The point of this blog post is to illustrate that the Amway opportunity is simply not sustainable and that the market is basically saturated in North America. I know Amway recently released some propaganda on the average IBO income being up, but once again, a clear explanation of how they derived the numbers was not given. For all we know, they have have simply excluded more IBOs by declaring them as "inactive", thus driving up the "average" income. Anytime I hear the word Amway, it frequently draws funny looks from people. I know that Amway proponents will claim that Amway is not saturated, but in real life, you aren't going to have people lining up to join. It is why there are countless stories of people being lied to or tricked into attending recruitment meetings.
So in reviewing the common 6-4-2 plan, there are 79 IBOs and one becomes a platinum. And that is with the generous assumption that all of these IBOs are moving 100 PV consistently each month. Factor in some folks who do little or nothing and some who order infrequently and anyone can reasonably conclude that a platinum business will commonly have well over 100 downline IBOs. Now with that being said, what if everyone in the entire world suddenly had an epiphany and decided to join Amway?
Well, the structure of most platinum businesses won't change. You will still likely have more than 100 downline in each platinum group. The platinum will make some money and most downline, especially those on the system of cds and functions will lose money. Thus less than 1% of the IBO population can realistically be a platinum at any given time. Whether it is now or whether the entire planet signs up for Amway, there will always be less than 1% of the IBO population at the platinum level. That is how the system is set up. The only exceptions to this rule would be for IBOs to sell enough PV to make up for a lack of downline. But there is ample testimony and evidence to indicate that many IBOs simply self consume their PV because they cannot or do not like selling. Some AMO (Away Motivational Organizations) groups teach IBOs to almost exclusively self consume their own volume. My former LOS, WWDB did not emphasize selling, but focused on recruiting. And why not? The reality is you cannot go emerald or diamond without many downlines.
So even if every person on earth joined Amway, there would still be less than 1% of IBOs at the platinum level and very likely that less than 1% of IBOs would be at a net profit. Some proponents argue that many IBOs sign up and do nothing or sign up and don't order products. So what? They are still IBOs and even if you didn't count them in averages. What I have posted above explains why the success rate (platinum) still cannot amount to much more than a fraction of 1% even at the best case scenario.
Still thinking about registering for Amway? Do your research and you may want to think about this article.
2 comments:
The problem with this impeccable logic is that it is exactly that.
For amway cultists though, logic is not a feature of their existence.
It cannot be, because it really should not take very long to realise the scam.
I always laugh when I hear people say 'the amway opportunity' despite this logic.
The same kind of opportunity as flushing your wages down the toilet.
The same kind of opportunity as poking out your eye with a stick.
The same kind of opportunity as mugging someone and stealing their wallet.
I had an opportunity to jump off a cliff just the other day but passed that up too!
Any pyramid scheme is ultimately unworkable, since it requires (in theory) exponential growth. The entire population of the earth would be signed up in just a few months if Amway were intrinsically profitable and attractive.
So -- ironically -- every pyramid scheme depends on limited success in recruitment. It sounds crazy, I know -- but it's true! The great majority of persons will not join, or will drop out quickly, or will never have heard about Amway. They will therefore be the great untapped resource for new IBOs who actually do join up. As other critics have said, if every single person in a small town joined up in Amway, they would all be in endless competition with each other, and would fail miserably.
This is why Amway is essentially a selfish and greed-driven business. Your only real concern is yourself, your immediate down-line, and whatever other down-line is developed underneath them. You are specifically forbidden to deal with cross-line. All you are interested in is your little 6-4-2 structure, and keeping it alive with new recruits. You really don't give a shit about anyone else, despite all the Amway propaganda about "helping others" and "developing leadership skills."
That's why many Ambots go into a rage when they hear that somebody else in their city has gone Platinum, or become a Diamond. That means that there is less opportunity for them, since some other Ambot has developed a down-line, and scooped up energetic IBOs.
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