Has anyone else had bad experiences with Mary Kay?
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Call 972-687-4700  and ask for a repurchase form, and how much product you can ship back. Then ship it back. You will get 90% of what you paid back.\n\nYou do not need to have your recruiter, or director sign the repurchase form.  \n\nYou do not need to tell your recruiter or director that you returning product.  [Right after you hang up, the person you talked to will call your director or recruiter and tell them that you asked for a repurchase form.  If you can return more than $10K your national will also be contacted.   The reason for this is that the recruiter, director, and national will have to refund the commission they obtained, when you made your purchases.]\n\nThe amount you can return is based upon a rolling twelve month figure.  In theory, you are only supposed to return product that you have ordered within the last year.  In practice,.MK (Corporate) does not cross reference what you returned, with your purchases within the previous year.\n\nYou will be told that you can never sign up with MK again, if you return product.  I'm not sure why that is considered to be a bad thing, but those in the pink fog appear to see that as being a disaster.\n\nIn terms of bad experiences, there are at least a dozen blogs that describe who, what, where, and when Consultants, Directors, Nationals, and MK Corporate are unethical, or doing things that are illegal, or doing things that are both illegal and unethical.\n\nMKSurvivors@yahoogroups.com is a mailing list for people who are recovering from their bad experience with Mary Kay.
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Well it happened to me last night. I told her to get back to the retirement home and stop bothering me. I said that I'd be by to see her on Mothers Day but only if she stopped calling me more then once a year. That woman needs a hobby other then complaining. "The Nurses are stealing my money" "I have Bed Sores" and Blah Blah Blah
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i agree she wasnt that great. but everyone has bad nights sometime in their life!
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My ex-girlfriend. Her name was Amie. I posted a Christian ad at the personals and she responded telling me everything I wanted to hear.  I looked at her profile and it looked as if she wrote it specifically to match everything I was looking for.  She posed as a Christians girl but after months of her lies being exposed, I found out she was a prostitute (luckily I wasnt having sex with her) which would explain why she was always getting drunk and grabbing at my "member".  I can honestly say I know how it feels for women to be sexually harrassed and "man-handled" all the time- this woman never stopped! Anyways after months of her trying we quit hanging out after some serious arguments- she called me 3-4 times a day to argue with me and hung up on me as soon as she got me angry- it was very hard to remain a Christian with her and even worse when we split up. I got tired of her calls and insults so the last time she hung up on me I called her and left a message and emailed her to tell her what a worthless piece of crap I thought she was- 2 days later I got served with a restraining order and ended up going to court in front of a judge she knew personally (probably a client) and he did not let me say one thing in my defense- so I have a restraining order on my record because someone who wouldnt leave ME alone, got mad when I responded to her insults. I NEVER went to her house or called her to harrass her, she did it to me! Needless to say I am not too happy with our legal system when an innocent person can be victimized so easily by a lunatic with the courts help. The story is much longer but I tried to shorten it up - but this was something I asked for, but found out later it was bad for me- Although, maybe what I was asking for would have been ok, if she wouldnt have been an imposter!?
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There are quite a few here.  Tara and Melissa have been handling my insanity more than any of the others.  I'm not really very good at names.\n\nThere is a lot of adhoc adjustments so some expectations go by the way side.\n\nI've had my feathers ruffled and have ruffled a few.
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Go to work for yourself.  Call a Mary Kay Cosmetics sales rep and ask her to help you get started.   Find someone that will work with you and build your people skills and your confidence.  Be ready to accept constructive criticism, but blow off people that want to throw cold water on your ideas.
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No, I don't.  I have known several people that have had the displeasure of meeting her and they all say she is a stuck up *****.
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Unless something has changed recently, the answer is No.  You are an independent beauty consultant.  You are in reality "self-employed".\n\nIt has actually been tried in a court of law to determine if you are (as a consultant) an employee of May Kay.  The Courts ruled Consultants ARE NOT employees.\n\nA copy of the court case is below.\n\nAlso Mary Kay DOES offer a program called MKConnections, which offers "discounts" on medical, vision, dental, etc, BUT it is NOT insurance.  The second link is for consultants to log on and search for information.\n\nOne last comment:  You can always call the company and just ask them if they now offer health insurance for independent beauty consultants and see what they say.
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I saw a woman use her food stamps voucher to buy shrimp, steak and frozen Maine lobster tails as I stood in line behind her exhausted after working my second job buying my family Tuna Helper.  Screw her and her lazy offspring.  The whole damn fam was fat as pigs and dirty.  The borish son came running up with a video he wanted his mom to buy and she did.  They also had a VCR and money to burn on movies.  BURNS ME UP!!
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That is nasty! I used to work in a dry cleaners in the middle of summer in Georgia...it was hot hot hot...this pretty large lady used to come in and to pick up her clothes and she would take the money out of her bra and it was all wet with her sweat. I would NEVER take the money from her. I would just tell her to put it on the counter...I didn't care if she felt offended or not..it was gross. I would pick up the money with a stapler. YUCK
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I had a friend like that! First she was very jealous of me and then when i told her to go to hell (because she was criticising me always) she tried to do bad things against me but i didnt care  because she was not my friend anymore.
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Met many women who have screwed their way up.
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I've only ever had 3 in total...  And yes, it's horrible when you think things are OK, then suddenly you get another violation.\n\nI've stopped asking questions because of that, it drives me insane!  Plus NONE of my violations have been reasonable!\n\n;-)
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Her website has some information.\nhttp://www.marywalter.com/\n\n"Yes, you heard correctly, the station let me go on Friday.  \n...\nDespite management's belief that listener e-mail was 'not compelling radio', I truly feel that you have helped a lot of people."
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She is certainly displaying inappropriate behavior but YOU can't change her.  You can however refuse to be manipulated by her "tantrums".  \n\n"Mary if you continue to behave in such a childish manner you will not be welcome around me."  And stick to it!! \n\nThis person needs a wake up call.  I suspect she has some very deep emotional scars caused by improper parenting, it would seem.  Giving children everything they want is as abusive as neglecting the child.  She needed discipline and love to grow up healthy, seems she got everything else EXCEPT what she really needed.\n\nI feel sorry for her, but I still wouldn't participate or even allow that kind of behavior in my presence.  Does that make me sound tough, probably.  But you should know I have had friends and acquaintances like this and I know it does not help them to let them continue the bad behavior.  Which is the most loving thing I can do for any friend.\n\nGood luck.\n\nPeace.
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Yes, I have.  She is a user and dumps her kid off, but her kid is darling adn our family has enriched her life.  She is learning to swim in our pool, gets stories read to her, we treat her good and she will always remember us fondly.  The gal, a tramp.  She drinks a lot, sleeps around a lot, makes bad choices in men etc.  She is a gossip as well.  I tolerate her when she stops by.  I send Chrismas gifts, mostly to the child.  I have limits with her (mom) and I do not trust her.  Regret?  Not yet.
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Yeah, mine. Yes it was awful. The other person didn't stop and plowed into me and my husband. Destroyed my van and hurt my husband.He had to go to physical therapy and so did I because it hit on my side and displaced my hip. The doctor put my husband off work for a year. We had a lawyer who happened to be friends with the other persons insurance adjuster and we got hardly anything at all as far as a settlement. The other persons insurance did pay my van off and that left me with $75.00. It was a mess. Sorry to rant on and on but it still makes me angry to think about it.