Here’s How Much It Costs To Get A Free Mary Kay Cadillac
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Some may have seen a pink Mary Kay Cadillac plying the roads at one point or another, wondering what the story behind the vehicle really was. As it turns out, these pink Caddys are offered as incentives to participants in the Mary Kay program, framed as a company car for elite salespeople. In the end, however, the true cost of a Mary Kay Cadillac might be surprising.
For those readers who may be unaware, Mary Kay is multi-level marketing company that sells cosmetics and skin care products. The promise of a multi-level marketing program is income generation by working from home, on your own schedule. Meanwhile, the pink Cadillac stands out as a particularly desirable goal in the multi-level marketing industry. However, a new report suggest that the pink Mary Kay Cadillac is anything but free.
Citing a document uploaded by Pinktruth, Car Bibles states that participants must meet a number of qualifications before they have a shot at driving a Mary Kay Cadillac, including recruiting a large team of marketing representatives and maintaining a steady drumbeat of product purchases.
Qualifying for a pink Cadillac involves purchasing $102,000 worth of Mary Kay goods per calendar year, and maintaining that qualification requires the team to continually purchase at least $50,000 per quarter of May kay products. Put another way, the team needs to move at least $16,700 worth of May Kay items on a monthly basis.
All of that would get one into a leased Cadillac XT5. To note, the actual monetary gains for the consultant don’t actually matter here, since it’s all about purchasing the product from Mary Kay. Whether or not that product is moved past the consultant and into the hands of actual consumers is irrelevant.
Put it all together, and it doesn’t seem like a very good deal, especially when the entire lease cost of a new 2021 Cadillac XT5 is roughly half of what it takes to get in a Mary Kay Cadillac. Even so, it still might be a worthwhile perk for those who excel at selling Mary Kay product.
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My friends late mom was a higher up Mary Kay sales person, she never won a Cadillac but did win several red Oldsmobiles, this was back in the late 80s early 90s , in SoCal. The local newspaper came out to the GM dealership to take her picture because she was blind. She had a assistant who drove her around and assisted with her paperwork.
Mary Kay when she first tried to get a pink car was for herself and stopped at her local Texas Lincoln dealership in 1967, she was CEO of her company and the salesman told her ” little lady bring your husband back and we can find you a Lincoln”. Next stop was her local Cadillac dealership, the salesman was good and treated her as a CEO and found a color in gm that was very close to her MK compact and she got her 67 pink DeVille ordered. Her CFO later wanted one too so they ordered a couple more and they came up with this for salespeople
Fake news, feel sorry for this guy
So true!! All MLM pry on their consultants to buy products, the consultant is the client. My friend in Marykay, her director begs her to order 600$ every month and no one is buying a dollar store products. They say it is better than pharmacy, but I tested their products and let me tell, they are low quality and expensive for no reason and they test on animals. Not a single product is cruelty free like the consultants claim. Now onto the car, if you don’t make the order quota, you either pay the lease yourself or have to give the car back to Mary Kay. This article is only touching the tip of the iceberg when it comes to MLM. Please post more, I had seen so many horror stories about Mary Kay and other companies where people go in debts for 1000s of dollars buying inventory because of the pressures from their up-lines.
One point here . Apologies if it was mentioned. You have to remember that, if you sell that much, you will make a good profit also. And, of I’m not wrong, you are in the top tier, so you actually make a bit higher percentage. Then, you figure that in with your taxes, I’ll bet you don’t do badly. As an aside, I used to love delivering my wife’s Avon products when she couldn’t get them out fast enough, the funny part? I’m 6ft4, and I delivered on my Harley
Thank you for this article. I had not heard of pink truth til now but have been reading it all morning. Quite an eye opener.
Wow! Quoting PinkTruth. You might as well be quoting “The Enquirer” not very journalistically ethical.
Disappointed in your haphazard, and ill-researched writing style. The only thing you got right was the actual numbers for qualifying for the car. Says to me you did 10 minutes of research and that you are an independent blogger who is all about getting hits so that advertisers can pay you instead of providing quality content.
To anyone reading this who doesn’t understand why people in Mary Kay say “People didn’t take personal responsibility”, I believe these 2 facts will help you to know why hater websites like Pink Truth make zero sense and should never be quoted as a source.
1. When you start Mary Kay you fill out a beauty consultant agreement. It states you are an indepdendent contractor with the right to control your own business. Keep in mind this word “Independent”. All the people in this thread and many others who say “My upline made me!” “Those evil ladies pressured me”, Why didn’t you say no? They aren’t your boss-you have the right to control your own business and can say yes or no at any time. I’ve been a sales director for 16 years and I’ve never pressured people to order anything they didn’t want to. Inventory is optional (again stated in your agreement)-you can purchase products as you sell them or carry it on hand. Your big bad upline didn’t FORCE you to order products you didn’t want to. It’s so much easier to be a victim-it’s not an easy thing to say “I made a mistake” or “this just wasn’t for me” or “I just didn’t put the effort in necessary to make it profitable”
2. But let’s say you can’t get past what I just said in #1. Then this will blow your mind. Mary Kay corporate is generous enough to offer you a buy out. AVAILABLE TO ANY AND ALL CONSULTANTS AND DIRECTORS. It’s the 90% repurchase program. Meaning Mary Kay corporate will repurchase any unused inventory at 90% of what you paid for it within a YEAR of purchase. YES!! AN ENTIRE YEAR!!! There’s no limit on the amount you can return and get 90% of your money back! Tell me what other business opportunity, franchise etc would give you a 90% refund!? I know what people will say “MY BIG BAG UPLINE DIDN’T TELL ME ABOUT IT!”. It’s in the beauty consultant agreement you signed when you started. It’s also an easy phone call away-you could have called corporate and said “I’m thinking of getting out, what are my options”. Corporate customer service is amazing and they would have sent you the request for repurchase form. I’ve even seen them generously still repurchase products a couple months after someone’s year is up. So again, why didn’t these so called “victims” send their products back for a 90% refund?
The above facts are why it’s so frustrating to see comments, articles, and websites stating otherwise.
Amen sister! Well said. To add to that many people who sign up so it on line and the 90% repurchase program is one of the boxes they must check in order to move forward with the agreement. Ignorance is not an option in this case.
Wow! Who knew so many Mary Kay consultants read GM Authority?!
Love and Always have n will Products business and everything about our business and How we work it I am 🙂 with my team n Unit our Director in June got her a pink Cadee and prior to that has had other cars from Company Love my work
As stated, once you qualify for it, you basically just get to lease a car. And if you don’t hit that quarterly $50,000 quota? Guess what. You have to make that lease payment. Some prize.
FYI… there were times I was unable to make full production and the company made an exception for me. They did not charge me one penny. If it were a continual issue yes we would make the balance of the lease payment depending on what our monthly production was. So we are not paying the entire lease payment. The most I ever had taken out of my commission check was just over $100. You don’t go into learning a Mary Kay car and then just stopped working you continue to do the same work ethic. I ended up having surgery and was unable to maintain for a very short period of time. If anyone else had a company car and stopped working it would be taken away immediately at least with Mary Kay we have a choice to make a minimum payment. And not have it just ripped out from under us. You need to get your facts straight.
My Mary Kay director earned a pink Cadillac a few years ago. She and our unit worked hard to get the numbers to qualify for it. It was lovely!
And then our unit never earned enough to keep it free. She paid over $900/mo to keep driving it. Eventually they repossessed it from her home.
She was not a lazy director, and our team worked pretty hard to be successful — bottom line was it’s not a FREE Cadillac. She was flat broke driving a fancy pink car. I thought it was very sad.
I’m not sure how different it is from any other company who provides the leader with a company car. If you and your team produces a specific number you get to keep you company car. If not then that car is returned. I am a Sales Director with Mary Kay. My unit/team have earned the Chevy Camaro which is the car that is right before the Pink Cadillac. I was a RN BSN for 25yrs and they never gave me anything for all those patients who wrote surveys raving about impeccable care. Nor did they compensate me for duplicating myself (being a preceptor). I work about 50hrs a week with Mary Kay and make more anywhere near the compensation or celebration.
I just became a consultant recently. But I’ve been using Mary Kay products for years now. Before May Kay I used so many products from high in products to cheap stuff and organic stuff. Not only did I get UTI’s from that all those other products. Some stripped my skin while other the soup just fell off my skin and didn’t lather. I was skeptical at first. If you can make me a believer. I’m a believer. I started using the satin body wash and not only did it wash really great. I did not get any UTI’s once at all. That’s just one of sever testimonies I could share on how these products really do work and how they are truly amazing. Now I’m a brand new consultant just starting out and with out even trying, just sharing my testimony. I have gotten 2 clients and 2 more potential clients to come and looking into some booths to set up in my area for more. It’s really sad people put down a whole business so quickly just because of a couple of bad experiences. Especially if they haven’t tried the products even. That’s even worse because these products are so amazing. Both for aging and for skin care and every day make up use. In my opinion the best out there and I’ve tried a whole butt ton of products to say that with confidence not as a consultant. But just as a person who bought for 3-5 years before hand.
Oh wow… how am I just now seeing this??
This is an awful article! “In all my research….” what research? You only cited pink truth!
As a writer, you’re supposed to go DIRECTLY to the SOURCE! As well as getting multiple other opinions from other sources. This is horrendously biased and one sided.. considering your only source, it’s not surprising!
Unless it was on purpose to ruffle feathers. Cause it isn’t so farfetched that it’s just blatantly obvious that it’s false… those connected to MK know the truth. But you’re casting doubt over those who don’t know. Not everyone is aware that you can read stuff on the internet and it isn’t always true.
But incase you weren’t aware….
Free, really DOES mean FREE!
You don’t get it by doing nothing and just get handed an XT5! You work your a$$ off for it! But when you go to that dealership and sign those papers that it’s yours. There’s no bank information, or finance paperwork, checks etc.
The lease is quite literally… (wait for it)… FREE!