Is Amway good? Will you get rich quick? Should I try it out? Amyway, or Scamway???

DON'TBOTHERTHEMWAY.

I think I'll speak for most everyone here: huh?

Amway is a direct marketing soap seller. In the 90s? lots of people got scammed by them because they had to buy the soap from them and couldn't get rid of them. They do not do the reseller thing anymore but it is still a huge scam and pyramid scheme. I once had a work colleague who wanted to bring me into Amway, I haven't laughed so much for a long time. They have everything ranks (emerald, diamond. ..) motivational videos, cheaper products that are expensive but only because they are "concentrated". It is awesome.
If someone has a chance to visit a meeting go for it, its perfect to see so many idiots in one place. Oh and to answer the question: Don't do it.

You'd do better suckering your relatives into buying Vector knifes from you.

It's not soap, really. That's only one little product they offer.

Amway and Quixtar are a business model that, in theory, can work great. And, for some people, it really does. I've known people to do fantastically through it.

Problem is, in order to do well, you have to convince all sorts of people to get involved in Amway/Quixtar too. You have to bother your friends, your family, your whoever to the point that they won't want to see you anymore because they know you'll be talking about Amway/Quixtar again and they're sick of it.

Additionally, it's not guaranteed you'll do well. If you have trouble getting other people to get involved, then you'll never do well.




For those that are unaware, here's how Amway/Quixtar works. You buy products through them (some are fantastic brand-names, most are crappy off-brand stuff (mainly all their food products)), and when you buy a product, you get a certain amount of "points" based on how much it cost. Those points will add up and eventually, you'll get a check written out to you based on how many points you've earned. It starts off with $250 each month meaning $7.50 that you get back (or something close to that).

Additionally, the more points you earn each month, the higher amount of points you'll get for products (so, like, maybe you buy a $220 20" LCD from them and get 200 points or whatever because that was the only purchase you'd made. However, maybe you'd already spent $800 that month, and you buy the LCD. Suddenly, now, you get like 350 points. I don't remember how the point system works; don't quote me on any of these it's just examplework).

Now, that sounds pretty weak. How can somebody make a living off of spending more money than they bring in? Well, you don't. You don't just go into business for yourself. You're going into business for bringing other people into business. It's not a pyramid scheme, but it IS a pyramid model. When you get people under you involved in Amway/Quixtar as well, the points they earn, you earn as well. So if they buy that 20" LCD and it's the only thing they've bought, they'll get their 200 points. Meanwhile, though, you've already bought a bunch of stuff, so you'll get a bunch more points. Especially when you've got five other people also buying stuff. And they've got a couple people themselves also buying stuff. And maybe this one other person actually sells the stuff he buys in some business he runs, so he buys a whole lot (which isn't exactly legal, but people do it anyways).

Suddenly, with all these people under you, you're bringing in hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. You're doing great! But a lot of the people under you aren't doing so well. They decide it's not worth it and drop out. You lose the points they're bringing in. Another person starts doing REALLY well as well. When the people under you start doing fantastically (I forget the term Amway uses), they "break away" from you and they're working on their own - no longer with anybody above them making money off of them. So you lose THEIR income too. This is where you've got to really start bothering people a lot and getting people left and right involved. Most people get really sick of this and you'll run out of resources quickly.

And, since it's quite difficult to get to the "Great" position anyways, you're never guaranteed the money ("hundreds of thousands a year", like the people at the meetings are always talking about making).

Basically, it comes down to this - it's not a scam. It's not a pyramid scheme. It's just really, really annoying, and for most people, it's a complete waste of time. I recommend not doing it.

Scamway.

yeah, no thank you. I have seen multiple family members try to start up amway or whatever the new name of it is and both failed miserably and the products just are not worth it.

Basically, I think of it as a legal pyramid scam.

tonestar what exactly is the difference between a pyramid scheme and a pyramid model? In the end it comes down to the fact that you need hundreds of people "below" you in the pyramid to even break even since you have to pay for workshops propaganda/educational material etc pp. And all of these people below you need to be willing to buy the expensive (yeah I know concentrated) soap shower gel, vitamins etc.pp. Instead of making a quick stop at the supermarket to get what they actually need from the company they want. They don't do that because they like the products so much but they do it because they want to earn more money than they spend and this is impossible.

Yes I know that you didn't recommend it but if Amway is no scam I don't know what is.

It is not really a scam but it is a bad thing for almost everyone. Never get near that stuff.