Sell N21 or Amway?

Some people are advocating that N21 should:

1. Tell the whole world how much the company is making on the sale of tools;

2. Lower (or even scrap) the cost of BSMs;

3. Build an Amway business, rather than focusing on selling tools to IBOs;

4. Be more "transparent"; and

5. N21 speakers should state that their lifestyle is "not" paid for by Amway money, but by profits earned from N21 material sales.

I would like to respond briefly that:

1. Really, unless N21 is a public-listed company, there is absolutely NO REASON why they should declare any figures. Can we respect that?

2. Like #1, why should N21 "lower" their cost of their products anywhere? That should be dictated by the marketplace. If it is too overpriced, the purchasers will know, and N21 will be forced to lower it when there are low sales. If a tool is really good, the cost of it might even be INCREASED for the value it brings to the buyers.

3. Why should N21 stop focusing on selling their tools to IBOs and making itself profitable? Selling tools IS their primary business, and IBOs are fully benefiting from their creations. Asking N21 to sell the Amway business more than its tools is like asking Robert Kiyosaki to speak more about Amway during his seminars for IBOs instead of his own books and CDs.

4. How much more transparent can you get? N21 speakers have again and again emphasised that the tools are entirely optional and that they do not promise you anything.

5. N21 speakers that I have been listening to state that the lifestyle they are living is a result of going Diamond WITH N21, and the lifestyle is more focused on the FREEDOM of time and movement they enjoy, rather than jet planes and resorts. (this is perhaps unique to N21, I do not speak for other systems.) Becoming Diamond should be the one and only focus of any IBO. Moreover, is it not ridiculous to imply that the Amway money at the Diamond level cannot pay for the lifestyle of the person on stage, or at least part of it?

More importantly, people have even mentioned that of course N21 has to make some money somewhere because they are a COMPANY. That is, there is staff to pay, operational costs involved, future items to create, new offices to start and fund - all of which costs money.

Any business-minded person will know that if you want to purchase any tools for any business (not just in the Amway business), you have to pay. Any professional will know that nothing is free, and that the cost of buying tools may or may not result in results, since results really boils down to whether you are just a CD hearer, or action-taker.