Amway Co-Founder Jay Van Andel Dies

AP via Fox News ^ | 12/7/04 | Unknown

[Pest]

Amway Co-Founder Jay Van Andel Dies Tuesday, December 07, 2004 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Jay Van Andel (search), the co-founder of Amway Corp. (search) who helped parlay neighborhood soap sales into a billion-dollar business and later became a leading philanthropist for conservative causes, has died.

[xzins]

RIP, Mr Van Andel.

Unfortunately, they ran your business into the ground. It's shameful compared to what you made it.

[y2k_free_radical]

ROTFLMAO

[y2k_free_radical]

you,sir,are correct

[y2k_free_radical]

based on the multitude of little people working for nothinhg or losing money

[em2vn]

How about a great salesman?

[EveningStar]

You're bad. LOL!

[Cardician]

Buried with her SA-8 and LOC...garbage that made them billions of dollars.....

[Cardician]

Do not liken it to a religion, it is closer aligned to a cult. There is a difference.

[tiki]

They don't have to die! They just have to use the services of the mortician and recruit other people to use the services of the mortician.

[Walkingfeather]

the company that has split more churches and friendships than any other I know. ... dont bother refuting it I will never change my mind on it.

[Salvation]

It is not a pyramid. Many people below a sponsor make much more money.

[Salvation]

Why are you so sarcastic? Many people work very hard as entrepeneurs -- owning their own business.

[Salvation]

Thanks for speaking the truth here -- it seems that many are uneducated about what the VanAndel and DeVos families have done for the Republican Party and for America in general.

[Salvation]

Thank you for you remarks -- some people were way off base here.

[Salvation]

Your remarks are ofofensive and out of order here. This man was a great Republican and a great American.

[Salvation]

You are vastly misinformed.

[Salvation]

**From my experience there were two (or more) totally different forms of AMWAY. I think Van Andel and De Vos basic idea was genius. I sell to my friends and family, they sell to their friends and family, they in turn sell to their friends and family,*8

And this is exactly what Karl Rove patterned the neighborhood home parties support Bush/Cheney after in the lead up to this election. Rove is no dummy. The system worked well. (In both the business and in the elction cases.)

[Salvation]

Those remarks weren't needed.

[birbear]

Actually Amway's products were often better than "Brand name" products purchased at the grocery store.

At the pizza dive I worked at, we all made fun of the owner for being involved with Amway, but nothing made the floors shine and the silverware sparkle than the Amway soaps and cleaners.

[Bandaneira]

Something about Amway didn't gel with me when I was first introduced to it in the mid 80's. I never became involved with it heavily although I knew an old friend who did. He wasted a lot of time and effort for nothing. It was based on charm and subterfuge, not merit and openness.