I loved that! Someone e-mailed me on here saying I should be a face model, and she could help...riiiiiight. Turns out she was a Mary Kay rep. At least you can block people on myspace ! Beware the pink Caddy of Doom.

Sounds like a nightmare! I suppose some people are cut out for that type of job... the stalking and harassing kinda person. I know I coudln't do it.

I had this guy try and recruit me for some dodgy business one time. He woudln't tell me what it was. He said I had to come to a meeting, and pay ten pounds to attend it. I said that I coudln't pay for something and not know what it was. HE told me that he was leaving his job because he was earning 2000 a week... blah blah blah. He went about this whole "scheme" for ages. He even got his boss to ring me and she was really vague too!

Turns out to be this timeshare type thing where to pay money to become part of this "holiday club" where you get a certain amount of free holidays, and then you have to persuade other people to join and you get money when they do so.

What kind of crap is that? I can't go round promoting crap! Needless to say the guy is still in his old job and brushes it off when I try and tell him that he was a brainwashed fool!

Lol! All the most successful groups have the most aggressive recruitment/conversion methods.

This certainly seems different from back-in-the-day when my mom sold Mary Kay (late 1970s). She never did the high-pressure thing. She had the parties at the house and did the free facials and then sat back and let people fill out their order forms. None of this, "You've just got to become a Mary Kay consultant" crap. She knew that if she convinced all of her customers to work for Mary Kay, she wouldn't have any customers any more! She did, however, sell enough product to get invited to the national convention and meet Ms. Mary Kay in person (scary, huh?)

She eventually broke away from the MK cult when they started reformulating some of her favorite products and she was no longer interested in being a customer herself.