Buy Your Way To Prosperity?

    One thing I can credit Amway diamonds with is coming up with the most bat sh@t crazy ideas that sound sensible to Amway IBOs but utter madness to anyone else.  One thing that I heard about was how you can buy your way to prosperity.  Buy your own Amway products and get others to follow and you’ll soon be on the road to early retirement and residual income.  In a pure business sense, that's insanity.  In what business can you buy your way to financial success?  That's just the selling point used to attract recruits, that you can buy your way to riches.  Or to summarize, buy and copy your way to riches.    

Have you ever seen a store or business prosper when the major of sales are simply to the business owner and employees?   The answer is no because such a business does not exist.  It’s amazing that people actually believe that you can get rich buying from yourself.  But it works on the downline, so the diamonds perpetuate the storyline.   And IBOs soak it in because it sounds so simple and easy to do right?   Or maybe they believe it because they want to or need to believe it after putting their blind loyalty and trust in the upline?  

One thing I saw at a live function was the diamond telling IBOs to ask prospects if they like selling stuff and whether the answer was yes or no, your response would be “great, then this business is perfect for you”.  Of course, actual stories of significant retail sales were rare, and my own experience suggested that sympathetic family and friends comprised most of whatever sales took place and I found myself at times selling items at my cost just so the expenses of moving 100 PV wasn’t all on me.   And I highly doubt that I'm alone in having done this.

The strategy of buying your own stuff seems to work because most people do not like selling stuff and especially not to friends and family.  But many will give it a run because they are hopeful that Amway will deliver the wealth that upline seemingly promises.  The sad thing about the whole this is that dreams of wealth is all you get and there’s very little success to speak of.  From function to function it’s the same old diamonds time and again.  You don't see a steady progression of new diamonds and growth because the system doesn't work.  If it did, a steady progression of new leaders would constantly emerge, and Amway's growth would also be steady.  But that isn't case......

The diamonds might say they want downline success, but in reality, they don’t.  They just want to keep replacing quitters with new members as long as they can churn in new tools and functions subscribers.  That’s the real game of the diamonds and that’s why the emphasis of the tools and functions is recruiting new people into the game. It’s an elaborate scheme that prospects and new IBOs don’t see because they have Amway dreams clouding their thoughts.   Think about it, new diamonds means another person getting a cut of the tools and functions profits.  It's more profitable to just keep bringing in new recruits who are the customers of the tools and functions scam.  If they quit, you just replace them.  But new diamonds means less tool and function income for the existing diamonds.  Food for thought.

In no business can you buy your way to prosperity.