A reader tells us about when you know things
just aren’t right with Amway….
This woman’s story is the same story of every woman who’s married to an Ambot.
Lived it. Been there. Done that. Hated every minute.
My husband and I were involved in Amway/WWDB for 3.5 years and only 6 months
ago truly decided not to pursue it anymore, but honestly my heart was not into
it the last 1.5 years we were in it. I knew deep down that something wasn’t
sitting right with me, but because of the constant repetitive phrases and
concepts that are repeated over and over, we stayed because we were made to
believe this was truly the best thing on earth and we would never be successful
any other way.
In reality, my husband and I were spending hundreds of dollars a month on
things we never would have bought otherwise like energy drinks and freaking
expensive water that taste no better than what comes out of your tap.
The last function we went to was FED 2016 in which my husband and I got into a
huge fight in the car in the parking lot because I told him I wasn’t into it
anymore and I couldn’t believe how much money we had wasted on all the
products, wwdb membership, communikate, functions (hotels, function tickets,
car rental, food, etc.) and we weren’t any further ahead, but in fact further
behind. Of course, they tell you that you aren’t building your business or
working hard enough and that’s why all this isn’t paying off.
Also, I just could no longer pretend that I wanted to be there and be at every
function and event with the idolatry and people worshipping. I felt so fake at
every amway meeting pretending that I was in love with my upline and wanted to
breath in everything they said. After every amway meeting, you’re expected to stay
and crowd your upline and ask a ton of questions and drink up their answers
like they are liquid gold.
I also found those “motivational lifestyle videos” showing their penthouses, cars, properties, etc very off putting. So much flaunting, especially for an organization that claims they are not materialistic. For the past 1.5 years in the business, I unfortunately supressed my “negativity” because I was beginning to see all the jargon and cult like language, activities and deceptive practices, but again was made to believe that this was the only way to be successful.
They would make you feel like you were in a
very exclusive special group by using phrases like “the one percent” or “You’re
in the A game” or “If you’re in this room, someone thought highly enough of you
to bring you here.” And truly, the recruiting processes (they would never say
recruiting even though that is truly what it is) is very plainly deceptive.
They believe they are “taking leadership of the process.”
We were told to always put ourselves in the “drivers seat” by saying that
you’re not free for a meeting (even if you are) if a time is suggested by a
prospect because the prospect should never set a time and date because you
should give them a time and place and the prospect should make themselves
available to you and work around your schedule, even skipping work or school or
anything to see how far that prospect will go.
Also one thing that pissed me off is how they say they will “SAVE YOU A SEAT”
at an event or house meeting to make it seem like you are special and that it
is very exclusive and there isn’t room for everyone, but the truth is it is
complete BS and they just want to “add value” to the opportunity by making you
feel like you need to come because they are saving a seat for you. The truth
is, they don’t turn people away. The point is to recruit people and build their
business. There is so much more that I could go on forever. They would say I
never “built the business” but the truth is I couldn’t bring myself to deceive
people using these tactics.
One more thing, we had a family member who was terminally ill around the time
of one of the functions and we were not sure when they were going to pass. We
weren’t sure if we were going to make the function, but upline advised us to go
to the function even if it meant missing the last moments of our family
member’s life because apparently, that’s what they would do. Of course it was
worded more sympathetically and came off as like they truly cared. Fortunately,
we didn’t have to face that dilemma, but looking back, how truly sad and
infuriating would it be to have missed our family member’s last moments of life
because we followed that advice?? See, the business comes before everything,
even before family, but they truly believe they are doing this business for
their family. I can’t fathom.
After 6 months, I have finally found words for my feelings and have
de-brainwashed. It truly is crazy how they wholeheartedly believe they are
saving lives. Sure, maybe people have made money in this business, but the cult
like practices and deception truly put a bad taste in my mouth I just cannot
put myself behind an organization that claims to be saving lives and also lying
to people. Also, prospects were told not to google Amway, specifically not to
click on this actual blog, yes...they named this blog “I married an Ambot”
because they can weave their logic and make you feel dumb for even thinking
about it.
Anyway, I could go on and on, but it took too long and took too many dollars,
but we’re finally out and I’m glad my husband realized it was never going to
happen too.
Anna, this is such a sad story that I want to either cry, or scream violent insults at the whole fucking Amway racket.
ReplyDeleteThis woman and her husband were cheated out of three and a half years of their lives, and also out of huge sums of money. And for what? For a fake dream cooked up by her up-line and her Platinum and the WWDB AMO subsystem.
I deeply respect this woman's strength, her honesty, and her ability to overcome the brainwashing and programming that are part and parcel of the Amway cult. May God bless her, and may she and her husband have a good life.
Anonymous- thanks for that. I hope she sees your words.
DeleteThis is how the Amway cult operates. Everything she said could have been me. Several years apart and nothing changes in Amway. Gotta love how Amway cult leaders are so terrified of how we share our real life Amway experiences that they forbid Ambots from reading this blog. Too much potential for income loss when Ambots figure out they got scammed and leave the cult. In an Amway cult leaders mind the truth = negative.