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- From: lou@hpkslx.mayfield.HP.COM (Lou Kvitek)
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:16:00 GMT
- Subject: Re: Nope again (was Re: Yup, Amway's a scam)
- Message-ID: <2070033@hpkslx.mayfield.HP.COM>
- Organization: HP Response Center Lab
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- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- References: <1992Nov1.152753.14007@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In misc.consumers, abulloch@garnet.berkeley.edu (Anthony Bulloch) writes:
-
- > the company could in practice stamp out such practice if they
- > wanted to) with Amway.
-
- That would be impossible to police. We're talking about 1 Million
- distributors in the US. How does Espial or NuSkin 'stamp it out'?
-
- > But, no, I don't think you _will_ find anyone in Nu Skin or
- > Espial using this kind of dissimulation; more than likely
- > the individuals who are in Amway that employ deception of this
- > kind wouldn't want to be in Nu Skin or Espial anyway: but if
-
- Why not? These unscrupulous people merely see what the power of
- building a large MLM business can do. Why should they care what
- product they are moving? Seems to me they want to generate their
- volume by continually signing up new people (very short sighted).
-
- > they did sign up with either of those companies I think it's
- > _very_ unlikely that they would use the same recruitment
- > 'methods'. 1) they would be trained differently; 2) what you
- > might call the ethos of these companies is very different.
-
- Training is great if the trainee listens and applies it, but we
- are all in our own business and are free to ignore any and all
- training if we so choose.
-
- I don't know what 'ethos' means (philosophy?), but are you suggesting
- that Amway would train its people to be deceptive? Oh-oh Anthony,
- I don't think that's what you mean. Amway's reputation as a corporation
- is unimpeachable - 33 years in business with volume over $4 BILLION,
- environmental awards from the UN, founders consulted by US Presidents
- on business issues, etc, etc. You don't achieve what Amway has achieved
- by having bad business practices (ie, a poor philosophy).
-
- > (Just to be clear: I am _not_ claiming that all Nu Skin or
- > Espial distributors are faultless! I'm commenting only on the
-
- Doesn't this disclaimer negate your entire statement? My point is
- just this, that not all distributors in MLMs apply good business
- practices - it doesn't matter which MLM they are in! Espial and
- NuSkin included! The people with these bad practices will not last!
-
- Lou
-