re: Lets talk about Amway

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They would get kickbacks from the hotels and arenas booked for these functions and get a cut of the profits from the audio tapes and books.

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The big diamonds made most of their money through selling these tapes. They were pushed at every Amway event / get together. There were several boxes of them at every Amway "product pickup".

I totally forgot that Amway was always referred to as "the business."

This thread has brought out lots of repressed memories. My parents got sucked into Amway by a neighbor in the mid 90s. They'd attend these "night owl" meetings a couple times a week, from like 7-10pm or something. I hated that they were gone so much. And like others, we had to go to these dumbass conferences where we were stuck at a hotel the whole weekend - usually in Houston. After about 2-3 years, I'm not sure what happened but my parents gradually got out of it. Somewhere in the late 90's, Amway switched to something called "Quickstar" and it was more of an online market place where you could order the products online and doing all these meetings and stuff was no longer needed...at least that is what my parents told me...now I'm not so sure how true that was.

Ugh...those tapes were awful. I remember on the way to school one day, my mom was driving and the dude on the tape just kept talking about "dreams." I'd had enough and told my mom "dreams are for losers." She was not too pleased.