One thing I can credit Amway diamonds with is coming up with the most bat sh@t crazy ideas that sound sensible to IBOs but utter madness to anyone else. One that I heard about was how you can buy your way to prosperity. Buy your own Amway products and get others to follow and you’ll soon be on the road to early retirement and residual income.
Have you ever seen a store or business prosper when the major of sales are simply to the business owner and employees? The answer is no because such a business does not exist. It’s amazing that people actually believe that you can get rich buying from yourself. But it works on the downline so the diamonds perpetuate the storyline.
One thing I saw at a live function was the diamond telling IBOs to ask prospects if they like selling stuff and whether the answer was yes or no, your response would be “great, then this business is perfect for you”. Of course, actual stories of significant retail sales were rare and my own experience suggested that sympathetic family and friends comprised most of whatever sales took place and I found myself at times selling items at my cost just so the expenses of moving 100 PV wasn’t all on me.
The strategy of buying your own stuff seems to work because most people do not like selling stuff and especially not to friends. But many will give it a run because they are hopeful that Amway will deliver the wealth that upline seemingly promises. The sad thing about a that dreams of wealth is all you get and there’s very little success to speak of. From function to function it’s the same old diamonds time and again.
The diamonds might say they want downline success but they don’t. They just want to keep replacing quitters with new members as long as they can churn in new tools and functions subscribers. That’s the real game of diamonds and that’s why the emphasis of the tools and functions is recruiting new people into the game. It’s an elaborate scheme that prospects and new IBOs don’t see because they have Amway dreams clouding their thoughts.
The stupidest and most idiotic Amway idea is telling IBOs that all they need to do is to eat one Amway energy bar and drink one Amway energy drink per day, and convince six other dopes to do the same. This, they assure you, will guarantee riches.
ReplyDeleteIf you believe that, you'll believe anything.
I am just wondering can an Idiot Idea survive for 61 yrs in 104 countries and still growing.
ReplyDeleteguess now who is an Idiot?
Apparently an idiot idea can last a long time. Amway is proof of that!
ReplyDeleteMany people (like Unknown at 10:10 AM) are perfectly happy to be idiots.
ReplyDeleteAmway has lasted for 61 years? So has the Mafia, and for much longer.