Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
Sorta. It's like the hits that Pabs and I take for some yahoo somewhere telling someone something. So far, I've yet to hear any hint that Amsoil will make you rich ..quick or slow. I'm sure that a few have and more will. There's no active campaign anywhere that I'm aware of to amass down line dealers as a way to success ..yet that would surely be a likely component involved. Now there's a point, and I would say that it is well earned in my opinion, where those who have achieved high status (through some serious hard work) get to blow their horn of the greatness of Amsoil (via the MLM model). I don't see a whole lot wrong with that. I hope to be among them at some point. The truth that all of them will admit to is that it Amsoil just gave them the tools that they would never have access to on a time share/pay as you go basis. They did all the work. They didn't get there by finding others to do their work for them. They found enough people to work as hard as they do.
Amway got hijacked by a few upper level dealers who sold it as a ideology ..a religion ..an exclusive cult where the righteous belonged.
Amsoil, at least by any way I can figure, never stopped trying to sell oil.
Gary, do you know what this "Altrum" is? I have heard on some forums that Amsoil is Amway and then it just gets passed on like, "I heard Amsoil is Amway..." etc. but no one ever goes back to question the original goofball who wrote/said it. But this ALtrum thing really does sound more like Amway but I don't know anything about it and I don't know any of the history of the two companies. This is off of Wikipedia:
Amsoil also wholly owns and manages a MLM subsidiary called Altrum, which markets multivitamins, water filters, cleaning products and gardening fertilizer.[3]