One of the really dumb things that some Amway defenders do is to compare the teaching of WWDB or Network 21 (for example) to a real and legitimate college education. Some people even go as far as to encourage young people to skip or drop out of college so they can focus on Amway. That makes me really upset to know that these upline leaders so so greedy for a dollar that they would encourage a motivated young student to basically risk their future to build a business where you have a fraction of 1% of making any real money and possibly less than that percentage of keeping and maintaining it.
There is plenty of documentation available to show that college grads earn more than non college grads. I believe the difference on average was about $1000 a month more in favor of college graduates. While not all college students graduate, the rate is about 50%. College grads also earn about an average of $50,000 or so. According to Amway, the average IBO earns $115 a month or less than $1500 a year. The Amway earnings are gross, thus IBOs on the system (functions, standing orders) are probably ending up with a net loss. Try feeding your family with zero dollars.
While there may be some value in some of the material provided from upline to downline, it doesn't seem to translate into net profits. Thus an intangible benefits an IBO might receive from his/her Amway education can likely be found elsewhere, without having to run a losing business. Imagine a scenario where two people apply for a job. One candidate has on their resume, a degree from the University of Washington. The other one says they have four years of education from Worldwide Dream Builders. Which candidate is more likely to get a serious look? Do IBOs believe that the stuff they learn at functions is substantial enough to compete with a real and accredited college? If so, then they are likely to get laughed out of the room if the need to compete for a job.
Or how about using the 6-4-2 plan to get a business loan from a bank? What do IBOs learn that can be applied to something outside of the rose colored world of Amway? I find that uplines who get young people to funnel their education dollars towards WWDB or some other system instead of finishing college is a crime. I hope that information seekers find this information before they get persuaded into believing some of the lies told by some upline leaders. I find it ironic though, that many of these same leaders send their kids to college. Hypocrites?
Greetings Mr. Cool.
ReplyDeleteI want to ask a question, albeit it doesn't pertain to this particular article, but it does have to do with Amway.
I've heard it said Amway can't be a pryamid because you can move past your upline. However, I fail to see any mechanism for doing this, nor have I heard of any examples of an ibo passing their upline. You'd think this would be something they crow about, but despite their insistence that it's possible I don't hear of anybody doing it.
My question is how would that even work? Actually, two questions. Second, did you see that happening?
Anonymous, great question. I should publish an article about this. The short answer is when about 95 percent of people quit within 4-5 years, it would be easy to surpass an upline who did nothing or quit. The real question is how many people surpassed a diamond upline? The diamonds have great power and can destroy others by de-edifying them. A good example IMO is Howie Danzik. He divorced his wife Susan after they went diamond together then married Teresa Tsuruda who was also a diamond (odd how they are not double diamonds right?). Now Amway IBOs are convinced that Howie's ex wife fooled around and left him.
ReplyDeleteI had two questions about that. I thought that Amway and WWDB saves marriages and did anyone ask the former Susan Danzik for her side of the story or just assume that Howie was truthful? Other question is why did the WWDB website say Howie built his diamond ship as a single? WWDB revisionist history is my best guess.