Spend $60,000 in Amway to make $2,000. Sounds about right to me. One of our readers talks about being inside the Amway cult and unable to get her brainwashed husband to understand ScAmway only brings financial and emotional distress. If this person is still reading Married To An Ambot – give us an update.
My husband was involved with Amway/Bww in the 90’s. He had a pretty large downline, but ended up quitting due to marriage issues. He later divorced.
We married in 2013 and he told me about this great opportunity he had been involved in. I had never heard of it, but he told me he had sponsored someone who went diamond. I said then why would you quit. He said it was the biggest mistake ever and that he wanted to get back in and build it with me.
Due to his excitement I was excited. Unfortunately he was at a work meeting at a hotel where a bww meeting was. Needless to say our ibo journey began. We were hard core. Attended EVERY meeting, did 50/150 ++ every month irregardless of our finances. We racked up credit card debt in the thousands of dollars and took out several loans. I propected everyday and showed the plan almost everyday for almost four years. All on the belief that sacrificing time and money now we would get more time and more money later.
I was told that our work ethic outdid 95% of the people in the business and we were sure to become diamonds. We reached 1000 pv. Half of that was mostly personal with a little customer volume. But we got paraded on stage like we did something fantastic.
Back in April I had to have surgery and did not go to function, did not read and listen to cds like a good little ibo. Things started to change in my mindset. I had realized how much time and money we wasted. Time away from out son and family. We had no longer went on family trips cause all our time and money went to meetings. I was so dedicated and believed the huge repeated lie of financial freedom. That was until I got away for a little while.
I finally added up all the money we spent and it was close to $60,000 in a four year period. That includes books, cds, functions, products, travel expences for stp every night, hotel, business materials, samples, etc. We got very very little return on our “investment.” We maybe made $2000 in those four years.
I have been reading a lot of blogs and information on cults over the past four months. Bww is by far a manipulative cult. I presented my husband with a bunch of research material, even though we are brainwashed not to do outside research because the internet is like a bathroom wall and anyone can write anything....as they say. He listened to me, said he can’t deny he had felt somewhat like there were tendencies of cult activities. We were great that day, then he wouldn’t talk to me for a week.
When he finally did talk to me he said I call bs. You can’t blame amway or bww for us spending the money we did. I haven’t done anything with the cult since. He still pays for bww bmp, streaming, and webspace. I refuse to waste anymore time or money. He did tell me a few weeks later that he was taking a break, but that if he is off work for the team meeting he was going. I said I am not. He hasn’t brought it up since.
Our upline platinum calls and texts him all the time. Their upline platinum lady has repeatedly tried to set up meetings with me. I think my husband still has hopes I will come around. It’s such a brainwashing cult to consume all your money and time. I’ve told him about all the blogs and he says oh yeah those are the quitters who didn’t work the business and now go on there and spew their hate because “the business didn’t work” he said no, “they just didn’t work the business” he doesn’t want to hear anything I have to say about all the research I’ve done and all my findings. Please someone help me. I need some advice? I refuse to let this scam ruin our life, marriage, family and finances any longer.