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Fri Dec-26-08 06:38 AM
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| 30. All I remember about Amway is the guy who bugged the hell out of me at work to buy it. |
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The whole scheme makes no sense. Who wants to make a production about buying cleaning products or whatever they're selling now when you can pick up a bottle of anything you want at a local grocery store?
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| -Direct-seller Amway angling for a comeback in United States |
Robbien |
Dec-25-08 05:37 PM |
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I saw one of their commercials today on the National Geographic channel |
Cirque du So-What |
Dec-25-08 05:41 PM |
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the thing is they take advantage of older people w. failing powers |
pitohui |
Dec-25-08 05:44 PM |
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they'll take advantage of young people who buy into the *instant wealth* scam |
Donnachaidh |
Dec-26-08 11:22 AM |
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They will offer hope to all those who've lost and are losing their jobs... |
KoKo01 |
Dec-29-08 07:19 PM |
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Yep. A perfect gig for Rick Warren. He'll be among his ideological peers, too. n/t |
sfexpat2000 |
Dec-26-08 04:33 PM |
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Those ads on MSNBC as well. |
xxqqqzme |
Dec-26-08 12:51 PM |
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It was bull then and now. They used to say their products were good |
jwirr |
Dec-25-08 05:43 PM |
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Guess Blackwater didn't prove to be such a good investment... |
Baby Snooks |
Dec-25-08 05:52 PM |
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How can this be allowed? They are so obviously grifters!!! |
BrklynLiberal |
Dec-25-08 05:58 PM |
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So is Scientology - maybe Amway should declare itself a religion. n/t |
Lance_Boyle |
Dec-30-08 09:32 AM |
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As far as the religion aspect - it is marketed through Dominionist churches |
Hestia |
Dec-30-08 12:08 PM |
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Maybe it will work. A reliable passenger system railroad is important. |
Lastlaughin08 |
Dec-25-08 06:11 PM |
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My guess is that they are betting on peoples desperation that they will |
geckosfeet |
Dec-25-08 06:14 PM |
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bingo! |
elehhhhna |
Dec-26-08 08:13 AM |
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From '88 until '94, I had a banking customer with a line of credit which I administered. |
kcass1954 |
Dec-25-08 06:21 PM |
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It was bad enough with the mary kay ladies chasing me down the street - |
Kittycat |
Dec-25-08 06:29 PM |
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doesn't this seem like an odd strategy? |
GinaMaria |
Dec-25-08 06:40 PM |
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The only way to get someone to buy that garbage is to pester the customer |
Robbien |
Dec-25-08 06:46 PM |
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Got it. |
GinaMaria |
Dec-25-08 06:54 PM |
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Watkins Incorporated - |
bitchkitty |
Dec-25-08 10:50 PM |
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There really is a Watkins Incorporated, and they have a good product |
jmowreader |
Dec-26-08 09:10 AM |
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I remember Watkins products |
JitterbugPerfume |
Dec-26-08 01:12 PM |
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The products are secondary to THE PLAN. Amway people don't sell the |
1monster |
Dec-25-08 07:01 PM |
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but the incentives are all backwards |
CreekDog |
Dec-26-08 08:16 AM |
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I've read they don't really care if you sell product anymore |
jmowreader |
Dec-26-08 09:22 AM |
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that explains a lot! n/t |
CreekDog |
Dec-26-08 10:41 AM |
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The products aren't meant to be sold to new consumers |
dmesg |
Dec-26-08 04:48 PM |
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Isn't that a Ponzi Scheme? n/t |
KoKo01 |
Dec-29-08 07:24 PM |
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It's not about selling quality products efficiently |
laptoprepairguy |
Dec-26-08 11:18 AM |
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Been there, done that, drew the circles and got poorer while my uplines |
1monster |
Dec-25-08 06:51 PM |
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The Fundy-RR Christian Angle.... |
crystalwolf |
Dec-26-08 11:21 AM |
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they'll do the same as Herbalife - advertise the *own your own business* ploy |
Donnachaidh |
Dec-25-08 06:52 PM |
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16 or so years ago |
LibertyLover |
Dec-25-08 06:56 PM |
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I lost some friends over Amway, too. |
yardwork |
Dec-25-08 07:40 PM |
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All they had to do was say the word "amway", and I immediately got a picture.... |
Hulk |
Dec-25-08 07:03 PM |
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BIG ad for Amway in Landmark theatre chains. nt |
MookieWilson |
Dec-25-08 08:19 PM |
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they call it "Quixtar" now - but it is a pyramid scheme all the same |
WillYourVoteBCounted |
Dec-25-08 08:32 PM |
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Merchants of Deception describes it as more than a "certain amount" |
jmowreader |
Dec-26-08 02:35 PM |
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What's funny is that I'd only heard of them once until this... |
originalpckelly |
Dec-25-08 10:11 PM |
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Lucky you |
BreatheOnMe |
Dec-30-08 01:25 PM |
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Watch out for those Equinox scumbags, too. They're the same type of crap MLM outfit. |
pinniped |
Dec-25-08 10:20 PM |
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and "Melaluca", the "other" Amway. |
elehhhhna |
Dec-26-08 08:14 AM |
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Yeah.. we actually were sellers for a while. |
HawkeyeX |
Dec-30-08 12:11 AM |
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Melaleuca too. |
HawkeyeX |
Dec-30-08 12:10 AM |
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Amway may be a scam but they had some excellent products at one time |
Gman |
Dec-25-08 11:14 PM |
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Gee, is Cutco knives making a comeback too? |
bluestateguy |
Dec-25-08 11:40 PM |
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Some scumbucket tried to suck me into selling Cutco knives long ago... |
backscatter712 |
Dec-26-08 02:39 AM |
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I'll say one thing in the vile Cutco's defense (and yes, it was a scam) |
tom_paine |
Dec-26-08 08:44 AM |
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the Cutco knives were originally made by Alcoa |
dugaresa |
Dec-26-08 09:31 PM |
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We still have our "cutco" knives. However, ours are the old ones made by |
Javaman |
Dec-30-08 11:14 AM |
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How cum Amway is still around anyway? |
Mind_your_head |
Dec-26-08 12:38 AM |
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Amway has friends in high places. |
backscatter712 |
Dec-26-08 02:46 AM |
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Wow! I did not know this. |
Mind_your_head |
Dec-26-08 08:34 PM |
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Amway based in Grand Rapids, Michigan |
du_grad |
Dec-29-08 11:58 PM |
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Granholm needs to be sent a note - to have her AG begin investigating Amway again for Ponzi schemes |
HawkeyeX |
Dec-30-08 12:13 AM |
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Michigan's AG would never investigate |
BreatheOnMe |
Dec-30-08 01:17 PM |
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Amway isn't just a scam, it's a cult. |
Nabeshin |
Dec-26-08 04:29 AM |
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Thank you for mentioning that book... |
jmowreader |
Dec-26-08 08:22 AM |
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All I remember about Amway is the guy who bugged the hell out of me at work to buy it. |
Vinca |
Dec-26-08 06:38 AM |
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What's weird is that the website makes it really difficult to buy the products |
oberliner |
Dec-26-08 08:22 AM |
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Ponzi Schemes are coming back IN A BIG WAY! So is shameless theft and fraud openly performed. |
tom_paine |
Dec-26-08 08:38 AM |
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They better stay away from me! |
lonestarnot |
Dec-26-08 09:23 AM |
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Amway=Dick & Betsy DeVos=extreme RW $$$ treasury |
bobthedrummer |
Dec-26-08 10:39 AM |
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It's amazing what an incestuous little pile they have there. |
riverdeep |
Dec-26-08 12:43 PM |
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The rest of the story - FTC Chair Muris Bush Appointee Law Firm Representing Amway........ |
1776Forever |
Dec-26-08 10:45 AM |
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A word to the wise: Never, *ever* accept a ride to an Amway presentation... |
KansDem |
Dec-26-08 10:52 AM |
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I was suckered into a meeting once. |
Prisoner_Number_Six |
Dec-26-08 10:59 AM |
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Did you have your own car? If so, then you could have left at any time... |
KansDem |
Dec-26-08 11:09 AM |
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Nope- I was driven. |
Prisoner_Number_Six |
Dec-26-08 11:29 AM |
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Their own numbers are enough to hang them. Their TV ad says they |
mbperrin |
Dec-26-08 11:11 AM |
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Let's remember one other reason Scamway is dangerous |
laptoprepairguy |
Dec-26-08 11:27 AM |
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I have a "friend" that i have know since grade school... |
pointblank |
Dec-26-08 12:12 PM |
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Primerica is the financial services equivalent of Amway. |
Snarkoleptic |
Dec-26-08 03:59 PM |
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My neighbor just quit a fairly decent job to go into Primerica |
du_grad |
Dec-30-08 12:05 AM |
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I got a job call from Primerica and Citigroup |
BreatheOnMe |
Dec-30-08 01:21 PM |
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My father went from Watkins to Amway |
condoleeza |
Dec-26-08 05:00 PM |
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John Tesh does the voice over on the commercial I have seen recently |
underpants |
Dec-26-08 05:03 PM |
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Amway - oh, you mean that ponzi scheme masquerading as a cult? (n/t) |
ProudDad |
Dec-26-08 11:24 PM |
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How to make money at Amway |
TrogL |
Dec-27-08 12:38 AM |
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The Peoples Network -- 1995 |
Perragrande |
Dec-27-08 05:16 AM |
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Scammers never quit or die. Just like cockroaches. |
TheGoldenRule |
Dec-27-08 08:36 AM |
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Many of us here in Michigan hate them. |
knitter4democracy |
Dec-27-08 10:17 AM |
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just what our country needs right now |
lanlady |
Dec-27-08 12:38 PM |
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I got Amagift cards for Christmas from my in-laws that sell that shit. |
Blue in Portland |
Dec-29-08 07:05 PM |
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Ewwww. What a thing to get for Christmas! The ones I've ever met who |
superconnected |
Dec-29-08 08:00 PM |
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Just as Ponzi Madoff goes down...the Old Ponzi comes back to prey on the jobless... |
KoKo01 |
Dec-29-08 07:16 PM |
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So many republicans need jobs...You know they buy their own products because no one else will. |
superconnected |
Dec-29-08 07:52 PM |
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Why not.. Ponzi schemes are back..in a big way |
SoCalDem |
Dec-29-08 07:58 PM |
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"They say it's a pyramid scheme...but |
janx |
Dec-30-08 01:22 AM |
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okay, here's my amway story... |
Javaman |
Dec-30-08 11:08 AM |
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