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Agreed 1000%.What Amway taught me was to avoid MLM companies like the plague!
I sold Amway in my younger years for about a year. Loved some of the products and it was not hard to sell them to people. I had a regular and growing customer base.
The flaw, for me, is the MLM and the business building design of the business. 6 and 6 and 6 and so on....blah. I just wanted to sell soap and a few other good products but you could not make much commission because you had a limited markup ability with these rather expensive products.
I could sell SA-8, LOC and the air fresheners no problem. But they don't want that, they want you to recruit. Hated the idea of recruiting, loved the idea of selling--bad match with Amway.
Today they hardly even sell to the public. They buy internally for PV and recruit. I have yet to be able to find anyone in the last 2 decades willing to sell me a box of SA-8. Very sad commentary. And if I could find someone to sell me a box, they'd likely want to recruit me to "join their team of successful dream-building entrepreneurs" (most of whom aren't selling anything outside of their pyramid and making less than minimum wage anyway).
I wanted to be Bill Porter, but they wanted a recruiter.