Upline Teaching Changes To Keep You Sucked in?

 One of the things that is very clear to me;  Many Amway recruits are shown fancy cars and toys, along with luxurious vacations, toys, and trappings. This is a way to get prospects excited and interested in signing up for the Amway opportunity. Many sign up, and soon enough, the excitement soon fades and they quit. Either that or the IBO sees monthly losses and no prospects of improvement and eventually quits. Many do little or nothing. But what many people do no understand or realize is that there is a reason for this. Many do little or nothing, I suspect because the business is much harder to build than advertised.  

Because Amway name has a stigma in the US (and growing in other locations), finding prospects is a daunting task. Add in the high and often uncompetitive prices of Amway products and you have major challenges that IBOs simply cannot overcome. Most simply quit and fade away into society.  Most just blend back into the world they knew before Amway.  Some, like myself were lied to and abused, with upline leaders (WWDB)who were never held accountable for their actions. Thus I blog so others may share my experiences and can decide if they wish to climb insurmountable challenges for a less than 1% chance of financial success.  My experiences are my own, along with my opinions, but I have seen many many similar stories to corroborate what I have seen and heard.  
 
What many leaders do is evolve their teachings as they go along. They start to teach their IBOs that the Amway opportunity may have made them nicer people, better fathers or husbands and other nice to hear stories because it covers up the fact that these IBOs are not making money, and in most cases, losing money. Sometimes I wonder how someone can be a better person by deceiving others about the business opportunity, or how you can be a better father or husband when Amway meetings become a priority over your family and friends. Or how you can be a nicer person and leave threatening messages on forums with those who disagree about Amway being a great business opportunity?

Rather than justifying your involvement in Amway, or looking at side benefits, IBOs should be looking at their bottom line. If your Amway "Business" is not generating enough money to pay for your voicemail and other expenses and leaving you with a net profit, then what exactly is your upline teaching you that is worth the ongoing expense? If you are like most, you are told that Amway has little or no overhead, and has little risk. Well, that becomes untrue after months pass by and you have spent hundreds if not thousands on support materials that do not deliver you a net profit. Additionally, your upline is making a nice income by selling you those support materials and advising you to buy more.

Are you new or a tenured IBO? Has your teaching from upline evolved away from making money as the bottom line? If so, what do you do next? I would run in the opposite direction.  After all, the vast majority of  people get enticed into joining Amway to make money, not to be nicer people.  And the part about being nicer is subject.  Many might not agree with you.