Bookkeeper Fires Her Mary Kay Cosmetics Clients
Teresa Osborne is a bookkeeper in Ontario, Canada who blogs at Georgian Blues. She formerly had several Mary Kay Associates as clients. She recently decided to fire them all, as she explains in her post The Cult of Mary Kay.
Here are a few excerpts from her colorful blog post:
…I am afraid of Mary Kay Ladies. My apologies…no wait…My condolences if you are one. I don’t mean to offend, but you scare the shit out of me.
Have you ever dealt with any of these freaks? They are like some scary screwed up cult. They try to sell you their ridiculously marked up, crappy cosmetics and skin care, and then when they have you fooled into doing that they try to recruit you into their coven. If you ever get into a room with a bunch of them, be afraid. Be very afraid.
Teresa describes the recruiting process… that the consultants will tell you about the nice people they meet, the places they go, the wonderful prizes they win, and all the money they make. However, she’s their bookkeeper and knows better:
…Trust me. They make no money. In fact they loose money. Between the conferences, the gas, the promotional stuff and the samples, their profits are eaten up damn fast.
They will show you the jewelry they have earned. Big ass, ugly, cheap diamond rings and crap. Then they tell you about their good friend Beatrice…she drives a Pink Cadillac! Tell me…who the hell wants to drive around in some ugly, gas guzzling PINK car?
And you know what you have to do to get that pink car? You have to buy thousands of dollars in product each year, PLUS recruit like 15 new people. That’s a pyramid scheme ladies. A well camouflaged one, but a pyramid scheme all the same.
According to Teresa, if they didn’t spend so much time and money on Mary Kay, they could afford to buy nice diamond rings and drive cars that aren’t pink.
Teresa became tired of living in fear… fear that she’d get caught by one of them at the cosmetics counter… fear that she’d one day attend one of their parties:
I am tired of being afraid one of them will see me at the Mac counter buying makeup, or in Shopper’s Drug Mart buying face cream. And I have totally run out of excuses to not go to their “Parties”. They scare me….they really do.
So Teresa Osborne took the bold step to do what she knew she had to do:
So I am now in the process of firing my Mary Kay clients. I can no longer in good conscience do bookkeeping for this clueless bunch, pretend like I agree with the stupid ass thing they are doing. It is just too freaky. I am sick of smiling nicely when they come to see me, and trying not to smack them up the side of the head for being happy that their quarterly profit was in the negative again.
Somehow I think that as soon as they visit her blog, Teresa won’t have to worry about having them as clients anymore.
DO YOU HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH MARY KAY COSMETICS OR SIMILAR OPPORTUNITIES? LEAVE A COMMENT AND SHARE YOUR PERSPECTIVE.
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11 opinions for Bookkeeper Fires Her Mary Kay Cosmetics Clients
Mat
Mar 5, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Hey that was hilarious good work on pointing it out
gothchiq
Mar 6, 2007 at 8:08 am
Mary Kay is indeed a thinly veiled pyramid scheme. The only ones buying the cosmetics are the consultants themselves. There are many scripts and lies used to brainwash these women into going deep into debt purchasing this overpriced junk that they can never sell. I got sucked in about ten years ago. After a year, I was fed up. I had wasted my time and money and energy and had nothing to show for it but money down the drain. MK people like to say that if you don’t make money in MK it means you are lazy. This is not true. I never worked so hard at a regular job as I did trying to book classes and sell this junk. The bottom line is, I don’t work for free, much less do I pay to work. So I sent back my crap and quit and experienced a great feeling of freedom. Now, if anyone mentions MK to me I will turn on my heel and leave instantly.
embum99
Mar 7, 2007 at 12:12 am
I am wondering then who I sell the product to? Yes, I use a lot of it myself, however I have gone through my accounting program (Quick Tax) and I am confused. I actually sell to real live people that are not me. I am sure that the statements made are accurate in some cases. I have met a lot of people that buy for themselves and thats it (which makes no sense to me) and there are A LOT of unbelievably stupid women who sell MK. However, I do not encourage my recruits to buy a lot of inventory, I tell them to get the bare minimum order of $200 and see where that gets them. I tell them to stay away from buying colour products and anything limited edition. I teach them that 60% of the money from a class goes to their business expenses and 40% goes into a savings account. If they can not afford to go to a conference or something MK related, then I ask them how much is in their savings account and if that will cover it, if not, then they either need to find a way to raise more cash or choose not to attend the function. I even show them how to get their starter kit for free. I will hold the class and all the sales from that class will go to their starter kit. I 100% discourage using your own money to start this business unless they want to. I teach good business money management from the start and not later. I am soon discovering that I am definetly one of the few people that do this. I learned from my mistakes and I do not want others to make the same ones. Can we just get rid of the stupid MK consultants, I think that would be better! Trust me, they drive me crazy to. After all last time I checked, we were all adults (18 and over).
tracy
Apr 11, 2007 at 11:29 am
I am not a consultant but I Love the MK products. I am not stupid. I am an adult and I love their makeup. Keep your stupid remarks to yourself!! if you dont like it, then dont buy it!!
stephanie
Jun 8, 2007 at 12:33 pm
i know what you mean i would never want to sell the product cuz i have heard horror stories but the product is good though, no complaint there!
former kaybot
Jul 8, 2007 at 7:26 am
please visit http://www.pinktruth.com for the real story of mk cosmetics.
Veronica
Jul 21, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Sounds like someone didnt do well in Mary Kay.
I AM a consultant but I don’t PUSH people to hold classes. My customers love the product and I dont have to push it on them either, they come to me. I do make money but also am smart enough to order a little product on hand so that when my customers come to me, I have it right then and there for them.
I agree with Tracy, keep your comments to yourself. Not everyone runs their business the way Teresa explains it.
Black Nova
Aug 10, 2007 at 9:24 am
Well, Veronica, apparently enough of them run their business that way to the point that a bookkeeper is willing to lose income on her own business rather than have to deal with them.
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