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Entry: Betterware catalogue - A761177
Author: Han McMan - U194348

Have updated article wrt. comments made

Sounds like a Lillian Vernon or Harriet Carter catalogue in the US, only those come in the mail.

There's a first person reference in there that should be edited.

Is there more that could be added to this? Some of their most popular products, their best products? The general quality of their products, or their comparative prices? Is the catalogue the only way to order their merchandise, or can you order online or over the phone?

Just some ideas.

hi, I'll check it out

You'll have to be very careful with this one to avoid it being little more than an advert for the company. Also, the <./>writing-guidelines</.> do state that entries should not be written in the first person, so things like 'me too' will have to come out.

This does seem very much like an advert...

This could easily be rewritten as an entry about what was once one of the best known companies in the UK.

Yep - just needs a little work.

The comments made me smile because originally it was a short thing about betterware that was supposed to be funny.

In response to previous comments I was asked to add more factual content about the company. I'm not sure how to proceed with it.

We want it to be funny. But it won't be if the person reading it has never heard of Betterware.

The author seems to have disappeared - back to entry?

Have to wait a full 2 months before the author is officially elvised and he posted onsite 5 weeks ago.

Two months have now gone by.

It seems this has been in Flea Market once before. Do folk think it should go back there or back to Entry?

Jules

It's still got potential, so I'd say back to FM with it.

But does the author have a habit of Elvising and then coming back?

Looks like he stopped working on it in 2002, it went to Flea Market, he took it out again in 2004 (which I think is great) but now he's gorn again.

I wonder if It's anything like Tupperware in the US? Perhaps if it gets to the FM, someone will look into it.

It's not anything like Tupperware in the US, or Tupperware anywhere else.

LOL! Ok - I don't get out much, so I wasn't sure how universal it was ... now I'm curious; I'll have to check out the link.

I'd say back to entry - there just isn't enough of it for me to seriously believe that anyone would rescue and work on it.