Oh, Hello again Amway
Oh, Hello again Amway.
Aug. 5th, 2010 | 11:30 am
So I was in Fry's electronics earlier today getting some supplies needed to fix my LCD monitor, at one point I randomly got involved in a conversation with another customer. It was pleasant enough, starting with talking about a old documentary about mars that was playing on some nearby monitors, to various light discussions about politics and other topics. At the end the man mentioned he was involved in a great "business opportunity" and asked if I would be interested in it too.
This made me think; have I heard this before somewhere? I responded " kind of sort of, it would depend." To which he said "well you either are or you aren't." I thought about it, and went meh what's the harm. and gave him my email so he could send me more info.
Well I got an email from him.. Links to a video on the site "ina.net" (International Network Associates) which with just a a little bit of research links to... www.amway.com! yep, he was an amway salesman. Amway-global, formally known as Quixtar, formally known as just Amway, The worlds favorite Multi level Marketing Scheme. The video itself didn't actualy give much info, as expected, it just had a bunch of inspirational language. The video production quality was amusingly low aside from the intro sequence, seeming to mostly to have been shot in front of a bluescreen, with audio buzz and echo, and backgrounds that really weren't too spectacular.
I actually had heard a similar pitch before about 8 years ago (wow has it really been that long?). Back then, in 2002, I had some involvement with another Amway group (Globalnet). I had attended a few of their meetings and one big awards seminar (there was no charge for attending). All the people I had met there were nice enough but defiantly were hooked on selling the program.
Fortunately I never got sold. Then as now just looking at the info I could find it just didn't make sense as a sound choice. So few can actually ascend to the levels that started paying you back, and while those on the lower tiers certainly don't get left with noting (as in a Pyramid scheme which it almost is, but not quite), they just get a bunch of generic products (which they may or may not need) for a mostly average cost. According to the site, Quixtar, Amway Global Business Analysis, the biggest income sources actually are are the access fees, and motivational/"instructional" tapes, videos, books, seminars, etc. That sounds about right from what I saw.
I would never do good in that sort of thing, in good conscience I couldn't sell a dream to people that they likely would never achieve. It's kind of sad how many people are taken by such a thing, but that can happen some times with dreams, sometimes you want them so much that you'll ignore logic to achieve them.
This made me think; have I heard this before somewhere? I responded " kind of sort of, it would depend." To which he said "well you either are or you aren't." I thought about it, and went meh what's the harm. and gave him my email so he could send me more info.
Well I got an email from him.. Links to a video on the site "ina.net" (International Network Associates) which with just a a little bit of research links to... www.amway.com! yep, he was an amway salesman. Amway-global, formally known as Quixtar, formally known as just Amway, The worlds favorite Multi level Marketing Scheme. The video itself didn't actualy give much info, as expected, it just had a bunch of inspirational language. The video production quality was amusingly low aside from the intro sequence, seeming to mostly to have been shot in front of a bluescreen, with audio buzz and echo, and backgrounds that really weren't too spectacular.
I actually had heard a similar pitch before about 8 years ago (wow has it really been that long?). Back then, in 2002, I had some involvement with another Amway group (Globalnet). I had attended a few of their meetings and one big awards seminar (there was no charge for attending). All the people I had met there were nice enough but defiantly were hooked on selling the program.
Fortunately I never got sold. Then as now just looking at the info I could find it just didn't make sense as a sound choice. So few can actually ascend to the levels that started paying you back, and while those on the lower tiers certainly don't get left with noting (as in a Pyramid scheme which it almost is, but not quite), they just get a bunch of generic products (which they may or may not need) for a mostly average cost. According to the site, Quixtar, Amway Global Business Analysis, the biggest income sources actually are are the access fees, and motivational/"instructional" tapes, videos, books, seminars, etc. That sounds about right from what I saw.
I would never do good in that sort of thing, in good conscience I couldn't sell a dream to people that they likely would never achieve. It's kind of sad how many people are taken by such a thing, but that can happen some times with dreams, sometimes you want them so much that you'll ignore logic to achieve them.
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