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!
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
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 ToRetire 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.
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Hello, I have been reading your post alot lately because I have been approached by an Amway IBO. I have stumbled in here about 3 days ago, doing research about this. And I want to ask you, how long were your husband in Amway for? And how much money (approximately) did he lose through Amway?
ReplyDeleteAmway rep is telling me about how I can build an asset, some shit about income pipelines, etc. But with all the research I have done that does not make sense. I mean just how the fuck do I make money when the avg. GROSS Income is $207/month (that was written on the web) when the training tools such as CD, books, seminars, etc. Will cost me about $300~500/month? That's something I would never understand.
Also the reps told me things like "on the internet there is negatives about everything" and I should simply "ignore it". But that dumbest shit I've heard in my life. A part of me wants to be a fool and listen to them, but other part of me does not.
Hi Unknown. What you need to do is download a free ebook called Merchants of Deception. There's a link on the right side of the page under more info about Amway. Written by a former Emerald with 1000 people in his downline who was only making around $30,000/year.
DeleteOK you just figured it out by looking closer at the small print on Amway's brochures and doing the math. Amway is a system designed for failure. If your business has more expenses than income then it's not a sustainable business. Keep looking at the small print. Somewhere it'll show the tiny fraction of 1% of participants who actually make that puny amount of money.
The only people who make money in Amway are the owners, the Ambots who got in early enough to now be at the top of the pyramid, and those who started their own Amway cult sects and they make their money by selling "motivational" bullshit that you listed above to the downline Ambots. The bulk of the income is made through ticket sales.
You've probably already noticed this but Amway Ambots have an over the top obsession with all things they consider negative.
You ask them the tough questions about how the math doesn't add up. Ask them why Amway is losing money every year in sales, drops by about 10% every year. Ask them why Amway shut down warehouses last year. Does that sound to you like business is going good? The Internet is Amway's worst enemy. People get online and share their experience of getting scammed.
Read that book. It's a true horror story.
To Unknown --
ReplyDeleteThere is no way to make any significant money in Amway until you are at the Platinum level, and even there the rewards are minimal. And Platinums have to work their asses off even to keep their financial heads above water.
The entire thrust of Amway (like all MLM rackets) is towards recruitment of new persons into the scheme. The "products' are purely a cover for this.
A Platinum is lucky to break even. They still lose money at that level.
DeleteA sure sign of a pyramid scheme is when it’s more about recruiting others than selling products or services.
Quick question for you, would you mind defining “pyramid scheme” for me? I’m also curious how, “recruiting”, has turned into a negative term? Playing sports growing up my dream was to be recruited because I was good or special enough. Just curious on your thoughts on those couple of questions
ReplyDeleteHi Anonymous. To get a better definition of pyramid scheme, you can check out the website listed on the right side of this page under more info about Amway, and its called Pyramid Scheme Alert.
DeletePyramid scheme are scams that steal money from the downline to give to the owner or founder of the pyramid scheme. It also benefits those people who got into the pyramid scheme early enough to have a downline beneath them. You have legal pyramid schemes like Amway that offer a product or service for sale but it's pretty bogus because Amway's product sales to people who are not registered IBOs is like 3%. It's all about recruiting others beneath you - downline - who will buy overpriced shitty products but in Amway's case there are several cult sects who make the majority of their income from ticket sales. The difference between a legal pyramid scheme and an illegal pyramid scheme walks a grey line as in Amway's case. In a legal pyramid scheme like Amway your chances of making money are a fraction of 1%. In an illegal pyramid scheme you have a better chance of making money - about 10% make money. Now you got to watch out saying things like recruiting for baseball teams or college or whatever because those are the type of arguments that dumb fuck Amway losers make. There are a lot of things people can be recruited to. In Amway's case it's being recruited into the Cult of Greed. Pyramid schemes are all about signing up people in the downline to scam them out of their money. That could consist of the Amway tool scam and also cult leaders to force Ambots to buy more and more shitty products whether or not they want to because some fucking assholes in the upline has goals to meet that month. Stockpiling products is another sure sign of a pyramid scheme.
My cousin stockpile A LOT of Amway drinks and share them in parties. I bet he doesn't want them anymore since he can't sell any of it. It's just a way to save room. A lot of this sound so much like what he does.
DeleteAnonymous- a sure sign of a pyramid scheme is when participants are stockpiling products. It’s one thing to go to the grocery store and see something you like on sale and buy a bunch of it to eat down the road. Amway doesn’t have sales and their products are of no interest to people outside the cult. The Ambots are never gonna sell that shit.
DeleteTo Anonymous at February 12 --
ReplyDelete"Recruiting" is not a negative term in itself, but as it is used in MLM rackets like Amway, recruiting is simply an act of deception designed to hook people into paying fees endlessly, and buying products that they can't sell.
When you "recruit" in Amway, you trick people into becoming your down-line. You do this by promising them untold riches if they can duplicate you -- that is, if they also can recruit members for their down-line. This goes on endlessly, like a chain letter.
If a scout recruits someone for a professional sports team, you can be sure that the person being recruited is someone with proven skill and potential, not just anybody.
But when Amway freaks recruit you, all you have to be is a warm body with the money to pay all required fees.
That's a very big difference. Go that, pal?
Anonymous - usually sports teams are trying to scam their recruits out of money. The same can't be said of Amway! They're scammers!
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