I’d say my husband is average when it comes to figuring out
how long many IBO’s stick it out with Amway. Most ambots will quit Amway
somewhere between 3 months and a year. That can be an eternity to a wife as
she’s subjected to the abuse from upline, their attempts to destroy the
relationship, and the money going down the drain while the upline badgers her
husband to buy more products, attend all Amway meetings and functions, and
invest heavily into the Amway tool scam. Depends on how much money they had in
their savings account or how much room is available on his credit card, the
losses could be small in the hundreds of dollars or more substantial in the
thousands.
The time frame could vary too. I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that
there are a small number of Amway cult leaders who don’t badly abuse their
downline and chastise them and insult them and try to destroy their
relationships. These slightly kinder cult leaders may have the power to keep
their ambots toeing the line for a longer period of time in order to suck more
money out of them.
Amway is a vicious cycle. It starts off with some asshole sponsoring your
husband into Amway. Then he must go to two or three Amway meetings each week
generally held in someone’s living room but might occasionally be held in a
hotel meeting room. There usually is no charge for the meetings held at
someone’s house but there will be a fee if the Amway meetings is at a hotel. At
least a couple of times a month a Diamond in need of a few thousand in cash
will show up to speak to the masses. Again could be a hotel meeting room or
maybe a school auditorium or something that can accommodate a few hundred
brainwashed ambots. These cost $10 to attend but I’ve heard some former IBO’s
show up recently to say it costs more but lets stick with $10 nice round
figure. About once a month there will be a rally where new pins get to “walk
across the stage” which also costs $10 or so to attend and is held somewhere
with a stage. There has to be a stage otherwise those brainwashed ambots would
be unable to brag about “crossing the stage”. Also about once a month is some
useless product seminar probably held in a hotel meeting room where an Amway
product is showcased. Probably costs $25 to $50 maybe more to attend. So in an
average month there will be 10 to 20 Amway related meetings the ambot must
attend.
If the ambot stops attending he will be chastised by the Platinum cult leader
who will be relentless in phone calls and text messages bullying the IBO until
he buckles down and starts attending again.
That’s why I call Amway a vicious cycle. Once the wife has hope - and remember
Amway is all about selling the hope! - that her husband is getting ready to
quit because he’s stopped attending all these damned Amway meetings, some
upline asshole badgers him and reminds him of his duties to the cult until he
breaks down and goes back and buys more Amway products.
Eventually the ambot will find the strength to stop and this will be difficult
because of all the love bombing the ambot actually might like some of these
Amway assholes. Quitting Amway means quitting all these new friends because no
one is allowed contact with former ambots. Quitting these new friends may be
hard for the brainwashed ambot because he’s been cut off from his former
friends for months now and he’s spent maybe 20 hours or more each week with
these new friends attending cult meetings. His priorities are screwed up over
who the real friends are. I’ve said it before - if friends are only interested
in you for your money then they’re not real friends at all.
Amway is a vicious cycle. Always on the lookout for its next victim. And not
discriminatory. Amway will recycle former victims of its cult.
Financial roller coaster. Emotional roller coaster. All I wanted is for this
terror park ride to end.
End the Amway cycle.
It will never really end until Amway is shut down and closes its doors forever.
Not everyone learns their lesson the first time around.
Amway is a vicious cycle.