Total Amway Nonsense?

  One of the funniest and biggest crocks taught by upline under the guise of sound business advice was the buy from yourself nonsense.  Be your own best customer.   Buy from yourself at full retail and use the profits to pay for your tools and functions is the BS that was/is taught.  Think about it, if you buy from yourself, the biggest profit goes to Amway and your upline.  You get nothing unless you meet the minimum PV level and even if you pay yourself full retail, the money in your business account came from your own pocket.  All you did was move money from your bank account to your business account.

Upline fools you into thinking you are a business owner when in reality you are simple a customer of Amway and possibly your upline.  Have you ever heard of someone making millions using a cash back credit card which is similar to the concept that upline uses where you buy what you need and get a rebate from Amway?   While it sounds ridiculous, this is what upline is schlepping on their IBOS and sadly, many new IBOS fall for it.  They think they are following valuable advice from upline but they are just fooled into making bad decisions based on what's supposed to be sage advice. 

Unless you sell a lot of products to people who are not IBOS, all you are doing is making money from your down line, if you even make a net profit after paying for tools and functions.  Think about this concept carefully.  If you could buy your way to prosperity. You could simply buy 15,000 PV yourself and instantly become a ruby.  However, that much PV would cost nearly $50,000 dollars and your bonus money would not even cover half of cost of the PV you purchased.  So how is buying from yourself ever a great idea in business terms?  

Sure, upline will use the saying that you should support your own business.  That might be true to e point, but ask yourself these questions.  Why do the diamonds buy suits and other things that aren't in the Amway catalog?   Why do they expect the rank and file to do so?   Unless the product is actually produced by Amway, all you're doing is paying full retail to Amway partner stores when you could very likely buy the same product right at the store at a smaller cost that thru the Amway catalog.  So much for eliminating the middle man.

So if your upline advises this concept, you should ask tough questions and demand answers or run away from them as fast as you can.  Do the math.  I urge IBOS and prospects to heed this warning because uplines are also hurting in a tough economy, but they have you as their downline to exploit for income.  Beware!   😎