As I've mentioned in previous posts, the perfume scammers tend to lie - a lot. They don't seem to believe in the sanctity of the truth and they don't have any qualms about deceiving people who want to work for them. I've told you that I worked for Marvin Seay, Heather Cline and Joe Manor at Southwest Marketing (now A.T.R. Management) but further research suggests that the same lies are told at World Perfume distribution centers all over the U.S. Following are just a few of the lies they tell you.
It's an office job.
Most of the advertisements run in the paper are for office jobs - clerical, administrative, managerial, etc. This is a lie. The "job" actually consists of walking all over your town every day, trying to sell perfume and cologne from a duffle bag that you must lug around with you.
You'll make $40,000 per year.
This is actually illegal, but they do it all the time. During orientation you will probably be told that you will make forty grand a year, but this is a perfume scam lie. What you make will depend on what you sell, and you will be paid in cash rather than in a paycheck. This might sound great, but most people I worked with sold an average of one bottle per day (between $2 and $7).
The job comes with full benefits.
If you want benefits, you pay for them, and only if you buy your own office. There aren't any benefits available during training at all.
The company pays for road trips.
Once you start working for the perfume scammers, you'll be told about road trips. In addition to working around town Monday through Friday, they'll also want you to spend Saturday and Sunday in another town (up to eight hours away) peddling perfume and cologne there. They say that they will pay for your hotel and food, but you'll find out once you arrive that you must pay for it.
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