There are a number of reasons why people get sucked into the
Amway scam. I think mostly it starts off with the love bombing that some people
seem to enjoy and crave and once they like these new Ambot unfriends they trust
what they say. Bad mistake because everytime an Amway Ambot opens their mouth
only lies come out. Never trust anyone in Amway because they’re all fucking
liars!!!!!
There are common themes why some people are drawn to MLM scams like Amway and a
lot of times it has to do with being their own business owner, choosing their
own hours, and working out of their home. Get started on your own business for
only a couple of hundred bucks are lies they hear from assholes already
flogging the Amway scam. Sounds good because someone might not have a lot of
money to start up a business, might not have the brains or physical ability to
start a business, etc etc. And the suckers might not necessarily be scammers ,
this is just what they’re looking for in their life and then some Amway asshole
showed up with all kinds of promises like retire in 2 years with gazillions of
dollars in residual income rolling in every month from Amway.
Motherfuckers like the Amway bastard who signed us up and the sack of shit
Platinum are greedy bastards who want to get rich by ripping off other people.
Not everyone who wants to start a homebased business is a fucking jackass jerk
like them.
But those bastards aside, the big question is are there legitimate home based
businesses out there because scams seems to be running rampant whenever the
words “home based business” and “work your own hours” come up. I’m sure I’m not
the only one who knows people who operate a business out of their home. A
legitimate business not an MLM scam. I bet just about everyone reading this can
think of one person they know who operates a home based business that has
nothing to do with lying and scamming and causing emotional and financial
distress. So not every home based business out there is a scam like Amway.
For many people it would be nice to work at home. Saves time in the commute to
work. Saves money to put gas in the car and other vehicle maintenance. There
are some companies out there that do offer work from home positions but
generally speaking people would have to already be employed by the company and
then they discuss it with their boss whether they can do some of their work
from home. Its rare for a company to hire work from home employees right off
the back. It sucks but those ads in the help wanted section about home based
jobs are generally MLM scams. Sometimes other scams, but generally pyramid
schemes like Amway.
For people looking for legitimate home based businesses they can do research on
the Internet, they can go to the library, or the bookstore and find information
how to start up a business and to give them ideas if they’re not sure exactly
what kind of home based business might be right for them.
Usually being a commissioned salesperson for an MLM scam flogging shitty
overpriced products isn’t the right type of home based business for anyone,
except people with no morals.
I ran into this website that inspired this post https://seedtime.com/legitimate-home-based-business-ideas-opportunities/
Read it for yourself it you have an interest in starting a home based business
but I’ll touch on some of the suggestions here. Some of the things mentioned on
this list of 31 ideas a person would have to already have experience or took
classes to learn this kind of trade. Other home based businesses like picking
up dog shit and cleaning houses don’t really need any special skills and both
can be low start up costs especially if you already have the basics. I mean for
the dog shit pick up business you’d want to own a truck so you can put the
buckets of dog shit in the back instead of having them ride inside your car
with you. Peeyew!!! That would be the same kind of stench you get from going to
an Amway meeting!
One of this blog’s bananas sells products on Ebay for a nice income so I asked
what is selling. Products for sale are a combo of stuff around their house no
longer needed like kid’s toys and clothes. These are also good items to pick up
cheap at garage sales and sell on Ebay for a profit. Also picking up used shoes
and boots at garage sales are profitable on Ebay. Same with some kitchen items
and sometimes even art work. Cautioned here to make sure its something you’d
like to keep in your house just in case it doesn’t sell. Other Ebay sellers have
a supplier of overstock or slightly damaged goods they resell on
Ebay.
Hanging Christmas lights is a good one and it never occurred to me that doing
this for 2 months would bring in a year’s salary. I suppose it also includes
take down of lights. And this is a popular one. Just after Thanksgiving Ambot
and I were at Starbucks and we were talking about putting up the Christmas
lights and the ladder and buying some more light fasteners. A couple at the
next table interrupted us politely saying they’d overheard us talking about
putting up Christmas lights and asked about our rates. My god we could have
made a few bucks! But no we told them we were discussing our own house and
don’t hang Christmas lights for a living. And here’s where I want to say Whew they
weren’t trying to scam us into Amway at the coffee shop! LOL! That need is out
there and more so in some areas. Forget it being too hot to go outside and hang
lights, clearly there are parts of this country where its too damn cold to go
outside and hang lights and yeah it’d be better to have someone else do it. A
year’s salary in 2 months? I am stuck on that. Maybe I should get in the
business!
LOL. And no not the Amway “business”. Having a LOL moment here. Remember all
those fucking stupid Amway meetings and the cult leader would call it “the
business” to throw off any prospects who might be in the audience who hadn’t
yet figured out they got scammed into an Amway meeting!
Window cleaning business. Don’t you hate it when someone knocks on your door
and wants to clean your windows. Its like holy shit are my windows so fucking
dirty than they singled me out. But no he, and yeah its almost always a man
maybe 2, is hitting up the neighborhood. The problem with these door knocker
window cleaners is they always look pretty sleazy. Casing the joint. No thanks.
But I can see where window cleaning would be a decent business. Just don’t
knock on doors looking for business. People will think you’re a fucking Amway
salesperson. Or a JW!!!!
So there you go. Other homebased business opportunities that can be started
cheaper than starting an Amway “business”. Real businesses where you don’t have
to lie and scam people out of their money.
And the last time we ran this post, one of our readers had this to say:
Yes, you're right -- there are (and always have been) ways
of making money on your own. Home businesses, small sidelines, seasonal
occupations like the Christmas lights, and now many opportunities to sell stuff
on the internet. There are thousands of teenagers and young adults who make a
nice little income selling items on ebay. And all of this is completely
tax-free.
That's why Amway is so utterly stupid. The ordinary IBO doesn't have a chance
of making the slightest viable profit immediately. He might work for two years
before he breaks even! And the energy expended on all the pointless claptrap
that goes along with being in Amway (the cold calling, the endless meetings,
the night owls, the stalking of prospects in malls or Barnes and Noble, the
imbecile “functions,” the voice mail, the endless CDs and books)...what a
goddamned waste of time!
You have to be a totally brain-dead loser to join Amway.