• corsicanguppy
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    3 hours ago

    A friend tried to get me into Amway. I heckled him and refused.

    He asked me again and I was more serious this time. I said no, and threatened if he asked me ever again it was the last he’d speak to me.

    He asked again. I said “remember how I said we wouldn’t be friends if you kept proselytizing that shit to me?”, to which he replied, “yeah, but lemme sketch this out to you because it’s awesome.” Like, he wasn’t sorry and he still tried to bring me onboard.

    I left. Didn’t speak to him for 31 years. He died in COVID.

    • yuri@pawb.social
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      My dad has a friend try to talk him into amway sometime in the late 80s/early 90s. He had painted a pyramid shape onto cinder blocks in his basement to explain the revenue stream and everything.

      He said no, but that friend ended up high enough in a payment chain that he’s still rich as sin, and my dad got to be one of the scant few that turned down what would’ve actually been a lucrative business venture in a pyramid scheme.