Scott Johnson Explains What’s Wrong With Amway

I’m not crying, I’m educating people about Amway and other MLM scams. I want to shut them down. I never mentioned sitting at home or getting rich, YOU brought that up to attempt to change the subject. It’s a free enterprise nation, not a scam nation. I’ve heard all of your tripe over and over again, it’s quite typical of those who refuse to discuss the facts. LOL

ANGELO NORDINE IS THE BIGGEST CON MAN IN AMWAY. HE’S NOT A TRUTHFUL PERSON

I am nearly crying with laughter Duped

Really?? 🙄. You got “duped” into buying (unopened) fragrances for your wife?
And “evidence in your closet” includes vitamins and weight loss shakes? (You DID know that you could just return them if you didn’t like them? )

Amway is an MLM scheme that peddles expensive soap by promising that if the buyer recruits new salespeople. one can ultimately become a millionaire. — WRONG. The recruits are NOT salespeople, they are recruiters. Here’s a recent video that records how Amway cheats, I was taught the same thing over two decades ago: https://youtu.be/bYruRwYWgtU?t=1140 The mantra from my upline was “buy from yourself [Amway, but since you get a bonus/rebate, the term “yourself” is used] and teach others to do the same. It’s pure recruitment, with little to no retail sales to non-distributors. This is what makes MLMs illegal pyramids. Try getting that through your thick skull.

Amway is not really selling soap. — That’s right, but not for the reason you are offering.

Amway is selling a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. — Amway sells an illegal pyramid, see above for the definition of an illegal pyramid. Grind the definition into your thick skull.

Over the years there have been numerous other MLM schemes like Shaklee that make the same outrageous promises. — The outrageous promises aren’t the issue. The illegal pyramid is the issue. For a definition of an illegal pyramid, see above, and force it through your thick skull.

MLMs sprout like mushrooms on manure piles. — Yes, they do. The answer is educating others, including your friends, neighbors, relatives, coworkers, the government, the media, etc.

The fact that Keith Alan Raniere started out in an MLM shows that Raniere is basically a stupid con artist. — No, it doesn’t. Most people who join MLMs believe they are joining a legitimate business model. They are wrong, but that does NOT make them stupid con artists. Raniere used the techniques he learned in Amway to start Consumers’ Buyline and NXIVM.

The only people dumber than Keith Raniere are the stupid gangsters who followed him. — I know how you like to think you’re so smart, but many of the people who followed Raniere were more influenced by his downline edifying him than Raniere himself. It’s how it works in MLM, and Raniere learned it well. Evil, yes. Stupid, no.

But the MLM scheme is the least egregious part of the Keith Raniere story. — MLM may be the least egregious part of Raniere’s story, but it is what enabled everything else. You can’t get that through your thick skull.

Raniere is a rapist, a slave master, a sex trafficker, a child molester, a kidnapper and a possible murderer. — Yes, all enabled by the MLM techniques he learned while in Amway.

Compared to all those crimes the MLM aspects of NXIVM and Raniere pale into insignificance. — Not even close. See above.

To some degree I doubt Scott Johnson’s declared rejection of Amway. — Why do you doubt this? I’ve spent at least some time every single day since 2005 educating people about Amway and other MLM scams. I even endured a lawsuit from Amway, got a very favorable settlement, and continued. The lawsuit didn’t slow me down, it energized me even more. This lawsuit was completely separate from the Pokorny class action lawsuit against Amway, and the settlement can be found on my websites.

A few months ago Scott told me that I lacked the “self-confidence” to be a successful Amway salesman. — No, I said many people don’t join Amway and other MLM scams because they lack self-confidence, and NOT because they realize that the MLM is a scam. Also, I addressed your erroneous use of the “salesman” term above.

To be brutally honest the Amway system is designed to fail for 99.99% of all Amway salesmen. — This is true, yet most people don’t know WHY it is true. It has much more to do with the ATS (Amway Tool Scam) than the lack of retail sales, another concept you can’t get through your thick skull.

NO SANE PERSON WOULD PAY FIFTY DOLLARS FOR A BOX OF AMWAY SOAP THAT COSTS TWENTY DOLLARS AT WAL-MART. — No sane or insane person can buy a box of Amway soap that costs $50 on Amway’s website. It doesn’t exist.

All the self-confidence in the world will not help you become a successful Amway sales person. — That was not my point, my point was related to why most people don’t join Amway in the first place.

Here is a description of MLM schemes and the economic and legal issues involved with ML:Ms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_marketing — That is a weak article.

Here is a partial list of MLM schemes.
List of multi-level marketing companies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multi-level_marketing_companies — That is a very partial list, there are literally hundreds of them in the U.S., and thousands around the world.

The government can NOT protect you from every con artist. — Duh. But I expect them to use MY tax dollars to do their assigned job, regulate “unfair and deceptive” business practices.

The government can NOT babysit you. — Duh. I’m not advocating the government babysit anybody, but they need to do their job.

You must educate and protect yourselves. — I have always advocated that, but the government should still do its job.

You must follow the Rule of Caveat Emptor. (Let the Buyer Beware.) — Yes, but the government should still do its job.

All that said this 31 minute video by John Oliver sums up the insanity of MLMs far better than I can do and does so with humor. — I agree, that’s why I reference it when I educate people. However, even that video does not address the ATS, which is the much larger problem with many MLM scams.

Watch it and you will never again need a lecture about MLMs from Scott Johnson. — I don’t lecture anybody, I educate them. Part of that education is for them to educate others. Most people don’t learn that lesson. You can’t get that through your thick skull.