Thursday, August 13, 2009

Amway - Debating With Amway Supporters?

I recently had a debate with an Amway supporter and I sometimes wonder how some Amway supporters can continue to defend some of the claims they make even when they have no facts to back them up. For example, the supporter insists that Amway has created more millionaires than any other company. So I asked where he found that information because as far as I know, Amway has never made that claim and if it were true, there would be no reason for Amway to hide it.

The Amway supporter also insisted that he is proof that Amway works because he is successful. He never spoke about the financial condition of his downline, nor revealed anything about his level or structure. Instead, challenged Joecool to talk about my former business and why I wasn't profitable. As I explained in a previous post, my Amway business didn't prosper because I followed upline advice to reinvest my profits into tools. And I am certain that I am not alone in having been given this advice. I do not claim they don't exist, but it is my guess that a group where even half of the IBOs make a net profit would be very rare, especially when some groups teach their downlines to primarily "buy from themselves".

When discussing the miserable average income of an IBO, supporters like to cite that some IBOs do little or nothing, but fail to mention that when calculating the average income, Amway disregarded the IBOs who were not considered active. And because we know that you need to move at least 100 PV pv to earn a bonus, then we can conclude that IBOs as a whole, earn very little, with a few big pins bringing up the average. I believe if we looked at the median income for IBOs, it would be far less than $115 a month.

So the question is how can an IBO actually prove that they are successful? Maybe the first step is to be willing to talk about your business. Most IBOs are anonymous commentor on this blog, yet outright refuse to disclose any details about their business, and downplay the expenses associated with the business, even when upline will promote "low overhead" as an incentive to join Amway. While $150 or $200a momth might be low overhead, it is very high if your monthly income is $10 a month. Somehow, upline will convince IBOs that taking losses is a sign of success. Or that an IBO is successful as long as they remain on standing order ot continue to attend functions.

Honesty and transparency is how an IBO can prove his or her success. Making a nice living on the backs of your downline is not success, that is exploitation of your downline.

14 comments:

mrmaximum said...

I have heard that particular stat myself. Only that it made the second highest amount of Millionaires. The first being owners of Dry Cleaning companies.

Anonymous said...

Oh, I thought it was second highest only behind Microsoft millionaires.

Joecool said...

Other than DeVos and Van Andel, what other millionaires were created by Amway? Microsoft created many when their stocks went shooting up. If you are saying some diamonds are millionaires, then I believe there are some.

I highly doubt that Amway is creating a bunch of millionaires and not saying anything about it.

Anonymous said...

Amway millionaires?

http://www.amquix.info/visitors/mh_page.html

Anonymous said...

even when they have no facts to back them up.

while you belive your facts from your sources are justified? you clearly are unable to debate since what ever facts we may have are justified as biased or unusable while you claim to whatever source you can saying it is somehow vailid. this is all laughable since you will clearly try to dissasemble this comment also making you seem to sound justified. you are running no one off we clearly can see your lack of intelligence.

Anonymous said...

Making a nice living on the backs of your downline is not success, that is exploitation of your downline.

Thats interesting? I guess every business owner in the world would be catagorized with this statment as not being successful. Every boss I have ever worked for has made a living off the work I do. Once again your intelligence is pitiful.

Joecool said...

Anonymous, more tapespeak? Businesses do not exploit their employees. The employees apply for a job and they get paid what they agreed to work for, whether it be a wage or salary.

IBOs are shown fabulous wealth by uplines, and told they can have the same if they do the same thing as upline. It's a lie and you either know it or have been sucked in so hard that you don't see it.

mrmaximum said...

This is what IBo defenders must do, take every technicality and use that as their rebuttal as they have nothing else to argue with. Yes my boss does make some money from my labour, and his boss does the same. The issue, however, is that I'm not promised my pay and told that if I do the work, the money will be there and then come pay day, told that I need to work a little harder as it was nowhere near what it's supposed to be.

Now we have people who are pro-amway attacking the source of information as I guess they have nothing else to go on. These sources aren't as obscure as the laughable 'most millionaires' stat which I'm sure changes from AMO to AMO.

However, it's interesting to note that Amway defenders must be so diligent in their job of defending their chosen 'business' because to agree with anyone point is to undermine their own choice in a flagging business which is only a reflection on themselves.

Try to find anyone who defends their business harder than an Amway IBO. Once again....why is that? Could it be that they really aren't trying to convince critics, but themselves?

Anonymous said...

Businesses do not exploit their workers? Joecool, you must be apparently ignorant!

Wage slavery, Wal-Mart style
www.workers.org/2007/editorials/wal-mart-0823

Joecool said...

WalMart pays what their employees agree to. They do not show their potential employees slide shows of yachts, sports cars, and mansions and tell them they can attain it working at WalMart. Yet that's what upline leader do at functions.

Anonymous said...

Wait a moment, based on Wal-Mart's track record you say that there are employees who ongoingly agree to be paid little to even nothing in some cases? It's like saying "yeah, yeah you can pay me $2 an hour even if I don't make on that kind of paycheck but I'm happy yeah you know, I agree you to pay me $2 an hour it's cool you know?" Man, aren't you funny?

Joecool said...

Anonymous said: "yeah, yeah you can pay me $2 an hour even if I don't make on that kind of paycheck but I'm happy yeah you know, I agree you to pay me $2 an hour it's cool you know?"

Joe says: That's far better than IBOs who say yeah yeah, I lost $300 a month buying standing order and attending functions, but I am successful.

Anonymous said...

Yeah yeah I see, Amway is in the motivational field, they like yeah yeah charge you hundreds of dollars per month and you know yeah like they promise you wealth but no no Amway does not have offer an opportunity to do business with retailers through them like yeah oh yeah you know they scam you yeah! You're too funny now Joecool aren't you?

Anonymous said...

the truth can be funny now can't it, anon?