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Rating:
Level of Review:
Personal Experience. Tried...Twice.
Overview:
The classic MLM company. They have excellent
products, and there are some very good people in
Amway, but the company has serious image problems,
which is partly why they are changing their name to
Quixtar.
Product:
Household cleaning products, Personal care,
Clothing, Home Decor, and more. You cannot
accurately list their product offerings because it
changes and grows all the time.
Costs: Under
$200 last we checked (but only just). You do get a
good selection of products for the money, which are
well worth the startup cost.
Compensation:
You get paid a percentage on products that sell, as
well as a smaller percentage on sales of your
downline. Downline compensation for some things
comes out of your percentage, and that is not shown
in the literature, so calculating and estimating
compensation is tricky.
Conclusion:
We never did have an upline sponsor who really
cared much about whether we succeeded or not. We
asked them questions, and the answers were always
vague and uninformative. I think this is mostly
because our upline was not much further into it
than we were, and they were not supported by their
upline either.
The company is
supposed to work as a Multi-Level Marketing
company. That means that you are supposed to be
trained by your sponsor, and if they are
inexperienced, their upline is supposed to help
them. It effectively goes several levels deep
because your success is theoretically dependent on
the success of those below you. In order to
succeed, you have to sell product, and you have to
sell the business.
This company has
problems with items number 2 (Overpriced product),
3 (Contradictions in Ad Lit...The Plan), and 5
(Concealing Identity) in our Common Problems list.
Those things bothered us badly, we tried Amway
once, and it did not work for us. We felt that we
could do it differently and it would work, but it
did not. Later we tried it again, feeling we could
possibly make it work under different
circumstances, but it did not work then either. It
was impossible to even get anyone to listen if you
mentioned the company name up front, and we could
not go in feeling like we were running a less than
honest presentation. They also like to sell you
products to learn to sell better. Costs on such
things can eat you alive because the company views
them as another profit generating item for
themselves, and does not sell them at cost (far
from it).
Can it work? Yes,
for some people. Make sure you know how successful
your upline is, and make sure you can really count
on them to answer your questions, and actually show
you how to sell, because most people are not
comfortable with sales. Your friends and family
will NOT be your best customers, and will resent
you for the assumption that they would be. Only
someone who aspires to be an aggressive sales
professional can really make it work (they will
tell you otherwise, but the ones telling you that
are either inexperienced newbies, or aggressive
sales professionals!). If you cannot make cold
contacts, don't waste your time with this
one.
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