What Amway Taught Me!

[Dave020]

What Amway taught me was to avoid MLM companies like the plague!

Agreed 1000%.

I sold Amway in my younger years for about a year. Loved some of the products and it was not hard to sell them to people. I had a regular and growing customer base.

The flaw, for me, is the MLM and the business building design of the business. 6 and 6 and 6 and so on....blah. I just wanted to sell soap and a few other good products but you could not make much commission because you had a limited markup ability with these rather expensive products.

I could sell SA-8, LOC and the air fresheners no problem. But they don't want that, they want you to recruit. Hated the idea of recruiting, loved the idea of selling--bad match with Amway.

Today they hardly even sell to the public. They buy internally for PV and recruit. I have yet to be able to find anyone in the last 2 decades willing to sell me a box of SA-8. Very sad commentary. And if I could find someone to sell me a box, they'd likely want to recruit me to "join their team of successful dream-building entrepreneurs" (most of whom aren't selling anything outside of their pyramid and making less than minimum wage anyway).

I wanted to be Bill Porter, but they wanted a recruiter.

 

[jdeasy]

Agreed 1000%.

I sold Amway in my younger years for about a year. Loved some of the products and it was not hard to sell them to people. I had a regular and growing customer base.

The flaw, for me, is the MLM and the business building design of the business. 6 and 6 and 6 and so on....blah. I just wanted to sell soap and a few other good products but you could not make much commission because you had a limited markup ability with these rather expensive products.

I could sell SA-8, LOC and the air fresheners no problem. But they don't want that, they want you to recruit. Hated the idea of recruiting, loved the idea of selling--bad match with Amway.

Today they hardly even sell to the public. They buy internally for PV and recruit. I have yet to be able to find anyone in the last 2 decades willing to sell me a box of SA-8. Very sad commentary. And if I could find someone to sell me a box, they'd likely want to recruit me to "join their team of successful dream-building entrepreneurs" (most of whom aren't selling anything outside of their pyramid and making less than minimum wage anyway).

I wanted to be Bill Porter, but they wanted a recruiter.

The top dogs of NAA were top dogs with Amway. Pretty easy to see the similarities.

 

[Cornelius]

People who are in MLM also need financial products. There are a few who do make a sizable income....

http://www.whyjoinus.com/top_400_earners.pdf
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Agreed 1000%.

I sold Amway in my younger years for about a year. Loved some of the products and it was not hard to sell them to people. I had a regular and growing customer base.

The flaw, for me, is the MLM and the business building design of the business. 6 and 6 and 6 and so on....blah. I just wanted to sell soap and a few other good products but you could not make much commission because you had a limited markup ability with these rather expensive products.

I could sell SA-8, LOC and the air fresheners no problem. But they don't want that, they want you to recruit. Hated the idea of recruiting, loved the idea of selling--bad match with Amway.

Today they hardly even sell to the public. They buy internally for PV and recruit. I have yet to be able to find anyone in the last 2 decades willing to sell me a box of SA-8. Very sad commentary. And if I could find someone to sell me a box, they'd likely want to recruit me to "join their team of successful dream-building entrepreneurs" (most of whom aren't selling anything outside of their pyramid and making less than minimum wage anyway).

I wanted to be Bill Porter, but they wanted a recruiter.

Can't you just go to the corp. or any associate's site and order what you want?

 

[Dave020]

Last time I tried that it took over six months to get the people to stop calling me about trying to "sign me up for a great business opportunity".

I just wanted to buy some damned soap. Not worth the effort nor hassle.

 

[MrProducer]

Last time I tried that it took over six months to get the people to stop calling me about trying to "sign me up for a great business opportunity".

I just wanted to buy some damned soap. Not worth the effort nor hassle.

That just stinks (no pun intended).

 

[bobson]

Last time I tried that it took over six months to get the people to stop calling me about trying to "sign me up for a great business opportunity".

I just wanted to buy some damned soap. Not worth the effort nor hassle.

Have you tired the dish soap? I can get you some of that if you agree to join my team...

Nevermind.

 

[Hopwood04]

Amen!!!! Next!

 

[1manshow]

My high school basketball coach retired in his 40's after a hugely successful amway career....that was back in the 70's

 

[bobson]

My high school basketball coach retired in his 40's after a hugely successful amway career....that was back in the 70's

Now I see Amway owns the naming rights to a stadium in the midwest. Plus I see lots of adertisements for them now. They must be growing again.

 

[Dave020]

It's not that the concept is bad. People can and do have success in MLM businesses.

For me it's simply a matter of mis-match in terms of the way the business works. I want to sell a product or products to customers be it soap or insurance. I don't want to have people working under me or over me. I don't want to have to recruit someone else to try and do what I do in order for the model to produce results.