The Married To An Ambot blog gets messages from children of ambots that we sometimes repost as their own blog posts in case readers missed them in the comments.
Ambot children had horrible childhoods because of their
parents involvement in the Amway cult. A lot of it is neglect. The parents didn’t
spend time with them because they were too busy going out of every night of the
week to Amway meetings or prospecting. Same with weekends. Full of Amway
events.
These parents put a box of soap or a case of water as more important than their
children. Wasting hundreds of hours to maybe make a $1 commission on an Amway
sale was more important than spending time with their children.
Stories from the children that they could not attend their friend’s birthday
parties because their parents would not buy a birthday gift for the friend
because they “counseled with upline” and the fucking assholes in the Amway
upline told them it was more important to use that money to buy Amway tools or
products than buying birthday presents.
The children also suffer humiliation because their ambot parents prospected the
parents of their friends or classmates. Stories of schoolyard teasing from the
other kids because their parents are in Amway.
People involved in Amway have no business having children. They don’t spend
time with their children because they have to spend time with the assholes in
their Amway upline. Any spare money must be spent on Amway instead of clothes
or other items the children need. Imagine sending your kid off to school with
an Amway food bar, Perfect Water, and a Nutrilite vegetable/fruit vitamin.
Sure these ambot parents say they’re in Amway to make a better life for themselves
and their children but its only happened to a handful of breakout Diamonds.
Everyone else is in for a lifetime of poverty if they stick around the Amway
cult long enough.
The weird thing is even with the way they’re treated the children of ambots
still say they’d rather stay with their parents than be taken away and placed
in a nurturing home. They don’t know anything else. They have a driven in sense
of love and loyalty to their parents no matter how bad their life is.
These ambots who think they’re making a better life for their families by
denying them time, attention, and basic needs end up with adult children who
resent them. This probably doesn’t apply to parents who tried Amway and quit
after a few months and can recover from this horrible experience. I’m talking
about parents who are lifers and are in the Amway cult for years.
Your children will hate you for it.
I remember when the Son of our Crown/Crown Ambassador in URA / URAssociation / UR Association (who knows what he actually was really since they often used these titles interchangeably, but I do know that he was able to somehow have his business merged with his daughter and son-in-law's who were Executive Diamonds) would stand up and tell the same old story over and over and over again (like they most do).
ReplyDeleteAnyways, this Son was an Emerald who had "sponsored" his uncle who was a surgeon as one of his three legs (like WTF does his uncle need Amway for...but his uncle was the brother of the Crown/Crown Ambassador) and was showing the plan to recruits one night for which we all had to suffer through. Side note: one of his family members went on a weird tangent at a big conference one time saying that this guy actually built his "business on his own" and didn't do it with any help of his parents. Yeah...OK.
Anyways...after the plan, we had "training". And anyone who has ever sat in a weekly recruiting meeting knows that these meetings last forever anyways.
He openly says about one of his IBOs who was in the room, "WHEN ARE YOU GOING 4,000 BIG BOY?" Talk about putting someone on blast in front of a few hundred people. So disrespectful. The IBO though smiled and nodded like a sheep that he was programmed to be like..."YEAH....I'M GONNA DO IT SOON!"
Anyways, this was one example to piggyback off of your post. They certainly have an ego about them. That's for sure.
Hi Anonymous - thanks for sharing your story. Yeah if someone is a successful surgeon - what the fuck do they need Amway for? Even at the top level according to Amway's own brochures - a Diamond earns in the low 6 figures. A surgeon is gonna take a pay cut and go Diamond? Hmmm. Just goes to show that even intelligent people are not immune to being brainwashed.
DeleteI've never seen an Amway cult leader in action who is NOT disrespectful!
When I was a young guy, at my very first general Amway meeting with my immediate up-line and sponsor, we all sat in a circle of folding chairs around a big table. There ware about twelve of us. One of the older members began asking each new person there what they hoped to get out of being in the Amway business.
DeleteMost of persons responded with the usual stuff about getting rich or helping their family or buying a huge house or not having to answer to a boss. A few others said that they wanted to pay off debts.
When the older member got to me, he didn't ask about what I wanted. He just said "Are you going to make a million dollars in Amway?"
It was such stupid question that I didn't know what to say for a moment. So I calmly answered "I'm not sure what you mean. I've just signed up." He then asked the stupid question again, even louder: "ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS IN AMWAY?"
I figured he was mentally deranged, so I answered :
"I don't really know. I'm new to the business, and I'll just have to see."
This made him angry. At the top of his lungs he screamed "ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS IN AMWAY?!?!"
At this point I was angry myself, so I replied "I've answered you twice. Do you understand English? There's no way I can foretell the future on the first week of a new business, and I certainly don't need you to shoot off your mouth at me. Got that?"
There was a dead silence around the table, everyone having a look of suppressed horror on their faces. My up-line and immediate sponsor looked like he had just received his death sentence.
It was at that point that I realized Amway was a complete fraud, one which was based on wild emotionalizing and insane fantasy. To be in it, you had to give up any claim to freedom of action, and freedom of thought. You were expected to react like Pavlov's dog to stimuli from your up-line and from the brainless lemmings all around you.
When the meeting was over and we were outside, I gave my sponsor a severe tongue-lashing about what had happened, and I demanded to know if this incident represented the mentality and cultural level of Amway. He was embarrassed and apologetic, but it was clear that he was upset by the way that I talked back to the older member.
I knew right then that Amway was a cheap con-game and a pyramid-scheme racket.
Hi Anonymous. Thank you for sharing your story. LOL - I've answered you twice. Do you understand English? LOL!
DeleteOh yeah I can just imagine the faces of the Ambots that someone would dare challenge an Amway cult leader.
At least you didn't waste too much time, money, and brain cells inside the Amway cult.
As far as I can tell the only people who've made a million dollars in Amway have the last name of Van Andel or De Vos. Though some of the top Amway cult leaders have probably cracked it - their income might also come from other sources.
This might be the GOAT of all stories ever told in these comments. So epic.
DeleteAnonymous - we've had some amazing readers leave comments over the years sharing their stories. Every little bit helps to get word out about what it's really like in Amway so we can stop others from getting ripped off and being abused.
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