In my experience and opinion, Amway IBOs get scammed in the process of being recruited as IBOs because they mistakenly think they are going to become actual business owners. The sad reality is that the prospects and IBOs themselves are simply being sold a system that's supposed to make them money. Not much different than those late night informercials where the pitch man says he can make you rich if you buy his fool proof system of success. Then they'll show testimonials of people who allegedly made money using the system.
In the meantime, nobody has ever verified that the guy making the pitch has actually made any real money following their own advice, nor do you ever see bonafide evidence that those giving the testimonials have ever made a cent from the system they are pitching. It's really no different from the Amway diamonds who show you slide shows of mansions, fabulous vacations and sports cars. Typically the diamonds will show you pictures of Amway sponsored trips and not necessarily trips that they paid for on their own.
How do you know that your diamond is even currently qualified, much less "rich"? The answer is you don't know. You assume that they are because you're told so. Oh, they might flash you copies of a large check they once received or something of the like but you'll be told "none of your business" if you ask for actual financial credentials. But at the same time, these diamonds expect their faithful downline to blindly follow advice and invest their money following a system that may not have even worked for the diamond.
If you didn't know, a lot of money is made by selling get rich systems to people, which is why you see all those infomercials on TV or maybe heard them on radio. The pitch is enticing and curiosity often makes people want to take a chance on seeing what is actually involved. You know, like 2-5 years of hard work that is supposed to result in lifelong residual income that you can "walk away" from. Even if it takes 10 years, that's better than working 40 years at 40 hours a week right? That's the bait the Amway recruiters use on prospects and often, they use that curiosity approach.
But in the end, you are simply an unpaid commission only Amway sales person who gets no benefits and must even use your own money and time to promote and sell Amway products and hopefully the opportunity to others so that you can leverage downline volume with yours. Most people do little and quit, or do nothing and quit. You really cant build any kind of sustainable business where the participants are most likely to do little or nothing before quitting. Your best chance of making money is to sell these teaching systems where you make nice profits regardless of the results of your customers.
Correct -- the real money in Amway comes from "teaching" your down-line about the business by forcing them to buy various tools. The notion that you can get rich by reading about the details of the Amway plan is a spectacular lie, because nowhere in those "tools" does it tell you that almost no one in Amway makes big money by selling Amway products to the general public. This is precisely why the various AMO subsystems (WWDB, BWW, Network 21, URA, etc.) came into existence -- to "teach" you.
ReplyDeleteThe Amway lies have spread like a raging cancer, so that now on the internet there are persons not connected with Amway who are pitching ways for you to develop a down-line, and how to get plenty of leads for new prospects. Sign up with these pitchmen, and you'll learn how to generate leads for enticing prospective IBOs into the Amway plan.
In other words, the whole thing is RECRUITMENT, and nothing else. This is why Amway is essentially an illegal pyramid scheme. They have bribed plenty of government officials to look the other way, and to certify them as a valid business, but that is simply untrue.
If all the AMOs and their down-lines collapsed, Amway couldn't move a single damned product. That's not a real business. That's a fraud.