My story of what its like to be married to an Amway cult follower. I expose the lies that our upline told and what happens at Amway meetings and functions. I leave the explanations of why Amway is a poor business opportunity or the tool scam to other bloggers. This blog mainly exists to curse out my former upline, aka the cult leaders, and to let everyone know what kind of idiots I had to put up with. Feel free to join in or live vicariously!
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Hey Ambot! What’s In Your Garage?
I saw a poston Amthrax about a lot of Xango boxes stacked in the garage. There was no room to park a car in there though the fellow still managed to cram his motorbike in - a quick shot of it while the camera pans the garage. Edited to add – since this post first appeared the video is no longer able to be seen.
Where I live a lot of people have their garages packed full of storage items so there is no room to park a car in there. Absolutely crazy. Unless this is only a temporary residence - downsize! Ask most people what the purpose of a garage is and they’ll say its a place to park the car. Not a storage unit.
Our Platinum had a regular sized house with a 2 car garage. His cars were parked in the driveway. I went inside their garage. There were a lot of Amway boxes in there but not so much that a car or two couldn’t be parked inside if they shoved those boxes against the wall and stacked them. I’m not sure if this was personal consumption or sales but I suspect most of it was given out as samples, and here I’m talking XS Energy Drinks and Perfect Water. Remember our Platinum was screwing over Amway by getting free sample cases because he’d call in to say his customer didn’t like the product and they’d send him a replacement. That kept him in drinks and to give out samples.
The real reason cars could not be parked in here were because of all the tables. You’d think this place was a boutique run by the Ambot Addams Family. Even in the dim light we could see every table held Amway products and practically one of everything that was sold in the catalogue. Every type of Artistry makeup on one table. Skin care on another table. Nutrilite on another table. Food bars and drinks on another table. Cleaning products on another table. And so on. A rough estimate is 12 to 15 card tables. It would be kind of fun driving a car in there and busting some of that damn Amway shit!
I’m not really sure why they had the garage set out this way. Its not like there were just exclusive Amway products on show. They had other things stored in the garage like sporting equipment, car products, and tools. We’re not talking ambience here. If this was supposed to be set up like a store where customers come in to look over the products and then place an order, the Platinum didn’t say anything to us about that. In fact they didn’t say much of anything. Just herded us all in there to take a look - had to be about 30 or 40 IBO’s there that day - and we had to squeeze inbetween people and laden tables. This is worse than hitting an electronics shop on Black Friday! Everyone just hung out talking because no one could move being packed in like sardines. And then after the Platinum decided we’d done enough oohing and ahhing and worshipping of his Amway store, we went back inside the house for the Amway meeting.
One time Ambot had to pick something up at the Emerald’s house. Or maybe he was dropping something off. Running an errand for the Platinum obviously. When Ambot got home he told me he’d seen the garage. He estimated there were over 100 boxes of Perfect Water in there. The Emerald told him those were his customer sales for the month. I just can't see a market for overpriced water. Maybe those customers were IBO’s in his downline. The Emerald couldn’t park his car in the garage either.
The big question is did he really have customers for all those boxes of water (unlikely) or was he stockpiling product and getting his PV up there?
We’ll never know. Fortunately Ambot didn’t stockpile products hoping for future sales. All the useless Amway products he bought were bad enough. I enjoyed tossing them in the trash after Ambot finally had enough of this scam.
Spending money on Amway = tossing it in the garbage. We might as well have burned twenty dollar bills. Would have been cheaper in the long run.
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Inventory stockpiling of unsold products is a big problem in Amway. Originally it was illegal, and I recall a tape where De Vos or Van Andel condemned it, and said that any up-line encouraging it in his down-line would be forced to buy back the products. "You don't get to become a Direct Distributor by convincing somebody in your down-line to buy $5000 worth of products!" the man said. ("Direct Distributor" was what you'd call a Platinum today).
ReplyDeleteToday, Amway is totally powerless to stop the practice. IBOs will do anything to get their PV up. Since many LOS subsystems encourage self-consumption of Amway products rather than retail sales, there is a ready-made excuse for inventory stockpiling. You can always claim that you're the one who will use the stuff.
Anonymous - there are tons of stuff that DeVos and VanAndel condemn especially stuff that's a sure sign of a pyramid scheme but the Amway Ambots just go and do it anyway. Nothing like giving a big old fuck you to your Amway bosses LOL!
DeleteYeah I wish those fucking assholes in the Amway upline would buy back the Amway shit at the full price it was paid for. But they're too broke to do that.
Anna, there was one Gold mlm company ages ago which had only gold coins as products. People where encouraged to buy paper owning gold instead of the coins. The smartones owned tons of gold coins and now it's 1300.00 a ounce. The bogus paper gold owners where flat broke. That's the only time I seen any mlm product worth anything.
ReplyDeleteHi Anonymous. Yes gold coins or bars or jewelery would be good to own even if you keep it in your safe deposit box at the bank. Its not earning interest but it'll grow in value. I haven't heard of the gold mlm company.
DeleteThe name of the company was gold unlimited. 90% of their distributors purchased worthless paper gold lol. Encouraged by their scummy up line. Government shut them down for their scam. Was told by a leader if people purchased the gold coins instead of getting the useless paper. The business wouldn't be profitable.
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