One of my blog's visitors just came across it while searching for "Amway defectors."
Ha! It's fantastic. It's a fantastic name. I think someone could start a forum with that name, and we could all gather there to talk!
When I was growing up, the term "defector" was usually used in the context of someone fleeing the Soviet Union and claiming refugee status in another nation.
I believe the term "defector" is most generally used to refer to similar stories that occur when people leave one country for another. Defector is a term that can be used to describe persons who leave their jobs, change baseball clubs, and so on.
I am aware of folks who have left Amway to join other multi-level marketing companies. The name Monavie comes to me, though I'm not sure what she was called exactly. Some of those talks may be found on Amthrax's blog, which I found interesting. You may find a link to his blog in the upper right-hand corner of this blog. Distributors who defected from Amway to Monavie might be referred to as "Amway defectors," in my opinion. The higher-ups of Amway are almost certainly referring to them in this manner!
But what about the rest of us who have simply given up? The store has closed its doors. I got up and walked away.
Amway has been evicted from my home!
I suppose we could be referred to as defectors, even though many of us did not leave Amway to join another multilevel marketing company. We have simply thrown in the towel on the entire network marketing nightmare.
We are the ones who finally saw the light.
Curiosity got the better of me, and I went on a search for Amway defectors on Google. There isn't a lot of information, but I did find a link to a newspaper storey from 2008 that listed the top 5 scam artists, with Amway coming in third. It comes as no surprise to me that Amway is ranked among the most dangerous scams. To paraphrase:
Dick DeVos and Steve Van Andel are the heirs to Quixtar, the firm founded by their rich fathers and bequeathed to them as a bequest. If you want to call it what it really is, you may call it a pyramid scheme, multi-level marketing, or even by its original brand name: Amway. Quixtar established a pseudo-religion in which money serves as God and its prophets are the success tales that have been documented on pricey CDs and books. Quixtar has persuaded millions of people throughout the world that they, too, can make six figures simply by selling "the best" soap, vitamins, and other amazing things, despite the fact that the average yearly income of a recruiter is only $1400 in reality. Some people even experience a financial loss as a result of the advised seminars and audio CDs.
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