Trakkur said:
My apologies for highjacking this thread for my rant, I promise this will be the only time:
Spoken like a true convert Numa. Give me a call when you've reached Double Diamond Status.
Considering all of multiple weekly meetings, weekend "conferences", major "events", the travel to cities up and down the eastern seaboard, hotel/motel costs, tape and book purchases, online subscription costs, automated ordering, phone messaging system costs, etc - I wonder who was actually getting "ahead" in this system. Surely not the person at the bottom of the pyramid, even though they are doing FAR more work then the rest.
And before you spout off on NOT doing anything with the business - I was doing it, in fact I was doing it so often (Many 30+ meeting months in my 2+ years in the "Business" - including several organizational awards for doing so) that my personal expenses (Which I tracked meticulously) were enormous - I was paying out every month FAR more then I was getting back. I understood the system perfectly, and walked away from it since it wasn't working.
Besides - If you re-read my comment you would see I never once called it illegal or stupid. I just don't think it works, nor will Bridge. Legal or not. Far too much negativity surrounding it.
This will be my last comment on this as it's detracting from the thread on Bridge, and is aimed at letting people understand it a bit more.
You may think of me as a convert. I just got out of the trap of going to work everyday for someone else and getting nothing in return, but a measly wage packet.
I didn't say you called it Illegal and wasn't pointing my comments at you. I was pointing it at all the people who comment on the Amway Concept, which has been used in Illegal manners over the years in what everyone knows as Pyramid Scams, where people have been ripped off by others, and it is brought up in every situation where there is some sort of Pyramid or Multi Level Marketing scheme. If it was bad, it wouldn't be running for over 40 years.
But like I said, people are self employed. So think of it this way.
How do you run your own business, with all the of the things you mentioned you had to pay out for, with access to a huge warehouse, staff, transport facilities, new materials, meetings that are done to bring in new products etc and all this without you having to raise one hand to make it happen, for the small amount of money that you were paying out on a yearly basis??
You can't. To have access to all those systems that are already put in place, would cost you millions to keep running. You have no staff costs, site costs, bills to pay other than your own home costs(Which can be offset against the tax man. In the UK anyway).
The system works, and I have several friends who are very successful at it. It works for many people throughout the world. Don't forget, those people that bring you into the business, help you out and put there time, energy and money into helping you build your business. I don't get that sort of help from my work mates.
But for only 2 years in the business and it doesn't work, is nothing in my books. You work for 40 years or more in a job and that doesn't work either. Because at the end of it you still have nothing unless you make the right deals along the way.
Sorry to hear it didn't work for you, but to believe it doesn't work, seems odd when there are lots of people making it work. I hear these same reasons it didn't work for them over and over, and there is always a reason behind why it didn't work for them. They blame it on Amway.
ANyway, enough said, and back on to the Bridge discussions.
^^^ if someone can translate it, that'd be super. it looks interesting.
