Life Changing Event or Just More Amway Bullshit?

Some of the lines the Amway upline assholes say to pressure people to come to Amway functions:

Once in a lifetime opportunity

Life changing event

Biggest function of the year

Not to be missed

Some of those statements could be applied to a Madonna concert! Or viewing the pyramids in Egypt.

The thing is between every Amway WWDB function those are some of the lines used by the Amway assholes to influence the cult followers to part with their money at a fucking stupid time wasting Amway shithole event.

Those Amway bastards are so UNoriginal!

There are endless Amway cult meetings held in a month but 4 times a year are major WWDB events where the Diamonds earn the bulk of their Amway income in the tool scam so they book a large venue to get as many IBO’s as they can to attend. The Amway Platinum and Emerald demons are usually the ones assigned to put the screws to the downline to ensure they fucking better get their asses to the function so the Diamonds can get richer.

The Amway assholes bullshit the downline into thinking its a once in a lifetime opportunity, that is until the next Amway once in a lifetime opportunity rolls around in 3 months.

This starts before the last function has ended. The sack of shit Platinum has his hand out wanting the cash for the next major function. This is a common Amway scheme. Gotta get that cash fast in case the ambot quits Amway sometime over the next couple of months. And if you take too damned long to buy the ticket to the next Amway brainwashing conference the upline will mock you until you come up with the money and buy the ticket.

The lying assholes in the Amway upline will lie to the cult followers and brainwash them into believing that they will be learning about leadership, building a business, valuable training advice, and other bullshit Amway propaganda.

The reality is the only thing that is different about the WWDB Amway functions is they change the name: Dream Night, Spring Leadership, Family Function, Free Enterprise Days FED.

There is no training, no business advice, nothing that will help people in a business Amway or anything else. The WWDB Amway functions are a scam. The whole point of holding them is for the Diamonds to make money not for any ambots to gain any business knowledge. The ticket money and commission from hotels is how those sitting at the top of the Amway pyramid make the bulk of their annual income. Now that those Amway assholes have the IBO’s money they have to come up with some kind of a show to keep the ambots entertained. Despite all the  bullshit promises that the Amway assholes said about what was going to happen at this event, the same thing pretty much happens at all of them. Family Reunion will have a few other scamming lying Amway assholes who have reached a certain level usually Platinum sharing the stage with the Diamonds. All those sack of shit Platinums do is thank all the fucking assholes in their upline. Boring shit that goes on for what seems like an hour or two but I think they’re really only assigned 5 or 10 minutes - it only seems like forever. Let’s skip past those bastards. The main reason the brainwashed ambots show up for these Amway functions is to swoon and worship the Diamonds the way their upline has taught them to behave when they come to one of these events and are in the presence of Scamway royalty. The Amway WWDB bullshit session lasts 12 hours or so. Keep the ambots up late and fill them with bullshit so they’ll agree to anything when they’re tired. One couple after another slinks across the stage and they brag about their houses, their sports cars, the luxury vacations they take, all their material possessions. Most of them thank god for bringing Amway into their lives at a time when he was digging ditches and she was slinging burgers at a dive and now look at them and all their riches. Then the next Barbie and Ken Amway Assholes slink across the stage and basically say the same thing except the jobs might be slightly different, always of the minimum wage no experience necessary type of labor. Sometimes they’ll show a video or slide show of their possessions. Whether or not they really own the stuff or its a staged picture shoot is unknown. Its not like you can believe anything that someone in Amway says anywhere because they’re the biggest fucking liars around.

A once in a lifetime not to be missed opportunity? Yeah? Only until the next one rolls around in 3 months.

No one needs to pay big bucks to listen to a bunch of lying Amway assholes. Just hang around Barnes & Noble long enough and an ambot will show up to bullshit you and invite you to a once in a lifetime opportunity.

Ambot Conference 2012

Ha ha! The title of today’s blog comes from a person doing a Google search and typed in “ambot conference Las Vegas 2012”.

OK I’m not going to pick on Las Vegas for this blog - could be any city - and put my own spin on an ambot conference!

The ambot conference is more commonly referred to as an Amway WWDB World Wide Dream Builder function. There are 4 in the year. Dream Night in January, Spring Leadership in April, Family Reunion in July, and Free Enterprise Days FED in October. Except for last year when someone at WWDB fucked up and didn’t book it in time and had to move it to November, the first date the arena was available. Some of these functions are held in more than one town.

Forcing ambots to attend the next ambot conference begins around the time the last conference ends. The Amway cult leaders pressure their downline to buy tickets NOW for the next Amway function. Gotta get that tool scam money rolling in for the cult leaders just in case any ambots quit over the next couple of months. So lets get the ticket buying out of the way. Call it $125, though some ambot conferences are more and some are less.

As it gets closer to the big date of the ambot conference the ambot must secure a hotel room. There are usually blocked hotel rooms on the WWDB web page where they’ve secured a group or conference rate. It doesn’t hurt to check with the hotel directly for a better price. Some hotels give good discounts to AAA members. Also some travel websites like http://www.hotels.com/ and http://www.priceline.com/ may get you a better discount. Lets call the hotel room an even $100/night even though some will argue a Motel 6 will be cheaper or the Hyatt will be more expensive, I’m calling it mid range and working with round numbers. Amway WWDB functions are notoriously held on weekends when hotel rooms are generally more expensive.

Lets think about this. Why not hold the function during the week when hotel rooms are cheaper? After all ambots are self employed business owners aren’t they? When you own your own business you can choose the days you take off work.

For argument’s sake lets say the ambot conference is held in a city that takes 5 hours to drive to. So that means the ambot gets driving sometime in the morning. Oh. Got to fill the car with gas. $50 down the hatch and the ambot is only a few miles down the road. After a couple of hours ambot is hungry and thirsty. Got to stop for lunch. There’s a Denny’s! Lets call it 2 people eating lunch because ambot has probably dragged the wife along. Lunch comes to $30 for a couple of burger plates and sodas and tip.

An hour down the road car is thirsty again. Drop another $50 into the gas tank.

Finally reach the hotel mid to late afternoon. Got a couple of free hours before the Friday night portion of the ambot conference gets underway. During this time dinner is required. No Denny’s in sight but the hotel either has a restaurant or there’s one nearby a little more expensive than Dennys. Lets say dinner costs $40 for 2.

Yikes! Ambots have already spent $170 in gas and food!

Add in the conference tickets ($250 for 2 people) and 2 nights hotel that is prepaid for ($200) and thats another $450 and they haven’t even stepped inside the ambot conference yet.

Friday night at the ambot conference is a bunch of patriotic rah rah get the crowd hyped up brainwashing stuff. But the ambot still has to put in 5 hours - arriving early to stand in line before door opens and sitting in the auditorium until around midnight getting brainwashed by the cult leaders.

Ambot is hungry again. Good thing there’s a 24 hour McDonald’s drive thru on the way back to the hotel. $15 for late night snack for 2 people bringing today’s expenses for food and gas up to $185. Need some nourishment for the Night Owl that the sack of shit Platinum has commanded all his cult followers to attend.

Saturday morning breakfast! Call it another $30 for 2 people. Maybe they drive around town until they find an IHOP or Dennys.

Saturday at the ambot conference is spent listening to a bunch of greedy Amway Diamonds yap about “the business” - without ever giving any concrete advice and trying to avoid mentioning the “A” word - and showing pictures and videos of their mansions, sports cars, private airplanes, luxury vacations, etc all while taunting the audience “wouldn’t you like to have what we have?” This part of the ambot conference drags on again until midnight, though there’s a 2-3 hour break for ambots to leave and scrounge up dinner, there is no break at lunch time. Ambots are forced to buy food from the arena’s expensive concessions or be bad little ambots and leave the building to scout out nearby eating establishments.

Dinner and quasi lunch for 2 people? Lets call it $50. And don’t forget that $15 midnight stop at McDonalds on the way back to the hotel because the ambots are going to be hungry going into the Night Owl.

So thats $95 in food on Saturday.

Sunday morning at the ambot conference? Why yes there is a church sermon! Gotta be there so that means grabbing breakfast at the hotel’s restaurant for another $30. Then off to the ambot version of church, like there wasn’t already a good serving of religion all day Saturday and on Friday night. Cults use religious terms as part of brainwashing techniques.

Just as an aside - normal business keep religion out of the workplace.

Find a restaurant nearby for lunch after the ambot church service. Call it another $30. What happens on Sunday afternoon at the ambot conference? Why more of the same of course! This is just a long winded several hour wrap up of the last 2 days. The cult leaders tell their followers to buy more motivational materials - tool scam sales last were a little low! Oh and don’t forget to buy more more MORE Amway products.

The ambot conference is finally over! Now for the drive home. Lets call the gas and stop at a restaurant for dinner the same price as it cost on Friday - $170.

The ambot conference has cost $960, but lets just round it up to $1000 because the ambots probably bought a book or CD while they were inside the ambot conference. Out of that $250 went for ambot conference tickets, the bulk of which would be absorbed by the Diamonds running the show. $750 for incidental expenses to attend an ambot conference?

What a waste of money!

I can’t even think of any rock star that I’d be willing to shell out a thousand bucks in tickets and incidentals and make it a 3 day mission to get there and back.

Nope I wouldn’t even spend that on airfaire, hotel, and food to fly to DC to meet up with George Clooney at the Sudanese embassy!

Ambots are Nosy Bastards

When I was in Amway, putting up with the lousy bastards in our line of sponsorship World Wide Dream Builders was just as bad as throwing our money away buying overpriced shitty Amway products. But then we wouldn’t have been throwing our money away on shitty Amway products if it wasn’t for the influence and pressure of the fucking upline assholes.

When you’re in the Amway cult, you find out fast that everyone else in the cult is a nosy bastard. I’m one of these people that if something ain’t none of my business then I stay the hell out of it. Years ago when I worked office gossip was rampant. Sometimes coworkers would start telling me something about somebody and I would say doesn’t sound like anything I need to know and walk away. I don’t need to know anybody else’s business if it doesn’t affect my life. Same with people who tried to get information out of me. Nope. I know how to keep my mouth shut.

Well OK not here on this blog. I use this blog to get the word out what its really like being a doomed member of the Amway cult and having to put up with upline - the world’s biggest fucking assholes who are no good piece of shit scumbags that are so fucking nosy and make it their business to poke their noses into places it don’t belong.

In Amway those fucking ambots seem entitled to know everything about everybody. In the past year one of the biggest search criteria that drove ambots to my blog had anything to do with Ganesh and Neha Shenoy and whatever happened in their marriage and why did they get divorced. Like that’s anybody’s business. Oh wait. These are ambots in the Amway cult. That means they make it their business. That’s part of the job description when it comes to Amway IBO. The Shenoys aren’t the only ones who are searched about their marriage. You name it the searcher has probably found their way to my blog. In the past month I have nosy ambots searching for information about the marriage and/or divorce for Brad and Lesley Wolgamott, Scott Harimoto, Dean Kosage, Jim Head, and a whole host of other Diamonds whose names do not immediately come to my mind because they haven’t been searched for in the past week.

If they’re not looking for dirt on marriage/divorce they’re looking for information on what kind of cancer Jim Dornan had/has and other intimate details of the lives of people in Amway.

I get tons of searches for Amway sex. What do these searchers think? That ambots are posting sex videos online for all to see? Well maybe they are but you won’t find any links here to any Amway IBOs having sex.

When we were in the Amway cult I constantly had to put up with the bullshit from people in our upline demanding to know everything going on in our life. They pretty much left me alone after I told them my private life was none of their fucking business. The shock on those prude’s faces that I would dare to disrespect my upline by using that kind of language! Yeah I really have a lot of respect for liars and scammers acting under the Amway umbrella! And then those whiny ass crybabies would run further upline and complain that I wasn’t being very nice. Get the picture! You’re fucking Amway IBOs who are out to ruin lives and scam people out of their money. Why the hell should I be nice to a bunch of fucking sick evil bastards like you?

Unfortunately my Ambot probably blabbed more information to our fucking upline about our lives than I would ever want those fucking assholes to know about. I made it very clear to him that if I wanted those bastards to know anything about me then I would tell them myself. If I didn’t tell them nothing then those upline bastards could safely assume it was none of their business and they could fuck off.

The only reason ambots want to know intimate details about other ambot’s lives is so they can hold it against them at a later date, say when they’re trying to quit. Its ambot blackmail. That is why ambots are the nosiest people I’ve ever met in my life. Ulterior motive when lying and scamming is no longer working.

Am I the only one around who has what it takes to tell nosy ambots to go to hell. Stay out of other people’s lives you fucking Amway assholes!

And just because Amway WWDB Dream Night 2012 is huge on the search criteria right now I thought I throw in the key words just to screw up any ambots looking for more information like my blog isn’t already at the top of the search engines anyway. So far I’ve only had two idiot ambots trying to go back in time and searching for information on Dream Night 2011 so I’ll throw in that criteria too.

Amway Dream Night sucks!

Likewise, fucking nosy Amway ambots suck!

Quitting Amway during Dream Night

Recently my stats that tell me what searchers are typing in to find their way to my blog are huge for quitting Amway or how to quit Amway or how to get a refund on the Amway starter pack or how to cancel Communikate or how to cancel WWDB and Amway deprogramming.

I mean huge searches. Way more than people searching for information about the Ganesh Neha Shenoy divorce.

This information must be very difficult to find on Amway's web page. No kidding. For obvious reasons Amway does not want their IBO's to quit! When you're in the business of scamming people you don't want the money supply to dry up!

I have written some posts about quitting Amway and that is where these searchers find what they need.
http://marriedtoanambot.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-to-quit-amway.html
http://marriedtoanambot.blogspot.com/2011/03/having-trouble-quitting-amway.html

Also thanks to the former IBO who posted on the Communikate post the toll free number where to cancel. That helped someone else out the next day who was trying to figure out how to cancel it.
http://marriedtoanambot.blogspot.com/2011/09/communikate-makes-ibos-superior-over.html

For some reason quitting Amway seems to come up around the time of major functions so with Dream Night coming up in January 2012 its no surprise to see the sudden influx of IBO's who want out of this pyramid scheme.
http://marriedtoanambot.blogspot.com/2011/03/quitting-amway-during-spring-leadership.html
http://marriedtoanambot.blogspot.com/2011/07/quitting-amway-during-family-function.html

I also have a few random posts with suggestions to help wives get their ambot husbands out of Amway. Save the marriage! Save them from financial ruin!

Year end is coming up which means Amway's annual membership fee is due. What is it? Around $50 or $60? I don't remember though I do remember having a hell of a time trying to find that secret information on Amway's web site a few months ago. Anyway, it seems simple enough to me. Membership due? Don't pay it! That's how you cancel - by not renewing.

No different than Costco. If you don't renew your membership and pay your annual fee they don't let you shop there no more.

Ambots have to hit the Internet and do searches on how to quit Amway. Its not like they can go to their upline and ask. I can see how that conversation will go. "You can't quit now not when success is right around the corner." How about the standard Amspeak response "Only losers quit Amway. Do you want to be known as a loser?"

In a nutshell, you quit Amway by not renewing your membership fee, stop listening to brainwashing CD's, stop buying Amway products, stop buying Amway tools, cancel your membership with whatever line of sponsorship you're in, cancel Communikate, stop going to Amway meetings, stay away from the creepy assholes in your upline - don't respond to phone calls or texts.

Good luck to all my blog visitors who are courageous enough to take the steps to get out of this phony business. Enough of losing money and sanity by feeding the great Amway gods. No MLM or pyramid scheme is worth going into debt, filing bankruptcy, foreclosure, or divorce, an unfortunate fate that awaits too many ambots.

I will say if a husband is thinking of quitting Amway right about now he couldn't possibly give his wife a better Christmas present!

What is Amway WWDB Dream Night About?

So what is Amway WWDB Dream Night all about?

To paraphrase from World Wide Dream Builder’s propaganda (cause I wouldn’t wanna get accused of plagiarism!) this is an elegant night that will show the ambots how to turn their dreams into reality.

Ha ha! Yeah right! And if you believe that bullshit I have some prime swampland in the Amazon jungle I’d like to sell you!

The best part of the night - OK Wait for it!!!!! - is when the cult leaders share how their dreams came true and if they can do it then any of you dumb ass ambots can do it too!

I can sum it up how they got to be Diamonds. They ripped off thousands of unsuspecting ambots in their downline telling them to buy useless, overpriced Amway shit to self consume and if they can’t find any customers - make them up. They bullied those further down the pyramid into attending Amway functions. They told them to buy CD’s featuring Diamond speakers. They told them to buy motivational books that they received a hefty kickback from the publisher or author. They brainwashed their adoring ambots to buy, buy, buy. Hand over all your money to me so I can get rich. And here I sit on the top of the pyramid smirking at you dumb ass ambots!

I can’t find the cost of Dream Night on the WWDB page. Gotta be forking over your $50/month for premier membership to get that top secret information. Dream Night cost $66 per person when we attended. Remember. Those devilish Diamonds love the number 6 sequence! Except our Platinum ripped us off and told us he would buy tickets for all the downline and don’t question him about it!!!! For his trouble we had to pay $75 each so the sack of shit Platinum could pocket $9. A rather awkward amount but when multiplied by about 70 tickets a tidy sum of extra cash in his wallet. I also think he got free tickets for bulk purchases.

Anyway moving on. What did $66, er $75 get us? An hour’s drive to get to the function, which was the closest Amway function to our house. I don’t even recall where it was held. I think a banquet room in the Hilton but I’m not positive on the hotel. Doesn’t really matter. Typical hotel banquet room with chandeliers and white tablecloths covering round tables. You seen one you seen them all. Typical dinner. I think there were 2 or 3 entree choices. Average banquet style dinner, no different than other events I’ve attended. The meal, servers, room rental probably cost about $25 per person payable to the hotel. This is based on knowledge I have of organizing similar events holding between 200 and 700 people. That tells me someone is making a profit of $40 per ambot. I can’t even tell you how many ambots were in the room. I want to say around 600, but that might be give or take a couple hundred. For the sake of argument lets call it 600 ambots in attendance which means once the catering bill is paid there’s a profit of roughly $24,000. WWDB is going to want their piece of the pie for organizing the event through their web page. I have no idea how much they get but for argument’s sake lets say they demand $4000. The profit slips down to an even $20,000. Oh but what about the great Amway god? That has to be appeased too. Send the corporation $5000 so Uncle Dickie can pay the electric bill. That leaves me a hypothetical $15,000 left to figure out what to do with.

But hang on a minute. Two Diamond couples busted their asses to get there and show videos of their lifestyle. Whether or not its really their lifestyle or a staged shoot with lots of day rental props hanging around is unknown. Gotta show lots of glitz and glamor to the ambots. Make them jealous. Make them want it. Brainwash city! Those greedy bastards need their piece of scammer pie. Earn your money you fucking Diamonds! Whether or not the two Diamond couples evenly split whatever money is left over on the profits is unknown, maybe one of them gets a bigger piece of the pie than the other depending on how big their downline is I have no idea. I’m guessing the pie is not divided evenly which causes a lot of Diamond infighting and Diamonds leaving to start their own groups. So just because its fun to cause some more Diamond infighting I’ll say one pissed off couple earns $5000 for the night and the other gloating couple gets $10,000.

Why that hardly seems fair! However there is more than one dream night going on. Plenty of shystering opportunities available! About 42 Amway WWDB Dream Nights are held during January 2012. Those Diamonds better hope the Amway corporate jet is available to hustle them from one location to another. This year the Dream Night booty appears to only be shared among 7 Diamond couples:

Samir and Theresa Attalah

Glen and Joya Baker

Greg and Laurie Duncan

Scott and Cris Harimoto

Bob and Shelley Kummer

Matt and Sandee Tsuruda

Mike and Michi Woods

Ha ha ha! I snuck in a few more keywords to help out any ambots searching specifically for a Diamond!

Take 42 cities and divide by 7 Diamond couples. That would suggest that each Diamond might be doing 6 Dream Nights. However I didn’t look at the schedule for each city. Some cult leaders might be doing a little more or a little less scamming than others. Maybe some more Diamonds are sneaking in who aren’t on WWDB’s current roster of highlighted Diamonds. I don’t know and I don’t care to look. I’m playing with even numbers here. 6. Even if some unlucky Diamond is on the low end of the scale and taking at least $5000 for a night, times 6 Dream Nights $30,000 is still a tidy sum to be earning for the month of January 2012. My guess is most of the Diamonds are earning at least double that sucking a bunch of gullible ambots dry.

Those on the top of the pyramid salute the lowly ambots beneath them who make all those dollars possible!

Dream Night January 2012

Ambots of the world reunite! Amway World Wide Dream Builders has a Dream Night event coming to a city near you real soon!

Which means I must write some posts full of keywords to help some unsuspecting IBO’s learn the truth about what they have in store.

Here’s a quick sum up: “Dream Night - where your dreams turn into nightmares!”

According to the WWDB site Dream Night 2012 will be held during January in these cities: Toronto, Kalispell, Saskatoon, Spokane, Edmonton, Helena, Toledo, Las Vegas, Ontario, Honolulu, Boise, San Diego, Tri Cities, Vancouver, Fargo, Fort Meyers, Portland, Oshkosh, Victoria, Minneapolis, Medford, Chicago, Reno, Edmonton, Billings, Richmond, Bellevue, Seattle, Calgary, Philadelphia, Sacramento, Dallas, Phoenix, Anchorage, Salt Lake City, Albuquerque, Anaheim, Bakersfield, Colorado Springs, Denver, San Jose, Austin,

Our sack of shit Platinum used to say there was no reason to miss Dream Night even if you were out of town because there would always be a Dream Night near you. Also no problem if you had friends or relatives who lived out of town that you wanted to attend Dream Night because there would be one near where they lived and you could buy tickets for them. He went one further and said even if you were on vacation in Bermuda or Jamaica or wherever there would be a Dream Night being held somewhere near by. Maybe I’m a little off here but the above cities all appear to be in America or Canada. I don’t see London, or Tokyo, or Beijing, or Bogota. How can those World Wide Destructive Bastards call themselves the World Wide Group when their event is only being held in North America?

Judging by the proximity of some of those cities it would seem that some ambots could arrange to go to more than one Dream Night. But what about the poor bastards who live in Kentucky, Georgia, New Jersey, and other states where there is no WWDB Dream Night scheduled? Those poor ambots are going to become even poorer by hauling ass to another state to be brainwashed by their cult leaders.

Amway WWDB Dream Night sucks!

Quitting Amway during Spring Leadership?

Although quitting Amway anytime of the year is a good idea I wonder if it happens a lot around Spring Leadership time. People who signed up with Amway during the previous year and made zippo money were undoubtedly pressured by their upline to renew their membership prior to year end and were forced to go to Dream Night in January. But its been a few more months with no income but plenty of money going out purchasing Amway products and tools. The upline pressures the disenchanted IBO to purchase tickets to Spring Leadership. Don’t give in! Buying the tickets is the cheapest part. There’s transportation, hotel, and meals on top of that. Not to mention your time. More time wasted at an Amway function. Time you will never get back.

I think spring is probably the time of year when most IBO’s quit but I have no statistics to back this up one way or the other. Spring cleaning. Get rid of the shit that is cluttering your life or not bringing you happiness. Amway is probably at the top of that list!

Anyway my blog lets me look at stats showing what people type in search engines to end up at the Married To An Ambot blog. I get some interesting search phrases such as how to say fuck in igbo which I’ll see several times a week!

Right now I get tons of hits every day from people looking for information about Spring Leadership. It would be logical to think most of these searchers are IBO’s and once the poor suckers end up here they don’t stick around to hear about how we were abused by our upline. Sometimes a city will be typed into the Spring Leadership search criteria though at the moment I don’t recall which cities. Sometimes the searcher puts in a year, usually 2011 though one searcher was recently looking for information on Spring Leadership 2010.

Just for the record I have no idea when the Amway World Wide Dream Builders Spring Leadership will be held. I also have no idea what city or cities it will be held in. I don’t know who will be speaking. I don’t know the agenda. I don’t know nothing. And I ain’t doing a Google search to learn about Spring Leadership! I’m guessing there are several locations across the states and on different dates but I have no proof one way or the other. It doesn’t interest me enough to do a search. Also apparently that information is difficult to search for otherwise I wouldn’t have so many horrified searchers ending up here. I’ve noticed that in the past. You’d think Amway and WWDB would have this information readily available near the top of the search engines for IBO’s trying to learn about Spring Leadership.

All I know is that Married To An Ambot is the top hit on Google for people looking for information about Spring Leadership! Gotta love it! More astonishing is that doesn’t seem to be a concern to WWDB or Amway. If it was they’d be in negotiations with me how much money to shut down my blog and go away.

I also get a lot of searchers every day using search criteria on how to quit Amway. Right now I’d say I get more searchers for Spring Leadership than quitting Amway but that’s only because its coming up in April. But its still alarming the number of searchers looking for information on how to quit Amway. I have some previous posts about that here and here.

Its simple. If you quit Amway then you don’t need to waste any more money going to shitty functions like Spring Leadership. Bottom line is these are motivational seminars and very little, if any, business advice is given. The IRS has already determined that Amway functions do not increase most IBO’s sales or increase their recruitment. If you think going to Spring Leadership will be a good tax write off, think again. Expect to be audited if you try to write off anything about Amway. It might not happen this year or next year. But if you piss off the wrong person they might call the cheaters hotline and suggest they look a little closer at your files.

Save your money and stay home.

Spring Leadership sucks! All Amway functions suck!

Searchers who end up at Anna Banana’s Blog

I get a lot of interesting and not so interesting Google searches that end up at my Married to an Ambot blog. Some searchers are looking for something completely unrelated to Amway and they usually leave as soon as they’ve realized their mistake. I get a few horrified IBO’s who end up here too. Most leave but a few stick around long enough to leave an Amway speak comment about how we didn’t try hard enough.

I get some searches where I say to myself, why the fuck is someone searching for that? Talk about brainwashed!

And I get people who are so  pissed off at Amway, end up at my blog, and literally spend hours reading every single post I’ve written.

What I love is my blog is high on the search engines for IBO’s who are seeking information about Spring Leadership and Dream Night. Nothing like screwing up Amway and WWDB! Of course right now its Spring Leadership that’s coming up in a couple of months and anxious IBO’s are seeking information. Instead everything high on the search are blogs similar to mine that tell what really happens at these Amway functions. We’re higher than the web pages of Amway and WWDB propaganda. What does that tell you? Us bloggers are gaining the edge getting the truth out there and getting more page views than the corporation! Yay us!

I also get a huge amount of searches looking for “Artistry Cosmetics” I’m right up there on the first page behind the Amway propaganda on Google. Doesn’t seem to bother Amway too much that I’m diverting their traffic otherwise they’d have offered to buy my blog.

A recent searcher typed in “Fuck Brad Wolgamott”. Hmm. I’m pretty sure I’ve never written that phrase! They ended up at my IBO’s are Free Labor post. Someone may have typed Brad’s name in the comments and of course my posts are full of fuck this and that so its logical to get a hit with that search criteria. I’m pretty sure I might have heard Brad Wolgamott speak at an Amway function though nothing about him stands out. Unmemorable experience for me and I have nothing to say about him. But I’m willing to help out that searcher and send out a big fuck you his way.

I get a lot of search hits for “Amway horror stories” or “Amway cult” or “cult horror stories”.

There’s a lot of people out there who don’t realize that Amway is a cult. I wouldn’t have thought so either until Ambot’s involvement and the brainwashing by his "Christian" Platinum cult leader.

I get searchers for creepy employees ending up at my Amway is Creepy post. Oddly enough I’m right below the hit for David Letterman is creepy for having sex with female employees!

I get a lot of searches for “quit Amway” or similar searches like how to get friend or husband to quit Amway. What about “big losses in Amway”? I get lots of searchers finding their way to my blog with that one too. “Annoying Amway IBO’s” in the search criteria find their way to my blog too!

Does Amway head office care that people are actually typing this stuff into search engines and coming to my blog? Do they not care that people think Amway IBO’s are annoying? Nope, not a chance. Amway head office = apathy central.

Sometimes I get people looking for an Amway IBO. Poor bastards must want to buy some overpriced Amway shit! Boy did they come to the wrong place! Well they could click on one of my Google ads that pop up from time to time, ad space purchased by Amway IBO's. Send a buck or two my way by clicking on an ad. That works for me!

What’s even more bizarre is that I get search hits for IBO’s looking for basic business information that their upline should but does not provide them with like “help with selling Amway products” or “how to hold an Amway Grand Opening”. Yup they get directed to my post about our Grand Opening and figure out real fast that no matter how much planning goes into it and how many people are invited, it’ll be a bust. I’m glad I’m getting that information out there. Don’t waste your time or money on an Amway Grand Opening!

I get 2 or 3 searchers each week looking for “how to say fuck in igbo”? They all end up at my Fuck You IBO post.

Am I the only person wondering what is igbo?

Google search! Ta da! Its a native tribe language in Nigeria.

I am the top hit for someone looking for the Igbo translation for fuck. I’m even higher on the search engine that the person who has this post: “Help! Why are my Igbo men rubbish in bed?”

Sorry I can’t help her with that one! Ha ha but I love it!

What’s really sad are the ambots who search for “World Wide Dream Builders is awesome”. Talk about brainwashed! I mean who is so infatuated with the scam that they type that into a search engine? The same type of brainwashed ambot who types in “Amway is awesome” and come to my blog thanks to the Youtube video called My Awesome Delicious Amway scam.

These must be new recruits in the early stages of the brainwashing process. Give them a year and they’ll be back doing searches like “Amway is a cult”, "Amway scam", “Amway sucks” and “lost money in Amway”.

Getting big hits on Google for Dream Night

I checked my keyword stats for my blog and for some oddball reason my Dream Stealers post is getting a lot of hits by people googling “Brad Duncan Dream Night Vancouver 2011”.

For the past month or so I’ve been getting lots of google hits for my posts on Dream Night - namely Dream Night Dishonesty and Dream Night is a financial orgy.

I put in the above search criteria to see what’s going on with the Dream Stealers post as opposed to one of the other Dream Night posts. Brad Duncan’s name is in the comments. January 2011 is when the post was published likewise with all the comments - over 50 at last count! - so 2011 is a huge hit attracter. Not sure if Dream Night is mentioned in any of those comments, likewise I don’t remember anyone mentioning Vancouver. Even with those last two words missing its still coming up on the Google site as number 5. Amthrax is number 4. Number 2 makes no sense at all - the official site of the Chicago Blackhawks. Number 1 and 3 appear to be personal websites belonging to IBO’s, whether or not they’re current is unknown because I didn’t click on the links and one of them posted in 2007.

I wondered if the search engine results would be any different on Google Canada because you have to figure Canadian IBOs would be checking Vancouver. The difference now is the Chicago Blackhawks page moves into number 1. Some sports page moves into number 2. And the 2007 IBO is still number 3. Dream Stealers moves into number 4 and Amthrax into number 5.

The really bizarre thing is nowhere on the first couple of search pages (because I didn’t keep looking) is no official information from Amway or WWDB websites about their Dream Night.

I have no idea when or if Dream Night 2011 is being held in Vancouver. I have no idea if Brad Duncan is going to be a speaker. It would appear that IBOs are also unable to find this information because they keep clicking the link and ending up at my blog.

This post serves no purpose other than to keep screwing up the Google searches and sending horrified IBOs to a blog they don’t want to read. I have never attended a Dream Night in Vancouver where Brad Duncan was the speaker in 2011 or any other year. No point in actually mentioning other years just in case my blog slips out of one of the top spots! Ha ha!

Whew! Hope this post messes up those Google searches even more! Feel free to load up the comments with any of the above search criteria!

This Is The Year!!!!

“This is the year when you’re going to go BIG!”

That is the upline’s battle cry at the beginning of the year and heard during Dream Night, a WWDB function that happens early January.

The reality as a new year approaches is Ambot has been in “the business” for several months. To recap Ambot’s track record:

1. one downline signed up who quit a couple of weeks later

2. thousands of dollars “invested” in “the business” purchasing Amway products and attending functions

3. got two friends to come to board plan meetings.

4. got one acquaintance to come to a meeting

5. Grand Opening of “our” Amway store - a few people showed up, no purchases

6. held an afternoon tea social which was a disguise to sell Artistry cosmetics and other Amway products. One friend made some purchases.

7. two friends made some small pity purchases to support Ambot’s business unrelated to attending any Amway events

8. hundreds of hours wasted studying Amway literature, dealing with phone calls, text messages, listening to Kate messages, attending meetings, listening to tapes - oops better make that CD’s before IBOFB shows up again to say tapes haven’t been produced since he was in diapers!  (OK Rocket or Tex here’s your chance to say he still wears them!)

9. alienating friends and relatives with obnoxious behavior (parroting upline IBO’s)

Ambot dutifully did everything his oh-so-wise-upline counselled him to do. Well not quite everything - the exception would be he didn’t leave me. So far he hasn’t found anyone who will duplicate what he does, though I doubt there are many people out there who want to drink a case of XS Energy Drinks daily and cram in multiple food bars.

So how the hell will the new year be any different?

It won’t.

It’ll be the same thing. Throwing away money on overpriced, mediocre products. Losing money attending functions. Wasting time. More obnoxious comments directed at anyone who doesn’t support his Amway business. All backed by the upline’s promise that this is the year he’ll be going BIG in “the business”. Gotta get him to hang on for a few more months so they can make more money off him!

Ambot’s story is the same as other struggling IBO’s. The upline feeds them hope with one hand while stealing their money with the other hand.

“This is the year you’re going to go BIG” is an ego booster to get IBO’s to hold on to Amway for a little longer just in case they were thinking about quitting and not renewing for the new year. IBO’s can’t quit now when success is just around the corner!

Translation: you can’t quit now when I need more of your money for my share of the tool scam and I need your PV so my dreams can come true.

I decided to make a BIG move to get Ambot out of Amway and away from the cult leaders. Success!

Probably not what the upline had in mind when they said this is the year when you’re going BIG.

This year we go BIG by not renewing the Amway “business license”.

This year we go BIG by not alienating friends and relatives.

This year we go BIGGEST by not putting up with the fucking upline.

Is Amway the ONLY thing one can do to succeed in life?

When I attended Dream Night last year several couples were invited to come forward, take the microphone, and say something. I think they may have been eagles or double eagles. They’d reached some level but I’m sure it wasn’t Platinum or higher. I remember one couple who were extolling the virtues of an Amway business and the wife screamed out “What else is there?” Assuming she meant in the way of business opportunities or making money outside of a J.O.B.

Let me answer her question. Just about EVERYTHING else is out there! I know lots of people who have found success while successfully staying away from Amway.

“Amway is the ONLY thing you can do to succeed in life” is a message I’ve heard over and over again at meetings run by Platinum, Emerald, and Diamond speakers. Part of the brainwashing technique. Can’t let IBO’s think there are other things out there where they can succeed in life that might redirect their time, energy, or money away from the Amway scam. Ambot already has reasonable success but once he joined the Amway cult his business was constantly put down for one reason or another (what if he gets sick, what if there’s a slow down, etc) and he was brainwashed into thinking his business won’t last but Amway success is forever.

Everyone has different opinions on what defines success. I could list hundreds of items and still not be finished. For some people success could be determined by earning a desired income, reaching a scholastic level, owning a restaurant that is packed every night with patrons, getting picked for a local circuit baseball team, publishing a book, playing a musical instrument, losing weight, getting married, buying a New York City penthouse overlooking Central Park..... The possibilities are endless.

Suggesting that to most rational human beings - Amway is NOT the ONLY thing one can do to succeed in life.

“There is nothing else out there except Amway” is a similar phrase drilled into IBO’s as part of the brainwashing techniques. The cult leaders tell IBO’s they must discard anything else in their life that isn’t making them succeed at Amway.

I also heard enough times “What are you willing to give up to succeed in this business?”

The possibilities of what an IBO should discard are also an endless list: spouse, friends, church, job, TV, books, hobbies, car, house......

Who says you have to give up things or whatever makes you tick as part of your lifestyle in order to become successful?

How many apprentice mechanics are asked what things they are willing to give up so they can fix cars? Who would tell a mechanic in order to open up his own garage he must give up his wife, his TV, his friends and his hobbies, sell his house, get rid of his dog, etc or he will never succeed.

Ridiculous huh? Well maybe only to people who are not brainwashed IBO’s. People are capable of juggling other things in their lives while at the same time succeeding at their chosen goals. Apparently not Amway IBO's if you listen to the hallowed cult leaders.

Amway is NOT the ONLY thing one can do to succeed in life. Based on mine and Ambot’s experiences I’d say Amway is about the only thing we’ve ever failed at. In a system designed to set up failure. What else do you expect?

Dream Night is a Financial Orgy

Yep you read that title right so go ahead and have a good laugh!

Someone asks the Platinum sack of shit what Dream Night is. Here’s the direct quote:

“It’s the boot to kick off the year to make financial resolutions for the group. It’s the financial orgy of the year.”

What the hell kind of answer is that? I can see the orgy thing capturing the attention of the mostly male audience in their twenties. Boy were they going to be disappointed when they showed up at the function!

It was held in a hotel’s banquet room and tickets cost $66 each. I heard that amount on the portion of the recording I listened to and then I heard the sack of shit requesting $75 each from the downline to cover their expenses at organizing and purchasing tickets for everyone. No one asked for clarification how come an extra $9 each went to the upline for typing a few more tickets into the WWDB website to order them and then all the trouble they had to go through to pass them out to the IBO’s. Scalpers!

The overpriced ticket gave the IBO a meal and forced them to listen to a couple of Diamond speakers and watch their videos. Mostly it was about the Diamond’s lifestyle or what they hoped to portray to IBO’s was their lifestyle, showing mansions, private airplanes, sports cars, exotic vacations, etc. And apparently they buy all these things with cash only - never incurring debt. Amway’s figures of an average Diamond’s annual income at $146,000 don’t seem to realistically conclude that mansions, luxury cars, exotic vacations, etc are sustainable on that income.

Smoke and mirrors. Lies and more lies. That’s doing the Amway shuffle.

The Platinum tells the cult followers his pitch to get people to come to Dream Night is:

“Are you currently with this economic crisis getting everything you can by what you’re currently doing or do you think you need to shift and do some more?”

If anyone said that to me I think I would go “Huh?” and then the IBO thinking he had a live one would repeat it and then I’d go “What the fuck are you trying to say?”

The Platinum said he was hosting a table for ten and then he asks around the room to see how many suckers the IBO’s have found to attend. What he finds out is that everyone’s guest lists consist mostly of family and not potential IBO’s which outrages the Platinum. He starts to ride the eagle’s ass to get after the people in his downline who don’t have the numbers of invited guests to buck up and do the work.

Ambot pipes up and says he’s bringing 8 guests. When Dream Night arrived there were no guests. Fortunately he didn’t buy extra tickets. Bottom line is everyone had lofty numbers but few, if any, brought new prospects.

For all the good the extra $9 per ticket the upline wanted for their trouble at purchasing tickets they fucked up anyway and the whole thing turned into a fiasco. There were people in our group who were vegetarians. When purchasing the tickets from the WWDB website there was a meal option for meat or vegetarian. The asshole scalper who was collecting the cash took everyone’s meal preferences at the time they forked over the money but didn’t necessarily tally the meal types when making his mass Dream Night tickets purchase. The tickets were handed out to the IBO’s when they arrived at the hotel all part of the control thing.

In case you haven’t figured it out by now just about everyone ended up with the opposite meal choice than what they wanted. Pissed off IBO’s stood in the hallway where there was a lot of ticket and table swapping going on while people tried to get a ticket and a table with their preferred food choice on it. This took a long time to sort out because the asshole allocating the tickets kept running off to find the platinum and get more tickets.

Big surprise these useless bastards couldn’t get their act together.

Dream Night Dishonesty

I see there are some blogs around about Dream Night and some IBO’s saying that the event is sold out when others are finding out there are still tickets for sale.

I haven’t the slightest idea why some IBO’s cagily avoid answering when asked what the cost is for Dream Night tickets, directing people to look on the World Wide Destructive Bastards website. According to some bloggers that information is not available to outsiders for viewing. No purchase WWDB premier membership = no password to view top secret information on their website.

Lying about whether or not an event is sold out is a little weird. I mean really who cares. But lying is all part of playing the Amway game pretending things are going good when the reality is the IBO is drowning in credit card debt, has no outside customers, and no downline. Fake it till you make it. “Business is going great” is a standard IBO response.

So what’s the big secret about how much tickets costs?

Back in 1994 the Eagles were doing their Hell Freezes Over reunion concert tour. I managed to get tickets - $95 apiece. Around the same time tickets for the Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge tour went on sale and I also purchased two - $35 apiece. My husband wanted to know why there was such a big difference in price. I pointed out the Eagles are a better band so their tickets cost more. In actuality it may have had more to do with the venues. The Rolling Stones were in a larger stadium, more people more money. I have no problem saying how much I paid for tickets if I can actually remember. For some reason those two concerts stick out in my mind.

It seems to be a big dark secret how much Dream Night tickets cost this year. Two years ago the tickets cost either $65 or $75 I just don’t recall which but there you have it within $10.

I don’t understand why IBO’s can’t reply honestly: “My Dream Night ticket cost $75. The price might be different in the town where your function is being held. Would you like me to look into that for you?”

Sounds easy enough. Just like someone from another part of the country will say: “Hey I shelled out two hundred bucks for my ticket to see the Eagles.” 

We weren’t even allowed to buy our own tickets to Dream Night. We had to tell the Platinum sack of shit how many tickets we wanted well in advance, give him the cash, and he bought them. Its my guess he got some free seats based on how many tickets he sold and was pocketing the excess cash.

Probably Tex has some insight on why the upline wanted to handle all the Dream Night transactions instead of letting the downline buy through the web page and will leave a comment.

I’ll write more about Dream Night another time. I just want to find out:

1. why the ticket price is such a deep dark secret.

2. why IBO’s direct people to the WWDB site to find out how much a ticket costs when that information is unable to be viewed.

3. why lie about whether or not the event is sold out?