Home shows or parties?

[kateyes]

What entices you to agree to have a home show for free merchandise? What makes you not have a home show?

Direct sellers do rely on the kindness of strangers a lot because without willing hostesses, direct sellers don't have a business and thus no income.

Think outside the box, home shows can be anywhere--favorite restaurant, coffee shop, park, community center, (some) workplace.

[kydingbat]

Nothing.

[kateyes]

Can you be more specific?

Amazing to me how people have to be "talked" into getting FREE things.

[kydingbat]

Well, as they say nothing comes free. I just never liked the idea of pressuring friends into buying things, and I hate being invited to that stuff too. I quit going to that stuff years ago, and my shopping has not suffered in the least.

[kateyes]

Thank you for being specific. I appreciate your honesty. All companies do ask you to pay shipping and tax. I am sorry that you feel that way and I can understand why you feel that way if you have had friends pressure you into buying things. Personally, I feel more pressure when I go to stores especially when I know the people who serve me aren't making hardly any money.

I know there are several direct selling companies that don't have much to offer in product or in integrity in business. I am thankful that there are people who are generous enough to open their homes or favorite restaurant as a store to direct sellers and their friends instead of giving money to large corporations like JCPenney, Dillard's, Walmart...