Amway in isarn - mother-in-law being preyed upon?

[rocket2]

over the last week or so, my mother-in-law, who is alone in the village, has been buying loads from the Amway lady who has befriended here for the last few weeks. the amway lady avoids the mother-in-law when anyone from the family is visiting. now they are trying to sell her very expensive vitamins.  3000 baht or so.

 

anyone have experience with the amway ladies?  I am assuming they prey on the lonely old ladies.  

 

 

Edited November 15, 2017 by rocket2

[DILLIGAD]

Worldwide problem. I had a mate once peddling the stuff and two thoughts always sprung to mind...
1. Del Boy’s catch-phrase ‘this time next year we’ll be Millionaires’
2. Is the ultimate way to p1ss-off friends/neighbors & family.


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[transam]

The perks Amway sales folk get are mind blowing....

Had them at my place a few years back, Mrs.Trans was all........Thankfully they understood my English and have not been back...

[nattle]

Not just lonely old ladies... I got to know a nail salon owner (middle class Bangkokian, worked at international firms) in BKK and after a few visits to her salon, she tried to sell me Happy Life scheme. I have stopped going to her salon ever since. 

[Pimay1]

I put amway in the same category with Jehovah Witness and all the other pyramid schemes here in Thailand. Persona non grata at my house.

[Martyjustice]

Just hope the BIB don't start with Amway. Roadblocks to sell stuff.


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[NanLaew]

On 11/16/2017 at 3:12 PM, nattle said:

Not just lonely old ladies... I got to know a nail salon owner (middle class Bangkokian, worked at international firms) in BKK and after a few visits to her salon, she tried to sell me Happy Life scheme. I have stopped going to her salon ever since. 

And how are your nails now?

 

I only had one experience with them shortly after I transferred to work in the US. I sort of had a heads-up when my work buddies were making light of the invitation to attend an 'evening social' extended by one of the engineers from another department. "I hear Richard's roped you in to buy some soap, eh?" and similar comments suggested I should have my guard up. Being a Scot and convivial but equally canny in nature, I did accept the invite but spent an uncomfortable hour in the company of something akin to lizards. After the event, I escaped to a local strip club where the atmosphere was palpably less obsequious in stroking my... ego while trying to drain my wallet.

[bluesofa]

On 20/11/2017 at 8:39 AM, Pimay1 said:

I put amway in the same category with Jehovah Witness and all the other pyramid schemes here in Thailand. Persona non grata at my house.

Absa-bloody-lutely.

Thirty years ago I saw a bookshop in Nairobi, Kenya, promoting a book by a Masai-Mara chief, entitled, "How Amyway Changed  My Life".

Sickening,

They prey on people with no understanding of high-pressure marketing/sales, who unfortunately are gullible and believe every word.

[SantiSuk]

Presumably means "the American way"? They invented the term snake oil salesmen, though the removal of money by motivated and (slightly more) intelligent people from the undereducated probably goes way back to ancient civilisations!

[transam]

Did you know that their Thai sales folk are given free holidays all over the planet if sales targets are met..Hence the hard sell...

But Mrs.Trans does buy their toothpaste at their warehouse, l told her it is not from the USA, it is made in Vietnam..

[bluesofa]

1 minute ago, transam said:

Did you know that their Thai sales folk are given free holidays all over the planet if sales targets are met..Hence the hard sell...

But Mrs.Trans does buy their toothpaste at their warehouse, l told her it is not from the USA, it is made in Vietnam..

Did that make it stick in her throat?