@xenu1 that is a very encouraging update about Amway. I am very happy to see some of these schemes being held to account. Clearly it’s more affordable for Amway to continue with their not-a-pyramid-scheme and they haven’t felt the need to pull the plug like some we could mention.
while it’s fantastic news I wish it could be extended outside the US and perhaps this will have more of outcomes globally. Whereas with FLP I feel there is a doubling down outside the US in the behaviours that got them into trouble. I’m sure FLP isn’t doing well but I feel a step up in FLP’s bad behaviour and their top bots’ renewed efforts to recruit at any cost, as if the cost is clear to step things up in countries where there is no TiNA or FTC. I hope it will be different with Amway.
I can also add an Amway experience. In the 1980s my late Aunt married what Mumsnet calls a cocklodger, a man who fabricated a backstory, who had delusions of grandeur and no fixed career to pay for it, flitting from one thing to another in the hope of making big quantities of easy money - the perfect MLM CV.
He had a few friends cut out of the same cloth, flashy and flaky. One kept coming over from the States and was always in my Aunt’s house. Then around 1990 I think, I noticed lots of Amway products dotted around the house. My aunt was badgered into funding it and getting increasingly unhappy as it turned out. I knew nothing about MLM then but I do remember thinking it was all a bit culty.
Then one day a month or so later it was all gone seemingly overnight and it appeared her husband had seen the light. The friend of 30 years never spoke to either of them again. Lucky escape. I found out later that the Amway friend had made the mistake of turning up when my father was at my aunt’s house and he’d eviscerated the pair of them with the intention of killing off the Amway grift for the sake of my Aunt. What a haterrrr!
I sometimes forget about Amway but it’s clear just how prevalent it was if so many of us can add a story.