Saturday, September 25, 2021

A Straight Answer?

 One of the humorous things about Amway IBOs is their ability to say a whole lot without having any substance. They'll talk about how great the business is and how much they have learned and then when you ask if they made any money, you either get dead silence or you get some answer about how they've seen a copy of a check from someone's upline diamond or something like that. But it's very rare that an IBO will be upfront about their earnings. Of course I can understand that someone brand new might not have made a whole lot, but I have seen some IBOs outright lie and say they've been in Amway a month and they're making $5000 a month or some other tall tale like like.

Even when discussing some Amway released information such as the average earnings of an IBO, you can hear all kinds of excuses provided by Amwayers. They will make excuses like most IBOs do nothing. As if that isn't a problem in itself. Or they make stupid analogies about people signing up for a gym membership and then not doing anything. As if owning a business and exercising are the same thing. I even hear questionable claims about how so many people sign up as IBOs to get lower prices. I chuckle when I hear that because Amway's prices in general, are not competitive with big retailers. I believe that is because Amway must add the cost of IBO bonuses in the cost of their goods and services. While an IBO might save from the full retail price of Amway products, you can (in most cases) find the same or a similar product cheaper online or at Walmart.

Another area where IBOs like to divert the discussion is when the discussion is about the success rate of IBOs in general. Based on Amway's own numbers, less than one half of one percent of IBOs reach the level of platinum. Platinum is the level where allegedly, an IBO either breaks even or starts to make some net profit. It would depend on whether the IBO is involved in the tools and to whet level of participation. But IBOs like to downplay this fact as if people simply did not work hard enough or did not learn enough, rather than simply acknowledging that the system itself might be flawed. 

The last area I see issues is when talking about selling products. I suspect that product sales to no IBOs is relatively small. I believe there may be some exceptional people who can sell, but people in general, do not like to or do not possess the skills to sell products. Yet I see IBOs making all kinds of stories about "selling" to customers. I rarely get a straight answer about product sales as well. The fact that many Amway IBOs can't give a straight answer is quite telling.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The crucial fact about the entire Amway racket is this: If you have a down-line, the most important thing of all is TO KEEP THEM IN THE BUSINESS WORKING FOR YOU FOR AS LONG AS POSSIBLE. Nothing else matters. As long as you have them sending you money every month, and showing up at meetings and functions, your Amway fake business is alive.

Once this is understood, everything else in the Amway racket is easy to understand and explain. The hype, the outright lies, the strict control of IBOs and their personal lives, the terror of outside information, the rage against "quitters" -- it all makes sense.

Anonymous said...

All cults (including business cults like Amway) are about faith and belief. These things are impervious to evidence or counter-arguments. So when you present hard facts to an Amway IBO, he will simply shut his eyes and ears and pretend that everything is OK, and that Amway is the God-given truth.

This is why Amway people are so damned annoying. They won't shut up about their "business," and won't leave you alone. The whole point of a cult is to convert outsiders to "the truth," and to damn everyone who refuses to listen or join.

You will NEVER get a straight answer from an Amway freak. He is trained to respond to your questions or comments like a parrot or an android, just repeating what he has been programmed to say.