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Posted By: The Roadie <wcarton@flash.net> In Response To: Re: Quixtar (Amy)
Friday, 18 March 2005, at 11:01 a.m.
> Suprised that my doctor is trying to bring me
> in on it.
Yeah - why isn't he just trying to sell you the products? He could have a closet full of them in his clinic and push a lot of detergent that way. :-)
Perhaps you might think he's unethical or sub-professional to repurpose your doctor-patient relationship into something else?
> Just trying to understand why he is involved in it. I'm starting
> to understand why, he's involved at a very high level. If it had been
> anyone other than him I wouldn't have sat through even five minutes of the
> meeting.
That he took advantage of your relationship would be enough to get me to change doctors and file an ethics complaint, but then I'm a hard-nose.
> He let us borrow some CDs and a book. The CDs are nothing but a great big
> pep rally. A hug fest on audio. No mention of product. Red flag for me.
> One of the first things he said to us (as he was showing us pictures of
> beautiful houses, cars and people) was that they are selling a lifestyle.
> Another red flag for me. I finally got to the products on the website. Not
> anything I would buy. So how can I sell it?
Indeed.
> I want to believe in it. Who doesn't want to believe in $160,000 a year in
> 2-5 years in your spare time?
But WHERE does that money come from? Unless you're certain your skills are worth $160,000 a year for a part-time job, it's theft. Perhaps theft with permission of your victims, but isn't it clear? The products are overpriced, could never stand to be sold on the open shelves alongside other fairly-priced items, and they have to wrap it all in some mysterious "high-concentration means you use less of the goop" wrapper.
Selling overpriced crapola to pay for the lifestyle is what you do to strangers, not your neighbors, if you want to do it at all. But it sounds like you don't. Cool.
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