Thank you for resonding in such a timely fashion on this matter. I did not intend to come off condescending, I just get defensive of my livelihood since people have been wrongly attacking Amway for years.

I will start off by saying the things you stated are absolutely true. Amway has been sued for over $150 million dollars. However, those cases were filed for fraudalent advertising of “motivational tools,” not the business structure itself. Those cases were indeed settled outside the court, but Amway was found of no wrong doings in their actual business structure. In fact, the biggest lawsuit against Amway was Rick Setzer and Sue Lynn Setzer v. Amway Corporation in 1986. The funny thing about the folks who sued Amway for their motivational tools was that they continued in the business and reached one of the highest platforms in the sponsoring phase and became popular motivational speakers themselves.

As far as the 75% of IBOs losing money through this business, I would say that is a fairly accurate number. However, that number isn’t because the business is a scam. That number is because the people who enter this business don’t realize that it is just that, an actual business. The plan itself is extremely simple, but there is a distinct difference between simple and easy. People for fail to make money in this business lack the actual desire to own a business and show a lack of consistency. In any business you have to have consistency to gain success. If I opened a restaurant and only showed up once a week to sell food for an hour or two there is a good chance I will never make any substantial profit in my business, let alone any at all. There is no silver bullet in the Amway business plan beside the one people are sitting on when they think the money will just come easily. You get out what you put in, and for someone like me who worked their tail off for 15 years to replace my income and be free, you could see why I get defensive when people who don’t understand the business give it a bad name.

And to address your last question, yes the business has drastically changed, but not the model. The business model Amway developed is still the same. The only things that change are the means by which we sell our products and the incentives in which we are able to achieve as IBOs. But honestly what business doesn’t change? Society and it’s trends are changed yearly, and Amway does the best it can to maximize their selling potential just like any other business would do, so what is so wrong with that?

With all that being said, I really do enjoy your site. In fact, I am a daily visitor, and more often than not I visit multiple times a day. I would much rather read your articles and topics then any other site covering the Mets because I believe you guys often avoid the irrelevant topics and biases that other sites tend to display. However, you should consider ALL your viewers, and use better discretion when writing your articles. I know half the people don’t care what I have to say, and that is fine, but I will always defend the way I make my living. So I just ask that for the sake of your site’s credibility, don’t post things where you are mocking a business or anything that you openly admit to not being able to form a educated arguement for. I respect you and I respect all you do for Mets fans just like me, dedicating your time for the FANS. i hope you take my suggestion as seriously as I take the time to write it. You haven’t lost a viewer, but I just ask that you consider all things before you post.

Thank you,
Nick

I guess thats how they have gotten themselves out of debt!

Can you explain if any of that is true or untrue?

And can you also tell us if the Amway of 2013 conducts it’s business any differently than it did in 1985?

Because the three questions I posed at the tend were not conjured up. They were from my memory of a co-worker back in the eighties who was trying to sell me laundry detergent. I only switched it to read polish.

Thanks for commenting.

Howard Megdal wrote a “book” in which he came out and accused Fred Wilpon of knowingly participating in the Ponzi Scheme. He even went so far as to “predict” the team would be taken away from Wilpon from the trust due to this.

When none of that happened or turned out to be true, Megdal had to go find a new hook because if he didn’t he’d look like he was just accusing innocent people of wrong doing.

So when this sponsorship came up, he jumped on it. I have no idea if Amway is or is not a scheme. I will tell you this though – if guys with 0 knowledge of the inner workings say it is, then it probably isn’t. Amway doesn’t hide how they operate – a scheme does and would. Madoff wasn’t out there telling people how he was making money illegally.

All this is, is a sponsorship from a company. That’s it. People want to make a big deal because they want to criticize everything and anything the Wilpon’s do.

Who else sponsors the Mets? Do you care about them as well? Has Amway been found guilty of anything? No. If they were do you think they’d be a sponsor? No. So what is the big deal? The big deal is it’s February and people still need to talk about little things just to get themselves up in the morning.

This sponsorship has literally 0 impact on the fans unless the fans CHOOSE to let it have an impact. I can go to Citi Field and have no interaction with anybody from Amway. So whats the big deal?