Not everyone will buy a $13 lipstick. I can buy perfectly fine lipstick for $5 at a pharmacy. Not to mention when times got tough, the first thing that went was make up and skin care. I just can't justify expensive skin products when my kids need food, clothes, and shoes.
love the bug-eyes on the distributors...so ironic. Seriously, the argument that direct selling is more useful in a recession is so fallible. I used to believe but it makes no sense now. Why would people be more likely to buy products or take on a risky business in a recession? Even if they ARE more likely to lose their jobs, why would they take on the risk? It just doesn't make sense. It's HYPE, that's all.
The director lady called me the day after the consultant left, and tried to recruit me as a consultant right on the spot. I already told her I was a freshman on a different career path, yet she still wanted my information? And why would I want a pink Cadillac? I thought they were trying to sell their products, not be persistent on making me join their damn team.
People fail because the system itself dooms nearly all participants to failure. MLM is built on an endless chain of recruitment of participants as primary customers. It assumes both infinite markets and virgin markets, neither of which exist. It is therefore inherently flawed, fraudulent, and profitable only for founders and those at or near the top of their respective pyramids of participants. Even with their best efforts, the vast majority will always lose money.
This is true. I was coned into joining marykay in a walmart. I had just had my first baby she was like 1mth old, and i had post partum depression. This women named tina yancy came to my house and swindled me into buying and joining marykay. She never said oh you need to have products to sell she convinced my husband behind my back to order $3600 worth. Could i sell it no. She strarted to stalk me and go crazy said i wasnt doing things right i needed to leave my product and just recruite.
When there is Mary Kay Cosmetics sales women in your neighborhood there is lots of devious behavior. I prefer to go to drugstores instead of buy from Mary Kay Cosmetics. I would not buy a Mary Kay lipstick for $13.00 retail or $6.50 wholesale. I buy L'Oreal lipstick for $5.00.
@LoveAllKindsOfMusic1 have you seen the size of the mary kay products? the blush is so small, I thought they sent me an eyeshadow by mistake. Besides, in MK, it isn't about selling the products, it is about recruitment. That is where the money is.
& I disagree with this woman about spending 13 or 14 dollars for a lipstick...people that are watching their money do NOT spend that much on lipstick....not when they can get a comparable brand at a much better price.
The reporter at the end says two key things: Don't risk your finances to join direct selling. That means don't quit your day job if you're doing fine!
Second, she says don't purchase more inventory than you can sell to your customers. If you are only going to work your direct sales business for 1 hour per week, isn't buying $50,000 in products "overkill"?
I used to sell Mary Kay and it didn't work out too well for me. Not because I wasn't able to sell it, but I felt bad "talking people into" buying a tube of $14 lipstick. I switched to Avon this year (so far three months) and have made more than I did with Mary Kay. Good luck to anyone who tries, it's a gamble either way you go.
@muraveybandit exactly. And only a few at the top are making the money. The company misleads and manipulates you into all the frontloading of products, then stresses that you must do the same to other women if you want to drive that stupid pink car. They don't tell you the reality, that most MK consultants go into debt and never make any of it back, and that even the women at the top are not making all that much anymore.
Not everyone will buy a $13 lipstick. I can buy perfectly fine lipstick for $5 at a pharmacy. Not to mention when times got tough, the first thing that went was make up and skin care. I just can't justify expensive skin products when my kids need food, clothes, and shoes.
purity4all 3 months ago
love the bug-eyes on the distributors...so ironic. Seriously, the argument that direct selling is more useful in a recession is so fallible. I used to believe but it makes no sense now. Why would people be more likely to buy products or take on a risky business in a recession? Even if they ARE more likely to lose their jobs, why would they take on the risk? It just doesn't make sense. It's HYPE, that's all.
nuladee 10 months ago
PYRAMID SCAM
tacotony24 1 year ago
The director lady called me the day after the consultant left, and tried to recruit me as a consultant right on the spot. I already told her I was a freshman on a different career path, yet she still wanted my information? And why would I want a pink Cadillac? I thought they were trying to sell their products, not be persistent on making me join their damn team.
mimi008 1 year ago
People fail because the system itself dooms nearly all participants to failure. MLM is built on an endless chain of recruitment of participants as primary customers. It assumes both infinite markets and virgin markets, neither of which exist. It is therefore inherently flawed, fraudulent, and profitable only for founders and those at or near the top of their respective pyramids of participants. Even with their best efforts, the vast majority will always lose money.
MLMpyramidScam 1 year ago
This is true. I was coned into joining marykay in a walmart. I had just had my first baby she was like 1mth old, and i had post partum depression. This women named tina yancy came to my house and swindled me into buying and joining marykay. She never said oh you need to have products to sell she convinced my husband behind my back to order $3600 worth. Could i sell it no. She strarted to stalk me and go crazy said i wasnt doing things right i needed to leave my product and just recruite.
moniqueguinn 1 year ago
When there is Mary Kay Cosmetics sales women in your neighborhood there is lots of devious behavior. I prefer to go to drugstores instead of buy from Mary Kay Cosmetics. I would not buy a Mary Kay lipstick for $13.00 retail or $6.50 wholesale. I buy L'Oreal lipstick for $5.00.
LoveAllKindsOfMusic1 1 year ago
@LoveAllKindsOfMusic1 have you seen the size of the mary kay products? the blush is so small, I thought they sent me an eyeshadow by mistake. Besides, in MK, it isn't about selling the products, it is about recruitment. That is where the money is.
& I disagree with this woman about spending 13 or 14 dollars for a lipstick...people that are watching their money do NOT spend that much on lipstick....not when they can get a comparable brand at a much better price.
Bhav341 1 year ago
@LoveAllKindsOfMusic1 cheap makeup looks cheap.
faceinfive 1 year ago 6
READ THIS CAREFULLY: Just Remember, Mary Kays JOB, is to sell YOU, their stuff. Once you have bought it, THEIR job is done.
scooterss2112 1 year ago
The reporter at the end says two key things: Don't risk your finances to join direct selling. That means don't quit your day job if you're doing fine!
Second, she says don't purchase more inventory than you can sell to your customers. If you are only going to work your direct sales business for 1 hour per week, isn't buying $50,000 in products "overkill"?
Aren't these just common sense?
biancasimone8994 1 year ago 24
People are buying beauty products at drugstores and discount stores not Mk or Arbonne!
LoveAllKindsOfMusic1 1 year ago
I used to sell Mary Kay and it didn't work out too well for me. Not because I wasn't able to sell it, but I felt bad "talking people into" buying a tube of $14 lipstick. I switched to Avon this year (so far three months) and have made more than I did with Mary Kay. Good luck to anyone who tries, it's a gamble either way you go.
yellowlilies86 1 year ago
Mary Kay = scam.
mylesh2000 2 years ago
Very true, MK is not a good financial plan. The whole company is based on a pyramid scheme.
muraveybandit 2 years ago
@muraveybandit exactly. And only a few at the top are making the money. The company misleads and manipulates you into all the frontloading of products, then stresses that you must do the same to other women if you want to drive that stupid pink car. They don't tell you the reality, that most MK consultants go into debt and never make any of it back, and that even the women at the top are not making all that much anymore.
Bhav341 1 year ago
mlms make everyone rich but you.
the people above you and the people that buy the product that you cant sell at less than what you paid for it. your loss
lambchopxoxo 2 years ago