Angela Wants Her $30!
Written by Parsons Green
Angela Rebhun is a Mary Kay consultant with a problem. A realtor she met at a networking event took a Secret Santa gift and never paid her the $30 she’s owed! She has sold MILLION dollar homes.
Angela asked for help in the Facebook group Let’s Talk Pink. Here are some of the responses. Gayle Ziegler suggests meeting her at her next open house. Denise Calabrese thinks Angela should call her office one more time. If she doesn’t hear back within 3 days, escalate to her boss!
Cynthia Lewis states she always collects half of the order up front. That way, if she doesn’t receive payment she’s at least covered her wholesale cost.
Lori Post shares that Angela has already spent too much time thinking of this $30 and to go out and find the next $30. She can claim this on her taxes.
Julie Villumsen helpfully adds that this is stealing.
Kathi Bogan declares that Angela should send her one more receipt. If she doesn’t pay within the time frame, take it to social media!
Paula Bouck recommends showing up to her office to demand payment, as well as tagging her on social media. Sarah Myers once had this issue with a friend she’s had for more than 20 years. The friend finally paid and included a tip for being late. She also thanked Sarah for giving her the courage to wear lipstick again.
Deb Kruske would mail a note without a return address – the secretary must then deliver it to the realtor. Please also put a lot of smiley faces on the letter.
Now I don’t really know what happened at this Secret Santa event. Could it be that this realtor didn’t know she was expected to pay for this bag? Was the product in the bag fresh product or had it been sitting on Angela’s shelf for a while? How good can the rest of Angela’s sales be if she’s this concerned over a missing $30?
Unfortunately, non paying customers are a fact of life for all businesses, large or small. Hopefully Angela learns from this loss and doesn’t lose out on $30 ($15 wholesale) again.
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Everyone wants MK as a secret Santa gift, right?!😂
You know it was a couple of junky old products she couldn’t sell and no where near worth $30. It’s tacky to give MLM products. Angela needs to get a grip and stop looking crazy.
Gotta sell that expired pile of debt, sorry inventory, somehow! Incidentally the TW foundations are changing 1st May so there’ll be a desperate push to sell them before they vanish from the Look Book. Should be fun with everyone buying online now.
The worst is the egregious selling to nursing homes or even worse recruiting old folks with very limited income to sell MK. There’s a post on Reddit of an angry MK bossbabe. The home didn’t want MK, the residents want chocolate. MK Bossbabe pitched a fit at the residents and homes ungratefulness. HOW DARE THEY NOT WANT MY CHALKY MAKEUP AND 10-YEAR-OLD SKINCARE THAT’S SAT ON MY SHELF EXPIRED SO THEY DON’T LOOK LIKE WRINKLED PRUNES! WRINKLES TO THOSE NEGATIVE NELLIES! *Storms off on Facebook to huff to fellow lossbabes*
If Angela is reporting correctly, the realtor did know she was supposed to pay since she promised to send the money through Zelle. If. In that case, it is indeed theft, whether it was old junk or a misunderstanding or whatever. It would be worth 30 bucks to make Angela go away.
Angela, tone down the blush. While it does suit your angry face in a cartoonish way, the color is all wrong for your skintone and looks like sunburn. And since you’ve “cointed” this as a loss on your taxes, don’t get greedy. Certainly don’t go posting it online, because nothing on the internet is ever truly secret. As shown here, for example. Audits happen.
Businesswomen, stop softening your business communications with emojis and exclamation points and servile language. Anyone who’s threatened or offended by a straightforward email or letter from a woman is the one with issues, not you. I doubt Ms Big Bucks Realtor is all like “Hello, Rich Person!! ☺️ If it’s not too much trouble, the lawyer 🧑💼👩💼 asked me if you could possibly sign 🖊 a few papers in order to make this happen! So if you have a minute ⏰️…”
And stop pronouncing it “real-it-or.” Drives me bonkers.
(In fairness, it’s an AI picture, so the aggressive blush isn’t her fault. 🙂 )
Oops 😀
I’ll go to the canvas on “real-it-or,” though.
“I want my two dollars!!!”
Angela’s behavior is one reason Lane Meyer thought he would be “Better Off Dead”! Now I will never be able to watch that movie without thinking of Angela Redhun!
Deb Kruske would mail a note without a return address – the secretary must then deliver it to the realtor. Please also put a lot of smiley faces on the letter.
It’s giving a pre-schooler’s idea of how real employment works,
Man.
While I get that it’s also the principle of the thing and it certainly is f’d up of anyone to “promise” to pay and not only fail to follow through, but to ignore subsequent “reminders” for payment (hmm, I wonder if her number is blocked…) however, if she’s this bent out of shape over what amounts to a $15 loss, she’s got waaay more problems than she realizes.
The suggestions to “blast her all over social media” and “call her boss” (if she had one) over $30 are sooo obnoxious and out of proportion to the “offense,” it’d only make HER look bad. Besides, who knows what kinda old product was even in it? My guess is it was useless crap she couldn’t sell outright (not unlike the rest of MK’s overpriced inferior junk). How disappointing to be the recipient of THAT bag…
The ones suggesting she let karma do its thing are ironic…I wonder how much more than $30 has ol’ Ang squeezed out of recruits over the years? Maybe this IS “karma doing its thing…
If you look at Angela’s MK profile, she’s in MK for the second time. She didn’t learn from the first time.
As for the $30 loss, she should be happy it was only 30 bucks. Continuing to make a fuss won’t help her.
I’m on Angela’s side on this. Regardless of what we think about Mary Kay, MK products and consultants, this realtor agreed to pay and didn’t and is actively avoiding her.
THIS IS THEFT.
Angela absolutely should pursue this. Many major retailers have a zero tolerance policy and have anyone who walks past the last point of sale without paying arrested. Mary Kay sellers shouldn’t have to tolerate thieves either. (Watch some shoplifting police bodycam videos on YouTube, it’s wild what these people try to get away with e.g. stuffing fresh meat down their underwear.)
Angela, if you or one of your MK friends is reading this, keep all of your messages and emails as evidence, message her again. Go to her next open house. If she does not pay, FILE A POLICE REPORT. The cops might not do anything to recover the item but it starts a paper trail. Who knows who else this thieving realtor has ripped off. I bet this realtor will show up on a shoplifting police bodycam video one day.
Also, taking her to small claims court is an option.
The police probably wouldn’t do anything, claiming that it’s a civil matter given how much was “stolen”. Small claims would be the better option depending on if Angela could claim back the cost of filing the suit.
I agree. It’s unfair on Angela and I would be rightfully pissed if this happened to me. When I worked selling skincare and makeup in a medium-end retail store we had some shrinkage but more often than not the security guard intervened to return things that walked out of the store. Perfumes were a huge one and they vanished daily, although our Urban Decay was also popular at doing a disappearing act. With the security guard and the RFID tags nicking stuff isn’t easy. Didn’t stop people trying. They were stolen to order and then resold most of the time.
I remember one of my team members “back in the day” (probably 2005) “sold” a filled roll up bag to a “customer” but didn’t collect payment right away. She never did collect payment! It was a big thing. I think she may have even taken that woman to small claims court. A filled roll up bag was a couple hundred bucks! Of course that team member was able to stand up at the weekly meeting and celebrate her “big sale” even though she never got paid. The crazy part is how this type of “money management” was promoted in MK – just collect a little here and there, have people post date checks, the “husband will never know” plan, the “sell them a little roll up at a time” (so, rip out a few of the zipper pouches in the roll up and she’s supposed to want to buy it all then). So insane!
I remember thinking it didn’t seem right to give people product when they hadn’t paid, but I was “just” a consultant and this “leadership” was coming from our director and senior director.
Sick sick sick! They didn’t care where the product ended up, as long as WE kept ordering it. Grrrr.
Honestly, I think the real estate agent knows what she is doing. I’ve met people like this before. Users.
She saw Angela as the over eager people pleaser and knew she would be willing to give her a line of credit for $30 (what could have been in that bag for $30??). She has no intention of paying , otherwise she would by now.
MOVE ON ANGELA- this is alot of DRAMA . So much time /energy wasted. You now know what kind of person the real estate agent is. If anything, you should learn something about trying to make that ‘sale’ to every warm bodied person you cross paths with.