One of the things that is clear, many Amway recruits are shown fancy cars and toys, along with luxurious vacations and trappings. This is a way to get prospects excited and interested in signing up for the Amway opportunity. Many sign up, and soon enough, the excitement eventually fades and they quit. Either that or the IBO sees monthly losses and no prospects of improvement and quits. Many do little or nothing. But what many people do not understand or realize is that there is a reason for this. Many do little or nothing, I suspect because the business is much harder to build than advertised. Amway's name reputation is already a challenge and the uncompetitive pricing of products doesn't help.
Because Amway has a stigma in the US (and growing in other locations), finding prospects is a daunting task. Add in the high prices of Amway products and you have major challenges that IBOs simply cannot overcome. Most simply quit and fade away into society. Some, like myself were lied to and abused, with upline leaders (WWDB)who were never held accountable for their actions. Thus I blog so others may share my experiences and can decide if they wish to climb insurmountable challenges for a less than a fraction of a 1% chance of financial success.What many leaders do is evolve their teachings. They start to teach their IBOs that the Amway opportunity may have made them nicer people, better fathers or husbands and other nice to hear stories because it covers up the fact that these IBOs are not making money. Sometimes I wonder how someone can be a better person by deceiving others about the business opportunity, or how you can be a better father or husband when Amway meetings become a priority over your family and friends. Or how you can be a nicer person and leave threatening messages on forums with those who disagree about Amway being a great business opportunity?
Rather than justifying your involvement or looking at side benefits, IBOs should be looking at their bottom line. If your Amway "Business" is not generating enough money to pay for your voicemail and other expenses and leaving you with a net profit, then what exactly is your upline teaching you that is worth the ongoing expense? If you are like most, you are told that Amway has little to no overhead and has little risk. Well, that becomes untrue after months pass by and you have spent hundreds if not thousands on support materials that do not deliver you a net profit. Additionally, your upline is making a nice income by selling you those support materials and advising you to buy more.
Are you new or a tenured IBO? Has your teaching from upline evolved away from making money as the bottom line? If so, what do you do next? I would run in the opposite direction.
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Amway and its various AMO subsystems had to change the basic teaching and propaganda, because it was simply becoming impossible to convince anyone that money could be made quickly and easily in the Amway MLM racket. Even the stupidest IBOs were beginning to realize that hemorrhaging money every month and attending mindless "functions" was not going to make you rich in two years, and that it was next to impossible to sign up a down-line in North America anymore. Amway's public reputation was so deep in the toilet that they had to change the company's name a few times.
So what did Amway's defenders do? They fell back upon sentimental bullshit. Amway "makes you a better person." Amway "saves your marriage." Amway "teaches you leadership." Amway "offers you hope." Amway is working "to make a better world." Amway is a business that "pleases God."
And the really stupid people fell for this lying bullshit. Even while going bankrupt, they looked up to Amway as some kind of sacred gift to humanity, and kept sending money up-line.
There's a growing on-line rage against all MLMs, including Amway. More and more people are getting together to share their horror stories about how they were cheated or abused or lied to by the MLM promoters.
This may not influence the government, but it is having a real effect on millions of people who might be prospected by Amway recruiters. The truth getting out about what a fraud and ripoff Amway is. Already Amway is very severely restricted in places like China, India, and the U.K.
Here in North America, it is becoming next to impossible to recruit someone as a new IBO in your down-line. The information on the internet is just too widespread and growing. This is why Amway up-line is constantly demanding that no one in the racket should ever go to the internet for any information about Amway.
But trying to prohibit internet use makes about as much sense as liquor Prohibition made in 1920. It just won't work. People are going to read stuff on the internet, and what they are learning about Amway is not pretty.
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