The only REAL business associated with Mary Kay is the selling of products to consultants. The "business" of a consultant is a facade... if it was a true business then (as was previously stated) consultants would have no restrictions on advertising, emails, web sites, store fronts, etc.
Bingo! This is something I have been saying for a long time. The company makes money on the consultants and how much the consultants order, not from the ultimate consumers. That is why the consultants are manipulated and strongly pushed into ordering huge amounts of product. The other thing that people may not realize is how much money a company like MK can make from their other side business deals. For example, the MK credit card, MK business cards and checks, MK sweatshirts, T-Shirts, MK carry bags and sales tools, or samples the consultant pays for in Section 2, or MK internet dial up service, or buying a Dell computer through MK (you get a discount but MK makes money on supplying Dell with a ready made customer list). This is not to mention the fleet of cars that are really just leased but the volume they do it in end up profitable for MK - consultants end up paying if they don't keep production up - once production does not meet the quota and the consultant can't pay anymore the car is taken back and all the payments made by the consultant go to waste. There are many more examples of this I can't remember them all now.
Then, as you say, the consultant can't even advertise her business as she wants, have her own website, control her own emails, or sell from a store. When consultants get stuck with old product because the company comes out with new product so often they can't even sell it off on eBay. Doesn'tit begin to sound like consultants are more like indentured servants to the MKC?
