Hi,
I am new here. I just got told about this site and I have been exploring around. My problem is I joined last Sept and I have been wanting to sell back my inventory about two weeks after I got it. I am inactive now - no money after buying such a large amount of inventory. I see how a lot of people have had trouble figuring out how much their check will be. I bought $3500 of inventory and that means I had lots of the free products. I am concerned how much I will get back. I haven't sold much and I have used quite a bit of my inventory. I am also wondering about the rolling 12 months. I saw someone said it means any Mary Kay products you have. Does that include things you product replaced through the 100% gurantee? Is there anyone that has returned their product that some advice for me?  Thank you for any of your help.

angelove1705, you shouldn't have to remove your labels from the product.
They will deduct your free product from your return amount.  If you still have the product just return it with everything else.  You didn't pay for it, so when they deduct for it you won't be losing anything!

Congratulations for returning your product so you can at least get some of your money back!

PS... once you're done going through your section 1 if you decide to return it, you can list your section 2 for sale on the inventory trading board.

Sure, return them as well as long as you don't go over the amount that MK gave you.  If you go over they won't pay you and they won'treturn the overage to you!

The pink form that MK is sending you (you requested the repurchase form when you called, right?) has instructions.  Do not put any type of mail service on it that would require MK to have to sign for it or pick it up from the PO.  I read instructions about this somewhere - I think it was on the back of that pink return form, but I'm not sure.  I just mailed mine Parcel Post and used DC.  There might be some other type of mail service you can put on it.  Anyone?

Also, yes, if you have more $$ worth of product than the $$ amount you're allowed to return, you can keep whatever products you choose in the amount that goes over the return amount.  Also, you don't have to meet the return amount, that's just the limit you can return up to.  BUT, I would not try to sell the extra online or whatever until you have cashed your check from MK.  Another consultant here was just turned in to MK by her Sales Director for advertising on Craigslist.  Wait until you've got the $$ in your account, and you're officially terminated.  Then you are no longer bound by their stupid rules.

This may sound like a silly question, but what kind of boxes are you using?  Does it matter?  I have some boxes from the liquor store (I am moving soon).....can I use those to ship it back, or do they have to be plain boxes?

Also there's some stuff on the pink form that are not on the form here.  It says to sign it....do we need to sign the one we send from here.  It is much easier to use the one here than the pink form, and I just want to do it right.

One more thing.  Does anyone know if they will take back the platinum compacts?  I don't even want to send it back if they will jus keep it.

Thanks!!!

Bran

I did my return last summer and agree w/ Lipstick about making packing slips for what's in each box (a complete list of inventory just for that box, and the total $$ amount in each box) as well as the whole lot.  USPS does allow you to ship in boxes that already have words/markings on them, but NOT boxes marked w/ flammable, alcoholic, or other (I forgot the rest - see their site for more info) certain substances.  So, no, you wouldn't make it far trying to use liquor boxes.  You could wrap them in heavy-duty brown shipping paper to cover it.  I've seen people at the post office mail stuff in Huggies boxes, so they do allow writing as long as the mailing info is clearly defined and not "lost" among all the other wording.

Angellove, I debated that question myself too - lots of flat-rate priority boxes, or just a couple massive ones?  Because I had so much MK junk to return, it would have taken so many small priority boxes that it was going to add up to over $100 to mail it that way.  Also, just for the purpose of nothing getting lost in the mail or arriving to MK on separate days and causing confusion, I decided to just use fewer but very large boxes.  I paid about $60 to mail those large boxes (now I can't rember how many there were - 2, or 4?).  The ones I used were about the size of the big pink boxes your starter kit comes in.  They were really heavy.  USPS charges by volume and not just by weight though.  I packed them as tightly as possible and I left most products in their boxes to make it all fit in there tightly.  Because they were packed so tight I didn't use any padding or packing material - I figured that's what the boxes were for.  If I had to do my return over again, I'd take everything out of the boxes too and just not care what happened to it all in shipping, since MK says they're just going to incinerate it all anyhow.

Bran, about the compacts and any other discontinued items: yes they will refund you for those.  Under this repurchase agreement discontinued items qualify too.  I know there's probably some confusion about those since MK made their oh-so-generous offer to take them all back (you pay shipping) and they'll like, hug a tree or something.  I don't know what their offer really was, but it was something ridiculous and gave the consultant nothing in return but warm pink fuzzies, awwww. 

Hope that helps!