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Scientology library: “Hard sell”

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Hard sell

18 matching items found between Jan 1985 and Dec 1989. Furthermore, there are 76 matching items for all time not shown.

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Sep 29, 1989		Affidavit of Monica Pignotti (29 September 1989) Edit item... Type: Affidavit Author(s): Monica Pignotti Tag(s): Advanced Organization of Los Angeles (AOLA) • Apollo (formerly, "Royal Scot Man"; often misspelled "Royal Scotman", "Royal Scotsman") • Body thetans (BTs) • Children, youth • Committee of Evidence ("Comm Ev") • Communications Course • Cost • Ethics (Scientology) • Fort Harrison Hotel (also, Flag Land Base) @ 210 South Fort Harrison Avenue Clearwater FL United States • Hard sell • Hypnosis • Mary Sue (Whipp) Hubbard • Monica Pignotti • Oxford Capacity Analysis (aka, "free Scientology personality test" aka "U-Test" aka "Pape Test") • Paulette Cooper • Quentin Geoffrey MaCauley Hubbard • Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) • Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) • Suicide • Suppressive person (SP) • The Scandal of Scientology (book) • Tonja C. Burden • Training Routines (TRs) • Xenu (Operating Thetan level 3, OT 3, Wall of Fire)
Nov 25, 1988		Hard sell — L.A. Weekly (California) More: link Edit item... Type: Press Author(s): Ruben Martinez Source: L.A. Weekly (California) Usted ana de esas personas interesadas en conocer mas acerca de si mismo? (Are you one of those people interested in knowing more about yourself?) That's the nice, clean, formal Spanish that begins, innocently enough, a four-page text (pink with black ink) stuffed between the news and sports sections of a recent issue of La Opinion. Such inserts are not uncommon — they're great marketing ploys. What with everyone jumping on the hot "Hispanic" market these days, we suppose no one ... Tag(s): Hard sell • L.A. Weekly (California) • Recruitment • Ruben Martinez
May 26, 1988		Cult to pay taxes // US court confirms Church of Scientology is a profit making organisation — East Grinstead Courier (UK) More: link Edit item... Type: Press Source: East Grinstead Courier (UK) THE church of Scientology has been ruled a profit making organisation. In the Supreme Court, Washington DC, last Monday, the cult was refused leave to appeal against a 1984 tax exempt ruling and must now pay $1.2 million back taxes for 1970 to 1972 and $287,614 in penalties for late filing. This will come as a severe blow to the church which has been fighting the Internal Revenue Service since the late 1960's to keep its tax exemption status. The United ... Tag(s): Church of Scientology of California (CSC) • Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (book) • East Grinstead Courier (UK) • Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation • Hard sell • Internal Revenue Service (IRS) • Inurement • Lawsuit • Martin J. Greenberg • Operation and Transport Corporation, Ltd. (OTC) • Royalties, license, trademark, management fees • Tax matter • United Kingdom (UK)
May 26, 1988		Letters: The 'Big League Sales' church — East Grinstead Courier (UK) More: link Edit item... Type: Press Source: East Grinstead Courier (UK) The 'Big League Sales' Church AS the perpetrator of the supposed 'hooligan antics' against the Concerned Businessman's Association at the May Fayre, could I reply to the Scientology Public Relations officer's allegations? Worried by the Courier's recent story on the tactic of luring children into Scientology via front groups, I stopped by at the Concerned Businessman's Association stand to find whether they admitted any link to Scientology. Asked the question, one of the scientologists on the stand said 'yes', the other ... Tag(s): Amprinistics • Big League Sales Closing Techniques (book) • Cost • Disconnection • East Grinstead Courier (UK) • Fair game • Front groups • George Bryce • Hard sell • John Fox • Letter • Membership • Mitch Beedie • Recruitment • Set A Good Example Foundation (formerly, Concerned Businessmen's Association of America) • Suppressive person (SP) • Tom B. Shuster • United Kingdom (UK) • Xenu (Operating Thetan level 3, OT 3, Wall of Fire)
May 19, 1988		Man loaned cash for Scientology courses — East Grinstead Courier (UK) More: cosmedia.freewinds.cx, link Edit item... Type: Press Source: East Grinstead Courier (UK) AS the Church of Scientology hits hack at last week's report outlining its "hard sell" techniques, we can reveal that some people were so desperate to raise money for courses that they used the services of a fellow Scientologist who loaned them money at exhorbitant rates of interest. Dozens of people rang to confirm the details of last week's story and some provided documents showing how one wealthy Scientologist loaned his own money to help people pay for the cult's expensive ... Tag(s): East Grinstead Courier (UK) • Ethics (Scientology) • Hard sell • Oswald Lindsay • Richard Branson • Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) • Source (magazine) • The Way to Happiness (TWTH) • United Kingdom (UK) • Virgin (UK)
May 12, 1988		The 'Hard Sell' Cult — East Grinstead Courier (UK) More: link Edit item... Type: Press Author(s): Mike Ricks, Sarah Gorman Source: East Grinstead Courier (UK) As a campaign by members of the church of Scientology to make Britain the first Scientology country gains momentum, we can reveal the cost of the "hard sell" 'religion' which has split families and which last week led one Ashurst Wood couple to the Bankruptcy Court. Our investigations suggest the cult uses high pitch American style sales techniques to trap their hapless "believers" in a never ending web of lengthy courses. Scientology is the religious philosophy which grew out of Dianetics, ... Tag(s): Adrian Hayman • Auditing • Author Services, Inc. (ASI) (dba, Galaxy Press) (subsidiary of Church of Spiritual Technology) • Bankruptcy • Communications Course • Cost • Derek Field • Dianetics • Disconnection • East Grinstead Courier (UK) • Hard sell • Jocelyn Hayman • John Fox • Justice Latey, Sir John • Mary Liberson • Medical claims • Mike Ricks • Operating Thetan (OT) • Registrar (also, to "reg") • Saint Hill Manor @ East Grinstead (UK) • Set A Good Example Foundation (formerly, Concerned Businessmen's Association of America) • The Way to Happiness (TWTH) • United Kingdom (UK) • Xenu (Operating Thetan level 3, OT 3, Wall of Fire)
Jan 21, 1988		An open letter to the readers of The New York Review of Books From publisher Lyle Stuart: 'Danger: Cult at Work! The truth about Scientology' — New York Times More: link Edit item... Type: Press Author(s): Lyle Stuart Source: New York Times Tag(s): Bent Corydon • Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation • Hard sell • L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman? (book) • Lyle Stuart • New York Times • Threat
Sep 29, 1987		International Management Bulletin No. 108 / What is life worth? The importance of hard sell — Church of Scientology International (CSI) Edit item... Type: Scripture Source: Church of Scientology International (CSI) Tag(s): Big League Sales Closing Techniques (book) • Church of Scientology International (CSI) • Division 6 • Field Staff Member (FSM) • Hard sell • Income • Registrar (also, to "reg")
Jan 1, 1987		The Hard Sell Pack — New Era Publications International, ApS (NEPI) Edit item... Type: Scripture Source: New Era Publications International, ApS (NEPI) Tag(s): Big League Sales Closing Techniques (book) • Hard sell • New Era Publications International, ApS (NEPI) • Registrar (also, to "reg") • [needtotag]
Feb 6, 1986		Religion: Lessons for the Hubbard faithful — The Australian Edit item... Type: Press Author(s): James Murray Source: The Australian Tag(s): Australia • Dianetics • E-Meter • Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation • Hard sell • James Murray • L. Ron Hubbard's credentials • The Australian Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Nov 4, 1985		Family save son who paid cult £100,000 — Daily Mail (UK) More: link Edit item... Type: Press Author(s): Sean Ryan Source: Daily Mail (UK) THE son of a wealthy landowner has been rescued by his family from a cult with whom he spent more than £100,000. Andrew Dobie, 22, was held a virtual prisoner by his family in a remote cottage where the windows had been nailed shut and the keys hidden. There he was rigorously deprogrammed to reverse the teachings of the cult, the Church of Scientology — an organisation branded immoral in a High Court judgment last year. 'It wasn't the money they ... Tag(s): Andrew Dobie • Battlefield Earth • Daily Mail (UK) • Deprogramming • Hard sell • Martin Faiers • Michael "Mike" Garside • Sean Ryan • United Kingdom (UK) • [needtotag]
May 26, 1985		The selling of Scientology // Hubbard's motivations revealed in correspondence — The Oregonian (Portland) More: link Edit item... Type: Press Author(s): Fred Leeson Source: The Oregonian (Portland) Three years after publishing a best-selling book in 1950 about his theories for improving mental health, L. Ron Hubbard, 42, was living in Spain and worrying about money. An idea struck him. Why not present Scientology as a religion, he suggested in a letter written to Helen O'Brien, then the head of an organization for marketing his mental health concepts known as the Hubbard Association of Scientologists. This was the formative stage of the Church of Scientology. Over the next 30 ... Tag(s): "Casualty Contact" • Association for Better Living and Education (ABLE) (formerly, "Social Coordination" or SOCO) • Big League Sales Closing Techniques (book) • Delphi Schools, Inc. • Fair game • Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation • Fred Leeson • Hard sell • Heber C. Jentzsch • Helen O'Brien • Homosexuality • Hubbard Association of Scientologists (HAS) • Inurement • John Carmichael • Judge Donald H. Londer • Julie Christofferson Titchbourne • L. Ron Hubbard's credentials • Laird D. Caruthers • Lawsuit • Martin L. Samuels • Medical claims • Recruitment • Refunds • Registrar (also, to "reg") • Religious cloaking • Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) • Statistics (Stats) • Suppressive person (SP) • The Oregonian (Portland) • Wiretap • Wog
May 20, 1985		Cleric says $39 million verdict not threat to freedom of religion — The Oregonian (Portland) More: link Edit item... Type: Press Author(s): Sura Rubenstein Source: The Oregonian (Portland) Local religious spokesmen Saturday disputed statements by Scientologists that a $39 million court judgment against the Church of Scientology represented a threat to freedom of religion. "This is not a freedom of religion issue at all," the Rev. Rodney I. Page, executive director of Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, said Saturday of the punitive damages awarded Julie Christofferson Titchbourne, who sued the Church of Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, for fraud. "This was a case in which someone's civil rights ... Tag(s): American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) • Bent Corydon • Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation • Hard sell • Julie Christofferson Titchbourne • Lawsuit • Sura Rubenstein • The Oregonian (Portland)
May 19, 1985		Scientology jury awards $39 million — The Oregonian (Portland) More: link Edit item... Type: Press Author(s): Fred Leeson Source: The Oregonian (Portland) A Multnomah County Circuit Court jury awarded $39 million in punitive damages Friday to a Portland woman after finding she was victimized by "wanton misconduct" by the Church of Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. The verdict was returned in favor of Julie Christofferson Titchbourne, 27, after 2½ days of deliberation and a 10-week trial. One of her lawyers, Ronald L. Wade, said it was the biggest punitive damages verdict in Oregon history. John Carmichael, president of the Church of ... Tag(s): Church of Scientology Mission of Davis • Church of Scientology of California (CSC) • Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation • Fred Leeson • Hard sell • John Carmichael • Judge Donald H. Londer • Julie Christofferson Titchbourne • Lawsuit • Perjury • Protest, picket • Refunds • The Oregonian (Portland)
May 18, 1985		Woman awarded $39 million in Scientology suit — The Oregonian (Portland) More: link Edit item... Type: Press Author(s): Fred Leeson Source: The Oregonian (Portland) A Multnomah County Circuit Court jury awarded $39 million in punitive damages Friday to a Portland woman after finding that she was victimized by "wanton misconduct" by the Church of Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. The verdict was returned in favor of Julie Christofferson Titchbourne, 27, after 2½ days of deliberations and a 10-week trial. One of her lawyers, Ronald L. Wade, said it was the biggest punitive damages verdict in Oregon history. The jury also awarded fraud damages ... Tag(s): Church of Scientology Mission of Davis • Church of Scientology of California (CSC) • Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation • Fred Leeson • Garry P. McMurry • Hard sell • Judge Donald H. Londer • Julie Christofferson Titchbourne • Lawsuit • Perjury • Refunds • The Oregonian (Portland)
Mar 22, 1985		Ex-Scientologists tried mutiny, court told — The Oregonian (Portland) Edit item... Type: Press Author(s): Fred Leeson Source: The Oregonian (Portland) Tag(s): Commodore's Messenger Organization (CMO) • Earle C. Cooley • Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation • Fred Leeson • Hard sell • Lawsuit • Registrar (also, to "reg") • The Oregonian (Portland) • Watchdog Committee (WDC) • William W. "Bill" Franks
Mar 20, 1985		Former Scientology official tells of stress on money — The Oregonian (Portland) Edit item... Type: Press Author(s): Fred Leeson Source: The Oregonian (Portland) Tag(s): Apollo (formerly, "Royal Scot Man"; often misspelled "Royal Scotman", "Royal Scotsman") • Assets • Church of Scientology Mission of Davis • Church of Scientology of California (CSC) • Deprogramming • Fred Leeson • Hard sell • Income • Inurement • Julie Christofferson Titchbourne • Lawsuit • Registrar (also, to "reg") • Religious cloaking • The Oregonian (Portland) • William W. "Bill" Franks
Jan 1, 1985		Scientology — CBC Edit item... Type: TV Author(s): Hana Gartner Source: CBC Tag(s): Canada • CBC • Cost • Disconnection • E-Meter • Fair game • Frank Watson • Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation • Gerald "Gerry" Armstrong • Hana Gartner • Hard sell • Heber C. Jentzsch • John McLean • Judge Paul G. Breckenridge Jr. • Ken Alliston • L. Ron Hubbard • L. Ron Hubbard's credentials • Larry Brown • Laurel J. Sullivan (née Watson) • Nancy McLean • Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) • Overboarding • Steven Hall • Supernatural abilities (aka OT powers) • Suppressive person (SP) • Toronto • TR-L (Training Routine Lie) • Vy Alliston Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
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