Wednesday 18 March 2009

Don't mix up regular business with the scam, Amway friend

It seems you are thoroughly enjoying the sparring my friend. Amway is not a regular business or film making or novel writing. If it is regular business it would have sold its products in any shop or big mall. It was an 'ingeniously' conceived trap (this is the word used by our learned Judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court). You are mixing the regular business with a scandal like Amway. Again you are silent on the membership fee and its annual renewal scam. That is what the High Court judge pointed out. Unjust enrichment. Easy and Quick money for the Amway and its top people.
The Amway members have to purchase at least Rs. 2500 worth products every month to keep them eligible for earning commission. Most of the products are not at all useful for us Indians. And to get rid of them they make rounds to the houses of known persons sometimes giving as gifts. You know that it is a sizable amount for even a middle class family in the country. Still, they invest that amount in the hope that they would become millionaires soon. That is the mirage.
About marital discards, of course, they are common. But the discard is due to the difference of opinion on Amway business. That is the crux of the point. If it is one family we can understand. If there are dozens of families, we have to probe the reason. I have not even wildest imagination that Amway cult people could be convinced with argument or reason. My point is to warn my fellow Indians from falling prey to the predators like Amway, Herbalife and plethora of Indian con men who are following in the footsteps of Amway. One Japan Life racket was smashed and GoldQuest International was closed. But they all already destroyed the economy and social relations.
For the sake of information, a rice trader in a small town in Andhra Pradesh is indulging in the same modus operandi. He is selling 50 kg rice for Rs. 1500 when the actual price is only Rs. 800. He is inducing the public to bring in more people to buy the rice at that price with the offer of commission. A case was booked against him under the money circulation schemes banning act and was put behind the bars. This is only an example. It should happen to the big corporates also.
Regarding the question of my credentials, you know well and still asking.

2 comments:

IBOFB said...

You're still ignoring the key phrase of the Andra Pradesh case. I don't have it in front of me, but if I recall correctly it was something like "if the allegations are true ..."

I agree, if what the Police claimed was true, then Amway has a problem. They're not true however. They're the same misunderstandings you refuse to consider are untrue.

Re the membership fee, it's tiny, commissions are not paid on it, and distributors receive services in return.

Most of the products are not at all useful for us Indians!!!??!?!!

hahhhaah ... what arrogance you have, to decide for a billion people what it is they want and need! A country where somehere near 700 million folk have vitamin and mineral deficiences surely couldn't need nutritional supplements. A country with hundreds of thousands of millionaires, and more on the way surely has nobody interested in purchasing high quality skin care products.

You think "dozens of families" with discord linked to Amway is cause for concern?

I asked you your experience as a businessman - you refuse to answer.

I asked you your political positions re communism - you refuse to answer.

So now I ask you your experience as a statisticain - have you any? I spent a decade employed by a top university as a statisician. "dozens of families" out of hundreds of thousands is meaningless, particularly when it's noted there's far more outside the sample of interest!

So - any knowledge and experience of statistical analysis?

By the way, in my opinion Japan Life and QuestNet clearly are scams, and if you can't see the difference between the way they operated and the way Amway operates, well you're truly not being honest with yourself.

1. What's your experience in business?
2. Are you connected with the communist party?
3. What's you experience as a statistician?

devdath melwin said...

I'm ABO since 7 years for the products. I introduced the products to many. I'm getting repeat order every month. I nursed back to health,my as well as many people I contacted who were not getting any relief from traditional or allopathy. I'm happy, they r happy,without our support this co. couldn't have achieved more than 800 crore turnover this year.When I visited dubai,I really missed all the cleaning products of our co. They had all the leading brands from all the countries,but still lacked the quality I used to get from Amway.