I'm going to be selling trains!

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Yesterday, I overslept and was having a tough time getting my day going when this real pretty lady came to my door telling me about this Amway company. She was real excited and told me about how you can get super rich selling it. It sounded really great. A few years back, me and my girl, we caught an Amway train all the way from Los Angeles to Chicago. It took a while, but it was a great way to see the country instead of flying over so fast. At the time, I had no idea it was possible to get in with the company and sell Amway trains door-to-door, so I really appreciated her coming by to tell me about it. It's usually someone hollering about religion, but this time this great opportunity came right to my door. So I bought the starter kit for $34.95. She said I'll be getting it in a couple of days. I have to admit, I'm not quite sure how they're going to deliver a train to my house. My back yard isn't that big, but she promised this company works miracles, so I'll just wait and see. Anyways, I'll let y'all know how I'm doing getting rich, and don't hesitate at any time to take an Amway train. It's way better than flying.
 
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Ha, my wife and I got trapped when we first moved to New Orleans when this nice couple invited us over for dinner. There were three other couples there and no one knew each other and hardly new the hosts. Those scumbags didn't even feed us before they pulled out the easel and started in on the presentation and they served this cheap jug wine. We had already met some friends in the Quarter and tossed back a few. It would have made a great TV show, perfect The Office or Parks and Recreation episode, and I opened another jug and began to get drunk and pissed at being blindsided so I started heckling the guy doing the presentation and the other couples were cracking up and the hosts were getting mad.

The guy stops and looks at me and tells me how rude I was and I unloaded on him for this set up and he asked me to leave. Me, not us. This jerk was still trying to hook my wife on the Amway scam. We left and another couple left with us and we decided to take the party elsewhere and laughed our butts off and became friends for 5 years, until they divorced. I wonder if Amway could have kept them together?
 
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My uncle roped my parents into that years ago. Never really went anywhere but my mom liked some of their products.
 
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hah of someone traps you like that, do what I do. Start trying to selling over then top ofthem a 1976 woodside Pinto station wagon. Insist how much of a great deal it is until they shut the bleep up.
 
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It actually got kicked out of Amway, they even gave me a refund....:lmao:
 
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Someone must be selling it, I saw the Amway manufacturing plant and building. It is state of art and mammoth in size. Then there is the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, beautiful and ritzy. And the convention center and on and on it goes. I had a guy come pick me up for one of those meetings, so I was trapped. I heard they changed the name of the product to throw folks off.
 
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CouchCoach said:
Ha, my wife and I got trapped when we first moved to New Orleans when this nice couple invited us over for dinner. There were three other couples there and no one knew each other and hardly new the hosts. Those scumbags didn't even feed us before they pulled out the easel and started in on the presentation and they served this cheap jug wine. We had already met some friends in the Quarter and tossed back a few. It would have made a great TV show, perfect The Office or Parks and Recreation episode, and I opened another jug and began to get drunk and pissed at being blindsided so I started heckling the guy doing the presentation and the other couples were cracking up and the hosts were getting mad.

The guy stops and looks at me and tells me how rude I was and I unloaded on him for this set up and he asked me to leave. Me, not us. This jerk was still trying to hook my wife on the Amway scam. We left and another couple left with us and we decided to take the party elsewhere and laughed our butts off and became friends for 5 years, until they divorced. I wonder if Amway could have kept them together?
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That would piss me off too.

My wife and I got suckered into a timeshare pitch the first time we visited Hawaii. I’m too lazy to recount the story but the overall point was they took up ~2 hours of our vacation which was 1 hour 59 minutes too much.
 
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I had an old high school buddy offer me a job one time but wouldn't say exactly what the position was. He invited me for coffee where he gave me basically this load of crap about how much money he made, blah, blah, blah. Turns out it was Amway. Told him I'd think about it but it took me all but 30 seconds to know I wasn't about to start that wasted endeavor. He called me like 6 times before I told him I wasn't interested. Haven't heard from him again. That was almost 20 years ago. I guess he wasn't much of a friend.
 
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Quickdraw said:
I had an old high school buddy offer me a job one time but wouldn't say exactly what the position was. He invited me for coffee where he gave me basically this load of crap about how much money he made, blah, blah, blah. Turns out it was Amway. Told him I'd think about it but it took me all but 30 seconds to know I wasn't about to start that wasted endeavor. He called me like 6 times before I told him I wasn't interested. Haven't heard from him again. That was almost 20 years ago. I guess he wasn't much of a friend.
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And a lousy Amway recruiter. I'd still be recruiting you.
 
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I'm not good at selling choo choo's.
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Hell, they sell themselves. Get them in the cockpit of that bad boy with a little engineer cap and let them blow that whistle one time and they're taking that baby home.

I am sick of all the car commercials, do that many people give cars as Christmas gifts? Let's see a train for a change and not a Lionel, the real deal.
 
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Hell, they sell themselves. Get them in the cockpit of that bad boy with a little engineer cap and let them blow that whistle one time and they're taking that baby home.

I am sick of all the car commercials, do that many people give cars as Christmas gifts? Let's see a train for a change and not a Lionel, the real deal.
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I especially despise the commercial where the guy tells his wife he has something for the both of them and when they go outside, he says the blue one is his, which is a truck, and she says she loves it, and he starts to say it's his, but she "rudely" interrupts and says she loves it and he gives in to her. Yea... I don't think so Tim! Ar Ar Ar.... Sorry ladies but the truck is mine! Not an SUV man.
 
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I especially despise the commercial where the guy tells his wife he has something for the both of them and when they go outside, he says the blue one is his, which is a truck, and she says she loves it, and he starts to say it's his, but she "rudely" interrupts and says she loves it and he gives in to her. Yea... I don't think so Tim! Ar Ar Ar.... Sorry ladies but the truck is mine! Not an SUV man.
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Next time you see that ad, look at the house in the background, I am sure everyone can relate to that.

Just as I could relate to the guy that takes his lady out in the middle of nowhere where he had a tree lit up with about 500 lights just to give her jewelry. I'd have given her one of the generators.

And notice Kay stopped that "every kiss begins with Kay" stuff and I called them out on that. What the hell kind of kiss was that for a man laying down a grand on some trinket? That was the kind of kiss you'd give your Grandma when you were 5. I lay some jewelry on Grandma, she better be bringing some tongue.
 
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