This topic could also be titled
“More Bullshit Our Emerald Told Us”. I found a cheat sheet that Ambot used at
an Amway meeting run by the asshole Emerald. That cheat sheet was inside one of
my notebooks that I unearthed out of my nightstand.
On this cheat sheet Ambot wrote down a time and then jotted something about what
was being said at that time. Ah ha! I put 2 and 2 together and figured out he
recorded this meeting. Yup, it was downloaded on the computer. Rather than hit
the delete button on those files I’m thinking they might be useful to someone
one day when the shit really hits the Amway fan and some media outlet is
looking for sources on the lies told to us.
So I hit the play button and forward to the time Ambot had noted. I want to
make sure I’m accurate in reporting the bullshit I had to put up with. Can’t
have IBOFB or some other Amway motherfucker showing up and saying I’m making it
up!
We only saw the Emerald about once a month when he gave a board plan meeting at
some privileged Platinum’s house. Usually not our Platinum so we might have had
to drive an hour or two to get to this very important meeting. Like shit! You
hear the fucking board plan once you hear it a fucking million times! Jesus!
Nothing like pissing me off.
I had very little contact with the Emerald. He doesn’t know me from a hole in a
wall. I’m not one of those ambots who crowded around him after he finished
talking. I’m like let’s just get the hell out of here! He never personally
interfered in our lives or personally caused me any distress. Whether that
means somewhere deep down inside is an IBO who doesn’t believe in downline
abuse or he just let the sack of shit Platinum do the dirty work I don’t know.
He doesn’t piss me off like the Platinum. He comes across as a quiet,
reasonable person - all the better to brainwash you. No hype from him. No
rants.
About an hour into the meeting he asks how do you earn an extra $200 a month?
Answer: 4 customers each spending $150 each month on Amway products.
A little background. A few minutes earlier he said you’ll earn 20% to 40%
commission on every Amway product you sell and for every $100 in sales that’s
about $35.
OK let’s go back to those 4 fictional buyers at $150/month = $600 in sales. So
that would be about $200/month commission.
The IBO has to buy about $300 in Amway products to reach the minimum 100 PV to
be eligible for a bonus check of about $10.
I’ll stay in even numbers because it easier for me to do the math and forget
about that ten spot. IBO spends $300 to meet minimum PV requirements. Best case
scenario earns $200 in commission thanks to those 4 suckers who each spent $150
on Amway shit. IBO spends $300 to earn $200. IBO has not made any money. IBO is
in the hole $100.
Not bad in the greater scheme of things in Amway losses. Most IBO’s don’t have
customers and only get $10 commission back on their own purchases so their loss
will be much higher. Not to mention adding on the expenses of buying tools, gas
to get to meetings, and admission to some Amway events.
Do you know how hard it is to find 4 customers? Let alone 4 customers who will
religiously buy $150/month in overpriced Amway shit?
It would be easier for me to swim from Alcatraz to Fisherman’s Wharf!
It gets better. A few seconds later the asshole Emerald says “if you can’t find
4 customers its not because you aren’t good its because you didn’t try”.
Its the old going back to blaming the IBO for their lack of success. The upline
has to come up with these lame ass excuses to justify why the IBO is not making
money in a system designed for failure.
Didn’t try? How many potential customers reject buying Amway products because
they’re too high priced and because they’re crap?
Its not for lack of trying. Its for lack of finding customers who don’t want to
get ripped off.
So what do I have to say to all the Amway Emeralds out there?
Fuck you!
In the old days, door-to-door salesmen like the Fuller Brush man made money in small communities where there weren't a lot of stores around. This was also true for persons who sold jewelry, patent medicines, or household goods. It was easier to buy from the door-to-door guy than to go traipsing around looking for a distant store.
ReplyDeleteBut today, it's useless. People live in crowded communities with plenty of stores, and they usually have easy access to them with cars or public transportation. So the idea of finding four steady customers for Amway products is insane. You'll get a few pity purchases from family and close friends, but that won't last long.
If the Amway products were special, you might have a chance. But they're NOT SPECIAL. They're just mediocre or generic shit that can't stand up to big brands, not in quality and not in price.
Four steady customers every month? You'd be lucky if your uncle bought one roll of toilet paper from you in a year.
You're right Anonymous. If someone knocks on the door selling stuff that's a reason to be suspicious. These days people can get what they need at the mall or online. Easier, cheaper, and faster than dealing with Amway.
DeleteYou could earn $200 extra every month by dressing up in shabby clothes, standing on a busy street corner, and begging for loose change. This would bring you in about twenty dollars per day, and unlike Amway, it would all be tax-free. Do it only on the weekend, and you'd only have to work eight days a month.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - some busy street corners bring in a couple of hundred a day! If it's cash it's pretty easy to hide the income. That's something Amway cult leaders have already figured out when they ask for checks payable to cash instead of a person when attending Amway cult meetings.
DeleteOf the scores of people who quit the Amway opportunity every year because the business is not for them, how many keep on buying the basket of products, because they are good value? As it turns out almost none. Why?
ReplyDeleteIf we are unlucky enough to be pitched the Amway opportunity and say no, we never hear "okay, I hear the business is not for you. Would you be interested in trying these samples of the products that I sell?". We don't hear that. Why not?
Amway products are evidently impossible to sell. It's not my opinion, it seems to be the opinion of the distributors.
It is not their opinion only though..
Amway itself boasts that it pays 30% of turnover back in commissions. That is what the Amway consumer (to the extent that they exist) pay the middle man. Why would a supplier of products make the products 15% more expensive than they need to be, without any gain in profit? Perhaps if their products can't otherwise sell, unless it is some group that don't buy the products because they make sense, but some other reason.
That's right kwaaikat. No ex-Ambots buy Amway shit after they leave the cult. Guess XS wasn't as good as they bragged about!
DeleteAmway is a closed market for sales. The majority of Amway's clients are current IBO's. Real people who aren't brainwashed losers prefer to buy better quality products at lower prices. Amway can't compete in the real world.
One of the biggest and most absurd lies in Amway is that they "cut out the middleman."
ReplyDeleteThe exact opposite is true! Amway puts a long line of middlemen between the actual consumer and the producer. And the customer has to pay off every one of them when he buys something.
Are IBOs too blind to recognize this obvious fact?
You're right Anonymous! Every Amway cult meeting we heard how we cut out the middleman. But look how many middlemen are between the product in Amway's warehouse and the end user! LOL! What the fuck! Can nobody else in the room see that? Or do you only people who aren't brainwashed see right through that middleman bullshit?
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