Why are so many people so negative towards Amway?

Question

And boy do I know that I'm going to get a lot of hateful responses to this question. I just joined Quixtar last month. I'm going to be honest here. I only heard about Quixtar/Amway because my boyfriend was involved and I wanted to be a supportive girlfriend. For the first 6 months of our relationship I had no interest in joining up. I've always been pretty skeptical of everything and just didn't even put the thought in my mind to give it a try. I'd go the the meetings with him sometimes but to me it was more for the reason of, "I just want to spend time with my boyfriend tonight so I'm going to go with him." Basically it was just a date night for me and an opportunity to spend time with him. I've always been broke. Raised by a single mother and now am a single mother. I'm used to being broke and have found a way to be a generally happy or O.K. person without money. But for some reason one of those nights something happened and I just had to ask myself, "what if I DID

Answer 1

My husband and I were in Amway for 6 years. We were at the direct level when we left the business.  Things may have changed since then...it's been almost 10 years......before they went to the internet with Quixtar.  Just be careful and don't let anyone pressure you into buying lots of books and tapes, or going to functions you can't afford to go to.  Alot of us went into debt.  It wasn't all bad, we met some great people that are still friends to this day.   Best of luck!

Answer 2

Amway is not an alien name in most developed country.

Actually it's more FAMOUS in NON developed country.

Do you know why?

Because the WAY it's changing people's life.You got an opportunity here,WHY waste it?

Do you know HOW many direct selling companies are competing each?

Do you know how stupid is other direct selling MEMBERS for talking bad about AMWAY?

I don't care what you or why you joined AMWAY.Just bear in mind that, the decision that you make today:

1)is going to decide your future.

2)Your decision today is going to decide what car you will be driving in future.

3)Your decision today is going to decide how you gona survive in future.

4)Your decision today is gona decide which school your children will attend

5)Your decision today gona decide where will you go for vacation in future.

By the way have you read," Think And Grow Rich" by Napolean Hill?

or atleast "The Secret"?

Ok..I got it.You was telling that most of the time you were broke and penniless.So it's a difficult thing to ask you buy those books.For your information" The Secret" is giving away FREE ebook of " Think And Grow Rich ".So grab it while stocks last.

That's my small advice to you,and If you think that I'm an AMWAY member,you are wrong.I'm an ex networker.I quit my business to venture out my other favourite business.Instead of doing it for others,Idecide it to do for my OWN future.Guess I made a good decision to quit MLM and start out with my passion.By the way I forgot to tell you something,

the book that you gona read today,is going to decide your future position in life.

(Note:All the quotes are not from ME,it's from other successful   people.)

Good Luck

Answer 3

I don't hear much about Amway any more, Amway cleaning products!! It is sort of a pyramid where you have people over you and under you and It hikes up the price because everyone gets a cut of the profits. The reason people people run for the hills when it is mentioned is because every one is trying to sign you up and then you have to sign people up.   OK if you sign up I'm running for the hills because I know how to manage my money and I'm not going to pay those inflated prices for cleaning products. and I don't want to join. I'm not trying to spoil anything . YOu asked for our opinion and I gave it.

Answer 4

I think people are not really negative towards Amway, but Amway distributors. So many distributors have used deceptive tactics to entice prospects to become a distributor. Inviting friends or family over for dinner or a movie and then springing Amway on them.

I used to be an Amway distributor. I think they have very good products. They have lots of distributors that build the business the right way. Still Amway has a negative ring for many people.

Answer 5

Maybe the products are too expensive? Or the projections are unrealistic? It is almost like a religion, people do anything for 'facetime' with the founders.

Answer 6

I think that in the past, many of us have been approached by very aggressive Amway people.  The stereotype is that they sell soap, but as you know they sell all kinds of products!  Just don't pressure people to buy your products, you can lose friends that way - - pay attention to the cues they give you and react to those in a way that doesn't threaten your friendship or family relationship.

I wish you the best of luck in your new endeavour, and hope you make TONS of money at it!  :o)