how much to get started in Mary Kay Cosmetics

If you want to make a gift, make a gift. Don't make a loan to someone you are romantically involved with. Bad, bad, bad, bad idea to do that loan.

If you want to give her the money, just give her the money.

My wife has done 2 MLM things in her life (against my wishes) and both of them were the same (but neither was Mary Kay) so I'm guessing a lot of the things are similar.

Basically, you buy a "starter" kit - which has a bunch of stuff, and you then buy inventory. You do these stupid parties. You need samples and giveaways for these parties. Then, you sell stuff. When you sell stuff, one or two things happens:

1) You have the stuff in your possession, so they give you money, you give them stuff, and life goes on.

2) You don't have what they need, so they give you money, and you order the stuff, get it in, and give it to them.

What both of these fine (LOL) organizations told my wife was that if you have the stuff on you, you are more likely to make the sale, so, they encourage you to buy a bunch of inventory.

That would be my guess for the price difference. $400 probably buys the starter kit, the rest is inventory and give aways.

Plus, she will need to market herself, so there is a cost for that - business cards, a website, etc.

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What both of these fine (LOL) organizations told my wife was that if you have the stuff on you, you are more likely to make the sale, so, they encourage you to buy a bunch of inventory. That would be my guess for the price difference. $400 probably buys the starter kit, the rest is inventory and give aways. Plus, she will need to market herself, so there is a cost for that - business cards, a website, etc.

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She says she needs $2000.00 and it's because the woman who is trying to recruit her says that you need to buy inventory and you'll make more money.

I'm willing to give her the $116.00 for the starter kit and maybe a little bit more to get her started and say have a good life.

I don't get why you are giving her money if you are wanting to seperate from her. Are you expecting the money will make it easier for you?

Yeah, that's pretty strange. Does she not have/can't get $116? Is that amount of money really going to change her life? If she can't scrape that together for her new venture, then maybe she should rethink the entire thing.

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I don't get why you are giving her money if you are wanting to seperate from her. Are you expecting the money will make it easier for you?

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Yes. I want her to be well

So she wants to do this but doesn't want to contribute any of her own money to the cause?

If you want to help her (and we'll leave that open for discussion) this is what I would do.

Tell her that you will match whatever money she puts up, until you reach a certain amount. Say $500.

So she spends $500 of her own money and buys stuff.

You then write a check TO MARY KAY for $500 and order $500 of stuff.

If she can't put up any of her own money into this deal, that's a clear sign this thing is a bad, bad idea.

id love to know how many people get into crap like mary kay and lose money. Im gonna guess at least 98%.

Buy her a pink cadillac instead.

If she had what it took to be successful at anything, she would be. Of course, the liberal in you should be begging to throw money at her, but apparently you are much more judicious with your money than that of the American taxpayer.