Whatever happened to AMWAY?

It's morphed into essential oils, candle, makeup, and all kinds of other shite. Just ask your wife about the "new discoveries" of her Facebook friends.

They moved on to advocare, melaleuca, lularoe

i have a fond memory of my friend's college prof in houston pullling us into one of those meetings w/ vague statements of something he wanted to show us and us RUNNING away in the parking garage after we figured out what it was and he was RUNNING after us!

BOYS!....BOYS!! COME BACK!

They morphed into MAGA.

.....and LIMU.

My parents got convinced to do Amway in the mid 90's by a neighbor / friend. As a kid, I hated Amway. It meant that my parents had to spend lots of extra time going to "Night Owl" meetings, where I guess they discussed strategy with other people in their "lines", that is their "uplines" and "downlines" as they called it. I also had to tag along for conferences in Houston, and "picnics" at parks, along with "product pickups" every week, where you'd go pick up the products you ordered for yourself and for samples to give to people they were trying to sell to. At product pickups, they also had all these tapes of people giving speeches at conference that they were selling. These were the "Diamonds", the most successful in Amway. Come to find out later, that these folks were rich because they were talented speakers and made so much money selling tapes to all the Amway minions who bought up every single one of them.

It was like a cult almost, and I resented my parents for a long time for doing it. I still loved them, of course, but it all seemed so weird to me and I wanted no part of it. I witnessed on several occasions my parents trying to convince relatives and parents of friends to join their downline, and it was embarrassing. Almost every time, they would ask to stop being bothered by my parents about Amway. It made things pretty awkward.

As for the products? Their hair and beauty products were supposed to be good. The food products were ok...nothing too special. We had lots of boxed juices, snacks, powder for some kind of chocolate drink, and other stuff.

Eventually, Amway shifted online in the early 00's to something called Quixtar. At that point, I guess my parents had enough of it and stopped participating. They still bought some of the products...mainly my mom liked the beauty stuff. I'm not sure how they came out financially in the end. I'm assuming they probably broke even because I never noticed any big financial strain. I need to ask them because I've always been curious.

Went back home years ago and bumped into a high school friend and he invited himself to my Moms's house where I was staying.

We caught up for about 5 minutes when he told me about this great opportunity to make lots of money. I asked him if this was Amway and he immediately went into his "get 5 people and you will be the team captain".

I looked at my watch and said it was time for me to take my Mom out to eat and I called Mom and he got up and he left. End of friendship.

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Eventually, Amway shifted online in the early 00's to something called Quixtar

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I got pulled into a Quixtar intro meeting while my sophomore year at LSU by a "friend". I remember them saying that it was not Amway!; and if you only paid the $80.00 signup fee, you would have your own immediate business.

I didn't pay it nor did I ever talk to those people again.

Amway reps made 90 % of their money selling sales tools/training to the people they got signed up under them.

The products were there to keep it legal ….