The Truth About Amway

Amway smashes through $10 billion

ibofightback — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:32:01 +0000

I’ve received a lot of queries about this and I’ve confirmed from reliable sources that Amway exceeded $10.2 billion in global sales for the 2010/2011 IBO financial year. Note that this is not the official 2011 sales figures – which should be self-evident since the year isn’t finished yet! In 1999/2000 Amway/Alticor switched to reporting [...]

Amway India letter to distributors

ibofightback — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:17:19 +0000

The following email sent by Amway to all Emeralds and up in India a couple of weeks ago regarding the situation with Sajeev Nair and MonaVie Dear Leaders, Greetings from Amway India !!!! As you are aware by now, Amway India had its biggest sales month in September’11 when we had Rs.251 crore of sales. With such [...]

MonaVie vs Amway Redux

ibofightback — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:49:10 +0000

Back in 2007/2008 Amway in North America (then known as Quixtar) was involved in a deal of controversy after terminating several Diamonds associated with the organisation TEAM, led primarily by Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady. Eventually TEAM and many associated Diamonds joined another MLM company, MonaVie. There were then various legal battles between all parties [...]

Kerala (India) issues guidelines for direct selling firms such as Amway

ibofightback — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:57:13 +0000

As per my previous post Amway India has been having challenges in that country with some poorly worded laws and a lack of regulation for the direct selling industry. Amway is implementing some changes from November 1, including removing all joining fees. The changes were a response to the Indian state of Kerala issuing some [...]

Amway India now free to join

ibofightback — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:34:44 +0000

I reported a couple of weeks ago about Amway India’s legal challenges, with two states (Andhra Pradesh and Kerala) and an Indian federal body, “The Enforcement Directorate” investigating them. As I noted I thought the claims against Amway were frankly bizarre, but nevertheless Amway can’t afford to do anything but take such cases seriously. Well, [...]

Amway Watch Lives!

ibofightback — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:25:15 +0000

A few years back I set up the website Amway Watch, with the idea of collating all PR and news media reports about Amway around the world. Unfortunately over the last couple of years the site was put to one side and not updated. Well, now Amway Watch is back! There’s an enormous back log [...]

1222 new Founder Platinums and above for Amway North America!

ibofightback — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:02:25 +0000

I saw a tweet from Jody Victor earlier today that was so incredible I had to confirm it before posting about it here - What I needed to confirm was this was just for Amway North America. It seemed too small for Amway globally, but an almost unbelievable result for just Amway in North America. [...]

Updated Amway IBO average income statistics, plus an important clarification

ibofightback — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:28:37 +0000

For the last decade, whenever Amway has published income data for the Amway business they have also reported, based on a survey in 2000, an “average income” for “active IBOs” - The average monthly gross income for “active” IBOs was $115. Approximately 66% of all IBOs of record were found to be “active.” “Active” means an IBO [...]

The bizarre world of Amway in India

ibofightback — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:43:25 +0000

For some years now I’ve been trying to write a post about the trials and tribulations of Amway India, and I never quite manage to get one done. It’s a struggle just to sort through the bizarre allegations, unreadable and confusing legalize, and the truly bizarre misinformation of Amway’s critics. Anyway, I’m trying again. As [...]

Are you recruiting your competitors?

ibofightback — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:38:55 +0000

A supposed “criticism” of Amway, and indeed of multilevel marketing, that I’ve seen turn up regularly is the idea that it’s inherently flawed because “you are recruiting competitors”. For example, Robert T. Carroll, in his “Skeptic’s Dictionary” says - Why, you might wonder would you recruit people to compete with you? For, isn’t that what [...]