I find it humorous that Amway IBOs refer to their diamonds as "mentors". A mentor is someone who takes your personal well being and success as their personal mission to help you succeed. I guess you could say that your diamond is your mentor but true mentors don't typically get paid for their advice and time spent. When you think about it, a diamond is more like a paid consultant who gets paid with zero accountability. The diamond cashes in even if you fail and go broke trying to build your Amway business.
If you are considered a "serious" business owner, you are expected to purchase standing order, voicemail and to be in attendance at all meetings and functions. And even if you do everything your diamond advises and still fail, you will be told you didn't do it just right or that you didn't try hard enough. Amway IBOs who dedicate themselves to the system can spend hundreds or thousands of dollars a month on tools and functions. In general, tools and functions are non income producing expenditures but your wise "mentors" expect you to spend most or all of your disposable income on these tools and functions regardless of whether you make a cent or not.
Your diamond will make some excuse that you are investing in your business. That's ironic because at the recruitment meetings, they'll tell you that Amway is low overhead and therefore, you should be able to profit very quickly. That might be true if not for the endless supply or tools and functions that your diamond expects you to purchase, regardless of whether their advice is helping you to profit or not. There is zero accountability on the diamond when faithful IBOs follow advice that only leads to net losses instead of profits. The diamonds really must have an ability to have no conscience because there are countless stories of prospects and faithful IBOs going broke following upline diamond advice.
The sad sad thing is that if any asks the diamond to show evidence that they are as rich as they claim, they will be told it's none of your business or the subject will be changed without an answer being provided. And that's because I strongly believe that diamonds (at least most diamonds) do not have the kind of income that they want you to believe they have. They'll show you slideshows of Peter Island or other Amway paid trips and things but you'll rarely see a bunch of other trips or goodies that the diamond actually bought themselves with their excess income from Amway. That's because it's all an illusion and a show they put on to entice prospects to join.
There might be some uber rich diamonds but if there are. it's not because of the massive income from Amway. It's very likely that the diamond augments their income from tools and functions or has other investments elsewhere. Do the math and you'll easily see the truth.
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A mentor might get paid, but if he does it is a limited fee that you pay just once, or for a few sessions.
He doesn't get paid permanently, on a monthly basis. If you have to pay your mentor over and over again then he's a lousy teacher, or you're a stupid student.
That is some mentor who happens to have a vested interest in most of your business’s expenses, and whose own business happens to be part of your business’s supply chain!
I would expect such a “mentor” to encourage more consumption on your part, and for your business to rack up more expenses. No real business would hire such a person as a mentor. It has quite hard to imagine a more compromised mentor, One of the reasons repeatedly cited in the judgements of tax write off cases where authorities don’t regard Amway as a real business, such as the dentist case, is the lack of seeking independent advice or mentorship after repeated losses. The courts did not consider these uplines as being mentors.
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