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- From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr)
- Subject: Re: Nope again (was Re: Yup, Amway's a scam)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.034905.23479@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov1.152753.14007@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <2070033@hpkslx.mayfield.HP.COM>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 03:49:05 GMT
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- In article <2070033@hpkslx.mayfield.HP.COM> lou@hpkslx.mayfield.HP.COM (Lou Kvitek) writes:
- >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).
-
- Unimpeachable? Give me a break! Amway's reputation is SO BAD that they
- go out of their way to conceal who they are.
-