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- From: adams@spss.com (Steve Adams)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Nope again (was Re: Yup, Amway's a scam)
- Message-ID: <adams.721072275@spssig>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 17:51:15 GMT
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- fritz@fc.sde.hp.com (Gary Fritz) writes:
-
- >Steve Adams (adams@spss.com) wrote:
- >: 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.
- >
- >Those comments all show how 7-11's are different from an Amway business.
- >I don't think Lou or anyone else would argue that point.
- Then he shouldn't have drawn the false analogy.
-
- >: In addition, he probably sells
- >: Pepsi products, too. Do you sell competing products?
- >
- >It seems like the major argument you have against Lou's point (that a
- >distributor has an independent business) is that the 7-11 sells products
- >from multiple vendors.
- >
- >Even if "selling competing products" was the determiner, what would that
- >say about many other "normal" businesses? I've never seen a Big Mac
- >at a Burger King, or Exxon gas at a Shell station. Does that make
- >Burger King responsible for each franchise?
- Yes. It actually does. In fact, when I placed a complaint to Amoco about
- an independent operator, the resulting pressure from Amoco resovled the
- problem. When I called them, once they determined it was not a "company
- store" it simply changed which channels I had to go through. They
- apologized, accepted responsibility and made it right.
-
- -Steve
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