Posted On: July 8, 2007, 9:42 pm CDT

Posted By: Roy Blocher

Wow, I can feel the emotion in your writing. I am very sorry for your experience. And Mary, if I could change it...

I have a feeling though that me responding here may not get your ear in the way I would hope, so I'm not sure how to respond. But there are a couple points I'd like to touch on if you would allow me to.

First you have accused me of profiting from others. That hurts, and is unfair since you don't know my business or my people. So let me give just a couple examples to give you an idea. How about the stay at home mom, in Usana for a couple years, building a little customer base primarily, making a hundred bucks a week, maybe a few hundred a couple times a quarter. Then her husband up and leaves her with her son. She turns to us and says she doesn't want to leave home and put her son in daycare. We team up with her and today she is home, supported by her Usana income, bought the house from her husband, and never worked a job outside the home a single day. She is NOT yet a Gold director.

Or the couple who, after some confrontations in the public schools decide to get their kids in private schools but no way do they have the money. Today they are, paid for from their Usana income. They are NOT yet gold directors.

Or the mom in MD paying for her son's college... or the young couple in grad school who never filled out an application for a job because they would have to take a cut in pay compared to their Usana income. Now they are Gold, and did it the same month they graduated.

And finally me. I had no special opportunity. I got in like you. I had a sponsor who cared and encouraged me, but my wife and I did it. It took three years to Gold. And today I am looking at quitting a job I hate to do something that matters, helping people solve financial and health concerns for themselves and their families.

Gold directors and above come under the very same policies their teams do, no special privileges. As Golds though we are given some responsibility to approve our downline's stuff, but unless it's obvious we bounce it up.

I've already said more than you probably want to read, though there are some other statements you've made that are inaccurate, but I'll end with this. Mary, I wish I'd had you and your husband in my organization. As hard as you worked, with some guidance along the way you'd be writing from my point of view. Success in Usana depends on work, training, and teamwork. It would appear you were missing two of those.

Bless you Mary, I hope you find a path to the success you seek.

Roy

PS If you want to carry on this conversation off line I'm willing, but I think we've worn out our welcome here. Email me at roy@blocher.com