The last time we ran the post about remembering Quixtar, one of our readers shared a story:
I was prospected for Quixtar in 99. The IBO said he would
buy me lunch then changed that once I got there. The way he described the
service was actually pretty cool at the time, think amazon for a wide range of
stores. The only mention of Amway was it's inclusion on the list of stores that
Quixtar would serve. Strong was the implication that Quixtar members would have
access to special deals and products.
He game me a tape to listen to, insisted I take it. I never listened to it and
he kept calling me trying to get it back so I blocked his number thinking he
was trying to sell to me again. It never occurred to me that the tape was
really expensive and he probably was just trying to get it back.
Oh well
Anna Banana responds: Hi Anonymous. People in Amway are
broke. He couldn't afford to buy you lunch! LOL! He'd have to get permission
from his upline to spend money on something that's not Amway products or tools
and he was likely told no and to use that lunch money to buy more tapes!
Yes the Amway cult promotes their scam like Amazon where you can buy products
from all over the place and Amway is the middleman who bumps up the prices.
They have flash cards as part of their presentation where they try to compare
themselves to Amazon. Amway only makes a fraction of the money that Amazon does
and Amazon has been around only about 25 years and they figured out what Amway
didn't - sell products that people actually want to buy for good prices.
Yeah those tapes or CD's now are expensive. Cost the Ambot at least $5 even
though they only cost pennies each to produce. They don't call it the Amway
tool scam for nothing. But yeah that's why he wanted it back. There ain't
nothing free in Scamway!
Another reader weighs in: The idea that anyone in
Amway would buy you a cup of coffee and a doughnut, let alone a full meal, is
laughable. These people are CHEAP FUCKING BASTARDS.
Go to an Amway business meeting, and what does the host serve you? A wafer-thin
slice of an Amway energy bar? A tiny cuplet of their stupid energy drink? A
glass of warm tap water?
It's one thing if you're poor, and can't afford to be lavish. But Amway freaks
are cheap by instinct when it comes to hospitality. They don't mind shelling
out scads of cash to their corrupt up-line, but they deeply resent having to
pay any sort of money as a friendly gesture of hospitality. Love-bombing your
guests is cheap -- giving them decent refreshments isn't.
Why do Amway freaks insist on meeting you at crappy dives like Starbucks, or
some local greasy spoon, or at the espresso and latte section of a Barnes and
Noble store? They even think it's OK to meet prospective recruits at a
fast-food dump like McDonald's!
A genuine businessman knows that such places are an insult to your prospective
client or recruit. If you really wanted to display your success and
seriousness, you'd take him to a decent place to eat, and pick up the check.
The fact that Amway freaks won't do this is a sure sign that they are
irretrievably LOW CLASS and COMMON. That's the core of Amway -- fling money
with wild abandon at your up-line, but nickel-and-dime your prospects.
Ahhh...the whole, "Let's meet at Panera and grab lunch." thing. Only to not have lunch.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in URA / URAssociation / UR Association, we would get hotel mints and hotel water at the weekly hotel ballroom meetings. And, during conferences, we were lucky to get pizza about two-thirds of the way in Day 2...if the hotel allowed for delivery. But of course, we would have to buy it.
We never got any free meal bars or energy drinks at meetings.
But back to the conferences, we would get the stink eye from Upline if we ventured outside of the hotel for food, ate at the hotel restaurant, or had food delivered. They truly believe we should get by on meal bars and snacks for the entire weekend. It's as if we were forbidden to eat "UNLESS WE WERE BUYING FROM OURSELVES AND REINVESTING IN OUR BUSINESS!!".
I hope someone sees this and run as far away from groups such as these if they are ever approached.
Anonymous - the Amway cult leaders didn't want you leave while a hallowed Diamond is spewing off bullshit. Of course I took off to scout down nearby food sources and bring it back for us to eat. And yes we get the stink eye from everyone around us. Probably jealous that we're eating burgers and they have nothing. Probably not even a ScAmway food bar. Which is pretty much like eating nothing anyway.
DeletePeople who are arrogant enough to tell you when you can eat, or where you have to be, or what you must do at a given time, are exactly the same as prison guards.
ReplyDeleteAnd that's what Amway is -- a prison.
Anonymous - that's right. Amway is a prison. Ambot prisoners are brainwashed to be losers who devote their lives to the Great Amway God.
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