just in case all the Mary Kay people don't have ENOUGH $$$ to pay for seminar....here's the latest email from Corp!!!!!

Now is a great time to check out some of the great savings opportunities and offers that are available to Mary Kay independent sales force members.

With the MK Rewards(sm) Visa, you can earn 2% cash rewards on all Mary Kay® purchases, including all Mary Kay Section 1 and Section 2 orders, inventory, MKConnections®, Preferred Customer Program, Seminar registration, etc. And the MK Rewards(sm) Visa application is now available in Spanish. Click here for more information.

Dress in style this summer and save too with great deals on select Mary Kay® business apparel. Select MK business apparel logo t-shirts, including the black polo shirt, pink logo tee and white logo tee are now only $20 (plus shipping and handling). This offer is available only while supplies last, so click here to order yours today!

It’s also a great time to take advantage of the exclusive savings offered to the Mary Kay Independent sales force by T-Mobile. Just call (877) 677-5501 and mention promotional code: 4499TMOFAV. Please click here for all the details.

For more special offers from MKConnections® and My Exclusive Savings, please click here.

 

 

AVOID THAT MKREWARDS CARD LIKE A PINK PLAGUE!!!

Ok, whew.  I'm so sorry for the  on that but I have huge issues with that card, the fact that Chase is affiliating themselves with MK and the fact that MK recruiters are under the impression that they are financial advisors because of it! 

Long story short, my director used to tell people (prolly still does) that you could apply for the card online and would receive at least a $1000 limit to do a $600 order.  She told people that this was because Chase understood how the MK business operated and they knew that people using the card were going to be making a large first purchase with it.  Ok, at Seminar I applied for the card.  I looked over the interest rate, not horrible and was within the range that I was hopeful to get on cards at that point.  That card came in with a $500 limit and a 24% apr.  I called Chase and wanted to know the how and why of that little surprise.  They do NOT guarantee any limit for the card, they do not have any kind of arrangements worked out with MK.  I brought this up with my director by asking her how she knew the bit about the $1000 limit and so on.  Her reply was it had just done that each time, that's how she knew.  As I'm standing there telling her that she's wrong and why she insisted on trying to leave the room.  I followed because I'm absolutely sure that she wouldn't want to miss the information that I was sharing with her!

AND because of my own goof up (i.e. missed the payment due date by two days) my apr is now 29.99% which is ridiculous and something else that is ridiculous, after I was out of MK, I called Chase to say so and see if I could switch to a neutral card and learned something very interesting.  It seems that MK decided to take away the option of doing an affiliation switch on the card.  Most companies will leave the option available for a person to switch their card over to something else.  Not MK, when the woman looked it up for me to see what was available, I get the following, "Oh, that's interesting, why would they do that, this doesn't make sense, um, it looks like the company did away with the switch option" and I'm sitting there knowing what she meant but still having to ask her and sure enough, if you're not an MK consultant, that's fine, you can still use the card but if you don't want to use the card, you have to close it which of course can hurt your credit.

I did not realize that I had a on this, honestly.  It just ticks me off so bad that even when a person tries to clean up their credit and get that financial foothold back that MK Corporate has found yet another way to bite them on the butt cheek.