Wtf? I just got approached by Amway!?
 

A kid I know (lets call him John) just approached me about a "e-commerce opportunity with residual income" called Quixtar, which is basically Amway on the internet. For those who don't know what Amway is, check google or Wiki.

John is a nice guy, and I think he got suckered into this very recently. I think he feels it is a legit opportunity, but he has already lied to my face on some aspects of it, or at least grossly misrepresented them. I've feigned ignorance so far and even met his sponsor and went to a information/recruitment meeting, mostly because I wanted to see if allegations about this thing being a brainwashing cult is true.

So far, all the nasty things I've read about seem to be true. I've never seen anything that preyed on people's sense of pettiness and greed like this organization. Including many people spouting straightout lies and false stats to my face.

John and his sponsor are looking to "close the deal" with me. Should I:
1) Politely say I'm not interested and leave them alone?
2) Confront them about about the fact that they are selling a scam?
3) Contact John and try to get him out of the organization?
4) Goto the next meeting, declare everyone there to be gullible idiots, and then run?

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just be glad you're not an idiot. it wouldnt be worth my time to do anything other than brush them off, unless i could make somethin absolutely hilarious out of it.

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Either 1 or 3. You won't benefit much from #2 or #4.

If just is more of a friend than "a kid you know," then lean toward #3. Else, #1 is the winner.

This should be a poll. I can either make one for you, tell you to do it yourself, or leave and say nothing. Since making it for you won't benefit me in any way and you probably wouldn't make it a poll if I asked you, then I will just say nothing and leave.

See? Learn by example. =)

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if he's just a kid you know and not an actual friend you should do whatever would bring you the most personal amusement for the least amount of effort.

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I'm trying to think of stuff that would up the hilarity factor, but the dudes who are into this are friggin hardcore. I could get bum rushed. The weird thing is that the meeting I went to was 95% Indian, and I think it might be funny to experience getting cursed off simultaneously by 50+ people with horrible Indian accents.

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"you want us to sell amway??"

"its confederated products, its a different company ... a different quality of product"

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http://www.skippypodar.net/WebGaller...trainwreck.jpg

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http://www.ex-cult.org/Groups/Amway/...ers/Nixon2.jpg

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I'm trying to think of stuff that would up the hilarity factor, but the dudes who are into this are friggin hardcore. I could get bum rushed. The weird thing is that the meeting I went to was 95% Indian, and I think it might be funny to experience getting cursed off simultaneously by 50+ people with horrible Indian accents.

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Tell the Indians that this is just a subsidiary of a larger company comprised of cattle farmers.

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I highly, highly, highly suggest #1. Tell him you hope it works out, but you never want to hear about it - ever. My college roommate/closest friend got into this our senior year despite my suggestions to the contrary, and it just totally took over his life. It came up in every conversation we had, I got tired of hearing about it, and that was that. We haven't really talked to each other much since.

The trip report is not worth going to one of the meetings, despite the obvious entertainment value.