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- From: lpj@col.hp.com (Laura Johnson)
- Subject: Re: Kerby Vacuum Cleaners Information
- Sender: news@col.hp.com (Usenet News)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.234806.18398@col.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:48:06 GMT
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- References: <1992Nov16.180614.25455@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division
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- patter@dasher.cc.bellcore.com (patterson,george r) writes:
- > In article <BxtGyx.8yF@mail.boi.hp.com> ahill@boi.hp.com writes:
- >
- > >The sales organization is a pyramid, with fairly large markups at each
- > >level. Based on guesstimates from an ex-Kirby salesman, I derived an
- > >approximate pricing chart:
- >
- > I don't know what the organization actually is, but it is *not* a
- > pyramid. These have been against Federal law for nearly twenty years.
- >
-
- I think he meant the organization is pyramid-shaped (multiple levels with
- more salespeople as you go down) rather than that it conforms to the
- federal definition of an illegal "pyramid" scheme. (As I understand it,
- that definition is quite detailed and technical and does *not* just
- refer to a pyramid-shaped organizational structure.)
- --
- Laura Johnson
- lpj@hpcsos.col.hp.com
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