As a result of the widespread availability of the internet, a great deal of information is now readily available, and some of the dark secrets of the Amway Lines of Sponsorship have been revealed. It is also becoming increasingly apparent that a group of upline leaders are major hypocrites who are apparently motivated by greed and personal gain as time progresses. This is a trend that I believe will continue. It appears that these same Amway executives have found a way to get around the company's accreditation guidelines, which appear to be completely toothless in their enforcement.
Many upline leaders use stories about how the Amway business can help couples save their marriages to entice people to join them. A few years ago, I was in the audience when some WWDB diamonds talked about how couples who start their own businesses have a divorce rate of less than 2 percent, compared to the national average of 50 percent or so. One of the most frequently cited reasons was the financial strain that J-O-B workers were under (not enough cash). However, we are seeing more and more upline diamond leaders getting divorced, and in some cases, no explanation is given, as if the missing spouse was beam up by extraterrestrials to the surface. The history of many leaders is simply rewritten, and some leaders even deny that certain events occurred. Some leaders simply pretend that nothing happened, and it appears that IBOs are extremely forgiving, leading to the lack of any real accountability being applied to upline leaders. If the stress of losing money in Amway doesn't affect marriages, what makes you think it won't?
People have also discovered that some Amway diamonds make a substantial amount of money from the sale of tools. When I was an IBO, we were told unequivocally that there were no profits to be made from tools. Profits were re-invested in the functions, allowing them to become better and more affordable. If any function has become more affordable in the last 20 years, it is As a matter of fact, as an Independent Business Owner, I was told that WWDB was a non-profit organisation, which I thought was a bold lie. I will admit that upline later changed their storey to say that WWDB was a for-profit corporation, but that no profits were retained, and that money was instead channelled to make events better and more affordable. When was the last time an event was less expensive? Now, I do not believe that events should be run for free, but I do believe that the leaders should be transparent about it rather than hiding behind lies and a veil of secrecy that frequently accompany discussions of tools and tool income. When you look at the numbers for these conventions, it is easy to see that millions of dollars can be made in a matter of days. (For example, 20,000 IBOs attending a function and paying $125 each generates a gross revenue of 2.5 million dollars, excluding sales of CDs and other materials that are sold at the function.)
Some upline leaders also expressed their displeasure with the idea of taking out a loan, stating that banks make so much money off the interest. In this day and age, we see some of these very leaders having their properties seized! Some of these diamonds were the very ones who stated that they would pay cash for everything, including their homes and cars, if they could. Instead of hoping that these individuals will suffer, it is exposing the lies and deception that leaders employed in order to entice IBOs into joining and purchasing tools that were supposed to help IBOs achieve the same lifestyle as diamonds. However, I believe that, rather than having more diamonds, WWDB and some other LOSs, at least in the United States, have fewer diamonds now than they did 15-20 years ago. Where has the evidence of success been hidden? What happened to the "fruit" on the tree that they were referring to?
That the hypocrisy of some of these leaders is exposed to their downline, and that the downline simply ignores it and continues to follow blindly without seeking an explanation or questioning the leaders after the incidents are revealed, is even more amazing.
When these types of issues arise, IBOs should approach their leaders with questions. Furthermore, if the response you receive is silence or deflections, you should rethink your strategy.
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