One way that slimy Amway IBO’s latch on to people is by asking them if they’d like to earn an extra $200 a month or an extra $1000 a month or fill in the blank with whatever amount you want extra a month working part time 10 to 15 hours a week.
Sure most people could use a few extra hundred dollars a month. That might mean a car payment, a mortgage payment, a new wardrobe, indulging a much loved hobby, getting debt paid off.... The possibilities are endless. I’d wager a guess that most people would probably not answer that they’re not interested in making extra income each month.
The real issue is that most people want to do it legitimately. They want to get paid for their efforts. They don’t want to be the one paying somebody else in order to take part in their scam.
Most people are wary enough to realize that when some scumbucket comes up to them and asks them if they want to earn extra money each month it probably has something to do with MLM, network marketing, Amway, or Monavie or some kind of commissioned sales.
I read a half assed article on Yahoo Finance that listed some ways to make extra money, mostly going at it on your own type of things. None of these will make someone a full time income but they are some ideas to make a little extra money each month and anything is better than Amway. None of these ways will force the entrepreneur into coming up with “up front” money to register nor force the entrepreneur into continuously putting money into the system in order to succeed. I’ve listed them below with a couple of my own comments. Why do I think its a half assed article? The suggestions are mainly good but at least two of them a person can run into scams. The article did not provide legitimate resources to find further information.
Don’t click the below link cause its now dead! Just rely on the interpretation that I came up with when I could still read the damned article!
http://financiallyfit.yahoo.com/finance/article-113433-10890-4-true-stories-finding-ways-to-make-extra-cash?ywaad=ad0035&nc
- Mystery Shopper - as the article says, watch out for scams but doesn’t tell you how to watch out for them! The biggest clue is if the mystery shopping company wants you to pay a registration fee. Its kind of like the Amway scam. Never pay a fee.
- Sell art on Ebay and Craigslist - that could also apply to just about any other kind of item. We’ve sold stuff on both mostly downsizing type of things but also some rare items (to other people maybe!) that we’ve made a few hundred on. Best month was around $2700 on Ebay sales. I bought Ebay for Dummies a few years ago when Amazon had it on for half price but it wasn’t something I really followed up on.
- Donate plasma - here I think the correct term should be “sell” plasma!
- Play music at bars and functions - well not everyone is musically gifted. Trust me on this one - no one wants to hear me sing!
- Type foreclosure data - I tried a Google search to see if I could find more information or how readily available these jobs are but no luck. Mostly web pages with links pointing to various employment databases that may or may not be legitimate. However I do know a woman who works at home doing legitimate data entry for a local business and earns $10 an hour (the minimum wage has gone up since this blog post first appeared) but its got nothing to do with foreclosures so I know data entry type work is out there.
- Sell old clothes - easier said than done if you’re talking Ebay or Craigslist. A consignment store might be another story but some stores take your clothes on a credit system instead of paying cash and you get credit to buy clothes in their shop.
- Teach night classes - just like the musicians this type of work may require some kind of education and special skills. Not everyone has what it takes.
You’re better off going to a library and picking up a book that is devoted to starting a low cost home based business.
You are better off doing anything than Amway Scamway!
Hi Anna,
ReplyDeleteI would love any advice you could give on getting my girlfriend out of Amway/wwdb. I understand that making someone see the light and quit is difficult if not impossible and that they have to snap out of it themselves, but I would love to hear anything else you have to say on how I could get her to quit. Thank you.
Hi Anonymous. Sorry to hear about your girlfriend. And you are part of a recent trend reporting a woman who's an Ambot. Usually the Ambot is a man and we get comments from their significant others similar to yours. So you are not alone. Many others are in the same boat as you writing in about their Amway brainwahsed wife or girlfriend.
DeleteIf you haven't already done so, download a free ebook called Merchants of Deception. You'll find the link on the right side of this page under more information about Amway. And then try to get your girlfriend to read it.
The writer is a former Emerald with 1000 people in his downline making around $3,000/month a far cry from the lies he was told he'd be making at that level. He expected to be making in the 6 figures at Emerald because that's one of the lies told at Amway cult meetings. Does your girlfriend know 1000 chumps she can sign up to Scamway? And keep them motivated to keep buying Amway shit? Knowing that 95% of participants quit Amway within 2 years.
And that's your big hope there. Most quit after a few months when they realized they got scammed. Any Ambot who stays in the Amway cult for more than 2 years is pretty much a lifer.
The only way to make money in Amway is by selling motivational tools. That means selling books and tapes and tickets to hear them talk. Only those at the very top of the pyramid profit from the Amway tool scam.
Get hold of one of her Amway brochures. Look for the compensation and then look for the small print. It'll show a fraction of less than 1% of participants will make money. Wave that in her face. She'll probably think she'll be in that teensy percentage if she's been properly brainwashed. Most people "get" that any "business" with over 99% failure rate is probably not a good choice.
If you want your relationship to continue be very aware of the fucking assholes in her Amway upline who get their jollies out of destroying other people's relationships. The Amway upline are the most evil bastards you'll ever meet in your life. You can be very sure they're putting the screws on her to break up with you because you're an unsupportive unchristian dreamstealing boyfriend. When the truth is you just want the sweet girlfriend you know and love back to her old self. You don't want to hear any more of her lies and bullshit and devotion to the Great Amway God.
If she really wants to be a business owner I'm sure you an support her in a legitimate business that doesn't involve lying and scamming others. You can help her with an Internet search or buying books in her career interest. Whatever you do don't be an enabler and buy shitty overpriced Amway products or encourage anyone else you know to do the same. All that does is give the Ambot false hope they can go really big in this pyramid scheme.
Good luck to you. And get reading Merchants of Deception. A true life horror story.
Mr. Jix - lots of people make money doing online surveys. In fact many people make more money in a month doing paid surveys than an Amway Ambot does. So why would you not leave your video up for long? Why take it down? I mean that seems like a dumb fuck thing to do. Its only a video about how to do online surveys. It's not like you put up a sex tape video of you and your girlfriend going at it and then you decide you better take it down before your wife finds out. I mean really why be a dumb fuck and put up a video of something that's not all that interesting and then say it won't be up long and then I'll take it down. I mean don't be a dumb fuck Mr Jix. Amway Ambots have got the dumb fuck market already cornered.
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