A good friend of mine sponsored me into Amway when I first started out. Although it wasn't my closest or best friend at the time, there was still a sense of trust between the two of us. I had enough faith in him that I could take his word for the truth, especially when it came to matters pertaining to the Amway business. While there were errors and contradictions with what my sponsor and upline were saying afterwards, I first believed everything they were saying at its value because it appeared to make sense and appear to be serious.
For example, when my upline stated that they had our best interests at heart and that they would do everything in their power to assist us in our endeavours, it made perfect sense. You provide depth to your company and strengthen its foundation. This appears to be reasonable. My initial reaction was that it was absolutely logical and sensible, until I discovered how much money my upline might possibly make from tools. Due to the specific statement made by my upline (WWDB) stating that there was no profit made on the sale of functions and tools, it only made sense that upline wanted downline to flourish. Knowing that there was no financial motive on the tools, you could put your faith in the fact that the upline sincerely wanted the downline to be prosperous. Allow me to explain that upline stated that there were tool profits, but that the profits did not benefit the diamonds and that the earnings were re-invested back into WWDB to make the functions better and more cost-effective for everyone. As it turned out, the claim that there would be no revenues from tools was an outright falsehood given by WWDB upline. Since then, no one has ever been held accountable for these deceptions, and the incident has all but been forgotten.
Based on what has been written and what is available on the internet, I have reason to think that WWDB is still teaching the same material that they were 15 years ago. They preach that IBOs should acquire homes in cash, that occupations are unsatisfactory, that the wife should stay at home, and that WWDB IBOs have a 2 percent divorce rate compared to a 60 percent divorce rate for the rest of the world, among other things. Some Independent Business Owners (IBOs) are so naive that they assume that only Amway IBOs have integrity in this society.
What is frightening is that so many people in the downline are being systematically brainwashed into believing that everything other than Amway is bad and that only Independent Business Owners (IBOs) are good. The majority of these people are honest and hardworking, but they have become victims of a sophisticated con game. They believe that their upline's answer to the issue and anything uttered by their upline is the gospel truth and that everyone else is incorrect. Aside from that, these people restrict information and revere their leaders. It is for this reason that some Amway groups have been compared to cults.
It's a little frightening, but it's actually happening right now. It was a heartbreaking sight to behold.
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