Clicking on the link above will take you to the actual article. The comment I left on the site is below:
I was a representative twice: the first time during the mid 90s and the other time was 2006 -2008. Schools have banned representatives using students to sell their product on school property or during school hours. Most companies have policies against their employees working a second job (including selling items from a catalog) while on the clock. I have bought nearly 700 catalogs (yes, we have to pay for them) and drove by each house as I left them in their newspaper boxes or on their driveways. I maybe got a total of 4 customers out of that 700 with an average sale of $20.00 for each customer. Do we need to figure in gasoline costs and wear and tear on my truck to show just how much money I lost?
As for their products, they need to stop creating all these new colonges face treatments, and home/kitchen products that won't be around after a year. No incentive to try and like a product that will be discontinued after a few months. Also, stop selling overpriced junk items that don't work i.e. coin counter bank, video cameras, body-cleansing foot pads ... quality, NOT quantity. Avon stood for quality at one time. Now it seems they want to sell EVERYTHING or jack the price up and call it exclusive. The public is not that stupid, and representatives are fed up and/or become disenchanted.
