Insidious Amway Leaders?

 The really sad but almost ruthless thing about some of the Amway "diamonds" are that they portray themselves as your friends, mentors, coaches and proclaim that they have nothing but your best interest at heart.  That they want nothing more than your success and that they might even say they "love" you.  How can you not be loyal to someone who so desires your ultimate and long-term success right?   I mean, all you have to do is copy what upline has done.  Just ride their coat tails.  They have blazed the trail and all you need to do is follow the path that they have cleared for you right?

That's how insidious these leaders are.  While they might claim they have an undying desire to help you and to get you into diamond club, is it real or is it just a show that they put on?   I have met some first hand people who were former high-level Amway types and they say that behind the scenes, the diamonds basically laugh at how badly some of these downline want success but they know that nearly 100% of them will fail, even if the necessary effort is applied.  And that's because the system is designed that way.  A platinum distributor typically has about 100 downline or so.  A diamond would be upline from six (6) or more of these groups.  

Based on Amway's own statistics, extrapolated or course, only .26% of all IBOs ever reach platinum.  That's about 1 out of 400.  And that's the level that an IBO begins to break even or makes a tiny profit, when factoring in tools and other business expenses.  There are documented cases of platinums losing money as well.  Even diamonds, if not currently qualified, can be losing money when business expenses are factored in.

The insidious part of the leadership is how they pretend to truly care about you.  The truth is if you go diamond, they now have to cut you into the tools and functions profits.  I can tell you straight out that they do not like this, although at times they must put on a happy face to show that going diamond is possible.  Also, if your uber wealthy upline diamonds were so wealthy, why must they charge you for almost every time you meet with them.  They profit from open meetings, regional and major functions (such as Spring Leadership) and other programs such as standing order, book of the month, or even the outdated voicemail system that they push on the faithful downline.

I don't know of any situation, except Amway, where "mentors" and "coaches" profit directly from the people they are mentoring and coaching.  And to make it worse, the more the upline hard sells the system, the more they extract from the downline they are supposed to help.  And the upline handsomely profits even if you lose your shirt or wind up deep in debt because you followed their advice.  The phrase used by upline that they don't make money until you do is an outright lie and the math easily bears this out.  

The upline diamonds could be more accurately described as paid consultants, or ruthless conmen.  If the system were regularly churning out success and net profits, that would be a different matter.  But the complete ineffectiveness of the tools and functions makes it almost a stroke of luck when anyone actually succeeds and reaches a level such as diamond or higher.  Don't be fooled by a nice suit and a smile   These are insidious upline leaders.