For me personally, I don't have the personality to take on something like Amway. I don't know of ANYONE who doesn't roll their eyes when the word Amway is mentioned. This is because EVERYONE has had someone (friend, family, school friend's parent, kindy parent) try to get their foot in the door to "sell" them either the products or the lure of making money from it.
I have one friend who tells me she has replaced her income as an accountant from this company, but when I ask anything, she clams up and will not answer anything other than very vague non-answers. Naturally, I give up and think "something wrong with a company/product that is so hard to find anything about without making a commitment".
I had a kindy mum and dad come around to show me "a fantastic business opportunity". I suspected it was Amway, asked if it was, got a vague answer so let them call around. They sat hubby and I down and started going through the spiel whilst referring to the "book".
Hubby does not suffer fools gladly, and when he asked "what is the company", and even with them at our table, they would not just say "Amway", hubby reached over and turned a few more pages over to get to the point. This absolutely threw the husband who obviously was new to it, and had to follow his book. He had to turn back the pages and go through in order.
If we didn't know these people through kindy, hubby would have been very rude, but he held his tongue until we heard them and then he said "not interested".
If they had just said "Amway" up front, we could have saved them an evening of frustration and wasted time. I just don't understand why it is so hush hush.
For me, if a product is a good product, it shouldn't have to be sold party plan. Even Tupperware is now sold at shopping centres. I don't know ANYONE who doesn't also roll their eyes when Tupperware is mentioned. Not because the product is not good. The product IS good but people don't want to have to go to a party to buy the stuff. Same with Amway, in my opinion.
If I could buy it in Coles, I would. But I cant, so I don't.
Comparing it with Geoff's Subway store is silly. People freely enter a Subway store seeking out their product. Comparing that to Amway just doesn't make any sense to me at all.