It’s very important to bring this post up again for readers who might have missed it or new readers looking for ways to make money who might have got an Amway sales pitch. To recap - You might be prospected by an Amway IBO trying to suck you into their pyramid scheme. They do this by howling a bunch of negatives about the economy and people losing their jobs and business shutting down due to Covid-19 and trying to scare the shit out of you that there is nothing else out there for you except Amway. They will pitch you that Amway is a recession proof business because people still need to eat, drink and wipe their asses. You can pretty much say every grocery store and drug store out there is a recession proof business and those businesses sell products that people actually want to buy at good prices. Amway price gouges. Amway sells shitty overpriced products that cost three or four time more than what you can buy in the store.
When Amway Ambots are prospecting you, they neglect to tell you that you must spend at least $300 a month buying shitty overpriced Amway products plus a few hundred dollars a month more buying “motivational tools” aka the Amway tool scam from whatever Amway cult sect you sign up with. And if you do not buy that shit, the fucking assholes in the Amway upline will berate you and mock you and bitch at you that you're a loser and will never be a "business owner".
Let’s recap it even more - How can you tell when somebody in Amway is lying?
Their mouth is moving! Or in the case of the Internet – they’re typing something.
Don’t fall victim to an Amway Ambot spouting off doom and gloom and negativity!
Only a tiny fraction of 1% of all participants will make money in Amway. That's over 99% failure rate! Do you want to lose your money, your friends, and your brain cells? Bankruptcy? Divorce? Foreclosure? That is what happens if you sign up with Amway.
Here’s the original post. The message is the same today as it was 15 years ago.
I can’t tell you how many times
I heard the upline Platinum spout off that Amway is a recession proof business.
He would follow that statement up by saying even in a recession people still
need to eat, drink, and shit.
I have a recording by our sponsor where he says “people running around with
their heads cut off about the recession and getting laid off.” He follows that
by saying how he starts putting fear into people about their job and how he
hopes they don’t have all their eggs in one basket because they’ll be finished.
He continues with the scare tactics saying he hopes they have more than one way
of making money because if its slow now before Christmas, what’s going to
happen after Christmas.
Smarmy fucking son of a bitch.
So what happens when families incomes are disrupted due to lay offs or hours
getting cut? Do they look for ways to save money or do they go crazy buying
expensive products?
I can’t remember the price of Amway’s toilet paper but it seems to me it was
around $60 but I don’t know how many rolls, maybe 48. Whatever many rolls
that’s still too high. Get 48 of a well known brand for $15, $20 at the grocery
or drug store.
OK, glossed right over that. The sack of shit Platinum also mentioned eat and
drink, everyone has to do that.
Sure but when I want food and drink I want it probably that same day not wait a
few days for it to be shipped to me. I always shop at a local produce store
that’s open year round for my fruits and vegetables. I find they’re fresher and
much lower priced than grocery stores. My shopping list might vary with local
produce that’s in season or a recipe I’m making but I can go to the produce
store and buy a sack of potatoes, a bag of onions, tomatoes, lettuce, carrots,
celery, mushrooms, peppers, avocadoes, bananas, grapes, oranges, apples and get
change from a $20 bill.
What kind of fresh vegetables and fruit does Amway sell? Would that be none? Oh
wait some IBO is going to argue with me that who needs fresh produce when they
can buy Nutrilite vitamins. Ah yes there’s a healthy choice. Not to mention an
expensive one. When you’re hungry munching an apple or banana might fill you up
a bit. Pop a vitamin and you’ll still be hungry afterwards!
Does Amway sell eggs? Hmm, would that be another no? But my friends at the
neighborhood produce place sells them for $2/dozen.
There’s a warehouse bakery that supplies all the grocery stores around here.
They have a shop at their warehouse. I’ve been going there for years and buying
bread and pies for half price or less than what’s charged at the grocery
stores. I can stock up my freezer for a month on less than $20 and that’s
gourmet grain bread, garlic bread, bagels, muffins, pies, cookies, and
hamburger buns.
Who can tell me what kind of bread Amway sells? An IBO might argue Amway sells
crackers and I should change my eating habits.
I bet crackers cost a lot less at the grocery store than what Amway sells them
for!
Then I hit the grocery store for the rest of my shopping. Now is when IBO’s
will try to convince me that just about everything I want to buy at the grocery
store is available from Amway. What about seafood - fresh or frozen? Does Amway
sell that? Oh god some Ambot is going to spout off about Nutrilite with Omega
3.
Drinks? Um I don’t drink energy drinks and XS is so fucking disgusting so I’d
never buy that! Perfect Water at a per bottle price of $2 each but has to be
bought by the case not singly for around $50. I can buy a 24 case of bottled
water at Wal-Mart for $2 or $3 depends if its on sale. I don’t normally buy
bottled water anyway. Our tap water is good. I tried some chocolate flavored
Amway drink once in a tetra pack. Tasted like chalk. Don’t know what it was.
Ambot thought I liked it so he ordered more and when they arrived they’d
already passed the expiry date so I wouldn’t drink them. Really good quality
control there Amway! Fucking losers ripping off your commissioned salesforce.
Fuck you Amway!
Recession or not people like to get good deals and they’ll shop where they can
get good prices and get their money’s worth. When money is tight some people
will even forgo quality for price. I can fill my fridge, freezer, larder for a
month with good healthy choices for under $300 the minimum amount that Ambots
have to fork out each month to stay in qualification to get a less than $10
check. That $300 worth of PV isn’t putting hot, tasty, healthy meals on my
table. Not to mention the ice cream for dessert that Amway can’t sell me.
Amway Ambots can claim all they want that Amway is a recession proof business but
can you find customers or sign up new prospects when money is tight?
Whether or not Amway’s a recession proof business is debatable - depending on
whether or not you’re an IBO! - but selling to customers who’ve been hit by the
recession and are watching their pennies is a tough sell. Why pressure
these people? They’re already struggling financially why push them on a
business with a 99% failure rate.
Yup now is another good time to send out another big old FUCK YOU to Amway and
the fucking assholes in their commissioned sales force.
Anna, you are right on the money.
ReplyDeleteThere is no way in hell that Amway can provide customers with all the various foodstuffs that they need. No fucking way at all! Amway is a limited operation that does not concentrate on meat and bread and produce and dairy products.
And therefore what will the Amway asshole say when you point this fact out to him? He'll get red in the face and start screaming about how those stupid Nutrilite vitamins and the XS energy drink and the "Perfect" Water will give you all the nourishment you need.
This post was put up 15 years ago. And guess what? There are still grocery stores and bakeries and meat markets and dairies and delicacy shops and fresh fish outlets all over the place! NOBODY has switched over to feeding themselves through Amway. NOBODY!
This reminds me of another Amway lie, told frequently to IBOs at those endless meetings. The Amway freaks would scream that "brick-and-mortar" stores were finished, and would be gone by 2010. Oh yeah? Really? It's 2024, and there are still PLENTY of brick-and-mortar stores everywhere.
People in Amway are such fucking liars that it staggers belief.
Anonymous - it's timeless. Doesn't matter how good or bad the economy is - Amway Ambots will say we're in a recession and Amway is a recession proof business LOL!
DeleteLike you said there are still grocery stores, bakeries, butchers, fish shops, and fresh produce shops all over the place. People still want fresh foods to eat. Not Amway vitamins.
Yup there are lots of brick and mortar stores everywhere. And every day new business owners are opening new shops. Real business owners. The kind who have real products and good prices that people actually want to come in to their shops and buy.
Amway is a doomsday cult. Luckily their "predictions" are full of shit.
One of the things that Amway recruiters like to do is to make people scared. They know that they are recruiting desperate and ignorant persons who are frightened of being financially inadequate. What better way to rope them in than by creating scenarios of doom and gloom?
ReplyDeleteHere are some really stupid Amway predictions that I have heard:
1) Social Security won't be there for you when you retire!
2) The Stock Market will have a permanent collapse in a few years!
3) In the next decade, all business will be done on the MLM model!
4) Saving money is useless, because inflation will eat it all up!
5) Health and retirement benefits from your job are not dependable, because companies can go bankrupt!
6) There is NOTHING ELSE OUT THERE for you except Amway!
Every one of these predictions is not only false; they are also patently absurd.
Anonymous - those Amway losers lean on recruits by putting the fear into them. All the points you listed. And more! Because that's what those nasty Amway assholes do - frighten prospects about their financial security. Ironically financial insecurity usually only happens when Ambots lose hundreds of dollars every month in ScAmway.
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