At meetings we attended the IBOs were often berated by our sack of shit Platinum because prospects had not been brought to the meeting. Most people can’t find anyone to come to a meeting once they mention Amway. The sack of shit gave IBO’s suggestions on how to trick people into coming to a meeting without letting on its an Amway meeting. Yeah, that’s a real honest thing to do. What a wonderful upstanding honest company we’re associating ourselves with when we have to resort to dishonest techniques taught by our dishonest upline. Here are some of the “lines” he taught IBO’s to use when contacting or approaching prospects to get them to come to a meeting. And yes upline really does use the word “line” or “lines”. In addition to taking notes, Ambot recorded them too. Got him! This topic could also be titled “how do you know when you’re being prospected by the Amway cult”.
1. “I was wondering if you could give me your opinion on a business I'm looking at. I really value your opinion and could use your input.”
2. “We do sell Amway products but that's only about 20% of what we sell. Everything else comes from over 2,000 other companies most of which are Fortune 500 companies.”
3. “How would you like to be your own boss?”
4. “No it's not Amway. Its World Wide Dream Builders.”
5. “Have you ever thought about starting your own business?”
6. Want to go with me to listen to the world’s greatest motivational speaker? It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity.
7. “Don’t you want to be free and not punch a time clock?”
8. “Are you tired of working a J.O.B. and making your boss rich?”
9. “Do you ever look at other ways of making money?”
10. “I'm in the process of expanding my business in the area and I'm looking for a few sharp guys who are interested in being financially free within the next two to five years.”
11. “I work with a team of multi-millionaires developing business online with over a thousand companies. We’re looking for ambitious guys who want to create a secondary source of residual income through a proven mentorship program.”
12. “Do you know anyone who might be interested in making a couple of thousand extra dollars a month working part time only 10 to 15 hours a week?”
13. “Don't you want your wife to come home from work and be there for your children?”
14. “I know a really sharp businessman who has some great ideas. I can’t promise you anything but how would you like to meet him for coffee?”
15. “We work with Benny the Bastard who owns Benny the Bastard Enterprises out of Miami. He owns his own consumer distribution company. Maybe you've heard of him?”
16 "You look like a really cool, sharp guy with a good business sense. I think we might be able to offer you a real opportunity in a dynamic enterprise that needs new energetic blood."
Feel free to load up the comments box with the lines you were taught to use to trick people.
These "lines" are so utterly lame and stupid that I can't imagine anyone with a brain falling for them. Most persons would laugh out loud if anyone tried to use them.
ReplyDeleteIf these were the best lines that your sack of shit Platinum could come up with, I assume he must have been a real flop when trying to pick women in bars.
Anonymous - these lines are part of the training at Amway "business" meetings for "real business owners". The mentors LOL! The "sharp" businessmen. Bunch of fucking Amway losers playing at being business owners. And the Amway cult leaders probably think this is top knotch business advice. And we heard these lines from every Amway cult leader not just the sack of shit Platinum.
DeleteHonesty is so rarely used by Ambots that it might actually work. Something like "Please come with me to an Amway meeting so that my sack of shit upline doesn't chew me out for showing up empty handed. And if you put your money into the Amway cult you can have your own sack of shit upline to chew you out too." Reminds me of when I was approached by a wino who said: "Brother I'm not going to lie to you. I need a bottle of wine." I gave him the money and felt good about it. Amway, not so much.
ReplyDeleteRay - that kind of honesty only works on people who've never heard the word Amway before LOL! For people familiar with ScAmway they'd laugh at you and call you a dumb ass for getting involved with a pyramid scheme. That was nice of you but enabling a drunk. Hmm I don't know. I've had people ask me for money which who knows what habit they'll spend it on. Instead I ask if they're hungry and go into Subway or whatever eats is closest and buy them a meal.
DeleteHi Anna, this is getting a little off topic but I'm in recovery myself and know a young guy in the program who told me that he had just panhandled enough money to buy a 40 oz. malt liquor and when he took it out of the paper sack he dropped it on the sidewalk, breaking the bottle and causing him great distress. He then said that a guy driving by saw it happen and stopped his car, got out and gave him the money to buy another bottle, saying "Brother I've been there and I know what it's like." Probably I'm just dreaming but I like to think and hope that maybe a little non judgmental kindness at the just the right moment might be enough to help nudge someone into recovery. And I do feel some compassion for those Ambots who feel trapped and are just too embarrassed and ashamed to admit that they got fooled. And a shout out to Anna Banana and her blog for helping people avoid Amway and and if stuck in it to escape the cult and enter into recovery from it the sooner the better.
DeleteRay - way to stick with it! Addictions are a huge accomplishment to overcome and it's one day at a time. Each day brings a new hurdle to avoid the addiction.
DeleteAmway is also an addiction which is why you're able to feel compassion for the trapped Ambots. It's more likely that their significant other is the one who is feeling trapped by Amway. The reality is Ambots are in Amway the Cult of Greed and they lie and scam others just to make a few pennies commission. Maybe like they guy who dropped the bottle on the sidewalk, maybe he's thinking there are still a few drops that are salvageable that can be licked up. Always hope. As in Amway - sell the hope not the soap.
It would be nice if there was a recovery group for people who've escaped the Amway cult. I'd like to see the court system force Amway to put money into a program to help people who their company has hurt.
This is the real psychological problem for anybody in Amway. You desperately want people to be in your down-line, but you are terrified of mentioning the name "Amway." You want people to think that the racket is easy, but you know that it isn't. You tell potential recruits that they will not be spending a lot of money, but you are well aware that just being a low-level IBO will cost somebody at least $500 per month, apart from meetings and functions.
ReplyDeleteSo the Amway asshole is in a state of cognitive dissonance. He has to lie to potential joiners, or else he has to be stupid or brainwashed enough to actually believe that what he is telling them is "true" in some magical-mystical sense.
This sort of dishonesty, when practiced for years and years, turns you into a kind of zombie or android. You lose any intellectual independence, and become a liar by second nature.
That's right Anonymous. People are so fucking embarrassed to admit they're in the Amway cult so they have to use lies and trickery to get prospects to come to Amway meetings or sign up or buy overpriced shit. Using every lie they can come up with.
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