MLM Critic Doesn’t Like Pink Truth
Sometimes we have Pink Truth critics who come from within the anti-MLM community. They don’t think we’re doing enough or doing the right things. People focus on different things, and that’s okay in my book. Fans of Mary Kay say we should stop trying to “take down” MK. No, that has never been the mission.
Critics of MLM say we SHOULD be trying to take down MLM. I decided long ago that trying to get the government to stop MLMs was futile. Trying to destroy individual companies was useless. What I *thought* could make a difference is education. If you’re considering Mary Kay and you bother to take 5 minutes with a search engine, you’ll find Pink Truth. If you can be bothered to read for 5 minutes, you’ll find enough that should stop you in your tracks. You should seriously question signing up.
And we’ve seen that happen. We have helped women avoid MK. We have helped others get out and get their money back. Have we helped enough women? Probably not. But this is where I think we do our best work, and it’s what we’ve been doing for almost 20 years.
Yet this critic has a problem with how we go about our business:
If you want to operate a grown-up website that pokes fun of MK and the MK “leaders” AND is also devoted to reaching outward to educate others about Mary Kay and other MLM scams, I’m all in. If you want to coddle your little girls and not support greater change, I’m not interested in wasting my time.
I want to help other people not get scammed. I want to get media attention towards these MLM scams. I want to influence the FTC to take action against them. Your website needs to change, or it’s simply not worth my time.
People think they have the upper hand when they kick me off their websites. But it’s not my problem, it’s because they’re not serious about working together to cause real change to take place. They think I don’t understand when it’s really that they don’t understand and aren’t serious. I fully understand, and if they don’t want to work together to go after some rich fat-cat scam artists with lots of lobbying money, then count me out.
The internet is the greatest tool ever for leveling the playing field against scam artists, but if people aren’t willing to leverage it and use it for good, then it’s just like a hammer that lays on the ground and is never used.
Strong discussions are what is needed, we won’t always agree. Friction causes progress, if the subject is the problems in MLM rather than somebody getting bent out of shape over an obvious joke. I don’t see any curiosity on the website to discuss problems. You decide. Your website will be known for how you decide to run it.
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One of my relatives has been married 5 times. She still goes on and on about all of her terrible exes. At some point, my friend, you have to accept that YOU are the common denominator in the equation. If today’s critic has been kicked off of multiple websites because they don’t get the vision, it may be that we need to look at the common denominator.
My opinion with things like MLM. The free market is going to be much more effective at squashing them than the government ever will be. We are leveraging the internet to educate individuals about the harm of MLMs in general and Mary Kay in particular. They are now forewarned and are leaving the business model in droves. Eventually, all of these companies are going to collapse because no one is signing up to be a consultomer.
The government has made efforts in the past to regulate direct sales, but the industry renames things, hides all the government requirements deep in the fine print of a 16-page contract that no one reads, and carries on as they always have. Plus. MLM is worldwide, so you’re dealing with multiple governments with varying levels of effectiveness. Individual education and free market are the answer here.
I you keep getting kicked off sites and don’t like what others are doing, start your own site! It is much easier to critique than create. PT was created with a specific purpose in mind which differs from your purpose. Asking others to change their mission to conform to yours is not likely a winning tactic.
Try to view all the various blogs and sites devoted to the anti-MLM movement as allies, not minions to do your bidding.
And put yourself out there by creating your own site so you appreciate just how difficult it is to create and sustain something like this. Tracy and her contributors keep the content fresh daily to keep engagement up. This is no small feat. A little appreciation is in order for just how much work is involved in something like this.
But the best teacher is trial and error. Get your website up and running, and promote your mission!
If you want to operate a grown-up website that pokes fun of MK and the MK “leaders” AND is also devoted to reaching outward to educate others about Mary Kay and other MLM scams, I’m all in.
Could you be any more condescending?
If you want to coddle your little girls and not support greater change, I’m not interested in wasting my time.
Good, go away. We don’t want nor need the likes of you.
I want to help other people not get scammed.
Points to the Internet, find your own space.
I want to get media attention towards these MLM scams. I want to influence the FTC to take action against them.
No-one’s stopping you. Do It!! You just need to spend a few minutes on Google or another search engine to find the information you require.
Your website needs to change, or it’s simply not worth my time.
So, the internet’s a big place. Not all websites work for every-one. Seek one out that better serves your needs.
People think they have the upper hand when they kick me off their websites. But it’s not my problem, it’s because they’re not serious about working together to cause real change to take place.
Oh Lordt! One of those! If you have a problem, then solve it yourself. Don’t expect others to hold your hand and whisper encouragement in your ears while you demand praise for doing the least amount of effort needed.
They think I don’t understand when it’s really that they don’t understand and aren’t serious. I fully understand, and if they don’t want to work together to go after some rich fat-cat scam artists with lots of lobbying money, then count me out.
Please explain it to us, Oh Wise One!!!
The internet is the greatest tool ever for leveling the playing field against scam artists, but if people aren’t willing to leverage it and use it for good, then it’s just like a hammer that lays on the ground and is never used.
Then pick up Mjolnir and use it. Don’t stand there like a slack-jawed yokel waiting for other to do the work for you.
Strong discussions are what is needed, we won’t always agree. Friction causes progress, if the subject is the problems in MLM rather than somebody getting bent out of shape over an obvious joke.
I’ve already found the obvious joke, it’s you, sunshine.
I don’t see any curiosity on the website to discuss problems.
Probably not, you’re too busy inspecting the inside of your rectum.
You decide. Your website will be known for how you decide to run it.
Honestly, this reminds me of the very earnest but naive young men I used to meet back in the late 1980’s/ early 1990’s who were concerned that there were no DV shelters for men but who were not concerned enough to actually put in the work to make them happen. They wanted women to sort out their problems while garnering the praise for themselves.
Pink Truth has reached far and wide. I am a testimony to that. I live near the equator, really. That’s how effective Pink Truth is.
On a more sombre note….. I am sorry for the person who killed the insurer. He must be in such a state of helplessness, depression and desperation to have done that. The world is finally having a very good look at the tactics of “delay, deny, defend”. It’s cruel and heartless to benefit only one entity under the guise of giving protection to all.
I do not want to offend anyone in the insurance scheme but I have always lumped it together with MLMs under the big umbrella for scams.
Now that’s a media coverage that reaches across the globe but let’s not come to that point whereby masses are made aware through tragedies.
Tracy, I salute you for your perseverance!
PTC, if you are sincere in what you are saying, “ work together to go after some rich fat-cat scam artists with lots of lobbying money”, you would be the force that protects and uplifts Tracy instead of the one that tries to put her down. I believe she has enough problem of being in the crosshairs of MK corporation. I hope you will be her strongest supporter soon.
If this website isn’t up to your standards, what’s to stop you from starting your own?
Operating a website takes time, effort, and money. The fact that you keep getting kicked off of other websites suggests that you expect to piggyback on the efforts of other people. If you really believe that you have what it takes to bring down the MLM industry, great! Maybe you’re right. Maybe you can actually pull it off, and that would be awesome. But you’re going to have to invest your own assets, not expect other website owners to bend to your vision.
I’m not trying to be snarky. I’m just pointing out that if you want a website that does things your way, it’s on you to create that website.
So where is this person’s website, her stack of letters to her congressmen, her petitions to the FTC? OH … she wants TRACY to make it happen?
I read this in a “male voice” mainly due to the coddle your little girls .But it does exude that expectation of wanting some-one do the dirty work while the person is waiting to “display their laurels” and claim the praise for bearding the dragon in it’s lair.
I believe this is “TexTex”, aka Scott Johnson. He’s been around for many years.
Just Google “Scott Johnson Amway”. Lots of hits if interested.
And this: https://frankreport.com/2020/04/15/scott-johnson-amway-is-the-scam-way/
I just clicked that link. WTF did I just read??? The interweb has all kinds of kinds for sure.
We don’t care about your opinion anymore than the political opinions of stupidwood (Hollywood). Thanks for trying to play anyway. Next dummy please.