One thing that appears to be common amongst Amway IBOs is how the 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? Why are there endless numbers of cds and meetings at cost, to learn to buy and sell, and to recruit others. Is Amway that complicated that IBOs must be continually trained or is it because uplines make the most profits from 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. And there is no end. If you are in Amway for ten years, you would get ten years worth of this material. If you are in for thirty years, you would get thirty years of this material.
What's more, many IBOs turn their heads when ugly facts rear their heads. For example, some IBOs deny that a prominent WWDB 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. They cling to hopes that success is right around the corner or that they will succeed if only they will never quit. Most of this advice only serves the upline and not the IBOs. It is a sad thing.
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 opportunity. The fact is that very few people every make a profit and people should know this before getting involved. Don't deny the obvious. If the details don't add up, keep researching. The interenet is chock full of information about Amway. This website is just one source, but look high and low before committing your time and money. The fact is that less than 1% of IBOs make any money out of this opportunity. Don't deny the undeniable. Get the facts and act on them!
Joe, the way to understand this is to remember the old Communist Party, and the idea of "the Party line."
ReplyDeleteOn any hot topic or subject, the Central Committee of the Communist Party would decide what position the Party should take, and they would then disseminate this decision to all party members. It was called "the Party line." No one was allowed to deviate from it, on penalty of expulsion from party membership. You had to be in lockstep agreement with whatever Moscow said was "the Party line."
If necessary, you had to deny obvious facts, like the genocidal famine in the Ukraine, or the murderous Moscow purge trials, or the existence of mass-murder camps known as the GULAG.
The Party line could change overnight. All of a sudden you were expected to switch your stated opinion in a flash if the higher-ups told you to do so. Example: up until the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939, all Communists were expected to be fanatically anti-Nazi. But after the pact with Hitler was signed, the Party line changed. Now you had to be totally pro-German, and talk about our "brave Nazi allies."
Understand this, and you can get a grip on what happens in Amway. IBOs have fierce, partisan loyalty to Amway and their up-line. They simply will not listen to, much less examine, any criticism or complaint against their organization. Like dedicated Communists, Amway freaks utterly refuse to face any fact or argument that goes against "the Party line," as laid down by vermin in their LOS, or by the fat-assed creeps in Ada, Michigan.
That's a good analogy. The IBOs adopt an "us versus the world" mentality and they IBOs trust the upline over long time friends and family because the upline warns them about "negative" people. Also, IBOs want to believe upline because they want to believe that they can retire at the age of 32 while cash keeps rolling in.
DeleteFunny how very few will ask why the diamonds don't ever walk away to enjoy the residual income. I asked and was told that the diamond just wanted us to be success so he keeps working. You could smell the BS a mile away.