Jul 22, 2001 10:19 AM
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I too will preceed my opinion/review by saying this is not about the book, but about Amway itself.
Unless you have a multitude of friends and co-workers that you can sponser, and who want to become Amway representitives, DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT become an Amway rep. to earn money.
Many years ago, my (ex) husband decided we needed a little extra income.(don't we all?) So, he signed us up to become Amway reps. We tried all the products. And yes, they all seemed to be exactly what they were represented as being. They all worked fine. The prices weren't bad either.
Okay, we'll give it a shot.
We pitched Amway to all our friends, relatives and co-workers. And, lo and behold, we made sales, lots of sales. And we bought products that we needed as well. We had the cost of our products deducted from our sales income.
Well, the first month our purchases just about equaled our sales. All right, next month we'll be gung ho and make money, cause we don't need anything more, we bought what we needed......
Oh Oh, so did everyone else we knew!
We spoke to other reps who informed us that the only way to make money was to get other people sponsored. Sign up everyone to be reps and earn a percentage of what they sell too.(And a percentage of what the people they sign up too.)
We tried it. We got a couple of people to sign on. But, all the people we knew, also knew these people and where would their allegience be? Who would they buy from?
Well, they bought from no one! As they became reps, the bought their own products, at discounted prices, for themselves(and family members too).
And the circle goes on and on and on. So, as I said in the beginning, if you don't have a multitude of friends and co-workers, willing to become reps(so you can earn from their sales), and if you aren't able to knock on doors selling the product, you can never earn enough to make it worthwhile.
These type of sales are called pyramid sales, the people on top of the pyramid will always be the winners! They will wind up getting a percentage of what everyone earns, because they were the number 1 person, they sponsored 2, who sponsored 4, who sponsored 8, and so on.
So if you're looking to earn extra money, you'd be better off getting a second real job!
Hope this helped! =)
