Mary Kay Cosmetics Scam From The Inside Out
The Money Mastermind Show had a special guest jump on and share their experience with being a Mary Kay Cosmetics distributor. This special guest earned a pink Cadillac and represented the elite .2% of distributors that achieve this level of success. The only people who get to drive pink Cadillacs are those whose multilevel sales teams have sold at least $100,000 in Mary Kay products in six months. It will open your eyes to the Mary Kay Cosmetics scam.
Here are some highlights:
The Mary Kay Cosmetics pink Cadillac is a lease. If you do not meet your sales numbers, you are stuck with paying the lease.
Mary Kay Cosmetics representatives have you take personality tests and use that to get you to buy products.
She received the pink Cadillac when she was 25.
She was a distributor for Mary Kay Cosmetics for two years total.
When you first join they hit you up to buy inventory.
There is a lot of training that goes into getting people to buy the more expensive packages when they join as a distributor.
Women are spending $2000 to go to Texas for a Mary Kay Cosmetics convention.
A fellow director she meet was in $40,000 debt because they put orders under people to qualify to be a director. This was encouraged by other directors.
Fact Check: There are 1,300 pink Cadillacs on the road in the United States as of 2014. That means of the 600,000 consultants in America, 0.2% (two tenths of one percent) are in Cadillacs.
For a more detailed look at the Mary Kay Cosmetics scam check out www.pinktruth.com
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I was involved in MLM under a very
well known “established “company .
After some time I realise that it was
my worst experience ever .
I cannot express really in words how
Horrible experience it was .
It is at all a sadistic place to be .
I do not wish to anyone be involved
in this kind of disgusting people .
Prefer to have no money
instead to be mixed up with
this black comedy ..
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MLMs like Mary Kay encourage women to prey on other women, under the guise of “friendship”, but instead, they just want to recruit you in the scheme. These ladies cannot get any more cheap and tacky. One of them harassed me to death. I bought over $100 worth of makeup from her, but that wasn’t enough. She kept trying to get me to attend Mary Kay functions and tried to recruit me into the business. She’d even call me at work, (causing problems with my employment), to tell me about stupid things like “a contest to win a free lipstick”.and she’d insist it was urgent and I do it right away. Of course, she no longer sells Mary Kay because, like most others, she failed in the business and lost a lot of friends in the process.
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Long ago a friend/neighbor got me to try her Mary Kay crap. She would have me try a mascara, or a lipstick, or make up, and say “try it and pay me later”, so I did. One day she knocked on my door and said “YOU OWE ME $400 FOR THAT MAKEUP, I NEED TO BE PAID NOW” I freaked out, said just a minute, grabbed a plastic bag and dumped all the “try it makeup” in it and handed it to her. I said I was only doing you a favor, but I DON’T want to buy it, it makes me break out”. We didn’t talk for a long time after that, until she stopped selling it too.
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I was suckered into Mary Kay as a consultant and left quick when I realized how much was expected to run “my own business” or may I say May Kay. At no cost to the Mary Kay company they have a slave force of workers that get nothing in return (at first they think they’re independent) and yet they are obligated to buy so much inventory every quarter for their customers (themselves) and sign other people up to get promoted to do the same thing. You have to go to meeting that you pay for $25 and they are mandatory. Even if you quite your NSC will make orders out in your name and that way they can keep their position as a NSC for having a successful team. They will load your mind up for dreams and examples of success and only the fortunate will make it because they will use their own money, friends and family, while you run out of yours. But they will blame you in the end.
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That is why there are few complaints. They get you to believe your failure is your fault instead of their flawed system.
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I don’t know where u were in Mary kay.. but our meetings here are not mandatory and when we go they don’t cost anything
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Inventory is not mandatory in Mary Kay, it is suggested, but no-one will hold a gun against your head and make you buy inventory, you can say thanks, but no thanks.
Meetings cost no more than $5 tops if they are held in a location where room rental needs to be paid. Many Directors hold meetings in their homes and they don’t cost anything, maybe a contribution to coffee, tea and cookies.
I don’t know about NSDs buying in your name, has never happened to anyone I know who has been in Mary Kay. There are always people who don’t follow the rules and let greed run riat, there will always be people that give these businesses a bad name.
Direct Selling and Door-to-Door sales and Tupperware parties were once a regular thing, not tainted with all this MLM and Network Marketing mumbo-jumbo. Mary Kay started in those days of honest hard working sales reps earning their bit of income, whether to support a family full time or to earn a few extra dollars, now every company gets tainted with bad reviews because there are greedy people in the world and many people think that these opportunities are a fast buck opportunity and get disappointed when they actually have to work hard to build a business.
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This is a flat out lie. No, they dont hold a gun to your head because they could get thrown into jail for that, but this model is dependent on 1) signing up new people and 2) getting them to spend as much as possible on inventory. That makes them an MLM, in case you dont know what that acronym means you should look it up.
I was told by my director that Mary Kay was the number one selling cosmetic line in the nation. That should have been my first clue that something was wrong, because I didn’t know one single woman that used Mary Kay, except for the girl that was trying to recruit me. You literally see people on eBay and elsewhere trying to sell Mary Kay inventory that is literally decades old. So many women have gone into hock trying to level up with MK. The ONLY way to do that is to buy inventory. The ONLY way.
No one wants this stuff, no one wants to go to your parties, no one wants to do satin hands.
http://www.pinktruth.com you will see dozens of former directors telling the truth about Mary Kay. Every. single. one of those women were scammed by false promises and emotional manipulation. I went to a meeting and everyone was told they MUST wear dresses. I wore pants and I honestly thought I was in a cult. They prey on women with low self-esteem using praise and affirmations. Its sick and disgusting to witness women doing this to each other.
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Wow I knew all along that Mary Kay was a scam. Now after hearing that woman story I truly believe it. People do not join these programs you are better off starting your business.
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So glad to see more light shed on what is such an obvious scam. It’s especially disheartening to see women preying upon other women – and usually the ones least able to afford it. Thank you Ethan.
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You are very welcome.
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Where is your objective data and conversations you have had with Mary Kay consultants? I’m not with MK nor am I interested in their program (I’m a guy), but they’ve been around a long time and I know people who enjoy being an MK consultant. I read another negative review of yours the other day on a company that has a mobile website program. I did some more digging and they sent me an article that rebutts your opinion of them. They also said that, despite repeated attempts on their part to get you to talk with them and give them the opportunity to discuss your concerns, you refuse to do so. If you are giving these “opinions” based simply on your own feelings and without objective data and conversation with the company, then they are worth no more than any one else’s opinion. I’d like to see more than “.2 of distibutors drive pink cadillacs”. So what? It’s the same with the majority of MLM companies… only those who do the work necessary get to that elite place, yet all have the same opportunity. I’d like to see more objectivity and evidence in your “opinions”.
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An opinion by its very nature is not objective. You are welcome to create your own and use any information you like. Would this mobile website program be the one that has changed their name again and again to avoid my review of them? Also, feel free to join their program and disregard my review of them. Let me know the results.
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“Only those who do the work necessary get to that elite place, yet all have the same opportunity…” Sheesh! The problem is that despite all the work one does, very few if any get to that elite place because the business structure itself doesn’t work. When I hear folks repeated this popular (and mistaken) talking point, I know I’m listening to someone who has been duped and is deeply delusional.
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I have to agree a bit with you Roger. While I appreciate Mr. Vanderbuilt’s work and opinions, I still have to think for myself and not take them at face value. The Mary Kay thing, for example. I do not sell or use it, but I need more info than one lady’s story. This lady interviewed stated she had other money/spending issues and was very competitive. How much did that contribute to being in debt instead of making a profit. How many distributors are there like her, How many work it as a business. If I, as a stylist and not in a MLM make bad decisions about spending too much because I want things instead of being sound, will lose money and go out of business as well. .
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This morning, I saw a pink Mary Kay Cadillac on the road here in Mississauga where I live, and I think it’s an absolutely gorgeous symbol of success from a company that I completely respect. I love seeing Mary Kay cars on the road because they remind me of how possible it is to build successful home based businesses. I usually agree with a lot of Ethan’s findings, but I love Mary Kay Cosmetics and I think their founder Mary Kay was an amazing and wonderful woman. I’ve read the blogs from people who are against Mary Kay, but I have personally only had positive experiences with Mary Kay consultants and from using Mary Kay products.
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I just want to add that I think Mary Kay Ash, the founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, had great intentions when she built her business from the ground up. Many of the life lessons that Mary Kay Ash wrote about in her books are still applicable to today’s times. Not everyone’s experiences with the company will be the same, but I think Mary Kay offers a lot to consumers, consultants, and to the charities they support.
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Mary Kay is one of the few places where you can literally buy your way up the ladder. You dont have to sell anything really, you just have to have great credit and huge closets for all of the inventory that you cant sell. Simple.
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When people in the top .2% of the company are going broke and spending thousands to qualify for positions, there is something very wrong.
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I have dozens of friends and acquaintances who used to sell Mary Kay and despite all their hard work, they always came up short. Glad to see a website like pinktruth.com challenging the myths of this company with cold hard facts. Of course, facts alone will ever change a true believer’s opinion…
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Thank u that was my thought on all these comments. Cuz the whole car situation my team does not have that much in sales and we have a pink Cadillac. As far as being a guy goes tho.. that’s not a biggy our president of the company is a male and they sell male products for skin care line
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Labor Ready is a scam to.
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I have not heard of them.
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So pleased to see you reporting on the Mary Kay scam. They so often say that the company’s longevity means it can’t POSSIBLY be a scam, despite all the evidence to the contrary. It’s nothing but a product-based pyramid scheme, designed to funnel money from the consultants (who are the final consumers, a fact MK corp. knows as it refuses to track actual sales) up the pyramid to the company itself.
So glad that people’s eyes are being opened.
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If someone that is at the top .2% of the company is losing money, how can the other people below be doing?
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This reporting is long overdue. THANK YOU Ethan for your efforts at bringing these scams to everyone’s attention.
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Glad to do it.
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