One of the reasons why I joined Amway at one time in my life was because a close friend of mine had joined, and had gone platinum and convinced me of how easy it was and that I could easily do what he had done. Additionally, I was sold by delusions of residual income flowing for the rest of my life. I honestly thought that the one day would come when there would be no job and life's toughest decision would be where to have lunch.
I got serious and started building the business and eventually reached various levels, eventually topping off at the 4000 PV level. At that point, my upline had assured me that my net income would be $1000 a month with the right parameters. I had those parameters but my net income was zero because upline expected IBOs to reinvest all of their earnings into tools (standing orders, functions, etc). At that point, I began to question why we would do all the work and get no financial reward. I was told that the money would be there if I just kept working the business.
Apparently, many IBOs get in for various reasons and I'm sure that teh displays of mansions, jets and cars made some people salivate. Some really enjoyed the thought of telling off their boss and quitting their jobs because Amway was so lucrative. Many people believe it because they want to believe it. Many people would love financial freedom, especially when you have a 2-5 year shortcut to achieve it.
I recall some nite meetings where upline asked the group "why" we are building Amway. It was to spend more time with family, or to possibly gain financial freedom. A popular one was to retire the wife so she can be the one to care for the kids and eventually the dad wouold soon follow. In a nutshell, many people joined Amway as a means to have more time and more money. Money from your residual income and time because you won't need a job. The truly sad thing is that for the vast majority of people who try, even those who work hard at it, end up with less time and money as a result of Amway and the systems.
Rather than why you should build an Amway business, people would think about better and more realistic ways of securing their future. That hard fact is that only a fraction of 1% of people will ever make any decent money from Amway, and even those who might make some coin from Amway, much of that profit is rechanneled back into tools. IBOs would seriously be better off doing nothing than doing Amway.
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Even at the uppermost levels of scamway, the "uplines" must work, work, work to keep their "downlines" active and excited (?) about the scamway opportunity. They may have the material trappings, but not the time to enjoy them. They are used for show when they have the ambots at their home for the highly structured, not enough chairs, boys separate from girls, "you ARE having fun" meetings. Any time with children appears to be used for staged "fun" pictures.
Does anybody know how it "ends"? Once the children are older, do they realize what their parents do for a "living"? Do they understand how the parents bring in the income? Does anybody know of ambot children who "defected"?
First, let's not overlook the obvious. If you want more free time with your kids, why would you think working nights and weekends in Amway, when your kids are free, would be the solution?
Second, the dream that is perpetuated is that the more successful you get, the easier it is. At some point, the money rolls in and you can coast. You'll be lounging on the beach with your family instead of going to Amway meetings. I'd think that the opposite is true. The more successful you get, the harder it is and the more hours you have to put in. This is mainly due to the high attrition rate of IBOs. When your downline is small, say, 10 people, you've got to find one or two new IBOs every month just to replace the ones that will drop out or be inactive. When you've got a hundred people in your downline, you'll have to recruit 10-15 new people every month just to stay where you are, and keep from sliding backwards. That takes real work and dedication. And, that's in addition to any recruiting you have to do to grow your organization. You'll be driving many miles going to meetings nightly helping your downline recruit. As your hours and driving grows, so do your expenses. Does that sound like relaxing on the beach with your family?
AnonTB
I think you misunderstood me. I feel sorry for the children of ambots. I really want to know how it turns out. Do the majority of the children continue in their parents' footsteps or have some "broken free" away from the unethical life of living off the toil of others' failure?
Interesting enough, I don't really know of any kids who followed in the foot steps and built Amway after the parents. I suppose it happens but I just haven't seen a lot of it.
In the BWW system, Vinny and Dayna Pappalardo's children, Danielle and Tony have gone diamond themselves under their wing. However, not many people involved in Amway have the amount of resources and help that I can imagine Danielle and Tony do. Their parents already went diamond and they were groomed to do the same. Also, no one talks about the fact that even though Tony and Frances are now diamonds, Frances did nothing except marry into diamondship. There are many couples that go through the struggle together and turn up with nothing. I remember being at a conference where Frances spoke. Nothing about it made sense or related to the business team she was a part of. I know that we are supposed to take the shopping cart approach to what we heard at conferences, but putting her on stage to talk was already more a waste of time.
King of the scammers-- Dexter Yeager has his kids in his business. I'm not sure if they're in his Amway business or his tool scam business. I believe it's the latter. I picture them in a creepy recording studio pumping out his idiotic speeches on CDs. Yuk!!!
The fox and the Grapes...You are nothing but the Fox
So this Blog and post comments is only for those who comment and like your poison?
If the comments go against your like....you won't post shit will you...
I allow negative comments UNLIKE Amway's blogs and pro Amway people.
You're like the foo in a fool and his money are soon parted.
Foxes don't eat grapes dumbass
Hey Abe, speaking of negative, why don't you post your "net" from Amway? I bet that's a HUGE negative!
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