Something we heard a lot of from our Amway upline, and usually
in a taunting “I’m better than the rest of you” attitude was “you haven’t
earned the privilege yet”.
This could be for a number of things.
One time the Platinum was trying to round up a work crew to do yard work at the
Emerald’s house. Free IBO labor in exchange for the privilege of spending time
with the Emerald. Uh yeah. Sounds great. Where do I sign up to yank that
bastard’s weeds? Fortunately the Platinum sneered at me and others in the room
including Ambot that we haven’t earned the privilege yet to spend time with
that bastard. Whew! Lucky me!
The Platinum’s wife rarely went to meetings. I personally think she was just
sick of listening to her husband spout off the same old bullshit. He said by
virtue of reaching Platinum status she’d earned the privilege to stay home with
the kids instead of hiring a babysitter. Hunh? Their son and daughter were in
their early teens. They needed a babysitter? Holy shit I was babysitting when I
was eleven years old. Children of ambots are so badly behaved they need a
sitter into their teens? Maybe all the mothers in the Amway meeting who hadn’t
earned that privilege should have stopped by the Platinum’s house on the way to
the meeting and dumped their kids off with the wife for some free babysitting.
We earned that privilege because we had to put up with her husband that
evening while she got a free pass!
Most of the time the “you haven’t earned the privilege” was a taunt to the cult
followers who hadn’t reached a high enough level in Amway or any level in Amway
as was the case with most of the ambots in our meetings. Most often the
privilege taunt had to do with meeting someone further upline like a Diamond.
Or more appropriately hadn’t earned the privilege of providing free
labor to the Diamond because they hadn’t reached a high enough level in Amway.
Whew! Snuck under the radar on that one that I wasn’t on call to cook those
bastards free gourmet dinners! Actually that might have been kind of fun
spiking their food with something nasty!
A lot of the time the “haven’t earned the privilege yet” might have meant
something else. Like owning something of significant value that your upline
doesn’t own. Just because someone in your upline drives a clunker car or rents
instead of owns a house doesn’t mean that you have to go backwards in life and
give up these items that you’ve worked hard to attain. I think it has much more
to do with jealousy that they don’t have what you have and that’s why upline
flaunts the “you haven’t earned the privilege” taunt.
The last time I took out a loan to buy a new vehicle was in 1993 and I paid it
off early so the bank probably wasn’t too happy with me that they couldn’t make
more money on interest on that one. I’ve never taken out a loan since then to
buy a vehicle. Just don’t feel comfortable doing it. I’ve always been a cash
person but that doesn’t mean I would never consider taking out a loan depending
on the circumstances.
When we joined Amway my car was 5 years old. I paid cash for it when I bought
it. Looked good, ran good, suited my needs. Almost immediately the sack of shit
Platinum was riding my ass about it demanding to know how much I paid for it
and how much was left on my loan. I don’t think I told him how much I paid but
I told him there was no loan I paid cash when I bought it. So he had to try
another tactic. Or two or three. Bottom line was he wanted me to sell my car
and buy something older and cheaper and then I’d have money in my pocket to buy
more Amway products and tools. Like that was ever going to happen. Someone my
age doesn’t need to be driving around in an old clunker that’s breaking down
all the time. That “privilege” can go to the younger ambots.
Then our house came into the equation. Nope we didn’t pay cash for it. Like
just about everyone else we have a mortgage. This is not our first house. When
you sell a house you use the equity for the down payment on the next house you
buy. If you do it a few times by your last house hopefully there isn’t too much
of a mortgage.
Our Platinum had recently purchased his first house. And I say its about time!
You have a full time job and your two children are in their teens and you’re
still renting?! Fucking loser! I wouldn’t even consider having kids until I
owned a home. Its called security!
Our house came up when ambot “counselled with upline”. Different scenarios.
Take out a home owners line of credit on the equity and use those funds to pay
off the credit cards to leave more room to buy more Amway shit and tools. Sell
the house. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!!!!!??????? And do pretty much the same
thing. Find a place to rent and use the equity to pay off the credit card bills
so you can run them up again.
Excuse me but we had zero balance on those fucking credit cards until you
fucking upline assholes badgered my husband into buy buy buy Amway’s shitty
products and investing in the tool scam. Our penalty for getting involved in
your Amway scam is to sell our house and use the equity to buy more shitty
Amway products? Go to hell!
Equity is to be used for the next house purchase! If you uplines weren’t such
fucking morons you’d know that and wouldn’t be giving full of shit financial
advice. That’s one of the reasons I like David Bach’s books. He doesn’t do way
out there shitty advice like Amway cult leaders. He says pay off those damned
credit card bills but don’t let that debt stand in the way of getting a
mortgage and owning a house. You can do it all. Pay down your debt and your
mortgage and put away money for savings and investments.
Holy shit! I can see the upline covering their ears and screaming NO!!!!
And seeing as how I brought it up lets talk about ambots who own houses. Our
Platinum owned his house - or said he did, I never saw the deed but somehow I
suspect he might have a few upline “business partners” names on it. Another
Platinum in cross line I met owned his house. Our Emerald owned his house. The
only other IBO I know who owned a house were the parents of an IBO. I don’t
think we should count them. They only signed up to help their son out. They may
have bought some stuff but they never went to Amway meetings.
So why the big flap about our house? We’ve been homeowners for many years. This
caused a lot of outrage with the upline that we owned a house while almost
everyone in our upline were renters.
I figured it out. Jealousy! Upline’s reasoning is we can’t have what they don’t
have because we haven’t “earned the privilege”. Because they’re a higher level
in Amway than we are we can’t have anything they don’t have.
Jealous, petty, materialistic ambots. Got one message for you when it comes to
my car and my house: Fuck off!