There was a book that was a
must read for all ambots called The Slight Edge. One of those expensive
Amway tools that all good little ambots must buy. I don’t recall what Ambot
paid for it maybe $20 because he had to buy it from the upline bastards at
their inflated price instead of finding it cheaper on Amazon or Ebay. You’d
think one copy would be enough but Ambot bought at least 5 copies of this book
over the months we were in the Amway scam. Had to put something on those tools
orders to get his upline richer! We’ve long since given them away. Typical
return on your Amway dollars spent!
I remember going to an Amway function and just about every Diamond couple that
marched across the stage was holding a copy of The Slight Edge. They’d
wave it around and encourage all their cult followers to buy it. They neglected
to say that they’d probably bought a container load for a stinking deal of a
dollar each and they were selling them for $20 each on the tools orders and
what a profit they’re making!
I’m pretty sure The Slight Edge was the book that had a story about a
man on his deathbed and he called his sons over and gave them a choice of a
million dollars or a purse with a penny in it and every day for the next 30
days the penny would be doubled. One son took the million dollars and went out
and had a good time spending it on stuff that I’ve long since forgotten about.
The other son took the purse with the penny. His brother predictably taunted
him because after a week the penny brother has 64 cents in his purse and the
million dollar brother has a new house and new car and whatever. By 30 days the
double your penny brother has over $5 million. Who gets the last laugh?
So many people lose money in MLM’s and many keep trying over and over trying
new MLM scams. Take that penny doubled story and put it in a chart with a
people doubled theory like the Amway cult leaders preach – remember eat and
drink one Amway product daily and find 2 people who do what you do and so on
and so on and so on. Except they leave out the part that with pyramid schemes
like Amway the pyramid collapses sometime between one and thirty. Millions is
the stuff of ambot dreams but it won’t happen.
So why do the assholes in the Amway upline want everyone to read The Slight
Edge - other than the obvious profit they make from selling it - and why
they tell the penny doubled story from the stage to convince every ambot
recruit how they too can succeed at Amway. Damned if I know but I do know the
upline liars conveniently forget to mention that this pattern will not work
because of the high number of drop outs at the lower levels. IBO’s leave when
they realize they’re not making any money at Amway.
Oh and if anyone approaches you with a reading suggestion on a great book
they’ve just read and loans it to you and its called The Slight Edge -
RUN! Its an ambot!
"The Slight Edge" is just another example of the "rah-rah hype" book. The entire MLM phenomenon is flooded with these stupid books that do nothing except stoke your excitement and enthusiasm for getting rich by means of silly selling schemes.
ReplyDeleteThese books are directed at a simple-minded audience, not sophisticated enough to see past the fake boosterism and rhetoric. All they see is the promise of riches if you develop the right "positive attitude," and if you place you faith blindly in some half-assed racket like Amway, or any other MLM.
Anonymous - I think so. Also I think the Amway cult leaders got a smoking hot deal on a container load that they can sell to Ambots at jacked up prices!
DeleteSimple minded is a good way to describe Amway losers.
The Slight Edge story is kind of what Ambots expect from Amway. Residual income in the bazillions doubling monthly for eternity.