One of the humorous things about Amway IBOs is their ability to say a whole lot without having any substance. They'll talk about how great the business is and how much they have learned and then when you ask if they made any money, you either get dead silence or you get some answer about how they's seen a copy of a check from someone's upline diamond or something like that. But it's very rare that an IBO will be upfront about their earnings. Of course, I can understand that someone brand new might not have made a whole lot, but I have seen some IBOs outright lie and say they've been in Amway a month and they're making $5000 a month or some other tall tale like.
Even when discussing some Amway released information such as the average earnings of an IBO, you can hear all kinds of excuses provided by Amway IBOs. They will make excuses like most IBOs do nothing. As if that isn't a problem in itself. Or they make stupid analogies about people signing up for a gym membership and then not doing anything. As if owning a business and exercising are the same thing. I even hear questionable claims about how so many people sign up as IBOs to get lower prices. I chuckle when I hear that because Amway's prices in general, are not competitive with big retailers. I believe that is because Amway must add the cost of IBO bonuses in the cost of their goods and services. While an IBO might save from the full retail price of Amway products, you can (in most cases) find the same or a similar product cheaper online or at Walmart.
Another area where IBOs like to divert the discussion is when the discussion is about the success rate of IBOs in general. Based on Amway's own numbers, less than one half of one percent of IBOs reach the level of platinum. Platinum is the level where allegedly, an IBO either breaks even or starts to make some net profit. It would depend on whether the IBO is involved in the tools and to whet level of participation. But IBOs like to downplay this fact as if people simply did not work hard enough or did not learn enough, rather than simply acknowledging that the system itself might be flawed.
The last area I see issues is when talking about selling products. I suspect that product sales to no IBOs is relatively small. I believe there may be some exceptional people who can sell, but people in general, do not like to or do not possess the skills to sell products. Yet I see IBOs making all kinds of stories about "selling" to customers. I rarely get a straight answer about product sales as well. The fact that many Amway IBOs can't give a straight answer is quite telling.
Another area where IBOs like to divert the discussion is when the discussion is about the success rate of IBOs in general. Based on Amway's own numbers, less than one half of one percent of IBOs reach the level of platinum. Platinum is the level where allegedly, an IBO either breaks even or starts to make some net profit. It would depend on whether the IBO is involved in the tools and to whet level of participation. But IBOs like to downplay this fact as if people simply did not work hard enough or did not learn enough, rather than simply acknowledging that the system itself might be flawed.
The last area I see issues is when talking about selling products. I suspect that product sales to no IBOs is relatively small. I believe there may be some exceptional people who can sell, but people in general, do not like to or do not possess the skills to sell products. Yet I see IBOs making all kinds of stories about "selling" to customers. I rarely get a straight answer about product sales as well. The fact that many Amway IBOs can't give a straight answer is quite telling.
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The Amway system (or "Plan") is fatally flawed. Everyone in Amway knows this, but a large number of low-level IBOs have fanatically closed their minds to this truth, and adhere with dogged perseverance to the Amway lie that you can be wealthy in 2 to 5 years. Their loyalty is rock-solid, like those Japanese holdouts who survived for thirty or more years on small Pacific islands after 1945, refusing to believe that World War II was over.
Everyone in Amway admits that trying to sell Amway products at retail to a non-Amway customer base in a complete waste of time. You won't make a dime doing that. The products are non-competitive, and you would have to sell thousands of dollars worth of them to make any significant profit. No one really wants Amway products.
The Amway plan MIGHT work (and even then it is a longshot) if an IBO develops a very deep down-line. But Amway down-lines are highly unstable because of the rapid turnover of membership as dissatisfied IBOs drop out of the business. You would have to recruit endlessly and frantically to maintain your down-line and replace the quitters, and even then you'd have to train and motivate every new IBO that you have signed up.
The Amway business (like every MLM racket) is structurally worthless, except to the cynical higher-ups who run the utterly corrupt AMO subsystems that provide "training."
You won't ever get a straight answer from an Amway freak, because they do not really believe in honest and open dialogue. No cult does.
Amway is a business cult, as many MLMs are. It isn't interested in actually talking about the real world or answering questions frankly. Instead it wants to repeat slogans and mantras and catchwords that have been prearranged by the cult leaders, and to ignore or deflect any questions that are embarrassing.
Like every business, Amway doesn't want to admit anything bad about itself or its practices. This is considered "bad publicity." And anyone who is an employee of Amway (an IBO) is expected to keep his mouth shut about anything that is bad in the business, and to shoot his mouth off with praise and glorification of the business.
When you talk to an Amway IBO, you are not taking to a free human being. You are talking to a controlled android.
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