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Subject: Re: Card Mills Take 'Agents' For a Ride! Posted on: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:41:55 -0600

Thus spake "George Leppla" :

>
>"John Sisker" wrote
>
>> Royal Caribbean Cruises seemingly intends to go the route of the airlines,
>> knocking travel agents out of the loop completely. In fact, Royal
>> Caribbean Cruises is still working closely with Joystar so they will know
>> their top agents to deal with only, paying them 10% commission instead of
>> the 16% they would have earned from Joystar.
>
>It has been reported that out of the thousands of agents that Joystar has,
>500 of their top agents accounted for $5 million in Royal Caribbean
>bookings. Sounds impressive until you do the math... and that means that
>Joystar's top 500 agents each sold an average of $10,000 a YEAR in Royal
>Caribbean/Celebrity cruises a year... or roughly 5 reservations per
>agent.... per YEAR.
>

Wow! Do you mean that I was one of Joystar's top agents? In October,
that is. Not so good last month or this month. But September was
equally good and I did more than that in August.
--
dillon

I used to think the horse's name was Bob.
And the angel's name was Hark.