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From: gnu@sun.uucp (John Gilmore)
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Subject: Re: STOP! Save alot of money / Amway cut
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Date: Wed, 21-Nov-84 23:21:37 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 21 23:21:37 1984
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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.)