It’s always good to know the sneaky tactics used by Amway losers and what bullshit Ambots are currently pulling off. A reader shares a story of getting tricked into attending an Amway cult meeting and how the army of Ambots made sure he stayed till the end!
Thanks for this blog. I
recently had an Ambot try to recruit me, he was good at it too. I started a
business a couple of years ago and I was at a networking meeting when another
owner of a local (legit) business started chatting me up. Seemed like a nice
guy, said he likes to help new business owners and thought we should meet up
for coffee. Cool, I thought, never hurts to talk to other business owners,
always open to advice. Meet with him, never a mention of Amway, only spoke
about business, goals, etc. He suggested I then read a book called “The Go -
Giver” and attend a meeting with him in a couple of nights to “meet other like
minded people who enjoy exchanging ideas on business and help each other grow,
similar to the theme of the book.”
Cool, I thought, always good to network and meet other business owners (notice
his clever wording, “like minded people” not business owners I realized this in
hindsight). Pull up to this meeting and am shocked at the number of people
attending, I thought it was more of an intimate setting of successful business
people. I go in, start introducing myself, there are a bunch of people, but no
business owners. I thought that was weird and started to get an unsettled
feeling, walk into a living room stuffed full of chairs and see a white
board..ok, really weird. Guy who invited me starts talking, mostly about
business philosophy. He then starts asking people where they work and proceeds
to follow up with “Do you like it there, who wants to do that forever”. Well,
that is just odd, why would you trash other people’s professions, maybe they
like their employer. He then trashes his own, legit, business saying how he
hates working on projects and his clients. Then, at the end, he starts talking
about “how this business works” and lays out a “store” and how he is retiring
in 3 years. Oh, DAMN IT, this cat suckered me into an Amway meeting. I get up
to go to the bathroom (and leave) only to find my car is literally blocked
in...Yep, the dude had people park at an angle behind me so I couldn’t
leave...Anyway, meeting ends, I shake hands and sit in my car for 20 minutes
until the other suckers move their car and I can leave.
Dude blows up my phone for 2 weeks trying to set up a “follow up” meeting, this
time with me and my wife. To make matters worse, I had told him my wife works
at the local school and he looked her up online and started emailing her at her
school email (in fairness he CC’d me each time) I ended up having to call the
Chamber of Commerce that sets up the networking meetings to complain and am
told “this isn’t the first complaint we got about him”.
Point of story, ask a lot of questions if someone is wanting to meet with you
that you don’t know, nobody does this for free. Crazy how they manipulate their
intentions as they know if they mention Amway, nobody will meet with them. If
you are in a “business” where you cannot say its name for fear of alienating
people, might want to re-think your involvement.
I understand EXACTLY what this guy is talking about. Amway freaks will do anything and say anything to get you to a meeting, and they'll do even more to keep you there.
ReplyDeleteAs for bothering you for weeks afterwards with their phone calls and messages, that's also par for the course. But going after this guy's wife and bothering her at work is something that is intolerable. In the old days, a husband would have gone to this Amway asshole's house with a horsewhip, and left him a bloody pulp on the floor for doing such an outrageous thing!
But more important for us here is what is reveals about the basic psychology of anyone who is caught up in the Amway madness. What is most prominent is the staggering ARROGANCE, the total THOUGHTLESSNESS, the complete disregard of any common politeness or courtesy! You bring a guy to a meeting under false pretenses, you deliberately block his car so he can't leave, you pay no attention at all when he tells you he's not interested, and you have the unmitigated gall to try and lure him in by using his wife!
I can't conceive of any normal human being doing such things. But all of it happens in Amway, because of the ferocious brainwashing that IBOs are given by vicious and controlling up-line types. The down-line IBOs are told "Don't take no for an answer! Keep pestering the guy! Hit him with calls and messages until he gives up and joins!"
As a result, the down-line IBO turns into a demanding, selfish, arrogant bastard for whom anything is OK, as long as it promotes the Amway business.
Anonymous - Amway losers have highly inflated opinions of themselves and don’t think laws and rules apply to them because they’re in the Amway cult. That’s why Ambots believe it is their right to bug people at work to convince them to sign up to their pyramid scheme. What these Amway losers did - blocking him from leaving and annoying him for weeks after is normal behavior inside the Amway cult. And this is why it is so important for us to share our stories about what really goes on.
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