Thursday, August 8, 2019
Dear Abby Answers Someone Married To An Ambot?
A letter in Dear Abby caught my attention. The husband is complaining his wife got scammed into an MLM 2 years ago. She spends all her time trying to recruit people and spends $700/month on products. Her so called business is everything to her. The wife says she’s not a “quitter”. She thinks she’ll retire rich. And the husband signs his name “brainwashed”.
How many think this MLM scam is Amway?
The only thing that makes me stop and go no shit is she makes $250/month.
Commission on buying $700 Amway products a month for self consumption would be around $25. Unless she has clients she’s bullying into buying products every month then she could be making commission on the difference between wholesale and retail.
And I’ll say it again. Amway’s “wholesale” price is still 3 or 4 times higher than a similar better quality product would cost at a regular retailer.
Or the wife is lying to her husband about how much money she really is making like all Amway IBO’s do. Adding on an extra zero.
Or it’s a different MLM with a MUCH better compensation plan than Amway!
As you can see from the answer Dear Abby has nailed it – pyramid scheme! Are there any other pyramid schemes out there besides Amway who fill their garages through of useless shit they can’t unload? Well you know I’ll say its possible but Amway is the only scam MLM where that’s a well known practice. And the advice is part of what I tell people who show up here saying they’re married to an ambot and its destroying their marriage. Get counselling, either from a real marriage counsellor or clergy or whoever - or counsel with a lawyer and figure out where to go from there.
DEAR ABBY: My wife is a nurse who works 36 hours a week. Two years ago she got duped into working for a multilevel marketing company.
All she does now in her spare time is try to recruit people. She is never home. We have two kids. She spends $700 a month on products and makes only $250 a month.
Her so-called business is everything to her. She won’t get marriage counseling. She says she isn’t a quitter.
I want a divorce, but I hate the consequences of ending a 15-year marriage. I need help. It would be so easy to cheat, and I have been tempted more than once, but haven’t done it.
We are in our 40s, and I feel like a single parent. What do I do? I’m so frustrated. She is basically working for free and thinks she’ll be able to retire rich from it. — BRAINWASHED
DEAR BRAINWASHED: The business venture you have described may be a pyramid scheme. Many people have ended up with garages filled with inventory they can’t unload and nothing to show for it.
If she refuses counseling, then YOU should consider it for yourself, because what has been going on in your marriage for the last two years is unfair to you and your children. Then you can get a clearer picture of what your next steps should be.
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Comments are moderated but we publish just about everything. Even brainwashed ambots who show up here to accuse us of not trying hard enough and that we are lazy, quitters, negative, unchristian dreamstealers. Like we haven’t heard that Amspeak abuse from the assholes in our upline!
If your comment didn’t get published it could be one of these reasons:
1. Is it the weekend? We don’t moderate comments on weekends. Maybe not every day during the week either. Patience.
2. Racist/bigoted comments? Take that shit somewhere else.
3. Naming names? Public figures like politicians and actors and people known in Amway are probably OK – the owners, Diamonds with CDs or who speak at functions, people in Amway’s publicity department who write press releases and blogs. Its humiliating for people to admit their association with Amway so respect their privacy if they’re not out there telling everyone about the love of their life.
4. Gossip that serves no purpose. There are other places to dish about what Diamonds are having affairs or guessing why they’re getting divorced. If you absolutely must share that here – don’t name names. I get too many nosy ambots searching for this. Lets not help them find this shit.
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This poor guy is really screwed. If his wife has been CORE in Amway for two years, she's clearly a lifer. Getting her out at this point would be next to impossible, because the woman has invested and lost so much money she won't dare quit.
ReplyDeleteWhat this guy needs is a divorce lawyer.
Congratulations, Amway -- you've wrecked another marriage and family.
Anonymous - Dear Abby often changes the details of the letter so the guilty aren't recognizable. It could be she swapped the husband and wife because its usually the man who gets sucked into MLM scams. Dear Abby also could have adjusted the dollar amounts. It's my guess the letter writer named the MLM scam and Dear Abby was familiar with the pyramid scheme. But yeah I'm sure your advice was in line with most of the comments left after the article originally appeared online.
DeleteSadly, this sounds like a familiar story. I got sucked into one of those MLM scams a long time ago. They are really good at hooking you into it, especially if they get you at a vulnerable time in your life. Nobody, and I mean nobody in the group would talk about how much money we were really making, which was none at all, only expenses being paid out. The only ones making anything were the ones selling the "tools" or running the meetings and conventions etc. And even they weren't selling any actual product to account for that income. The rest of us would boast to each other about how we were building up our "organization". It's hard to just walk away and admit you were suckered but most of us eventually did. Bottom line is you just about have to be a psychopathic liar to make money at these things. Not just Scamway but they are by far the biggest.
ReplyDeleteHi Ray. Thanks for stopping by. Yup most of these MLM scams operate similarly but ScAmway is the worst. Only a tiny fraction of 1% of all participants make money but they all go around bragging about how business is going great. You have to have no morals or conscience and be the best damned liar and scammer out there to have any chance of making money in a pyramid scheme. The only ones making money or the ones at the top of the pyramid and most of that income is from the tool scam. Selling "motivational" tapes and books to the downline at overinflated prices and charging for tickets to hear them speak. Yeah it's hard for most people to admit they got scammed. Especially after they probably went around telling all their friends and family how rich they're going to be thanks to Amway.
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