Monday, May 16, 2011

Ten Plain Truths About Amway and MLM

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Ten Plain Truths

1. 99.9% of all people who join Amway/Quixtar and other multi-level marketing schemes like it never earn a profit. The losses are so large that these schemes cannot be called a legitimate "business opportunity."

2. To get people to join a MLM scheme in which nearly all will lose requires deception. The promoters do not tell the truth.

3. The people at the top hide basic facts from recruits such as average income, actual costs of doing business, drop out rates, and how much of the total bonus money they receive. They also do not reveal the source of their money, most of which comes from selling "training" materials. Often, their income is from recruits in other countries.

4. Very little of the MLM products are ever actually sold to consumers. The people who buy these products do so as part of investing in a "business opportunity." The business is therefore not "direct selling." It is actually about promoting a bogus business opportunity.

5. More than 50% of all people who join these schemes quit in the first year. Trying to make money from recruiting is therefore a long and costly effort. When a person starts out to build a 'downline" they are already at the bottom of someone else's very large downline. Only a tiny few can ever be at the top.

6. Those few that start at the top of the scheme or who climb to the top make their money directly from the losses suffered by all the latest recruits.

7. The training and motivation seminars, books and tapes are a secret business run by the top promoters of the scheme. Buying tapes and books does not increase a person's chances for success. It only adds to the losses.

8. The people selling the books and tapes are not necessarily successful in the MLM business. Rather, they make most of their money selling the recruitment materials. Claims that they are successful and that the business is a "great opportunity" are false.

9. The schemes recruit more and more people every year, but also many quit. So the scheme can run for many years before it must find other areas with more people to recruit. The longer is operates, the more people it has harmed.

10. The main reason the government of the United States does not investigate these schemes for deception and unfair practices or for running pyramid schemes is that leaders of these schemes contribute huge amounts of money to the politicians' political campaigns. Consumers, therefore, must look out for themselves. Just because a particular MLM such as Amway/Quixtar is not prosecuted by the government does not mean it is legitimate or that you will ever make any money from it.

Contact: Robert L. FitzPatrick

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hahah. Bruh. You are ignorant. I'm sorry that the group you joined was only interested in the products and not about your actual growth as a person. I truly am.
I want you to know that just like any large organization there are those that don't do right by the organization. An example is just like the NFL. Some teams in the NFL just should not be in the NFL, such as the Browns. But then there are team that actually play it like they are good, such as the Patriots. Nonetheless, I am sorry you ran into the browns. But I can honestly say, I have both a private sector job and I have my own business, both profitable. I spend $300 a month investin in my business and earn on avg $950-1000. And I've only been in for a year. I'm excited about the growth.
Again, sorry about your experience.

Anonymous said...

I started in the amway business three times each time it has saported me and I made a better living but you have to want to be a business owner and work hard at it you sit and do nothing you earn nothing and I am currently trying to get back in I have epilepsy and it very hard on memory but ill get back in in a minute and make money doing it I have sold a lot of peoples products I like the amway the best so talk your crap elsewhere if your to lazy to build a business don try and start one all buisinesses ARE THE SAME U ONLY GET OUT OF IT WHAT YOU PERSONALY PUT INTO IT IN JESUS NAME AMEN EVEN SERVING GOG AMEN TIMOTHY PARKER

Anonymous said...

YOU ARE JUST PLAIN LAZY IF YOU CANT MAKE MONEY IN AMWAY OR ANY OTHER BUISINESS SO WHY NOT YOU SHUT UP AND GET A NINE TO FIVE JOB SENCE YOU TO LAZY OR TO STUPID TO START A BUISINESS AMEN TIMOTHY PARKER