Here’s a comment left by a former Amway Ambot who claims to no longer drinking the Kool Aid. But I suspect somehow is still hanging on to the Amway fairy tale of a lifetime of residual income. This is a highly unusual Amway success story because not too many Ambots make this much money a month.
I left Amway/WWG after 5 years.
I remember your blog when I first got around “the business” and thought you
were just negative and stolen your husband’s dream. I remember feeling sad for
you. Looking back, I know I just drank the Kool Aid!
It has been a very revealing process leaving the business. True colors of our
upline and some downline have been shown. As expected, some of our business
friends have completely turned their backs on us. Others have been wonderful
and supportive. Our business generates about $1000/mo and when we announced we
were going to be leaving, our upline told us the “honorable” thing to do would
be to submit our resignation to Amway, thereby giving all our legs directly to
our upline. Not a chance is that happening. After slaving away for 5 years we
are going to keep the business and allow it to be residual, despite the unrelenting
pressure to give it up.
We are so greateful to have woken up from the Amway slumber when we did before
wasting any more time and money on it. Time and money freedom is NOT available
in this business. If you want time freedom, don’t even think about building
your business to a profitable level. You will be doing presentations 5-7
nights/wk and all the other BS during the day. Don’t think about planning
anything in your life because a meeting for yourself or your downline might pop
up. We were miserable building the business. Since we left our marriage and
relationships with family and friends has DRASTICALLY improved. I’m actually
happy again
Anna Banana responds:
Hi Anonymous. Thanks for
sharing your story. From time to time a reader shows up who visited this blog
back when they were a smug arrogant Ambot and then leaves a comment saying I
should have listened to you.
When you’re drinking the Kool-Aid you refuse to listen to anyone who has an
opposing point of view from the Amway cult leaders.
But once you get out and can see Amway with a clear head you get it about how
nasty the Amway upline are and the hell you went through emotionally and
financially.
Glad to hear you got out and are getting your life back together. And really
how long do you think it’ll be before your residual income dries up when you’re
not there to motivate and bully the downline into buying more Amway shit. And
way to go for getting that much in commission every month. That’s a dream that
will never come true for most.