Are Upline Diamonds "Swindlers"?

 One of the things touted by many upline leaders as the "key to success" is CORE. I have outlined the elements of CORE here:

1 - Show the Plan
2 - Retail the Products
3 - Tapes/cds/audios
4 - Books
5- Functions
6 - Accountability
7 - Counsel with Upline (Be teachable!)
8 - Buy 100% of your own products
9 – Communikate = Voicemail

In these nine steps, only #2 may actually net the IBO a profit, but these steps are not emphasized in many groups. In all the other core steps, you either spend time and/or money doing things that do not produce income for your business. If you, as an IBO spend most of your time in non-income producing activities, guess what? You will suffer losses. It is no wonder nearly all IBOs lose money, they are taught to spend most of their time in activities that do not produce income!

Imagine owning a brick and mortar store where you open the store for one hour a day. The rest of the day you are reading books, listening to tapes/cds, and paying to attend seminars and listening to voicemail messages. Oh, and in addition to opening your store for an hour a day, you don't advertise except for word of mouth. Could you survive in business? I think not. Amway now advertises, but you are not Amway, you are an independent business.

So, can an IBO make money by spending most of his/her time in non-income producing activity? I think not. This important fact too often goes unnoticed by Amway IBOs who blindly listen to and follow upline "advice".  It's really sad as IMO, diamonds are basically running a cult like operation with the objective to simply extract as much cash as possible from the faithful and believing downline as possible without giving away the secrets.  In other words, the diamonds are a bunch of cheap lying crooks and swindlers.  That might be hard to understand for hard core dedicated IBOs, but that is a fact.  If you disagree, please feel free to dispute what I have posted here.