I was in discussion on another related forum and a comment was made about Amway being an iceberg, because you see the shiny clean ice on the top but you do not see the majority of the iceberg. Or in other words, the diamonds show you the fancy suits, jewelry, cars, mansions, jets and what you don't see is the financial carnage that takes place in their downlines at times. My former upline would tell audiences that they could skip meals to buy more standing orders because you might hear the one thing that could make your business explode.
Sure, on standing orders, you won't hear too much of the unethical and "wrong" teaching, because some of this is monitored by Amway, but it's the night owls and smaller group meetings where the real teaching is disseminated. This is where you are told to practically sell your soul to achieve in Amway. This is where the teaching comes in where you should be purchasing excessive amounts of tools in order to succeed. This is where you are told to never miss a function unless it's for your own funeral. A newbie or casual observer won't see these things but if you ever commit to becoming a business builder, this is likely to become your world.
You don't see the backstage at functions and meetings. Former rubies and platinums have made commentary about the diamonds literall laughing about how gullible the downline are. You don't see the where the cash collected at the meetings and functions go. There had been some past comments about literally, suitcases of cash leaving the premises. If your upline has a mansion and a fleet of nice cars, it's likely that your tools money played a significant part in your diamond obtaining it.
It's a simple conclusion. The tools have a higher markup than Amway products and have fewer beneficiaries to split up the bonus. A $7.00 Amway product might cost $3.00 or so to make and the rest will be bonus money split up by the layers of IBOs. Whereas a $7.00 cd might take 50 cents to produce and only platinums and higher receive any compensation from this srouce of income. But rank and file IBOs rarely ever see a true and transparent picture of this business. It is shrouded in secrecy, just like the underside of an iceberg. I challenge IBOs to be real businessmen and women and ask upline the tough questions about where the money is made. Do not accept rhetoric and anecdotal stories. In real business, schedule C business tax returns are the normal way for verification of business income. If you are going to "invest" your hard earned money into the system to the benfit of upline, you should demand this information.
Would any of you purchase a conventional business from someone without proof that it is profitable? Why would an Amway business be any different?
The notion that you have to attend every goddamned Amway meeting and function because "you just might hear the ONE THING you need to succeed" is both a lie and an absurdity.
ReplyDeleteAny endeavor involves learning certain things. A beginner has to learn much, but what he has to learn is NOT endless! As time progresses he learns more and more, and eventually becomes a skilled professional. If he is diligent and hard-working, this happens fairly quickly, and after that he only has to learn about occasional new developments in his business.
But the liars in Amway WON'T TELL YOU what you need to be successful, no matter how many goddamned CDs they force you to buy. They treat the Amway business as if it were some kind of mysterious secret process that takes years and years to master. They keep telling you that your failure has nothing to do with the structure of the Amway "plan," but is always the result of your own incompetence or error. And that's why you have to keep coming to all those half-assed meetings and functions, because "you just might hear what you need to make your business successful."
Well, why the bloody fuck can't they just TELL YOU STRAIGHT OUT what you need to do to make money in Amway? In any other business, you can learn within a month or two how things work, and how money is made. The proof that Amway is a dishonest and criminal racket lies precisely in this unwillingness of the higher-ups to tell IBOs just how big money is made in Amway. They don't want to say that the big money in Amway comes from tools and functions.
If they did tell you that, you'd immediately ask "Why the hell do I need to purchase all these stupid and unnecessary products?" And Amway up-line doesn't have an answer for that question. They would have to admit that the products don't mean a thing.