Got trapped in an Amway pitch in my teens and have been inoculated against such things ever since.

jimbokun 26 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

When the Internet was a quite new a guy who knew I was a programmer met with me to pitch an Internet business and it took me a while to figure out he was literally pitching Amway online.

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m463 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You are reminding me about a day decades ago when a guy I met and his wife were sitting in my living room with my gf and I. He wanted to talk science fiction, and his wife and my gf were going to talk about nursing. Seemed like a nice couple until they started talking about "something they were doing" in a mysterious way...

I remember saying, "sounds like scamway or something" and he actually had to say that it was in fact amway he was talking about. uncomfortable.

didn't go much further than that.

Looking backwards I realized how little friction we had getting to know these people, etc... sigh.

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pc86 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I wish Amway was bigger so more people would be exposed to it and be similarly inoculated.

	▲	bluGill 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		At least amway has real product. You are expected to sell to make money in the early years. In 30 years of real work you get a passive income retirement plan - but you need to put in real work selling things to get there. when you look at the real business model of those who have had success they are still selling the soap in retirement. It is not going to get you rich, but it isn't too bad a life. well it was - the only people I know in amway are in their 80s and so it may be different. amway deserves the hate. Truth is it isn't as easy as they tell you.
	▲	slyall 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Well it was bigger. But the people who used to get swept by MLMs are now selling drop-shipping, affiliate websites or blockchain.