One of the things I have seen over and over from Amway IBOs and Amway enthusiasts were either false income claims or unsubstantiated income claims. I have yet to see any IBO be forthcoming about their Amway income versus their business expenses. We know that some diamonds teach that they pay for homes in cash. Some of these diamonds were embarrassed when their homes were FORECLOSED! I've also seen IBOs run past a blog saying they are new but earning $6000 a month or other nonsense like that. Now to be fair, I don't expect anyone to post their tax returns on a blog, but at least provide an explanation as to how you arrived at your claim so it can be scrutinized. Instead, we often find Amway defenders making wild and/or questionable claims which appear to have zero basis in truth.
What IBOs and information seekers should be aware of is if the information did not come from Amway, then you should verify the truthfulness of that information. For example, Amway doesn't claim that they are a franchise opportunity, or that they are potential source of residual and willable income. While these would be great benefits to enjoy, Amway doesn't promote them. If Amway doesn't promote these benefits, they very likely do not exist. Sadly, systems such as WWDB or Network 21 may promote these questionable claims.Here's a great example of a questionable claim by Amway's most (formerly) famous internet defender. IBOfightback was a zealot back some years ago who literally posted about Amway in their defense all over the internet. At the time, he claimed to have been at a fairly high level in Amway. He also claimed to have been an expert on the internet and had studied extensively in the field of psychology. Many suspected this person of being a paid hack for Amway, but it was never officially confirmed. His credibility took a huge hit not long ago when his social media account listed him as a epidemiologist as he was commenting about other subjects during the height of the covid 19 pandemic. Since "IBOfightback" is no longer actively posting misinformation about Amway, I do not feel the need to post his actual identity at this time.
http://lukehimself.net/?p=135
Entry #92 - IBOFightback
"There are hundreds of thousands of people around the world who have made full-time incomes and more with a part-time Amway business, including many millionaires."
Here's an Amway representative's response:
Cindy Droog
January 7, 2011 at 09:27
1. This claim would not be possible for us to capture or substantiate, given that people’s definition of “full-time income replacement” varies so widely around the world, even within the borders of the same country
IBOs and information seekers, beware of false claims about Amway!
IBOFightback came to prominence at a time when the internet debate on Amway and other MLMs was really heating up. That was about 12 or 15 years back.
ReplyDeleteThe battle was vicious, because Amway knew quite well that it was no longer possible around 2010 to maintain the various lies that had been spread since 1959 about "residual income" and "paying for mansions in cash," and the "high quality" of Amway goods. In addition, there was a huge on-line revelation about the nastiness and abuse that many up-lines and AMO subsystems were perpetrating against IBOs, and how little actual profit there was for most IBOs in the racket, and how useless were the "functions" and "tools."
Paid shills like IBOFightback were employed to try and stem the tide of criticism. They failed miserably, and Amway lost billions of dollars in revenue, and the recruitment of new IBOs in North America collapsed.