Avon Reps For Selling Very misleading, false claims of money and reps are used for free advertising New York New York

First off, Avon Values their hard working reps.  I am an independent sales rep and I never heard nor experienced what is being reported here. Some new rep thinks if you sell Avon you don't have to do a thing  and money will come flooding in. It doesn't work that way.  Let m,e explain why Avon has reps and site  where people can just buy online.  While the Avon site provides great customer service, An Avon independent Rep should be accessible, knowledgable and provide outstanding customer service. 

My customers know they can call me for questions, concerns, fundraising needs, reminders of when to restock and understand  their needs.  Let say you buy cosmetics from a dept store cosmetic counter. you need to go and buy more? will you get the same  sale person who sold it to you originally. If after you use the  product for the month and didn't like the results, can you credit /replacement or  express your concerns or effectlively answer you questions?  A good Avon rep undestands the  products, has gone through training,  which i believe is incredible.  They have tons of  resource materials  as well.

The online store is there  for a resaon. for those who don't want a rep, and when a rep stops selling they can still get their product. Being an Avon Rep I am in business for myself. I can take a brouchure and offer additional saving on a product or product line. I run raffles, frequent buyer offering and  so on. I also am an eRep. I do raffles for them adn they lot it. Avon added Live chat for their reps to help them to connect their online customers. 

As for having to buy brouchures and  samples, this is just like any other business. You have to invest some capital to build a business. This is basic business. Avon have been around 125 years and is  doing quite well. and I have alot of fun selling it.

I have been a Rep for Avon two times now.

At no time do you have to give your customers information to Avon. They are "Your" customers. There is no way for them to steal your customers unless they themselves choose to do their shopping with Avon directly.

When the customer shops at your website, they can choose to have it shipped to them, or to you to deliver. At no time is it necessary for you to make your customers shop at your website.

As far as missing products, their system is highly automated and sometimes items do not drop in the box and a simple phone call to customer service will get it to you.

A person can open up a storefront to sell Avon. They have guidelines and details can be found at Avon. I can actually see the sales of one of out local stores in our district and they do very well.

Selling Avon is like any other sell from home business. It is what you make it. You can't be angry if people you know personally don't wish to buy the products.

Since you enjoy the products so much yourself (don't you?) just buy something for yourself every 3rd campaign and get a great discount, use the single brochure they send you to sell out of. Make the best of it.

Some people really like the shop at home personal sales.

It is not a system without fails, but feedback will make it better. I see a big difference from now and 7 years ago.

To start off, I am not employed by Avon but I am an Avon Independent Sales Representative. There IS a difference. I am in business for myself and that being the case I try to educate myself regarding business practices.

This claim of Avon stealing your customers is ridiculous! The ERep sites have your (the reps) personal web address and you (the rep) get the credit for every order made on that site. If you didn't get an Erep webpage and your customers wanted to order online then you have no one else to blame but yourself for giving them no choice but to go through Avons website directly!

I really dislike someone not knowing what they're doing because they haven't been trained properly and didn't bother reading the online courses and then turn around and blame Avon.

Anyone who thinks a company messes up your order on purpose to ruin your success has obviously had very little experience in product distibution and much more in conspiracy theories. Stocking and shipping errors happen in every company and if you keep your head they can be managed.

Being an Avon Sales Rep is a business. Not everyone is business-like or business-headed. This isn't a get rich quick scheme, it is hard work and you get out of it what you put in.

That being said, I hope people will perhaps consider their own actions before they blame a company that has been around; I dare say, much longer than yourself.

Avon, it seems, has turned into some sort of MLM monster. It was not this way twenty or thirty years ago.
When employees need to buy the products, the catalogues, the samples, find a "downline" and find a certain amount of customers *or else*, then my choice is not to do business with them. I feel bad for all the people who have not been successful with this company.

What makes me suspicious however, are all the ones who "claim" they are making big $$$. Their favorite argument is that the ones who couldn't make a go of it are failures, and could not be successful because of their own shortcomings. This is typical rhetoric spouted by people who have been brainwashed by the MLM machine. Believe me, I don't care how successful you *think* you are, if you screw up once, Avon would drop you like a hot potato, too!

My own representative was screwed by this company. She's disabled, and signed up to sell because she was assured that she could sell online exclusively. They claimed she hadn't had any sales (which is a lie!) and dropped her without explanation. That's when we started investigating the Rip Off Reports about this company, and how they treat their less productive employees.

To further Avon's insatiable appetite to make a buck, they are outsourcing their customer service to another country. Perhaps the economy in America would get better if these companies put more faith in America. Keep jobs in America so people can afford to buy your overpriced products!
Nope, no more Avon products in my house!

WHERE IS THE RIP OFF? IT IS IN THE BOAT LOAD OF SALES YOU WILL HAVE TO MAKE IN THIS slow economy. Once people buy from you, you may not get another sale from them for 3 to 4 weeks later. You must make a sell every two weeks with Avon to stay active. Small orders like $15 to $30 aren't any "real" money to talk about. Plus, you don't get but 20% from the items in the brochures with the diamonds by it. A LOUSY 20% ON THE JEWELRY, CLOTHING , SHOES AND BAGS, ETC. THEY KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO GET PEOPLE TO BUY AND TO MAKE A DECENT SIZE PURCHASE!!!!!!!!! To make good money off the back, you will need to start out with 12 committed people who REALLY LOVES AVON'S STUFF. Then you will have a pool of people to rotate between as you gain more customers if YOU CAN!!!

I must stay on a constant run and search for new customers, in order to make a sale EVERY TWO WEEKS FOR EACH CAMPAIGN--if not, I'll be dropped. But, once people get "hooked" to Avon products, will they need you? NO!!! If I get dropped for lack of sales that I "can't force people to buy" then the existing customers can just go online or call the 1-800 number and get the Avon products without a Rep. BUT, REMEMBER, THOSE ARE THE CUSTOMERS THAT YOU BROUGHT TO AVON AND NOW THEY WON'T NEED YOU ANYMORE!!

That's the real rip off here: No rep is needed and the reps must sell a boat load of products to see some adequate money. And I have to pay Avon every two weeks for the Avon orderS (not once a month). I can't miss two campaigns without making an order, but if things are slow , what can I do---the rep. whines up buying stuff, just to stay active. I'm trying to make money. I stay on the go seeking new customers, and time is MONEY. Its not fair. If I don't place an order in two campaigns , then all the people who have bought from me will lose me as a Rep and can simply go around me and get the Avon products online or by calling toll free.

The rep would have turned the customers onto Avon products and would have made sells for Avon and once the Rep can't KEEP buying Avon products (just to stay active in between slow selling periods) she gets dropped!! JUST LIKE THAT!!

How would you feel if the customers you turned on to Avon just calls in toll free and order Avon without going through you? Avon makes if REAL EASY for the customers to come straight to them , once you have identified a customer. Do you think they will tell a customer that they CAN'T ORDER PRODUCTS WITHOUT A REP??????????????? If you don't keep up your sales, Avon WILL KEEP YOUR CUSTOMERS AND ITS MORE MONEY FOR THEM BECAUSE THEY WONT HAVE TO PAY YOU A SMALL COMMISSION.

You state you've been selling Avon for less than a month, only made 2 sales and you've been ripped off? Where? How?