Amway helps you save 30% on average

One of the very first lies told to new prospects looking at the Amway business plan is that they can save 30% of their spending money by re-directing their buying power from other stores to their own business. This is told at every plan. The gullible prospect signs up listening to this, thinking he will save 30%.

Slowly, the new IBO hear statements like "Make sure you buy the high PV/BV items - focus on nutrilite and artistry - these give you the maximum value for your money." Coming from an Indian background like mine, people neither used vitamins, nor high-end beauty products. Even if I were using vitamins, I would be using a basic one like centrum. So this is not "anyway" money I was spending before. I have to spend more money to buy the products. Then the IBOs start defending and justifying telling how much goes into each amway product. The truth is that the amway deal is full of deception and lies and you learn about it only as you learn more and more.

(Guys like Kumar claim that as you go up in the Amway business, all you see is more integrity and more honesty. I don't think so - if this is the case, then why did Larry Winters, John Crowe & Joe Markewicz leave BWW? High up in Amway is as ugly as high up anywhere else. I think the Gala group also has a bunch of issues, especially with highly egoistical maniacs like Kumar, Sugeet Ajmani and Vishal Jain. It is just a matter of time before the issues come out.)

Coming back to the 30% savings, here are two comparisons:

Comparison 1 - Omega-3

Nutrilite balanced health omega-3 (IBO cost: $16.57 for 90 soft gels)

vs.

Trader Joe's molecularly distilled odorless omega-3 (Retail: $8.99 for 90 soft gels)

Nutrilite has 150 mg of EPA and 150 mg of DHA per soft gel.

Trader Joes' has 400 mg of EPA and 200 mg of DHA per soft gel.

Moreover Nutrilite is not odorless, meaning some people (like me) get the bad smelling fishy burps and/or after-taste and smell. Trader Joe's product works better for me! In this case, Nutrilite's product is actually not as good in quality as Trader Joes. All the purification processes and quality control done by Nutrilite is also done by Trader Joes.

I am no genius, but if you do the Math, Nutrilite is actually 84% more expensive than Trader Joe's and has only half the omega-3 (and the fishy burps).

Let's say the IBOs again defend by telling, you can get money back with nutrilite and not with trader joes. Alright - let us say you are in that smallest of smallest minority who reaches the 25% level, hopefully by building a big group and not buying your way through... Then you get back

25% of $21.20BV = $5.30,

so your net cost is

$16.57 - $5.30 = $11.27,

so you are still paying 25% more for Nutrilite!

Comparison 2 - Conjugated Linoleic Acid

Nutrilite CLA 500 (IBO cost: $51.97 for 180 soft gels)

vs.

Trader Darwin's CLA (Retail: $14.99 for 90 softgels = $29.98 for 180 soft gels)

(Trader Joe's sells Trader Darwin's.)

Nutrilite - 500 mg CLA per soft gel

TJ - 740 mg CLA per soft gel

Again, Nutrilite has 48% less CLA per soft gel and costs 73% more...

Like Kumar says "Where is the mystery? The Math is here. The numbers are clear - they don't lie. You have an extremely high chance to lose lot of money in Amway. Moreover the business makes you a super-hypocrite by making you lie at every plan. As you keep telling the same lie over and over again, you believe it is the truth. All it takes is an honest and objective evaluation like what I have done here and being man or woman enough to admit that you were dumb to join the business!"

I should thank Amway for one thing. Before Amway I used to believe that I was very smart and intelligent. But now I know I am not really "that" smart as I thought, because if I were smart, I would not have joined Amway in the first place. Thanks to Amway for making me humble!

PMA lies

Amway guys very conveniently use PMA techniques to lie and cheat nicely.

When I was in Amway/BWW/Quixtar, my upline would always ask me which speaker I liked the most, which CD I liked the most, which product I loved to use. The basic idea is to manipulate gullible new IBOs into thinking what they like, rather than what they do not like. The usual question after functions is "Which speaker did you like the most?" If you start saying whom you did not like, they will immediately cut you off and restate the question "Tell me whom you liked." Uplines already get a lot of training to manipulate, whereas most new prospects/IBOs do not have any sales and manipulation training.

You dare not speak negative in any meeting. Slowly you are programmed to tell lots of lies, because by not telling what you do not like, you are forced to tell something positive about everything.

Just attempt a statement like "I did not like double-x because I threw up after taking it" and watch the reaction in your upline's face. They will look at you as though you are an ALIEN. When it actually happened to me and I complained to my upline, they cajoled me and told I should consume it in between meals, not after meals. I still threw up. Then you know what my upline did? In one of the leadership events, my upline lady (read bitch) told

"Some of you have put so much junk in your body that you cannot consume good natural products like double-x. Stop eating junk food and program your body and mind to eat double-x."

The funniest thing is my uplines themselves were always having trouble eating double-x. They usually need a carbonated XS immediately after eating double-x to burp the gas and indigestion out. They do not touch double-x or food bars in functions because they cause indigestion and/or constipation! And these guys tell me that I have a junk body! Hypocrites!

By the way, Amway IBOs claim double-x does wonders. If you tell it is expensive, they say "Chemotherapy and radiation are more expensive than double-x." So that means double-x cures cancer? If you ask them this question, they will not answer directly, but they make this statement to scare people. This is the "scare and sell" approach.

A simple question I want to ask is "If Amway does not give so much PV/BV to double-x, would any upline promote its wonderful benefits?"

The answer is NO. So your health is not really the primary motivation. At the end of the day, the PV/BV is what matters, no matter how much your upline claims they have the BEST interest in their minds and hearts.

The master liar Kumar says "Buy the PV and bury it in your backyard. I don't care. Just do 300 PV!"

There is a simple product called Nutrilite Daily. It costs very little and is good enough for a daily vitamin. Not much emphasis is given to this product because it does not have much PV/BV and it usually lasts 3 or 6 months. If you talk too much about Daily, your upline won't give you any chance to talk :-).