One of our readers who was in Amway’s URA cult sect shares their FED Free Enterprise Days horror story:
Now my PTSD is kicking in.
Thanks Anna! LOL.
Now story time. When I was in URA / URAssociation, tickets would go on sale for
the next conference around 1:00PM or so on the Saturday of the current
conference. For example, tickets would go on sale ($93 a pop when I was
involved before I decided to leave in 2018) on the Saturday of Summer
Conference (usually July of each year) for Free Enterprise Days (which take
place in October of each year). The location would not be announced until
Sunday at 4:30PM or so when we all dispersed our separate ways. This is how
things go at every URA / URAssociation conference. By the way, good call by the
previous commenter on not buying a ticket, especially when one does not know
the location. Upline will not like that argument, but it's a valid one.
But, back to my story. So usually at 2:00PM on the Saturday of conference (an
hour after tickets for the next conference would go on sale), we would have
team breakouts and these would drone on for about two and a half or three hours
or longer, then Phone Team after that, and then a scramble to get dressed for
the night session (yes, it's as painful as it sounds).
During these breakout sessions, the High Pins would of course get up in front
of the crowded conference room and give their little speeches about how they
are "FIRED UP!". And then every...single...person...where this was
their first conference, had to come up, introduce themselves and say who they
are sponsored by, name something they have learned, and announce if they had
purchased their ticket for the next conference. If they hadn't purchased it,
they (and others in the room who had yet to purchase their tickets) were raked
over the coals in public.
In addition, the "leadership" would tell IBOs to pawn off items such
as sports coats "and sell whatever you need to" in order to attend
since the next conference is the "Super Bowl of our business" (and
they say this about all conferences). This is how petty and how little they
cared about IBOs when they are telling people to pawn and sell stuff to attend
events that are essentially the same.
But yes, I just wanted to post this. And I would love to see more IBOs use the
example of not knowing where the conference is before buying the ticket for the
next conference. I would love to see the look on the faces of Uplines once
people start dropping that reply.