What happened to the people you knew who sold Amway?

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Colambler@reddit

I mean the Devos family, the owners of Amway, made plenty of money, and are one of the reasons we are in out current political situation.

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They used amway to fund the slow dismantling of the public school system in favor of their religious based charter schools where they can create a new generation primed to fall for their scams and then of course everything Blackwater has done and continues to do. Just some of the worst people doing everything in their power to make the world a worse place for everyone but themselves.

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MisRandomness@reddit

They’re in the same career graveyard as the Tupperware, Avon, Mary Kay, Home Interiors, Candlelight, and Pure Romance sellers. The one on a private island they all got rich quickly and retired in.

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sparklycilantro@reddit

Don't forget scentsy

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AnActualSquirrel@reddit

and LuLaRoe

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rosephoenix19@reddit

My ex had a friend who did that during covid. She lost. So. Much. Money. Like thousands of dollars in product she eventually sold for 50% off. 16 hour days and not even breaking even.

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EatLard@reddit

That was a good documentary too.

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RepresentativeMud509@reddit

Stream Energy people are there too

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mistlet0ad@reddit

Stream almost cost me a friendship. I got so tired of being bothered to switch providers.

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epidemicsaints@reddit

Home Interiors was so bad. Hideous gold framed "prints" of fake Impressionism, some woman in a prairie dress sitting in a gazebo. Those glass wall sconces with the raised polka dots.

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Itsnotbabyyoda389@reddit

I forgot about the sconces. My mom hung a few of those around the house.

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HandaZuke@reddit

Not Amway specifically. They sold cutco knives and magazine subscriptions. Last u heard they are driving a school bus in the middle of nowhere. Well not the middle. But a population under 50k

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I_miss_your_mommy@reddit

Good evening Sir, my name is Steve. I come from a rough area. I used to be addicted to crack but now I am off it and trying to stay clean. That is why I am selling magazine subscriptions.

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Ok_Degree3037@reddit

What am I going to do with 40 subscriptions to Vibe?

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Comfortable-nerve78@reddit

Pretty sure the ones I knew have left this realm. Never bothered with sales people they annoy me. I knew some older ladies when I was a kid who sold Amway and some weird religious people who sold that shit. Shit was a scam in my book even as a kid.

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myuserhasafirstname@reddit

They sell Ivermectin now.

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EatLard@reddit

Those are exactly the kind of people I’d scam if I had no conscience.

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Terrapin3641@reddit

My Brother did for a bit in the 90's. He now lives with my mom at 63 yrs old.

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No_Guava5902@reddit

Living an average meager life in San Diego. Last time I was at their house they still had motivational pictures and phrases taped to their bathroom mirrors. I remember a family trip with them as a kid where they just played Amway tapes of speeches for 6 hours. Worst car ride ever.

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tdktn0@reddit

There was the band too. The Goads. Got to listen to that on road trips too. https://youtu.be/gRHap866_94?si=mJBpA17xRFn1nSnA

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PureObsidianUnicorn@reddit

😦

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Adventurous_Pin_344@reddit

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okieboat@reddit

Holy hell on wheels. That is amazing. And a nifty form of torture.

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Ok-Guitar-6854@reddit

I know one who went to become a financial advisor

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brokenman82@reddit

They went all in on confederated products

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Itsnotbabyyoda389@reddit

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AlchemistMustang@reddit

I am so happy I didn't have to scroll far for Go

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Noisechild@reddit

“Are you open to new things?”

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TheRoyalShe@reddit

The ham?

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tdrake2406@reddit (OP)

Great movie!!

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mysecretissafe@reddit

It’s a different company, it’s a different quality of product!

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SweetCosmicPope@reddit

My mom tried selling amway and Tupperware back in the 80s. What a fucking racket! I don’t think she ever sold any amway products, but did host a few Tupperware parties that got sales. We had some of that amway crap taking up space in our house for years.

But nobody my age did that. They all went in on essential oils, makeup, and those pants…I forget what they’re called. They all used the same defensive taking point too, so I’m guessing it’s provided to them by the MLMs: “while you’re all out grinding. I’m over here building my empire.”

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Wapiti_whacker82@reddit

My brother delved into that world for a while. He didn't last a year doing it.

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seanpmassey@reddit

Died in 2011. Left her grandkids a ton of money (which wasn’t from selling Amway). That was just a side hobby of a retired grandma.

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MedicalRhubarb7@reddit

They've graduated to r/linkedinlunatics

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Persis-@reddit

My dad got into it, in the early 90s. He really tried to get my mom into it, because it was supposed to be a couples thing. She flat out refused to do it.

We had to deal with their shitty products - I remember the terrible shampoo and conditioner, and the cardboard cereal, specifically.

He even tried to rope me into it, when I turned 18. I thought he actually wanted to spend time with me, when he invited me to a thing. But it was just a sales pitch meeting. I was so annoyed.

He floundered at it for a decade or so, before finally admitting defeat.

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Practical_Wind_1917@reddit

That amway lotion was some of the best I ever used when I had dried hands from working

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dramatix01@reddit

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I joined Amway, but it was sold to me as Quixtar. Today, I'm still here fully employed in a career that I love that is NOT Amway and have since rejected several attempts by friends to sign me up for other MLMs because I learned my lesson early.

A little backstory if you're interested: Before joining, I knew what Amway was and wasn't a fan. I even identified the parallels between Amway/Quixtar during the Quixtar sales pitch and mentioned them to the person presenting to me. They continued with the presentation as if it was something different and when we agreed at the end to move forward, imagine my dismay when all of the paperwork said Amway at the top.

Against my better judgement, I went forward with signing up anyway. They are really, really good at recruiting. They hit all the right buttons with people that are ambitious and desperate. The only thing that Amway got me was deeper into debt.

Thankfully I'm well past that at this point in my life.

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Substantial_Rise3318@reddit

I did Quixtar for a couple months. It's very clear it's not about the products but about the downline and pushing their "motivational" materials. They're also Christian Nationalists. Tried Advocare for a short time too but was completely turned off by the hyper religious aspect

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Santos_L_Halper_II@reddit

They're all strong anti-vax dipshits now.

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DookieMcDookface@reddit

They have all ended antivax maga for some reason

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Denali973@reddit

I got trapped in a car with a guy for 2 hrs who said “my business” about a thousand times.

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SeaSkimmer2@reddit

My step-mother who was also a mortgage loan officer? Her and my father bought a beautiful but modest house for $130,000 in the early 90s, spent their earnings on expensive leased vehicles, cruises (while they could actually fly for free since my father worked for an airline), and massive amounts of Amazon junk and other trinkets around the house, refinanced the house a couple times using mortgage products she was familiar with (“bankers gonna bank”), then did a reverse-mortgage on the same house for $615,000 about 10 years ago.

The house would have been paid off in full 3 years ago if they weren’t so massively wasteful over the years, but instead, Bank of America is now owed either the house or $615,000 after they’re both dead as collateral for the reverse-mortgage. We’d be lucky to even get that in an estate sale of the house, so we’ll likely be inheriting a bunch of nicknacks and nutcracker dolls.

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thejunkmanadv@reddit

I don't get how MLM's are still a thing in this day and age. If you want to pretend to "run a business" just become an affiliate with some brand(s) and pimp links/discount codes to your followers.

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Proof-Emergency-5441@reddit

They went from SAHM to SAHW on their farm.

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Moxie_Stardust@reddit

I don't think I knew any, a friend's ex had a Pampered Chef kinda thing once but we were all too poor for that.

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karebearjedi@reddit

They lost absolutely everything, kids joined the military just to avoid homelessness and the parents wound up couch surfing with family.

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mac117@reddit

1999: “when we’re 40 and you’re working while I’m retired, I’ll be laughing”

2026: neither of us are retired. I have a solid government job and he’s still doing whatever the latest Ralph Kamden scheme he can find so he can “retire early”

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