Thanks to one of our readers who shared his story of busting his ass to sell those shitty Amway Christmas trees. And the smart decision to get the hell out of the Amway pyramid scheme.
When I was in AW, I developed 200 fliers to sell Christmas Trees from AW. I drove around distributing them into mailboxes. And out of all that work, I received 1 order.
Well, the tree was shipped directly to the buyer, and guess what, it was bent.
Yes. The bottom of the trunk was straight and then it quickly bent to one side. What a lot, and complete, embarrassment.
The buyer was pissed, pissed, pissed. I quickly apologized, and refunded his money personally. I was not going to have the poor guy ship a tree back to the company for a refund as they suggested - I mean, just how stupid is that. And that was about par for the course with almost every experience I had with AW. One stupid thing after another.
I soon realized AW was a poor business decision, and
continued to work my JOB and enjoy my family, and not spend time on AW any
more. I now have millions in a 401K IRA, and plenty of time for family and true
friends and true service to the community - something very few, if any, AW
distributors will EVER have.
Buying a Christmas tree through the mail is what used to be called "buying a pig in a poke." It's silly and unintelligent, like marrying a mail-order bride. You have NO IDEA what you're going to get.
ReplyDeleteAmway never expected any IBOs to sell the trees to retail customers. All they wanted was for IBOs to be shamed into buying the trees for themselves, from their up-line. It was what my father-in-law used to call "a nickel grab."
Anonymous - I think you're right. The only Christmas tree sales expectations Amway has are to a bunch of dumb fuck Ambots who are willing to overpay when they can buy a tree for a quarter of the price at a local Christmas tree lot. Just another Amway cash grab.
DeleteYou mean the whole, "Why buy a Christmas Tree from someone else to help build their dream while you could buy a Christmas Tree from yourself and get paid to so it." mentality?
DeleteHeard it a million times.
Amazing how many people fall for that as well.
Yup Anonymous - that's the whole catch line when attending Amway cult meetings for any of their products. Why buy it from somewhere else when you can shop from your own (LOL!) Amway store. My response always is if your "own" store has sky high prices and you can buy a similar product much cheaper somewhere else then you'd be a dumb fuck for overpaying and what kind of store can stay in business when other shops sell products at more competitive prices! A little snippet of business advice that Ambots don't get is if your business isn't running a profit then it's not a sustainable business. You can't keep running a business at a loss. In other words when your expenses are higher than your income.
DeleteIf you are a lowly IBO in Amway, Amway is NOT your store. It belongs to some fat-assed fucks in Ada, Michigan.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - and that is the simple fact that Amway losers refuse to grasp. Unless your last name is DeVos or Vanandel you do NOT own an Amway business. Just goes to show what brainwashing does to people.
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