1. “It’s kind of pathetic that an ENTIRE site is dedicated to bringing down one of the most successful companies in American history rather than the energy being spent on doing something positive and uplifting.”

   PTC, please define success. After all of this time, Mary Kay has yet to create a single downline that is profitable as a whole. Unlike you, I don’t blame the consultants for this lack of success…I blame Mary Kay Corp’s flawed business model. The MLM distribution model simply cannot create a profitable down-line, because it is designed to take much more from the downline than it gives in return.

   We hear a lot of talk from Mary Kay consultants about the successes in Mary Kay. Talk is cheap. Let’s see some evidence. A comprehensive ledger would be a good start. A few years of Sched C even. Best would be a forensic view of your entire downline, including aggregate P/L for all current and former participants in your downline. Such an accounting would prove to us and to new recruits that this thing can work!

   Plenty of research has been shared here which shows the inherent flaws in the pay-to-play, endless-chain MLM model used by Mary Kay.
   You critics have yet to provide any evidence (other than talk) showing Mary Kay has produced even one profitable downline. Even worse, the boasting of individual success in Mary Kay is never backed up with any real evidence either.

   Now is your chance, PTC. Get busy and prove us all wrong!

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2. “All of the team members she [Tracy] attracted were probably all in it only for the money rather than for pouring into women who really needed someone to love them.”

   Oh, please. The only reason anyone works a job is for the money. They may love the work, their company’s mission, the prestige, and everything else about it, but take away that paycheck or important benefits and it’s OKBAI TIME!!!

   (Pouring what, exactly? Beer? Sand? Latex paint?) The MK version of “love” is the worst thing to inflict on someone who really needs someone to love them. It’s love by contract, a transactional thing where that love is only given when they do something to benefit you. You make them want, need, and depend on that love to fill the void, then yank it away when they displease you. It’s manipulative, abusive, and a crappy thing to do to someone.

   ::drops mic, realizes she’s not done yet, and sheepishly picks it back up::

   “It’s kind of pathetic that an ENTIRE site is dedicated to bringing down one of the most successful companies in American history rather than the energy being spent on doing something positive and uplifting.”

   Wikipedia has helpfully compiled a list of the 100 largest companies in the United States by revenue. Mary Kay ain’t on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_in_the_United_States_by_revenue Walmart and Amazon are the top 2 and they get eviscerated online.

   Meanwhile, please tell us what the hell YOU’RE doing that’s so positive and uplifting. I mean, besides sitting around whining about a website you obviously didn’t even bother to read.

   ::moonwalks off stage, flashing metal hands::

   ::awkwardly shuffles back on, sets microphone gingerly on floor, and scampers off::

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   • You hit the nail on the head there — I love my job, but I also love my paycheck. If my boss asked me to work for free, I would quote the late, great Johnny Paycheck. “Take this job and shove it.”

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3. I have a feeling that whoever this woman is — writing in Pink Truth… probably putting down NSDs and making stuff up about Gloria Mayfield Banks — must’ve been pretty bad at time management and sales… with her negative attitude she probably repelled all of her clients and they PROBABLY bought Mary Kay cosmetics but from another consultant.

   Are we back to rationing punctuation? We are back to run-on sentences.
   There isn’t just one woman writing here on Pink Truth, there are several. No-one here is making “stuff up” about anyone. We post screen shots of their social media, our “I stories” , publicly available documents that MK Corp publishes and our own opinions.
   How can some-one bad at time management be bad at selling Mary Kay? It’s working in pockets of time around your own schedule. Part time work for executive pay. Products sell themselves, they fly off your shelves.

   All of the team members she attracted were probably all in it only for the money rather than for pouring into women who really needed someone to love them.

   You are not “pouring love into” some-one. You are exploiting vulnerable people. You’ve turned friendship into a transactional value. “I’ll match my time with your effort”. That’s not about love or respect. Or friendship!

   I’d bet on the fact that she attracted all of her failure and lack upon herself and Pint (sic) Truth is a waste of time and resources dedicated to bringing down the women who actually give it their all — not pretend to; women who give their all physically as well as emotionally and energetically.

   Here we disagree. Tracy and many of the other commentariat have spoken about being successful in Mary Kay. They just realised that their perceived success was built off the wallets of other women. Not time or effort. Money and constant recruiting bringing that money in.

   Pink Truth is dedicated to bringing down MKC because whoever designed Pink Truth failed and needs to blame someone else for her mistakes rather than owning them like a grown woman.

   Go back and read the “I stories” here. They were successful. They do not blame others for what happened. They fully accept their own actions in pursuit of the next level, next car, next ring was why they eventually left.

   It’s kind of pathetic that an ENTIRE site is dedicated to bringing down one of the most successful companies in American history rather than the energy being spent on doing something positive and uplifting.

   I know I’ve said this before but.. Google any of the real top companies in the USA and see all the blogs and forums that exist to criticize Amazon, Wal*Mart, Disney et alia. Popinki has provided a clickable link for Wikipedia as a starting point.

   Yack. 🙄

   *mic drop*

   How mature! Why not “thanks for listening to my TED talk” or “let that sink in”. You brought nothing but your ignorance and parroting of Mary Kay scripts. No substance. Nothing new.

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4. “rather than for pouring into women who really needed someone to love them.”

   I’m sorry but if you think you’re going to find Love by selling overpriced make up, I can’t help you.

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5. Ah yes. Gloria Mayfield Banks
   Harvard Business School where anyone can go if you pay (you know the same one where Tyra Banks went)
   The OP is about fake as Gloria’s Honoree Doctorate Degree.

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   • Annoys the hell out of me that Gloria has been going around, calling herself “Dr. Gloria Mayfield Banks.”

     No, bishhhh…. you didn’t EARN that doctorate degree. It’s an honorarium. You don’t get to call yourself “Doctor” anything!

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   • Huh, all these years I assumed she had a real, earned PhD. Wow!! The gall.

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6. “One of the most successful companies in American history”…
   Someone more knowledgeable than I, is MK really that successful compared to say Microsoft, Apple, Standard Oil, Hilton hotels, GM, Ford, General Mills, pharma companies, etc.?
   I would guess it’s really mid-tier. Also, it doesn’t matter how much money they bring in because its success is based on scamming people. So, congratulations to them for being better-than-average scammers, I guess? But, it is satisfying to debunk false income claims.

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   • Oops, I see a different commenter already posted a link to the list of the top companies. My point still stands about MCorp being scammers. They’re just not as good as it as the Pink Truth Criticizer thinks.

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7. That would be me … but I’m not “making stuff up about Gloria Mayfield Banks”, I’m just using the facts I find publicly to point out that A FRICKING HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL GRAD would know exactly why the MLM business model is unsustainable. She should know that only the losses of her downlines sustained her high income. And that the wife of a contractor whose company gets multi-million dollar projects shouldn’t be bragging that the lifestyle comes from her commission paycheck.

   I’ve deeply disliked her since I went to a Mary Kay recruiting event in Phoenix AZ. While I was busily salting Pink Truth business cards all over the venue, she and a couple of her besties came into the bathroom I was spreading the TRUTH in. I hid! NINJA-STYLE! They were dishing it out about the hard life of the NSD, and their disdain for lowly IBCs was strong. Bitching about chargebacks, whining about the accommodations, complaining about recruiting events.

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8. “pouring into women who really needed someone to love them”

   Whose job expects this? Providing an environment of dignity and respect? Sure. Being someone’s mom? No.

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   • Can you imagine a male executive instructing his employees to “pour into women who really needed someone to love them”? Instant harassment complaints to HR and immediately canceled.

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9. GMBEE NATIONEL SALES DIREKTOR AMERICUS REACH PINEAPPLE OF SUCKSESS IN MAREE KAY! AND HARVARD CLASS SUBJEC!!! AND DOCTER!!!

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   • YAASSSSSSSSS

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