Quixtar Critic Takes Stand Against
Rumors
Wants to Debunk "Cookware Crown" Rumor
Artist's rendition of rumored early
Amway "Cookware Crown" award
According to the rumor the easiest way to accomplish this quick sales goal was to run a blitz sales campaign with Amway cookware. The one time "flash in the pan" sales would be enough to hurdle the 20 legs across the 7,500 PV long enough to qualify for the coveted crown pin, hence the "Cookware Crown" title.
This rumor has been repeated by numerous diamonds in the business for years. However Mr. Larsen could not believe it was so easy to earn crown back then and continues to seek out the truth. Today, Quixtar's requirement for Crown is 18 legs qualifying for at least 6 months out of 12 at the 7,500PV level. This is probably much more difficult to achieve from the rumored requirements prior to the early 1980's.
Knowing IBOA board members want the truth on the web about the business, Mr. Larsen sought out the truth from Mr. Jody Victor, also a crown from the early days of Amway. Unfortunately Mr. Victor refused to give Mr. Larsen any information about the qualification requirements for crown in the early 1980's, and why the requirement dropped from 20 to 18 legs at some point as well. Mr. Victor would not confirm or deny the information circulating in numerous lines of sponsorship, since Mr. Larsen is not a "lover" of the business.
Mr.
Larsen would not stop there. Next Mr. Larsen asked former Crown distributor Leonard
Hall about the rumor. Mr. Hall stated that he himself was a "cookware
crown", and that he still uses his Amway Queen cookware. Despite being
asked asked twice if the requirements for the "cookware crown" was just 20 legs
at 7,500 PV for one month, Mr. Hall refused to answer the question. Mr. Hall is no
longer associated with Amway or Quixtar and is a Xango distributor.
He still is proud of being a crown and uses the word crown in his e-mail
address.
Despite the two crowns' refusals to shed light on this rumor, Mr. Larsen did not give up and contacted, Deb, the grand daughter of Walter Bass, one of the early founders of the Amway Distributor's association. Deb's mother, daughter of Walter Bass found the rumor hard to believe and had never recalled a period in Amway where there was not at least a six month qualification period for any major pin.
The Bass family relatives believe the rumor was started by the king pins selling the tools systems of tapes, books, and motivational seminars, to justify the use of their money making systems. The theory is that now that crown is much harder to achieve than in the early days, that "success systems" are now needed to help people achieve these higher pins levels.
The record seems pretty sketchy to Larsen. Two crown distributors refuse to comment on the rumor and the relatives of a Amway Distributor's association founder, that achieved the Emerald level, don't believe it. Looks like the jury is still out.
Larsen still does not have any firm information from the early days. If any site visitors happen to have pre-1983 Amagrams or Amway business manuals please contact Mr. Larsen so that this rumor can be debunked once and for all!
1North American Crown distributors Pre 1983: Andrews, Beaird, Beecher, Blanchard, Dornan, Charlton, Delisle, Dutt, Evans, Gomeringer, Gunner, Hall, Hanson, Hedgprth, Hendrickson, Hickson, Janz, Johnson, Kendall, Laing, Dick Marks, Charlie Marks, Miller, Morse, Ossinger, Ross, Schleipfer, Schmidt, Sousa, Strehli, Ron Victor, Joe Victor, Jody Victor, Vaughan, Vogel, Webb, Williams, Yager.
2North American Crown distributors Post 1983: Britt, Foley, Ledbetter, Miller, Puryear, Sallee, Storms, Stewart.