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Posted By: The Tim <tim@thetimtimes.com> In Response To: Well that's a neat MLM trick if you can do it... (MaaMaw)
Friday, 2 June 2006, at 10:28 a.m.
Hi all. Good to see things going well over here. One thing I noticed when reading this beauticontrol post? If someone as close to my personal sphere of influence as 'a lady who works with my daughter' gives a testimonial account of something as horribly abusive as has been noted, then I wouldn't be so quick to 'reserve judgement'. I did a little research on this company and in what could only be called serendipity, the 'moldy grape' argument really makes sense when you consider that :
BeautiControl now is a wholly owned private subsidiary of Tupperware Brands Corporation.
Seems like somebody might have forgotten to 'burp that seal'?
I've always thought Tupperware to be one of the better MLM ops. Maybe things have changed? More likely, this scamlike behavior was instituted Amway-like by some overly aggressive field rep (like Amway's forced tape sales). Want to bet that the Tupperware Corp is unware that this is going on?
Enjoy.
> My daughter works with a lady who went to a BeautiControl home "spa
> party."
> I'm not saying BeautiControl is a scam, mind you -- in fact, a quick
> search brought up absolutely nothing negative -- but you know the old
> saying: There's a moldy grape in every handful.
> So anyhoo, she went to this party.
> She bought several products in the form of "a kit."
> The dealer told her that she was invited to go to a three-hour gathering
> where she would be taught how to use her kit.
> Yesterday -- Thursday -- she received an email with not only the time and
> place but also "instructions." She was to arrive promptly
> and "wear business attire." It was not three hours but
> EIGHT AND A HALF HOURS! And if she cancelled less than TEN DAYS
> prior to the event, she would be CHARGED TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS. (She
> only received this email two days before the event, but you know how I
> hate to nitpick.)
> This lady has never been biz-op scammed before, so she had no clue what
> was happening. She knew enough, however, to be mad as hell and she
> isn't paying any $25 fee for cancelling.
> Uhhhh, lemme guess...
> She was roped into buying a dealer kit and didn't know it??
> Please understand... this is not a stupid or naive person, and she has
> absolutely *no* interest in going into business for herself, so I
> guarantee she would not have bought a dealer kit if it had been presented
> as such.
> And what's this?... If you don't show up at what could only be a dealer
> training class, you have to *PAY* them??
> Like I said, I have no personal knowledge of this company, and so far I
> haven't found a single negative word about them. I'm relating one
> person's experience with what may be a single moldy grape because I think
> it's a classic (and if it ain't, it oughtta be).
> Luv,
> MaaMaw
Sensibility Without the Static
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