Thus spake Rosalie B. :
>"George Leppla" wrote:
>
>>FWIW - I received an email from a department manager at Joystar saying what
>>a bad boy am I for questioning their business and saying "nasty" things
>>about John. My, my... I have been chastised.
>>
>>After pointing out the factual errors in her letter to me (she stated that I
>>was not a member of CLIA), I invited her to supply figures enumerating the
>>number of agents signed up with Joystar and the number of Royal Caribbean
>>cruises they sold in any given year. Somehow, I doubt that these figures
>>will be forthcoming and I don't know why. If the agents are legitimate and
>>selling travel, why not make public some figures to prove that point?
>>
>>Odd how these problems aren't mentioned on the Blog of Joystar's CEO
>>http://blog.joystar.com/default.aspx Can you imagine the CEO of a company
>>like this not addressing the issue? On Joystar's main page
>>http://joystar.com/ there is absolutely no mention fo the fact that they
>>have been dropped by Royal Caribbean while they continue to recruit new
>>members. In fact, they keep their new member count updated... 11 new members
>>this week.... yet they can't seem to mention Royal Caribbean. In their
>>"press release" section, they haven't even posted their reply to Royal
>>Caribbean's decision.
>>
>The daughter/step daughter of friends of ours has become a Joystar
>agent. I emailed her stepmom, expressing dismay, and got the reply
>that her parental units (father and stepmom) had also expressed the
>same reservations to her. But since she's over 21 (and a married
>mother of one), they decided to just go ahead and support her however
>they could.
>
>I don't think FWIW that she's a cruise agent primarily because they
>aren't cruise ship people. Both parental units have their captain's
>licenses. She has a website which the parental units use to make
>plane reservations to and from Tonga or wherever they are currently
>cruising. If she is NOT selling cruises, what would be the problem
>with being a Joystar agent?
The problem depends on how many and which suppliers take the same
move.
John is actually one of the few "agents" at Joystar that really does
book travel, unless I read him wrong. If you look at their numbers,
the "average" "agent" does very little business. IIRC, I made more in
commissions last month than the average "agent" does in three years.
--
dillon
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