The last time we ran the post about how Amway Ambots love trading business cards, one of our readers gave us a flashback to the 70s:
In the 1970s, it was a strict
rule in Amway that you could not produce your own personal business cards for
distribution. People who did so were punished. You had to use the general Amway
cards that you got from your up-line. You were allowed to write or stamp your
name and address on the back of each card.
The policy changed purely as a way to make the Amway scam sweeter. Up-line knew
that everyone wanted to think of himself as a big shot, in charge of his own “business.”
So they allowed IBOs to design and print up their own cards, and give their
business a special name and themselves a special title. That’s when you started
to see all the stupid fake business cards with the words “Excellence
Enterprises” or “Products Distribution Center,” followed by the name of the
Ambot:
Andrew Airhead Asshole, C.E.O.
Josiah Jerkoff, General Manager
Fred Fraudster, President
Larry Loudmouth, Senior Distributing Agent
About the same time, they stopped calling members “Amway distributors,” and
gave them the absolutely absurd title of “Independent Business Owner.” That was
just as plausible as calling the janitor at Macy’s a “Member of the Macy’s
Management Board.”
Everything in Amway is fakery, pretension, and thinking that you are something
you are not.
This reminded me of my last encounter with Amway. My wife (fiance at the time) used to tutor high school kids to help them with their studies. The parents of one kid asked us for coffee one time to discuss some business opportunity. He gave us his business card which was actually a CD-Rom (remember them) in a rectangular format that you actually inserted into the CD drive of your laptop. It brought up his details on screen. At the end, he of course asked for the business card back. Must have cost him a bit to create it and he wasn't giving them out permanently. Sort of made me question what the point was of even doing a business card in that way.
ReplyDeleteWe didn't go into his business because we realised it was Amway rubbish from the tapes or maybe CDs that he was touting. This was back in the day when they were talking, I think about 9 11 which was some name change scam that they were running before the term 9/11 became what it did in 2001. I think perhaps my wife considered their proposition a little more seriously than I did. She after all had tutored their daughter and had been to their house and perhaps even believed a little bit of the story.
We invited them to our wedding and from memory they came to the church but did not accept the invitation to the reception party. They sort of grew cold towards us after that. Not sure why. My last interaction with them was when I went over to their house to drop something off and I cannot remember what it was but the Amway wife did not even invite me into their home. That was 25 years ago. I wonder if they are still in the Amway system selling soap and cosmetics but mostly dreams to the unwary.
Hi Aussie Hillbilly. Can't say as I remember seeing a CD-Rom business card LOL. Kind of sounds like something an Amway loser would do. The Ambot couple dropped you - and lucky you by the way - because you won't support their Amway business. That's part of the teachings from the Amway cult leader. If outsiders are "too stupid" (Amway's words not mine) to get it when it comes to Amway and they won't sign up or buy Amway shit then the Ambot has to drop them out of their life.
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