True or False: It only costs $100 to join Mary Kay
TRUE and FALSE.
To become a Mary Kay Consultant, you must sign an agreement and pay $100 for your “starter kit.”
However, in order to stay “active,” you must place a $200 wholesale product order with the company every three months.
Now, it makes sense that you can’t just sign up and never place a product order. That would be silly, since the whole point is to sell the product. And it makes sense that in order to be considered a Consultant that you would have to order certain minimums to be able to represent the products.
What doesn’t make sense is the big presentation on “initial inventory packages” that comes after one has signed the agreement, and the sudden push by your Director to start your Mary Kay venture with hundreds, even thousands, of dollars worth of inventory.
The problem is that in my observation and experience, Directors almost always emphasized the $100 starting figure and never mentioned what came after that: a hard push to buy an “initial inventory package.”
Many women know nothing of the impending “Inventory Interview” they will be subjected to once they join MK and many current consultants feel guilty recruiting women with what they feel is only half of the story.
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wow lipstick, you must have had a really bad experience!! you seem to be on a mission here. i still love my mk. i have for 7 years and have had good and bad experiences but apparently nothing like what you seem to have had. i hope you get past it, honestly. take care.
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As a 45-year old man who joined Avon, I’m glad I made the choice I did. For $10, I got my starter supplies and was in business for myself. If I never placed another order, it would have been no big deal. I actually have a downline rep who ordered 2 bottles of Skin So Soft and never ordered again.
For me, Avon’s been fantastic. I’ve sold over $10,200 worth of products in less than the first 5 months of joining. Seem’s like MK and Avon are vastly different in their treatment of reps.
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I have been in Mk for years and i Love it….. Lol i am very far from being successful in my buisness but i know it is because of my own faults. I read August story and for her to WARN women of MaryKar is just pure ignorance.
lol in most cases they are.) Lol, Not all MEN are dogs and not all MK directors are angels (like mine) Warn women abt making wiser choices and knowing their limits, im sure if you told ur director there was no way in this world were you going to spend that much money on something you wasnt sure was going to work she would have found other options. Unfortuantely not all directors are as honest as they should be. My director however, gave me her own personal samples and books to get enough money to place my first order. Since then she has never forced me to do anything……….From attending God knows how many events, I know that your success in the buisness depends on you. Mk is not for everybody. As far as the history and the beliefs that MK has they are truly the best. GOD, Family Career just that statement says it all. Im 24 and i have met some wonderful christian ladies in mk, its never the church thats bad its the people in it. Lipstick just seems like a str8 hater. So many women fail in this buisness cause they see it as a way to end all finicial problems by selling LIPSTICK. Its the oppurtunity of a lifetime for a WOMAN who has a VISION and DRIVE to get there. lol i got my vision just need the car.
( Its like going to your local McDonalds having a bad experience and saying that all McDonalds are horrible
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mkSlacker, I respectfully disagree with your assessment of my feelings. there is no hatred in this body, i speak simply from the truth of my 8.5 yrs of experience in MK. Your experience may have been different from mine, but mine is just as valid as yours.
Your response and judgment of me is typical MK speak, anyone who doesn’t agree with MK’s manufactured picture of all roses, pink stars and dreams is an automatic LOSER who failed to work their business and treat it as a business.
I would invite you to read more on the front page and realize that I am not the only one who had these experiences and the overwhelming majority of posters here had a “negative” experience. Then enter the forum by clicking on the FORUM button in the tan toolbar at the top of this page and read more.
One more comment, you compared negative comments about MK to having a bad experience at McDonald’s and judging all McDonald’s to be the same. We are not talking 1 negative experience, we are talking many negative experiences Just read a bit more to get a full picture. I once looked through those same “rose colored” glasses you are wearing for a total of 8.5 years. I worked my business and believed I too could be one of those who worked over, under, around and through all those obstacles to be a MK SD…sadly only 2% of women in MK ever achieve SD status and their income is hardly 6 figures after expenses are deducted.
As they say in MK the numbers don’t lie. Please pay particular attention to the rules of the MK program or you may be stuck with a co-payment for that car that isn’t really yours. It is incredibly hard to keep all those recruits active and make your required minimums at the same time. Good luck to you.
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Quoting MK slacker “GOD, Family Career just that statement says it all. Im 24 and i have met some wonderful christian ladies in mk, its never the church thats bad its the people in it. Lipstick just seems like a str8 hater.”
How wonderfully Christian of you to Judge so quickly! Very GO GIVE!
You will not meet a more wonderful Christian lady than Lipstick! We are stating our experience in MK, if it doesn’t parallel yours, then be thankful.
My NSD wanted me to re-schedule my only child’s birthday party because it clashed with an event she had planned! Sitting in Church does not mean people are Christians any more than standing in your garage makes you a car!
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Hang in there MK Slaker!
I am 22 have been in business 6 months, and finished my car qualifications November 30th! 
Cant wait to get it! I dont know whats going to happen, I may have to make a co-op payment one month, or two, or whatever, but Im ok with that, cause I have no problem paying for a car that im driving. The payments for a 2010 Chevy Malibu would be WAY higher then any co-op I would have to pay! This company has blessed my life, as it will continue to do. I would much rather be wearing those pink “fogged” glasses, then living a miserable life with LIPSTICK. 
Just believe in yourself, you can do it!
All my blessings,
MK Girl!
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P.S. Ashley = MK Girl =
This site assigns monster avatars to commenters based on I.P. address/email address so while Ashley may think she’s appearing to be many people, the monster knows the truth!
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MK Girl
I wish you success in your “business” but perhaps to be successful you should curb your sarcastic fingers? These are our PERSONAL experiences in MK. I, personally, don’t believe your 6 month career with MK compares to Lipstick’s 8 1/2 YEARS!
I found your comment rude and hateful to Lippie and to the rest of us! What a wonderful “go give” attitude!
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LMAO! Love that! Love these monsters!
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tee hee!
The monsters know all! Can’t fool the monsters!
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