New Site "Amway Nightmare Stories" where people tell about experiences with the wing-nut cult

[scoobiedavis]

Yesterday, I started a new blog, The Amway Nightmare Stories Blog: http://amwaynightmare.blogspot.com I hope to get people to describe their bad experiences with Amway--whether they joined the group and lost their shirt or had to deal with a loser relative/coworker/canvasser who was aggressively recruiting them. Let me know about your stories so that I can add them to the blog.

In case your not familiar with Amway, it is run by serious reactionaries who are linked to the secretive Dominionist group Council for National Policy. For more, check out my other Amway blog: http://destroyamway.blogspot.com/2010/09/best-posts-from-this-blog.html

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. one of my teachers was an Amway nutcase

And it showed during class.

While he did not preach during class, he did lead an after school christian prayer grope which collected a small, but committed number of real bible beaters.

[XanaDUer]

3. ROFL!

"prayer grope"?

Was that on purpose? I'm calling PGs that from hereonin!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. :)

[rustydog]

2. I was an Amway Distributer a couple of times several years back

The group, founded by Devos and VanAndel, very conservative, VERY conservative.
You make money selling soap, sponsoring others to sell soap under your wing andyou get a percentage of what business they do.

I don't know abour anydark, secretive Doninionist group ...But if you are liberal, you feel wayyyy out of place at Amway meetings, and conventions...That is for SURE.

[Ptah]

5. Blast from the past:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5252367

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5784048

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2858332

[TheMastersNemesis]

6. Amawy Is Just A Christian Dominionist Cult Disguised As A Business

We were in Amway in the late 80's to early 90's. The more we went the more jingoistic and religious their events got. I realized after a while that their spiel was all bullsh--. They were selling more than soap. It is a modified pyramid scheme that is technically legal because they massaged the laws to make it so.

They are the same people who want to turn this country over to theocracy. The offspring of the founders are more radical than the founders themselves. And they are against anything progressive. Pray away Amway is my motto.

Besides they thrive on the bad job market and bad jobs. Their "just over broke" manta is played all the time. The firing your employer sales pitch works because they favor miserable working conditions an pay as a way to expand their little business scheme. You have a better chance of winning the lottery than becoming an Amway Diamond distributor. You have to sell your soul and your time to make it.

Amway is a joke and a scam. I still have some of their products on our shelves and that was 16 years ago we quit that phony outfit.

[Blue Owl]

7. I'm a Scientologist who works full-time at Amway

(just kidding)

[scoobiedavis]

8. Thanks for the insights

This is helpful. any more horror stories are welcome

[kentuck]

9. Scoobie...

looking at your 205 posts, most folks would not recognize that you have been at DU since 2001. Good post!

[adilcinar]

10. www.adilc.net

I had an experience with amway, I give a detailed analysis of it at www.adilc.net