Who I Am & What This Site Is About

Who I Am & What This Site Is About

My name is Jeff Probst. I have been an Amway® distributor since August of 1987. In March of 1991 I achieved a level of success called an Emerald Direct. I have maintained that status for the past six years. I married my wife, Joni, in July of 1994. At that time she was a member of my Amway® organization. Joni has been a distributor since July of 1990. She worked hard in some difficult circumstances and achieved the level of a "4000" in the Amway® business. We decided to become partners, and we have remained partners in every way ever since. It is not my intent to write a story about me (whew!). It is my intent to relay facts, figures, and experiences. It is also my strong desire to relay this information in an intelligent and reasonable manner. Man, how I have come to respect the rare commodity of reasonability! My undergraduate degree is in Computer Science, and I have a minor in Math and Philosophy. Simply stated, I value logic.

Now, for some of those pictures I promised earlier. Below you will find support of my claim to be an Emerald in the Amway® business.

Amagram where I was recognized as a new Emerald in 1991

(REPRINTED WITH THE PERMISSION OF Amway® CORPORATION, ADA MI.)

The majority of Amway® websites make a lot of claims about Amway®, particularly its top distributors. However, I doubt you will find many who are active distributors and know those whom they talk so much about.

Jeff Probst with Crown Ambassador Dexter Yager

	I saw the Amway® plan one month after my 18th birthday. A little over a year later I had reached the level of "4000." At that time, I went to a meeting called a "training session" which was done by my brand new upline "Diamonds" Ron & Melanie Rummel. Here is a picture from that meeting.
From Left: Ron Rummel, Jeff Probst, Melanie Rummel

As far as how I fit in the Amway® tree, more commonly referred to as "line of sponsorship" or "upline," I am in the Gooch line of sponsorship. In fact here is my particular line of Diamonds: Yager, Setzer, Gooch, Childers, Dunn, Stewart, Rummel, Maxwell, Collinsworth, Hellinghausen. While I cannot speak specifically about other lines of sponsorship within Amway®, I do have a working knowledge of many of them.


Double Diamond Hal Gooch, Jeff Probst	Executive Diamond Bill Childers, Jeff Probst

After graduating from college, I began to pursue building my Amway® business full time. I was what many Amway® distributors call "retired," or "free." Needless to say, I was quite an anomaly having graduated and not getting a job in my chosen field of study.

From Left: Diamond Ron Rummel, Emeralds-Dennis Borgne, Jeff Probst, Ben Glover

A little later, I married my perfect mate, Joni.

From left: Jeff, Joni, Diamonds, Melanie and Ron Rummel

For those of you familiar with Amway® and the Internet, you may recognize my name. Until Amway® asked me to shut the site down (for reasons explained on the first page,) I used to have another web site which was A Response To The Anti-Amway® Site. Before it shut down, it was averaging about 200 hits per day, and had over 20,000 hits. Unfortunately, I never got to address the issue of the system, as well as other topics, on that site. That is what this site is going to do.

Hopefully, by now, I have established some credibility with you. When you're ready, continue on to The System.

Who I Am & What This Site Is About

Last modified: July 14, 1998