I would go so far as to call it a scam, out in the real world (that is not the mlm fantasy world) I've had 2 personal experiences with them that definately convinced me they're not legit. My first experience came in my childhood. some friends and family convinced my parents to get into amway, took up tons of time for their garbage worthy soaps, over priced promotional meetings, high priced "training" consisting of nothing more than infomercial hype in a backroom of a 1 star hotel. Over 9 years they were involved the only ones who made any money out of it were my parents who got one single $8 commission cheque. Yes thats really a measly $8 in 9 years! Anyone want to figure out their hourly income after literally thousands of hours of work and just as many dollars spent on their worthless products? Never mind that the products are junk and overpriced cause of their commision based pyramid structure.

My second experience came in early 2000, as I was working and finishing college part time. I got a call out of nowhere from a guy I'd known a few years earlier from college. he said there was a company he worked in that had job openings and would I be interested. He wouldnt tell me the company or what they did. That should've been a red flag to me but I ignored it figuring it cant be bad since I knew this guy previously. Well he agreed to meet me and give me a ride out to their "office" on saturday. I thought saturday was unusual for an interview with a large company. As fate would have it he didnt show up until 6pm and that had me wonderidng what was going on. But I decided I wouldnt commit until I found out some solid facts. He started driving north into brampton, to a subdivision on the far northerly reaches of brampton (for those not in toronto, thats pretty far out there). well we didnt get there until nearly 8pm, and this was a subdivision full of small but new houses. This definately got my suspicions going full steam. I started asking some very direct questions, like "what company is this?" "why are we in front of some strangers house instead of at a company office?" to which I only heard some muttered vague non answers. Well this "interview" was nothing of the sort, when we got in the door I was greeted by the site of a group of 50 to 60 people, all dressed in cheap mal wart suits crammed into this not so large house. I got stuck there for 2 hours, had I driven myself I'd have left immediately, listening to 3rd rate infomercial sales hype about a new ecommerce website coming up in september (this was still in the late january early february time frame). For the whole time the identity of this company was never revealed. It was not until the end when I had a chance to ask the host of this "business meeting" what company it really was, only then did I find out it was amway. Needless to say I refused to commit there and then despite the heavy handed pressure tactics. A few days later I called the old college acquaintance back and told him if he wanted to get together or call me it was ok, but he was to never again try to involve me in amway. After 6 & 3/4 years later he's never bothered to call me back once. Gives me little doubt about his character, that he wont talk to me for not buying into this scheme, and that he tried to get me into it without me knowing what it was. On one final note, this e commerce website they promised, and tried to get investors for, it never materialized, good thing I said no, what little money I had at the time would've been gone for good.