I want more Amway horror stories.

Give me now.

There's this woman I work with who gave me a free can of Xs energy drink. I told her I didn't like it! Ha ha ha ha!

More recently she gave me a protein bar. I didn't even get back to her on that one!

Now Richard DeVos is running for governor in Michigan. This woman who came on to the bus a few weeks ago (cute) was unusually talkative and started talking about how she used to live in Saginaw, and then her boyfriend moved up here (ok, that shut it down right there), but she followed him later when an "opportunity" opened up. Then we started talking about how it's hard to get a job in Michigan right now and she said that Richard DeVos was running for governor and was going to fix all that (like he's gonna win). It didn't occur to me later that maybe the reason she was so talkative was because she wanted to get me into Amway or something, maybe that was the "opportunity". Or Quixtar or Alticore or whatever they're disguised as now.

What is funny is I never had anyone try to sell me any Amway products, nor try to get me to be a distributor, the whole time I was growing up in Grand Rapids, which is near the Amway headquarters.

Anyways, I think Amway horror stories are funny. There often seems to be this tacky element to them which is amusing.

That was before he met my mother. Anyway, he had all these creepy "motivational" tapes from Amway all over the house. My mom made him get rid of them. Not really a "horror" story, but it's the only one I have.

This guy stretched his spiel out over a week before he finally told me what was up. I was really pissed, I thought I was getting an opportunity to do something interesting.

He was in town and invited me. I went to dinner with him because I wanted the chance to apologize for breaking up with him -- if I'd broken his heart. I don't know if I did but I wanted to apologize.

So we get to the end of the meal and he leans over the table and looks me in the eye and asks earnestly, "What are your aspirations for the next five years?"

Seems he'd made a trip from Idaho back to So. California, where he'd gone to college and where we met, to hit up his old buds to see if he could pull 'em all in on his Amway train.

:puke:

I dropped money on the table and got up and walked out. Sans apology.

I saw some Amway distributors in the convention center's huge underground parking garage sitting in their Cadillac (it's important to have the right car when you're building your business) eating bologna sandwiches for their lunch.

That's pretty rough. Good story though! :thumbsup:

Friendships and business relationships are to be used.

Once had both a friend and business colleague call me about doing some high level consulting. Trusting as I was and wanting to set a high atmosphere I invited him home to dinner. Put out quite a spread. After dinner this "friend" spend two to three hours talking about this great opportunity. Finally it dawned on me that he was pushing amway. I was livid, asked him to leave and that ended any further contact I had with him. Just shameless.

To me amway is all about screwing people. This devos creep will feel right at home with his chosen party.

They are downright creepy. It's like these people are in a cult.
They'll talk for hours without telling you what they are trying to sell and they do it with a strange look in their eyes.

They keep hawking stuff about how to protect your family from terrorists.

Sometimes those google ads do work out funny though.

Check out #5 in this list!

http://www.scambusters.org/work-at-home.html

and he tried to sucker my husband and I into selling Amway. We declined, but the guy was always overly nice to me, and for as long as I worked for him, my husband would tease me and say that my boss wanted to steal me away and make me his "Amway Queen.":puke:

Mr. P and his father had a rocky relationship to begin with, but Mr. P's father called a few times and wrote trying to "mend fences". This went 3 or 4 times back and forth till it comes out that Mr. P's father wants to mend fences to get Mr. P recruited.

Six years and counting.

:hi:

I don't like Amway and Dick DeVos scares me. To make things worse his dad used to work with my late grandfather, even offered a business partnership with him. Grand dad turned it down though.

Blue

I went to a amway meeting about 8 years ago and they were saying that their spray cleaner killed aids on contact.
These assholes thought you could get aids from a door handle.

But so would regular bar soap and water:
http://aidscience.org/Newsarticle.asp?Article=3581

maybe they could get aids from them.

especially if they share them...kinda like junkies and needles.

decided to join the cult. They dragged him along, and he ended up without his job!

The whole church was in an uproar, and half the members left. Presbyterian churches are not usually known for cult scandals, but this was a doozy.

You tried to talk to the guy about baptizing your kid, and he was trying to sell you on Amway. :dunce:

http://www.cocs.com/jhoagland/amcult.html

They have a very long breakdown of the techniques these creeps use.

Many many years ago, I was recruited, but didn't last long because a) I figured out in about 2 weeks that all the actual money to be made was from the books and tapes you have to buy to keep your brain minty-fresh, b) I went to a couple of large meetings and the pseudo-patriotism and knee-jerk 'I love Jesus' crap freaked me out, and c) sitting at dinner one night, I realized I had agressively nothing in common with those people who wanted to get rich so they could buy Winnebagos and tour the country like their Great Leaders - I don't know about you, but I'd fly first class, fer christ's sakes.

Anyway, I figure I got off easy. I have no idea what any of those people are doing now. Chances are that those who stayed got their lives completely destroyed.

I work for a company that puts on audio-visual productions for corporations. Amway came into one of our venues, ordered equipment and labor for one of their distributor recruitment type events. They wouldn't put in a credit app so it was COD.

So we went in, set up all of the equipment and asked for payment. What I found interesting was the people in charge of the meeting were all extremely well dressed, very cliquish and conspiratorial. Like they had a big secret amongst themselves. All this time people are lining up outside the doors. These people are the exact opposite of the organizers. Working type people who you knew didn't have to spare nickels in their pockets but were there with their spouses wanting a better life and hoping that Amway would be their way out. It was kinda sad knowing that of the 200 or so people paying to attend, maybe 1 would ever make any money with Amway and the rest would just be enriching the assholes putting on the meeting. Very Sad.

So to continue my story, our pleas for payment were met with "The man with the credit card/check is on his way from the airport" and other stalling tactics. By this time they're letting people into the hall. It's going on 15 minutes till the meeting starts. Time for action so I went up to the head asshole in charge and told her that if we didn't get payment right then that all the equipment would be struck immediately. Boy the dirty looks and credit cards came out quick. The lady even had the gall to comment that she thought it was disgraceful that we wouldn't "trust" them to pay the bill. I called her card into the office to get it authorized (which just pissed her off more), had her sign the contract, gave her my biggest fake smile and wished her a good show and left immediately.

We've had the same experiences with Melaleuca distributors and other multi-level marketers. As a matter of fact we call them MLM shows and always get paid in advance. They're all slime.

That kind-of reminds me of "mekka-lekka hai mekka hainey-ho".

I think I read that Comedy Channel was gonna be rerunning PeeWee's Playhouse! Had some good Saturday mornings with PeeWee, Captain Carl, Clocky and the gang.

sorry for the threadjack

It seems Amway distributors like to throw parties under false pretenses. This particular party was hosted by someone I knew at work. I also got invited to another party that turned out to be a Mary Kay recruitment. In both cases, I told the people involved that I absolutely hated sales work.

and i ended up at an amway meeting.

(If you don't get it, I don't want to give it away!)