Amway WWDB Family Reunion 2012

There are Amway IBO’s who are looking for information on WWDB Amway Family Reunion 2012 so here I am to help in their quest! I found some information about Puryear Family Reunion on the World Wide Dream Builders website but it would appear that any other Diamonds looking to cash in on this Amway function need to get the word out to their downline some other way.

Top rat gets the publicity and the bigger share of the tool scam pie!

There are a lot of ambots looking for info on the Duncan Family Reunion 2012.

Can’t find no information on the World Wide Destructive Bastards website because they’re busy promoting the Puryear Family Reunion. Must piss off the other Diamonds that they’re not getting their fair share of advertising!

I had this problem in 2011. The Amway cult is very secretive and very hush hush. The only way brainwashed ambots can get this top secret information about Duncan Family Reunion is from the assholes in their upline. Or from Anna Banana!

However I did find out that the Oregon Convention Center in Portland Oregon is booked on July 21 to 22 2012 for Duncan Family Reunion. Unknown which Duncan - apparently there are 2 or 3 of them running around out there brainwashing ambots.

Don’t know of any other venues for WWDB Family Reunion for any other Diamonds though undoubtedly they are happening and ambots are being encouraged to hit as many as possible. Many ambots should be able to attend both Puryear Family Reunion being held in Boise Idaho on July 13 to 15 2012 and then haul ass to Portland Oregon to catch the Duncan Family Reunion from July 21 to 22 2012. I will post dates and cities for any other WWDB Amway Family Reunion as I find out about them.

So basically all I can do right now is use this blog to throw in some keywords to reel in ambots who are looking for WWDB Amway Family Reunion information and particularly Duncan Family Reunion 2012. Fortunately Married To An Ambot is very high on the search engines for just about every kind of search when it comes to Amway.

It looks like I am forced to give the Anna Banana version of what really happens at Family Reunion! Even though this is several years old these Amway brainwashing conferences do not change much.

So we bust our asses driving there being harrassed for much of the drive by our sponsor Captain Fuck Up who kept phoning to bitch at ambot that he’d lost his wallet which meant he had no cash, no ID, no credit cards, etc etc. That fucking Amway asshole must have phoned at least 20 times to bitch about his damned wallet! Now whose fault is it that he lost it? Apparently Ambot’s! That’s what Amway is all about. Pointing fingers and throwing blame on others. We were about 3 hours into the drive when Captain Fuck Up suggested he left his wallet in our house and demanded we turn home and look around for it just in case it was there. I think Ambot was smart enough to figure out if I spent 3 hours driving home I was staying there! Plus it would have meant he’d miss the very important Amway shitty trade show on Friday night. I’m sure nobody gives a shit but Captain Fuck Up’s wallet never turned up in our house or anywhere else. Probably some ambot stole it at the previous night’s cult meeting.

Friday night Amway trade show. Pretty shitty excuse for a trade show. The usual assholes were there flogging their overpriced shit: Artistry, Nutrilite, XS, and Perfect Water. There was also a check in desk and if you were registered for Family Reunion you could get your weekend information packet early. While we were there our upline Eagle showed up with some others in his downline. One of the bastards claimed he’d registered a day or 2 earlier and paid on the WWDB website but when he showed up to get his weekend packet they couldn’t find he’d registered. So there he was no money and nobody in his upline with any money and no way to come up with $250 to get into Family Reunion. Then Ambot shows up and starts bragging that I’ve got a couple of hundred extra bucks in my wallet. Would that have something to do with a door crasher at JC Penney on Saturday and a cappuccino machine I was planning to buy? So the fucking asshole Eagle starts bitching at Ambot to loan the cash so the dumb ass ambot in his downline can get his ticket and hotel for Family Reunion. And because Ambot wants to look so high and mighty and all big and important in front of all these fucking Amway assholes he’s devoted his life to worshipping and impressing he hands over the cash.

Which I might add we never got the cash back because the fucking Amway assholes said that was the same amount we’d need for Free Enterprise Days FED coming up in October and they would take care of buying the tickets for us and that way we’d all be even.

Fuck you Amway assholes! What about my goddamned cappuccino machine thats on sale??????

So the fucking WWDB Amway Family Reunion gets started on Saturday. Fuck what a waste of money! One fucking piece of shit Platinum after another gets up on stage to gloat here I am. Men in tuxedoes and women in evening ball gowns. Like where the fuck do you assholes think you are? This ain’t formal night on the Love Boat! All those sack of shit Platinums thank every asshole in their Amway upline. What a bunch of ass kissers! Those Platinums are kissing so much ass I’m surprised they’re not choking on shit! So this goes on all day. Oh and the creepy part is all these brainwashed ambots who crowd around the stage screaming like the Beatles are up there instead of just some scamming slimy piece of shit Platinums. Then they break for dinner which is included with the price but we have to haul ass to another venue to eat. The food wasn’t all that great. Just less than average el cheapo banquet fare.

The day’s torture ain’t over. We go back to the arena and now we have to put up with some Diamonds that are pissed off they aren’t making as much money speaking at the function as they’d like to so they spend the next 3 or 4 hours telling the ambots to buy more motivational materials so they can make money this weekend. Brainwashing hell is over around 11pm.

Ambot and I are staying at a hotel where no one in our LOS is staying and I don’t think there was a night owl or if there was we didn’t go.

Sunday morning is a church service. No thanks. I’ll sleep in so I don’t have to put up with any more wacko Amway religious crap like I had my fill the day before. I think the afternoon bullshit session got going again around 1pm and was over at 5. Thank god! Let’s get the hell out of here and go home.

Family Reunion sucks!

WWDB sucks!

Amway sucks!

What a fucking waste of a weekend!

What a fucking waste of money!

What a fucking waste of not getting a great deal on a cappuccino machine!

And a big fuck you to all the Amway assholes in my upline!!!!

Buy Your Tickets for WWDB Amway Puryear Family Reunion 2012!

Time for some keywords because IBO’s are desperately searching for information about World Wide Dream Builders Family Reunion! This is an Amway function held in July each year.

Puryear Family Reunion is being held on July 13 to 15 2012 in Boise Idaho.

Before Amway ambots get out of Spring Leadership the shitheads in their upline are riding their asses about Family Reunion coming up in July and BUY your tickets NOW! Before they are sold out! Translation: Before you can think about quitting Amway sometime over the next couple of months. Gimmee your money!!!!

So off I go to the World Wide Destructive Bastards website to see what I can find about their current plans for causing financial distress to their cult followers and breaking up marriages and destroying families. There’s IMPACT a lot in their brainwashing message to the ambot cult followers.

I’ll give you fuckers IMPACT all right! Impact is a collision like two cars crashing into each other at an intersection. Scamway is a path to collision! I write my blog so that others know exactly what kind of IMPACT putting up with Amway assholes will have on your life. Amway IMPACT = collision with evil.

I don’t know if where they’re holding the reunion they’re having ambots running all over Boise or if the venues are close together. Ain’t never been there - don’t know my way around town! General sessions in the Centurylink Arena July 14 and 15. Saturday dinner and Sunday Breakfast in the Boise Centre. I thought they spelled it wrong so I double checked on the Internet and that is right. Go figure. Original typo made it too expensive to make changes?

Can’t find the price for WWDB Amway Family Reunion because you gotta buy a $50/month membership into the cult to see that top secret information but it includes accommodations, two meals and meetings. When we went to Family Reunion it was $450 for both of us and that included tickets, Saturday night hotel, and Saturday night dinner. I’m guessing that dollar amount is still in the ballpark. I mean just how expensive can Boise be? Its not the tourist or convention capital of the U.S.A.!

Friday night looks to be the bullshit Amway “trade show” with the usual shitty products - Artistry, Nutrilite etc.

Ha ha they’re also offering a seminar on “tough questions”. You know the kind you get from friends and family when you tell them you’re in the Amway cult. They’ll teach you how to answer those questions! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!! Yup more of the same old Amway bullshit canned Amspeak responses.

Saturday’s speakers are going to be recently qualified Platinums and Rubys. I don’t know what the hell a ruby is in Amway. But whatever. These lying Amway assholes are apparently going to talk about building “the business”. Well if those bastards do that it will be a first in Scamway history because when I went all I remember is everyone that got up on the stage gushes and bullshits and brags and don’t give no business advice.

Then Diamonds will be yapping about the importance of having a dream. Yeah what’s the Diamond going to say - my dream is to scam the cult followers in my downline! Buy more tools assholes!

On Sunday afternoon the Diamonds are going to be teaching business methods. How to reel in more suckers to the Amway scam!

Who are the troublemaking bastards that will be bullshitting the Amway cult followers this year?

Ron and Georgie Lee Puryear

Glen and Joya Baker

Greg and Laurie Duncan

Joe & Norma Foglio

Jim and Judy Head

Dave Severn

Matt and Sandee Tsuruda

Mike and Michi Woods

Dan and Sandy Yuen

Does anyone else notice how the Amway good old boys male chauvinist club puts the mans name first? Chivalry is dead in the Amway hellhole! Wouldn’t want to be on the Titanic with these assholes!

Seems to be a few names missing. I better add them in so I can throw off any ambots looking for their Amway asshole heroes at Family Reunion. Brad Wolgamott. Dean Kosage. David Shores. Brad Duncan. And lets not forget good old Ganesh and Neha Shenoy because I get lots of Google searches for them every day! Oh wait what about the Amway assholes who jumped ship to Monavie? Who can help out here? Britt someone? Dexter Yager?

Missing from the line up of Amway asshole activities is the Sunday morning brainwashing sermon but we all know they will sneak it in. The one where they pass a hat or a bucket or whatever and take up a collection for the Diamond preaching to the cult followers. Got to make a little side cash by throwing in even more religion like the rest of the weekend wasn’t already peppered with it. Scam you suckers into thinking this money is going to charity! The charity is called the Diamond wants a new Porsche!

Get a clue you fucking Amway assholes! Legitimate businesses do not bring up biblical terms constantly in the workplace or haul it into conferences.

Unless they’re a cult!

WWDB sucks!

Amway sucks!

Family reunion sucks!

And the Amway assholes in my upline suck! Fuck you bastards!

Amway Ambots are Experts at ??????

Another thing that really pissed me of about the Amway ambots I had to put up with was that every single one of those bastards was an expert on EVERYTHING! You name it those fuckers knew everything about the subject whether or not it had anything to do with Amway. The biggest bunch of bullshitters I’ve ever met in my life have all been Amway assholes.

The arrogance of those pompous Amway bastards is something I have never dealt with before our time in the Amway hellhole. Fortunately it is something I’ve never had to put up with since we got the hell away from those Amway assholes!

You name it those ambot assholes pretend they’re an expert at it. I guess the fact that they run pretend businesses and they’re pretend business owners gives them all the credibility they need to be pretend experts on every subject under the sun.

I’m not saying that there are not ambots out there who don’t have expertise in certain areas through job, education, or life experiences. What I’m calling out are the Amway assholes who just be virtue of the fact that they are Amway IBO’s means that now makes them know it alls. 

Those ambots are all experts when it comes to cars. Too bad none of them take their own fucking advice and drive around in shitmobiles that are 20 or 30 years old and always breaking down due to lack of maintenance. By that age many cars do run into mechanical problems and need to be completely overhauled. Being an Amway IBO means you are constantly broke because you have to hand over all your money to the Amway cult leaders so there is no money leftover for car maintenance or to save up to buy a new car.

Those Amway assholes are experts on all things plumbing and electrical even though most of them have never picked up a hammer or a screwdriver. I saw a house an Amway “expert” jack of all trades was working on. The ceiling lights were falling out of their fixtures. The tile in the bathroom was not grouted right and squint and uneven. He was taking forever to paint the exterior because he had to keep stopping what he was doing to deal with the phone - calls and texts from the assholes in his Amway upline.

Those Amway assholes are experts when it comes to filling out your income tax. “Everything in Amway is a tax deduction! Claim that toilet paper!”

Those Amway assholes are “counsellors” even though they’ve never taken any formal training in counselling for behavior problems, emotional disorders, marital issues, etc. etc. “The facts don’t count!” Not when you’re an Amway asshole = automatic expert on everything!

IBOFB stopped visiting my blog a long time ago and I don’t follow anything he writes on the Internet but I see others making fun of him on other blogs because apparently he is a self proclaimed expert on everything - typical of know it all Amway assholes. He jumped into discussions on my blog where us women complained Amway’s eye cream didn’t do piss all for us and he told us if it doesn’t work then that means we’re not applying it correctly because Amway Artistry sells prestige products and there’s nothing wrong with them - the problem lies with the user. Yup its the typical old Amway standby response of blaming the victim. Same thing with Amway’s prestige tampons. If they leak after 30 minutes then us women must be putting them in wrong. Couldn’t have anything to do with the inferior quality of these products could it?

As people gain life experience they learn to sort through good and bad advice, take what works for them and reject the rest. Counselling with qualified financial advisors or other professionals can be smart for your business and personal life. Hearing a man giving  tampon advice is something that makes most women break down into uncontrollable laughter! But that’s an Amway asshole for you! Experts on everything!

A lot of people have similar goals: get out of debt, put money in the bank, buy a house, make wise investments, and retire comfortably not worrying about finances. Those are basics. Some people have different financial goals, perhaps buying a motorcycle or taking a half year vacation in the south of Italy. The best bet is to talk to people who have actual experience doing these things and hear their suggestions and listen to their advice.

There are many paths to reach the finish goal. Throughout the years I have asked for and taken advice from persons more experienced than I am. Some of the advice works, others not so good.

The arrogant pompous know it all Amway bastards that I had to suffer are the biggest bunch of assholes I’ve ever met in my life. Troublemaking bastards who can’t mind their own fucking business.

The one thing that I’ve become an expert at that no one in my upline will be ever be better than me at and that is blogging about what Amway assholes are really like!

Phone Calls and Texts from Amway Upline

Last night at dinner Ambot said something about me sending him too many text messages because he has to stop what he’s doing to look at them. I think I sent him 4 today. And OK I admit one text was about the dog wanting to chase the cat but the rest were somewhat important reminders of things he’s supposed to do.

So then I point out the obvious that I do not text him as much as those assholes in his Amway upline used to.

Yeah that shut him up!

There is no privacy when you’re in Amway. You are at the beck and call of your upline at all hours when you sign up with the Amway cult. After my husband got involved in Amway his sponsor and upline felt it was OK to phone and text whenever they wanted. It freaked me out when his phone rang after we'd gone to bed or hearing a chime indicating a text message. And it would bug the shit out of me that he had to be a good little Ambot and answer the phone or immediately type back a text message. And then it would go on and on. A few minutes later the text would chime again. And again. And again.

It would piss me off and I'd tell him to ignore it. The problem is if he didn't respond within a minute to a text, one of those upline bastards would phone and ask him if he got the text.

I know in this day and age of communications and instant messages and everyone has a cell phone that the younger generation is phoning and texting at all hours. When I was growing up my parents stressed phone calls should not be made after 9pm unless it was an emergency. Early morning phone calls were a no-no too. So my mind set is when the phone rings before 8am or after 9pm that something bad has happened. My heart jumps to my throat and I am freaked out that the caller is bringing me bad news: car crash, ambulance, hospital, house on fire, death. A couple of weeks ago the dog woke me up early around 6:30 and I couldn’t get back to sleep so I went into the living room to read a book. At 7 the phone rang. Holy shit! Freaked me right out, even more so when I saw on the call display it was my dad’s number and was envisioning all kinds of medical emergencies. Fortunately there was no problem except that he was hungry and wanted to know if we’d like to join him at IHOP. After my heart got back to normal I asked him why he just didn’t invite us the night before. But you know it was just one of those things. He woke up craving pancakes and was buying if we wanted to meet him there. Then he told us we should be awake anyway. Well I was done sleeping - as they say in Amspeak - courtesy of the dog, but the phone woke up my husband.

I specifically remember one incident when Ambot had pre-purchased a $25 ticket to an Artistry seminar. The night he was supposed to go he realized he was double booked and had another function he had to attend. He phoned some asshole in his upline to tell him. I don’t think that asshole really gave a flying fuck because he wasn't planning to attend the Artistry seminar either. I have no idea if he advised anyone upline of him and so on and so on like all good little ambots must do. You know the whole “ask permission from your upline” before you do or don’t do something. No privacy. Big Brother is watching. The whole creepy Amway cult thing.

We returned from our function and went to bed. I’d turned on the late news at 11pm and we were still awake when the phone rang at 11:30pm. I nearly went through the roof. Visions of car crashes and hospital emergency rooms flashed through my head. Not to mention the near heart attack I was having. Call the ambulance for me!

It was the wife of the 1500 - 4000 pin upline couple. You know how that fluctuates depending on how well they can bully the downline into buying overpriced Amway shit and dealing with IBO’s who are quitting. Platinum just always out of their grasp. She’s phoning Ambot to scold him for not attending the Artistry meeting.

I mean fuck you for phoning at that late hour just to bitch him out. That call couldn't have waited until the next day? Why even phone at all? Adults can make their own decisions. Ambot should have asked her if he could get a refund of his $25 for the unused ticket.

So what are you phoning to scold him about, bitch???? Fuck you anyway! Ambot didn’t hand the phone over to me because he knew I would give her shit supreme like she’s never heard before for calling at that hour for a non-emergency. He might have been under that whole worship your upline and treat them like gods Amway cult thing but I was under no such dellusion about that bullshit. I guess he knews if I gave the bitch shit like she deserved she would complain to the Platinum cult leader and then Ambot would be subjected to nasty text messages all night long. Ah, just let me get hold of his cell phone and I would be responding with a big FUCK YOU to every one of those texts.

Those assholes still haven't made Platinum after 20 years inside the Amway cult. Woo hoo! You go girl! Alienate your downline and make them quit because of your dumb ass late night scoldings. Way to motivate your downline!

So that’s what new IBO’s have to look forward to in their future. Texts and phone calls from the upline assholes at all hours. Being scolded if you miss a function. Treated like cult followers. We love you. We hate you. Amway upline abuse.

I am so glad those late night texts and phone calls and scoldings from those asshole Amway cult members has ended!

Is the worst part about being in Amway overpaying for shitty products and investing in the tool scam or is it putting up with abuse from the assholes in your Amway upline?

This is the abuse that goes on inside the Amway cult and the type of stuff that the Amway corporation doesn’t want known to outsiders but they refuse to act on complaints about upline abuse. So I take it to the Internet and then I put up with current Amway cult members who are outraged that I put the dirty little secrets on my blog so everyone knows about the abuse that comes with being inside the Amway cult.

Yup one more time to send a big old fuck you out to everyone in my Amway upline!

Amway Artistry Cosmetics

I’ve been getting a lot of hits recently for Artistry Cosmetics so I figured its time to devote another post to that shitty overpriced low quality lousy selection fucked up Amway mess that women are expected to slop on their faces.

Unknown to me Ambot bought a very expensive $60 face cream. I cringed at the price tag but seeing as how he’d already bought it, I used it. It didn’t do anything a $15 bottle of Oil of Olay’s face cream can’t do for me so I didn’t buy it again after it ran out. Yikes! I still can’t believe Ambot was so brainwashed he’d spend that kind of money when there’s a better quality product out there at a quarter of the price. With the $45 in savings we could have gone out and had a decent dinner somewhere. Sure beats the upline splitting a $45 commission!

I usually buy makeup from a friend who sells Avon. Unlike Amway, Avon always seems to have sales going on. Lipstick, eye shadow, or nail polish for $2.99? I’ll take a few colors. Deodorant at .99 cents each? I’ll stock up for a year. I love a good deal.

Never got a good deal on piss all nothing with Amway!

Luckily I was well stocked up on Avon products prior to Ambot getting involved in Amway. I told him I still wanted to buy Avon from our friend. Better prices, larger selection, equal quality. Ambot was outraged. “You need to support our business and buy from our store.”

Like shit. I’m a victim of the Amspeak that he’s duplicated off the fucking upline.

So I point out the obvious. “If we’re the only customers then we’re a bunch of fucking idiots for selling our products too high priced.”

A few Artistry products slunk into the house courtesy of Ambot. A couple of bottles of overpriced nail polish including a bottle of final gloss coat or whatever its called that I don’t normally use. A very expensive tube of lipstick in a shade that I hated because Artistry has such a limited choice of colors. There was a bottle of really stinky body lotion. What did they do? Harvest it from a dead eucalyptus tree? A tube of burnt caramel smelly hand cream that made my hands all itchy and scratchy after I rubbed it in. Also tried Amway Artistry eye cream. Didn’t do piss all for me. Oil of Olay and Avon products work MUCH better. In fact several women discussed the same thing that Artistry’s eye cream didn’t do nothing for none of us. At which point IBOFB very stupidly walked into the conversation and suggested that we were putting the eye cream on incorrectly and gave us instructions to which he got laughed at for his trouble. Women who’ve been putting on cosmetics for years know how to apply eye cream. We don’t need some arrogant shithead man telling us how to apply cosmetics. Or tampons either!

At every Amway meeting the upline lied about Artistry being one of the top 5 cosmetics in the world. According to my research, depending on whose list (usually magazines do these surveys), Artistry falls somewhere between number 15 and 30, which is not too shabby in the greater scheme of things, but never in the top 5, though Avon usually is. I guess not too many ambots think about doing research to see if their upline is lying or not. I’m not an ambot so I had no problem hitting the Internet to source out the lies told by our lying scheming upline assholes.

The same fucking assholes that tell you that you can’t believe anything written on the Internet because its a bathroom wall and full of lies. Then they try to promote Amway as an Internet business. Fucking double talking morons!

What I eventually found out is that Amway’s Artistry cosmetics are in the top 5 “prestigious” cosmetics. Its a survey run by a company called Euromonitor where Amway pays them to run the survey. Well you get what you pay for. Pay Euromonitor enough money and choose your spot on that list.

And who the fuck is Euromonitor anyway? Like anyone on this side of the Atlantic has heard of them. Why not use a well known American survey company? Probably because the well known American survey companies have already rated Amway Artistry cosmetics and the competition beat them out.

Now here’s the thing for women buying cosmetics. What’s the criteria we’re looking for when buying make up or skin care products? What is important to us?

Price is certainly a factor. We like getting a good deal. I can buy Oil of Olay face cream products at the drugstore between $10 and $20 depends what I’m buying and that’s an average price range for most cosmetics companies that sell similar products. Avon has some great sales. I can usually buy what I want for $5 to $10. Better and better. Switch my buying habits to the best bang for my buck for a product that has good results for me!

To be more specific I like a tinted face cream with an SPF of at least 15 and I don’t want to pay any more than around $15 tops for it. Amway does not sell this product, or if they do its come on since I quit and I shudder what price they’d be charging if that $60 face cream in the tiny container is a benchmark figure. To get the same Amway benefits I’d have to buy several different products. So start with the $60 face cream, add $20 for Amway’s sunscreen and say another $40 for some bronzer make up. 3 different products for big bucks. I got what I needed on my last order from Avon. $5! And only one product!

Selection is another factor especially when it comes to products with color like lipstick, eye shadow, and nail polish. Walk into a drugstore and there are literally hundreds of products. Likewise in Avon’s catalogue. Hundreds of colors and a variety of prices anywhere from $3 up. Maybe 20 colors from Amway. I don’t remember what they cost but I remember being horrified paying that much for them.

Quality is another consideration. We want the product to actually work for us. What works on one person doesn’t work for someone else. It takes a little trial and error to find out what works for you. Fortunately drug stores carry enormous selection of different brands at reasonable prices.

Looking good. Yup. Women wear make up to look good. If we prefer light pastel tones that match our skin type that’s what we choose. If Amway only offers deep brassy cosmetics that would look more styling on another skin type we are not going to be happy wearing them and looking like a clown. A fucking Amway clown that is!

I never ever heard a Platinum, Emerald, or Diamond speaker say Artistry is one of the top 5 “prestige” cosmetics. They always said Artistry is the top 5 best selling or top 5 best in the world.

No woman considers “prestige” when buying makeup. I mean really who gives a shit about prestige when more important considerations are price, selection, and quality. That’s how women select their cosmetics. We like to get good value for our money.

We don't give a flying fuck when some dumb ass ambot tells us that Captain America or whatever starlet is wearing Artistry. At least in the commercials. Its called paying someone big bucks to endorse your product. If McDonald's paid me a million bucks to appear in a commercial and take a bite out of a Big Mac and gush about how good it is I'd do it too. "This Big Mac tastes like a million bucks! Yummy!"

And we espeically don’t give a flying fuck how “prestigious” the cosmetics are. What are we going to do. Strut down the sidewalk and accost every woman and say “I’m wearing prestigious make up and you’re not. I’m in Amway and that means I’m better than you because I wear prestigious make up and you don’t. So ha! You fucking loser wearing Revlon!”

That’s part of our Platinum’s teaching. To insult women’s make up choices. http://marriedtoanambot.blogspot.com/2010/10/insulting-womens-makeup-choices.html

101 Ways to Piss Off an IBO

This topic is inspired by that new show on TV called 101 Ways to Leave a Game Show. Its hilarious! I’d like to do most of those stunts to our former upline minus the safety equipment of course!

This post might help out the people who end up at my blog after doing a Google search for “how to get rid of those annoying Amway salespeople” or “how to tell Amway people to go away”.

Here are 101 things to say to an IBO to piss him off:

1. Does this have anything to do with Amway?
2. Amway is a pyramid scheme.
3. XS Energy Drinks taste like cat piss!
4. Why did Ganesh and Neha Shenoy get divorced?
5. Why is everyone in Amway so phony nice to me?
6. $60 a year membership to buy overpriced products? Are you fucking kidding me?
7. Go to hell! Oh I forgot. You’re in Amway. Same thing.
8. Go peddle your snake oil somewhere else!
9. Why are Nutrilite vitamins so expensive? And don’t give me no bullshit about the high quality because that’s a lie.
10. I read on the Internet that IBO’s lie about Artistry Cosmetics being one of the top 5 cosmetics in the world.
11. Are you really dumb enough to believe that everything to do with Amway is a tax deduction?
12. Does Amway sell Monavie products?
13. Is this Scamway?
14. You want me to come to an 8pm meeting? Fuck off! American Idol  is on then!
15. Hey I drank your Perfect Water and I still don’t look 10 years younger! You’re a fucking liar!
16. Why are the Puryears selling their river house?
17. What kind of a slimeball gets involved with Amway?
18. Did you hear Amway’s getting sued again?
19. How many people do you have in your downline?
20. I heard you lose a lot of money in Amway.
21. Have you read Merchants of Deception?
22. Amway is a cult.
23. How come when a dog eats Amway dog food it shits three times more than it used to?
24. I can make $115 a month working an Amway business for 10 to 15 hours a week? Do the math asshole! That’s $2 to $3 an hour!
25. Show me your tax return to prove you’re making $100,000 a year in Amway.
26. Who’s the liar that told you Amway owns the Amway Arena in Orlando?
27. If you’re so successful in Amway how come you’re driving a piece of shit 1972 Pinto?
28. I heard Amway sells prestige tampons.
29. No I’m not willing to pay more money for quality products.
30. That Amway food bar you gave me tasted like shit!
31. How come you’re too embarrassed to tell anyone you’re with Amway?
32. Why are you lying to me?
33. Why do you have to get permission from your upline before doing anything?
34. How many customers do you have?
35. How much money do you make each month in Amway sales?
36. I heard the only way to make money in Amway is by selling motivational tools.
37. I’ll be successful just by going to Amway meetings and doing nothing else?
38. I heard Amway destroys relationships.
39. The only people who get rich in Amway are at the top of the pyramid.
40. You can’t brainwash me asshole!
41. How many grand openings are you planning to hold? Wasn’t one enough?
42. Submit to upline? Are you fucking crazy? Cult! Cult! Cult!
43. As a matter of fact I do like my job.
44. What qualifications does your upline have as counsellors?
45. Jesus Christ! Get off your fucking phone! Its after midnight! Doesn’t your fucking upline ever go to sleep?
46. How come Amway dishwasher soap costs twice as much as other brands and it only gets half the dishes clean?
47. Why does Amway sell towels that fall apart?
48. Sniped any prospects at the grocery store lately?
49. How many people you got on your name list?
50. Your Amway upline leader says you’re not allowed to watch TV? Sounds like a cult to me!
51. Let me give you a good suggestion what you can do with those fucking Amway tapes!
52. Where am I going to find 6 people open to being scammed?
53. Who gives a shit if a Diamond is speaking tonight?
54. How come Amway’s shipping costs are so high? I only have to spend $25 with Amazon to get free shipping.
55. Why do you refer to Amway as “the business”? What’s the big secret to calling it what it is?
56. Who’s the fucking moron that told you Amway is the only recession proof business?
57. Hey did you see the Dateline expose on the Amway scam?
58. Amway’s an expensive social club.
59. What do you mean you’re cleaning your Platinum’s house for free every week?
60. Why do Amway meetings last until way past midnight?
61. Show me your Amway profit and loss statement.
62. Amway is creepy.
63. So what if I’m a broke loser for the rest of my life. Its better than being a good for nothing, lying, scumbucket Amway IBO so fuck off!
64. I’ve got better things to do with my life than go to your dumb ass Family Reunion.
65. I’m trading hours for dollars? Well at least its better than being in Amway and trading hours for pennies.
66. Why’s everything in Amway so secretive?
67. Wow! You spend so much time doing Amway shit when do you have time for fun?
68. If David Shores really paid cash for his house how did it get foreclosed?
69. My wife is already free. What’s it to you anyway?
70. Mind your own goddamned business!
71. You’re a cult leader in training.
72. How do you say fuck in igbo?
73. The secret to Amway success is ripping off your customers.
74. So what if I have an employee mentality. Its better than having a brainwashed ambot mentality.
75. Who cares?
76. How many Amway meetings each week?
77. Who is Orrin Woodward?
78. Don’t get bitchy with me! You dragged me out to this fucking Amway meeting because you wanted my opinion. I gave you my opinion! Its a fucking scam!
79. I already am my own boss.
80. If Amway Diamonds make so much money why did Greg Duncan declare bankruptcy?
81. Sure I look at other ways of making money. How do you like my new printing press over there?
82. When you’re financially free in two to five years come back and show me your plan then.
83. I don’t punch a time clock but I’d sure like to punch you!
84. Open your fucking ears and eyes! Amway is a scam!
85. Why do you need permission to talk to your crossline?
86. Been to Barnes & Noble lately?
87. Why don’t you just tell me what your business opportunity is so I don’t have to go to your meeting.
88. How come you have to write checks payable to cash? Sounds like tax evasion to me.
89. Ever hear of the 15 second introduction? You should be able to say who you are and what you do in under 15 seconds. If it takes you a 3 hour meeting to spit it out you’re a fucking loser.
90. No I don’t want to support your business because you’re too high priced.
91. WWDB stands for World Wide Destructive Bastards
92. Walmart has lower prices and better products.
93. Are you stupid?
94. It costs ten bucks to go to an Amway meeting? Rip off!
95. CD’s cost how much?
96. Ha ha! Did you seriously just call yourself an Amway warrior?
97. How come there are stories all over the Internet about how much money people are losing in the Amway scam?
98. Your upline says you have to ask permission before you can buy a new fridge? Holy shit! And you say you’re not in a cult!
99. I’ve heard there’s some fat IBO’s. Does that mean the $500 Amway diet plan doesn’t work?
100. What’s it like living inside a pyramid?
101. Why does Amway ruin marriages?

Oh I’ve got more. I just promised to stop at 101!

Trade Show at Puryear Family Reunion 2011

Seeing as how I have such “fond” memories of the trade show at Family Reunion I thought I’d check the WWDB web page and see if there’s any mention of the kind of trade show treats that await the poor bastards going to the Amway WWDB Family Reunion in Boise Idaho in July 2011.

This year’s fakey trade show seems slightly different than the one I attended. They’re calling the Friday night trade show workshops and seminars. It sounds like it might be more or less the same thing as the trade show I went to. Booths and demos. Stingy demos judging by the dixie cup of Perfect Water and packet of one use Artistry face cream that we received.

How’s this for a way to kill a Friday night?

1. Learning about standing orders and digital delivery. Yeah right. I’d rather be learning this bullshit than attending a Friday night Rolling Stones concert.

2. Introducing the new WWDB app. Yeah sucks if you don’t have an iPhone. Expect the cult leaders to be riding their downline’s asses to buy new phones so they can buy this new app. More money flushed down the old Amway tool scam toilet!

3. Demonstrating how Legacy of Clean works. Here’s a news flash for those pompous Amway bastards. Most women learned how to operate a washing machine and dishwasher by the time they were twelve years old. Sorry guys this might have been a skill that took you a little longer to learn! We all know how to use laundry soap and dishwasher soap. We figured it out a long time ago. Through trial and error over the years we figured out which detergents do a good job of getting our clothes/dishes clean. We know the approximate prices of just about every soap out there because we’re good comparison shoppers. We know a good deal and will buy an extra one if its on sale. We all know that Amway’s soap is overpriced and there are better, less expensive options in the market. You can be pretty certain whoever is demonstrating this bullshit had to go to a lot of trouble to find maybe the one soap out there in the world that doesn’t clean as well as Amway.

4. Nutrilite Weight Management. Uh huh. Judging by some of the speakers who hit the stage we all see how good this product works! There’s about a 95% failure rate for people who try diets like this. Almost the same odds as the failure rate of people who don’t earn money in Amway. This is one company that loves to stack the odds against you and design their systems for failure!

5. Fast Track! Make money! Yeah, yeah! I’ve heard it all before! They were calling it Fast Track when we were in too!

6. Artistry will be there again doling out stingy sized sample packets. Avon is more generous with their samples. Less expensive. More variety. Need I say more? Artistry sucks!

So that tells me about 6 exhibitors/snake oil pitchers will be at the trade show. In my previous post I didn’t remember how many though I thought less than 10. We zipped through the trade fair in less than 20 minutes. This time they’re forcing “serious business builders” to stay a little longer by enticing them with “very important” seminars spaced out over a couple of hours. The seminars and demos start at various times between 6:30pm and 8:30pm. Don’t get your undies in a knot. Those seminars last about 5 minutes. There’s only so many ways you can bullshit about a lousy product.

There are more fun ways to spend a hot July weekend in Boise. Waterpark anyone?

Trade Show at Amway WWDB Family Reunion

When we arrived at the hotel we stayed at during Amway WWDB Family Reunion we barely checked in and put our bags in the room when Ambot wanted to haul ass over to the convention arena because something was going on - meaning Amway products would be out on display. For lack of anything else to describe it I’d call it a trade show but that is using the term very loosely.

Now I’ve been to real trade shows. They usually revolve around a theme: boats, home & gardening, RV’s, etc. Trade shows are usually held in fairgrounds because there are usually exhibition halls or ice rinks (no ice), etc that can be converted into trade shows and plenty of parking. There are usually a couple of hundred exhibitors, maybe more depending on the venue. Usually the people who rent booths at these events either provide products or services roughly related to the theme of the trade show. However there are always the usual suspects who show up at these events even though what they’re selling has nothing to do with the theme. There will probably be booths selling nuts or fudge or cotton candy, probably some realtors have booths, maybe some tourism bureaus from other towns, and usually some MLM’s like Mary Kay will be flogging their wares. I have never seen Amway represented at any trade show. Whew!

OK so we bust our asses getting to the arena so we can partake of the world’s most awesome Amway trade show. Its a not to be missed extravaganza for serious business builders.

Ha ha! This was the shittiest, sorriest excuse for a trade show I’ve ever seen in my life. Well what else do you expect from Amway? There were only a few booths, maybe 10. One of them had Perfect Water dispensed in dixie cups. Artistry was there and they had little sample packs of face cream. You know the use it once kind. Someone from XS Gear was there with their products. This is where Ambot ran into trouble with getting ripped off by XS Gear. He got the guy’s business card and decided to be their best customer but it didn’t work out so well.

I don’t remember what else was there. I know it took less than 20 minutes to see everything. Pretty shitty. Surprisingly enough there weren’t the hoards of brainwashed ambots you’d expect to see here. There were maybe a hundred people and that includes IBO’s and the exhibitors standing behind the tables. Of course due to the shitty exhibits it only took minutes to see it all so its very possible IBO’s were trailing in and out over the 2 or 3 hours it was open. So there could have been another couple of hundred IBO’s viewing the trade show before and after we got there.

There was the Amway registration desk and we could pick up our “kit” - as I recall a ticket on a string that we hung around our necks. There was also early bird parking passes for the weekend for sale. A real screaming deal at $20. Only available to the poor suckers who showed up at the trade show. And yes Ambot bought one.

Shitty trade show aside going inside that arena brings back another memory.

Prior to our departure I’d been looking around to buy a cappuccino machine with all the bells and whistles and I brought an extra $200 cash with me because I thought I might find one on sale this weekend. I’d seen an ad at JC Penney with a one day Saturday sale and even though we’d be out of town I thought I could still find one while attending Family Reunion. The problem is big mouth Ambot blabs to everyone and anyone that we had extra money with us. Captain Fuck Up’s sponsor - Asshole Eagle - was at the trade show plus a few others in his downline. Like its any of their fucking business how much money we happen to have on hand! I was pissed off at Ambot because these kids in their 20’s probably didn’t even bring enough money to buy meals and would likely hit us up for a loan that they wouldn’t repay.

Apparently one of the people in Asshole Eagle’s downline claimed he bought his Family Reunion ticket online at the last minute. Except when he checked in at the registration desk they had no record of it. So there he was stuck at Family Reunion with no cash, a maxed out credit card, and no ticket. Because Ambot had conveniently blabbed about the extra cash Asshole Eagle asked him to buy the Family Reunion ticket for his downline and he’d get his money back once they got it all straightened out. Because Ambot has been brainwashed to “submit to downline” even though the fucking asshole is about 25 years younger than him he willing to fork over the cash. The problem is the cashola is in my purse so now he has to beg me for the money. I am pissed. I have the cash earmarked for the cappuccino machine. Their problems aren’t my problems. But because I am such a kindhearted soul I finally agree the bastard can borrow the money.

Ended up buying a $30 Mr Coffee machine instead. Brought it into action a few times when we tried to trick people into coming over for coffee klatches when it was really an Amway event in disguise. Nobody every showed up anyway. What? Nobody likes lattes?

Miss Popularity?

The Married To An Ambot blog started out as a way for me to get a few things off my chest about my upline and totally took off in a way I never would have imagined. I have a huge readership between 200 to 500 page hits a day. This month alone just over 10,000 readers have visited my blog - and we still have a few hours to go before January is over! Sure a lot of them are repeat visitors. A lot of people find me by doing Google searches and my blog is at the top of many searches. I’ve already blogged that I’m right behind the Amway propaganda when people search for Artistry.

You’d think these statistics would be somewhat alarming to Amway especially since I have regular readers from Alticor in Ada and Buena Park and occasionally from Grand Rapids and Missouri City and even Amway Germany’s head office who just love reading about what I really think about my upline. They can see the numbers on my blog’s stat counter. Pretty good for someone who’s only been blogging for about 5 months.

But oddly enough my popularity doesn’t seem to bother Amway enough to offer me the right amount of money to just go away and stop blogging. People sell websites all the time for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Millions of dollars to sell a website. I’m open to it. Anna Banana can be bought!

I’m used to apathy from Amway head office employees. We reported our Platinum right about the time we were getting out of Amway and the official response and here I’m paraphrasing: “We’re not responsible for what is said at meetings.” To some extent that is true. People can’t be responsible for lies that someone else has uttered. But who is responsible then? Who at Amway head office will take responsibility for complaints about lies told at Amway meetings? No one! Apathy central! Platinums and higher can say whatever lies they want at Amway meetings and head office isn’t going to take any action. Even when we have it recorded. Nope. Apathy city! Not interested. Not going to rock the boat. The upline brings in lots of money. Amway head office doesn’t give a shit about pursuing complaints made about Platinums and higher and that’s probably another reason why IBO’s walk away - no support from head office! That’s why bloggers like me take to the Internet and share our stories to warn other people what lies ahead of them. Others take more extreme measures judging by the lawsuits out there.

My regular readers know we weren’t in Amway very long. We never reached any significant level. Between 100PV and 300PV each month depending on how much Ambot charged to the old credit card. We never signed up any downline other than one person who quit a couple of weeks later after getting scolded by our upline for missing a meeting. We never met anyone of significant levels either. Though the pompous sack of shit Platinum would disagree and point out he’s been [in and out of] Platinum [qualification] for years and how he’s King Shit and we should have been honored to be in his presence. However we hadn’t “earned the privilege” to meet anyone of higher levels in the Amway house of cards.

So a few months involvement, never meeting anyone significant in Amway, and not attaining any level of significance, I only have limited stories. There’s only so many ways I can tell my upline to fuck off! I think I really got a lot of it out of my system with my post Fuck You IBO! It felt so good writing that down and letting go of it!

Have my stories all been told? I wasn’t in Amway long enough to have scads of stories. I wasn’t privy to any secret meetings. I didn’t meet any king pins. Although I went to major functions, monthly rallies and about 50 living room meetings I can look back through my previous posts and see I have covered a lot of our Amway penance.

Don’t worry. I don’t plan to disappoint my readers by stopping blogging, unless of course Amway pays me the big bucks to go away. Although I might be running out of stories to keep up with the momentum of regular blog posts as something jogs my memory about a horror tale during our Amway dark days I’ll keep writing. I’m just saying I don’t know if I can keep up the posting frequency I’ve managed until now. Its one of the reasons I eventually plan to organize and turn this blog into a free ebook. Maybe this year. Maybe next.

I’ve enjoyed meeting many of you through this blog and hearing your stories and and I assure you that I’m still here trying to figure out what to write next. Its just that some weeks I might be more prolific than others.

Thank you to all my readers for your support and sending me over 10,000 views for the month of January! I love having you stop by!

To the courageous women who have shared their stories, thank you and I hope to keep hearing from you. I wish you well and hope you get your lives under control without the Amway black cloud following you everywhere.

THERE IS LIFE AFTER AMWAY!

Fuck You IBO!

It finally happened! Someone did a Google search for “fuck you IBO” and found my blog! You guessed it. Number 1 on the search engine!

Yes this is definitely the place to be if you want to tell any IBO you’ve ever met: “Fuck you!” Or live vicariously through me saying it.

Depending on your perspective there are different types of IBO’s to say fuck you to:

1. from the point of view of someone who is not associated with Amway and does not want to be associated with Amway and does not want to be hounded by Amway IBO’s

2. from the point of view of someone who has a spouse, family member, or good friend who is an Amway IBO

3. from the point of view of a former IBO who has found out the truth about Amway and the tool scam

So rather than say fuck you over and over in each sentence I’ll just say it once at the top of the list.

FUCK YOU IBO:

1. for saying where else can you start up your own business for only $150 but neglecting to mention all the other costs once you’ve paid your start up fee
2. for saying people who have nothing good to say about Amway are only trying to steal your dream
3. for saying people who don’t support your Amway business don’t want you to succeed
4. for saying “don’t say negative!”
5. for saying buy from your own store
6. for trying to break up marriages
7. for saying the more meetings and functions you attend the more successful you will be
8. for saying “You can’t quit now because you haven’t been in it long enough to succeed” no matter how many years you’ve been in Amway
9. for hounding me to buy your shitty overpriced products
10. for lying about how the upline does not profit from the sale of Amway tools
11. for lying about how you’ll only spend 10 to 15 hours a week in this business
12. for criticizing people who have J.O.B.s
13. for saying you’ll always be broke as long as you’re working for someone else
14. for saying you must be on DITTO
15. for saying you must be CORE
16. for being disrespectful
17. for bringing misery to people’s lives
18. for saying you must always listen to tapes (oops I fucked up by saying TAPES!!! IBOFB will be in to leave a comment that tapes haven’t been sold since he was shitting his diapers and CD’s have been sold for the past few decades)
19. for forcing us to buy tools by saying you won’t work with us if we don’t buy them (even though the Amway literature says buying tools from your LOS is optional and your upline can’t refuse to mentor you and assist you to build a business if you don’t buy them)
20. for wanting your errands done for free
21. for saying attend all functions no matter what else is going on in your life
22. for not getting off my ass about recruiting me as an IBO
23. for getting bitchy if we question anything
24. for brainwashing us
25. for lying about how everyone in the upline is very successful
26. for telling us an Amway business is a great tax shelter and everything is tax deductible
27. for not taking “NO” for an answer
28. for telling us to sign up our dog and cat as downline IBOs
29. for not minding your own fucking business
30. for lying about being debt free
31. for being bullies
32. for telling us to charge Amway products and functions onto our credit cards
33. for lying about Amway owning the Amway Arena in Orlando Florida
34. for lying about the health benefits of Perfect Water
35. for blaming people who don’t succeed in their Amway business as being lazy
36. for blaming people who don’t succeed in their Amway business as not trying hard enough
37. for underestimating the power of the Internet
38. for telling us to wear business attire to all meetings
39. for lying about how Artistry is one of the top 5 best selling cosmetics in the world
40. for telling us not to have any competitor’s products in the house if Amway sells a similar product
41. for telling us to lie to prospects so they don’t know they’re coming to an Amway meeting
42. for telling us to do what our upline tells us to do because they’re the only ones with a sincere interest in us
43. for lying about how you’ll be our best friends forever
44. for saying duplicate your upline
45. for telling us that self consumption is essential to our success in the Amway business
46. for forcing your personal beliefs upon us
47. for saying that people who refuse to be part of the Amway business are losers
48. for saying don’t do anything and don’t buy anything without first counselling with your upline
49. for telling us not to socialize with friends and family who are not in the Amway business
50. for saying “always edify your upline”
51. for being annoying as hell
52. for lying about how you’ll buy back books and tapes (ah shit I meant CDs) if we decide not to build an Amway business
53. for lying about how we’ll collect residual income for the rest of our lives
54. for telling us to cancel our plans if you want to schedule a last minute business meeting
55. for saying “if the dream is big enough then the facts don’t count”
56. for berating us if we didn’t bring any prospects to an Amway meeting
57. for giving us “lines” to use to trick people into attending an Amway meeting
58. for holding late night meetings
59. for causing financial losses
60. for causing emotional distress
61. for scolding us if we miss a meeting
62. for being the biggest bunch of liars I’ve ever met
63. for being the greediest assholes I’ve ever met
64. for being the biggest troublemaking bastards I’ve ever met

OK I think I’ve said enough fuck you’s for now. If I keep thinking about it the list will keep growing and I have to stop this post sometime! Feel free to load up the comments with the many ways you want to say FUCK YOU IBO!

Have a little coffee with your makeup?

Someone in Ambot’s upline decided he had to hold a coffee klatch at our house and then whip out the Artistry cosmetics.

Ambotta, one of the women in our upline - I think she was Eagle or had been at one time - was planning to come over with her makeup kit and assist our coffee klatchers with their makeup applications.

Ambot got busy inviting all women he came across in his daily activities visiting stores, filling up the gas tank, etc. He actually had a fair amount of women - like about 6 or 7 - agree to come over for coffee and makeup.

We picked up some gourmet coffee beans, bought biscotti and cookies and were ready to go. Ambotta said she’d be over at 6:30 to set up, half an hour before our guests were scheduled to arrive.

At 6:30 Ambotta hadn’t arrived. Ambot phoned her. Her cell phone went to voice mail and he left her a message asking where she was and if her car had broken down again and if she needed a ride. She lived in a nearby apartment and Ambot started panicking that she was out in the parking lot and her car wouldn’t start and her husband wasn’t home and unable to drive her. Ambot phoned 3 times all going to voice mail. It looks like Ambot’s blood pressure is about to go through the roof!

A couple of things happened at 7pm. First no one showed up. Now there’s a big surprise. Deja vu. Just like what always happens whenever we host an Amway event. Second Ambotta finally phones back and asks if anyone had shown up. Answer is no. Surprise, surprise. Ambotta is relieved because she didn’t really want to come out to our coffee klatch anyway and so she cancelled.

Ambot is freaking out. All his guests - every single one of them! - is running late. They’ll all be here any minute and he won’t have any makeup for them to try on. I don’t wear Artistry makeup so its not like I had anything in the makeup drawer. Well I had Avon products but that’s probably not what Ambot had in mind.

I tell him not to sweat it. If anyone shows up we’ll enjoy coffee and conversation with our guests. About ten after seven Ambot is starting to accept that no one is going to show up and after another ten minutes passed he started cleaning up the kitchen.

Fortunately our losses were rather minimal this time probably less than $20. The coffee we’d be able to consume ourselves, likewise with the cookies and biscotti.

Artistry Cosmetics Google Searches

I get a lot of hits from Google searches looking for “Artistry cosmetics” or “Artistry cosmetics Euromonitor”. Undoubtedly some searchers are IBO’s or their potential customers and they’re looking for product information and they come across my page about Artistry and realize it wasn’t what they were looking for.

I decided to check it out. When I put “Artistry cosmetics” into Google my blog is #12. If I add Euromonitor to the search criteria its #5. The top page hits ahead of my blog are Amway propaganda pages about Artistry and a couple of IBO’s looking for customers. Or that’s my best guess. I didn’t actually click on any of those links. I’ll let IBOFB do that and report back if I guessed wrong in case he thinks I care!

I decided to try Google in a few other countries and chose countries with languages I understand: Canada, United Kingdom, Mexico, and Spain. Similar search results with Euromonitor about #4 or #5, but typing just “Artistry cosmetics” the other countries are #8 showing up on Google’s first page.

OK now I’m sure IBOFB is going to double check those countries Google search engines and come back to announce that my page has slipped to #15 or whatever and say that he checked a couple of random countries like Siberia and Iraq and my post about Artistry isn’t even on the radar.

As I already said I think some hits are IBOs looking for product information and then they leave when they see my blog wasn’t what they were looking for but many visitors stay awhile reading my other posts. That tells me IBOs or their disenchanted spouses are doing what I did and looking for information to find out if the speakers from the stage were lying when they said Artistry is one of the top 5 cosmetics companies in the world.

If you read my previous blog about Artistry and the following comments IBOFB shows up and says that according to Euromonitor Artistry is one of the top 5 prestige cosmetics in the world. Well I’d never heard of Euromonitor until then and thats probably the case for many people on this side of the Atlantic. In fact I thought it was a magazine but it turns out to be a market research firm. Perhaps Amway should have used an American market research firm whose name would be familiar to people on this side of the pond.

I never ever heard a Platinum, Emerald, or Diamond speaker say Artistry is one of the top 5 “prestige” cosmetics. They always said Artistry is the top 5 best selling or top 5 best in the world.

After IBOFB gave us a few good laughs about how Artistry is in the top 5 prestige cosmetics companies the comments turned to what women are looking for when buying cosmetics. No one considers “prestige” when buying makeup. More important considerations are price, selection, and quality. That’s how women select their cosmetics. We like to get good value for our money.

Bottom line is it doesn’t matter to me where I end up on the Google search engine. My blog serves as healing tool for me to vent about our sponsor and upline and the financial and emotional distress that goes hand in hand with being involved in the cult but I wonder how Amway feels about my blog being right behind the top hits about Artistry propaganda. A lot of people seeking information click on my link and see:

a. I prefer Avon

b. Artistry is too high priced

c. the Forbes list of the world’s top 10 selling cosmetics

d. a bunch of funny comments about prestige makeup

If the readers are not too brainwashed that gives them something to think about. Namely they discover the speakers from the stage lied to them.

What’s in your garage?

I saw a post on Amthrax about a lot of Xango boxes stacked in the garage. There was no room to park a car in there though the fellow still managed to cram his motorbike in - a quick shot of it while the camera pans the garage.

Where I live a lot of people have their garages packed full of storage items so there is no room to park a car in there. Absolutely crazy. Unless this is only a temporary residence -  downsize! Ask most people what the purpose of a garage is and they’ll say its a place to park the car. Not a storage unit.

Our Platinum had a regular sized house with a 2 car garage. His cars were parked in the driveway. I went inside their garage. There were a lot of Amway boxes in there but not so much that a car or two couldn’t be parked inside if they shoved those boxes against the wall and stacked them. I’m not sure if this was personal consumption or sales but I suspect most of it was given out as samples, and here I’m talking XS Energy Drinks and Perfect Water. Remember our Platinum was screwing over Amway by getting free sample cases because he’d call in to say his customer didn’t like the product and they’d send him a replacement. That kept him in drinks and to give out samples.

The real reason cars could not be parked in here were because of all the tables. You’d think this place was a boutique run by the Addams Family. Even in the dim light we could see very table held Amway products and practically one of everything that was sold in the catalogue. Every type of Artistry makeup on one table. Skin care on another table. Nutrilite on another table. Food bars and drinks on another table. Cleaning products on another table. And so on. A rough estimate is 12  to 15 card tables. It would be kind of fun driving a car in there and busting some of that damn Amway shit!

I’m not really sure why they had the garage set out this way. Its not like there were just exclusive Amway products on show. They had other things stored in the garage like sporting equipment, car products, and tools. We’re not talking ambience here. If this was supposed to be set up like a store where customers come in to look over the products and then place an order, the Platinum didn’t say anything to us about that. In fact they didn’t say much of anything. Just herded us all in there to take a look - had to be about 30 or 40 IBO’s there that day - and we had to squeeze inbetween people and laden tables. This is worse than hitting an electronics shop on Black Friday! Everyone just hung out talking because no one could move being packed in like sardines. And then after the Platinum decided we’d done enough oohing and ahhing and worshipping of his Amway store, we went back inside the house for the Amway meeting.

One time Ambot had to pick something up at the Emerald’s house. Or maybe he was dropping something off. Running an errand for the Platinum obviously. When Ambot got home he told me he’d seen the garage. He estimated there were over 100 boxes of Perfect Water in there. The Emerald told him those were his customer sales for the month. I just can't see a market for overpriced water. Maybe those customers were IBO’s in his downline. The Emerald couldn’t park his car in the garage either.

The big question is did he really have customers for all those boxes of water (unlikely) or was he stockpiling product and getting his PV up there?

We’ll never know. Fortunately Ambot didn’t stockpile products hoping for future sales. All the useless Amway products he bought were bad enough. I enjoyed tossing them in the trash after Ambot finally had enough of this scam.

Spending money on Amway = tossing it in the garbage. We might as well have burned twenty dollar bills. Would have been cheaper in the long run.