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Page Removal |
| Note: Should any site visitor reading this page have Amway manuals from
the early 1980's specifically manuals SA 998 L-SA-091 Versions "M",
"N" or "O", please contact me.
Dear Site Visitors, On April 6th, 2006 I posted a page challenging Mr. Victor's statement that the requirements for being a Crown Distributor, when he qualified for Crown were 20 platinum legs (6 months out of 12 at or above 7500PV). I challenged his statement for two reasons:
Since my post I received an e-mail informing me that the rules from the 1981 kit manual, in my possession, were possibly revised without a corresponding revision to the Amway manual, and that possibly a rule change for Crown was made for the time period when Mr. Victor qualified for Crown. That means the rules were changed for fiscal year 1981 starting on Sep. 1, 1980 although they had just printed a new Amway manual just three months prior on May 30, 1980. The rule change supposedly required new Crowns to have 20 direct distributor legs (3 consecutive months at 7500PV), instead of just one month of qualification. Unfortunately, the site visitor could not supply me with any photo copies or scans of Amway documentation to support this claim, so I cannot yet state it as a fact either. The "L" version of the Amway manual covered a period of 27 months without an update for the rules changes that supposedly came just 3 months after the "L" version's issuance. Given that new unconfirmed information has come to me, which possibly puts the true requirements for Crown somewhere between the one month (silver) and six month (platinum); that is as a Direct Distributor (3 consecutive month at or above 7500PV), I felt it prudent to remove the page, since it possibly contained inaccurate information which was entirely based upon the contents of the Amway manual in the 1981 kit, which Amway never revised until 9/1982. I do not want to imply that Crown at that time required the legs to have one month of qualification when in fact it required three consecutive months. However it is still less than the 6 out of 12 months required for a platinum as was stated on the IBOAI website. My web page made reference to the potentially easier qualification of crown with just one month qualification as a "cookware crown". Just to avoid any confusion, there was nothing that I knew of improper, or less than honorable in using a sales push to move Amway Cookware to achieve the pin. As far as I know, it was all totally "legal" with Amway at the time. I just wanted to contrast the potentially easier 20 leg, one month qualification requirement with obtaining Crown today with 18 platinum legs or Diamond with 22 FAA credits. Additionally, Mr. Victor had already implied that because he had 20 platinum legs, so he had far exceeded the requirements of one month qualifying "silver" legs. I never implied, or said that Mr. Victor possibly only met the minimum requirements of one month qualification. I only wanted to point out that he had qualified for Crown during the same time that Crown required just one month qualification as evidence by the information in the manual from the 1981 distributor kit. Of course the new site visitor input puts into question now a three month consecutive qualification of "direct distributor" instead of just a one month qualification period. However a three month period is only half the minimum required volume (6 months) needed for a platinum today. The next version of the Amway manual was issued 13 months after Mr. Victor obtained crown. Based upon the yet unconfirmed new information, which might raise doubts about the the statements I made on the web page, that is three consecutive months qualification versus one month or six month qualifying legs, I will retract the page and apologize to Mr. Victor for challenging his statement that 20 platinum legs were the requirement for Crown in Amway fiscal year 1981-1982. Timeline: (Amway Manual From Data at the US Copyright office) |
