The Mary Kay Flopportunity
Written by Parsons Green
Four years ago, Michele Ricart reached out for help on Facebook. Michele had recently joined Mary Kay, but quickly went inactive because she wasn’t able to sell enough to place a $225 wholesale order. She wasn’t selling, wasn’t seeing a profit, and frankly Mary Kay was taking her time away from God and her day to day life. She also paid for seminar but did not go.
Miss Go Give Ellen Bowman Cox jumped in with the usual nonsense. Are you working efficiently? Are you working smarter? The success is there if you work your business. So Michele, you could be successful. You just aren’t.
Michele gave an update in the comments that she became active again after some special training with her director and a shiny new script. She also asked for Mary Kay products for her birthday and then treated herself to make up the $66 difference.
Michele is quiet in the group until December, when she posts that she is back in Mary Kay! She’s now having trouble with ProPay.
She then posts needing clarification on how the Star Program works.
Sandra Collette Malkin gushes over the Star Program, calling it the most important program in Mary Kay! She does admit that the Star Program is based on orders from the company (rather than actual sales), because the company simply cannot track what (if any) product you have sold to a customer. But you’re only ordering if you’re selling, right???
Michele can’t figure out how to give a discount to a customer for a website order.
In May, Michele shares that she wants to quit her job and focus strictly on Mary Kay. She’s working overtime and has thousands in credit card and student loan debt. She’s also focusing on auditions and hasn’t had success with that either. She has 20 customers, and last month made a profit of $100. The prior month it was $60. But she really thinks Mary Kay will be the launch pad for the life she wants to live.
Michele lives in New York and wants to try warm chattering on the subway!
Customers are ignoring her. She’s getting ghosted repeatedly. No one wants to buy Mary Kay. If people did, consultants would be able to sell it for full price without any discounts.
Michele, Mary Kay will never work for you, because it is a flopportunity. Just think of all the unpaid time you’ve spent focused on this and think of what you could have been paid for that time working at Target, Starbucks, a Grocery Store, any place that offers health insurance and paid time off. Or you can continue posting on Facebook hoping that someone will provide the magic tip or special script that will ignite your business to the next level.
But the good news is that this year, Michele made it to seminar. I’m sure THAT will be what turns everything around for her!
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And at seminar she heard every glittery lie and ounce of truth to keep her in until she maxes out that credit card and can no longer afford to live in nyc. 5 years from now she’ll look back with so many regrets. Maybe she’ll find this page before it’s too late. Praying for you, Michele. If you find yourself here, please believe us. Don’t go talk to your director after reading here. She’ll lie to your face because she needs your production. Walk away.
So sad. This woman has no business working in sales, and her upline knows it. They just want her to keep on spending.
Sick.
And, of course, the ever helpful, supportive, and kind Ellen Bowman “it’s easy to quit, you loser, and you’re probably not working hard enough” Cox is first on the mark. “It’s so simple to do that it’s simple not to do”?? Wut.
And sometimes it makes good sense to leave a marriage after 3 months, especially if your new spouse fooled everyone during the courtship but turned out to be a lying, manipulative, abusive jerk once the New Consultant Agreement… I mean, marriage license was signed.
If I’m riding public transport in the city, the LAST thing I want is to be chatted up by some Mary Kay pest. I just want to get to where I’m going and be left alone. If those women are glam, they’re already getting good makeup, they don’t want MK garbage.
Ellen Bowman Cox Would you quit a marriage after three months?
If I was being abused, yup! ASAP as well!
How about if this was a newborn? Would you send him back?
Some people do, adoption is not unknown.
But comparing this fauxoptunity to a living person is sick.
Ellen Bowman Cox.
Incorporating the Mary Kay go-give spirit.
Sigh.
So after you sign up for Mary kay you have to chit chat with strangers to buy from you? Where’s the fun in that?
This is one of the saddest stories I’ve read here. I hope she gets out and stays out sooner than later, especially with kids depending on her.