If you sell enough Mary Kay, you win a free car!
Written by L J on April 28, 2008 – 11:41 am -FALSE!
First of all, you could sell $200,000 of Mary Kay this year and you wouldn’t earn a car.
Second…notice how I said “earn?”
Those cars aren’t free. And you don’t earn them by selling tons of products.
You earn cars by recruiting others into the company. Then, those recruits of yours need to place a product inventory order. That’s the simplified version.
Once you earn the car, you’ll find you’re in a two-year lease agreement with Mary Kay Inc.
You will be required to make a car lease payment every month, unless the production of your unit is high enough to completely cover your lease payment.
You can find more info on the Mary Kay Car Program on this site and on the Mary Kay InTouch site.
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April 29th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Wow! I wish I could sell $200,000 in MK this year! That would mean that I’d earn $100k in 2008, I’d not care if I ‘earned’ or even ‘won’ a car, as I’d buy myself a jaguar xj6 convertable out-right and still have money to spare!
As for the car production… you mention marykayintouch. You’re right. The Mary Kay Corporate office does indeed educate you enough to detail the car production with all of it’s requirements.
But, you failed to mention the cash compensation plan, for those consultants and directors who don’t want the car. A car earning consultant or director can always choose to take the extra cash instead, earning - and truly earning - up to the maximum amount for each car category each month. For the Cadillac - $900 per month. If unit production fluxuates, then the amount may be less than that.
So, no, you don’t have to lease a car if you don’t want to. You can take the money compensation instead, and never pay the company for any portion of the use of the car should unit production fall at any time below the level. And, if you look at this monthly check as a bonus and extra, instead of necessary for the budget, money - well, then, sounds like a fine program to me.
On top of the money earned - and truly earned - for all of your sales of the product!
April 30th, 2008 at 7:42 am
Yes, you can choose the cash compensation.
However, you aren’t “truly earning” that either. The amount of cash compensation you receive depends solely on the production of your team. And the production of your team is based on their wholesale orders from the company.
NOT sales.
That’s kinda the point, but from your comment I see you missed the point of the article.
The cash compensation is really simply commission earned on the production of your team. No production, no cash.
Right. Problem is, you wouldn’t have $100,000 AT ALL. There are far too many expenses that would have to come out of that $100K. Plus, you wouldn’t wind up with $100,000 in the first place because most Consultants cannot sell every product at full-price. This becomes apparent very quickly.
Consultants get hyped into buying lots of new stuff and then a lot of it just isn’t as “super-duper” as the Directors make you think. But once it’s in your home, it’s too late. Consultants end up having to discount lots of products just to try to get rid of them and get a little profit out of them.
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:29 am
“Consultants get hyped into buying lots of new stuff and then a lot of it just isn’t as “super-duper” as the Directors make you think. But once it’s in your home, it’s too late. Consultants end up having to discount lots of products just to try to get rid of them and get a little profit out of them.”
NOT TO MENTION…the inventory you are hyped into buying isn’t at all what you need. You get the order placed FOR YOU, but your director (at least I DID) and I had every color from 100 to 400 in M/C and F/C not to mention at least 2 because that’s what she sold!
Yes discounts out the wazoo!!! UNLESS YOU are WISE enough to send it back to corpse!
May 2nd, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Wow!, I am reading all of this and I see various people, some level headed that see the truth, and some gullable who see the sparkle. What is often misunderstood is that the big earners in MK can sell shit for $5 per pound. It is a sales job. And they are damn good at it too! These people have my wife contemplating leaving a $40,000 per year job (no degree and 27 years old) on a whim that she could be a Mary Kay millionaire. Well, whoopty friggin doo. I tell her to quit because she is not happy at work, but Don’t feed me some crap about being a MK millionaire. The only way to become a millionaire is hard work, wise investing, and patience. These people want you to think you can actually pick up a turd by the clean end. If you are going to be filthy rich, you have to get shit on your hands more often than not. Bottom line, if you can’t sell heat to an eskimo - you can’t be a Mary Kay millionaire. On the other hand if you can lie to young gullable people and get them to fork over their hard earned money, give up irreplaceable jobs and commit their families to nights without wives and mothers, husbands being Mr. Mom, and children saying, when is Mommy coming home, THEN THIS IS JUST RIGHT FOR YOU. But don’t go expecting your husband to enjoy the process.
May 5th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
“Wow! I wish I could sell $200,000 in MK this year! That would mean that I’d earn $100k in 2008, I’d not care if I ‘earned’ or even ‘won’ a car, as I’d buy myself a jaguar xj6 convertable out-right and still have money to spare!”
“Right. Problem is, you wouldn’t have $100,000 AT ALL. There are far too many expenses that would have to come out of that $100K. Plus, you wouldn’t wind up with $100,000 in the first place because most Consultants cannot sell every product at full-price. This becomes apparent very quickly.”
PLUS - You forgot the 60/40 reinvestment plan!
May 6th, 2008 at 4:41 am
johndoe,
PLEASE stand firm with your wife.
DO NOT let her quit a $40,000 a year job to
chase the “Mary Kay Dream”!
In the starting stages, the money is not there.
A typical Saturn Director makes around $25,000 after expenses. (Sounds like a paycut …)
I make more than your wife on a J.O.B.
For a long time, I couldn’t figure out why I didn’t want to quit. The upline pushed it.
Finally I understood. I was loyal to the JOB because it not only paid my expenses, but also benefits with peace of mind. Mary Kay could not do that in the short term.
Look at the weekly income on the job, then look at the typical sales at a weekly meeting. $300-$500 divided by half, less expenses of the SCC. No comparison. Examine a Unit Newsletter for Recruiter checks. Very few at $1000+. Most at $100 or less for the month.
Quit a job for that? I don’t think so.
And with Car/DIQ, with no discretionary income, how does one “top off production”???? Debt/Credit?
Frontloading of others - get used to it, because that’s where the recruiting income is.
johndoe, hold firm for your wife and your family. Help her keep that job. Less than 3% of MK are at that “executive income” level. That means 97% don’t succeed. Your family is so much more important than that.
If she can work MK around her job and her family, more power to her. But without that foundation, it probably will not work. And that solicitous upline will not care if/when she fails, when the wholesale $$$$ runs out. They will turn around and blame it on her. Sad, but true.
Protect you both, and your family too.
Someday she will thank you.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:59 am
Yes, it’s based on what you purchase from the company. Have we forgotten that this is a business? The idea is to purchase an inventory to get started (and isn’t it great to be rewarded for investing in something that’s only going to help you be successful - if you’re serious about making it a business), and then only purchase items that you have sold from there - or invest in new products. I see nothing wrong with that.
From my understanding, the corportate office has never advertised it as a “free car you can win if you sell enough”. If a director is advertising it as such, she is sorely mistaken and will probably be sorry. When we talk about the cars in my unit, we always talk about exactly how you earn the car. I’m sorry it was ever explained in a different manner.
May 28th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
I thought it was advertised as “you earn the use of a car” but actually, “you” don’t, your team does because only a certain % of what you purchase is allowed to count and the team must make up the rest. What gets my goat is when the “car driver” calls the team, asking them to place an order (ie, make her car payment).
Sorry, that $’s got to go toward MY car payment (non MK) that will be PAID for soon !