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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.  

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