Colin brought up an interesting point when it comes to cars
the IBO’s drive. Do they recycle them within the line of sponsorship and sell
them to someone else downline or crossline?
I would say that’s highly likely. The IBO’s we knew drove old clunkers that
were forever breaking down. In many cases it would have been cheaper to buy
another old clunker for a few hundred bucks that get the current IBOmobile
repaired. When an IBO was upgrading to another car the word was likely spread
via text, Communikate, or Facebook that a vintage 1970’s BMW was available for
sale and any IBO’s in the market would have the opportunity to purchase it.
With crossline and downline the message could get out to hundreds of IBO’s.
Now I’m all for recycling but when it comes to cars and safety and when is it
time to put a clunker out of its misery, sometimes its easier to call the junk
man to take the car to the scrap metal plant. He’ll probably give the IBO $50
to remove it. But if the IBO can sell it for $100 to an unsuspecting IBO that
would be the more profitable route. Make money! Isn’t that why everyone is in
Amway?
Someone Ambot knows - an acquaintance of one of his relatives - received a car
from one of their parents. My memory is a little sketchy if it was his parents
or hers. Either way the parents bought a new car and gave them their old car
which was a newer model car. That left the couple with a car about 10
years old still in good shape but no longer needed. They decided to sell it for
$500 to get a quick sale.
Ambot makes the mistake of alerting the sack of shit Platinum about this car.
It might not be a rust bucket 1981 Cadillac preferred choice of IBO’s but its a
good buy for a car that’s not falling apart and is in running condition.
The sack of shit knows a woman who needs a car and they set up a time for her
to come out and see the car. Or maybe she decided to buy it sight unseen and a
time was set up to exchange the cash and take the car.
At this point you’d think the transaction should now switch to between the
buyer and seller and Ambot and the sack of shit Platinum can step out of the
picture.
But no, that would be too easy. The woman selling the car phones Ambot to bitch
at him that the buyer didn’t show up. So Ambot phones the Platinum and back and
forth it goes with the two of them playing the middlemen. And for them it sucks
to be the middleman because there is no commission despite all the grief
they’re going through. A new time was set up. And the buyer didn’t show up again.
And the seller phones to bitch at Ambot again. This scenario played out
several times always in my presence. I told Ambot I’d had enough of hearing
about that fucking car and didn’t want to hear nothing more about it no more.
If the woman who wanted to buy it wasn’t showing up then the seller should
advertise it on Craigslist. First person to show up with the cash gets the car.
No. That would be too easy. And the bitch kept phoning Ambot to complain about
the buyer not showing up. I mean how many no shows does it take for the seller
to get a clue? Apparently she enjoys tormenting me and phoning Ambot to bitch
bitch bitch. I told him to pass me the phone and I’d let her have it about her
fucking car but he didn’t want me to curse her out. I figure if I curse her out
that will be the last we hear from her and good riddance. These people are
weird. They live in a nice subdivision built in the 70’s where the houses and
yards are neat and tidy except theirs. Their house was painted an oddball color
of orange. The front of the house that is. Maybe they ran out of glow in
the dark orange paint? The sides and back of the house were three different
colors - white on one side, brown at the back, and I think the other side was a
shade of tan. She was a hoarder. Ever watch that TV show about hoarders? She
might not have been as bad as what I’ve seen on that show but was well on her
way. I had the misfortune of going inside the house. Rooms packed high with
junk so you couldn’t walk into them or close the door so visitors couldn’t see
into them. The kitchen counters had no space left to put anything on them. The
sink was 3 feet high with dirty dishes. Junk spilling out of the house into the
backyard and they had really weird tacky yard decorations. Not everyone can
pull off the used toilet in the front yard as a flower planter look but it was
right at home here with the other junk. A whole army of broken roaming gnomes
guarded it. There always has to be one house in a neighborhood that’s an
eyesore!
Anyway back to the damn car fiasco that goes on for about a month. Finally the
Platinum finds a different buyer and the car sale went through.
What really pissed me off the most was that we were no longer doing anything
with Amway so why the hell was Ambot playing used car salesman without a
commission?
Must have been the same reason he played at being an Amway businessman with no
commission.
It's a mark of many MLM members to complicate things unnecessarily. Rather than doing the logical and simple thing, they assume it is somehow more virtuous to do things in a complex and over-detailed and roundabout manner.
ReplyDeleteWhat lies behind this tendency is the MLM member's need to obey up-line in all matters, no matter how small. As a result, an Amway IBO will never use his own judgment to make a decision or carry out a simple plan. Instead he will run it by his up-line, and the up-line will come up with all sorts of stupid reasons why the thing has to be done in a certain manner, with all kinds of pointless steps.
In fact, if your up-line finds out that you did something on your own, without consulting him, you will get chewed out by him. And this means everything, even the most personal matters that have nothing to do with the Amway fake business.
Anonymous - that is so true about how Amway losers love to complicate things. If you need to get something done around your house - say install a window - you can call a glass shop and get it done pretty quickly. But not if you're in Amway. You have to call your upline or go through your Platinum who will make some calls because he knows a guy who knows a guy sort of thing. And then you end up with some loser who's never installed a window before but knows where to buy one and some putty and does a shitty job. You have to ask permission from the fucking assholes in your Amway upline anytime you want to buy anything and then they decide whether or not to give permission to do so and then they'll source it out how you can get it done. It's so fucked up!
DeleteAnd yeah if you do something on your own without getting permission from the fucking assholes in the Amway upline - they'll be holy hell to pay. Our sack of shit Platinum was "counselling" with someone in his downline to break up with his "unsupportive" girlfriend. Because that's what the WWDB Amway cult leaders do - destroy relationships. The day comes when this Ambot announces his girlfriend is pregnant. And holy shit he forgot to get permission from the sack of shit Platinum about starting a family. This bastard had the misfortune of being in the same car as the sack of shit Platinum coming back from a ScAmway function - several hours drive. And the Platinum chewed him out the entire drive because he didn't get permission to start a family. This is how fucked up the Amway cult is. Adults should be able to make life decisions without running it through an Amway cult leader first. And when they do ask permission - it gets more fucking complicated than it needs to be.
Anna, this kind of thing proves beyond any doubt that Amway is a real, genuine CULT.
DeleteOnly in a cult do you have to ask the leaders if you can start a family or not. What does starting to have a family have to do with some goddamned soap-suds racket? Why do you have to answer to some fat-assed Platinum?
If you have a broken window, just call a professional glazier and window-repair store, and have the job done. What the bloody hell does your fucking up-line have to say about it?
But this is the whole thing about cults. They are deeply tyrannical and totalitarian by nature. They must control a member's life in every detail, even the most trivial. And cult leaders like to say "No" to requests, because forbidding members to do something is part of the power-trip.
Amway is a sick, evil cult.
Anonymous - this is why getting our stories out there and being heard is so important. Amway losers deny they're being brainwashed and they're in a cult but those of us who have brain cells and are free-thinkers leave no doubt that Amway is a sick, evil cult. So many things pissed me off about sack of shit Platinum but he can't mind his own goddamned business and dictates to the Ambots that any family planning has to be approved by him first.
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