The Body Shop At Home (Hints and tips)

Squidge123

I went through the website but have heard nothing yet. I get paid on Friday and want to try and catch the kit for £10 offer.

I don't actually know anyone that is a consultant for them.

CharH

Hi! I've just signed up as a Body Shop at Home Consultant and I am really concerned that I might not get the training I need. My consultant lives 100 miles away from me, and we did all the sign up by email and phone, but I've not met her. I've seen that some people have been for training with their managers, and have even been to parties with their managers. Am I going to miss out on important things by not having a manager close by?

pateroo

CharH wrote: »

Hi! I've just signed up as a Body Shop at Home Consultant and I am really concerned that I might not get the training I need. My consultant lives 100 miles away from me, and we did all the sign up by email and phone, but I've not met her. I've seen that some people have been for training with their managers, and have even been to parties with their managers. Am I going to miss out on important things by not having a manager close by?

Having been to the training it is useful, BUT as far as I can gather everything they went through is available on their website too! Ask your manager about TEAM VICTORY on facebook as there should be a group for your manager's region where people share their trips and tricks!x

CharH

That's a weight off my mind, thank you

thelurch

Hi there all,

I have a question for all you ladies. A mum at my sons school is a body shop consultant and she is forever telling people that for £20 and 12 hours work you will make £600.

She is also posting this comment on all her Facebook friends walls.

I have experience of the Direct Selling Association through my wife's own Phoenix trading business which has to comply to the statutory notice which states that she cannot lead someone to believe that by joining the organisation they will earn x from it.

I have asked this lady about whether she is allowed to say this herself and she gets very defensive and says that the body shop allows it.


But tonight I have gone to the "become a consultant" page on the body shop website and it quotes a similar statutory notice with wording saying "it is illegal to encourage someone to join a selling scheme and make a payment in return for high earnings"

So surely she cannot say what she is saying?

I know this organisation is very secretive as everything is done through PM or email, and when I asked her how to make the money she talked about she replied by saying its a trade secret.

Seems like a pyramid scheme with the addition of selling some products too?

thelurch

The silence and lack of response speaks volumes and answers my questions! I was obviously correct !

Karenc

No its not a pyramid selling scheme.
Its with Body shop - do you really think one of the fifth most famous brands in the world is going to do that - if you have been on the website you would have also read our values and seen you have this company all wrong.

The lady at yours sons school is using real averages to promote her business. At the time the kit was half price at £20 so thats completely correct. In order to become a consultant you have to have 4 parties in place which take an average of 2-3 hours each and so thats where the 12 hours comes from. Going on average party earnings and products you can win by doing the averages with your first four parties then you can indeed earn £600 - £200 in earnings and £400 in products.
The only thing she may not have made clear is the £600 is in cash and products based on averages.
Its all achievable. No pyramid scheme hiding anywhere.

thelurch

Thanks for the reply :-)
Just seems a little fishy, especially the fact she was advertising "pay £20 and for 12 hours work you can earn £600"
That's word for word from her. Except that's illegal to make that kind of statement as I stated earlier.
She made it sound like its £600 cash guaranteed for 12 hours work when, like you say it's achievable but not guaranteed and then the £600 is in a mixture of goods and cash.

I tried to advise this lady about being careful how she worded things and that's when she got all defensive stating it's a trade secret which gets people highly suspicious which is what has happened with all the people she has tried to recruit, everyone is thinking its dodgy hence why I thought I would come on here to confirm the truth.

Thanks for clarifying.

Although she is clearly going against the statement posted on the body shop website about statutory notices.

OldGreyFox

It appears from the latest members list that BSAH are not members of the DSA.

http://dsa.org.uk/direct_selling/member_companies/P0


In any case its not the DSA rules she is supposed to observe its The Fair Trading Act 1973 (as amended) and the Trading Schemes Regulations 1997. Also the Advertising Standards Authority rules may be being breached.

Numerous adverts on the net mentioning big money for these types of roles, breach these regulations daily.A lot being from distributors of DSA members.

A pyramid scheme involves promising participants payment or services, primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme, rather than supplying products to the public. They are illegal in the UK.

thelurch

It just seems like a pyramid selling scheme in that they set targets for the person to recruit so many people each month, hence the agrresive promoting by this lady, she is always saying time is running out on this offer, etc. I understand pyramid selling, its just this seemed so secretive.

They do however have the statutory notice on their website, warning about not making unfounded promises of guaranteed earnings.