Melaleuca sales

Someone I recently met is selling Melaleuca products and supposedly making a good profit.  He wants me to start selling these products, too....first of all, I think it's a pyramid scheme, like Amway....and I don't know anyone who has had a GOOD experience with Amway.  He says it isn't, though.  He says I'll work for myself.  Hmm.  Do any of you guys know about this company?  I'm getting bad feeling about it.  However, I'm broke and could use the extra $$$. 

• Melaleuca sales - just thinkin'
  • I got signed up 20 years ago at a presentation... - ndmt
    • My cousin did this a year ago - been there as well.
  • As others have said, it's a network marketing (MLM) model like the others, but also -- sm - ChuckM
  • It's been around for years - Don't do it
  • It's the same business model as Amway - Happy MT Robin
    • Melaleuca - just thinkin'
      • That is so funny. One of the people I know is like that... - ndmt

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CHANTILLY, Va. — A new drug store at a Virginia strip mall is putting its faith in an unconventional business plan: No candy. No sodas. And no birth control. Divine Mercy Care Pharmacy is among at least seven pharmacies across the nation that are refusing as a matter of faith to sell contraceptives of any kind, even if a person has a prescription.

States across the country have been wrestling with the issue of pharmacists who refuse on religious grounds to dispense birth control or morning-after pills, and some have enacted laws requiring drug stores to fill the prescriptions.

In Virginia, though, pharmacists can turn away any prescription for any reason.

"I am grateful to be able to practice," pharmacy manager Robert Semler said, "where my conscience will never be violated and my faith does not have to be checked at the door each morning."

Semler ran a similar pharmacy before opening the new store, which is not far from Dulles International Airport. The store only sells items that are health-related, including vitamins, skin care products and over-the-counter medications.

On Tuesday, the pharmacy celebrated a blessing from Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde. While Divine Mercy Care is not affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church, it is guided by church teachings on sexuality, which forbid any form of artificial contraception, including morning-after pills, condoms and birth control pills, a common prescription used by millions of women in the U.S.

"This pharmacy is a vibrant example of our Holy Father's charge to all of us to wear our faith in the public square," said Loverde, who sprinkled holy water on the shelves stocked with painkillers and acne treatments. "It will allow families to shop in an environment where their faith is not compromised."

The drug store is the seventh in the country to be certified as not prescribing birth control by Pharmacists for Life International. The anti-abortion group estimates that perhaps hundreds of other pharmacies have similar policies, though they have not been certified.

Earlier this year in Wisconsin, a state appeals court upheld sanctions against a pharmacist who refused to dispense birth control pills to a woman and wouldn't transfer her prescription elsewhere. Elsewhere, at least seven states require pharmacies or pharmacists to fill contraceptive prescriptions, according to the National Women's Law Center. Four states explicitly give pharmacists the right to turn away any prescriptions, the group said.

The Virginia store's policy has drawn scorn from some abortion rights groups, who have already called for a boycott and collected more than 1,000 signatures protesting the pharmacy.

"If this emboldens other pharmacies in other parts of the state, it could really affect low-income and rural women in terms of access," said Tarina Keene, executive director of the Virginia chapter of the National Abortion Rights Action League.

Robert Laird, executive director of Divine Mercy Care, believes many of the estimated 50,000 Catholics within a few miles of the store will support its mission and make up for the roughly 10 percent of business that contraceptives represent in a typical pharmacy.

Whether Catholics will be drawn to the pharmacy is uncertain. According to a Gallup poll published last year for an extensive study of U.S. Catholicism called American Catholics Today, 75 percent of U.S. Catholics said you can still be a good Catholic even if you don't obey church teachings on birth control.

Catherine Muskett said she plans to shop at the drug store even though she lives more than 20 miles away.

"Obviously it's good to support pro-life causes. Every little bit counts," said Muskett, one of about 75 people who crowded into the tiny shop for Tuesday's ceremony.
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Anyone ever heard of a company called Melaleuca. It is a company that

sell enviromentally safe household products at cost

I need to figure out a tactful way to get her to back off.  She told me she was on the Moms team and she was teaming up with other moms and she told me how she was in this stuff that was totally environmentally safe blah blah blah and said Okay I will buy a bottle of it.  Evidently that was not enough she told me I had to attend this conference call I said okay.  Well, in the meantime, I told my mom about it and she said she had gotten into it.  She attended this conference call and they signed her up before she knew it and kept sending her stuff and billing her and she did not know how to get out of it.  The stuff is big $$$$.  So I told cousin no.  Cousin got upset saying that what does my mother know, she doesn't clean.  I just told her I didn't have the money right now to get into something like that.  She got upset and went on on how wonderful it is.  Then she called me again last night appologizing for getting up set and she was still my cousin/friend and I said okay I figured she would get over it and I told her about my OB/GYN appointment and that the scales weighed too heavy and she asked how much I weighted, I told her too much, she wanted an exact number, I don't know why, I said too much and leave it at that.  (Of course anyone can look at me and tell it is too much).  I told her I was interested in Jenny Craig.  Then she went on and on again about this bus and how I needed to get started and she noticed a big stain in my carpet and she was going to get it out.  I tried to change the subject and she kept going on about that bus. of hers.    I need her to back off.  I know she needs money but I don't want to drain my pocket book to help her out but this doesn't sound like anything I want to mess with.  I have 2 jobs, 2 kids and I don't have time to sell anything but according to my cousin you don't sell anything. 

I have been approached with great bus opportunities before.  I personally don't know anyone that has made a substantial living from an MLM. 

I hate to rain on your melaleuca parade, but I have to confess I have been roped in on this one in the past.  It is just like Quixtar, Amway, etc.  No, you don't have to do the "business" part, but I found the products overpriced, and yes they are all natural... they are made of tea tree oil... and you can find similar products in stores for less and of what I consider better quality.  Also, their toothpaste was horrible.... it tasted like Pine Sol for your mouth. 

As far as the "business" aspect, a good friend of mine was in it to make a few extra bucks and signed up a LOT of people... and she literally made a few extra bucks a month, as in an average of 3 dollars.. yes, I said 3!!!! 

Anyone is free to do what they choose, but if you want my 2 cents, if you need extra money, type a few more lines.  If you want quality natural products, you can find them almost everywhere nowadays.

As a last note.... it bothers me that someone would try to use this board to get people to join in on a "pyramid scheme."  Jenn... you probably aren't going to like that what I posted because you are obviously "sold" on Melaleuca.... but you should look for clients in places other than this board. 

People go insane during the holiday shopping season.

Wow, the last few days have been fantastic! 50 percent off and 60 and 70 percent off all merchandise, Christmas and other... Toys at a bargain. I tell you, from now on I am saving my cash for after Christmas to buy gifts for people for the whole year...  Give simple things for the holiday and then go spend for the whole year at a fraction of the price the days after Christmas.

Only 1 error for me this year... I actually got gift cards and cash for Christmas because I am always crabbing I never have money in my wallet just for me. So what do I do? go to Walmart and K-Mart with the KIDS and get hornswaggled into getting them more stuff. Yep. Between groceries and them I have exactly approximately 60 cents in change, no lie! Shame on ME. I cut down from Santa this year to show them the meaning of Christmas, but because they are good consumers on sales and good con artists to me (puppy eyes) I gave all my money away.  Never again.  Never ever again. That will be my Christmas gift to me to keep that promise.

So, love the sales, but beware to save ahead of time and don't bring the kids!!!

Happy New Year everyone and may 2008 be the best year yet!

seem some pretty surprising stuff go on, only to watch people battle off and jump in their "fancy" cars.  I've had people set a whole pile of stuff in front of me and throw a 5 at me and try to take off knowing that what they had cost more. I had one lady say "quarter?" over and over and over trying to buy two folding lawn chairs and I kept saying, "NO." She finally gave up and left.  I've had people steal right out from under my nose and jump in their "fancy" cars and take off.  I've had a whole "family" of Mexicans pile out of a very nice van and converge upon my yard sale with one person trying to keep my attention while their family members steal whatever they could from me.  When I saw a one of the kids stick an X-Box game in his shirt, I told him he had to pay for it and he tried to walk away.  When my husband came up on the boy, the father tried to start a fight with my husband.  My neighbor called the police and when they arrived they had the adults and teens in cuffs and the children in the back of a unit.  Turned out they were illegal and were arrested and hauled off and then a tow truck came and got the van. 

I haven't had a yard sale in a long, long time.

for the reasons you stated, but it was very underhanded that the woman would snatch up the doll for $2.00 knowing she was buying it from a little girl when the mother wasn't looking.  It was just plain wrong.