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Is Selling Mary Kay a Pyramid Scheme?
Posted on 2/22/14 at 5:44 pm
Posted on 2/22/14 at 5:44 pm
Women I know who sell Mary Kay are constantly trying to get people to sign up under them and they lose their ranking or whatever if people don't place orders or have parties or if they don't make a certain amount of sales. Lots of promises and stuff at first, but if you don't keep hauling it in, they take your status (or whatever its called) and you lose the car - if you ever earned one.
I guess it is like every business in that if you don't perform, you can lose it. But, the women I know who do it seem to be under a lot of pressure. Maybe it is just them.
Advocare thread made me think of this. And yes, those people
all have the same sales pitch, it seems.
I guess it is like every business in that if you don't perform, you can lose it. But, the women I know who do it seem to be under a lot of pressure. Maybe it is just them.
Advocare thread made me think of this. And yes, those people
all have the same sales pitch, it seems.
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Posted on 2/22/14 at 5:46 pm to AlaTiger
Theoretically, everything is a pyramid scheme
Posted on 2/22/14 at 5:46 pm to AlaTiger
Mary Kay, advocare, amway
All the same bro
Hate all those people
All the same bro
Hate all those people
Posted on 2/22/14 at 5:46 pm to AlaTiger
Posted on 2/22/14 at 5:46 pm to theunknownknight
um
no
no
Posted on 2/22/14 at 5:49 pm to jimbeam
Mary Kay is a "pyramid scheme". It is seen as legitimate though, so maybe not a scheme. It has the same multi level structure though.
Posted on 2/22/14 at 5:49 pm to markasaurus
I am asking because I don't know.
Enlighten me.
Enlighten me.
Posted on 2/22/14 at 6:25 pm to AlaTiger
Same goes for cookware, candles, and jewelry parties.
Posted on 2/22/14 at 6:38 pm to AlaTiger
Mary Kay qualifies as a MLM (multi-level marketing) business plan, but not as a pyramid.
Posted on 2/22/14 at 6:43 pm to foshizzle
The latest business like this is Rodan & Fields. Supposedly a lot of women are making some serious money because they got in early but at some point it levels off.
Anybody have any first hand experience with this company ?
Anybody have any first hand experience with this company ?
Posted on 2/22/14 at 6:47 pm to AlaTiger
And their makeup & skincare aren't worth crap.
Posted on 2/22/14 at 6:48 pm to AlaTiger
My definition of a pyramid scheme is anything where you make more money in recruiting salespeople than selling shite. Sales of actual product should be the main income source.
Posted on 2/22/14 at 6:51 pm to AlaTiger
You'll be glad your wife is selling Mary Kay when they see you rollin' like a 
in the passenger seat of that pink caddy.
in the passenger seat of that pink caddy.
Posted on 2/22/14 at 7:11 pm to Jim Rockford
A true pyramid scheme involves only receiving money from those below you. Eventually with the exponential growth requirement of each person at the bottom needing to recruit to make money and bounce it upward, the pyramid topples and those in the bottom portion lose their investment.
Product based schemes like Mary Kay can also be pyramids, albeit legal ones. Mary Kay and others require you to buy expensive starter packs with slim profit margins. Then it becomes more profitable to recruit others then sell. This is how Amway got their bad name.
Product based schemes like Mary Kay can also be pyramids, albeit legal ones. Mary Kay and others require you to buy expensive starter packs with slim profit margins. Then it becomes more profitable to recruit others then sell. This is how Amway got their bad name.
Posted on 2/22/14 at 7:16 pm to AlaTiger
WakeUp now is the true "pyramid scheme". Those people on facebook give me my daily giggle. They're dumb as frick.
Posted on 2/22/14 at 7:27 pm to 21JumpStreet
My SiL did it for a while and made some money. Not a ton but a fair living.
My ex-boss’ wife did southern living and made a good living. Like 50k as a stay at home mom. I think she had something like 15 people under her and 40 or so total under her underlings.
My ex-boss’ wife did southern living and made a good living. Like 50k as a stay at home mom. I think she had something like 15 people under her and 40 or so total under her underlings.
Posted on 2/22/14 at 7:43 pm to theunknownknight
Moron.
Posted on 2/22/14 at 8:45 pm to AlaTiger
It is called sales.
If you don't sell, you are gone--no matter what the product.
Why does that make it a pyramid scheme?
If you don't sell, you are gone--no matter what the product.
Why does that make it a pyramid scheme?
Posted on 2/22/14 at 9:17 pm to Marco Esquandolas
My daughter sells Mary Kay , I wish she never would have started it.....deff. Pyramid scheme
Posted on 2/22/14 at 9:19 pm to Marco Esquandolas
Bob stoops wife sells it (national sales director). I've heard she makes more than him.
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