This is a wonderful attempt at the "false analogy". It ranks up
alongside the "well every business is organized like a pyramid".
"other sources of income" is a great concept and one that many of us
try to accomplish so that we are not at the mercy of one thing. But
that is not what the tools thing actually is.
If you ran a car dealership and had all the salesmen and employees pay
you a fee to work there and agree that they would have to buy an auto
(or spare parts) up to a certain level per month in order to qualify -
that would make them close to an MLM. If, at the same time you were to
realize that persuading those same people to give you money for
"material" and paying to come to meetings "to help them become better
at what they do" and exacting a huge profit out of that. Well then the
analogy would probably be correct.
To my mind the "tools" income was a way for a few to shear the flock
of the many. And in an astounding piece of stupidity they really seem
to admit it.
1) They claim that Amway's products are too expensive to make a decent
profit retailing them
2) They claim that they have said so on many occasions
3) Therefore they KNEW that it was impossible for any IBO to build a
business and make a reasonable part time income. Yet they recruited
thousands upon thousands based on that exact thing.
These are exploitive, lying people. Even in their public utterances it
is obvious if you can parse out what they are really saying.
mick
--- In mlmsurvivorsclub@
<cantonoh2003@
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> An analogy they used was a car dealership.
>
>
> Say you wanted to sell new cars and started a business doing so creating
> income.
>
>
> As people wanted to trade-in their cars to buy a new one, you found
> yourself additionally in the used-car sales business, now with a second
> income.
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> Next, people came in with their car wanting service so you start a
> service business—income number three.
>
>
> The service business needs parts so you start a parts
> businesss—income number four.
>
>
> Certainly, there is nothing wrong with these other sources of income. If
> you made more income in your service business than in selling new cars
> (your original business) is there anything morally wrong with that? Is
> your primary business selling new cars or are you just in the car
> business with multiple businesses interlinked? Finally, what if someone
> was considering starting a new car sales business and you were to share
> your knowledge of it with them? Should you not share the other
> interlinked businesses in the discussion even though they may never get
> to that point?
>
> Open disclosure on this topic is a large battle between the field
> leadership and the Corporation. I believe the Amway/Quixtar reputation
> suffers less when this knowledge is hidden.
>
>
> They can then discredit the IBO leadership rather than allow the public
> to learn the truth of how little profit margin remains in the
> Amway/Quixtar products after the DeVos and VanAndel families take their
> cut. However, as the Company takes over the BSM business with their new
> contracts, this will be a moot point, as they will have the power to
> regulate pricing and profits on BSMs as well……"
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