In my opinion, Amway is a pyramid. They are not illegal, but still a pyramid. The reason why they remain legal, apparently is because they do not pay anyone for recruiting downline and allegedly require sales to non-Amway people, although I'm not sure how hard this is enforced. But most everyone has been or knows someone who was recruited by a zealous Amway IBO. The emphasis of most active IBOs is on recruiting and much of the teaching by upline is on techniques to recruit and/or how to talk to people without tipping their hat to reveal the Amway name. Most IBOs are not very good at this, and they stick out like sore thumbs in many cases. It's also comical when uplines teach crazy antics, like how some IBOs use to deny that Amway and Quixtar (Amway was called Quixtar back in 1999) were even remotely connected.
One of the reasons IBOs use to justify their involvement in the pyramid is that they can work and earn more than their sponsor. While that is true, it is only because everyone below the emerald or diamond level is basically expendable, or a slave in the pyramid. And frankly, many IBOs do little or nothing so surpassing someone who does nothing isn't that hard. There are many IBOs who achieve fairly high levels who quit, or had upline wreck their businesses. Thus, even platinum's are expendable to upline. In fact, an upline might make more money by removing the platinum. For new IBOs or recruits, do you really believe that you are going to ever surpass your current upline diamond or higher? If you believe that, you are sadly mistaken. If a diamond "de-edifies" you, you're toast. And guess what happens to your downline? They get passed on to your next upline.And for those who dream of achieving diamond and walking the beaches of the world. How do you think you can ever achieve that? You don't get something for nothing unless someone gets nothing for something. In order for you to receive income for little or no efforts, your downline IBOs must keep purchasing products and replacing IBOs who quit. If your downlines cannot keep up with the attrition rate, your business will collapse in a hurry. Come to think of it, if a diamond can walk away and collect a large income forever, why hasn't anyone done it? I mean we still see crown ambassadors still busy working functions and I don't know of any who walked away to spend their lives jet setting on the beaches of the world.
The sad reality is that you see new faces at meetings and functions, just as often as you see familiar faces disappear. With that kind of attrition rate, you may have to work even harder at the higher levels just to keep your business status quo. In Egypt, the slaves built the pyramids. Do you have enough slaves? What many Egyptologists find amazing is how the Egyptians were able to motivate the slaves to keep on going, doing backbreaking work all of their lives. The same can be said of a diamond level business (or higher)
The ancient Egyptians were sensible about their slaves. They worked them hard, but they also made sure that the slaves were fed, clothed, sheltered, and had some basic kinds of pleasures and entertainment. If slaves died from overwork, they could be easily replaced by new slaves purchased from sub-Saharan Africa, where the tribes were constantly at war with each other, and had plenty of captives to sell.
ReplyDeleteAmway offers its IBO slaves nothing at all. The only thing the IBOs get is the brainwashing about "the Plan," and the promise of hope for a future life of wealth after earning success in Amway. For IBOs, it is a freely chosen slavery based on dreaming and hoping.
It can't be emphasized enough: Amway is NOT about selling Amway products. Amway is all about RECRUITMENT, and nothing else.
I remember when I finally realized that Amway was nothing but a scam. It was when I complained to my immediate sponsor that I was having difficulty selling Amway products to people. His reply was this: "I have found that the best way to sell Amway products is to first sell the Amway Plan!"
That was when I saw that the whole thing was just a big racket. The crappy, generic products were just a cover to keep the government happy. The real business of Amway was to create and recruit more and more people to become Amway IBOs.