Female Cosmetics shops purchase and reinbursement question

I do make up shops at least once a year and they are difficult and time consuming however I love free high end make up including samples! So overall worth it. I did a few shops and the reimbursement budget was 10-20 dollars lower that the LOWEST price of the products in store. Is this normal? There was usually a 10-20 dollar shopper fee however in total it barely JUST covered the product. am I too greedy to ask that the reimbursement cover the cost of the product entirely? PLUS maybe 5-10 dollar shopping fee. I definitely did not make any extra out of this but it is still worth it. Anyone preform these shop. Ladies?

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Nooo! I didn’t even realize that they lowered the reimbursement. I haven’t done any pf these shops in almost two years. It always covered the product, at least it covered the “cheapest” ones. I like makeup so I like these shops but with lower reimbursement, I will do it only if needed the makeup and would buy it anyway. Disappointing.

The store usually some items that fall within the reimbursement. Brow pencils, lip liners, eye liners. Since a few of their products are being discontinued, you may luck up and get a deal.

The last one I did, I believe the reimbursement was $18. The cheapest item I could find, an eyebrow pencil, was over $30! On top of the shop being VERY difficult, never again! (It was a one-person shop, and the person, who was the owner, was downright rude).

I love cosmetic shops but some of their reimbursement limits for one MSC are disappointing. For fragrance the smallest bottle was still over the limit of reimbursement and ate into my shopper fee. The makeup I bought a makeup brush, which I needed and was thankfully under the limit.

What I usually do is go online and look up the items to see what I can buy, so I will know ahead of time what to look for.

I have done a few high end perfume and cosmetics shops. I think that the minimum reimbursement that I have seen for them is $60? Maybe $80? My best shop reimbursed $250.

I think that OP is talking about Merle Norman? (I don't know that I spelled it correctly?) That shop does not interest me at all. I have never done it. It is mostly franchised. It reminds me of AVON.

The ones with the targeted sales people I just delete! I have done a few in the past but noticed lately the reimbursements seem to be lower. The Barney's NY cosmetic ones are good but they come around so rarely.

I just did a few recently from one MSC. The reimbursement was fine for makeup. I planned to spend more and get some new foundation but the color match by the target was so poor I couldn't actually buy it. There were plenty of items around the price range or what I was willing to pay for the items. The fragrance scenario went sideways from the start so I abandoned the shop. One of the issues was that while the label offered many fragrances options, some within the reimbursement amount, the location only carried a few lines and no products under $100. I was somewhat relieved when everything else went to hell in a handbag since I didn't need a bottle of perfume costing me $50. The sample size they gave me will probably last a year. I think the same problem might arise with the day cream jobs since everything at the non-purchase shop I did was $150 and over.

I have never done or cared to do Merle Norman, but have done many Chanel shops with my highest gift being an 80.00 bottle of Chanel perfume, however, I don't see them anymore...the MSC that I did them with monthly at two different malls closed with no one picking them up and they were easy, used to do four a day at one mall and two at the other mall, very nice while it lasted. The MSC that does high end now just pays an 18.00 fee, down quite a bit, hardly worth the drive for me.

Live consciously....

I did a skin care one that had rounds of fragrances and cosmetics, not merle norman. When I emailed the scheduler she said they dont state it but that after the report is accepted etc. I could return the item. So the shop ended up paying I think $56 after thay which was good.

I have yet to find a cosmetics shop that will reimburse fully for the product. I wind up using the fee and then some but it's all good. Now, I see they've lowered the numbers but have increased the number of different TARGETED brand associates you are required to shop. No thank you! I will spend my own money, LOL.

I just got an email from a company I have worked for alerting me to a perfume job. They said the reimbursement was up to $83 and that the store carried a mini sized perfume for which I would have to end up spending some of my own money and it was the least expensive item I could buy. Like Wwin I have enough samples to last me a lifetime as I rarely use perfume so I have no interest going out of pocket for the smallest of small perfumes. On top of that I do not even know the brand yet. But it was very nice of the msc to warn shoppers that the reimbursement would not cover the product required.

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