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re: Lets talk about Amway
Posted on 7/21/21 at 8:18 am to notiger1997
Posted on 7/21/21 at 8:18 am to notiger1997
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Welcome to 20 years ago.
More like 60 some-odd years ago.
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Posted on 7/21/21 at 9:05 am to OWLFAN86
I remember somewhere around 1989-90 my cousin got into this. He came to our house and the the pitch but my old man didn’t bite. I think they bought a few products to help him out but that was all. I remember having Amway dental floss. 
A few years later my cousin had to declare bankruptcy. I don’t think it was Amway alone that did it though; just bad money management in general. In the end though it was lesson learned and he got his shite together.
That’s all I got in Amway, other than knowing it’s bullshite.
A few years later my cousin had to declare bankruptcy. I don’t think it was Amway alone that did it though; just bad money management in general. In the end though it was lesson learned and he got his shite together.
That’s all I got in Amway, other than knowing it’s bullshite.
This post was edited on 7/21/21 at 9:07 am
Posted on 7/21/21 at 10:29 am to goldennugget
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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.
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.
This post was edited on 7/21/21 at 10:30 am
Posted on 7/21/21 at 10:53 am to goldennugget
I was in AMWAY for a year in the early 2000's....except it had such a bad reputation that they rebranded it as Quickstar (it was their new "online" version of Amway.
Things just never sat well with me. The speakers were fake, the products weren't that great and they pushed the "tools" waaay more than the products.
Soooo, I went online and found a book called Merchants of Deception about a guy who ruined his life with Amway and then wrote about it to help others escape.
What Amway doesn't tell people is that they've gotten in trouble with Congress in the past for having a business that's profit is based off of tools to promote the business rather than the products that the business claims to sell. This is illegal. Basically a few choice people at the top of the pyramid get rich off of pushing the tools on the thousands of downliners below them. It's a cult and a total scam.
So glad I got out.
Things just never sat well with me. The speakers were fake, the products weren't that great and they pushed the "tools" waaay more than the products.
Soooo, I went online and found a book called Merchants of Deception about a guy who ruined his life with Amway and then wrote about it to help others escape.
What Amway doesn't tell people is that they've gotten in trouble with Congress in the past for having a business that's profit is based off of tools to promote the business rather than the products that the business claims to sell. This is illegal. Basically a few choice people at the top of the pyramid get rich off of pushing the tools on the thousands of downliners below them. It's a cult and a total scam.
So glad I got out.
Posted on 7/21/21 at 11:00 am to SuperFanDan
My parents got into it in the 80’s and made some decent money on it…. My brother who lived in Michigan at the time made over 100,000 with them until he decided to quit…… I never got into it. Used some of the products which were decent but very expensive.
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