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Re: Amway/Quixtar/MLMs
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:55:07 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Eric Joslin writes:
> To be clear: I am not interested in "here's why MLMs are bad", I already have
> plenty of those from webpages that illustrate it very plainly. I am not
> interested in fomenting a debate about whether MLMs are good or bad, and will
> not engage in such a debate. In the interest of equal time, I invite anyone
> who has had a positive experience with Amway/Quixtar to post their experiences
> too.
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> Especially valued, on the other hand, are stories that can act as cautionary
> tales about what my friend can expect to hear from his "upline" and at forums
> and meetings, and how grounded those statements are in reality.
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> Thanks in advance for any input anyone might have,
I'm biased. I live in Ada, Amway pays a lot of my school taxes, and I have a
lot of friends and relatives that work for Amway (the corporate entity) in
various capacities, including my sister-in-law, several nonLEGO good friends
and my LEGO good friend Steve Bliss...
You said you didn't want to hear "why MLM's are bad" but others in the
audience might. In general, MLMs are a lot of work. Your upline is typically
painting a picture using all rosy assumptions, most of which won't come to
pass. Your friends and neighbors will start avoiding you because they know
you're trying to sell them (either on products, or worse, on being your
downline). Amway as a concept is pretty mined out in the US.
Having said all that, there aren't too many MLM's around that are better
than Amway.
If you are insistent on being in an MLM (which I feel is not wise in the
first place), Amway is about the best there is. The products are good. The
brand recognition is about the best you can hope for, the support
organization is excellent (especially high level promotions, the part my
sis-in-law is in charge of :-) ) and if you can make it work, you can make
it really big.
MLMs are NOT for everybody. Heck, they are hardly for anybody.
I know I'd never want to do it... but we use Amway products at home and
vouch for their effectiveness and quality (if not their price performance in
all cases). And some very hard working people have worked themselves out of
poverty using Amway, here, and especially abroad. Not many, but a few. Not
many people have the stick-toitiveness that it takes, and the patience, and
the appetite for coldselling and plain old hard work. Me, I prefer the stock
market.
So while in the specific I wish you luck, in the abstract I want Amway to do
well, as, like I said, they pay a good chunk of the school taxes in my
district. Since I'm a pragmatist (c.f. Thoreau/Emerson), I can be against
property tax funding of schools while at the same time be willing to take
the funds Amway pours in. Hypocritically, of course. :-)
> eric
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| (...) One thing which to my mind makes property tax supported schools at least somewhat palatable is that in most parts of the country you do have at least some choice as to how much property tax you will pay, and what kind of school system (of (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| As loathe as I am to generate any more posting traffic in off-topic.debate, I have something to ask of Lugnetters that I know doesn't belong anyplace else. I have a friend who has become involved in a MLM- Quixtar, to be exact. I want to dissuade (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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