A Mary Kay National Sales Director Teaches How To Con Personal Info From Unsuspecting Women

Contrary to popular myth, the way to make money in Mary Kay Cosmetics is not by selling cosmetics, it is through recruiting as many “prospects” into the pink pyramid and creating “downlines.”

In order to continually harvest new bodies, Mary Kay predators have a myriad of ways to do so. In all cases, however, it begins with conning women into giving out their personal contact information.

Over 50 years of trial and error, Mary Kay Cosmetics has been able to successfully develop deceptively-worded scripts, design tactics on how to stalk prospects, as well as other tricks to manipulate women into giving out their personal information.

Largely, the training comes from those who have climbed to the top of the pyramid.

In the video below, Mary Kay National Sales Director Auri Hatheway goes into detail on how she lures women at Mary Kay skin-care parties to give her their personal information.

Like a true master, Hatheway uses feigned excitement (that she can apparently turn on and off as it suits her) as she describes the ‘Name Game’ she deploys on women to goad them into giving out their personal information.

[Click on image below and scroll down to the video entitled ‘Name Game by Auri Hatheway’]

While Hatheway’s ‘Name Game’ is one tactic Mary Kay’s sales force uses to get information, there are many others.

Here is just one more example of a Mary Kay script that uses such manipulative tactics as a ‘Scavenger Hunt,’ ‘Model for Before & After Portfolio,’ as well as targeting women who wear bright colors.

Mary Kay Warm Chatter Training Script by MaryKayVictims

While responsible parents often teach their children not to give out their information to strangers, Mary Kay Cosmetics and its sales force has developed ways to con that information out of grown women.

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14 Responses to "A Mary Kay National Sales Director Teaches How To Con Personal Info From Unsuspecting Women"

antique rose says:

May 17, 2013 at 11:30 pm

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1. admin says:
  
  May 18, 2013 at 12:36 am
  
  Hi Antique Rose,
  
  It appears the Pink Truth website is down.
  
  Hopefully, it is only temporary.
  
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Shelby says:

June 13, 2013 at 10:06 am

You do realize that Mary Kay consultants do all their work out of their homes and they give strange men and women all their personal information all the time, right? To go as far as saying their coning women for their personal info? Bollocks. There are times when you go to work and you’re down but you put on a smile and nod. Mary Kay consultants aren’t robots. Their entrepreneurs running businesses out of their homes. Each consultant has their own way of dealing with stress and what not and all the higher ups do is share their personal dealings. It’s all opinions, not tricks. Each and every person in the company is running their own business and within the guidelines of the company, they run their business they way they want. Do your research before you start shpeeling garbage to people.

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1. Van Helsing says:
  
  June 13, 2013 at 10:29 am
  
  Dear Kaybot,
  
  Never mind the bollocks. You’re obviously drunk on the pink Kool Aid if you overlook the fact that a vampire like Hatheway is a NSD and is responsible for training hundreds of other Kaybots like yourself.
  
  May Kay training tactics are being exposed and you call it schlepping garbage?
  
  Perhaps you should look in the mirror before spewing your Kool Aid onto your keyboard.
  
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2. Teri G says:
  
  June 13, 2013 at 10:48 am
  
  I am sorry that you have fallen for the line that you “own your own business” in Mary Kay. You do not. You are nothing more than an Independant Contractor for Mary Kay Cosmetics. If this were your own business, you could sell where you wanted to and advertise however you wanted to. With Mary Kay, you cannot. If this were your own business, you could leave it to a family member in your Will should you die. With Mary Kay, you cannot. If this were your own business, you wouldn’t have to recruit people to give yourself a promotion, you would already be the CEO. In Mary Kay, you are not.
  
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3. Teri G says:
  
  June 13, 2013 at 10:51 am
  
  Giving strange people your personal information by way of business cards is not a real smart move. It’s actually quite the security risk for you and your family.
  
  One more thing… It’s “they’re” not “their”.
  
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4. Verity Rose says:
  
  June 13, 2013 at 11:33 am
  
  Hi, Shelby,
  
  What does “shpeeling” mean? Do you mean “spiel,” defined as ” a voluble line of often extravagant talk?” I’ve never seen it with -ing at the end, but Merriam-Webster does say it can be used as a transitive or intransitive verb, so I guess it can. My bad.
  
  You can accuse the FACES admin of not doing his research until you’re blue in the face, but that won’t make his points any less valid, nor yours more valid. You are simply wrong when you say Their [sic] entrepreneurs running businesses out of their homes…Each and every person in the company is running their own business and within the guidelines of the company, they run their business they way they want.
  
  You do not own your Mary Kay business. Your MK business is owned by Mary Kay, Inc. At best, you are an independent contractor, to whom MK owes the barest responsibilities allowed by state law. Those “guidelines of the company” you mentioned? They’re not guidelines; they’re rules, and you break them at your peril. The IBC sales agreement spells it out explicitly: if you create your own advertising materials, or set up a fixed retail operation, or try to offload your non-moving inventory to a liquidator and use the proceeds to buy inventory that actually sells, Corporate can terminate your agreement, and you have no recourse; after all, you signed the agreement, didn’t you?
  
  Corporate shouldn’t care about where or how you sell your inventory ; I mean, it’s your business and your inventory, right? You paid for it. It belongs to you unless you sell it. But of course, Corporate does care, because — I’m going to say it again — you do not own your MK business. At best, you are a subcontractor; at worst, you are the end-user. (And you are the end-user, because Corporate only tracks wholesale sales to the independent sales force. Corporate doesn’t require you to track sales to your customers. You might keep track yourself, or you might have a semi-decent Director or SSD who asks you to track your retail sales, but that’s not a term or condition of your contract with Corporate.)
  
  Lest you think I’m “spieling garbage,” I promise you that I have done my research on this. I am an attorney in California. One of my practice areas is business law, and my client base includes small business owners, both startups and existing businesses. When you own your own business, you take on a lot of risk and responsibility, but you also get rights and benefits in return.
  
  When you own your own business, you have the right — within the bounds of statutory and Constitutional law, of course — to determine how you’re going to run your business: the product or service you’ll sell, the market to whom you’ll sell it, the marketing/advertising/publicity plan to reach that market, how best to use your net profit (bank it or invest it?), whether you want to incorporate your business, and thus receive tax benefits while protecting your personal assets from liability. You also own property rights in your business, which means that you can sell it to someone else, or make it part of your estate plan (i.e. devising it to a beneficiary in your will). You can assign rights you hold in your business to someone else, or delegate your responsibilities under the business to someone else.
  
  You can’t do any of this under a Mary Kay IBC agreement, or a Sales Director’s or National’s agreement. Believe me, I’ve checked. Go take a look at the agreement you yourself signed with Corporate, and see what happens when you try any of the above.
  
  I don’t mean to be cruel. My beef is not with you, Shelby. My beef is with Corporate, who allows “new business owners” to accept all of the risks with none of the rewards of business ownership. And my beef is with unscrupulous NSDs who sell the dream of “being the CEO of your own Mary Kay business” via the use of manipulative tactics to draw out information that people might otherwise be reluctant to share. These are not a few “bad apples,” either. This is the MK status quo, and for all of Corporate’s talk of making sure everyone conducts their business ethically, as long as NSDs are frontloading new recruits and bringing in money, Corporate is just fine with looking the other way. But just try to place an ad that doesn’t conform to the MK house style, or to buy the business of a fellow IBC who wants to sell it. Corporate will cut you loose, and you’ll have nothing to show for it, except for possibly a room full of inventory and a big credit card bill.
  
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5. Erika S. says:
  
  June 13, 2013 at 12:06 pm
  
  Each and every person in the company is running their own business and within the guidelines of the company, they run their business they way they want.
  
  You realize the oxymoron you wrote, don’t you. It’s their own business, but everything is dictated by the company, so they can run in how they want. Yeah, um, alright…that makes a lot of sense.
  
  Of course there are laws, ethical guidelines, etc that need to be followed in order to run any sort of business. But beyond that, a business owner can choose a location (or work from home), determine their prices and services, not have to recruit to make money (why turn customers into competition) decide how much to spend on advertising, when, and what they’re going to advertise about their business. Yet, these are things that are going on in Mary Kay. You make more money on recruiting than you do on actually selling (huh?), you can’t advertise unless it’s MK approved, and even then only certain wording is allowed, you aren’t allowed to have a set location (even though it’s your business, you have to sell how they tell you to). Oh and the amount of orders you have to make. It’s stupid. You HAVE to order every 3 months, or you loose your discount? Not how other wholesale places work. They sell at the wholesale price to EVERYONE. You might have to set up an account and pace ONE order every so often to keep it open, but they never tell you that you lose the ability to purchase wholesale.
  
  So many things so obviously wrong with this system to anyone who’s rational and using their mind. Then again, this is MK we’re talking about and the last thing they want you to be is logical and rational.
  
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6. Tsu Dho Nimh says:
  
  June 13, 2013 at 1:14 pm
  
  You do realize that Mary Kay consultants do all their work out of their homes and they give strange men and women all their personal information all the time, right?
  
  You say this as if it’s a good thing.
  
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7. admin says:
  
  June 14, 2013 at 12:13 am
  
  Shelby,
  
  You state that more research into Mary Kay should be done.
  
  You are invited to explore the site and the evidence against Mary Kay’s predatory sales force embedded throughout the site…and it is just beginning.
  
  More specifically, however, since Mary Kay cost my family more than $100k, I would offer this to you: I now have a PhD in Mary Kay–not by choice–but through the predatory tactics of one of its NSDs. It was an education that cost my family dearly.
  
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  1. Jess S says:
    
    October 28, 2013 at 4:02 pm
    
    You do realize that was a personal choice to invest that much money. Mary Kay is what you make it-if someone chooses to give you their info so be it; it’s no different then all those people that enter to win a free car…that’s not safe either to give out that info. You all have your panties in a bunch because life didn’t work out for you…get over it. Some people work hard and it works out…clearly it didn’t for you.
    
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    1. admin says:
      
      October 28, 2013 at 11:08 pm
      
      Jess,
      
      You clearly are mistaking the above comment as coming from someone who had a “choice.”
      
      I was never in Mary Kay. And this site is not, primarily, for those who are (or were, as the case may be) in Mary Kay. Rather, this site has been built for the spouses and other loved ones who have been on the receiving end of Mary Kay Cosmetics’ unsavory tactics.
      
      You see, Jess, although I did identify it and its tactics as a scam early on, thanks to a National Sales Director who teaches women to ignore their spouses, I (like others) ended up having money stolen, paying off the credit card debt, and even paid (unbeknownst to me at the time) the taxes of this pink scam.
      
      So, before you spew your rancid pink Kool Aid again, know this:
      
      There was no “choice” for me. I, like other Mary Kay husbands, watched my house turn into hell because of the demons (yes, demons) in this company who sell women on an unattainable dream. [I even pointed it out as that–an unattainable dream.]
      
      I saw the frontloading tactics first-hand and pointed it out.
      
      I pointed out that MK was nothing more than a multi-level-pyramid scheme and had the “dual marketing” bullsh*t shoved back at me.
      
      I watched a National Sales Director convince a mothers that it was okay to leave children with babysitters night after night (and, yes, there are recordings of that).
      
      You see, Jess, God first, family second and career third is, in all reality, BS with Mary Kay…you just haven’t been an IBC long enough to figure that out.
      
      Jess, the entire purpose of this site is to catalog and expose, with their own documents as evidence, the deceptive tactics of this dangerous company.
      
      So, Jess, let me repeat this: Before you say ‘it was choice,’ you need to know that for people like myself, there was never a “choice”…just as there isn’t a choice for most spouses and family members who pay the price for Mary Kay’s predatory tactics.
      
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Verity Rose says:

June 13, 2013 at 12:44 pm

D’oh! Didn’t mean to double-post. Admin, is it possible to delete one of those?

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1. admin says:
  
  June 14, 2013 at 12:04 am
  
  Done.
  
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