Interested in your experiences with Amway

[MummysYellowCar]

Hi
I have an acquaintance trying to get me to sign up to Amway. As much as I like their products, I'm a single mum & their stuff doesn't really fit into my budget plus I feel that I'd alienate most of my friends by trying to sign them up as well. Their promise of $50k a year in royalties seems too good to be true.

Has anyone done ok out of it? I'm kinda thinking that the bottom of the pyramid is just too big these days.

[Mahjong]

Only a negative impact for Dh's aunt. It ruined her marriage and also her friendships with always trying to sell things. They became obsessed with it.

[MsMummy]

my inlaws made money from amway back in the day, but I think the market is so saturated with this and other (shape that looks like a pyramid but don't ever use that term around amway people, lol) network marketing schemes that it's hard to rope new people in and therefore make money.

Eta, my inlaws subsequently became involved in other ones but didn't make any money. There was a vitamin one, a video sharing one, something else.

[Opinionated]

To make money like that, you have to rope a whole lot of people in under you to become sellers, as well as selling the products yourself.

My advice.....don't do it. Your friends will hate you for it.

[Boobycino]

Yeah, I wouldn't do network marketing unless you are already a very confident competent sales person and you can network outside of your closest friends really effectively.

It's never ever as easy as it sounds.

But if your keen have a look around at what other network marketing businesses are around, I think amway scares people when they hear the word, your better off steering well clear.

But odds are, it'll cost you money, you'll make no money.

[mezzee]

I started with Amway and the first thing the lady wanted me to do when we were going through all the details was to write down all of my direct family, other family and friends, phone numbers for her. They direct you to get your closest people roped in to make you money by them spending money. If you don't want to contact them then they do it for you. Roping your family in to spend money to make you money is a red flag. I then spoke to 2 well known entrepreneurs who were involved in Amway for 10 years and told me to run for my life, in the opposite direction. I kept looking at details and was told to pay $80 sign up fee and was told I WOULD make money even if I didn't sign anyone up because they would automatically jump start me by adding people in under me. I have now been a member for over 1 year and not made a cent. Over the year I have met lots of people through my own personal business that have been involved in Amway I could safely say 10+ people and I have not heard 1 positive experience so far. I always say each to their own though. There are success stories out there, but I'm yet to hear them from real life people.

[zombiekitty]

God, I'd stay right away.

My parents got into it in the 80's. Dad is more easily led and started to get into it and mum being a more sceptical person, saw their cult like ways and steered well clear.

The only fight I remember my parents having was when dad was leaving for an Amway meeting and mum refusing to go and staying home. She didn't even want us kids around the meetings or people. They can be weird and full on.

A very close friend of mine has joined in the last couple of years and while I wish her the best, I've made it VERY clear that I want not part in it. She's also not made any money from it. In fact, I've never known anyone to make any serious money out of it and TBH, when most people hear the word Amway, they run a mile.

[delirium]

Run for your life :freakingout: To buy from them, you have to buy in bulk and it's expensive. My mum got into it in the 90's and they are almost like a cult... they push you into pressuring friends and family, and like a lot of these type of businesses (party plans come to mind) you have to know oodles of people with serious cash to truely make any money. Like the party plans, the first month you make some money from people buying but the well very quickly dries up when people can't afford anymore.

and snap ZK about them being like a cult lol

[Witwicky]

Stay away!!!

My step-mum is right into it and she is *obsessed*. It has taken over her life, she lives and breathes amway in an attempt to make a 'residual income' (she constantly talks about how one day she will have this 'residual income' and not have to work at all, and be able to spend all day with her kids...).

She has been doing it hardcore for about 4 years now and she still places as much energy into it as she did from the start, in an attempt to make it to the top (ALL her energy!).

She has spent a lot of time away from her children at meetings and networking, and I truly just want to tell her that her kids will be adults once/if she makes it! It seems like she's already missed so much. They were aged 8 and 11 when she started, now they are 12 and 15, and they rarely see their Mum :(

When we stay at Dad's we never see her because she's always out doing amway things, and she comes home very late each night. When she did come home, she tried to sell it to us. In fact, every time we see her she tries - its incredibly annoying.

Her relationship with my Dad is pretty much ruined because of it :( He has commented about it a lot and he seems really unhappy.

I would personally stay away.


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[Bodelly]

This will make you laugh - someone in dh's family signed us up as a wedding present!! Can you believe it??? After we had said NO!! Multiple times. We haven't done a thing and we dont intend to. Just another scam.

[zombiekitty]

This will make you laugh - someone in dh's family signed us up as a wedding present!! Can you believe it??? After we had said NO!! Multiple times. We haven't done a thing and we dont intend to. Just another scam.

Oh my god that's too funny! :laughing:

[Bodelly]

Rude as hey! I was like get f&$)Ed!!
Hahaha.

[MsMummy]

Stay away!!!

My step-mum is right into it and she is *obsessed*. It has taken over her life, she lives and breathes amway in an attempt to make a 'residual income' (she constantly talks about how one day she will have this 'residual income' and not have to work at all, and be able to spend all day with her kids...).

She has been doing it hardcore for about 4 years now and she still places as much energy into it as she did from the start, in an attempt to make it to the top (ALL her energy!).

She has spent a lot of time away from her children at meetings and networking, and I truly just want to tell her that her kids will be adults once/if she makes it! It seems like she's already missed so much. They were aged 8 and 11 when she started, now they are 12 and 15, and they rarely see their Mum :(

When we stay at Dad's we never see her because she's always out doing amway things, and she comes home very late each night. When she did come home, she tried to sell it to us. In fact, every time we see her she tries - its incredibly annoying.

Her relationship with my Dad is pretty much ruined because of it :( He has commented about it a lot and he seems really unhappy.

I would personally stay away.


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It's definitely time consuming. My partner said when he was growing up (they lived in the country, 2.5 hours from Brisbane), they would frequently go to Brisbane for weekends so his parents could go to the meetings.

While my partner is not pro network marketing, he is slightly indoctrinated in amway. I once commented how expensive the products were, and he gave me a long spiel about how concentrated they were, how long they lasted etc. He truly is an Amway child.:laughing:

For a laugh, my partner went to another networking marketing scheme seminar with FIL and BIL. It was for videosharing, and nothing novel. Apparently the guy pumped everybody up, and said that this product was going to allow people all over the world to talk to each and could achieve world peace. PMSL. and this was after skype and webcameras had been around for ages, no nothing novel. Naturally, FIL and BIL signed up but nothing came of it.

eta. somebody else told me his sister got sucked into amway. she was pressured to keep buying, and couldn't actually sell the stuff, so ended up with a garage with thousands of dollars of amway products.

[Witwicky]

^^ Lol that reminds me of something my Step-mum said recently. My BIL was harmlessly taking a multivitamin and she swooped in to advise how they aren't batch tested and super duper concentrated like the amway ones, and that he may as well be swallowing capsules of air :laughing: You literally can't even take a vitamin around her without a reference to amway !!


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[BlissedOut]

Don't do it!!

I cringe every time a friends starts a ponzi scheme like this, they are illegal for starters.

Friends get mad I'm not supporting them when I don't come to their 'parties', but then when they beg me to come and I don't buy anything they're annoyed.

Then they wonder why I avoid them, sigh.

You're better off coming up with your own business to run from home than investing in this.

[MummysYellowCar]

Wow! Thanks for all the replies.

I had a gut feeling it was rather dodgy. When the initial phone call came through the week it was out of the blue from someone I don't know too well & he kinda lied about what he wanted- he just happens to be an engineer on a the national broadband network stuff and used a line about 'offering a cash job in relation to the redistribution of internet services'.

Needless to say I think I will be deleting his number- I'm beginning to think the guy's a bit of a wierdo and I am starting to wonder why his wife took the kids & moved interstate. :eek:

[Azurial]

I love Amway, their washing powder and cleaning products are AWESOME. A box of their washing powder lasts me almost a year, so for the $50 I pay its well worth it. My mum has sold it for years, but never did it for the money, she's never been to a seminar or a networking meeting, simply because she liked the products and living rural back in the 80's before online shopping it was great.

Would I ever sell amway? HELL TO THE NO!!!!! I have few friends as it is so I wouldnt want to lose them by always pushing a product on them. I think its a terrible way to sell. If I like product I will use it and recommend it but to sell.... :barf:

[Hokey Pokey]

this will make you laugh - someone in dh's family signed us up as a wedding present!! Can you believe it??? After we had said no!! Multiple times. We haven't done a thing and we dont intend to. Just another scam.

omg!

[MummysYellowCar]

This will make you laugh - someone in dh's family signed us up as a wedding present!! Can you believe it??? After we had said NO!! Multiple times. We haven't done a thing and we dont intend to. Just another scam.

Thats too funny! Also totally inappropriate as a wedding gift.

They want me to attend their meetings to sign up- 8pm on a Monday night and a 45 min drive from my home. i'm a single mum to a 3yo with a FT job- the guy had the cheek to tell me to give up some of my sleep time. WTF?? The more I think about it the more I think I'm just not going to turn up- won't even bother ringing. Not like the person trying to sign me up is someone I'd consider a friend.

[MummysYellowCar]

Ugh!

Shouldn't have given out my home address! I emailed the guy was polite and said I can't do the latenight signup meetings at the said dodgy hotel in sleazy area. So I'd give it a miss. Now he wants to come to my house.

Will bluntly tell him no. Have one more 'no' explanation I will run with before I get rude & that's the old 'conflict of interest in my job' line.

[Witwicky]

Eek you will probably have to be blunt and tell him that you aren't interested in it at all.


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[Luna Lovegood]

I no nothing about Amway, but googled "amway experiences" and the first result was a cult info website...'nuff said :laughing:

Good luck at getting rid of the guy...:fingerscrossed:

[mezzee]

Yep that happened to me. I said I couldn't go and then they insisted on coming to my house and I couldn't get out of it. That's when they pressured me to sign up and pay $80 because they are very pushy face to face and wouldn't take no for an answer. What ever you do don't let them come to your house.

[delirium]

I would just be blunt as well. Tell him the truth bc it sounds like every excuse you use, he'll think of something to get around it. I'd just say thanks for the invite, but I'm not interested in being an amway rep or buying the products.

[MummysYellowCar]

Hi
I have an acquaintance trying to get me to sign up to Amway. As much as I like their products, I'm a single mum & their stuff doesn't really fit into my budget plus I feel that I'd alienate most of my friends by trying to sign them up as well. Their promise of $50k a year in royalties seems too good to be true.

Has anyone done ok out of it? I'm kinda thinking that the bottom of the pyramid is just too big these days.

Just an update... all the warnings were well warranted. I told the Amway guy to get lost. Then a week later he turned up late one night with a catalogue & insisted on leaving it for me to have a look at. Then the stalker-like phone calls started where he asked for the catalogue back, an order and a list of at least 12 friends and phone numbers. I told him not to come to my house again and I agreed to mail the catalogue back to him at his work. This is the wierdest part- he sent it back to me marked 'return to sender' on the envalope with a nasty note on the back saying not to send him Amway stuff at work. Ugh! Guess it will make some fairly fancy bin liner.

[Bodelly]

What a douche!