We signed up because what was presented to us seemed like a sound concept - the marketing info and the products that just 'fly off the shelves' ...  Sick

What makes us smart is that we made an even bigger decision - the decision to step out of the pink fog of denial and into reality and move on with life! 

It's easy to sign the 'pink form' and pay $100.

It's hard to walk away from it thousands of dollars later, because you have to admit that somewhere along the way you were wrong or got duped or both. 

A hard decision, but smart.

I haven't sent mine back yet.  There's so little of it left, in spite of the huge credit card debt - and at least I bought stuff that mostly I use.  But I still have some things that will probably end up on ebay eventually.

Don't battle yourself any longer.  Trust your gut, and keep moving 'into the light...'
 

Sassy Canadian - I hope this helps in your struggles with frustration with "falling" for the lies.

I have said it before, even (if not especially) intelligent women feel the need to succeed and be independant.  The DISC program that MK uses is specifically designed to appeal to each of our "weakness" persay...the things that push our buttons.  Know that you are not alone in your struggles.  And KNOW that you did not FAIL at anything!  Your MK experience brought you here, which is part of God's plan for you!

   Merry Christmas!!

Love  Jyp

I started MK most of all so I wouldn't have to pay full price for products.  Then I wanted to make a few dollars to help out with our bills.  I have been a SAHM for about 5 years and my self esteem had taken a beating.  I have always worked and I felt worthless at times because I didn't work.  So I fell for the, "be your own boss."  They are masters at manipulation.  They find out your strengths and weaknesses and phrase the opportunity to match up with whatever is the void in your life.  Once I started I actually thought I could do MK in an ethical manner.  I did a star order and felt so stressed trying to make money.  I would actually be sitting in church and my mind would wander from the preacher.  I would look around and try to figure out who I could unload some makeup on.  Then I would say a little prayer asking for forgiveness and try to focus on the lesson.  I am so glad that I don't have to look at every woman as a means to unload makeup.  I have found that people are friendlier with me because they know that I am out of MK. 

So MK was supposed to boost my self esteem and help me not to feel depressed.  But MK made me more depressed.  I would get depressed because I wasn't retaining 80% of my customers, and that my customers were not ordering every 3 months like they said they would.  I reordered products based on these lies and in the end had too much on my shelves.  I love their lie about, "every no is getting closer to a yes."  At first I tried warm chattering hell and that is awful.  And you can't blame the public on how they treat a MK consultant because MK is not what it seems to be. 

Ditto to what has been said about Kaybots being trained to find a need a fill it. At times I have felt really taken advantage of by my recruiter/director. But mostly, I know that she genuinely "beelieves" in the opportunity and I don't blame her for wanting to share something that is important to her. The truth is, when I started MK I really needed friends and my recruiter/director and I clicked immediately. We became very close very fast and had a really high trust level. She is a really good person and I just always felt that if she believed in it then it must be a good thing. I'm not an idiot, but I do tend to assume the best about people. I think the MK system exploits the bonds that women form.

I got into it because a friend of mine was selling and after I tried it for awhile I saw a big differance in my skin. It is the only product that seems to agree with it.  I bought for a year and thought hey i'm spending enough to meet the quota.  So I signed up. I did pretty good for the first year.  I didn't have any training and wasn't told about the buy back or anything. Just signed up and that was it. THen my director called me and invited me to a "meeting".  I thought I was going to "learn".  I was told how much better I could do since this is a small area and very few sell around here. I started stocking my inventory and soon realized (not soon enough) that these meetings weren't to learn how to do anything but get more and more to sell the product.  Needless to say the area is saturated with Mk consultants now and i'm sitting on tons of inventory and debt. I'm so  at myself for not listening to myself but now i've found PLH and PT and things are looking up.  Anyway that's my story of how I wound up here and how I fell for it.

   You got it right on the nose pinkedup!