Another victim comes out against Amway, says it is poisonous

Here is another victim who came out with own version on Amway's poisonous ways. Understandably the victim refuses to reveal identity. Here is the letter--Shyam.

I read some of your Amway stuff off the Internet and I want to confirm what you describe is a fair picture of how it is. My husband and I had been married for six years. We lived in *************. We joined Amway back in the 1990s when I was sick of my job and my husband had got a £16 grand redundancy check. It seemed simple. We were shown videos by friends of friends. Two Diamonds in England lived in a flash mansion and had amazing cars. We were told that we could just follow the same plan as them and in less than 5 years we too could be living the life we'd always Dreamed of.

We were told to copy our Upline Sponsor and buy the products every month and sponsor everyone we knew to do the same. The Amway stuff was rubbish and way too expensive but the more we spent the more we got back and the more we thought we were going to make. Twelve months later we'd lost £10 000 and the few people we'd managed to sign up had packed in or were heading the same way. Most of our money had not gone on products but on telephone bills travelling, the meetings, books, and tapes.

We once spent nearly a grand to take two Prospects to a Major Function where a top American Diamond was appearing. We did as we were told and ate Amway food, drank Amway drinks, washed our clothes and dishes with Amway soap, brushed our teeth with Amway toothpaste, took Amway vitamins. Amway ruled our lives 24 hours a day. Negative people and Negative products were forbidden. I fell out with my sister when her husband had a fight with my husband and he threw them out of our house. Even our clothes and haircuts were chosen by Upline. When all the money was gone my husband was told by Upline if he wanted to be a Winner to put everything on his charge card. I was first to see that the same people who were behind this madness were the same people who were making a fortune off our backs.

At the Major Functions thousands of Distributors were paying hundreds of pounds each to hear the same lies repeated. It was like going to a big rock concert. Women used to faint and men cried. When I tried to get my husband to stop he went to our Upline for special counseling. They both went crazy. I was told if I continued with negative talk I would be dealt with. They threatened to tell my father about something I'd done years ago when I was 17. That finished it for me.

I left my husband when we were about to lose our home. My sister and brother in law were the first people to give me a hand. No one I knew in Amway would talk to me they'd all been told I was a slut and a liar. I can remember once telling my sister that she was living with a broke, a loser and that one day she would beg me on her knees to join Amway but it would be too late. I got that lie off a training tape.

Amway poisoned my life.

Yours sincerely **********