Amway/Quixtar: The Shame of it All!

“Always call it “The Business” in public.”

To not divulge the name of 'Quixtar', 'Amway', or 'Amway Global' in public doesn't exclusively apply to the deceptive curiosity invite practice--where people are basically duped into seeing the Amway business proposal; but is routine public procedure designed to shield distributors from the shame of being involved in such a lowly regarded affair—this despite all the current reputation rebuilding efforts that the Ada, Michigan, Alticor executives have embarked upon. Distributors are taught to only use the term “the business” in public to keep their involvement secretive. Distributors are taught to act very cult like indeed by their upline mentors and the never ending training materials they purchase from the tool kingpins.

The Amway name is generally held in low esteem by the general public--for good reason. Recruiters are forced to seek out the naive and vulnerable to sell their scheme on. The 'shame of it all' can only be explained away in a carefully controlled recruitment environment; not inadvertently leaked out in a restaurant or social setting. Most knowledgeable people would avoid attending an Amway recruitment meeting if the name 'Amway' was revealed inadvertently or purposefully upfront (as it should be). Many skeptical people ask the question 'Is this Amway?' and never receive anything more than obfuscation as a reply. Attendance at a Amway recruitment meeting is considered a waste of time by many people. (This is why I have proposed a Do Not Invite Initiative which would work similarly to the national do not call list for telemarketers.)

Seriously, why would anyone want to be involved in an affair that invokes such shame on the part of those distributors currently involved?

Why would someone want to be involved in a situation where it is disguised or denied to employers—a embarrassing situation for many employees. Most importantly, why would anyone want to describe this stinker of an opportunity as a great opportunity when it is absolutely not. To knowingly do this is indeed criminal intent to defraud! Amway is about as welcome as a stinker in a car, and who wants to admit to anything that vile?

Have you recently been tricked into seeing the Amway 'opportunity' fraud? If so, you've found the information necessary to see through the carefully crafted deceptions of 'the business cult'. You do not want to find yourself in the unenviable desperate 'hope and a prayer' situation of having to acquire an incredibly elusive 'downline' who really does not want to be found.

Amway Global is a terminal disease which has a nearly '100% rolling failure rate'.

Striving for success in a scheme isn't anyone's idea of real success. Just the fact that it invokes shame in those desperate enough to engage in its fraud should make any thinking person avoid it like the black plague.

Amway/Quixtar Financial holocaust: Are We Doomed to Repeat It?

A sad situation seems to exist in our country. People are forgetting history—specifically as it relates to Amway as well as history in general. I know I chuckle many times as I watch the Tonight Show's Jay Leno doing his Jay Walking segment where he asks people he encounters on the street the simplest of questions. The wrong answers and lack of knowledge may strike Jay's audience as funny, and I know I chuckled at these people also. The funnier of the bunch end up on Jay's Battle of the Jay Walking All Stars (which is very funny also), but topics involving the simplest of historical fact, and the lack of any understanding makes me wonder what exactly is being taught in our schools, or why modern students and younger citizens pay so little attention?

Amway is a historical fact and for people to deny the fact of Amway's rolling failure rate and portray the opportunity as a success is a fraud. For anyone to sell Amway on their fellow citizens promotes and continues this fraud. The truth is widely known by many people, but the Amway opportunity myths persist. Amway apologists seek to, invert reality, present the plan as a historically successful opportunity and deny the financial loss of millions of past and present Amway 'distributors'. The failure rate of Amway adherents generally exceeds 99%. Amway is an opportunity for Amway and top of the pyramid Kingpins to build their own personal fortunes while the majority lose money in an affair where the losers believe they are operating their own business!

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana

Amway apologists want to keep their scheme moving forward by supposedly bamboozling a public that 'quixley' forgets the past. Even Amway's recent commercial blitz is an attempt to make younger potential recruits (customers) believe that Amway Global has successfully helped millions own their own business--while they (by contractual fine print) actually control almost every detail. (Independence in Amway is nearly non existent; with your only independence being whether to work their business or to not.) Amway hopes to succeed in the reputation rebuilding efforts because people don't know the real facts, while Amway PR attempts to promote myth as fact, fiction as truth; thereby committing fraud of titanic proportions. In light of this, the use of the words 'financial holocaust' to describe the history of Amway is indeed correct. The 'holocaust' should not be confused with the word 'genocide' as author David Brear has personally pointed out to me in a recent email.

Amway wants people to believe that Amway Global isn't your Dad and Mom's soap business and escape their distributor's historical failures. They hope to succeed because of the vast amount of gullible 'jay walking' people who might believe their 'reality inverting myths' and keep their 'money extracting schemes' rolling forward. Our government's sleeping watchdog regulators sit on the sideline and allow this situation to continue to their own shame! I have pointed out the shortcomings of the FTC before. Click here for more background information on the failures of regulation.

Amway cultists view the DeVos and Van Andel initiators as gods, to be held in reverence. How does this differ any differently from those who do the same for Sun Myung Moon, David Koresh, or the now deceased scientologist, L. Ron Hubbard?

Amway does real harm, making it a pernicious (harm doing) cult; L. Ron Hubbard and Jay Van Andel are both deceased, but their heirs are carrying on their pernicious affairs. Amway cult Initiators funnel money into the pockets of people who help them keep their operation in business. Tactics being used by the Unification Church as well as by deceased mobsters like Al Capone. How quickly leaders are to forget how scoundrels operate and how quickly they are to accept graft. Recently president W came calling on the living Amway cult initiator, Richard DeVos, with his hand out for the Republican party. Shame on W, and what a pitiful circumstance of democracy being sold out in favor of the American Scam.

Just as Michael Corleone The Godfather sought to take his crime family's affairs legit in the famous movie, so do the Initiators of Amway who seek to make their sordid affairs appear legitimate as well. It is a matter of perceptions. Amway seeks to mold the perceptions of what they hope is a naive public. They seek to invert reality and promote the myths that make their pernicious affair work--at least for them!

To prevent a harmful past from ever being repeated, the post Nazi German government has long since passed laws which prevent Nazi apologists--like David Irving--from 'inverting reality' and denying the Holocaust occurred as a historical fact.

Isn't it significant that modern Amway apologists like Robin Luymes, David Steadson, Scott Johnson, Steve Lieberman, Bridgett Baron, Beth Dornan (and many, many others) seek to present Amway myths as truth and deny Amway's financial holocaust today? They indeed inhabit the same intellectual bunker as David Irving and promote Amway myths as fact. This sordid situation should be sensationalized! Making the author of this blog or David Brear the 'issue' in a 'kill the messenger analogy' only serves to aid and succor Amway--who benefits when those who would oppose them choose to instead quibble over semantics. I would hope readers would agree or disagree with the ideas expressed herein on their merits (rather than going off on a intellectual tantrum over the use of the 'holocaust' analogy.)

"We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin

Amway's Dick DeVos Nightmare Comes to an Ends Peacefully as Dick Wakes Up!

It is a cruel World for wealthy Michigan Republicans, specifically Dick DeVos. He has the wealth of one of the most prolific World Cults and Pyramid Schemes at his control to expend on political aspirations, but he is obliged to wear Amway Brand cement overshoes from the Quixtar/Amway Catalog while wading through the deep waters of Michigan politics--sort of like a shark avoiding his own kind; because it his blood that is in the water!

I am guessing that other Michigan Republicans are breathing a sigh of relief today, as Amway Crime Family Dick has announced that he will not be making another run for the governor's office. Dick Devos ran an unsuccessful 2006 Republican bid for the office spending more than $30 million dollars of his own dirty money in an embarrassing failed attempt. In a major twist of fate and bad Amway Karma, the Democrats and Jennifer Granholm didn't have to actually make up any dirt against Dick. They ran against the Amway pyramid scheme and paraded Dick's disembodied head next to a cartoon Egyptian style pyramid doctored up to look like Amway corporate headquarters. As funny as those commercials were, they were also very effective, because ironically enough, they had the the spirit of truth in them. Dick indeed had dirtied his own hands in the Amway product based pyramid scheme having served as Amway President from 1993 to 2002. In an effort to distance himself from the bad karma of Amway, Dick renamed the company Alticor in 2000 and also renamed the Amway North American scheme to Quixtar as well.

Amway announced in the fall of 2007 that it was dumping the faux Quixtar facade and renamed the questionable North American MLM operation back to Amway with the 'Global' tag being added. Obviously the failing Quixtar 'tool' propaganda inspired 'distributors' would now be harnessed to the Amway Global mother-ship to empower their dream inspired scam on themselves. (So much for all the buffaloing that the 'distributors' had heard about having their 'independent' businesses being 'powered by Quixtar' which proved to be incredibly anemic and under-powered in the end!) Alticor has heralded 2008 as a year of change and has spent a considerable sum on a reputation rebuilding media blitz hoping to restore confidence in the Amway moniker. Dick threatened to unleash a new round of Amway pyramid bashing, a potential Amway public relations nightmare at the worst possible time.

Amway Global's hopes of renewing a positive relationship with the public in general has been over-shadowed by their own Dirty Dick DeVos's disastrous 2006 bid for the Michigan Governorship, where Amway was justifiably paraded out as a money extracting scheme to Michigan voters. I am sure that the present Amway executives and advertising and PR departments were not happy about the idea of Dick potentially announcing a second potentially disastrous run for the Governor's Office. The 2006 run was a public relations nightmare for Alticor which cannot shake the Amway moniker any easier than Amway Global can shake off the disastrous Quixtar Dateline Expose revealing distributor kingpin malfeasance. To corporate Amway, Dick represented a flaming bag of dog pooh that was about to be placed on the porches of Michigan voters again and the fall out would once again be nationwide.

My sense of the situation in Michigan is that a huge sigh of relief has come to the Ada Amway Globular pyramid scheme headquarters and also to Michigan Republican's who now can make a legitimate bid for the Governor's chair with Dick's millions of dirty money and Dick out of the race. I surmise that Dick's money and that of Amway co-founder Rich DeVos--may not be completely off the political table, but he is. In announcing his intentions not to run for Governor in 2010, the Michigan and national press have been very kind indeed, not mentioning the 'Amway brand' cement overshoes Dick clomps around Michigan in. The news media in Michigan, much like Dick's Republican Gubernatorial hopefuls obviously fear Dick's money as well and are not drawing the obvious conclusions that I have in my humble blog post today. Thanks to the World Wide Internet, at least my view will be presented to discerning readers of this blog and most notably to the pyramid scheme executives who secretly read my thoughts online.

Dick's backing away from his political aspirations is the sigh 'not' heard around the World! but then again, the national press, and particularly the Grand Rapids area press, seem to be in the pocket of the pyramid schemers as well, with Amway advertising money always being sought. I might suggest that Forbes do a story on these developments, since they have recently also used the pyramid word about Amway in a recent scathing article about former Amway Kingpin, Orrin Woodward. For additional background information on Dirty Dick click here.

The election of Democratic candidates nationwide and the Republican failure to deliver up Michigan for John McCain probably had something to do with Dick's grim decision as well. The Right Wing rarefied atmosphere must have Dick's Dad Rich sporting an oxygen tank and riding around his Ada kingdom on a hover-round as Mr. Obama goes to Washington! Amway/Quixtar 'distributors' like ostriches might keep their heads in the sand about Amway corruption while Michigan voters do not.

Reader, have you been recently shown the Amway plan to fantastic fool's gold. You've found the right location in cyber-space to avoid the Amway nightmare as well. Keep coming back because like any intervention, it only works if you work it!

Enjoy the You Tube video below where Dick says "I've been Amwayed!" (Why not, so many other people have experienced the effect as well thanks to Dick, his Dad, and the now deceased Jay Van Andel.) Desi Indeed!

Expert Compares the Current Fiscal Crisis to MLM Pyramid Schemes

Dedication to Amway in the face of an incredible amount of evidence that Amway has taken countless numbers of people to the cleaners throughout their half a century of operation can be understood by examining how a con man rationalizes his activities. I have concluded that people involved in MLM eventually understand the ultimate bad truth about their business and the ones that continue in the business become con men and con women who believe they can succeed the way other common criminals believe they can prosper. They see success in MLM about the same way the shady fellow who puts on a 3-card monte game down on the corner does. People who show these "plans of deception" to their friends and relatives are morally deficient; but yet many of these con men have the nerve to find new recruits sitting in church pews.

Respected MLM expert and public speaker, Robert Fitzpatrick, has described MLM corruption in a similar fashion to my article Amway, Chinway and a Better Way in a posting on his False Profits Blog. Read Mr. Fitzpatrick's comparision of MLM to the current fiscal 911 by clicking HERE.

Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend; do it in the name of heaven, you'll be justified in the end.

Random Observations: Paul Newman

Goodbye Cool Hand Luke. Paul Newman was--in my opinion--the real James Dean, having portrayed many non conformist roles, but the one role and movie that I believe will always remain his finest work was Cool Hand Luke where he played a a prisoner in a Florida prison camp who refuses to submit to the system. I admire him for also not being a conformist in his personal life as well. Newman said "the highest single honor I've ever received," was when he was placed on Richard Nixon's enemies list after supporting Eugene McCarthy in the 1968 Presidential Election and his support for liberal causes.

Paul Newman indeed bucked the system. Possibly there are people that have never seen some of Paul's more famous movies like the 1967 Cool Hand Luke and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Of course many have seen these highly successful movies as well. I remember that Cool Hand Luke was a staple for weekend movie of the week consumption throughout the 197Os. I miss the Movie of the Week that many stations ran out of their own can on Saturday or Sunday. Now everything comes off of network feeds which prefer to run sports like golf or tennis.

There are so many memorable scenes from the movie Cool Hand Luke, I would never be able to touch on them all in this short blog article. There was a fighting spirit in Luke and in Newman as well. In one scene Luke is basically badly beaten in a boxing match on the chain gang's prison yard by larger man, Dragline, played by George Kennedy, and although badly beaten and pushed well past exhaustion--where other men might have quit--Luke refused to give up and, in a last gasp effort, took a final swing that Dragline ducked under picking Luke up, spent, bloody and out on his feet but having won the respect of the man who just gave him the thrashing. Who hasn't somehow been like Luke in their own life, to struggle and strive with a never say never attitude, just to be picked up and carried along by the things we all struggle against? We all may be picked up and carried along with the proposed Wall Street bailout regardless of the outrage that it will cause.

Who in life hasn't heard their own version of "What we have here, is failure to communicate"? It seems like someone else is always trying to tell us what to do and how to be. One judges his neighbor many times without recognizing his or her own shortcomings. Are we any less of a person for not getting that promotion at work or being able to afford that new sports car? And don't we all really have to "get our dirt out of the boss man's hole?" Who hasn't somehow struggled with the systems in this imperfect world in one way or another?

Aren't we all like Luke, all being told that we should conform to someone else's belief that we be a person that we may not be or never can be?

Worldly systems--I have found--teach a conformist point of view which the national media bombards us with constantly, propaganda by which people are EXPECTED to conform. Newman really was Luke because he was a non-conformist. I have always identified with first the character Luke in the movie and then later with the actor himself for the very same reasons.

Newman holds the title of being the oldest man to ever win a professionally sanctioned motor sports race when he was well into his 70s after being inspired to enter racing after participating in some preliminary work at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for his role in the movie Winning. What made Newman a great actor was his ability to become the character. You can see the determination on his face as he races down the track in the 1969 movie, showing a similar determination to buck the system as Luke.

In this day and age, where people almost always are schooled to become conformist, to tow some kind of party line, wasn't Paul Newman refreshing? He really was the every man's man. I have blue eyes like Paul, and somehow I see the world the way he did as well. I've always disliked anyone telling me how I should be, even when they were right and I was wrong, I might add. Paul seemed to actually possess a rebels spirit which always worked out well for him at the box office and in life. Sadly, a rebel's spirit doesn't always work out so well when it lands hard on the cold hard realities of life.

Just as Cool Hand Luke was forced to get the Boss Man's dirt out of the Boss Man's hole, we all are forced to do just that as well; we all seem to either conform or struggle against the machine.

There seems to be a great repudiation of some of the failed policies of the past recently which Newman opposed. Big business has had its hand in buying their way with our law makers. Through greed they have convinced law makers to get governmental oversight off of their back and have been free to ride their gravy train of profit over the middle class and poor as well. These scoundrels in the banking industry operated their own boiler rooms in their effort to push high risk loans onto anyone believing they were a good way to own or renegotiate their mortgage. The regulators responsible for oversight have been made toothless by political concessions all favoring the scoundrels rather than the citizens who become the barrel of fish for these suits to shoot at. This same lack of governmental oversight allows Amway to operate its money extracting schemes as well and to fund the promotion of political cronyism that many people complain about constantly.

Paul Newman, a long time supporter of liberal causes, was lucky to live long enough to see the repudiation of the Right's support for big business and the rich and the powerful. How long might the people's causes be thwarted in the interest of greed and power? For too long, liberal causes have been painted with a black brush, as if anything "for the people" was wrong, and every thing for these special interest "movers and shakers" was just wonderful.

What truly boggles my imagination is that nothing has been done to make health care more widely available to people struggling to just get by from year to year. Class warfare and discrimination have ruled the roost for too long. We can send Billions to rebuild infrastructure in other Nations like Iraq while we allow our infrastructure and poor in this country to fall by wayside. The leaders can now come up with a complicated bail out proposal in a matter of days or weeks, which if passed, would put the burden on the people to bail out the very people that have been working successfully to repress them for years! We need more Paul Newman's in this country!

Paul, your days here are gone, but you've left a legacy that will live on in my mind at least. Your charitable causes were unselfish, and your political views are timeless, and your loyalty to your wife, Joan Woodward, over your fifty year marriage may be your most enduring legacy. Cool Hand Luke, rest up my friend, there will be no parking meters in heaven, and may we all be reminded that as one more Sunday comes and goes in our life, we too can look up and know that we may have to pay the meter in this life, but there will be no parking meters in the next. A tear falls from my blue eye. Hug someone today because we are all in this life together!

Amway: How Deregulation and Lack of Oversight by the Federal Trade Commission Has Allowed Corrupt Business To Victimize Their Own!

The national media is just full of bad news recently: predatory lending, the mortgage meltdown, the banking crisis, and now the insurance meltdown and the AIG bail out. Amway, a multi-billion dollar business that masquerades as a online retailer of health and beauty products fits right in with all the other predatory businesses that deregulation and the lack of oversight has wrought. Amway pompously touts itself as free enterprise and has supported right wing causes that have preached about getting government off of “our” backs for what seems like decades. Amway really wants governmental oversight off of their backs so they can ride their distributors backs, the. Independent Business Owners they depend on for their supposed retail sales.

The public has been asleep at the wheel. Our elected representatives have allowed money from the likes of self interest inspired big business to subvert the interests of the common working people who have to survive in this world which has been taken over by greedy interests and the likes of Amway and the failed Enron. Where is the real compassion of our leaders for the people who are losing their homes? Indeed the meltdown on Wall Street effectively has robbed millions of people their hard earned retirement nest eggs. Amway has basically fleeced people of potential retirement money for years and left them holding their empty dreams as well. People believing in the Amway dream many times believe that an Amway residual income will be the ticket to living the good life in an early retirement. They fail to see all the horror stories this line of reasoning has wrought in the nearly half a century Amway has been fleecing their flock of duped dreamers!

Amway is just such a predatory entity seeking to serve their own greedy self interests. They have basically flown under the radar for years. Why should people get up in arms about a company that makes fools of the soap selling neighbors? After all, it was the neighbors that got themselves involved with these scoundrels in the first place, right? Just as the borrower of sub-prime loans can be blamed for signing a contract that doomed them from the start, the victims are usually left to take the blame. Amway has successfully adopted the tactic of teaching the distributor that failure is the distributors own fault. If you lose money, or if you can't sell any products, or if your dreams of going diamond never come true no matter how hard you struggle, the company has washed their hands clean of any responsibility! The victim has to take the blame for playing in a game where the cards were heavily stacked against them. When Amway talks about how successful their business is, they are really talking about how successful they have been at making their own distributors the victim in what amounts to a bait and switch Ponzi game of insane proportion!

Amway represents the biggest fleecing of its own people ever unleashed on the American public. In recent years, the bad truths about this con job of a business have slowed recruitment and profits here; so to continue to expand its base, the rest of the World has become the focus of their product pyramid schemes. To understand this situation, nearly 4 out of 5 dollars that come in as revenue to Amway come not from the US market, but from the expansion into foreign countries where people new to capitalism mistake Amway's scheme for a legitimate business. They buy into what most citizens in the United States have over time come to realize is a losing enterprise.

President Bush had the bright idea that our health care crisis could be solved by having all citizens invest their medical savings in the Stock Market which the Republicans have touted as their free enterprise solution to the escalating cost of health care. Might I add that it would seem like the stock market itself was being touted as one big pyramid scheme itself. What deregulation has done for millions of Amway victims it is now doing for the common men and women who had the good common sense not to get involved with Amway but are ironically being victimized by the same type of deregulation. The victims are different but the victimization is the same.

In many ways the victims of predatory lending or bad investments are made to blame for their belief in the systems that never had their best interests in mind. Welcome to the world of greedy businessmen who look out for their best interests and use what ever means possible to bail themselves out and leave the people who have lost holding only their empty bag of dreams.

It was okay that millions of Amway duped distributors have lost their money to pyramid scheming executives at Alticor. Amway has been touted as a cult like endeavor bordering on religion. “What Jesus has done for others, he can do for you! This is well and good. What Amway has done for others (99% lose money), they can do for you! This is a shame. Amway indeed sells hope with the soap; the problem being that as the soap stops selling at the distributor's door, so eventually does the hope. Who makes all the money in the Amway Land of Will Scam? It is the con men sellers of monopoly products and the pyramid sellers of mostly mundane training propaganda,also a monopoly business for the top of the pyramid scheme kingpins.

People investing in their Amway dreams may wake up some day and realize that their nest egg has been squandered on Amway crap; lost the same way many other Americans have lost their savings in mutual fund accounts and bad investments. The Federal Trade Commission has permitted the fleecing of Amway dupes because the money taken from the pockets of these victims has funded the lobbying by the Devos/Van Andel empire to protect their fleecing of the flock.

Amway Global Cult Intervention urges people who are the intended “marks” in the Amway product pyramid scheme and the tool scam to get out with whatever money they can. It is sort of like wanting to get your money out of an insolvent bank before a run on the bank leaves you wiped out. For those considering this to be a potential business opportunity, do the math, do the research. I believe in the end you will discover that Amway indeed will do for you what it has done for many millions of others, make you the loser in their pay to play game of greed designed to make you lose. MLM pyramid schemes, who needs them? Persons being exposed to MLM opportunities and searching for real information about these scam business opportunities can find links at the bottom of the Quixtar Cult Intervention sister page. I recommend Pyramid Scheme Alert as a "must read" for people new to the topic of multi-level marketing, network marketing and direct selling which are different names for which many schemes go by.

Amway Global/Quixtar Merchants of Deception Always Bragging Up Their Midgets: Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?

Seems like everyone wants to brag on their own midget. Dear reader, have you ever seen the movie "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?" where one of the candidates for governor in this farcical movie has this "little man" midget holding a broom while sweeping the incumbent governor's corruption out of office in a campaign ploy every bit as comical as some of the pandering to voters that is going on in the current presidential election?

It seems like Amway and its proponents try to use each and every situation as a propaganda tool. In effect, they are bragging up their own little midgets. This gets a little strange when they must brag on athletes that lose, woman executives that rank 88th on some Forbes list, and products like XS energy drinks that really don't retail outside of the product pyramid scheme farce of a business they operate. Oh Brother! Where Art Thou?

For instance, if you were to believe the propaganda tool kingpins dish out on their IBOAI blog, XS drinks are a retail success on the open market. Technically, these products are supposedly marketed on the competitive retail market, but in reality they are a monopoly product which do not compete in any meaningful numbers except against the other monopoly products in the Quixtar catalog.

Distributors of Amway products are very much viewed as the primary customers in the Amway business. Take the IBOs out of the retail equation and over 95% of sales volume would disappear immediately. To hear the spin Amway proponents make about this situation, you might think that Amway operates a buying club instead of a retail business.

Amway claims in their most recent TV commercials to help over three million people own and operate their own business. Isn't this spin and hype designed to convince these three million folk that they are involved in a good situation, all the while being involved in what almost always ends up a money losing pursuit when the bottom line is carefully examined? (This is not really encouraged by these merchants of deception who expect these Amway independents to incur loss in order to enrich themselves as well as keeping distributor money going into Amway coffers.

It is my opinion that even if the tool scammers are completely reigned in, the product pyramid side of this bad business model will remain. Things could be done to fix this situation, but this isn't likely either. The MLM business model almost always make product prices too high to market outside of the monopoly these companies like Amway hold over their distributors who are for all intents and purposes the only customers they have! There are too many levels of compensation that must be paid to middlemen in these pyramid compensation schemes, and then there are the millions of dollars that go to pay lawyers to defend themselves from allegations of corruption and racketeering.

Unlike a real business, Amway passes on much of their marketing overhead onto these supposed "independents" which make the pursuit of a real world profit for these consumers nearly impossible. I couldn't imagine being out on the road night after night trying to sell this con job business onto prospects with the cost of fuel being so high, and also where the objective isn't really to retail a single item in the product catalog. The selling of the plan to recruits immediately bring profits to the company and the kingpins who have someone new to market their “tools for fools” but the duped believer doing the recruiting can only hope to receive a very small cut of any volume the newly recruited might make, while the majority of these commissions go to someone else way farther up the middleman chain!

The first law of business is to make a profit, something so very few duped dreamers manage to do in these scam MLM operations. Of course, there are those that do make money, and these few provide the “success stories” that keeps the majority of “independents” believing in the plan which only ends up extracting their money in the end. It is the people who become "CORE" that usually find themselves suckered out of their money the most! A person who gets in and who "quixly" becomes disillusioned and quits is far better off financially than the duped believers who do not and continue to funnel their money to corrupt mafia like kingpins and their soldiers.

Amway Global Cult Intervention offers hope to people who are flushing their cash into this product pyramid scheme and into the coffers of mafia like racketeers selling all the lies, enthusiasm wrapped into a neat little package called the tool and function business; a pyramid scheme within the pyramid scheme. If you are involved in the bad situation I've described in this blog post, you can cut your losses and quit. If you are looking at this business because some one has shown you the plan, you can immediately do the right thing, don't join, and keep the money these folk seek to extract from you where it belongs, in your own bank account.

Traveling Direct Sellers Contrasted and Compared to the Quixtar Amway Business Cult

I have been doing a little research into a modern day door to door selling industry The Amway worldwide American Scam which masquerades itself as a direct selling company is put to shame by another group of direct selling companies, the traveling sales industry. These other direct selling companies are traveling gypsies, many of which are selling magazine subscriptions and or other household cleaning supplies. These selling direct sellers, like Amway aren't angels as I have found out. For more background information on these traveling direct sellers click here. Seems like there are a few similarities amongst these gypsy-like cultists or traveling sales teams and the Amway cultists. Actually these sales teams are highly successful sellers whereas Amway distributors are not. These traveling sales operations many times operate outside the code of anyones ethics. Misrepresentations are rife, cons are common, and even the worst of human nature reveals itself within. Rapes, robberies, murders, and highway deaths are not uncommon. Minor children are fleeing from strict parents and failed relationships. Felons sometimes join up find a new kind of rolling home and some can not resist carrying on further rapes, murders or other crimes of perversion along the way. These problems are many times over reported in the press, but as I've discovered there are organizations popping up that are highly critical of these traveling door to door operations, although shady, are still legal. The magazines being marketed many times shield themselves from moral repercussion by the use of layers of sub contractors to nearly claim no involvement in the traveling con-child shows these sales carnivals are. These very young sellers are basically trapped by their cult caravan of hucksters whose history extends back long before the days of Oliver Twist fame. Just like in Amway, people are told to just keep holding on and to keep believing in the pot of gold.

There is a very angry group of parents who having lost their children to one of these traveling huckster shows. Victims of one well known traffic accident will never see their loved ones again.

These athletic young direct sellers and are very effective at their craft. It takes a bold bunch of ambition to canvas and effectively sell magazine subscriptions which (like Amway products) are also badly over priced. In this con game, many times where cash has been exchanged, order tickets are torn up and cash pocketed. Here is another reason to be wary of any direct selling company. There lurks dirty little secrets. These folks basically appear, collect, and depending on the transaction, turn in as many of the required amount of transactions. This makes for a profitable situation for the magazine publisher and commissions paid to the kingpins. These kingpins operate the traveling gypsy circus. Now, does anything about this contrast with Quixtar? Anywhere you have a Kingpin you've got a bad situation going on. These systems have a way of making victims of so many people.

Kingpins in the traveling industry basically oversea a subset of baby vultures which travel and supervise the traveling sales industry supposedly "Independent Business Persons" that these con sellers amount to. Does that sound familiar people? If any independent gets caught, then the con man claims to be an independent crook and basically gives the company a similar contractual arrangement that Amway has over its Millions of duped distributor con men.

Distributor sub compact baby vultures act to keep the duped drones of mostly college aged sales crews a near hostage to the sales company. Abandonment becoming a real fear and later on the money that the company "holds on the books". Many of these young people are attracted to the excitement of the traveling the country. What makes these traveling sales crews work is the enthusiasm that the baby vultures must instill in the raw recruits, many of which are recruited by newspaper ads. I liken the experience to that of joining up with the carnival. Except you do not have to haul all the equipment around all the time. There is indeed a merry go round going on though within these near cult like caravans. Poor sellers are routinely abandoned by the baby vulture and the crew picks up a new recruit to take the place of the unproductive youngling that was shoved out of the nest more or less. Another victim on the caravan to hell caravan. Many times drug, alcohol, pills and so forth become the rolling state of affairs with these people looking for a good time.

The traveling sales industry is a legitimate direct sales business. Unlike Quixtar, which if you look at it differently is a also a legitimate direct sales business. You just have to adjust your thinking about who the real customers are. Both of these supposed direct sales businesses make sales to the "Joneses". Amway "independents" make two or three contacts a day if very lucky and driven. The traveling "independents" may see hundreds and many times these magazine subscriptions are a contract, these young adults make many more sales per showing of the deal than the lowly turtle like approach to success that the Amway independents take.

The dollar amount of difference in the success rate of these magazine hucksters leaves the Amway folks far in the dust. These traveling sales crews are true direct selling operations, but here again even they are tainted by scandal, abuse, the fleecing of their own distributors, the constant recruitment and replacement of recruits. The use of "black boarding" by both groups of distributors is incredibly similar in their use of deceit, lies, and false belief development.

Amway distributors use a form of black boarding, they over exaggerate, they distort, they incorrectly describe the success path. They teach things that the company objects to, all in the name of recruiting another victim into the cult. We have two different types of vampires here. One group knocks on your door, while the other may call you on your cell phone. There are kingpin vultures making good use of all the drone sellers and the Ambots.

Now think about it. Aren't people hurt in the process? There are many different types of victims in the American Scam and the traveling gypsies direct near scam. Actually the traveling group is more legal than the come to your house and show you the plan Amway "independents". When the traveling bunch lies, their version of black boarding may include representing oneself as living three blocks over and hoping to get money to attend college. Well, folks, doesn't the Amway IBO also many times represent himself or herself to be something which is totally untrue, you know the fake it until you make it mindset?

I live in such a remote location, it isn't likely that I'll ever see my neighborhood canvased by these traveling direct sellers. Sometimes the direct sellers must apply for a permit to sell, but many times these folks skirt these laws and make the "independent" seller solely responsible for obeying all laws. The Kingpins are insulated and many times leave these mere kids to fend for themselves. Sounds like the type of contractual relationship Quixtar has had with their independents. Haven't they allowed Randy Haugen to be hung out to defend himself. What a bold move by the Amway Dons all supported by the fine print in the contract that is signed with every independent including Haugen.

Amway Global Cult Intervention understands that there are victims in the traveling direct selling business, just as there are victims in the Quixtar AMO's Kingpins are the vultures that feed on all the carrion in each business. Isn't it sad that a company that has a nearly identical criminal structure to Amway is actually a true and legitimate direct selling operation, regardless of how unethical it is. Con men sellers exist in both of these supposed direct selling companies, both of which claim they are legitimate. Actually the roving gypsy bunch is more legitimate than the goodly Amway bunch. These roving direct sellers make retail sales, something few of the crowd in the Ambot Cult can say. Dear Reader, if you are considering one of any number of bad MLM business opportunities, to include these traveling abuse caravans you have a golden opportunity to do the wise thing and turn away. Beware of full time cons or part time cons, they are all after all cons!