I am a former Amway distributor, or IBO. While I was active, my life was consumed by Amway and Amway related activities. If I wasn't at a meeting or showing the plan, I was at coffee shops or at other public places looking to meet potential recruits to add to my group. I was in Worldwide Group at the time and I was always taught that we were "helping people". I dedicated my life to the "cause".
Looking back, we didn't help anyone who didn't join the business. Even those who joined didn't actually receive "help". The help that my upline refered to was simply someone upline showing the plan and helping active IBOs to recruit others. Sometimes this was done for free and sometimes you paid (for open meetings). Every opportunity was used to look for recruits, even weddings and other social events. We never provided anything unless prospects were interested in Amway. If they were not interested, that was end of any help they received. My sponsor would say "They're not bad people, but they just don't get it", meaning they don't see Amway as their financial savior.
When I finally realized that the Amway opportunity was not going to deliver lifelong residual income for me, and due to some conflict with my sponsor, I decided to leave the business. Well, all my lifelong Amway friends never spoke to me again. Most of my group quit except a few of them. Allegedly, one of them continued on in the business and allegedly reached the platinum level. All that means to me is this person continued to be brainwashed and spent tens of thousands of dollars on tools.
The really strange thing for me was after I left the Amway opportunity and Worldwide group, I suddenly realized how much extra time I had on my hands. I also realized that I had extra cash to save as my income wasn't being consumed by PV and support materials. I was able to save and invest some of that surplus and I am glad that I did today. At of this writing, I am living very comfortably because of my J-O-B.
As time passed, I also read and heard about some of my crossline friends losing their homes and/or going bankrupt. I am fairly certain that their consumption of standing orders and function attendance was a major factor in their lives. I also discovered through various media that our WWDB leaders had lied to the downline about tool profits. They had said nobody made a profit from tools. I later found that some of them made most of their income from tools. These leaders have never been held accountable for their lies.
I also discovered later that some uplines lied about paying for their homes in cash, and who knows what they may be lying about today. I believe upline greed has led to many of the problems the business opportunity faces today. I started to learn about some of this back in 2003 - 2004 and I eventually registered as a member on Quixtar blog. I have been debating Amway since then.
The best discovery I have made was that life goes on quite nicely after Amway!
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My name is anonymous from San Jose California with an IP Address of 76.102.109.229 and I have been banned from Joecool's blog for profanity, racial slurs and other vile and puerile comments.
Maybe anonymous will grow up and get a life after Amway?
joecool, just wanted to let you know your blog and anna's have been a great form of moral support for me seeing my loved one sucked into a cult and distancing from me. im still trying to learn more about amway everyday. thanks for your updates.
In this buiness its full time all the time. You give up the freedom the normal job holder has. You give up evenings and weekends because you are running a highly inefficient business model. You never see your children. Even if you are a rare high pin and able to work full time in amway but not in amother job, you dont see your children as you are at home daytime when the kids are at school. Evenings and weekends you are at your business. Finally no matter what level you reach you dont make money. Unless you are crown. Once you reach a pin of say diamond which takes nearly ten years , you are assured to not requalify and you quickly fall back. Thats what happened to the millions who tried. A small handful progressed and even those will have to work it for life. They will have no pension and cant retire. A few also made big money from pushing tools at the expense of those downlines they were suppose to be helping. You could do the same if you are prepared to convince people you bring into the business to buy tools that are useless.
You're welcome. I'd glad my experiences in Amway and commentary was able to help you.
LOL, the banned anonymous is still trying to leave childish comments. It's so sad, this anonymous is apparently a 46 year old loser living in his mum's basement. But doggone it, he really believes Amway works. LOL
TOUGH TO SAY WHETHER BUILDING AMWAY IS A DREAM OR THE SCHEME BUT one thing is sure that there products are wonderful.even iam using them and really finding those beneficial.
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Amway products cost too much.
What happened to the anonymous from San Jose? I think he's been lurking and masturbating while reading these articles. LOL
The anonymous loser was just a drive by troll. He's so full of shit that his eyes have turned brown. LOL
This is so true. I never joined, but the diamond I met at a meeting (high profile name so I won't divulge) had his kids in home school. He said they just didn't fit into the regular schooling. I think it was so he could actually see them.
The reason why many would lose their houses and go into bankruptcy while having any business is because people invest in a lot of things they don't need. Invest in only things that grow your business. It's super important to know that. "Work Smarter, not Harder".
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