Has anyone ever heard of Kleeneze?

[Renegade]

Has anyone ever heard of Kleeneze or ever tried being a distributor? I saw one of those cards with "WANT TO EARN MORE CASH NOW!" stapled to a Bus Stop time table. I usually just rip them off and shove them in the bin but that day I was in a curious mood. So I phoned up and someone offered to come round my house for an interview. I felt a little strange they were asking to come round my house to interview me, but what the hell I accepted.

The following friday a middle aged couple came round and showed me a DVD about Kleeneze and sold the idea to me really well. It all sounded like easy money, apart from the walking around delivering catalogues bit. Then came the bombshell it is a £170 startup fee and for that you get 200 Catalogues and all then other stuff like order forms, notepads, books, and everything else. I didnt want to say no so I just said I needed some time to think about it and get together the 'initial investment' as they called it.

Has anyone one ever tried it, they have thousands upon thousands of distributors in the UK apparently so the odds of someone who has tried/heard of/or done it must be in my favour. I mean it sounded too good to be true, so knowing my luck it probably is! I just dont want to look like an idiot walking around with a load of magazines earning 1.50 an hour!

[byronkincaid]

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imo

[Card_Shark]

For more info see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_selling also research MLM (mulit level marketing).

[Jon MW]

As far as I know it isn't a pyramid scheme it's just a straightforward sales job.

But you have to sell enough to cover your costs, and then make a profit.

Have you properly looked at the catalogue and worked out how much of how many different products you'd have to sell to make any money Renegade?

Would you buy them? From a catalogue through your door?

[Ironside]

its teh same as avon but for cleaning products rather than cosmetics

its a hard job unless you have lots of friends doing lots of reordering

[Indestructable]

We have had distributors round our way but have never bought from them. Don't think there is anything wrong with them, but would imagine it can be hard work. Also not sure how you are allocated a patch to sell to or you could end up with a Kleeneze war.  

[Renegade]

To be honest from growing up ive never seen anyone buy from a catalogue, well my parents anyway. So that had a big effect on the way I look at them, which is rubbish to scribble notes on for your mum to record something on TV before you go out for the evening.

Its not a pyramid scheme they have been going for 82 yrs, so they are by far the biggest and most popular out of them all in the business.

[Renegade]

its teh same as avon but for cleaning products rather than cosmetics

its a hard job unless you have lots of friends doing lots of reordering

But theres a difference between hard work and smart work right?

[Bongo]

Delivering catalogues that cost ~85p to people who may not be at all interested in the products you are trying to flog seems like the exact opposite of smart work to me.

But then I make websites, so I would say that!

[Ironside]

another problem nowadays is that so many areas (espically where i live) are putting up no cold calling signs so if you do go door to door you get some heavies chasing you down the street

[TightEnd]

But then I make websites

you do?

[jakally]

My understanding is that Kleeneze have got a pretty decent reputation, and that the products they sell are ok.

However, is it not likely that selling in this way is becoming more difficult (and therefore less profitable) as people buy more stuff off the net?

[suzanne]

FORGET IT.. unless you have a vast amount of friends who will buy from you as a favour... then give it up after a couple of months.

Been there and done it..Its VERY time consuming with very little reward but if you are at rock bottom skint then yes you can make a couple of quid.

 

[AndrewT]

My understanding is that Kleeneze have got a pretty decent reputation, and that the products they sell are ok.

However, is it not likely that selling in this way is becoming more difficult (and therefore less profitable) as people buy more stuff off the net?

Yeah, I think the internet and the TV home shopping channels are killing off this form of direct selling.

[Renegade]

OK thanks for the feedback, at the moment it stands with the only people with anything good to say about Kleeneze are the people trying to recruit me! Now my choices are to put them on the spot when they come and pick up the stuff they left with me to look and ask them 100 questions there. Or just send them an e-mail saying shove it and i'll leave the stuff on the doorstep like they said