Is AMWAY “Effing Satanic?”
September 20, 2009 by Sean Kelly
Filed under Business
The great Amway debate continues. Also read:
IS AMWAY A GREAT BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY?
steve howarth writes:
So the cycle of deception perpetuates itself ad nauseum. Amway is, lets face it guys…effing SATANIC.
How many decades of deluded hopefuls have been chewed up and spat out by this systemic, geared deception? “…Check Upline??? My arse!
Keep your OWN COUNCIL. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR OWN FAMILIES.And, while you are at it GET A LIFE!. Amway is a latter day diabolic/infernal/global manifestation.
If you doubt me, just ask yourselves how much are you GETTING OUT OF THIS in the HERE AND NOW?
I am, of course, assuming you have all been diligent enough to read “Merchants of Deception”* by a certain deluded Amway Diamond?
To quote from Jack Lemmons character in Glengarry Glen Ross….”Im done with ya!”
* Steve Howarth is referring to a free ebook called Masters of Deception by former Amway insider Eric Scheibeler. According to retired Assistant Attorney General Bruce Craig:
“Mr. Scheibeler’s book is a chilling portrayal of the process by which intelligent people can persist for years in pursuing the Amway dream while making no money. It is all the more significant because he earned his way to one of the highest distributor levels in the Company….I learned of similar experiences from ex-distributors when I interviewed them for the State of Wisconsin’s Amway litigation in the early 80’s. Such conditioning may explain why the tax returns (obtained for this litigation) of all active Wisconsin Direct Distributors, the company’s top 1%, showed an average net income of minus $900. Why did these men and women persist….under these economic circumstances? Eric Scheibelers book answers this question for those whose minds are clear enough to read
its pages.”
– BRUCE A. CRAIG, retired Assistant Attorney General, Wisconsin Department of Justice – Office of Consumer Protection (This statement is my own and not that of the State of Wisconsin)
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Eric is a smart guy and I recommend his book.
There was a lawsuit between P&G and Amway, in which P&G accused Amway of telling its distributors that P&G was “Satanic”.
I wrote about it here:
http://bizop.ca/blog1/the_franchise_news/2007/03/amway-distributors-liable-for.html
It is an amusing story.
Strangely enough, I wrote a similar article entitled: Who Really Needed the Exorcist–Amway or Proctor and Gambil?.
Amway has been compared to Scientology. I like to call it ‘Amwayology’ because they basically operate the same way. Recently, a segment of Scientology was convicted in France for basically ripping off their own ‘core adherents’ which is basically the same way Amwayology rolls.
You indeed are right. Amway historically has left behind a ‘financial holocaust’ and it is not hard to understand why China has become Amway’s new stomping grounds. They can find plenty of naive victims for their ‘closed market swindle’ there. They are also trying to make inroads into the Republic of India as well, but significantly enough, they have run into high court justices there who have ruled that Amway operates an illegal money circulating scheme. The authorities there have deduced what the real nature of Amway is, while the U.S. authorities and regulators continue to allow citizens in the States to be further victimized.