Kleenezee - Do it or not?

hamsterholly

Hello

Have you thought about doing Usborne Childrens Books ? They have a really good joining offer on at the moment. The kit started off free on 1st May and will increase by £1 each working day.

I think with any business you get out what you put in but I chose Usborne as its fits in around my 2 little ones and I can pick my little boy up from school.

Good luck with whatever you decide to do.

Tracey

Stompa

Poppycat wrote: »

all I no is that the last 17 years in my last house we had a new distributor of those wretched sales catalogues almost every few month

Is that all? We've sometimes had 3 different ones in the same week. They seem totally disorganized, you'd think that each collector would be assigned their own 'patch' rather than having to compete with others.

Maz

They're free to work anywhere they want and sometimes they overlap, they don't have territories. If you don't buy after a number of drops, you're usually crossed off their list but obviously if a new person starts in your area, the same procedure is repeated which is why you may get a couple of catalogues from different people in the same time frame. Because it's your own business, the chances are they aren't aware of anybody else working in the same area, you work independantly. Hope this makes sense! I would add though, that if you don't want the catalogues, a polite note in the pack normally means that you will be removed from a distributor list and no further catalogues will be delivered to you.

Guapa1

My experience with Kleeneze.

I was approached, and it sounded like a good way to make money, as I realised I was spending more than I was earning.
It really does take up a lot of time if you want to make anything decent. It can be really tiring having to trawl around with a collecting books and then having to knock on peoples doors if they didn't leave it out, which a lot of people don't appreciate.

As for the company.... One day as I was driving home to deliver some kleeneze products I had a near fatal car crash. The car was written off, and of cause all the kleeneze products were unsellable.

I was off work for months and had to move back to my parents because I couldn't afford to rent anymore, and I wrote to everyone I owed, explained the situation and asked them to accept a small payment until I was back on my feet. Everyone of them said yes.... Apart from Kleeneze who took me to court and issued a CCJ against me for £200.
The joke was the court ordered me to pay back less than what I offered in the first place!
The not so funny part was the CCJ on a credit report. It's come off now, but I will never support that company again!

barrymung

hamsterholly wrote: »

Hello

Have you thought about doing Usborne Childrens Books ? They have a really good joining offer on at the moment. The kit started off free on 1st May and will increase by £1 each working day.

We did Usbourne for a short while. At the time you paid £35 for a started kit (From memory) and that included loads of books.

Being an Usborne seller, you get allocated a number of schools that are exclusive to you. No other usborne seller is allowed to sell books into those particular schools. Great, we thought. How wrong we were.

When we approached the "exclusive" schools we'd been allocated we were told that "we already have an usborne seller" or "one of our parents already does Usborne". (Obviously, the Schools weren't interested in the fact that this other seller was operating outside the rules)

We then phoned round the rest of my schools in our area to find that they ALL had someone already doing Usborne books. We also discovered that it was the SAME person doing ALL the schools in the area.

We complained to both the co-ordinator for our area and Usborne, both simply shrugged their shoulders to the whole thing.

Then, the "agressive" calls started, "requesting" that we should consider giving up selling books..

I personally feel that Usborne products are great, but possibly somewhat overpriced when you compare to similar in the supermarkets. The system *could* work very well, if all sellers played by the rules.

Unfortunately, Usborne turn a blind eye to other sellers who break the rules meaning it's very difficult to get a look in.

If you are thinking of doing usborne, I'd phone round your local schools to see if they already have someone supplying them. If they do then you don't really stand a chance.

Don't expect ANY support from Usborne as we didn't get any. When they say you'll get a list of schools "exclusive" to you, expect that there is already someone in there doing usborne.

welshgirlmel

I did Ann summers for a bit and found that was a good little earner but it does take a certain type of person who doesnt get easily embarrasssed! I was making £50-£150 per party. You do have a kit that you pay for that is worth £500 at retail value. If you give up you sell it back to the company at cost price. You are encouraged to go the the next level and recruit and thats wher the bigger money is, but its something to consider as you could make a living out of it in my opinion.
Mel

PixiePie

I used to do Ann Summers as well, and found it quite good, but imho you have to be a bit disciplined not to spend all your money on new items for your kit (something I wasn't that good at lol). I did it as a student, and remember making a decent amount for doing about 1 or 2 parties a week, which only took a couple of hours, so was a happy camper.

I seem to remember the kit being something like £2 a week or something for the first 10 weeks, taken off my invoices or something - can't remember hugely, and it might have changed (this was a few years back now), but I thought this was ok as it wasn't a massive outlay in one go at the start.

The incentives were rather nice as well, my recruiter had a really nice brand new car and I knew others who got all sorts of things. I seem to remember winning a few things as well, like a clothes rail, things for my kit etc etc and at the end of the day, the parties were a giggle.

Anyone done Avon, as I'm thinking about this now....

purplepixi

I've done a bit of everything! I first did Oriflame, however I did it door to door and no one would by, because they didn't know the brand. Oriflame would probably be good as Partyplan, but you'd have to buy the stuff first. I then did Ann Summers - couldn't get on with that, made no money there either, I didn't appreciate the crappyness of some of the products so I just couldn't sell them. Then I did Likisma (aromatherapy), that's partyplan and when I signed up it was £85, that was better I did make money from that, the only thing is, you can't really offer it as anything else due to the high prices - you kind of have to justify them all the time. I stopped doing that because the interest was very slim.

Now however I'm doing Avon, to be honest I've done it before, but the Orange phone thing in 2004 drove me mad to I gave up, now I don't work and just to Avon to get out an meet people. Avon sells it's self, it's good quality, reasonably priced and everyone knows them. You can do door to door or parties or whatever, if you can't sell Avon then you just can't make money in direct sales - I'm not great at selling, but in my first week with Avon, I spent 2 hours door to door and sold £270 worth of product!! You have to put the time in to get the money out, but that's the same no matter what. It's £15 to sign up, but you don't directly pay that, they take it out of your commission over 2 campaigns (a period of 3 weeks) you get your first 2 lots of brouchures free after that you have to pay for them, but if you buy more than 4 packs (5 books to a pack) they only work out as 10p each.

I like Avon the best, but some people have better luck with other things. I've considered Kleenezee, but after inquires and other things decided against it, every where I go there's a Kleenezee rep and with no territories I'd hate to be standing on someones toes!

I gues I'm bias, but Avois the way to go for me!!