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re: Amway and other multi-level marketing/pyramid schemes
Posted on 6/12/14 at 1:14 pm to CocomoLSU
Posted on 6/12/14 at 1:14 pm to CocomoLSU
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One of my best friends in HS/early college had parents who were HUGE into Amway. They always called it "the business."
That's what my parents and uncle always called it too, "The Business".
I still remember the basic lingo from Amway
"The Business"
"Show the Plan"
"Go Diamond"
My uncle still calls it "The Business". He called me a month ago saying "Hey, I am going to be up in Dallas because we have a convention for The Business"
I still remember when I was about 7 or 8 and my dad was about to leave to go to an Amway Convention in some other state. My mom had me and my sisters run up to him and scream "Daddy Go Diamond!" before he drove off. Kind of sad that I think about it.
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Posted on 6/12/14 at 1:20 pm to goldennugget
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"Go Diamond"
Yup. Always heard about so-and-so who was super high in the company and his awesome RV that they got to tour at the last meeting and all other kinds of bullshite.
Former LSU bball player Collis Temple III does this shite too. He works (well, used to; don't know if he still does) for Primerica. He brought me in for a meeting and tried to sell me on it, and his sales pitch was on point, but pretty laughable for anybody with any sort of sense. He used an analogy of like filling vending machines with Coke or some shite like that, and how if we both did the work, we could both make money from it. He went through it all, and I sat there and let him finish, and then asked him to tell me how it wasn't a pyramid scheme, and he couldn't.
I told him that it was perfect for someone like him, with a built-in brand name and an almost endless pool of former athletes to recruit, but that for me it wasn't gonna work out. And he was pretty successful at it for a while IIRC.
This post was edited on 6/12/14 at 1:21 pm
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