Amway - Orinn Woodward - TEAM

This scheme is sweeping through Twin Lakes, WI preying on the lower middle class looking for an easy buck. Anyone have any knowledge or experience with it? It's a complete joke, yet many of my colleagues at the hardware store are complete believers. Their product is LIFE, leadership, blah blah blah. It "launches" November 1.

Amway (Quixtar) is at this point basically where you pay money to get the opportunity to buy a lot of stuff that you normally wouldnt buy at all because you feel like you are getting a good deal on it since the more you buy the more they give you back.. oh and if you suck all your friends, relatives, aquaintances, etc into it then you get a part of the money that they spend on stuff they wouldnt normally buy as well .. but you can call the whole thing a business and make it a tax write off. they are huge enough that they can buy enough influence to keep the whole thing legal including charging crazy sums of money for the materials you use to indoctrinate your friends and family..

Orrin woodward left and started to make noise about it in an effort to promote his own less product.. more ponzi based version .. until he was sued and eventually bought off to shut up about the whole thing..

At best you put in a whole lot of time and energy and annoy everyone you know and for your trouble after you screw the rest of the country by not paying your fair share of taxes you break even on all the crap you buy that you wouldnt have usually bought, at worst you spend the money and time and get nothing but annoyed friends and family to show for it..

It is a scheme that makes the rounds here about every decade, but some people do make it. I first heard of it back in the 70's in the Sebago Lake area. A few years ago, this guy showed up at Sebago Lake in a new Cigarette. He had bought a $1M house across the lake, and supposedly had a jet and a big house in FLA. All done with Amway.

It was bizzare even back then. My buddy in Sebago who was about 17 was selling it and he wouldn't tell us what he was doing until we agreed to sit down and let him give us a presentation. He breaks out this chalkboard and started talking about us having the choice of going down the road of a 45 year J O B plan or we could do the AMWAY Plan. This was a rural town of less than 1,000 and everyone between 17 and 25 was trying to pedal the stuff and sign up new salesmen. We're still laughing about it.

Dave you still drinking those "drinks"? lol