X-Message-Number: 26941 From: "John de Rivaz" <> References: <> Subject: Re: Affiliate program Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 12:15:03 +0100 People who are new to cryonics often come up with the idea of an affiliate program or multi-level marketing. Because cryonics is an expensive process, people think that those who work for it are paid huge salaries and enormous profits are made. If someone educates someone else about cryonics to the extent that they actually sign up fully funded, then the fact that there is a small chance the subject's life may be saved should be sufficient reward. Alcor member Dr Steve Harris wrote about the subject at length some years ago, and a copy of his article can be found on http://www.longevity-report.com/lr53.htm#CRYONICS It may also be helpful if those new to cryonics check the link below before submitting suggestions. Doing so will prevent them looking foolish. http://www.cryonics.org/whydontwe.html where the answer >> Commission based selling has a bad name generally with the public. To associate this with cryonics which is viewed with extreme suspicion is not a good idea. << comes back. Cryonics is not like the established professions of law, medicine etc. It is more like a situation on Star Trek where an away team is lost and scattered on a planet with no radio communication (sub space or ordinary) and has to do its best to survive. In such a situation, none of them would be worried about pay or businesses etc. buy only with how to contact Star Fleet (cf cryonicists wanting to get as much as possible to a future world that can reanimate them). CI has very few paid staff. Although Alcor has more and I don't know their salaries, I gather from past messages on cryonet that those involved could earn more elsewhere if earning money was their sole purpose. All cryonics people work on the subject because they want to save lives, not to make money. I recall no instance where anyone has been offered a free cryopreservation in exchange for services rendered, although there was a "celebrity" free offer made by Alcor some years ago. It did not succeed. Details can be found in the article WHEN YOU CAN'T EVEN GIVE IT AWAY -- CRYONICS AND FRED POHL by Mike Darwin (with assistance from Steve Bridge) which can be found on http://www.alcor.org/cryonics/cryonics8301.txt -- Sincerely, John de Rivaz: http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy, Nomad .. and more Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26941