No- you’d be better off working retail. Even the Amway dudes claim you have to advance up the Pyramid. And of course, one problem is that everyone in America knows about Amway and won’t talk to you.
Note that the dudes that* do *get rich off Amway- are not the ones selling products at all- they are the ones “selling the dream”= they do the conferences, the “dream mettings” and so forth.
That being said- if you could be “in” at the start of a new market- say China - you could strike it rich. But not in America- they just don’t make fools fast enough for the bottom of the pyramid.
In my experience, they keep telling you about this wonderful investment opportunity and refuse to mention AMWAY and even when you ask them if it’s AMWAY, they lie to you and tell you it’s something else, but it all boils down to AMWAY.
They should just tell you up front so they aren’t wasting their time or yours.
I think that’s probably a bit simplistic; from my experience (my parents jumped very decisively aboard the Amway thing in the early 80s), I’d say that the deity (probably still not quite right to call it that) is actually success (money is implied, of course, but so also is respect).
They use the word freedom. The money gives you the freedom to live the life of your dreams. Ask them and they’ll tell you that they expect to be retired in two years just living off of their royalties.
If you can get a few commercial accounts you can be quite successful, at least enough to pay for the stuff you would normally buy for yourself anyway.
You’re not stuck with anything, the products are purchased directly from Quixtar (old Amway) and delivered to the costumers house.
No they don’t sell other brands as their own. You can purchase just about any brand through Quixtar. The basic principle is that you have to have enough volume through either yourself or your downstream to get bonus points. This can be anything from Goodyear tires to Airplane tickets to M&M candy. Commercial accounts are the way to go if you can get, say, a nursing home to buy all their paper products or cleaning supplies through you. You can then pass some of your bonus savings on to the costumer.
You don’t need to have a supply of stuff on hand anymore, nor do you need to deliver it yourself, like the old days.
The problem is that you have to talk to a boat-load of people to get even one person to join with you. I was a member about 5 years ago (my wifes sister was in it, so we thought we’d give it a go (both her sister and us and her sister’s upline have since not re-signed)). It is very tough to make a go of it, but it’s also kind of fun to at least have the feeling that you have some control over sales, profit, recruiting, etc. It just isn’t for everyone. You (we) could still be a member and simply continue to buy for ourselves. The prices weren’t terribly expensive and they usually had good deals on some of the stuff you would normally buy anyway, like cereal, snacks, car rentals, hotels, vacuum cleaners, etc.
The direction they wanted us to head was just to buy for our own family and get others to do the same thing. No aggressive selling tactics and you don’t really have to go out there and talk to hundreds of people if you kept the idea simple. I think they changed quite a bit from the earlier days.
In the end, I never had negative feelings from the experience, it just kind of faded away.
I should add that I did meet a couple that were really into it, they where both in their mid 30’s and already retired from the day jobs because of Quixtar. Pretty rare though.
No, Nametag this warning, just like the ones during the presentation was additional to the original at work conversation she had already had with the wife warning that Amway distributorship was not an option. I am a “don’t make waves” kind of guy and would just shrug off my wasted time but I was thrilled by my wife’s handling of the whole thing. I later got my hands on a copy of Amway’s rules and regulations for distributers. It clearly states that people must confirm that the product is Amway if asked directly. My wife wanted to complain about the couple we had seen but neither of us had enough accumulated bile to bother doing it.
- you could strike it rich. But not in America- they just don’t make fools fast enough for the bottom of the pyramid.