a matter of seconds the rest of the group joined in and the guy who urged my friend’s sponsor give up his seat to me walked right in front of them to make certain they would go (he kept insisting they attend in a very weird manner).
Amway ambots ganging up on someone and badgering them? Oh say it isn’t so! Not only are those bastards good at group love bombing but they also gang up to dole out the abuse as needed.

He and a few others (they seemed like the diamonds in the group) carried themselves extremely comfortable! After battling with that couple, he made his way to me and asked a few question about my employment (I lead Pioneer-A medical equipment distribution center for medical schools). Impressed, he seemed to veer towards my personal ambitions, at which I admitted I was going to medical school this fall.

Yup the old Amway FORM strategy that is also used by high closer salespeople to find out more about the victim and put them at ease before going in for the kill.
F - Family
O - Occupation
R - Recreation
M - Money

Before moving on, he suggested I attend this ‘ function’ insisting “I might learn something” and commented that my friend’s sponsor was someone going places and I should maybe meet up with the sponsor and him for coffee some time. I told him no thanks, that I just did this as a favor to my friend whom seemed relentless about this ‘industry’. He became uncomfortable with my comment and with a smile corrected me indicating “this is not a company…it’s a world-wide opportunity for independent business owners with BIG dreams and not afraid of getting their hands dirty”. I smiled back and nodded “most-definitely”, thinking how pathetic this all was!

Everyone in Amway is ALWAYS "going places". Usually straight to the poorhouse and divorce court! Ambots always get uncomfortable when confronted with the truth. You can bet your friend got reamed out later on for being “negative”. The reason you're getting your "hands dirty" in Amway is because of the dirty money you're making scamming victims in this pyramid scheme.

Anyway, a little after 11pm…I told my friend I was heading home, he asked what did I think about the people and the testimonials and I replied they were fine. He asked about my availability to get together for coffee during the weekend and I turned him down telling him I’m not really a “deodorant and soap-door to door kind of guy”. Now, he didn’t show offense to this, but I’m certain he’d love to have retaliated instantly, instead he asked for my cell-phone number and or my email, I gave him one of my email address in case I want to humor myself someday soon. He insisted though, we definitely HAVE TO TALK, and that they could use someone like me in their venture (I’d rather drown myself than tolerate another one of these pitches).

Yup ambots always want to go for coffee and they’ll bring along their sack of shit Platinum to close the sale and sign up the victim as an IBO.

And......Better dead than an ambot!

 

 

Beware Amway Big Brother

A blast from the past. This article first appeared about two months after marriedtoanambot blog began.

Anna Banana has caught the attention of someone from Ada, Michigan.

I make no secret that I do not like Amway’s shitty overpriced products. I need to get in a long line with that complaint.

Many bloggers focus on Amway’s scheme particularly how the tool business is the only way to really make money in Amway and you can only make decent money in Amway once you’ve walked over a lot of people to get to a level where you participate in tool sharing profits. That’s not my agenda.

If I have any issue with Amway other than their shitty overpriced products, its how they turn a blind eye to the abuses from higher level pins to their downline. I think Amway has a moral obligation to take better control of their representatives who are in the business of signing up IBO’s, finding customers to purchase Amway products, and holding meetings all under the guise of running their own Amway business.

My agenda is with Ambot’s upline, the assholes who brainwashed and abused him  and tried to tear us apart under the pretense of being highly religious people and Amway devotees. The upline assholes who cause emotional and financial distress. Corporate Amway does not get involved in individual lines of sponsorship and what they’re saying in Amway meetings. Complaints go nowhere. A standard letter saying they are looking into it or a brush off when you phone in and speak with a service rep aka the we-don’t-give-a-shit department.

That’s why people take up blogging and get the word out there what is really happening inside the LOS, Amway meetings, and how people are treated by their upline. Amway won’t do anything about it so the masses on the Internet educate others what they are in store for if they get involved with Amway.

My story is hardly original. It has been said so many times in very similar ways by others who write blogs, write books, appear on TV or radio shows.

So attention Ada, Michigan. Anna Banana can be bought. If you want me to stop telling what happened to my husband and how I had to watch him being treated by the upline assholes and ultimately how I was treated, I have a price. Pick a number between 10 and 20, the higher the better. Then put 6 zeros behind it.

 

The Fucking Amway Pants Don’t Fit!

Remember when Amway was selling clothes years ago?

I bought a swimsuit that was pretty decent so I can say that I actually bought one product that Amway sells that I did not hate. Hell, I liked that swimsuit enough that if Amway still sold them I might have bought another one.

Not the same story for a pair of pants that Ambot bought for me which I didn’t really want, but you know all the bullshit upline plugs into you about buy from your own store.... I rock a size 0 in skinny jeans but depending on the cut I could be up a size, so Ambot started with a size 6 pair of Amway pants which were the smallest size available. Just a regular looking pair of casual pants but nothing I would have bought if I’d seen them in the store. May have had a checker or houndstooth pattern to them. I tried them on. Couldn’t fasten them up, too tight in the waist. Ambot sent them back and exchanged for a size 8. Same problem. Too tight in the waist. Couldn’t fasten them. Ambot wants to exchange for the next size up. I tell him forget it. The pants aren’t that great anyway. But he doesn’t listen and one day he presents me with a size 10 pair of pants. I’m not happy but I try them on and like the other pairs they are exactly the same waist size as the other two smaller pairs - too tight and won’t fasten. I tell him there is obviously a problem with Amway’s clothing line. Normally when you buy larger clothing sizes they are, well larger, and a looser fit than the size down. If I put on a size 10 pair of normal pants they’d be sliding right off me. Shit! Right now in my closet I have two shorts that are size 2, the smallest size available when I was shopping. They both slide right off me so I have to wear a belt. 

Back to those shitty Amway pants. Every single one of these pants had the same waist size although as the sizes went up the hips and thighs were roomier.

Um, here’s a big clue Amway. When a clothing size number goes up, all dimensions have to change. You can’t leave the waist a tiny size and make the hips larger as the size numbers go higher. Perhaps this is why Amway is no longer in the business of selling clothing?

But Ambot is determined. He exchanges the pants again and presents me with a size 12. You guessed it, they were too small too. I thought that would be the end of it until he shows up with a size 14.

“Forget it!” I tell him. “I am not going to try those damn pants on again! It doesn’t matter what size you get they’ll never fit!”

And ladies you get this. Who wants to wear clothes that are up 10 sizes than what you normally wear? Like what the fuck!

Men clearly don’t get it when it comes to women’s clothing sizes.

Finally Ambot gets a clue that I am not going to wear a piece of clothing in the double digit sizes and gets a refund. And the fucking assholes in our Amway upline lose some bonus points.

 

Amway Is A Cult That Consumes All Your Money And Time

Spend $60,000 in Amway to make $2,000. Sounds about right to me. One of our readers talks about being inside the Amway cult and unable to get her brainwashed husband to understand ScAmway only brings financial and emotional distress. If this person is still reading Married To An Ambot – give us an update.

My husband was involved with Amway/Bww in the 90’s. He had a pretty large downline, but ended up quitting due to marriage issues. He later divorced.

We married in 2013 and he told me about this great opportunity he had been involved in. I had never heard of it, but he told me he had sponsored someone who went diamond. I said then why would you quit. He said it was the biggest mistake ever and that he wanted to get back in and build it with me.

Due to his excitement I was excited. Unfortunately he was at a work meeting at a hotel where a bww meeting was. Needless to say our ibo journey began. We were hard core. Attended EVERY meeting, did 50/150 ++ every month irregardless of our finances. We racked up credit card debt in the thousands of dollars and took out several loans. I propected everyday and showed the plan almost everyday for almost four years. All on the belief that sacrificing time and money now we would get more time and more money later.

I was told that our work ethic outdid 95% of the people in the business and we were sure to become diamonds. We reached 1000 pv. Half of that was mostly personal with a little customer volume. But we got paraded on stage like we did something fantastic.

Back in April I had to have surgery and did not go to function, did not read and listen to cds like a good little ibo. Things started to change in my mindset. I had realized how much time and money we wasted. Time away from out son and family. We had no longer went on family trips cause all our time and money went to meetings. I was so dedicated and believed the huge repeated lie of financial freedom. That was until I got away for a little while.

I finally added up all the money we spent and it was close to $60,000 in a four year period. That includes books, cds, functions, products, travel expences for stp every night, hotel, business materials, samples, etc. We got very very little return on our “investment.” We maybe made $2000 in those four years.

I have been reading a lot of blogs and information on cults over the past four months. Bww is by far a manipulative cult. I presented my husband with a bunch of research material, even though we are brainwashed not to do outside research because the internet is like a bathroom wall and anyone can write anything....as they say. He listened to me, said he can’t deny he had felt somewhat like there were tendencies of cult activities. We were great that day, then he wouldn’t talk to me for a week.

When he finally did talk to me he said I call bs. You can’t blame amway or bww for us spending the money we did. I haven’t done anything with the cult since. He still pays for bww bmp, streaming, and webspace. I refuse to waste anymore time or money. He did tell me a few weeks later that he was taking a break, but that if he is off work for the team meeting he was going. I said I am not. He hasn’t brought it up since.

Our upline platinum calls and texts him all the time. Their upline platinum lady has repeatedly tried to set up meetings with me. I think my husband still has hopes I will come around. It’s such a brainwashing cult to consume all your money and time. I’ve told him about all the blogs and he says oh yeah those are the quitters who didn’t work the business and now go on there and spew their hate because “the business didn’t work” he said no, “they just didn’t work the business” he doesn’t want to hear anything I have to say about all the research I’ve done and all my findings. Please someone help me. I need some advice? I refuse to let this scam ruin our life, marriage, family and finances any longer.

 

 

 

Ambots Deny Amway Is A Get Rich Quick Scheme

I can’t tell you how many times I heard our sack of shit Platinum say Amway is not a get rich quick scheme.

What he does NOT say is that Amway is also not a get rich slowly business.

Amway is a get rich NEVER kind of business. Except for a fraction of 1% of IBO’s who make money though unlikely to be the promised riches some Amway asshole from the stage tells you.

I heard every amount from $100,000 to $750,000 a year promised to us by Amway assholes from our sponsor to the Diamonds.

Lying bunch of bastards!

Ambots spend a lot of time denying that Amway is not a get rich scheme and not a pyramid scheme. Anyone who has to spend so much time denying something and arguing why its not - gotta have them canned Amspeak responses ready! - you know its gotta be exactly that otherwise why spend so much time in denial mode?

I’ve never heard anyone from McDonalds telling franchise owners that buying a restaurant is not a get rich quick scheme. Owning a McDonalds is kind of the same thing as owning a gold mine! Its always gonna make money. Likewise I’ve never heard anyone from McDonalds going around convincing the public that they are not a pryamid scheme and they are not a scam. They don’t need to spend time denying what they are not. They need to convince people what they are.

Legitimate businesses don’t need to spend an enternity denying anything. You don’t hear representatives from Dairy Queen going around convincing people that Blizzards taste great. Most people can figure that one out after a couple of spoonfuls.

I saw an interesting article on Yahoo that I wanted to share called How To Retire With $1 Million.

Of course the first thought that comes to mind is if you want to retire with any money, don’t fritter it away in the Amway scam!

Anyway its something to think of. People like us who are small business owners don’t have a pension to rely on so in our working years we have to figure out other investments to supplement our social security. That small amount coming in each month is all some people have. For others its just a regular amount coming in each month that can be counted on to show up and probably just covers monthly expenses depending on where you live. Its a lot more expensive to live in New York City than somewhere out in the boonies in Oklahoma. People like us need investments to bring in a steady income when we retire for the fun stuff. Or maybe the not so fun stuff when a major appliance needs to be replaced.

What we don’t need is some bullshit claim from the lying assholes in the Amway upline about the gazillions of dollars in residual income that will be rolling in forever in our golden years.

 

 

Amway Ambot Brags Billions To Be Made In Scamway!

I had an Amway ambot stop by and leave a comment on a post where there’s a link to the top 50 cosmetics companies. Ambots take a look and freak out when Amway Artistry isn’t on the list. That’s partially due to it being a closed market for sales. The majority of customers are Amway IBO’s and you have to be a member of the Amway buying club to purchase or know someone who is and buy from them. The rest of the world can buy their cosmetics in the stores where they’re more readily available. But so what. Here’s a comment that was left:

Who’s to say I am an Amway IBO? I came across this page whilst researching Artistry products and was disgusted at how rude somebody could be. Amway may not be your thing, it doesn’t mean it won’t work for anybody else. In fact, yesterday I was at dinner with my partner and a couple that have been a part of Amway for 25 years. Their income? Billions. Purely from Amway.


To which I responded something to the effect – Billions! Wow there’s Amway IBO’s who make more money than Oprah!

OK everyone have a good laugh now. 

Remember that Forbes list that had the billionaire families listed and how they got there. Whoever this multi-billionaire Amway salesperson is throwing dinner parties they failed to make that list. LOL! Ha ha ha!!!

Let’s start with where he – and yes probably it’s a he – says how do you know I’m an Amway IBO. Lets see. LIAR. That’s our big clue. How do you know when someone in Amway is lying? When their mouth is moving! Or in the case of the Internet – when they’re typing. The only people researching Artistry products are Amway ambots. Nobody else in the world gives a fuck about Amway cosmetics!

Let’s get to the good stuff! Amway IBO’s can earn billions!!! Wow! Holy fuck that number has gone WAAAAAAAYYYYY up from when we were in the Amway scam! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!

What a dumb fuck! Well, what can you say, that pretty much sums up the Amway fleet. LIARS! Read it again: the dinner hosts income is BILLIONS – purely from Amway. A feat that even VanAndel and DeVos couldn’t pull off! LOL!!!!!

So according to the outraged scambot commenter there’s an Amway IBO running around out there who makes billions purely from Amway, has bypassed the DeVos family to become Amway billionaires, and the media engine at Amway isn’t blowing this out their asses so everyone in the world knows about it?

And is a billionaire going to invite some lowly IBO to dinner? That’s like giving someone a pity fuck!

So who are these mysterious Amway billionaires? The person who left the comment won’t say. And neither will Forbes! LOL!

Lets see. Lets chalk that up to yet another lie from another lying scamming Amway asshole.

These lying scamming Amway ambots continue to damage a company that already has a bad reputation. And make themselves look like assholes while doing it.

Yeah like we really can’t see through your lies. Amway billionaires!

Oprah, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg  – you all got in the wrong business! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!