Mary Kay’s New Disclaimer
Mary Kay has a new disclaimer in Applause magazine. You know… the publication MK has been doing for decades that has all the numbers for the NSDs and the top earning directors. Except they switched it up earlier this year. The “recognition” part of Applause is no longer available in the digital version, because MK Inc. got sick of Pink Truth using those numbers to prove what a loser opportunity the company is. Now you have to look at the recognition online by signing into Mary Kay InTouch…. i.e. only current consultants can access it. (If anyone who is still in the company can log in and download the last few months of information for me, we’d be grateful!)
Mary Kay’s new disclaimer goes like this:
See! Almost no one drives a Mary Kay car. The Kaybots will say that anyone *can* earn a car. And while that’s theoretically true, almost no one *does*.
I have to assume this disclaimer is because of the FTC’s recent warnings about misleading information and false income claims being made by MLMs like Mary Kay.
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Love how they specified ANY career car, not just the pink caddy, is unreachable by 99.9% of consultants.
I think the second half of the disclaimer got chopped off. Found it:
The “less than 1%” achieves those levels and perks off the backs of their own recruited 99%. Recruits are people who ORDER directly from us, Mary Kay, under the guise that it’s a business opportunity for them. It is the recruits’ own money helping the “less than 1%” to their car or cash. At no time are established consultants, or new recruits, required to resell product.
I’m so glad they did this. Heading in the right direction. But I noticed they put a spin on it to their benefit, “best of the best”. So it makes it seem like you can get there if you’re special enough. I mean looking at it now, after I know better, the 1% seems pretty glaring. But when I was in Mary Kay, I would have thought ,”I’m smart. I went to college. I could do this if I try hard enough.” I was in a bad place, too.
You have to be sooper speshul.
Would it surprise you to know that the “less than 1%” is actually about HALF A PERCENT?
IMO, that disclaimer means nothing unless MK Inc forces every director to state it to every potential recruit, and to prominently display it on their own social media that they use to recruit.
You’re totally right. But to the FTC, they can say they’ve tried real hard!
Just like when MK stopped sending commission reports. I printed mine for a few months and then kept forgetting. Most people probably don’t print and read them.
If they did then they would see all the chargebacks and copays on vehicles. It makes it more palatable when you only see the end figure not what they took away.
I could tell you a really awesome mk car story. Like the time I “earned ” mine but never got it due to covid. Then when I “stepped down” as a director, they were nice enough to say that if my personal team made production two months in a row, I could get my car. Hmm, if I was no longer a director due to lack of production, how in the world would my personal team pull that off? I told them to keep the car.
That’s one small step in the right direction. Now, an income disclosure statement. Cough it up, Corporate. We know you have one.
Haven’t said hi to Corporate in a bit. What’s up Corporate. 😁
Interesting. Seems like they may finally realize that if they don’t follow the rules, they will cease to exist.