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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: <184164@pyramid.pyramid.com>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 21:17:16 GMT
- Sender: daemon@pyramid.pyramid.com
- Reply-To: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
- Lines: 40
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- >wrote:
- >: 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.
- >
- In article <BxAyn7.JHw@fc.sde.hp.com> fritz@fc.sde.hp.com (Gary Fritz) writes:
-
- >Lon, if someone called you a thief and a child molester in a public forum,
- >wouldn't you be tempted to try to clear your name? Most of the
- >"incessant yammering" is started because 1) someone asks an innocent
- >question, 2) some rabid anti-MLM person jumps in with the pronouncement
- >that all MLMs are scams and all MLM people are slime, 3) the MLM people
- >say "Hold on a second here," and 4) it degrades from there.
- >
- No, most of the time it is some MLM'er who doesn't have the
- decency and good taste to take the discussion to another board.
-
- >In the case of this particular discussion (the "Yup, Amway's a scam"
- >thread), it started with an unprovoked attack. Most of the "incessant
- >yammering" STARTS with the non-MLMers, NOT with the MLMers.
- >
- Hmmmmmm, "unprovoked" in whose opinion.
-
- Perhaps if the AMWAY bigots would cease their incessant postings
- of "marvelous career opportunities" they wouldn't BE so soundly
- attacked every time they post.
-
- And, although there are mixed opinions on the quality of AMWAY's
- products, their recruitment and marketing techniques exhibited
- on the net, and in any contact I've personally had with them,
- certainly are of a style that raises the "scam alert" flag.
-
- If you don't like being termed a thief and child molester, how
- about being up front with the NAME AND NATURE of what it is you
- are talking about when "you" post? After all, if you are
- wandering around playgrounds and/or or carrying a jimmy, please
- don't be offended if someone makes the obvious assumption.
-
- Oh, and PLEASE stifle the typical cross-posting impules...and
- take it to alt.scam or whatever the name of that mlm board is.
-