ASITStands wrote: Amway has always had great, overpriced products.
That was my initial impression as well. That is a very common objection from people who've not taken the time to get acquainted with using the products.
On the surface, yes, they do *appear* overpriced.
However, if one takes the time to do a price comparison against brand-X, on a cost per use basis, one will find that a*lot of them are priced quite competitively. In some instances they are priced higher, and in those cases one finds that their quality, verses brand-X, is higher as well.
I find three other advantages using the the Amway line:
One is concentration. A*lot of their cleaners are sold as a concentrate designed to be diluted with H2O. I have had many-y many instances where a deep set, stubborn stain didnt come out until I used a concentrate. In those instances, I didn't care so much about price,
I just wanted the dam stain out!
You cannot get that sort of flexibility, convenience with brand-X that is already sold in diluted form.
Second, I like a product delivered right to my door, and the supermarkets don't offer that service.
Third, and most important,
brand-X won't pay me to use/recommend their products!
The only way anyone could actually afford to use the products was to become a distributor.
Not true. My ex used to service lots of retail customers. Lots of her orders frequently averaged 50$-100$ per sale! People love the quality of Amway products and will buy them for that quality alone!
Question for you. Can you go and buy a box of soap at your grocery store and then up to six months later, return it for a full refund? I venture to say "No".
Amway offers a 180 day money back guarantee on their products.
Quixtar is just the internet version.
Yes and no. Yes, Quixtar was owned by the DeVos and VanAndel families. I say "was" because Quixtar is now "Amway Global" per their site. Quixtar was designated for the families North American business, whereas Amway was and is still a worldwide business.
It is more accurate to say that Quixtar was the internet version of the families business in regards to North America only.
I joined Amway three times because I was excited about the business opportunity, but after I discovered my friends and family either already had a distributor of choice, or they considered the products too expensive compared to commercial alternatives, I quit.
People do business with whom they like, and once i properly, (and professionally,) presented the cost effectiveness and the quality of the products, I never had problems finding customers.
Frequently customers recommend the products to their extended families also. My ex has told me stores about her customers, some very excited mothers getting all of their grown children to buy products from her.
Customers are easy to come by!
I was offered an opportunity to join Quixtar but it just smacked of the same, old products. Frankly, I was always turned off by the practicing of not telling prospects, "It's Amway!"
That must have been prior 2009. From 1999 to early 2009, in North America, it wasn't Amway, it was Quixtar. I'm assuming you saw the business presented in North America?
"The product is a sort of front for the real business of getting people to use the products ..."
Just like Proctor and Gamble uses advertising to get people to use their products. BTW....word of mouth advertising is cheaper and Amway has used it for years.
And, prospecting by not telling the "marks" the name of the company is dishonesty, in my opinion, and the part that makes this look like a scam.
When I was a child, someone rang our door bell, it turned out to be an Amway distributor out cold calling in our neighborhood, selling Amway door to door.
That was my very first impression of "Amway".
The first time I was prospected, I asked what the name of the company was. If he had told me it was "Amway", I wouldn't have been the least bit interested, despite the fact that the IBO"s don't advocate selling door-to-door.
Not every IBO builds the business the same way, and with "horror stories" galore, the IBO simply wants an honest opportunity to "show the plan" while avoiding the possibility of any preconceived misconceptions.