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- Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:27:46 EST
- From: <SASBOB@vm.sas.com>
- Message-ID: <92358.152746SASBOB@vm.sas.com>
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: AMWAY et al. ==> How to Say No...
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-
- After getting countless (including 3 in the past 3 days) proposals
- to be part of multi-level "opportunities," I will share some
- sure-fire ways of saying "no" to those who ask.
-
- This is not an attack on Amway or any multi-level organization; it's
- just that not everyone sees these things as opportunies. Send flames
- to your MLM upstream, bee-line, diamond-person (or whatever you call it).
-
- The questions: Would you like to make extra money, have spare time,
- have a better relationship with your wife, retire in
- six months, have your own business?
-
-
- Answers:
-
- "Thanks, but I already have more money than I can handle. Please
- let me have a catalog." (Note: You'll never see a catalog and they
- go away.)
-
- "How much will you pay me to start?"
-
- "Are you kidding? Retire? Then what would I do all day?"
-
- "If you take me and my family out to dinner, we'll listen to your pitch."
- (Note: Plan this one around a family reunion.)
-
- "We don't believe in using soap (or whatever the product is)."
-
- "You have any real long videos that explain the plan? I need to
- tape some movies during the next HBO preview weekend."
-
- "I'll hear whatever you have to say, as long as I don't have to
- go to any meetings, listen to any tapes, or read anything."
-
- "Sure I want to know more. Let me schedule a company conference
- room for 10 a.m. Monday. I'll send a memo around so you can cover
- everyone at once."
-
-
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