The video the cult released of their printing plant was very interesting. BUt all they showed being printed was promo stuff. Brochures and DVDs. They didn't print anything sellable. I guess they have enough copies of Dianetics already. Way to much. The cult must have a lot of unsold merchandise sitting around. Dianetics books, E-meters. Where is all this stuff and how much is it costing them to have it sitting around? That's got to be a permanent hit financially for them.

Especially the super expensive most advanced e-meters. Scientology of course put the most effort into the final emeters which were the most advanced and the least in demand. Are those things suspected of being someplace i could photograph in socal?

If you have too many copies of Dianetics and you don't need them you might want to destroy them. But that would be sacreligious right? That is not KSW. Correct? Not Keeping Scientology Working.

My simulation pic below shows about 25,000 copies of Dianetics in five languages. How many copies of Dianetics sitting around in the real world do they actually have? I can't imagine how much space David Miscavige is wasting storing all the copies of stuff they printed that nobody wants. Poor trees!

I bet some of this info I'm looking for was posted on other boards but I can's search them as I was banned from them

That pic is just begging for a fire to be added.

When $cientology management sends promotional materials for distribution to orgs it bills them for those materials. For example Freedom magazines will arrive at an org without an order but with an invoice. The invoice must be paid. Promotional materials make money for upper management.

I think the same is true of new releases but I don't know for sure. I think management decides how many a particular org will have and they ship the stuff without consulting how many the org wants. This is open to verification by others.

Good management requires invoices to be matched with orders. If each org had a financial audit by CPA's, this would be a red flag.

I only know of one instance where unordered Freedom magazines were sent to an org with an invoice. But I am assuming that if it happened one time that it was a general practice and that the practice probably continues.

If anyone else knows of this going on in $cientology, please, post a reference to it in this thread.

CoS likes to pretend the city orgs are independent; they are not legally part of the Church of Scientology Int'l or other top coporations. But CoS execs, through the legally non-existent vaporous brotherhood Sea Org, treat the individual orgs like a dictator treats his peasants.

whitesand wrote:

That pic is just begging for a fire to be added.

Would you prefer Auschwitz style ovens or a the more Christmasy approach above?

I can't believe they make them pay for their own brochures and don't even tell them when they are coming or the bill ils due. Wow they are like peasants!

But what about storage of all those Dianetics and emeters that are simply not moving? I heard rumours that a warehouse in Japan was full of top class emeters.

Where are they storing all this Hubbard crap nobody wants and how much is it costing them?

Their transition from a goods and services scheme to a real estate scheme must leave a lot of goods behind somewhere...

Don't try to look at this image on your puny cell phones!

Is there a public source where a set of old copies of Freedom be accessed, like a library somewhere?

We could (and maybe should) have a separate thread on Freedom magazine. When they first started making Freedom it was in the form of a newspaper and it was produced as a guardian's office publication. Public and division six people were sent out to hand them out in the street. Before they went they all had to be rubber stamped with the name and address of the org in a space on the back page. They were like a tabloid sized newspaper with maybe twenty or thirty pages. I never did more than glance through one. There were anti-psychiatry articles and other things the guardian's office was involved with in it. Passing them out was supposedly "creating a safe space" for $cientology.