It's always good to know the sneaky tactics used by Amway losers and what bullshit Ambots are currently pulling off. A reader shares a story of getting tricked into attending an Amway cult meeting and how the army of Ambots made sure he stayed till the end!
Thanks for this blog. I recently had an Ambot try to recruit me, he was good at it too. I started a business a couple of years ago and I was at a networking meeting when another owner of a local (legit) business started chatting me up. Seemed like a nice guy, said he likes to help new business owners and thought we should meet up for coffee. Cool, I thought, never hurts to talk to other business owners, always open to advice. Meet with him, never a mention of Amway, only spoke about business, goals, etc. He suggested I then read a book called "The Go - Giver" and attend a meeting with him in a couple of nights to "meet other like minded people who enjoy exchanging ideas on business and help each other grow, similar to the theme of the book."
Cool, I thought, always good to network and meet other business owners (notice his clever wording, "like minded people" not business owners I realized this in hindsight). Pull up to this meeting and am shocked at the number of people attending, I thought it was more of an intimate setting of successful business people. I go in, start introducing myself, there are a bunch of people, but no business owners. I thought that was weird and started to get an unsettled feeling, walk into a living room stuffed full of chairs and see a white board..ok, really weird. Guy who invited me starts talking, mostly about business philosophy. He then starts asking people where they work and proceeds to follow up with "Do you like it there, who wants to do that forever". Well, that is just odd, why would you trash other people's professions, maybe they like their employer. He then trashes his own, legit, business saying how he hates working on projects and his clients. Then, at the end, he starts talking about "how this business works" and lays out a "store" and how he is retiring in 3 years. Oh, DAMN IT, this cat suckered me into an Amway meeting. I get up to go to the bathroom (and leave) only to find my car is literally blocked in...Yep, the dude had people park at an angle behind me so I couldn't leave...Anyway, meeting ends, I shake hands and sit in my car for 20 minutes until the other suckers move their car and I can leave.
Dude blows up my phone for 2 weeks trying to set up a "follow up" meeting, this time with me and my wife. To make matters worse, I had told him my wife works at the local school and he looked her up online and started emailing her at her school email (in fairness he CC'd me each time) I ended up having to call the Chamber of Commerce that sets up the networking meetings to complain and am told "this isn't the first complaint we got about him".
Point of story, ask a lot of questions if someone is wanting to meet with you that you don't know, nobody does this for free. Crazy how they manipulate their intentions as they know if they mention Amway, nobody will meet with them. If you are in a "business" where you cannot say its name for fear of alienating people, might want to re-think your involvement.