Lying Your Way To Success?

 The internet is littered with stories about people who had experienced a brush with Amway or an Amway IBO.  It seems like the vast majority of stories were about bad experiences and losing money.  Many stories included some form of deception that was used in recruiting and retaining IBOs.  

A big lie when I was an IBO was that diamonds claimed there  was no profits made from tools and functions.  There was also a claim that WWDB was a non profit organization.  There were the liar liar pants on fire type of lies.  It was shameless looking back.  Of course these lies were spread when the internet was still new technology.  Later the profits from tools and functions were exposed and the upline narrative changed to profits from tools and functions but there was still a degree of secrecy about how to qualify and how much profit could be made.  It’s clear that diamonds and higher get the lions share of the tool and function profits.  

Recruiting is another area where lies and deception is frequent.  In a recent article I noted how IBOs once denied the Amway and Quixtar connection, but another common lie is a lie by omission.   The Amway pitch will sound great on paper but the reality paints a stark contrast.   And that’s because Amway has a reputation as being somewhat of a scam.   I was once invited to a beer bust while in college only to find myself at an Amway meeting.  

On this very blog there are literally thousands and thousands of comments.  Many are from new IBOs or posers that claim they’ve been in Amway a short while but now make $5000 a month or other incredulous claims.  None of these comments have ever been verified and the people making the comments generally disappear after making the comments, or at least shortly after.  

I believe that you really can’t build Amway as a real business without sone form of deception.   It is why there are countless stories of people tricked into attending meetings or other forms of deception.  The diamonds make claims of being Uber wealthy but as far as I know, none of the diamonds have ever verified their income claims.  

It is for these and other reasons that IBOs struggle and fail, at least the vast majority.