Amway diamond reddit 290 votes, 79 comments. Dave will be the high ranking Diamond. I think younique uses colors so pink status, black status, etc. I got suckered into paying a couple grand into a marketing “opportunity” that continually moved the goal posts, upped the ante, and was just a pay-per-tier version of the Amway concept, but with the angle of “Achieve the life you want by selling other peoples stuff with this system. They took amazing trips, nice cars, house on a golf course. I figure I put my experience here for others, hopefully it helps (I've never sold any Amway products, was almost initiated but couldn't pull the trigger). There were reportedly more than 4000 qualifying Diamonds in Amway globally in 2005. Their products aren't bad, but they are overpriced. The couple above them were double diamond, but my parents never faired so well. For Amway I'm not so sure, but an acquaintance of mine has been a salesman for Amway for decades at this point, and currently she's working as something else while doing Amway sales on the side. He eagerly unscrewed the screws on each corner of the tape. Which means he is making some money. Amway is much like Heinz ketchup; it manufactures a product. We got like $10 for answering questions about “the business” from one of the speakers. After checking out their IG, I noticed that they followed Amway Australia. We drove many many times to the same Anway convention 4 hrs each way, rain shine or snow. They are 60+ yr in business, exhonerated by the FTC as any sort of illigitimate I have seen several Diamonds who post they are, as Diamonds, in the top . In 2012 my mom rejoins Amway directly under K's Diamond upline (we'll call him R). C got in first 5 months ago and now L has joined. Have a blessed week ahead. A smokescreen of excitement and dreams slowly bleeding out at the hands of the upline diamonds who hold conferences, walk away with close to $50k in profit per conference (4 per year), while the struggling IBOs, blinded by false hope and dead promises spew their hard-earned cash for cliched motivational talks. Not sharing with them it’s amway etc. But I'll say run, don't get on the cult that is Amway Amway is something like a cult in the US. It was a nice house, but minimally furnished which highlighted the presence of Amway. 013% in Amway at the Diamond level. It’s definitely NOT taught at Harvard. They're not supposed to, because the FTC has a 70/30 rule which says that 70% of all products sold by the company must be sold to outside customers, but thanks to MLM lobbying and lax enforcement, this rule is rarely ever enforced. My upline Diamond was a nice guy, but he is no longer even in Amway anymore. Yep. Brad Duncan (The main diamond) with Amway isn't retired and doesn't actually own his assets. And all the uplines check to make sure the first of every morning that everyones ditto order was placed. What there doing to their people is just super fucked and it’s not right in the slightest! Locked post. Also, the keynote speaker of the workshop follows multiple Amway IG accounts too. I went down. The longevity of Amway should speak for itself. I went go all the “functions,” where people gathered like the next Messiah was arriving. One of the more nefarious aspects of MLMs and Amway in particular is that they will basically tell you that you have to live beyond your means, buy expensive cars, go on lavish trips, etc. So you can be a “diamond”, but be making standard distribution rates. Expand user menu Open settings menu. then the first of the month is when you’re DITTO (just a fancy name for Amway’s auto product subscription order for you) goes through. If you call and ask about how many It's an unwritten rule in Amway that you must use 100% Amway products in your home. comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment. Read these Amway success stories. Or check it out in From a double diamond in Amway. I'm not joking. etc. And spoiler alert - no one coming into Amway today is in that 1%. Create doubt in her by showing information about Amway refused to admit. But if you are a founders and doing 12/12 months a year, because of the bonus, you are making $362,000 a year. Since I'm at the pin level known as double diamond, about 3 pins above the "emerald" it states on the check, my emerald check is only 30k. Along with the fact Amway Distributors have access to partner store discounts that include brands like Ford and Target. Dennis Nafte was an Amway Diamond pin in 2013. These are just two ways that Amway made themselves and other MLMs seem legit, like another part of the American Dream. Anyway, I turned down the opportunity. So I was an “amway kid” and I remember my dad having a tape with a song that said “saddle up your horses”. Get the Reddit app Scan this QR code to download the app now. I have found an Amazon listing but it's obviously not in circulation because of an rcaa copyright lawsuit they had to stop selling them. ) were involved with Amway back in the 1980s through the early 2000s. My now ex-husband was the one who “recruited” me when we first started dating. Reply Then I got a call from our upline Diamond 💎 who tried to talk me back into her downline. Just alone in their Amway income they will make 150 to 300k as a low level diamond. They’re 18 and think this is a viable business. You get a minor check for each pin level you've passed. Amway isn’t the only one. Church got weird. He also talked heavily about how he is so 'Religious' and read religious books, so that we take him as a saint and develop trust. She believes in AMWAY. I love the positivity and the support. r/antiMLM A chip A close button. My wife and I decided to give LTD and Amway a try since we could recoup close to 100% back within 60 days (outside of fall leadership). I just got out of Amway and I couldn’t be any happier with my decision. He bought all the Amway products and pushed them on all our family and friends. Back around the late 90’s, Amway was able to pay a few high profile individuals to talk them up, Bill Clinton back when he was president in a speech promoted Amway. Looking for amway motivational tapes or CDs called Diamond Cuts (volume 1 & 2) and Diamond Rapsodies. I'm gonna change some names for obvious reasons: Matt will be the Amway rep that approached me at my management position. I added my insight to his post in the comments & wanted to make my comment an actual post in this community to open the floor to anybody else to add their insight even if you were in other MLM companies. training was registered by a Dennis Nafte. He started handing out bibles to everyone who went down there. If it is them, then they’re probably talking about Trevor and Lexi Baker as the couple that ‘retired’ at 30. He was like double diamond or something and my dad told me to I follow an Amway Diamond from my Scamway days who bragged that being Diamond in the business is being apart of the “top . I was also wondering if someone had the statistics for the amount of time it is needed to start doing somewhat decent at Amway with things like becoming platinum, emerald, diamond, etc. Sure enough, it was Amway. It didn't take long to put the reels on backwards. If you know of a Diamond Discover the top Amway Diamonds of all time. I was a part of a successful Amway LTD LOS for the last two years. When I was done with amway and my ex wasn’t, the upline said that I wasn’t being supportive of him and his dream, I was a negative influence blah, blah, blah. It seems legit in that it's not a pyramid scheme, however, it does look like even though it's legal it would still take forever to become successful in it unless you are constantly sponsoring people. Anyone know the address to put into Waze? Internet shows 3 different spots all identified as gold lot. I have been roaming Reddit about amway and this one was the first one i found. I was an Amway UK IBO and saw three Diamond couples terminated as the result of a government investigation. Later, I found out that Amivo was a proxy for a company called Amway. But yeah, it's MLM, and it's Amway. Public records for Clark County, NV Land Records Lookup show that his house is owned by a BDJ Limited Family Partnership which the address the partnership is registered to is linked directly to Word Wide Dream Builders. Ridiculous drivel from newly minted Amway/LTD “Diamond” 3. We still have the pots and pans my grandmother got from Amway's kitchenware back in the 1980s and they're still good quality. That’s what he would always imply, if you just worked your brains out you would go Diamond! Funny thing is they talk about security of Amway and blah blah, but I wonder if any of them are nervous about the anti-MLM movement and folks speaking out about the abusive system in MLM. Took him 18 years to get to “Diamond” —you know, the rank where you’re making so much passive income that you can sit back and relax on your private island. And get this TEAM was the fastest growing group in the business at the time breaking diamond after diamond after Diamond. No doubt constant hype and toxic positivity on his FB/IG (I haven't read them for a long time). She will speak the loaded language soon. From what I am seeing from Amway's own website is that making money from them is rare and difficult. More like the model many spin offs use. Now to be a diamond, you need that times 6. My Grandparents (both of whom are now deceased. Only 1% of their consultants earn a living wage selling Amway. But it will be so tricky. And I'm not the type who fall in to things easily. So basically I'd just whatsapp her what I want, and she'd arrange the delivery of the stuff to me, then collect commission. What most people don't tell you is that you can never fully retire from Amway, if you reach any type of success in Amway, you have to keep doing that the rest of your life! So while yes you can become and qualify as a Diamond, you can also fall out of qualification. What they don't tell is about the coercion to do training courses. I am new to this subreddit so I apologize if this has already been discussed. Referring to a comment here, when President Trump had his swearing in ceremony, the Amway founders were in the chamber. There was a guy on Reddit who got close, but I can't contact for some reason. For someone from Forbes I can say Amway is one of the most successful private companies in the world. She will develop strong black and white thinking. A BWW Diamond recently posted a brag on his social media saying he is apart of the . All while avoiding what it really is. There were tapes and brochures on the counter, even Amway makeup displayed on the kitchen counter. (yup, it's Amway) mentorship. The average annual earnings of all of their contractors is less than $900. If you know of a Diamond or past Diamond not listed, please create a page for them. When I was in junior high, I babysat for a family who was deep into Amway. Don't think so. I hope you’ve enjoyed my list of the top 27 Amway Diamond Distributors of all time. Must Read Articles. But among reading a few posts here, it looks like Amway is not what i may think it to be. This is MLM not affiliate marketing as the origin company isn’t paying anyone but Amway corporate. Everything but perishables was Amway brand. I was still a kid and thought they were so rich, so successful. Once you lose a leg, you have to recruit a few others to replace it. IBOs are like a supermarket from where consumers can buy the product. Amway has this voicemail system IBOs have to pay for called CommuniKate. If not. Amway does not release those numbers however. (This is quoting his insta story). I know of a amway diamond who drives a tesla seems to being doing good talks about being free I don't know how much is real. Also many diamonds didn’t requalify regularly, was easy to tell by who attended Amway’s diamond club. 013% of Amway. So the doctor would have to awkwardly stare at them and not tell them what's wrong, and the rich Amway guy would die I guess. To hit diamond you must "break" 6 platinum legs. So my cousin got started with Amway 2 weeks ago (he’s only 19)he tells me how it’s a easy way to make money how so many people doing it are millionaires and how we can make all this extra money he actually gave this guy my number he been in Amway for 12 years he calls me every other day to talk about the business or to coach me as he says I know the only reason he Reddit iOS Reddit Android Reddit Premium About Reddit Advertise Blog by Suprah. I should post one of I can’t fathom how this was an actual, 100% amway diamond that’s respected and looked up to in the community The face of Black Women on Reddit. 833K subscribers in the antiMLM community. This is separate from Amway, meaning Amway makes no money off the training materials the uplines / training company will sell you. Im a single mom with two kids, so yea, i want to be a Finally he reveals its Ammway. Of the 6 people in attendance, I was the only non-Ambot there, I was the sole focus of the effort. They want your family and friends to be your product targets, by the way. *World Wide Dream Builders (WWDB). It seems the diamond level Amway people name their downlines whatever they want and basically call it a subsidiary, for example, WWDB. true. A diamond makes about 150k (according to Amway themselves which makes the claim somewhat dubious IMO) which isn't a My parents were in amway in the 90’s and we had to go to a conference where they had a kids seminar. 2. Yeah, you don't have to work a 9-5 anymore, but calling it 'passive income' is a complete hoax lol. Log In / Sign I stood there quietly watching like 100 people just chant ''I am a diamond" for like 5 Amway is an arena Jess is the (wo)man in the arena right now She may go Diamond and make money she may never pick up her phone or send a text and Simple quit and go back to work (like me) With that said she’s fighting a good fight Has anyone in this sub Reddit a past member of Amway that can explain what happens in these meetings after you say yes or why they Target young couples randomly at grocery stores. So I met almost all the top dogs of Amway from all the systems WWDB, BWW, LTD etc. But it was after doing the Amway business and the the Landmark education that I was able to achieve my goals. Back in the 90’s my ex-boyfriend and 2/3 of his family were heavy into Amway. Very possible it’s World Wide Group or World Wide Dream Builders. This list currently numbers now over 2400 and is not exhaustive, with Amway reporting in 2004 that more than 4000 businesses had qualified at Diamond or above. It's a multi-level marketing. ” I was in Amway with World Wide Group. Its participants This is Amway’s 2022 Income Disclosure Statement, which they are legally required to post on their website. 821K subscribers in the antiMLM community. The diamond referenced here may very well be making $150k this year. It's so sad to see to read their stories of them giving it all and then realising what happened to them. On mobile, so I can't post source, but this is easily found since Amway is public listed. you probably arent being charged for the conference, but the person who invited you is. (I could go on and on). Search YT. Whether their leadership had already suggested they date other Amway people is another issue, but that’s my They're the most cult like of all mlms. As an ABO your job is simple but not easy, you buy and use Amway products, and you will earn money if you can get someone other than you to use those products. Then the downturn happened, and it was all a house of cards. As soon as I came home, I googled 'amway diamond' and within 15 minutes I ended up on reddit. Because when I was in it, there were a few of us (only 3 and we didn't have anyone else in our group) and we spent a lot of time with an "emerald" above us (a couple) and the diamond above them (another couple). When you create doubts about Amway. He talked about how he bought all his stuff from amway because it pays him back. Yeah, the business is so hands-on that even at Diamond you're putting in at least 40-50hrs a week. This is a list of the top 27 Amway Diamond level distributors that I know of. In the reddit community "MLM Recovery" someone posted and asked if Amway recruiters actually believe in the company or do they know they're scamming people. Both Julie Anderson and the Antibot have reposted, with commentary or you can watch just the 1-hour video itself. I asked him what the business was and he said it's Amway. I had a manager in the past who kept telling me to keep an open mind about Amway but hell no. Reddit has been my best search so far, so I'm trying to search for "Diamond Cuts" directly on here. im going to give as much info as I can. Being directly connected to R, my mom had very Reddit iOS Reddit Android Reddit Premium About Reddit Advertise Blog Careers Press. WWDB seems to be structured similarly to amway, except their (majority) "business" is the sales of motivational tools and quarterly conferences hosted by WWDB. Join us for game discussions, tips and tricks, and all things OSRS! OSRS is the official legacy version of RuneScape, the largest free-to-play MMORPG. Bought the VIP GOLD parking upgrade. After a really bizarre preaching session about Amway, they clued in that I wasn't biting. S. The breakdown follows like this. For a list of AmwayWiki articles on individual Diamonds, see Category:Diamond. They are clearly being lied to. But at the meeting everything seemed odd and off about it. I used to be one of those young guys you read about on this sub who would intentionally go out to try and meet prospects So if a diamond is talking about prosperity Jesus on Sunday morning, and you're doing what your training materials tell you to do, then you will go and listen to the diamond talk about prosperity Jesus, because you don't wanna miss that one nugget of knowledge he might give you that might rocket launch your business into success. Yeah, even that 1% couple making “almost” $200,000 are likely shading the truth. Do you like looking at pyramid diagrams? Amway's "Business Reference" is LOADED with them! Here's a graphic depicting the Amway "Achievement Levels". Then Sunday morning we had two events. The community for Old School RuneScape discussion on Reddit. i actually think highly of amway as a company, which no one else here does. ALSO, I HAVE TO DO DAILY JOURNALLING EVERY DAY which I didn’t lah. Click here for Amway's "bonus incentive" structure, this is basically the rank system. TLDR: How bad is Amway really? I haven't seen recent posts about Amway in SG, hence making this post. Snoo thought he heard a subliminal message on the latest cassette he was playing. Sort by (three Diamond couples) had their contracts terminated, leaving me questioning everything I'd been led to Won’t go into specifics as I am unsure if the people I am talking to use Reddit but got a pretty interesting pitch on selling Amway products and WWG helping one with said selling. Now I can train at any gym and get results. There are also some Amway founders in political power. It isn't really Amway's fault if an IBO fails, much in the same way that it isn't Heinz's fault if a supermarket fails. The usual rows of folks my age, dressed in suits and nothing less. Some I know are in their 40s and maybe has one downline and spending all energy to chase the dream of financial freedom and or legacy. He had me listen to the cassette tapes of “Going Diamond. Attain Diamond qualification for 6 months of the fiscal year (6 of your groups must be North American) and generate at least 16 FAA credits during the fiscal year. My dumb ass was in Amway for a decade lol and attended 5-6 of those ‘achievers’ trips. 48 votes, 41 comments. I remember one time I was 13 or 14. I trained a lot before doing that Amway business, and read a lot of books, and bought a lot of courses. So for starters it seems amway is just about everywhere around the country but I'm from Long Island, New York and it seems pretty big here I remember going to what they call Monday opens ($10 every monday) and sitting through the same exact regurgitated crap presentation just Had a similar encounter with an Amway rep. the conference is not by the amway company itself, but by some network of distributors. Just putting it out there. This is my 3rd comment on different posts. Church, and a special guest speaker. The best part is, amway product cost the same all these times, but things I bought before amway business are still rising on the price so basically I am lowering the my expenses but not taking part in inflation. It is not easy. The house is nicknamed “The Amway House” and is a big ugly mansion. Among it's top 30 shareholders are Amanah Saham, KWAP, Citibank and Maybank. I was an Amway products distributor in the mid 1990's. Amway is a MLM/pyramid scheme/scam, whatever you do, do not involve yourself in it. Mr Burns speaking like an honest Amway IBO "diamond" in an honest seminar. At least she can reduce how much she spent on Amway. The FTC may even start doing their job here soon. But stupid people have money too, and it's easier to take from them than others. It’s Amway. I have an old income brochure that new “independent business owners” got when you joined. Amway is the original scammy MLM that all the other scammy MLMs are trying to imitate. I am not sure where that stat comes from, but it is interesting he posted that for his team to see. My friend was horrified like everyone knows the Amway stuff isn’t for any of US to use it’s for other people to buy No wonder my friend was so skinny, she lived in a food museum not a functioning home and thought it was normal and everyone knows how it works. This is a "training organization" created by an amway diamond. My parents were in the Amway business for years. So he did for a while. 10 votes, 22 comments. First Reddit Post from an OTF Newbie So if you are NOT meeting the 12/12 months a year as a diamond you’re making $97,200 a year in your Amway Business. There were often times when women were told to live in submission to their husbands and other things of that nature. IBOs and includes $16 that Amway collects for your membership in the Independent Business Owners Association International (IBOAI), an independent, third The regular Amway ppl are more money hungry than the WWG ppl. Fuck Amway. I’m pretty sure the song was played at at least one function we attended too. When the President Trump shook his hand with the founder, one of our diamond leader took a snap of the telecast and shared it on a facebook page. Now R has just achieved his goal of Diamond from Another city and was looking to expand his group in my hometown. Two keynote speakers, one of which I would come to learn was a “Diamond”, one of the highest levels of the Amway structure, and the other being a Platinum. They just all parrot what they hear each other say without checking sources, and sometimes the details change, but when you’re hearing it from an emerald or diamond you’re just supposed to believe it 🙄 So many absurd claims and stories similar to this get told by diamonds from stage. My interest in reading about Amway started after snooping on a friend’s ex and discovering that they had purchased Ron Puryear’s 28k sq ft house in Post Falls, ID. One thing I noticed, at least in one of the organizations, is that almost all the newer diamonds were also already independently wealthy. I got stories for ya. They force you to push away all family and friends that don't support Amway 100%, you have to listen to tapes and read books that Amway produces, which you have to pay for. I guess I'm just curious for someone at diamond level, for example, how many people are in their group, what's the turnover, etc. According to Amway’s own income disclosure, people that make more than $40k a year is an extremely small number of all the IBOs. "Stuff he already needed" Probably just one leg of Amway. I could sell I was suckered into Amway/LTD during college and endured 2 years of it until managing to get out. He and his family heavily encouraged me to join Amway. “We must be truthful” except your entire recruiting Red79Hibiscus • Yeah right. I spoke with them on the phone and I’m hoping they get out while they can! Amway and LTD both have A + ratings with the BBB. Was this song like a thing in amway, or any recollection if it was associated with a certain speaker? The thing about Amway that is important to know is separate from the Amway business is a Diamond, Double Diamond or above pin that has created a “training and mentorship program” for their downline. They met at a convention (of course), but apparently she is the one who approached him. TLDR: My friend’s brother (L) and his girlfriend (C) got into a weird branch of Amway called Team Mak, founded in 1990 by 2 Amway ‘Diamond’ sellers. She’d described a similar setting but refused to believe we were on the same scam. He basically told me that Amway was his plan for wealth and an early retirement. A few people in MLMs do make good money, directly off the backs of those below them that are losing money. Keep asking her how she is doing from time to time. ” Was downline from a Canadian diamond for 8 years in my teens/early 20s and finally saw the light. The way he shows care to us is bring us tons of supplements and even 3 air purifiers when we were sick. So I was apart of Amway WWDB for 5 years I was first introduced in my late teens by a co worker at the time . but no more medicine. That's just the energy I get from any Amway horror story I've seen here. Is people in Amway making hollow claims, manipulating others, hyping people up, acting super weird, being disingenuous, etc. I found a few archived posts about Jono Rowe and his whole recruitment process for Amway scams, (full disclosure I don't know what amway is) but they are all archived so I could not comment on them. I don’t miss it, but I can totally understand how hard it would be to walk away from it if it had been my whole life and if my parents were involved. They will be very friendly, and they have a very convincing sales pitch, but be very aware that the chances are that you will spend far more money on "the business" than you will ever make. The people featured in the podcast were Dean and Marcie Whalen, who I found out were Diamond members of Worldwide Dream Builders which is affiliated with Amway. This subreddit is designed to be a safe space. Most Amway diamonds hit that pin with 500 people on their team. I know two sisters who got into Amway and first one gets engaged after a few weeks of dating and set the wedding date for 6 weeks after that. . Share Add a Comment. What they mean is either a) We plus everyone down line of us purchases $200,000 worth of crap from Amway, and we get a small commission, or b) We get a crappy commission, but our organization is large enough that we can make almost $200,000 charging for “training material” entry fees One Amway Diamond spoke of having his luxury coach polished to tow his Rolls Royce to a high school reunion, to the glee of the audience in attendance. Amway, however, is listed in the Malaysian stock exchange. Nope. I went to research about Amway after today only to realize how screwed up it was. I'm trying not to call names here. Amway training is like the old fashioned game of telephone. Multi Level Marketing (MLM) schemes are a drain on our society. I didn't know what Amway was so researched it and read all the bad things associated with it. but what i don't like it all the seminars and tapes and stuff. Then we filed bankruptcy. Note that some names appear more than once as they have qualified with multiple separate Amway businesses. At the end found out it was through Amway and they were affiliated with LTD. An Amway Diamond has 2 incomes, Amway, and from BWW which comes from selling CDs, functions and BBS. Except in order to work around the reality that you traded in your 9-5 for a full time Amway job, it seems theyre pumping out this phrase “sowing” not But the problem is Amway and WWDB will market a couple that reaches diamond, however dubious their methods, as 'diamonds' for their rest of their lives even if they fall out of diamond status, thus encouraging fraud since diamond couples can market themselves as such forever. He also told me to not trust Reddit or Blogs, as winners don't have time to write posts on the internet. My upline was based out of Marietta/Atlanta, Georgia and the upline Diamond out of Raleigh, NC. They’re pretty big in Las Vegas. Edit: added some info. After significant pushing, he told me the company name is Amway before departing. Puryear was at one point considered the most successful Amway distributor. My former diamond upline was making great money but he was also doing like 20+ meetings a week not counting events and other stuff. in order to get the people you’re recruiting to believe you’re successful, so that they’ll An Amway diamond would go to a doctor and tell the doctor not to speak bad things into their life. attend conferences etc for which you will have to pay, even if you aren't making any money out of amway. It took me around 4 months to get this much money from the amway business. Mostly at large quarterly conferences. Definitely give Pyramid scheme red flags but I have been wrong on that front before, both ways. Behind closed doors Amway execs chuckle at how stupid the people in those meetings are. Once you hear Amway and WWDB (or whatever other "mentorship program" that seeds from Amway) ideally you are brainwashed enough that you believe the "mentors" and not the "losers that failed and are complaining on the internet". They even have a slogan, "99% loyalty is 100% disloyalty" which convinces the Amway drones to only buy and use Amway products lest they Often what you are told when you first launch your "Amway Business" is you will be able to achieve Platinum within 2-5 years. Real weird. Your organization needs 1500 - 2000 people minimum to achieve financial freedom. My aunt and uncle were double diamond amway in 80s and 90s. In reality, not everyone is going to attain diamond status and reach “financial stability” from Amway. I was part of Amway/LTD for about 3 months before I realized what Open navigation Go to Reddit Home. Click here for Amway's income disclosure. I listened to only the first few minutes, just long enough to get the featured speaker's name so I could Google it. I have countless of these recordings and Kate messages giving me “counsel” and “advice”, basically fucked myself over because of these freaks. he was going to have to do the business without me. This annoyed me but I stuck around anyway. My sponsor, and her sponsor, and their upline Diamond are all still at the exact same level they were 25 years ago. Amway used gemstones I believe, diamond, double diamond, emerald, etc. Oh, honey it’s all pretend. Like, one wrong move from those meetings turning into an orgy that's how much they love Amway. I think Amway would turn into a weird sex cult if they weren't obsessed with God. The business structure at that time was: Amway was the product manufacturer /central procurement of non-Amway products and the network marketers were their salesmen. Well it consumed him. Feel free to leave a comment below to share your thoughts about who you think are the most successful Amway Diamonds of all time. Our head Diamond (he was a triple Diamond) lead a church service where he then asked everyone who wanted to be saved to come down to the floor and gather near him. For people just coming to this country, trying to get their lives in order, the Amway MLM is definitely not recommended. More posts you may Publicly Traded MLMs have to legally disclose payment stats Amway and Primerica 117 votes, 14 comments. I found the right coaches for me, trained, and competed. If you're able to convince 1 person a week to sign up with you, it will take you at least 28 years (assuming you don't lose a single client). The network marketing business can be thought of as a gym membership. Good luck retailing overpriced products to a world where Amazon, Walmart, Sam's club, Costco exists. Yes, Amway is all about recruitment for the "opportunity" and they rarely ever sell any product to actual outside customers. The Diamonds make more from selling books, tapes, and function tickets than they do from their actual Amway business. While allies are appreciated, r/blackladies is for Black women. But the user who posted that THIS diamond was likely making close to a million annually, posted that as a rebuttal on several posts. Furthermore, a platinum when distributes CDs keeps a cut for themselves. I am not looking to join amway nor do I want anyone else to join. That's true but I have to say the platinum or diamond Amway people do make a convincing sale If I’m ever in a hotel with an Amway convention and “Diamond Bathroom”, I will make it a point to have coffee, asparagus, and Taco Bell before sneaking in and using it. 013%”. When he finished it wasn't much of a If you search for Amway here or on r/mlmstories you'll see the accounts of people that were on Amway and got out. I'm talking about the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) investigation from 2007-08. Zack spoke of having his driver take him in his limousine to school to straighten out a teacher who had maligned his son. When i was about 17, my highschool boyfriend (18) got into Amway by a coworker of his. This guy is wild. They just don’t want to spell out how Reddit's home for tax geeks and taxpayers! News There was a documentary made in Poland in the ‘90s called “Welcome to Life” about Amway that Amway got got BANNED in the US ((and possibly other countries) that is now available to watch on YT (subtitles in a few languages). Most of top folks make the money from the tool scam though. Youd think the FTC would interviened 60 years ago if the buisness was that shady. Most people don't see Platinum within a ten year period ! But, if they continue to dangle a little sapphire, There’s a ton, because Amway has been doing this a long time and is the most cult-like. A lower milestone, ALSO, I HAVE TO DO DAILY JOURNALLING EVERY DAY which I didn’t lah. He keep telling others he s going to be diamond. Key points: 1. Your fake pop-tarts sucked anyway. Thanks reddit and thanks OP for sharing, it was fun to read, i hope you like this one too. but the premise is still the same. There are different ranks once you’ve made a certain amount of money or have a large enough downline. Go to :50 in this video to see an example of dapping😊 I removed my card off the amway website, and told the bank I lost my card, they changed the card number, and are sending me a new one, I’ll see if I get charged for something through them again and if so then I’ll change the whole card, it would suck though cause it would tank my credit score since it’s so relatively new and a high limit card, the only thing we got through them was the Rest points I get by customers sale. At the time I would have been 21 and fresh out of university. My uncle was an Amway distributor and he says that ABO is the face of Amway, and most of the time if you sell Amway products you are an ABO. I was in Amway for a short period of time last winter. I hope my story made you chuckle a bit. If he's still in the business, he's probably beyond that now. The WWG / WWDB meetings were amazing to be honest and changed my negative mindset, buuuuutttt the kicker is that they all had everyone’s hopes up for going diamond. I was in for over a dozen years and went platinum, my immediate upline who was a very close friend growing up went diamond, and I’ve been away from it for about 6 years now. (I don't remember his name, but he was high up in one of the larger Amway Often what you are told when you first launch your "Amway Business" is you will be able to achieve Platinum within 2-5 years. Double Diamond I think? Or Executive Diamond. When you are with Amway you are required to purchase a certain amount monthly, if you can't sell it, you are stuck with it. The upline diamond actually did leave, and his wife replaced him with some no-pin downline guy. Amway adjusts everybody's paycheck according to how much they make from bottom up. Get app Get the Reddit app Log In Log in to Reddit. I grew up in West Michigan, home of Amway and Betsey Devos. The amount of money you make as an Amway Diamond, absent motivational materials, is not enough to generate the lifestyles that they are advertising. I have known a lot of people who sell for Amway over the years. Diamond checks are roughly 270-350k. We would all be IBO's (individual business owners) where we are middle men for all kinds of quality products that we dont have to stock or try to sell. If it was indeed a dodgy pyramid scheme, I don't see how the Securities Commission will allow it to be listed. It sounded great, it still does. it's a useful exercize in game theory, but don't get emotionally involved. I look forward to hearing from you. The “teaching program” LTD was extremely heavy on Christian fundamentalism. My bonus check for double diamond (I'll get in march) will be a little over 700k. Spend money and talk about duplicate. That's mad lol. I posted the link to Amway's 2020 Income Disclosure to see if I am missing something as to why people want to join "The Business". Not just people at the top. A lot of work would have been required (it can take decades) just to have been earning the £150k annually as people at “Diamond” level were doing in 2007 (they built six “Platinum” legs, all of which generated around 7500 PV). The percentage that of becoming a diamond is 1:10000. In my research I discovered: The success rate of being financially independent as an Amway member in comparison to a regular employee is very low. I am not a huge fan of the products, personally. The secrecy of the process is to keep you from going to Google to learn about their skeezy antics right away. Amway was not the direct cause of my divorce, it just sped up the inevitable. They talk a good game, but for the vast majority of people, they end up costing you more than you gain from them. We sat down for an hour total and it dawned on me after 20-25 minutes or so that I had no clue what the business was, how they were making supposedly millions in revenue, and what my role in the company would actually be. EDIT: I genuinely don't know about Amway but I do felt they are scammy. Recruitment efforts and sales of their products are secondary considerations. Appreciate the advice. My friends mom picked me up for some reason and she was listening to Amway tapes (I am old, LOL) in her rusted minivan. I love my “mentors” and did zoom meetings with my Platinum and other coaches. A platinum in Amway does 7500PV per month which is $22,500 dollars a month in Business volume or (BV). Isnt it hysterical that all those stories were exactly the same? lmao. Sounds like Amway is upping their game. Most people don't see Platinum within a ten year period ! But, if they continue to dangle a little sapphire, Almost no one makes money from Amway and they were fined for being a pyramid scheme because one legal definition of pyramid scheme involves all the money the company gets comes from inside the company. Lots of invisible money! I too got suckered into an Amway recruitment session, through my boyfriend at the time (I had no idea he had been suckered into Amway). She was love bombed. Amway is paying out on these purchases not the original company. Both are multi-millionaires though, fiercely patriotic, and still passionate about the business and it's I searched all over the internet, ebay has actual speeches, but im looking for the motivational mixtape. That's where I think a lot of the negativity comes from. Please run far away, Amway is a horrible scammy company that brainwashes you. Congrats on doing well. So if you stay in Amway, please I’ve tried letting her know that AMWAY sounds similar to what I was getting into on the financial side of things such as WFG. So from what I remember, the products are very good and of a decent quality. It's just another way to confuse people and to recruit them without telling them that they're getting into Amway. The real money in Amway is the cash they take from the people they claim they will enrich. Lookup the lawsuit Orrin Woodward and TEAM brought against Quixtar/Amway > its public record. It’s been 30 days and we just finished our Fall Leadership for the Mcgrath team. I quickly learned that it was definitely an MLM scheme and I was going nowhere with it. I am going to see Bert Kreischer on Saturday. Amway reps can't even tell the truth when asked the simplest of questions, like "What company do you work for This amount covers costs associated with Amway’s support of U. Looking at the Amway income disclosure, they have a paragraph stating that the top 1% Above Platinum there is Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Diamond, Executive Diamond, Double Diamond, Triple Diamond, Crown, and Crown Ambassador. It is not something I would ever be able to do myself. Higher still, there's a Double Diamond with over 10k people in his group who outearns his sponsor whose a Diamond. The reason I am asking is I see a lot of young people being attracted the Amway/BWW system. Its participants Amway is not a pyramid scheme in itself, Go to reddit and you’ll find more people in their moms basement or on welfare then you ever thought was possible. Perhaps for every 1000 Amway member, only 1 get to make some good money, and a high number are struggling to break even. I was a college student majoring in education. I wanted to distill exactly what the issue is here as I was recently recruited up in Auckland and initially seemed fine, but once looking on here I saw many red flags and Bo Short (former Amway Diamond), the late Bill Britt (Amway Crown Ambassador), Larry Winters (Amway Double Diamond), Greg Fredericks, Dexter and Birdie Yager (Amway Founders Crown Ambassadors) Also, the Amway Tool Scam Aquí nos gustaría mostrarte una descripción, pero el sitio web que estás mirando no lo permite. Amway has already received all of the income from the original company in whatever deal they made and they will potentially pay out a portion when the distributor sells it. uvmhbkj kpiq ytfrhr utlgwrs vhcwz ozhmwu dodteb jbof ucsqx kkdixq