Many pyramid schemes use the Amway model to scam victims.
If you look into many of these other MLM scams you’ll notice similar cult
tactics and buzzwords to create excitement on the bots.
Too many times we have very similar stories as victims of other pyramid
schemes.
Here’s one of our reader’s stories:
Hi There - Anna Banana excellent blog with informative view points and
experiences.
Mine is very similar story probably familiar with a lot of folk.
An old girlfriend of mine got hooked up with a similar MLM/Pyramid product-
Kyani - recently.
The change in her personality was literally night and day - I witnessed the
transformation from a confident, kind, caring, strong independent woman to the
brainwashed shell she is now.
It started initially with cryptic messages about "great
opportunities" and "needing to talk, valued opinions" etc.
Needing to meet for coffee to discuss things and getting the scripted txts -
pitching the product and "business" opportunity.
Short story is I initially - gently - called her out on her BS - asked her to
stop pitching and was pretty much confronted with denial, hostility, demeaning
actions.
I haven't heard from her since.... MLM's are destructive and change people and
their relationships - in a definite negative direction.
Anna Banana Responds:
Hi Anonymous. Yup these pyramid schemes operate pretty much the same.
Everything you've said, you've probably heard someone else on this blog share
similar experience or maybe read the same story somewhere else online.
The personality change is awful to live through. The Amway cult takes a person
who was previously nice, caring, independent, and confident and turns them into
an angry, condescending, sneering, arrogant, know-it-all miserable bastard.
Amway cult followers use the same cryptic messages. Even though they've already
signed up to the pyramid scheme they ask others to come to a meeting about this
great opportunity because they value their opinion and want to know what they
think of “the business”. And then when you tell them what you really think -
its a bunch of bullshit - you get hostility. So much for your valued input!
LOL! And Amway Ambots always want to meet for coffee. They'll string along a
prospect with a line that goes something that they know a successful
businessman who's an entrepreneur with some great ideas and they can't promise
you anything but how'd you like to meet for coffee. And then you end up meeting
some Amway loser who has a regular job because he needs the dreaded J.O.B. in
order to afford his expensive Amway habit.
And the Amway upline is all about destroying relationships. Destroy anyone who
won't join the Amway cult is their slogan. Your old girlfriend's upline were
already working on her to end the relationship. Really you're better off
without her. You don't need any more emotional and financial distress in your
life like these MLM cults bring you. It's too bad the way these pyramid schemes
destroy lives but at least you don't have to put up with those losers in your
life anymore.
Hope you have a great life with someone who's not throwing away their money at
a cult!
Anna, I'm always amazed when I read these anecdotes, because they show a very disturbing pattern. The person who was once a normal, friendly, kind and rational human being all of a sudden CHANGES!
ReplyDeleteOrdinarily, if a human being goes through a personality change it is gradual and in stages. But with Amway and all MLMs, it seems to happen overnight!
The story that the reader presents above is typical. The girl who is being described changes all of a sudden, and her mentality switches in a flash from nice and thoughtful to vicious and greedy and pushy. She was kind and caring and independent, but is now "a brainwashed shell," with a nasty disposition.
I think, from the evidence of all these very similar anecdotes, that MLM is one of the most evil kind of cult diseases to have afflicted the planet. Amway is the biggest and the worst, but ALL of them are pure evil. They transform human beings into android-like maniacs who are fixated on money, power, and utter contempt for anyone who questions them about it.
What is amazing is how fast it can happen. It's scary.
Anonymous - Kyani is another pyramid scheme operating similarly to Amway where they don't rake responsibility for anything their cult leaders say or do.
DeleteMany of these MLM scams are modeled after Amway.
And that includes isolating the cult members from their friends and family, brainwashing them, and turning them into nasty, greedy, ruthless robots.
As you pointed out its scary how quickly it happens. How fast a person's personality changes after getting inside a cult. I've seen it happen in front of me. And written posts here about the changes in Ambot's personality. For those of us watching we are helpless and powerless to stop these evil pyramid schemes. Scary.