I have to disagree. Maybe there are different types of Amway groups but you are not "forced" to do anything. They approached me my third year of college and suggested I buy materials, do these meetings. buy these products but it is not required. I did meetings when I wanted, bought products that I needed or was worth the money and only purchased literature that seemed worth my money. As for the products, the money does go back to Amway but a percentage goes to you to. Let me ask you a question...last time you went to the grocery store, how much did they pay you to shop and buy their items? I'm guessing....never. Better to pay yourself a little then to pay other companies everything.

every body who say bad things about AMWAY are very wrong however if working at macdonalds is your thing, have a good retirement, as for me i love amways products the people and everything alse so for those that are not with AMWAY GLOBAL i wont see you at the beaches of the world, CHAO BYE BYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEY

Excuse of a loser. You have no idea how Amway plan works. Compare it with a job proves that 100%. I just expected to money fall on your head from the sky while you are watching a ball game? Well, good luck at that McDonald job.

I agreed with everything Judy said, the only thing I have to add is that as a successful honest business man I thought I would do good and stayed a little longer... just to find myself with a big frustration.

Excuse of a loser.

My company used to give Amway certificates and catalogs on staff appreciation day - the merchandise was no better than something found in the old dollar stores - usually the item ordered would be out of stock (something not relayed to you till months later) or in the case of something like a sauce pan or skillet just plain fall apart. After a year or two of this, we stopped getting Amway certificates, no one wanted them.

Obvious that you haven't seen how much the company has changed over the years and how much they are making it beneficial for the business owners.If you went to school,you paid for books to learn whatever it was you were going to do with your life.Same thing here,to get educated you need to do the same.It's not a get rich quick scheme.You get out whatever you put in.Any company that is successful is always going to get negative feedback that's a given.My husband and I are part of Amway,very proud to be and have been very successful.You should take another look if you are serious about your future

Hello Ann,
You are so right about Amway/Quixtar products, I got into the business just for the products, now I have over 40 customers, who are not in it to build the business, but just to buy products. They make it so easy now, you can become a customer for free, (You still must sign up under a Amway/Quixtar business owner IBO) and if you buy $75.00 or more its free shipping. I would love for you to be a customer ofmine, if you want. I allow all my customers to buy at wholesale, thats my cost.

Tanya,

Great post on their products and they are some of the best in the world if not the best. If you are ever in need of anything feel free to contact me at mlk@revive-online.com

Thank God, there are still smart and intelligent people out there, not just people pissed at everybody and everything. Thank you.

You're right. you aren't required to go to seminars, or conferences or buy motivational cds. But if you don't, your upline will make you regret not doing such things. The people in this "business" also cram the stuff down your throats, making it seem like you won't succeed without them, but telling you afterwards they are "optional." My friend is doing this, and he is pretty much nonexistent in our house anymore. He spends hundreds of dollars a month on conferences, seminars, motivational tools, and books that his upline and other people he knows say that he "HAS" to got to, buy, read, or whatever if he wants to get to the next level. All the while he's doing this, he is losing money out the wazoo (along with over 99% of the people in the "business"). I wouldn't call duping people into slaving their lives away beneath you just so you can get that extra 50-100 dollars per month while you do the same for people above you a satisfying "job". My parents have done this scam before for years and never once turned a profit (they even filed for bankruptcy while participating). People have ended friendships, worthwhile relationships, and marriages over the dream that these sleazeballs try to SELL you. Amway/Quixtar may work for a select few, but not for the overwhelming majority chasing the so-called "DREAM".

You are right that you are not forced to buy the weekly tapes or attend the quarterly major functions (that used to cost $200.00 to $300.00 for an uncomfortable over-night bus ride and sleeping with 3 strangers in a hotel room to say nothing of the functions themselves that last until at least 2:00 in the morning!), but you are told that your business will not grow without them. Some of the products are very good but most are mediocre at best. I got out after about 4 years with nothing to show for it but a bunch of motivational books and a 3'x3'x2' box of tapes that ended up in the land fill. I have never had the nerve to calculate how many thousand dollars and hours I spent trying to sponsor people. "Unfortuately" they were all smarter than I was....they all said "No."

Best response I have seen in all of this. I typically do not respond to these Amway is a scam blogs; people have a right to their opinions, no matter how off, and in the end, if they choose to work a job and base their future and their security in THAT, then they deserve exactly waht they get. I am an active Amway distributor, and haven't worked a job since 1995, and have been to some of the best places in the world, incuding Hawaii & Peter Island as a result of building the Amway business; my wife raised our kids, and our children have been privately educated all their lives, and have never been farmed out to a day care center. And for all the knocks against Amway, mainly by people who "tried it", and failed, it IS better to make a little for yourself, that you control & can increase based on your effort, then to tie your future to a company that goes out of business after the executives SCAM AWAY your pension and life savings. (See Lehman Brothers, and 30 other examples). Or to lose your entire life savings of millions of dollars in a real Ponzi scheme like the one Madoff was running.

All I know is this: the income I have created through this Amway business, that I worked HARD to create, still continues to come in, while all around me, people who used to knock it saying the same negative things that many on this particular blog have said...are unemployed. To each his own.

A true liberal reaction, please let someone else give me money because I am to dumb to make money on my own.