Amway Censorship

Amway and their representing ambots are huge supporters of censorship.

I attended countless Amway cult meetings where the Amway cult leaders doled out brainwashing sermons on what the IBO’s could do and not do when it came to reading, watching, and listening materials.

We were told TV was a no no until we reached a certain level in Scamway.

My response to having what I can and can not watch on TV being censored? Fuck you Amway assholes! I’ll watch whatever I want to watch on TV.

The Amway cult leaders didn’t want us watching the news because it was so “negative” and Amway ambots live in a fantasy world of suspended reality where nothing bad ever happens.

Total lunacy!

We were told what books to read. That would be books on Amway WWDB approved reading list. Some motivational type books would be available in likely places like libraries and bookshops, but most books were pure shit that Diamonds had likely finagled a good deal from the author or publisher to flog to cult followers so they could sell on WWDB and take a huge profit on the sales.

My response to the assholes in our Amway upline who wanted to censor what I read? Typical. Fuck you I’ll read what I want. I always brought trashy romance novels to Amway cult meetings and sat there reading them making sure those around me could see the cover shot which hopefully was a woman doing 2 or 3 guys. Funny how I don’t really read this stuff seeing as how I no longer attend Amway cult meetings but it was always good to throw those ambot prudes for a loop when they asked what I was reading and I’d lift the book so they could see the cover shot of half naked threesomes.

What about the Amway cult leaders views on the Internet? Stay off it. The Internet is a bathroom wall and you can’t believe anything you read on it.

My response to being censored on the Internet? Fuck you Amway assholes. If I choose to be entertained on the Internet then I don’t give a flying fuck whether or not you approve.

Nobody censors what Anna Banana chooses to read, watch on TV, or look at on the Internet. Least of all those fucking Amway assholes in our upline ain’t gonna censor those things!

Amway doesn’t like when bloggers and commenters on the Internet talk about their Amway experiences because most of it is bad publicity for the company. There ain’t nothing they can do. It ain’t against the law to tell the truth or have an opinion. At least not in this country. In the past Amway has tried to bully their critics into silence but in this Internet age they shut one down another comes along. Though I am very open to selling my blog and stop writing but it ain’t gonna come cheap! Anna Banana has a price!

Lots of companies have people leaving their opinions all over the Internet and its not all happy love you sort of stuff. Someone gets shitty customer service or overpriced products they’re gonna let others know about that company and hopefully warn them from making the same mistake. Or people can read both sides of a story and make their own decisions.

Not in the fucking Amway cult! Your upline sack of shit Platinum makes all the decisions on what you can and can not do!

I let anyone comment on my blog. If someone in Amway wants to say how much they love the assholes in their Amway upline and try to bullshit me into believing that Amway products are good and priced to reflect their “high” quality then that’s fine. I’ll leave them a response too letting them know what I think of their bullshit. People who want to leave their side of the story on my blog will not be censored for doing so. I approve all comments unless they are a racist attack on someone’s skin color, birthplace, religion, etc.

Likewise I see the same from other former Amway IBO’s who have blogs. No one is getting censored because they like Amway and want to let us know about their great love affair. No one is being censored because they leave dumb ass responses. Though they risk being ridiculed or others trying to convince them the path to riches they’ve chosen will instead lead them to the poorhouse and divorce court.

So I had a recent commenter named Jonathan stop by to say he’s in Amway and its the only way he can come up with to get rich and retire his wife. I and others tried to convince him that Amway has a less than one quarter of 1% chance of making money. The conversations were not hostile but it is like banging your head on the wall trying to convince an ambot of anything. Today Jonathan showed up to delete all his comments on my blog so clearly some asshole in his Amway upline has counselled him to do so and censor his comments because that’s what Amway is all about. Censorship!

Anyone ever stop by Amway’s blog? Not me! But I see other bloggers blogging that they left comments that were never approved or published to the blog.

Amway censorship!

Ever stop by any blogs written by Amway lovers? Try to leave a comment? It likely won’t be approved or published. All in the name of Amway censorship!

When it comes to Amway blogs and website anyone who has a different opinion than Amway assholes will be censored!

I am against censorship. A couple of forums I visited years ago censored some comments left by members only to have the people who left the comments leave more comments saying that admin had deleted them. Not the type of websites I want to associate with! In keeping with that theme I refuse to visit blogs or websites that censor their readers which means I don’t view any Amway blogs or Amway lover blogs and just base my knowledge on what other bloggers have said about being censored.

Why censor if what you believe in is legal, legitimate, and above board?

Why censor just because someone has a different opinion than you do?

I can see why cults want to censor “negative” things about them. I can see why scams and pyramid schemes want to censor “the truth”.

Down with censorship!

Down with Amway!

Fuck you Amway assholes for your attempts to control us with censorship!

Ambot Denial: Amway is Not a Get-Rich-Quick Scheme

I can't tell you how many times I heard our sack of shit Platinum say Amway is not a get rich quick scheme.

What he does NOT say is that Amway is also not a get rich slowly business.

Amway is a get rich NEVER kind of business. Except for a fraction of 1% of IBO's who make money though unllikely to be the promised riches some Amway asshole from the stage tells you.

I heard every amount from $100,000 to $750,000 a year promised to us by Amway assholes from our sponsor to the Diamonds.

Lying bunch of bastards!

Ambots spend a lot of time denying that Amway is not a get rich scheme and not a pyramid scheme. Anyone who has to spend so much time denying something and arguing why its not - gotta have them canned Amspeak responses ready! - you know its gotta be exactly that otherwise why spend so much time in denial mode?

I've never heard anyone from McDonalds telling franchise owners that buying a restaurant is not a get rich quick scheme. Owning a McDonalds is kind of the same thing as owning a gold mine! Its always gonna make money. Likewise I've never heard anyone from McDonalds going around convincing the public that they are not a pryamid scheme and they are not a scam. They don't need to spend time denying what they are not. They need to convince people what they are.

Legitimate businesses don't need to spend an enternity denying anything. You don't hear representatives from Dairy Queen going around convincing people that Blizzards taste great. Most people can figure that one out after a couple of spoonfuls.

I saw an interesting article on Yahoo that I wanted to share called How To Retire With $1 Million.

Of course the first thouht that comes to mind is if you want to retire with any money, don't fritter it away in the Amway scam!

Anyway its something to think of. People like us who are small business owners don't have a pension to rely on so in our working years we have to figure out other investments to supplement our social security. That small amount coming in each month is all some people have. For others its just a regular amount coming in each month that can be counted on to show up and probably just covers monthly expenses depending on where you live. Its a lot more expensive to live in New York City than somewhere out in the boonies in Oklahoma. People like us need investments to bring in a steady income when we retire for the fun stuff. Or maybe the not so fun stuff when a major appliance needs to be replaced.

What we don't need is some bullshit claim from the lying assholes in the Amway upline about the gazillions of dollars in residual income that will be rolling in forever in our golden years.

I hope everyone is enjoying the Memorial Day weekend! I have been swamped with activities for the past couple of days. Everyone wants me! Got some more fun planned this afternoon! Woo hoo! At least I'm not stuck at some fucking Amway cult meeting!

Amway Salespeople Versus Timeshare Salespeople

Anyone who has spent any time in grocery stores, shopping malls, Barnes & Noble, or coffee shops has seen them crawling out of the wood work. Scum of the earth Amway rats hell bent on scamming people out of their money and destroying lives.

Anyone who has spent time in popular tourist destinations has seen them crawling out of the woodwork, stalking you in hotels, beaches, and sidewalks. Salespeople who are pushing timeshare condos.

Well mabye Amway salespeople too!

Timeshare salespeople must be people persons. It takes a lot of gall to follow and strike up conversations with people who are on their way somewhere who don’t want to be bothered with offers of free or greatly reduced prices on shows, attractions, dinners, etc.

Amway salespeople don’t necessarily have to be good with people because the Amway cult leaders claim you’re not really selling anything. You’re just buying from your own store and teaching others how to do the same thing and everyone will be rich. No one in Amway has anything free to give away or anything with greatly reduced prices that would be a good deal to purchase so the ambots have to figure out another scam to reel in victims.

If you are in a popular tourist destination you do not have to go out looking for a timeshare salesperson. They will find you.

No matter where you are in the world and even though you’re not looking for an Amway salesperson, they’ll crawl out of the sewer and find you anyway.

Timeshare salespeople have an angle to trick potential buyers into attending a sales pitch meeting. Usually it involves giving something away for free or at least the illusion of doing so.

Amway salespeople trick unsuspecting prospects into attending Amway meetings through a number of lies. Usually has something to do with e-commerce, learning how to start up your own business, tea party, beer bust, movie and popcorn night, make up party. There are endless pitches. All lies.

Time sharesalespeople are hustlers.

Amway salespeople are hustlers and scammers.

Timeshare salespeople usually have condo/hotel rentals available at overinflated prices and one usually has to pay some kind of membership fee to join.

Amway salespeople have overpriced shitty products for sale and if one wants to become an IBO they pay a membership fee.

Timeshare salespeople generally earn a salary and a commission.

Amway salespeople do not earn a salary and rarely make much commission. Amway’s own literature says the average IBO earns $115/month gross. They fail to disclose how much money an IBO has to shell out each month just to earn that $115 and the reality is the net loss is usually hundreds of dollars in the hole each month.

Timeshare salespeople want to get the prospect in front of the head honcho salesperson who is probably one of the best closers on the planet.

Amway salespeople want to get their prospect in front of their Platinum because they have more experience at reeling a gullible person into the scam.

Timeshare salespeople are annoying as hell.

Amway salespeople are worse than annoying as hell.

Timeshare salespeople have a little territory that they stick close to like a desk, shop front, or piece of sidewalk. Disinterested people can keep walking and its unlikely they’ll be pursued by the time share salesperson.

Amway salespeople know no boundaries. They’ll chase you all over town hounding you to attend an Amway meeting or buy shitty Amway products.

Timeshare salespeople usually only spend seconds maybe minutes on a prospect before the prospect gets away or they spot another likely prospect and dump the first one.

Amway salespeople will spend hours begging and pleading a prospect to attend an Amway meeting.

Timeshare salespeople will usually take a “no” from a prospect and move on and turn their attention on the next tourist walking past their station.

Amway salespeople are disbelieving when people say “no” to buying Amway products or attending an Amway meeting. They will argue for lengthy periods of time using every denial tactic they’ve learned from their upline cult leaders.

Timeshare salespeople are generally fairly polite to disinterested parties who have said no. They’re representing a corporation and don’t want pissed off prospects hitting the Internet bitching about their company and the rude behavior of the salespeople.

Amway salespeople are extremely rude to disinterested parties. Amway salespeople will  sneer at anyone who says no and call them losers or broke losers. Amway salespeople don’t give a flying fuck that pissed off prospects hit the Internet bitching about their rude antics and Amway products. Amway the corporation doesn’t give a flying fuck either about the bad image their salespeople give them.

Timeshare salespeople probably have some luck persuading prospects to attend a meeting. Some people don’t mind sitting in a room getting the old timeshare pitch, turning them down, and walking off with whatever prize has been given to them. Maybe its worth a couple of hours of their time sitting inside a high pressure sales meeting to get free tickets into Disneyworld.

Amway salespeople don’t have a lot of luck persuading prospects to attend Amway meetings. Amway’s bad reputation precedes them. Its hard to find people open to being scammed in a pyramid scheme. Sitting through several hours of a meeting listening to some cult leader spout off his bullshit is not everyone’s idea of fun especially if there’s nothing in it for them for wasting their time.

If you go to a timeshare meeting and act disinterested the salesperson may up the ante of the prizes they’re offering.

If you go to an Amway meeting and act disinterested the ambots will mock you.

If you tell a timeshare salesperson that you’re unemployed, have poor credit, no money in the bank, etc they will lose interest in you real fast because they know you won’t get through the credit check portion of their application.

If you tell an Amway salesperson that you’re unemployed, have poor credit, no money in the bank, etc they will jump all over you and tell you that now is the perfect time for you to get on board with Amway and how rich you’re going to be in a few months.

Sometimes you might find a timeshare condo that you like and want to purchase it.

You will never find an Amway product that you like and no intelligent human being would ever get involved in Amway as a salesperson without brainwashing tactics put upon them by an Amway cult leader.

In summation its easier to escape a rabid timeshare salesperson than a deranged Amway salesperson.

Get Rich Slowly

Get rich slowly or get rich quick? Either way neither will happen for the majority of IBO’s who sign up with Amway.

Our sack of shit Platinum was very careful never to say the words “get rich quick” but everything else he said implied that one would get rich quick. Our Platinum said we could make $100,000 in 6 months. Well that’s pretty decent money to most people and 6 months is a relatively quick period of time to earn that much money.

It would not have made any difference if he’d said you can get rich slowly in Amway - and I have never ever heard any Amway leader say you can get rich slowly. Kind of defeats the purpose of getting the audience all fired up with promises of riches in 2 to 5 years. Very few IBO's get rich in Amway and how rich they are is debatable. Subjective. Everyone has different benchmarks what they think is “rich”. At Amway functions we see slide shows of mansions, luxury cars, and expensive material possessions. For all we know these items are rented for the filming.

Many people would think a person earning $200,000/year is a good income. Is it achievable in Amway? Apparently so. In their literature they say that .0065% of IBO’s earn $200,000/year or more.

Get it? That’s a tiny fraction of 1% of all IBO’s. That would likely be a Diamond income and a good chunk of that would be from speaking engagements at Amway functions not from commissions and bonuses for the Amway products their downline have been purchasing.

Our Platinum was a professional liar. The one thing he couldn’t explain was after 15 years flogging Amway shit was why he wasn’t rich. Or at a higher level on the Amway pyramid. I’d say that the 15 year mark for someone to be rich qualifies for get rich slowly. That sack of shit can’t get rich quickly and he can’t get rich slowly either!

Odd because as a cult leader I’d put him on the same frightening level as Reverend Jim Jones and Charles Manson. Our Platinum has swindled many people over the years directing their hard earned money to Amway products and tools.

Asshole!

Anyway I was going through my computer looking at web pages I’d saved and cleaning up the ones that are dead links or no longer interest me and today’s topic was because I’d bookmarked a web page called Get Rich Slowly. I haven’t looked at in years - probably not since I bookmarked it! I just looked it over again and I have a feeling this blogger follows the advice of Dave Ramsey. I read one of his books a few years ago called The Total Money Makeover. He has 7 steps to achieving financial freedom. There are a lot of people out there who are huge fans of Ramsey and many of them seem to take the attitude its Dave’s way or the highway. Kind of like the attitude Amway IBO’s have about how there is no other way to financial freedom except through Amway! When I read the book I found some of Ramsey’s advice good but a little strict for me. Bottom line most financial advisors say the same thing: incur no debt, pay off any existing debt, save for retirement, invest your money, buy a house, etc, etc. They all have different paths to reach those goals.

Its kind of like your Amway upline. They all have paths to reach their goal and it usually involves abusing their downline and taking their money and destroying their lives. All in pursuit of the almighty buck.

To sum it up. Unless you are a good cult leader, a good liar, and don’t give a shit about destroying other people’s lives, you will never be part of the .0065% of IBO’s who get rich slowly or get rich quickly from Amway. You won’t get rich period in Amway. If you’re a half assed cult leader you might break even or make a small profit but that takes a lot of hours and lots of money invested.

You’d do better taking a second job, even minimum wage, for 5 hours a week. You’d make more money than the average IBO right there and don’t have to spend any money to do so and spend way less time working a part time job instead of working the Amway business. Then take that money from the second job - lets just call it $50/week to work with even numbers - and invest that money and play the stock market. A little fun money every week and if you take the advice of some good investors it could be the path to get rich slowly.

Sure beats the Amway path to the poorhouse!

The Legend of Bad Harry

One day a bad man came to town. Let’s call him Bad Harry who is a snake oil salesman.

Bad Harry was looking for sharp businessmen who could buy his very expensive snake oil, consume it, and find other people who could do the same. You find 6 people and they find 6 people and they find 6 people and so on and so on.

Bad Harry called it duplication. Others might call it an instant crowd - that is if the theory actually worked. It did look good on paper though to the adoring masses.

It was important to find more people below you that Bad Harry called the downline and you’d make money off their sales of snake oil. As long as you had people underneath you, you’d make money. Everyone would become rich!

The plan was a pyramid scheme. It was very important for the downline to try to scramble to the top of the pyramid.

They did this by spending lots of money buying snake oil.

Little did the downline realize all the only thing they were doing was making Bad Harry rich.

It was very difficult to claw their way up the pyramid.

Bad Harry kept brainwashing them with mantra that the higher up the pyramid you got, the more money you make.

But there were big sacrifices to make along the way. You had to spend a lot of money buying snake oil from Bad Harry's company even though other companies sell snake oil much cheaper.

It took many hours each week to try to sell snake oil and try to find other people to come to meetings and try to get them to sign up to sell snake oil. It became very clear that the downline were only making pennies an hour.

And most of the time they didn’t make any money at all. They usually lost more money than they made.

 Harry told the downline they must buy tools and this would be the path to helping them sell more snake oil and becoming rich.

The downline had to spend a lot of time with Bad Harry learning how to sell snake oil and how to sign up other people to sell snake oil that they had to miss family functions and parties.

Bad Harry told them not to worry because the other snake oil comrades would now become their new family.

If the downline thought it was hard scrambling up the pyramid they soon learned that its even more difficult living inside a pyramid.

Soon the only thing that consumed their thoughts was escaping the pyramid and getting away from this cult that was destroying their lives.

Especially why they looked outside the pyramid windows and saw everyone else enjoying their free time with their families and going on vacations and having fun.

Finally someone figured out the truth. Even though they might find a few customers to buy snake oil eventually these customers would go to another store where they could buy the snake oil for so much cheaper. The sad reality was customers were hard to find and even harder to keep around. Then they found out that the snake oil cost one tenth the price they were selling it for. Someone was getting rich and it was not the downline.

It was Bad Harry! He’d lied to them about how the snake oil was priced so high because it was much higher quality than its competitors. But snake oil is snake oil. People are going to go where they get a better deal. And the downline snake oil salespersons were going to quit because they couldn’t find any customers and because they couldn’t sign up any other snake oil salespeople.

What about those worthless tools? Motivational CDs telling the downline to never quit and they were all winners. The books that said one day someone was digging a ditch and the next day he was a millionaire snake oil salesperson. What about those speakers from the stage who said that everyone who didn’t buy snake oil was a loser. Those same speakers who said that everyone who quit didn’t try hard enough. They’d been brainwashed! Worse than that many of them had lost their life savings, taken on credit card debt to buy snake oil, lost their houses to foreclosure, declared bankruptcy, marriages ended in divorce, and families were destroyed.

All for the sake of overpriced snake oil!

The realization sunk in. Bad Harry was a thief!

Even worse than a thief Bad Harry was a cult leader!

Bad Harry must be lined up and shot before he could destroy any more lives.

Put a target on Bad Harry right where eveyone wants to shoot him!

They tossed Bad Harry’s body down a well and filled it with concrete so no one would ever find him.

 RIP Bad Harry. NOT!!!!



The End

Yes this is what one can come up with after a few pina coladas! Hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend!


And from marriedtoanambot let’s just send another big old FUCK YOU out to Amway Scamway and their scammer army of Ambots.



Get Rich Quick in Amway?

At Amway meetings I attended the speaker was very careful not to use the words “get rich quick”. Those particular words make most people wary. The old saying about how if it sounds too good to be true comes to mind.

The Platinum or Diamond speaker avoids saying the actual words “get rich quick” but everything else they say implies that a person will get rich in Amway fairly quickly.

Take a popular phrase at Amway meetings “two to five years”. What can happen in two to five years? Why - you can go Diamond of course! The Diamonds show all these videos at Amway functions with mansions, sports cars, private jets, and exotic vacations. The message is that in two to five years that’s the lifestyle all the IBO’s in the audience will be living. Anyone remember that TV show called “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous”? That’s the perception we’re getting with the Diamond’s videos. That type of lifestyle. The people that Robin Leach was interviewing were earning millions of dollars a year to sustain that lifestyle. The same lifestyle that Amway Diamonds show that they’re living even though Amway literature says average Diamond income is about $150K/year. Here the skeptic in me comes out. Its a lot cheaper to rent a house, cars, airplane, etc for a few days for a movie shoot than to actually own the stuff. I have no way of verifying one way or the other that the things the Diamonds are jumping all over in their videos are actually owned and fully paid for by them or staged for the video.

Is two to five years a long time? Or is that a reasonably quick time to be earning millions of dollars a year?

OK I’m going to pick on Nicolas Cage here. And not in a mean way. Only because he’s been in the news. I like him as an actor. I’ve seen a lot of his movies. “Gone in Sixty Seconds” he made $20 million dollars. The “National Treasure” movies he made $20 million each. Here’s a guy who works lets say maybe a year on a movie and he earns millions of dollars. That sounds pretty “get rich quick” to me. On the other hand this man has lost 2 homes - probably mansions - in New Orleans to foreclosure and his Las Vegas home to foreclosure. He’s having all kinds of money problems. He can’t even sustain an Amway Diamond lifestyle and he earns millions of dollars a year more than those Diamonds. I think Nicolas Cage better make another National Treasure sequel before he gets prospected by some Amway IBO!

Our Platinum says if you are CORE then in 6 months you’ll be earning $80,000/year. Although that might not be “rich”, 6 months is still a reasonably “quick” time to make $80k. Our Platinum also said if you get 20 friends to buy $25/ month from Amway you’d be earning $1000/month. Hunh? Let’s do the math. Amway is earning $500 from those 20 friends spending $25 each. How the hell can the IBO earn $1000/month from that??? That sounds pretty good to me too. Earning double what Amway takes in. Our Platinum claims he works 8 hours a week and earns $100K a year. To a person working a cash register for minimum wage 40 hours a week, I would say working 8 hours a week to earn $100 thousand a year sounds like “get rich quick”.

I realize its all about perception. Some people out there will think $80 or $100 thousand a year is dog chow while someone else will think they’ve hit pay dirt.

Perception. Illusions. Its all part of the Amway scheme.