Consultants Hate My Shop
Written by Parsons Green
Susan Robinson is a Mary Kay consultant who doesn’t carry inventory. However, she received a website order (i.e. My Shop) that totaled $450. She only received $190.59 in her stripe account for her profit. Service charges are OUTRAMOUS and she hates the new system. This is nowhere close to 50% profit. Jessica Dudley shares that she is asking her customers to not use the website and to order from her directly. Susan says she only uses CDS to fulfill party orders.
Julie Vilumnsen tells Susan to call Mary Kay. They need to know. Diane Critchlow wonders why Susan is confused. This is how CDS has always worked.
Kristen Kelsch asks Susan if she gave free shipping. Susan says she did not. Kristen then does the math. The customer ordered $408 in product, which would have had $32 in tax and $5.95 shipping. Susan would have been paid $204 in profit. Stripe charges 2.9% in processing fees which then gives Susan the $190 she received.
Lorena O’Brien is outraged. She must see the order details to try to do the math herself.
Linda Leonard-Thompson reminds everyone that credit card and shipping fees are tax deductible.
Karen English will not be using My Shop. If Mary Kay wants control of the customers, they won’t need consultants. But Nikkie Renae loves the new My Shop. She no longer will have to spend money on inventory that will sit there unsold. She will have a 30% profit until she has $450 in retail sales. Rebecca Keating won’t be using My Shop or Stripe. Even though the processing fee charged to Mary Kay consultants is 2.9%, she heard from a friend that Stripe charged her 6% on a transaction.
Marye Kay Erickson cannot understand why the website had to change. She is ready to quit Mary Kay because of all the changes. Kelley Ann’s mother has been a director for almost 50 years. She feels the company is making it very had to be a consultant.
Tiffany Hertzberg had an $88 website order. She’s worried that she won’t see much profit from the order. She’ll continue to order inventory. Dana Marie reminds everyone that Susan made $190 in profit, and didn’t have to have inventory on hand to fulfill it.
Once again Mary Kay has shown to the consultants that their feedback does not matter. They will run the company the way they see fit. After all, they do have several lawsuits to pay for!
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“I’m a bookkeeper for my ‘day j.o.b’, so numbers are my thing!”
Kristen, please oh please set up a proper ledger for your “MK business”, and share your bottom line with us!
I’m sure Tracy would just love to get her forensic accountant paws on a real MK ledger.
(Meanwhile, a few years ago I got revenge audited at work when I declined to spend a whole Saturday in May, unpaid, at a training seminar for the job I’d been doing for 10+ years. They couldn’t find a thing. It was great. Yes, I’m still smug.)
Look, Susan, you earned yourself nearly two bills by doing nothing. No text bombing, no facial boxes, no warm harassing, no driving, no postage, no packaging, no setup for a party, no hostess gifts, no bribes.
AND YOU THINK THIS IS A BAD THING?
Considering how much the huns have to discount their merch to even get a nibble, and how people brag on social about selling way less than that at a party… it sounds pretty good to me.
No kidding!!
I’m going to sit here with my popcorn and watch this train wreck. I swear it gets better every day.
“Susan says she only uses CDS to fulfill party orders.”
Well, since very few/close to 0 parties are happening in Mary Kay, that shouldn’t be an issue.
$190 for doing nothing? That sounds like a sweet deal. I wouldn’t complain about that. But some of them don’t want to sell, they want to recruit.
“I ask my costumers to order directly from me.”
If I were a customer I will order the way *I* want. If you tell me to bypass something convenient for me for your benefit, goodbye. I can find better.
“…the opportunity to cross sell and build relationships…”
Uh, no thanks. I just want to click & go. I don’t want a “relationship” with a lipstick seller and I sure as hell don’t want to be nagged to buy more.
“We are the bridge.”
The bridge to nowhere.
Am I missing something? If you’re a good customer, why not pay the one-time $35 fee and place orders yourself for an automatic 30% discount? Yes, there is a $70 minimum ($100 retail) every time you order which is probably easily done with a little planning.
If you insist on buying MKKKrap, at least save some money. Never pay their fake retail.
If you want 50% off, just nicely tell your consultant that you’re only prepared to help them “make production” by paying 50% off, or you’ll find another consultant willing to do it. This, if you still want to deal face to face with upsell commission people. Otherwise, order direct or use eBay and make offers.
These FB consultants aren’t as important and relevant as they think they are. Also, as a general customer myself, I belong to no one. I choose where I buy and from whom; it’s my money. The whole “my customer” thing really rubs me wrong.
“If you insist on buying MKKKrap”
What’s with the KKK?
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Typonese …
Why are they all so mad they can’t give away shipping AND a discount? That’s totally eating into your profit and now you’ll actually make more money. Or and not throwing in random samples – also saving you money.
So few people want MK you have to bribe them with goodies to make the sale. Unfortunately these bribes eat into your miniscule commissions so it’s a lose lose situation.
I. CANNOT. STAND. THE. STUPIDITY. Seriously. I realize bookkeeper is a journalist, more or less, as in it’s not an analytical position per se. BUT COME ON, WOMAN!!! THERE. IS. NO. PROFIT!!!!!! She is a bookkeeper. She truly has never had an idle thought about what “profit” truly means? How did she learn bookkeeping that it did not include the definition and breakdown of PROFIT, to an extremely annoying degree?
There is no profit on any CONSULTANT’s individual sale more than likely. There likely are no profits on any director’s sales. The NSDs earn blood money off family budgets that are busted due to mental and emotional manipulation of vulnerable people whose self esteem is so underfed that the pink bubble flashes like the entrance to All That’s Good and Happy Land, but recruiting commissions AREN’T PROFIT FROM SALES.
“Profit is fundamentally defined as the positive financial gain remaining after all costs, expenses, and taxes have been subtracted from total revenue.”
So now we are confronted with defining “revenue” to someone who has never wondered why she isn’t making any extra money off this business of hers.
::::::banging head on wall::::::::::
go away mkrap………….just go……….
Time and time again the IBCs prove that MK is not empowering women especially without financial literacy skills or support. I saw an IBC post in a tax support group that she makes enough to earn Princess Court every year but her expenses are so high that it looks like she has a loss. She asked: “so should I just not claim so much so it looks like I don’t have a loss?”
I hate to break it to her but it doesn’t just “look like” a loss…it is! No matter what way you spin it. Another woman chimed in that she’s in year 3 and is spending more staying open than she makes.
Responses to posts just like in this article is why these women can’t accept and wrap their heads around the fact that they’re often spending more than they’re making. You can’t push yourself out of bad math with positive thinking. The numbers never lie.
Imagine losing money for this hobby/business!!!! Who wants to PAY MONEY TO BE IN MK???? Go find a real hobby that’s fun and spend your money there. Don’t spend money with the grind of trying to find victims, twisting their arms to have a party, and so on and so forth.