Has anyone heard of Amway?

Question

My friend is trying to get me to sign up with Amway - but I am a bit sceptical. I would like to know if anyone else has signed up / what they think of it?

Thanks for the answers so far - Annie K - that is exactly how my friend told me about it. She phoned me about two weeks ago and told me she wants to talk to me (she was being all secretive) but wouldn't tell me what about until she was in my house doing the presentation very recently. My other question is - if it is so brilliant, how come everyone isn't doing it?

Answer 1

Redhead,

About 13 years ago my husband and I were having our first child. We were hounded by someone who wanted to better our future. We went to meetings, and it was "creepy" just this odd feeling -
Then we went to a trade show (again odd feeling)
then they wouldn't stop hounding us. So we ignored them.
When I was recovering from my labor/delivery at the hospital the Today show ran a few "cult" things about Amway.
It was as if someone was telling me this was a sign run.
I guess it was just the "people" and how they really tried to brain wash you.
Be careful if you have funny feelings about the products or people look the other way. Thanks but no thanks.

There are many companies since then that have been about face. I (because of Amway) am a 100% skeptic
It's ironic now I make a living from net work marketing
but I had to "love the product" and make sure the people were not on my case - and I met true people living well?
Be careful and don't be fearful to say no thanks.

Answer 2

Yes, Amway has been around a while. It started out originally in the 1970's (at least that's when I remember it) and the whole idea was that you were introduced to Amway and then you brought people in and they brought people in and on-and-on. It was like a pyramid type arrangement (to me it was a place where if you didn't bring people in you didn't make any money and the only ones who made money were the ones at the top). You also had to sell things. I see they are still around because I've seen one of their commercials on TV recently. Would I get involved with them? No.

Answer 3

I would watch out. Amway is like a religion for those involved in it.
My preference if I want to buy some washing powder is to go to Tesco. Amway will tell you that their ludicrously priced soap powder cleans where other powders don't...but at five times the price!? I think not.
Amway have now gone web-based and retail a whole range of products and services. However, you can source all these cheaper yourself on the web by going to Kelkoo or Price runner - two brilliant money saving websites!
Bearing in mind that your Amway pal gets 10%+ of everything you spend, my advice is cut out the middle man and shop on line at e-bay and the like!

Answer 4

Amway has been around since the 50s as a direct sales organization.

In the 70s, the sales force started aggressively recruiting people to "own there own business". 99% of people who join Amway (or Quixtar as it is now called) do not make any money! About 90% of the people who join quit within the first two years.

The products they sell are good but expensive.

Answer 5

Amway is a good company but you'll never have anyone ask you to buy products. The money comes from referring other Amway Reps. The products are great but other than seeing a demo, has your friend let you see a catalog or asked you if you want to buy a bottle or soap or vitamin bar or anything??? That has me skeptical that nobody sells the products, only the company.

Answer 6

I was an Amway distributor in the early 1980's, and I made about $2000 per month, but I was forturnate to have 4 large commercial accounts. Today, it's almost purely network marketing, and few of their reps actually make any money. Out of about 2-3 million reps, maybe a few hundred make a living at it.

Answer 7

It is a pyramid selling organisation. If your friend signs up enough people then he becomes some sort of stockist of Amway products and can sell them to you for you to then sell. You to can then sign up, I think 10 people and you become a supplier to those 10. The theory is that if you keep signing up people you make money by supplying them. Your friend to start with will not need to sell anything with 10 lackeys to do it for him. It soon becomes impossible to sign up new people as there will be none left. It is sold on a party plan sometimes. Stay clear you will not make a penny.

Answer 8

For what this is worth: I do know one Amway millionaire. He started the way you will start if you do. My experience with the products tells me that the quality of them is such that if they were on the shelves at Kroger or Rite-Aid they would never be competitive. Sales happen not because of the value of the wares but because of the social and economic pressures used to market them.

Answer 9

AMWAY IS AN AMERICAN FORM OF PYRAMID SELLING, ALTHOUGH I THINK THEY WOULD SAY DIFFERENT, I WAS INVOLVED OVER 20YEARS AGO WHEN THEY STARTED TO GET PEOPLE INVOLVED, BY GETTING FRIENDS TO INVITE YOU ROUND TO THEIR HOUSE, BUT THEY WOULD NEVER SAY WHAT IT WAS FOR UNTIL YOU TURNED UP AND THEN THEY WOULD HARD SELL AND CONVINCE YOU THAT YOU WOULD BE MILLIONAIRES IN MONTHS, I WITHDREW, IT ALSO SPOILT A GOOD FRIENDSHIP , AS MY FRIENDS WERE TOTALLY BRAINWASHED, I CANNOT SPEAK FOR IT NOW AS I AM NOT INTERESTED.; I DO HOPE THIS HELPS YOU, THERE ARE BETTER WAYS OF MAKING MONEY, WITH LESS STRESS.

Answer 10

i came across amway in australia in the 70s and its a very good product but i would think you would be a door to door salesman as you could only buy amway though their own salesmen i would be wary