How does Amway Global work?

They do sell actual products, and it is a pyramid IMO, with a faint tinge of cultism. The few products I have reluctantly bought were reasonably OK.

Amway has always been a pyramid scheme, where more money is made by recruiting others than by sale of the product which is higher priced and no more effective than what can be purchased in stores.

PT Barnum is alleged to have said “There’s a sucker born every minute” The Amway motto is “There are millions born every generation”

Pyramid scheme…you can make money at it I know people who have…IMO there are better ways to make a buck though. @galileogirl has pegged it nicely.

There is a lady at work that just started selling Amway. She was talking in the breakroom with a gentleman that said he had sold Amway for 30 years. She said she has made a lot of money at it so far. Someone asked if it wasn’t a pyramid and they both agreed that it was. They didn’t seem mad or quiet about it.

My mom sold Amway for a while – recruited by a couple I babysat for – and here are my observations: It’s a total scam. They are extremely secretive when trying to recruit new cultists reps. It’s definitely a pyramid scheme, with each person making money off the sales of those under them in the organization.

Now, where do those sales come from? Who buys their products? Their recruits, period. (I know other people have bought one or two things from them, but not regularly.) When you’re ‘recruited’ into Amway, it takes over your whole friggin’ life. You pour tons of money into it, by being a good little Stepford Wife Amway rep and buying all Amway products… from cleaning products and vitamins to make-up and tampons, for God’s sake.

I’ve seen this cult business consume people’s lives. It’s very creepy. And @augustlan
is right, who is buying the products besides the reps? When have you ever seen Amway products in someone’s house or in public?

@knitfroggy: She said she has made a lot of money at it so far.

if she starts to make less money, though, that might push her more into it. a psychological principle says that the more time, money or effort you invest in a thing, regardless of whether you get a reward in return. so, if you give and get back nothing, that can, up until a point, encourage you to get deeper into a futile exercise.

Also, often the people inside Amway don’t deduct the money they’re spending on the products from their ‘profit’.