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Date: Sat, 24-Nov-84 22:52:31 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 24 22:52:31 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Nov-84 03:43:35 EST
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Reply-To: jimb@amd.UUCP (Jim Budler)
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In article <> gnu@sun.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
> Sorry, didn't mean to run down Amway -- I once attended one of their
> seminars and added up the profit margins and it looks like a reasonable
> business. If you are an Amway dealer you get a cut on anything you sell,
> plus a smaller cut on anything that people-you-introduced-to-amway sell.
> The way to get rich is to make all your friends Amway dealers and let them
> do the work. That sounded like what the color card message was trying
> to do -- "don't buy from the manufacturer, buy from me".
>
> I have no complaint with Amway's products or sales techniques. (It was
> interesting to note however that THEY are sensitive about it -- e.g.
> the 2-hour seminar I went to never even mentioned the name "Amway" til very
> close to the end, for fear you would walk out early.)
It is a good business, you can make money at it, BUT you will earn
every penny of it. There are a couple of things they de-emphasize,
such as the fact that you only get a percentage of the sales of
people you bring into the fold as long as they remain in the
catagory below you. Any real whiz-bang of a salesman you bring in,
who exceedes your gross, also pulls his percentage back out of your
pocket.
I don't say this to put Amway down, if I was the whiz-bang I
wouldn't want a percentage of my work going to someone whose
contribution was only to introduce me.
--
Jim Budler
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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