The one thing that comes to me is that one of our upline diamonds stated that Forbes was credible since they had published something that was somewhat positive about Amway, even though this was back in the 1990s. Because it's about taxes (and we are currently in tax season), and because the piece in Forbes clearly mentions an essay published by yours truly, I believe it's highly pertinent and valuable to reprint it here. I've supplied a link as well as the following excerpt from my blog article:
The article was authored by Peter Reilly, who used a portion of my work as a source. It's about how Amway Independent Business Owners (IBOs) who try to employ functions and other excessive tools as tax write-offs, which are advocated by some upline, are essentially hosed by the tax courts. Mr. Reilly claims that the tax courts appear to be in agreement with critics (such as JoeCool) who claim that:
"The Tax Court Appears to Be on the Side of the Opponents."
My favourite aspect of this choice is how closely it resembles critiques of the Amway experience, which appear to have their own segment of the blogosphere to which they seem to have given birth. For example, Joecool of Amway - The Dream Or The Scheme? recently wrote in an article titled "Amway Success?"" about his experiences with the company.
One of the things we were informed was that we have to submit to our upline. The members of our group were instructed that upline would never intentionally lead them astray, so we should put our faith in them and never try anything without first consulting upline.
Our group was taught to reduce debt, but, strangely, upline stated that it was acceptable to incur additional debt in order to attend an event or purchase additional CDs.
Every time we inquired about the amount of income our uplines may have been receiving, we were either told it was none of our concern or handed a Xerox of a bonus check that someone upline may have earned ten years ago that we had no knowledge of. It was upline who showed out photographs of sports vehicles and mansions as proof that the business was successful for us.
Losing money is considered a victory. On numerous occasions, our group was informed that losing money was a sign of success. It was a success because we were making a long-term investment in ourselves. That the business is truly not about making money, but rather about making friends. I guess upline taught this because everyone was losing money at the time, and it was comforting to hear that success was just around the corner, and that we were all nicer people who were well on our way to success if we just went to more gatherings and purchased more standing orders.
JoeCool has been featured on Forbes. So, I guess it makes me a legitimate candidate!
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