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Have you been pitched Amway more often since the recession started?

royalfan5

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I have. I got pitched today while putting gas in my car. Is the recession helping spark more growth in network marketing, or do I merely have an anecdote.
 
Re: Have you been pitched Amway more often since the recession started

Nobody has tried to sell me Amway in probably 15 years. There must be a lack of a network around here.
 
Re: Have you been pitched Amway more often since the recession started

When did they change their name back?
 
Re: Have you been pitched Amway more often since the recession started

I haven't been pitched that yet, but i have noticed more telemarketers ...
 
Re: Have you been pitched Amway more often since the recession started

I had to use Google to find out what Amway was, and now that I have, I still have no idea. Never even heard of it.

So I guess the answer is no.
 
Re: Have you been pitched Amway more often since the recession started

If you want to get Amway pitched to you, they're generally in the phone book. But believe you me, that's a door that you may find difficult to get closed when you open it. Nearly takes a restraining order.
 
Re: Have you been pitched Amway more often since the recession started

No, but if I hear another West Coast Wellness ad I'm going to scream...
 
Re: Have you been pitched Amway more often since the recession started

When did they change their name back?

It's in the process of changing back now. I'm fine with hearing about Amway, probably because I can just say, if I join it'll be in my Dad's organization, but mainly because it's a lot like joining Costco or Sam's club.

It's all the half-ass Amway clones that I hate hearing about... the ones that sort of copy Amway's structure but have only one product.
 
Re: Have you been pitched Amway more often since the recession started

If you want to get Amway pitched to you, they're generally in the phone book. But believe you me, that's a door that you may find difficult to get closed when you open it. Nearly takes a restraining order.

Its generally an extended family member or friend who does the pitching. I last heard of them about 7 years ago when they were Quixtar. The frind who pitched to me bought the product when she was pitched in church. About 4 years ago one of the MLM clones selling greating cards pitched the members of my home church. As we are a small congeregation he moved on to a larger church.

A family friend used to pitch us back when I was a kid in the 70s. My parents used to try to figure out how they could avoid the old faternity brother's visit.
 
Re: Have you been pitched Amway more often since the recession started

If you want to get Amway pitched to you, they're generally in the phone book. But believe you me, that's a door that you may find difficult to get closed when you open it. Nearly takes a restraining order.

Its generally an extended family member or friend who does the pitching. I last heard of them about 7 years ago when they were Quixtar. The frind who pitched to me bought the product when she was pitched in church. About 4 years ago one of the MLM clones selling greating cards pitched the members of my home church. As we are a small congeregation he moved on to a larger church.

A family friend used to pitch us back when I was a kid in the 70s. My parents used to try to figure out how they could avoid the old faternity brother's visit.

I, too, was pitched heavily in church. Never outside of church, but repeatedly in church.

Well, not IN church, mind you, but by my fellow churchgoers.
 
Re: Have you been pitched Amway more often since the recession started

Judging from the responses in this thread I suspect that Amway is in fact not, as I first surmised, a sexual position.
 
Re: Have you been pitched Amway more often since the recession started

The answer to that is No.

Amway Corp, the selling scam, not the products, has been banned in my State for several decades. No more Amway Parties.
 
Re: Have you been pitched Amway more often since the recession started

Judging from the responses in this thread I suspect that Amway is in fact not, as I first surmised, a sexual position.

No, but you can get f#*$ed in the ass joining a MLM (multi-level marketing) if you don't know what you're doing.
 
Re: Have you been pitched Amway more often since the recession started

The answer to that is No.

Amway Corp, the selling scam, not the products, has been banned in my State for several decades. No more Amway Parties.

Really? What state? Certainly not Utah.
 
Re: Have you been pitched Amway more often since the recession started

The answer to that is No.

Amway Corp, the selling scam, not the products, has been banned in my State for several decades. No more Amway Parties.

Do you mean the motivational meetings where the diamonds pump up all the downline troops to pitch to all of their facebook friends so you can be rich like them? Oh and sell salesmen notebooks and motivational materials to those hoping to be rich.
 
Re: Have you been pitched Amway more often since the recession started

The answer to that is No.

Amway Corp, the selling scam, not the products, has been banned in my State for several decades. No more Amway Parties.

Do you mean the motivational meetings where the diamonds pump up all the downline troops to pitch to all of their facebook friends so you can be rich like them? Oh and sell salesmen notebooks and motivational materials to those hoping to be rich.

Ooooh, ooooh, don't forget the motivational tapes!
 
Re: Have you been pitched Amway more often since the recession started

The answer to that is No.

Amway Corp, the selling scam, not the products, has been banned in my State for several decades. No more Amway Parties.

Really? What state? Certainly not Utah.

Utah makes sense, it is our most religiously exclusive state. Since the Amway covention/seminar normally has a non-denominational chapel service for all those recruited from church. I know I can't enter a Mormon Temple under ordinary circumstances. Do the LDS have an obligation to attend Saturday or Sunday like a Catholic has to go to Mass or be a sinner?
 
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