Here’s a visitor comment left by Cali on Amthrax’s site - Commentof the Week Witty describes Ohio Leadership Convention
I can relate to this only I left
not knowing I had actually been duped. I was so naive I really thought it was
my fault I didn’t make any money. I am glad I came upon this site. knowing the
extent of the truth years ago could have helped me out greatly, although it would
have hurt worse because at the time I felt “close” to people. I thought they
actually cared. This is the real scam for me. Reading these posts have helped
me see how those guilty feelings of not being good enough for the team has
carried over into other parts of my life. Guilt about not having the same
values or lifestyle dreams for example, or automatically thinking I don’t have
what it takes to be a “leader” at any job I have had since. I thought I have
moved on but I see not as well as I would have liked to be believe. What a
process this has been. Thanks for sharing everyone.
This could have been written by my husband. Maybe it was! No. I think this was
written by someone formerly involved in Monavie. Thankfully that’s one MLM scam
that Ambot did not get prospected and signed up on.
My Ambot was all about pleasing his upline. Why he would put pleasing them over
and above pleasing me I’ll never understand. To get my revenge against those
upline fuckers I write this blog and curse them out. No names mentioned so the
reality is I am cursing out all IBO upline out there.
How did Ambot please his upline? Mostly by spending money buying Amway products
and investing in the Amway tool scam. The more money he spent the more his
upline liked him.
I didn’t spend any money though the upline failed to recognize that the money
Ambot spent was really our money. Our upline did not like me because I
tried to stop Ambot from buying overpriced substandard Amway products and
spending money on functions. So because of any influence I had over our funds
and stopping their flow to the upline that is why those fuckers didn’t like me.
I can’t tell you how much that breaks my heart! A bunch of phony ass, nasty,
greedy IBO bastards don’t like me. Boo hoo!
Ambot thought it was his fault he wasn’t making money in Amway even though he
was doing everything his upline told him to. Like we need any further proof
that CORE doesn’t work! Well he didn’t do everything upline told him to
do. He didn’t leave me no matter how hard his upline bitched at him that I was
the reason he wasn’t successful in Amway and he would never make money in Amway
because I was a negative unsupportive unchristian dream stealer. Nice label to
give someone who is trying to prevent the family from going bankrupt and losing
their house because of the Amway scam. Keep the money in our bank account
instead of lining the upline’s bank account. And those fucking Amway assholes wonder
why I don’t like them because everyone else loves them. Sorry I have no
unnatural worship and devotion for any bastards who are dumb enough to be in
the Amway cult longer than I have.
It took Ambot awhile to figure out he was being duped. He started asking his
upline, namely the sack of shit Platinum, about Amway’s compensation plan. He
was brushed off with a curt “Never question upline.” He began having doubts
that the Amway business was an honest way to make money. He was also troubled
by the upline’s hate on toward me. He stopped going to meetings unless they
really bitched at him. He stopped buying hundreds of dollars of Amway products
each month. I saw my opportunity. I told him about Merchants of Deception
and asked him to read it. He read the book and realized he’d been duped. Eric
Scheibeler answered all his questions he had about the compensation that his
upline had refused to disclose. I showed him the NBC Dateline expose on Amway
that’s available for viewing on Youtube. Ambot was finally seeing the light!
Amway = scam.
Ambot knew he’d been duped but he still liked the people in his upline and
wanted to stay friends with them. I guess after blabbing to the upline about
his dreams and counselling with them so they got to know private information
about our lives he felt these people who knew his most secret innermost
thoughts were his true best friends. He honestly felt close to them and loved
spending time with them. And he thought they cared about him. Boy was he wrong!
I did not have this same sick fascination toward the fucking Amway upline as
I’m sure most of the regular readers have long since figured out!
The problem was once Ambot stopped spending money on Amway products and tools
and stopped going to meetings the upline he felt close to dropped him like a
hot coal. That’s the reality of hanging out with greedy Amway friends. They
will be your best friend only when you’re handing over your money. Phony Amway
relationships. No matter how much you like them or how close you feel to these
fakers they want NOTHING to do with you if you don’t hand over your money to
them.
Gee I think I learned from my parents when I was about 5 years old that if
friends only like you for your money then they are not real friends at all.
Yup, that age old advice is definitely true when it comes to Amway friends.
There’s more emotional damage. Amway IBO’s are trained to tell everyone not
involved in Amway that they are losers. They are trained to tell everyone in
their downline if they don’t make money at Amway - the easiest job in the world
- that they’re a loser. Ambot genuinely felt like a loser after he left Amway.
He was a loser at not making money no matter how hard he tried and the 100 plus
hours he invested in Amway each month. Not to mention spending an average of
$700/month on the Amway scheme.
Its funny how people look at things. I’m opposite of Ambot. I look at Amway
IBO’s as the real losers, not the rest of the population.
I definitely think there was guilt on Ambot’s side after leaving Amway. Guilt
at not making his new best friends happy by handing over his money for Amway
products and tools. Guilt that he wasn’t good enough to be their friend any
more. Sadness that they didn’t care about him anymore.
News flash! They never cared about Ambot. They only cared about getting his
money!
The emotional carnage that Amway and their cult leaders leave in their wake is
disgusting. I know karma will bite those bastards on the ass one day. Already
has in some cases!
So whose fault is it? Those rotten lying upline bastards fucked with the wrong
person and became stars of this blog. They’ve got no one to blame but
themselves that a blog called Married To An Ambot showed up online. But they’ll
never see nothing as their fault. They are blameless. They are the chosen few
who are better than everyone else because they’re in Amway.
Pompous arrogant bastards.
After reading this account of Ambot and his enslavement to his up-line, I began to wonder just what it is that drives ordinarily intelligent people to become irrational androids who are desperate to please Amway assholes.
ReplyDeleteFrom what you describe, it sounds to me like Ambot was deeply in need of three things: praise, friendship, and self-esteem. He must have felt extremely lonely, unappreciated, and insignificant. And all of a sudden these Amway scumbags show up, telling him "how sharp" he looks, and "how smart" he must be. They shake his hand, pat him on the back, call him "a winner," and above all, TALK TO HIM, making him feel important and wanted.
This must have been a tremendous psychological high for him. Finally he's recognized as SOMEBODY! Finally his worth is appreciated! Finally he's part of a major business enterprise! Quite naturally he becomes addicted to the love-bombing, and can't do without it. Money? He doesn't care. What's money in comparison to the ecstatic high he's on?
That's why he simply wouldn't listen to you when you pointed out that the family finances were in big trouble. You finally had to rub his face in the facts. You had to show him -- forcefully -- that his up-line were simply greedy scum who didn't give a shit about him except for what he was paying them every month. Luckily for both of you, he saw the light.
Enslavement to a destructive fake friendship, or to an abusive relationship that holds you in a state of illusions, is just as hard to break away from as from heroin or cocaine. The pleasure is JUST TOO GREAT! An Ambot develops a raging need for the psychological stroking that he receives from Amway up-line (as long as you are paying your dues).
This is the real secret of Amway, which is hidden behind jargony bullshit about "leadership" and "helping others." Amway is about enslaving emotionally needy people and keeping them hooked on praise and "edification." And once they are hooked, it becomes easy to drain money from their pockets in a regular manner.
Anonymous - good points. But ... did my Ambot and other Ambots NEED those things or were they brainwashed into believing they NEEDED those things?
DeleteAnd then they drink it all up getting love bombed by other members of the Amway cult.
Yes you're right about the real secret of Amway and all the bullshit Amspeak and helping others. Ironically around here we help others to make a better informed decision before getting involved with these scum or the earth greedy Amway bastards.
There's something important to see here. Amway up-line worships money and success. Therefore if anyone in their down-line is NOT making money or NOT being successful, such a person is considered less than human. He's a loser, a non-winner, a wash-out. And therefore his only purpose in Amway is to send money to up-line regularly, for as long as you can convince him to do so. Up-line has contempt for him, but will disguise that contempt will all kinds of canned Amspeak bullshit about "helping others" and "leadership" and how much they "love" their down-line.
ReplyDeleteThis is why their only response to any doubt or uncertainty in down-line is to scream "Buy more tools! Listen to more CDs! Go to every function! Stock up on Amway products! Become CORE!" It's the carrot dangled in front of the horse, to keep him pulling the wagon. It dangles forever, but the horse never gets it.
Anonymous - that's right. Inside Amway the Cult of Greed all followers worship money and success - and of course they all worship the Great Amway God! Anyone not making the promised money in Amway is berated for being a loser. There's a lot of contempt in Amway. From the upline. From the crossline. There are more angry negative people sitting in a room during an Amway cult meeting than just about anywhere else you'll meet in your life. Ambots are angry because they're losing money and because they're humiliated by Amway cult leaders. Being inside the Amway cult is watching love/hate in action.
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