re: Whatever happened to AMWAY?

kind of like Advocare
they opened brick and mortar shops to get rid of their inventory

It became PriMerica

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powder for some kind of chocolate

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Positrim. I drank the hell out of that clumpy shite.

Reminds me of Thrive I cut two people out my life over Thrive and other MLM bullshite.

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Positrim. I drank they thr hell out of that clumpy shite.

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Yep. I believe that was it. It was pretty damn good and yeah it was clumpy.

You should have told him AMWAY? Hell no!

There is book about it in PDF format that you can read online. It's written by a guy who was heavily involved in Amway. The real money was in recording and selling motivational (i.e., self help) tape recordings and speaking at Amway events. It has been several years since I read it, but it was compelling.

It definitely was/is a cult.

Merchants of Deception

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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.

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Mid 90s in Houston, shite we probably hung out as kids at some Amway convention(or function as the Amway cult called it) back in the day. I remember going to Lake Texoma specifically.

You got everything right on the nose. The big lie Amway tells is that the diamonds made all their money by selling their products. Wrong. They made all their money selling tapes(called tools back in the day), CDs, and tickets to these functions (as well as the hotel rooms, airfare, etc.). The diamonds got a cut of every single fricking tape, hotel room, convention ticket, and such that was sold. That's where the real money was made.

And the upline diamonds would NOT take no for an answer. Even though my family was broke and could not afford to go to yet another Amway funciton to just sit there all weekend and listen to diamonds on stage talk about how they were nobodies before Amway and struck it rich via Amway - they were still pressured heavily by the upline diamonds to do whatever it took to buy that ticket and hotel room. Otherwise you weren't committed enough.

It truly was a cult. My parents finally broke free around the year 2000 but the damage was done.

I hope Dexter Yager and Bill Britt are burning in the deepest depths of hell right now.

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kind of like Advocare
they opened brick and mortar shops to get rid of their inventory

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Yep. A certain, former Saints QB was their spokesperson. Got hit up for that snake oil a bunch too, and used him as an example of legitamacy.

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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.

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