I saw a TV commercial for Amway on CNN. Fucking Amway has commercials now?
I don’t know everything about Amway, but I’ve had unpleasant experiences with them. Not horrible life changing ones, more of the having someone try to get me to in their little circle of Amway sales people. It was wierd and cult like and I always said “I don’t want to do this”, even when they tried to change my mind. Even if I was interested I don’t really have the time to do this crap.
The last time a husband of a coworker invited me to a party. I went only to find it was an Amway recruiting party. (FYI the coworked divorced her hubby a few months after the incident) He tried to convince me by promising me that I’d be making hundreds of thousands of dollars in no time. It always seemed like a pyramid scheme to me, but hey, as I said I don’t know too much about Amway, I’ve just never heard anything nice about them. I was amazed that they have advertisements on TV, but I’ve been out of the country for some time.
I still don’t think they’re legit, but its a gut feeling, not a reasoned one. What experience have you had with them, if any?
I have never seen an Amway commericial until this week.
With the economy in the toilet, I can easily see them throwing the net out there for the very desperate to reel in more suckers to their some how legal pyramid scheme.
I am not in Amway, and I even turned down invitations to join, but it’s not a pyramid scheme. Early joiners are not being paid with the entrance fees of later arrivals. If you want to just buy their stuff, then you can. If you just want to sell to your mom, you can. You won’t make as much, but it’s somewhat like a lot of other businesses: if you can get more employees working for you or selling for you, you’ll make more money.
It’s not a pyramid scheme, but the people that make money are higher “upstream” as opposed to those “downstream” [wink, wink]. If you are not making enough money, then you should get involved with “Team” which works like Amway, but deals in motivational training. Again, the people “upstream” make money from those that are “downstream”. No, it’s not a pyramid either [wink, wink - nudge, nudge]. :rolleyes: :dubious:
I don’t believe it’s any more a pyramid scheme than Mary Kay or Avon though. You sell their products and if you can sign up other people to sell their products you’ll make a little more. A true pyramid scheme is illegal because at some point, somebody is going to get nothing. Amway (and other business models like it) don’t fall into that category.
You mean that the people who got in earlier and set up “franchises” and found the valuable employees and created good organizations are making more than the people who got in recently? Wow, that’s… really ordinary.
I “sold” (using the term losely) Amway for two years while I was in college. Never made my entrance kit money back, just used most of the stuff myself till I quit.
The products were good! If someone tried to sell them to me today, I may well buy them. However, I’ve never met anyone trying to see me Amway products. They’ve always been trying to sell me Amway distributorships.
Edit: While the corporation ALWAYS publically refuted the P&G Satanism story, several lawsuits in the late 1980s, maybe even in the 1990s, uncovered some Amway distributors who were spreading it. That combined with a lot of people feeling alienated by the recruiting techniques really seems to have hampered its public image. If they focused on promoting their products, they’d be a lot better off.