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- From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Nope again (was Re: Yup, Amway's a scam)
- Message-ID: <184152@pyramid.pyramid.com>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 01:20:25 GMT
- Sender: daemon@pyramid.pyramid.com
- Reply-To: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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- >lou@hpkslx.mayfield.HP.COM (Lou Kvitek) writes:
- >
- >>In misc.consumers, jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr) writes:
- >>
- >>> Right. I guess I didn't make my point very clearly but the poster I'm
- >>> replying to put it well. After all, it's not just that local individuals
- >>> are reluctant to spill the beans about it being Amway, but that it's so
- >>> ingrained that it seems to be a matter of corporate policy to pretend you own
- >>> this little local business that COULDN'T POSSIBLY be AMWAY.
- >>
- >>I must repeat Joel, it IS the truth (believe it or not), Amway distributors
- >>run there OWN business. Their business merely uses Amway as a supplier.
- >>The same is true for your local 7-Eleven. The 7-Eleven owner carries
- >>Coca-Cola products, but he is not IN Coca-Cola. Here merely has Coca-Cola
- >>supply him with products.
- >
- In article <adams.721000176@spssig> adams@spss.com (Steve Adams) writes:
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- >Bzzzzt. The 7-11 owner gets products from multiple vendors and sells
- >directly to the public. He doesn't need to (or try) to sign up other
- >people to run 7-11's that he will supply. In addition, he probably sells
- >Pepsi products, too. Do you sell competing products?
- >
- And few 7-11 owners bore the heck out of the newsnet with
- incessant yammering about whether or not their product is or is
- not a scam...as if anyone with a life really gave a rat.
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