New Consultant With No Customers
Written by Jocelyn
I just wanted to take a minute to say thanks! I just became a consultant. I was about to get really involved when another consultant actually gave me a link to your website.
I went to a men’s expo and had no idea I even signed up for one of their drawings. I get a call TWO months later and was told I won a gift certificate for $10 and a free makeover. At the time, I was like okay, sounds like fun. This is something me and my teenage daughter can do for fun together.
So, the sales director comes to my house, we get the makeovers and I of course wind up doing a bubble package for $99. I do love their stuff. At this time, I was in a job that I absolutely hated and was looking to get out of. I am also new to the area and trying to make friends.
She shows me her profile and tells me she is on her THIRD car and that she has been doing it for like 7 years and has no other job. She also shows me a copy of a check that one lady in Florida received for over $50,000 that she earned in just ONE MONTH!
Sooo…..I’m thinking this lady is sincere and super nice and I get to thinking about it. Surely, if this is her only means of income and she is single, it must really work.
About two weeks later, my husband says that if I want to do that, I had his blessing to quit my part time job and do this full time. So…..I did. My husband also made a decent living and we could survive on his salary alone. So….I put my two weeks notice in my job to do this full time. THEN, my husband was laid off from work. We were so devastated because we did not see this coming. This happened the day before I was supposed to go to my first “weekly meeting”, the one you describe on your site where you have to pay $2-5 to go to.I was already emotional.
So….here I am with this starter kit, go to the meeting, hoping for instruction and got NOTHING! I was so overwhelmed. My husband is a liver transplant recipient and has to take anti rejection meds for the rest of his life. Without them, he will die. These medicines cost over thousands of dollars for one month without health insurance. I told my director all of this too. I left there feeling like they could care less.
One of the girls tried to explain how she does it. (She is in line to be a director) I didn’t tell her what was going on with me personally. I just told her my world just got turned upside down and I didn’t know if I can take on all this at once. She was telling me I had to get two checking accounts and a savings account and all this other stuff.
I just wanted to cry and all she could say was “well, this is a business.” My sales director was the only one who knew the details of my dilemma. She just keeps saying she is praying for me. That’s another thing that I have a real problem with. We are religious people and I was told this is a Christian based business. They do pray at the end of their meetings. They use Jesus to attract you. I was told that these girls go to these seminars and drink and party. I am not a luke warm Christian. My husband and I take religion very seriously.
So…..here I am….$400 of my own money already invested, complete with my own website, a starter kit, business cards on the way and NO CUSTOMERS in sight!
Everything you say on your site is true. I’ve been hounded about going to these out of town seminars and events that cost money. I can’t afford that right now. I emailed my director yesterday and told her that I had to focus on my family and try to find a job with health insurance for my husband’s sake. Her reply was simply “do facials and book parties”. They claim they are all about building relationships, but their true motto is to destroy them. This is my life…and it’s real, complete with real problems. I’m so thankful for what you’re doing because it totally stopped me in my tracks.
I am still going to “attempt” to sell what I can while I still have the 50% discount, but have decided not to do any of the extra stuff. I figured if I just paid for all this stuff, I may as well see if I can do a LITTLE something with it. If I can’t, I’m just going to let it go. Thanks again!
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“I may as well see if I can do a LITTLE something with it. If I can’t, I’m just going to let it go.”
Being that you are new to the area, spare yourself the reputational damage and return the inventory now. Your time will be much better spent getting yourself employed, hopefully with benefits. The last thing you need right now is an MLM “reputation”.
Could not agree more. I was never in Mary Kay (or any MLM, for that matter), so I can tell you that just being known as a “hun” will result in a certain amount of quiet social ostracism–shadow-banning, if you like. You don’t even need to have hassled anyone. People have come to expect a sales pitch from anyone known to be in an MLM and would simply prefer to avoid even the hypothetical chance of discomfort.
My dad was in Amway for a few weeks. Dropped him like a hot dug turd when he wasn’t handing more money over to the leeches. His reputation is slowly rebuilding.
Anothet vote for returning the inventory. You’ll get 90% back on items purchased within a year. Consultants almost can’t give products away for free. In this economy, you need every dollar back you can get.
Also, if you just quietly go inactive, your consultant ID is still valid, and unscrupulous directors have placed bogus orders using inactive consultants’ IDs, and signed up recruits under them, before.
If you return your products, you will be officially terminated by the company and this will prevent those kind of shenanigans.
Quit. NOW! Block any of these shallow, horrible women too. You only have so much bandwidth- don’t waste it on this scam. Focus on your family and taking care of your husband.
Dear Jocelyn, all of the advice above is sound. The sooner you cut ties with your director, the better. She will continue to contact you under the guise of “caring”, but unfortunately, she doesn’t. The only way to guarantee those ties are cut is to return any inventory you’ve purchased. If you haven’t yet purchased inventory… you can send a certified letter stating in writing you wish to terminate your consultant number.
Your family needs you and your total attention. MK will just have you chasing your tail.. and never be able to catch it. Not worth any time/effort.
“Do facials and book parties”. Really? You couldn’t do enough parties and facials in a month to afford groceries, much less healthcare. Plus if you start doing facials and parties with minimal product you will get on the hamster wheel of ordering more than what you need just because you didn’t have the right shade of lipstick for a customer. I’m with the others- send it all back. If you are within a year of ordering you’ll get most of your money back. Your peace of mind away from those vultures will far outweigh a 10% loss. I hope you find employment soon, best wishes to you and your family.
Sending you virtual hugs and prayers, Jocelyn. Return any inventory you purchased as soon as possible. You are much more likely to land a real job with benefits if you are not known as an mlm person. I’m pulling for you and your dear husband!
Jocelyn these figures are from Mary Kay Corporation, Canada. It only shows compensation that someone will get once they have a downline. That cheque was a one-off not a regular pay-cheque.
https://imgur.com/a/mary-kay-canadian-income-disclosure-2024-hPNN90o
I also recommend that you return everything and not tell your uplines because they will squeal like pigs when they have to repay their commissions on your purchases. And they need to, in my humble opinion, suffer financially for the monetary abuse they willingly heap on others.
Oh no, I’m so sorry!
What the others said: quit MK, return the products, and find a real job ASAP. MK won’t help your husband.
Grit your teeth and say NO. No is a complete sentence.