Posted by Sarah on May 29, 19101 at 19:26:30:
In Reply to: Re: Scentura Creations purfume scam. posted by AMANDA on October 05, 19100 at 21:01:13:
: : PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU BUY ANYTHING FROM OR CONTINUE
: : WORKING WITH SCENTURA!!!
: : IT'S A SCAM!
: : IF YOU MEET SOMEONE SELLING THIS:
: : Please do NOT buy anything from this SCAM COMPANY! They
: : sell cheap rendition cologne door-to-door, and if you ever
: : meet one of these salespeople DO NOT PURCHASE THE PRODUCT!
: : It's a fake, and countless hopeful teenagers are being
: : fooled into peddling this stuff! Only by cutting off the
: : flow of buyers and salespeople can it be stopped!
: : FOR THOSE INVOLVED:
: : I assume by now that you have been told that this is a
: : 'perfume distribution company'. Distribution in this case
: : means 'walking the streets trying to sell perfume for
: : pennies a day'. DO NOT CONTINUE WITH SCENTURA. Tell
: : everyone in your 'class' who will listen the truth -
: : Scentura is a losing battle that will leave you broke!
: : The 'Management' title you have is nothing but a name -
: : you are not 'managing' anyone. The way the office is
: : making money right now is by having you drop bottles for
: : 29.00 in FFAR (Friends, Family & Relatives). The office
: : keeps 19, you take 10.00. THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.
: : On the street, you will have to push the bottles for 11.00
: : to 19.00 to make your quota, and will have NO CASH. The
: : office makes it's money on 'Friends and Family' - meaning
: : yours.
: : Everything you have heard thusfar is scripted. The phone
: : interview, the first meeting, and the second 'group'
: : interview. Scam tactics such as 'fear of loss' are taught,
: : and used on you to not only hook you in, but to get you
: : excited about being broke for the entire time you are with
: : this office. LARRY HAHN DID NOT CALL THE OFFICE TO START
: : A CONTEST. This is another scam by the owners to suck as
: : much cash out of you as possible before realizing that you
: : are being taken for a ride.
: : The 'paid business trips' are a lie, as well. Called a
: : Satellite, you basically go to another city and get rid of
: : as many bottles as you can in a weekend. You have to pay
: : for the hotel room by working insane hours and selling
: : 'room bottles' - bottles that are supposed to pay for the
: : room. All it does is take money out of your pocket, so in
: : truth you pay for it on your own.
: : They define 'Job' as Just Over Broke. I guarantee that you
: : will never be as broke as you will be with this 'company'.
: : Fox 2 News in Detroit did an expose on Scentura, and
: : reported exactly what I am telling you now. This is a
: : pyramid scam (even though they tell you it's not. PLEASE
: : OPEN YOUR EYES), and the fat rolls of cash you might see
: : in the hands of the 'owner' are nothing but bill money.
: : They toss it in front of you so you think they are wealthy
: : and successful. Chances are that the office is going broke,
: : because statistically you can't keep up mass volumes of
: : sales in one area for that long. Most offices have a 1-year
: : lifespan, and when the office goes down, you will receive NO
: : SUPPORT FROM SCENTURA. You will be working 16-hour days
: : just to make a few dollars.
: : There are other setbacks, as well:
: : The second you join Scentura, your name is red-flagged by
: : the IRS. There is no accurate way to keep track of your
: : earnings, and the IRS has been severely cracking down on
: : Scentura 'Distribution Center' owners.
: : There are lawsuits being filed against these 'distribution
: : centers' as we speak. The false advertising and stupid
: : promises made by them have preyed on young people for far
: : too long, and finally someone is doing something to stop it.
: : Police officers DO NOT TOLERATE solicitation on the streets.
: : Business-to-business is a gray area in law enforcement,
: : and if you are found selling (I know you are told not to use
: : that word, but that's what you're doing!) on the street, you
: : will be ticketed and possibly arrested. County and City
: : ordinances vary on this topic, and it would do you good to
: : check with the laws of your city. Your office owners need
: : you to make street sales, so they will not warn you about
: : possible consequences.
The above person is obviously a person who did not do well with the company, was lazy, quit, or worked in a not so up to par office. I have been doing this for 6 years and have done great. Nobody ever has a quota, you are there to learn to run an office, not be a salesperson. Nobody sells bottles for $11, unless they are a desperate loser trying to impress their owner and that would be their own choice. Nobody is obligated to purchase anything from the company EVER, where else can you go where you are given merchandise on a handshake with no upfront costs? Maybe the office they had experienced had problems or a short life span, but each are individually run so what happens in one office is not necessarily indicative of what happens in another. Proper licenses and permits are acquired by the offices to ensure that it is alright for distributors to market the product in and around businesses, no door to door is allowed by the company. In terms of the IRS nobody is red flagged, although it is an individual's personal responsibility to claim earnings properly, just as a waitress or bartender would do. The product is a quality product or we wouldn't be selling so much of it or have so many repeat buyers. Don't let someone else's bitterness over passing up the opportunity of a lifetime influence you or make you miss out. Somebody who fails out of college or just quits is not likely to tell you how great college is, they'll tell you how it's not all it's cracked up to be to make themselves feel better and this is what I see happening here. This company has made me financially independent and successful, and I'm just at the tip of the iceberg! If you are willing to have faith in yourself you can do unbelievable, but you don't know what you are missing until you try it. And the last thing you should do is make copies and tell your "class" about all this B.S. because if you do it on the company's property that is called slander and will get you in more trouble than it's worth. You don't know any of them yet anyway so why would you care what they do? Make your own choice and let them. Not everyone in the world can be successful or it would be called mediocrity. Who should you listen to, a successful owner with years of experience who started just like you and went through the same training or someone who is mad at the world because they had a bad experience or were lazy or a quitter and now has nothing better to do than to criticize other people and try to ruin your chances of success?
: : Please realize before it's too late that this is a scam.
: : Learn from countless others who have fallen victim. Why do
: : you think the company website has no contact information?
: : Because of all the complaints they would be getting! The
: : reason the Better Business Bureau has no information on
: : 'Scentura' is because the corporation makes no claims to
: : the offices, and therefore cannot be legally tied to its
: : practices. It's another scam tactic to keep you feeling
: : safe, since you will have trouble finding information on
: : the individual offices. Especially since they have such a
: : short lifespan, and complaints can take up to a year to be
: : investigated.
: : PLEASE MAKE COPIES OF THIS AND GIVE IT TO EVERYONE IN THE
: : CLASS! Warn people you know not to buy the products, and
: : help us bring this scam down! You can be successful without
: : this, and will be happy you walked out the door.