Thursday, September 30, 2021

Ambot Ben Goes To Amway Free Enterprise Days FED

Thanks to Ben for sharing his Amway Free Enterprise Days experience. Nothing has changed in Amway!


THE FED (Freedom Enterprise Days)!!! Can we first start with the name? How ridiculous is it for them to use the term freedom with their enterprise...? Anyways...back to the story...The first day was grueling. I had just completed a full work day, and then I had to battle with traffic to get to the show. The "CONference" started at 5 p.m., but I wasn't able to get there until 6. The stadium was enormous, and I heard there were about 8,000 people in attendance. HOLY COW!!! The scene was electric as people ranging from 18-80 were all dressed in their business suits and ready to engage in the learning.

The first speaker I saw was ELECTRIC! He brought history alive, and told us about how far we have strayed from the Constitution. I love history, and this guy was TERRIFIC... at making Amway sound like the answer for our journey away from the traditions started by the founding fathers.

Then I heard the first diamond speaker...

I can't remember who they were, and quite frankly it doesn't matter, because the diamonds are just different shapes and sizes of the same brainwashed human being. The diamond came out to a thunderous applause, and a video played of the most extravagant lifestyle. There were vacations, planes, cars, mansions, love, and GOD! The speech was bland a filled with fluff about the prototypical rising from the dumpster to the penthouse, and how they couldn't have been where they were without the business...basically another ego massage similar to the Mike Carrol event.

Then the show continued similarly to the first diamond with about 10 more diamonds coming out and dragging on until MIDNIGHT! Ugh I was pooped...but I had a long drive home, and I had to stay pumped because I was about to do it ALL DAY SATURDAY!

Saturday begins at 9 a.m. and I'm on less than 5 hours of sleep after a close to 18 hour day...I'm not feeling the buzz (Dateline does a great documentary and they talk about sleep deprivation). Sure enough, the day starts just like the last one ended, MORE DIAMONDS! At this point, I'm going in and out of the building, and I'm hoping to learn any secrets to success from anyone...and that's when I learned about cross-lining. YOU ARE NEVER TO DISCUSS BUSINESS WITH MEMBERS OF A DIFFERENT ORGANIZATION...excuse my french, but what a crock of shit. We were all listening to diamonds and other ranks from other organizations, so why not listen to the ground floor troops. This business is supposed to be "easy and duplicatable" yet talking to others could screw everything up? Anyways...I went back inside and took more notes on the inside of eyelids until lunch time.

Lunch time was...3 HOURS LONG!!! How unnecessary...I've never been given 3 hours for lunch before, and I certainly didn't need that much time in BFE (Bum F*** Egypt) or wherever I was, but I was stuck with it. I hung out and met some interesting people from Oklahoma (which is real dedication since we were in California), and then I realized I still had 2 HOURS LEFT...UGH!!!

The show continued, and the excitement level got turned up! They had a Christian rock group play a little concert, and then I got to see a Diamond crowning...talk about over the top. The couple (Trevor and Lexi Baker) walked down a gigantic red carpet as peons from their organization rushed to the surrounding gates to blow kisses and touch them...it was like watching the frickin royal family in England. They had their two lovely twin girls with them as they continued to the stage where their parents (Glen and Joya Baker...executive diamonds) were waiting. They had a lovely speech for their children, and then their children completed their transformation with another exaggerated fluffy, emotional, motivational speech...wonderful. After they were done, it was about 9 o'clock which gave plenty of time for more diamonds to do their diamond things on stage until MIDNIGHT AGAIN!!!

I told my sponsor after that day that I would probably not be attending the Sunday show, and he was not having it! He said Sunday was the most important or something, and I replied, I was going to be late because I didn't feel comfortable attending the religious opening ceremony. He again suggested that I would be missing something critical and guilted me into coming...which I'm glad he did.

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY (Football reference)...Started at the lovely hour of 9 AM again, and that was when I got to see the most magical person of them all...THE PREACHER! This guy was in his 70's, but he was prancing around like he was in his 20's and he was lively! The guy was amazing as he talked about this being the greatest business ever while mixing in some notes about god, and then he did something incredible. He got people to DONATE to him! HOLY COW! We were at a supposed "business" conference to learn about making money, and he got people to GIVE their money away...OH THE IRONY! He finished off by having everyone come close to the stage and stretch out their arm to send magical energy to a person dying of terminal cancer...he was a real life TELEVANGELIST!!! Check that off the ol' bucket list. (For the record I have nothing against religion, and don't care what you want to practice, but this was really weird and not like any church service I had attended before...)

Then the rest of the day...It was pure bleh as people from lower ranks got to cross the stage which was a "goal" apparently and got to rehearse their diamond speeches for the future. This went on until the very end, and then I got to unlock my new achievement... (video game reference) FED COMPLETED!!!

Never would I ever wish that upon an unwilling participant, and I hope that this magic show finds a fiery end.



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8 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 1, 2021 at 2:31 PM

    The Amway rule that you must never discuss your Amway business with members of other Amway organizations is obviously designed to prevent one thing. Your up-line big pins don't want their IBOs to compare notes and experiences with the IBOs of other Amway subsystems. This is so goddamned obvious that I'm amazed Amway assholes are too stupid to realize it.

    You'd find out that all the ferociously enforced "rules" that you have to follow are purely arbitrary, and that different or no rules are enforced in other Amway AMOs. You'd find out that not everybody has to buy the same "tools," or that meetings cost one price in some AMOs and a different price in others. You'd even find out that up-lines in the same AMO treat their down-lines differently, or require different things from them. In short, you'd find out that YOU ARE A SLAVE TO ARBITRARY DECISIONS MADE BY YOUR UP-LINE ASSHOLES.

    If Amway were an honest business, everybody could talk to everybody without any restraints.

    But that's the point, isn't it? Amway and all of its lousy little WWDB, URA, BWW, and Network 21 subsystems are as corrupt and dishonest as the Mafia.

    As for the Sunday religious service, this has always been a part of Amway: fundamentalist Bible-thumping attached to a cult of greed.

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    1. Anna BananaOctober 1, 2021 at 5:01 PM

      Anonymous - that's exactly why Amway cult leaders forbid crossline fraternization. So they won't compare notes. But would the Ambot just lie and bullshit about any imaginary income and deny he's losing money?

      But yes it was made very clear that different downlines have different "teachings". What kind of bullshit is that? Everyone listens to the same lies from the Amway cult leaders.

      It's all about forcing Ambots to be obedient to the fucking assholes in the Amway upline.

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    2. AnonymousOctober 4, 2021 at 7:49 AM

      In URA, we were told that function speakers "don't get paid to speak at these events."

      Many ways to skin a cat. It's easy to do math when you have a minimum of 5,000 people in a room paying a minimum of $93 a ticket for a weekend. That's $465,000 for a major function minus room rental. Times that by four and you get $1.86M a year before paying the rent for the convention halls.

      When you add the app fees (minimum of $53 a month to be on "membership" despite a cheaper $42 a month option). Multiply that by a minimum of 5,000. You get $3.18M a year gross from a single app.

      So you're looking at a minimum of $5M there before very minimal expenses. That's not even counting the twice-a-year seminars and the weekly meetings.

      And the kicker? That's all before you even buy or sell one box of laundry detergent. (BUT BUY FROM YOURSELF AND GET RICH THEY SAY!)

      IBOs need to wake up! But hey, if they are satisfied getting a check for $10 after buying $300 worth of stuff each month, then more power to them.

      Functions are a sham. That's simple math I just showed you and I probably underestimated the size of that particular group and not everyone is on minimum membership (some are "all in with their coach" and are on "unlimited" for over $100 a month).

      They tell you not to count costs. Please count them! As with anything in life, follow the money and don't waste your time four weekends a year getting little to no sleep listening to the same rehashed stories over and over again.

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    3. Anna BananaOctober 4, 2021 at 11:56 AM

      Anonymous - they slung that bullshit at us in WWDB too. And probably every other Amway cult sect out there too. It'd go something like the Amway cult leader is giving up time with their family or doing whatever else they'd rather be doing to show up here and "help" the Ambots out of the goodness of their hearts. Bunch of lying thugs. We all had to pay admission to hear those lying Amway motherfuckers bullshit us.

      Oh yeah we've crunched those numbers lots of times around here to guesstimate how much Amway Diamonds make at these functions. A lot of the arenas and other venues charge the Amway cult sect a small rental fee because they know they'll make a lot of money on parking fees and concession food.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 1, 2021 at 6:03 PM

    We were expected to wait in line and be grateful we even had the opportunity to be close to the “hero’s of the business”. We were always told “They (big pins) don’t have to do this… they do this and put these conferences on for YOU. They want YOU to succeed”. Yeah no, they just wanted us to spend money to give to the training program.

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    1. Anna BananaOctober 4, 2021 at 11:48 AM

      Anonymous - it was Amway bullshit. The Amway cult leaders mocked the audience and said if you were a "serious business builder" you had to line up an hour before the doors opened. Selling tickets to the major functions are how the Amway cult leaders at the top of the pyramid make the bulk of their money.

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  3. AnonymousOctober 3, 2021 at 11:37 AM

    What the AMOs are really worried about is if two dissatisfied IBOs from different lines get together. If they are both unhappy with their situation, any exchange of talk between them will only increase their distrust, and impel them to quit.

    They'll trade stories about their impolite up-lines, about the cost of useless things like CommuniKate and the fees for stupid "night owl" meetings, and about how nothing of importance is ever said at those freak-festivals called "Free Enterprise Day" or "Dream Night."

    Amway, like all cults, doesn't want any independent thinking or unauthorized discussions.

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    1. Anna BananaOctober 4, 2021 at 11:49 AM

      Anonymous - the Amway cult leaders do not want Ambots comparing notes with crossline. LOL! Crossline fraternization - if the Ambots aren't lying and bullshitting - means they figure out no one is making money and they all got scammed.

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