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If you can sign up few people. You will get residual income from your downlines.
OP here.
Wondering if anyone responded to the solicitor that they are being taken for a ride by Amway and then tell them not to drink the kool aid?.
I like this young couple and don't want them to waste time and money.....
OP here.
Wondering if anyone responded to the solicitor that they are being taken for a ride by Amway and then tell them not to drink the kool aid?.
I like this young couple and don't want them to waste time and money.....
No experience with this. But in general, no one heeds unsolicited advice. So, probably a waste of time to do so .
OP here.
Wondering if anyone responded to the solicitor that they are being taken for a ride by Amway and then tell them not to drink the kool aid?.
I like this young couple and don't want them to waste time and money.....
It wasn't Amway, but I did warn a friend about one of those pyramid scheme companies. My friend is a high school teacher, and a few years back wanted to get involved with financial advisement, or something like that. He signed up with some company called Primerica, I think. I told him that it was basically Amway for the banking crowd, but he was like OH NO, this is different. In fact, it was started by a teacher!
I warned him to be careful, because those kinds of outfits tend to make you lose friends, because they try to drill it in your head that if your friends won't join your network/buy from you, whatever, they don't want you to be successful and they're not really your friends.
I also warned him not to attempt peddling their stuff on me, and he replied something like "Oh, I'd never do that; you're too educated. This is more for people who aren't as knowledgeable as you, but want to get into investing."
Anyway, I think he got suckered into paying $200 for some seminar and a get-started kit, but then figured out it was basically a scam. You make your money by getting more people to join under you, and pay for those kits, various seminars, and so forth.
He got out of it, before it cost him too much money. He was under the misguided notion that this company was going to teach him the ins and outs of investing and financial planning and such, and that he would be able to use that knowledge to help the less informed. But when he figured out it was just a pyramid scheme, he bailed.
OP here.
Wondering if anyone responded to the solicitor that they are being taken for a ride by Amway and then tell them not to drink the kool aid?.
I like this young couple and don't want them to waste time and money.....
Amway and other MLM’s were not a scam. MLM cuts marketing costs.
I do remember listening to the cassettes in late 90s.
If you can sign up few people. You will get residual income from your downlines.
Edited to add: The people who make /made the most money from Amway were the people who put together the seminars and hype materials associated with, but not directly run by, Amway.
The guys with the large networks (Diamond Direct) produce all those.
At the "Dream Night" I attended there were tons of those things for sale.
And everyone in their down-line (or whatever they call it) was expected to buy it all.
All revenue went directly to the head dude, nada to Amway.
If you can sign up few people. You will get residual income from your downlines.
It wasn't Amway, but I did warn a friend about one of those pyramid scheme companies. My friend is a high school teacher, and a few years back wanted to get involved with financial advisement, or something like that. He signed up with some company called Primerica, I think. I told him that it was basically Amway for the banking crowd, but he was like OH NO, this is different. In fact, it was started by a teacher!
I warned him to be careful, because those kinds of outfits tend to make you lose friends, because they try to drill it in your head that if your friends won't join your network/buy from you, whatever, they don't want you to be successful and they're not really your friends.
I also warned him not to attempt peddling their stuff on me, and he replied something like "Oh, I'd never do that; you're too educated. This is more for people who aren't as knowledgeable as you, but want to get into investing."
Anyway, I think he got suckered into paying $200 for some seminar and a get-started kit, but then figured out it was basically a scam. You make your money by getting more people to join under you, and pay for those kits, various seminars, and so forth.
He got out of it, before it cost him too much money. He was under the misguided notion that this company was going to teach him the ins and outs of investing and financial planning and such, and that he would be able to use that knowledge to help the less informed. But when he figured out it was just a pyramid scheme, he bailed.
Yes, be honest. At least you got a headś up from them. It could have been an ambush.
I was ambushed by a casual friend who drove two hours to go out to lunch with me. He was a respected fisheries guy for our Dept of Natural Resources, and I had no idea he had an Amway side business. I felt bad saying, no, not interested but I said no, not interested.
When we were young we were invited to a dinner party with an older neighbor . They always seemed so upbeat and positive . When asked what they did they always said import export. When we went to the house ,they had no TV but beautiful pictures of famous places all over the world . Of course they told us soon they would be visiting those places. I got so hopped up import / export business . He pulled out an easel and started drawing a pyramid . My wife , she caught on quick . In front of everybody she asks , is this Amway? ..That sucked all the oxygen out and the neighbor kept saying this a new Amway. ..We told them we weren’t interested and left. …..They never talked to us again.
I was ambushed by a casual friend who drove two hours to go out to lunch with me. He was a respected fisheries guy for our Dept of Natural Resources, and I had no idea he had an Amway side business. I felt bad saying, no, not interested but I said no, not interested.