Stop asking me to throw a party so you can sell stuff to my friends
December 8, 2008I am very supportive of running your own business, and YES, I love face products, candles, foot scrubs, lotions, puppies and kittens! I am a nice, cute woman, like yourself.
There is just something about being pressured into throwing a party in my home to sell things to my guests that gets to me. I have been sucked into doing it on more than one occasion, and I feel like the pyramid schemers never stop.
I threw an Arbonne party for a friend of mine, and I bought over $200 worth of products (that is an entire different blog entry) and my poor guests felt the pressure to buy stuff and be the next party host victim.
While cleaning up the gooie brie plates and champagne glasses, that I had to purchase for this party, I felt really down in the dumps and a bit used. Not only did I spend 200 bucks on sunscreens and body scrubs, but now my poor friend Rebecca has to throw a party in her tiny apartment next month. I promised her I would attend, but the truth is I DON’T WANT TO GO! I don’t have time to go! …. but, I will go, because she is my friend and it’s my fault she has to miss Dancing with the Stars to pimp out her friends to Pyramid goddesses.
So all of you pyramid party throwers; Arbonne, Mary Kay, Scentsy, Southern Living, Shaklee, and the millions more… I support you, I really do… I have been sucked into buying your products and fattening your wallets, and the person’s above you and above them etc. but I can’t take it anymore!!!
See you at Rebecca’s party.
Look up the word hypocrite in the dictionary. I really don’t mean anything by that, I really don’t! Perhaps you should have the courage to be honest with your friends who are trying to build a future for themselves and their families and tell them you just don’t like to host presentations. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Take the time to get informed about Network Marketing and Direct Selling if you are going to make remarks like,”So all of you pyramid party throwers; Arbonne, Mary Kay, Scentsy, Southern Living, Shaklee, and the millions more…” Are you unaware that a pyramid scheme is illegal? Do you truly not understand that those types of organizations are shut down? The only legal pyramid scheme is called Corporate America…think about it. Who fattens their wallets in that organization? This is who you would rather support?
If you find no value in the products your friends are representatives for, do not purchase them. You should be ashamed of yourself for blaming your friends for the choices you make. Noone in the world can force another person to do anything.