Pink Truth: Does Mary Kay Know Their Products Aren’t Being Sold?

Pink Truth Facts, opinions, and the real story behind Mary Kay Cosmetics.

Does Mary Kay Know Their Products Aren't Being Sold? Sep 11th 2012, 11:00 With the recent spotlight on Mary Kay thanks to Virginia Sole-Smith’s eye-opening article about Mary Kay Cosmetics in Harper’s magazine, the company has repeatedly said it doesn’t know how much is actually sold by consultants. But is that a lie? With the tremendous number of eBay auctions for Mary Kay products (often with multiple items [...]

Oh the burden of trying to understand Pink Truth. If ,as Tracy states, only 10-25% of wholesale products purchased were sold to retail customers, Mary Kay would be (as Pink Truth always dreams) gone away and Pink Truth would be unnecessary. Further, how posting a survey letter from Mary Kay proves anything is beyond me.  In point of fact, it does not prove anything. Also, referencing the "tremendous (and astronomical) number of eBay auctions" is not proof... not to mention, not quantitative. In fact, out of curiosity, I searched "Mary Kay" on eBay and got 49,762 results.  THAT is an amount.  "Tremendous" and "Astronomical" are not amounts. Okay so using Pink Truth math 600,000 (consultants) divided by 50,000 (ebay auctions) equals 1 (one) ebay auction for every 12 consultants. Obviously this is no way to calculate the actual amount of product being dumped by the 75-90% (remainder of product based on Tracy's estimations), but it shows how (relatively) small a number 50,000 is. I know that eBay is not the only way that consultants unload unsellable products, my only point in that exercise is that 50,000 is neither "tremendous" nor "astronomical" and does NOT prove Pink Truth's point that no one is selling Mary Kay products.