Friday, August 22, 2025

Face The Facts?

 One thing that appears to be common amongst IBOs is how IBOs are in denial. They truly believe that their uplines are working in their best interest and that upline wants their success. I don't believe that to be true. If uplines were truly making a fortune from Amway, why would an downline IBO have to pay for practically every bit of help they get from upline leaders? Do upline leaders actually evaluate your business before advising you to buy more tools?

To show the plan, you would need to pay to attend an open meeting, and pay for your guests, even if they do not register as a result of the presentation. You pay for voicemail to communikate with your upline and downlines. You pay for standing orders, and you may end up paying twice if you were in attendance at the function when the standing order was recorded. You pay for books and other materials as well.

What's more, many IBOs turn their heads when ugly facts rear their heads. For example, some IBOs deny that a prominent triple diamond was involved in bankruptcy proceedings. They continue to edify and pay for financial advice from someone who could not even manage his own finances. They believe that Amway saves marriages even when the leaders who speak this may be getting divorced. It's like upline simply revises history and downlines buy it without question. Many IBOs do not even see it as a problem that some upline boldy lied and said there were no profits from tools in the past. I find this odd because tool profits are still shrouded in secrecy and downline simply believe that they will eventually get a cut, even without a written compensation plan and agreement.

I believe too many IBOs are simply in denial. They give upline their trust and upline abuses it. IBOs are told they are successful for attending a function even when they might be losing money month after month. They may be told that the Amway business is not about money but about making friends. They may be told that they are nicer people because of their participation in Amway. What too many IBOs do not see is that they are in denial about their business. Most IBOs are losing money, a little at a time, perhaps $100 or $150 a month. For the hardcore, maybe more. But they are taught to ignore these simple facts and deny that there is a problem.

It is my hope that exposure of some of these tactics will be beneficial to information seekers and perhaps new IBOs who have not yet been fully indoctrinated. I encourage people to ask tough questions, demand answers and use due diligence when checking out this oppportunity. The fact is that very few people every make a profit and people should know this before getting involved. Don't deny the obvious.

1 comment:

  1. What you have written simply confirms a general truth about all cults -- those who are seriously committed to a cult will ALWAYS deny the reality of facts that contradict the cult's belief-system.

    Remember that asshole Dexter Yager, who would wander through the registrants at one of the WWDB functions making conversation with the IBOs who were there. He'd ask, in an intense voice dripping with urgency: "Do you BELIEVE? Do you BELIEVE?" In other words, "Are you willing to ignore the facts?"

    That is what a cult is based on -- absolute belief, without the slightest possibility of denial or questioning. And any contrary facts or figures (no matter how solid and indisputable) are dismissed as untrue.

    Take biological evolution, which now has so much evidence behind it (in fossils, in geology, in radiocarbon dating, in genetics, and in comparative anatomy) that no serious scientist in the world questions its truth. And yet there are still Bible-Belt crackpots who scream that evolution never happened, that the world is only 6,000 years old, that all living plants and creatures were created exactly as they are now, and that every single word in the Book of Genesis is to be taken as literally true. If you try to show them serious evidence that they are wrong about this, they will come up with absurdly implausible reasons why what they believe is correct, or with complicated and unscientific explanations why the plain facts of geology and genetics and anatomy don't prove what every real scientist knows to be true.

    If people are that stupid and stubborn in their resistance to hard scientific evidence, it's not surprising that there are also people who will shut their eyes and ears to anyone who points out that Amway is an absurd fraud.

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