Lying About His Wife’s Success
At Pink Truth, we are very familiar with the false earnings claims made in Mary Kay. A husband of a Mary Kay consultant has something to say abut our criticism of pink Cadillac sales directors (how few there are and how little they make):
I don’t know who you are or why you are doing this. All I know is that my wife and I have been running this business for almost a year. We have demanding day jobs and we work very hard at building our business. We have seen a steady increase in profits every month. Our clientel gets bigger and bigger every month. How dare you sit there and say its not a real business?
I don’t understand this site. My wife is a Mary Kay Consultant and I am in charge of marketing. Your numbers are correct, but the reason why the percentage of Cadillac owners is so small is because its extremely difficult to reach that level. Difficult yes, impossible hell no! Only those willing to put in the work will get there. The lazy, the weak, and the unmotivated don’t stand a chance. Mary Kay gives you the tools to get there. You must provide the drive.
We are almost there after only a year running our business. We made back our initial investment in less than two months. Its hard work.
Notice that he says getting to the Cadillac is hard work and they are “almost there after only a year of running our business.”
Of course, I checked into his claim, and it is completely false. His wife isn’t even a sales director, much less close to the Cadillac. She is a senior consultant, which means she has 1 or 2 active recruits.
Yet another example of the rampant lying about one’s success in Mary Kay. And when the husbands are making the claims (like in this really old, but entertaining post), I often wonder whether they are completely in the dark about what’s happening with the wife’s business. (Note that the woman in the last linked article has gotten divorced, filed bankruptcy, and lost her directorship since that was published.)
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Congratulations on your year in the pink fog. Come back when you’re at 15 and actually successful. But we’ll see you sooner than that when the house of cards crumbles and you awake to the scam.
Since he seems to be tracking everything, we’d appreciate seeing the figures to prove this since we can’t seem to get that from anyone else. That would shut me up for sure!
Also, with how easy and fast it is to fall out of directorship, I’ve seen several who no longer met the requirements for SD but still regarded themselves as such. It’s possible the wife once held the title and things have changed but she hasn’t told anyone because it happened so quickly.
Very sad.
Bet you a nickel that the wife wrote this herself as an Appeal to the Authority of Balls. After all, the menfolk are the sensible and rational ones, amirite? So if a man, especially one handling the money because that’s a man thing, says so it’s gotta be true, heyna?
Nope. Horse puckey is the same regardless of one’s wedding tackle.
It’s a rigged system set up to make 99.9%+ of the participants fail, based on envy baiting to make people squander their money to keep up appearances.
Exactly what I thought. The SD wants to shut us up using her idea of authority, a man.
Same here, this doesn’t read like a man wrote it. Wifey probably got into his email and wrote it herself.
Agree, it’s funny that she thinks just being born an outie makes someone better or smarter and more worthy of being in charge. It doesn’t. It just means it’s easier for them to pee standing up. What a talent.
Almost at Cadillac. Sure. Only at least 18 more active recruits to go. That vision board has a lot of empty squares.
Wifey poo is fudging numbers an hubby doesn’t know it.
I can’t with these Friday critics – and also why lie to a FORENSIC ACCOUNTANT?
If your Mary Kay business is making money why care about what this site says?
I don’t know who you are or why you are doing this.
Our names or nom du plumes are all over the site. That’s who we are. Many of us, myself excluded, were in fact successful in terms of Mary Kay Wagner Rogers Eckman Weaver Louis Miller Hallenbeck Ash’s company. They were career car drivers, stage walkers, sash wearers, you’re not telling them anything THEY don’t know.
All I know is that my wife and I have been running this business for almost a year.
A year??? You won’t have the paperwork to prove anything yet.
We have demanding day jobs and we work very hard at building our business.
So you are “robbing Peter to pay Paul”?
We have seen a steady increase in profits every month.
Since you haven’t shown us the proof, how can you argue this?
Our clientel (sic) gets bigger and bigger every month.
Are this returning clients or not? Those are the ones driving your “business” not fly-by-night one-off purchasers.
How dare you sit there and say its not a real business?
Because Mary Kay’s own figures show that.
https://imgur.com/a/mary-kay-canadian-income-disclosure-2024-hPNN90o
I don’t understand this site.
So much for your “logical manly brain”.
My wife is a Mary Kay Consultant and I am in charge of marketing.
What marketing?? MKC sends you everything they approve of. Anything else can get (general) you into trouble with the Powers That Be!
Your numbers are correct, but the reason why the percentage of Cadillac owners is so small is because its extremely difficult to reach that level.
IF it’s difficult to reach the Caddy level, why is that down-played? “Executive Pay for Part-Time Work”? “Work in Small Pockets of Your Time”?
You acknowledge our figures are correct but seem to be prepared to discount our experiences? I wonder why!
Difficult yes, impossible hell no! Only those willing to put in the work will get there.
Oh, sweetheart! The chances of “your wife” being a Caddy driver is retreating every day.
The lazy, the weak, and the unmotivated don’t stand a chance.
Which of the adjectives will you refer to “your wife” with each repeated failure?
Mary Kay gives you the tools to get there. You must provide the drive.
Like Monique did? Like Mia Mason Porter?
We are almost there after only a year running our business.
No you are not. Sorry to burst your Pink Bubble but I suspect you have never seen any paperwork proving this. I suggests you ask to see the double entry ledgers which “your wife” undoubtedly keeps like a real business does.
We made back our initial investment in less than two months. Its hard work.
Sadly, it’s not your initial investment that’s the problem. It’s all the credit card stretching at the end of each and every quarter that’s the killer. Plus the constant delivery of new products and inventory that you don’t have clients for nor a clue how to sell them until you discount heavily and lose any potential profits.
If your business is so successful, send us the sales and expense numbers for the past year. Nobody knows who you are. I ask every time and never hear a word after.
Also, I thought Mary Kay did away with the Cadillacs and are just giving cash bonuses now (which is probably the better way to go anyway, since you don’t have to deal with the co-pay issue when your sales fall the next year).
Every time we ask for this simple data that would shut us up all we get is crickets. Cannot possibly imagine why…
PTC, platitudes do not equal success. Saying you are on your way to success does not mean you are actually on your way to success. Increasing revenues do not define success so long as aggregate costs continue to exceed aggregate revenue. Until line 31 of your Sched C shows six figures of net business revenue for 3 consecutive years, I would hold back on the success claims.
Pro tip: Successful people don’t need to tell others they are successful.
“I am in charge of marketing”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
You, sir, are in charge of nothing. MKC is in charge of marketing; they’ll tell you how you can and cannot promote “your business”. You own nothing except the inventory stacked in your spare room or garage, and you can’t even sell that in any way you’d like (no eBay, no vendor shows…)
This MK venture is going to end up being a very expensive life lesson for you and your wife. I hope your marriage survives it.
PTC has the attitude of their upline’s dreams. Blinders on.
I wonder if they wrote this before or after the new e-Commerce launch and if they’ve realized that their inventory (which I’m sure they have) is even more worthless than it was before 17 December 2025.
It’s going to be great fun trying to shift it now it’s all online. Was next to impossible before and now it completely is. It’s easier to fly humans to Mars than flog MK.
I was reading the comment section from the original article when it was posted in 2012.
Here I copy one comment which says it all.
DOGNAMEDPETER
June 26, 2018 at 10:51 am
An update for anyone reading the old archives like I am. They filed bankruptcy in 2014, this blog was published in 2012. Clearly Eric was lying or didn’t know the full extent of what Shelby was doing.
They also divorced in 2017.
After all the nastiness spewed, I wish Eric would come back to set things right. It would greatly help the PinkTruth cause as it comes from a husband who lived through the pink bubble and later has seen how it’s just a bubble. I would love to read all the details.
Eric didn’t strike me as the kind of man willing to say when he was wrong. Despite his constant assurances that he was “open minded.”
Thanks for posting that, Tracy! Definitely extra entertainment for a Friday.
I don’t think I’ve read that one before. Of course, I might have just been dazed by the reams of drivel spouted by Eric.