KellyTheChef
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Hi all! I was at a local MarketPlace today where they have permanent booths. There was a PC booth! She was selling some discontinued (ex. blue tumblers) and some current products. The lady that was working the booth said her sister was the consulant and she gave me her card.
I called HO to verify that this is a no-no. They said that we are NOT allowed to sell in any retail space. Since this is a semi-perm. booth, it would be considered retail. So, this is NOT like setting up at a fair or whatnot for a few days. I did NOT give any information to HO about her...I was just verifying my thoughts on the whole situation.
So, I (assuming she is unaware of HO's policy and wanting to give her a chance to rectifiy the situation before HO hears of it....) emailed her. NEVER STOPING TO THINK that my personal info is on the email! If she gets totally upset with me, she can very easily find where I live and whatnot. My husband was the one that pointed this out to me...I had already sent the email by the time I was telling him about it later on this evening.
Here is my email:
It is with great reservation that I am contacting you. I certainly don't want to be putting my nose into your business, but I feel that I need to ask for your side of the story.
I visited the Hartville Marketplace this morning and came upon your booth. I was quite shocked to see that you were there. Pampered Chef does not allow any type of retail space. You can work a fair or a booth that is a temporary display (few days or a week...) but you are not allowed to have a permenant retail space. Otherwise, you are taking opportunities that are not given to other consultants, which gives you an "edge" over others. PC has chosen to use the more personal selling technique so we have the ability to work one on one and help each customer individually. If they change that (like Tupperware did) it would really dampen all of our sales...since someone could just run up to the mall and buy something from PC whenever they wanted.
I wanted to contact you first to allow you the opportunity to rectify this situation with out the involvement of Home Office.
I look forward to your response,
Kelly
Now I am kicking myself for sticking my neck out so far! I really hope that this person is just an honest schmoo like me and just made a mistake. I just don't think it's fair to others of us in the area if she is bringing in oodles of sales off of this booth "illegally."
Like my hubby said..."who made me the PC police?"
I called HO to verify that this is a no-no. They said that we are NOT allowed to sell in any retail space. Since this is a semi-perm. booth, it would be considered retail. So, this is NOT like setting up at a fair or whatnot for a few days. I did NOT give any information to HO about her...I was just verifying my thoughts on the whole situation.
So, I (assuming she is unaware of HO's policy and wanting to give her a chance to rectifiy the situation before HO hears of it....) emailed her. NEVER STOPING TO THINK that my personal info is on the email! If she gets totally upset with me, she can very easily find where I live and whatnot. My husband was the one that pointed this out to me...I had already sent the email by the time I was telling him about it later on this evening.
Here is my email:
It is with great reservation that I am contacting you. I certainly don't want to be putting my nose into your business, but I feel that I need to ask for your side of the story.
I visited the Hartville Marketplace this morning and came upon your booth. I was quite shocked to see that you were there. Pampered Chef does not allow any type of retail space. You can work a fair or a booth that is a temporary display (few days or a week...) but you are not allowed to have a permenant retail space. Otherwise, you are taking opportunities that are not given to other consultants, which gives you an "edge" over others. PC has chosen to use the more personal selling technique so we have the ability to work one on one and help each customer individually. If they change that (like Tupperware did) it would really dampen all of our sales...since someone could just run up to the mall and buy something from PC whenever they wanted.
I wanted to contact you first to allow you the opportunity to rectify this situation with out the involvement of Home Office.
I look forward to your response,
Kelly
Now I am kicking myself for sticking my neck out so far! I really hope that this person is just an honest schmoo like me and just made a mistake. I just don't think it's fair to others of us in the area if she is bringing in oodles of sales off of this booth "illegally."
Like my hubby said..."who made me the PC police?"