tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494309285043063074.post4274137664672953635..comments2024-03-26T19:02:26.847-07:00Comments on Amway - The Dream Or The Scheme?: Don't Quit Your Day Job!Joecoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09121920263105613498noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494309285043063074.post-30173751698677820412015-11-27T11:18:29.956-08:002015-11-27T11:18:29.956-08:00I actually remember some of his infomercials vague...I actually remember some of his infomercials vaguely. But yes, Amway IBOs often have unrealistic expectations about the business and find out the hard way that success is very rare in Amway.Joecoolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09121920263105613498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494309285043063074.post-87832819289416904392015-11-27T09:46:31.839-08:002015-11-27T09:46:31.839-08:00Thanks Joe. Tom Vu is the guy. It was a trip down ...Thanks Joe. Tom Vu is the guy. It was a trip down memory lane to view his old TV infomercials. And it also reminds me of what a friend of mine told me about those real estate get rich seminars. My friend used to do real estate (legitimately) and said that when those people walk into a real estate office, as soon as the sales people find out they have taken one of those get rich seminars nobody wants to talk to them. They don't want to waste their time and gas showing properties to people who don't have the money to buy it. They have unrealistic expectations, much like the typical Amway IBO.<br />Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07117256252790532325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494309285043063074.post-60137920562332440982015-11-26T18:53:37.448-08:002015-11-26T18:53:37.448-08:00Thanks for your comments. Spot on!Thanks for your comments. Spot on!Joecoolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09121920263105613498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494309285043063074.post-90714219657107926842015-11-26T18:52:52.248-08:002015-11-26T18:52:52.248-08:00Was it Tom Vu?Was it Tom Vu?Joecoolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09121920263105613498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494309285043063074.post-86999033267461530042015-11-26T18:52:19.450-08:002015-11-26T18:52:19.450-08:00Same to you!
Same to you!<br />Joecoolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09121920263105613498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494309285043063074.post-20207040230452926982015-11-26T18:51:59.052-08:002015-11-26T18:51:59.052-08:00Rocket, Happy Thanksgiving. You are right, even ...Rocket, Happy Thanksgiving. You are right, even the most hard core IBOs end up going by the wayside and then disappearing. I wish more would come forward to share their stories. I did it to give other IBOs a feel for what I went through including my decision to quit. It was hoping it could enlihten others.Joecoolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09121920263105613498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494309285043063074.post-45471374538710884262015-11-26T15:04:06.401-08:002015-11-26T15:04:06.401-08:00I'm always amazed by the people who talk all a...I'm always amazed by the people who talk all about how great Amway is and how they claim their future freedom. I've yet to see anyone actually achieve it. <br /><br />Even Shaun Guthrie from Edmonton, Alberta has fallen off the face of the Amway map and is now working a different job than he had when in Amway:<br /><br />https://www.goauto.ca/about/management/<br /><br />It's a pity we don't know the circumstances of his departure but he has clearly moved on to other endeavours in his life as a woodworker which he has on Easy:<br /><br />http://etsy.com/shop/CaskWoodworking<br /><br />I just find it very interesting when we were ridiculed for not knowing what we were talking about while he was out driving the roads and repeating and believing everything his upline told him.<br /><br />He seems like a good dude an I wish him well. The only thing I find disappointing is the lack of willingness by former IBO's to share their experience. They didn't fail at anything, the business failed them because it can't possibly work in this day and age.<br /><br />It was and continues to be a complete and utter farce. I've yet to be proven wrong in any meaningful way on that point.rockethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07580342641830116887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494309285043063074.post-21464755807204431632015-11-26T12:23:13.158-08:002015-11-26T12:23:13.158-08:00Joecool I forgot to say Happy Thanksgiving!Joecool I forgot to say Happy Thanksgiving!Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07117256252790532325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494309285043063074.post-52411618485779152662015-11-26T12:21:39.299-08:002015-11-26T12:21:39.299-08:00Hi Joe. That part about the ostentatious displays ...Hi Joe. That part about the ostentatious displays of wealth allegedly from the Amway program reminds me of this short fat Vietnamese guy who used to advertise on late night TV in the 1980s to sell his get rich quick seminar. He claimed he came to the USA from Vietnam without a penny in his pocket and then became rich by using his "methods" that he offered to teach others for a price. I can't remember his name and tried to look it up but couldn't find it. Anyway, he used to show off all of his "wealth" which was all phony. He hired a photographer/video guy and then rented the Rolls Royces, hired models to pose as his beautiful "girlfriends" and the mansions shown were not his. Total B.S. It was funny though, to watch his commercials.<br /> As for quitting their day job, I would advise any Amway "IBO" (that term cracks me up LOL) to draw up a realistic business plan on how they expect to remain in Amway without that J.O.B. Hint: they will need to step completely outside of Amway to find any such thing.Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07117256252790532325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494309285043063074.post-91391232449336371622015-11-26T08:54:45.010-08:002015-11-26T08:54:45.010-08:001+1=21+1=2Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13969119075254814316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494309285043063074.post-70173940010202463032015-11-25T15:13:08.689-08:002015-11-25T15:13:08.689-08:00Yes Joe, you're quite right of course. But th...Yes Joe, you're quite right of course. But that's because you are sane, sensible, rational, and thoughtful. You look at the facts, measure the probabilities, and make your mind up accordingly.<br /><br />This is the entire crux of the whole Amway problem! The people who are signing up to be new IBOs are simply NOT rational in this way. They are being driven by something other than mundane facts and statistical probability.<br /><br />You'd need a psychiatrist or a theologian to analyze exactly what's going on in the minds of the many people (who are in all other respects sane) who fall for the Amway fraud. The best I can do is draw your attention to a song from the old musical "Man of La Mancha." The song was called "To Dream the Impossible Dream."<br /><br />Think of how many millions of people were brought to tears by this silly song. They'd weep in the theater as it was sung. They'd be mopping the tears from their eyes as they went home. It's this kind of insane, utopian, pie-in-the-sky mentality that is the dream-engine in the souls of millions of little nobodies in modern society. And Amway fattens on it, like a spider fattens on flies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com