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[quote=Anonymous]These home sales people work by putting friends, neighbors, work colleagues, relatives. etc. on the spot.  I think that most women want to be nice and thought of as good people, so they attend the parties and/or buy the products to be kind.

A neighbor invited me to a Stella & Dot party, and to be nice, I went and bought some jewelry I really did not need.

As for the S & D quality, I have bought pieces of similar quality at department stores (on coupon days) for 1/3 of the price.  For what I spent on the S&D jewelry (or for a few dollars more), I could have gotten "real" pieces, not "gold-plated brass."

I have received e-mails and phone calls regularly since the party, and now I am invited to another one!

So now I am "on the spot," and I will graciously need to inform the S&D rep and the hostess that "No thanks, I'm all set for jewelry right now." Like other posters, I hope my neighbor will still speak to me.

I am a SAHM (worked both at home and out of the house a  few hours a week) and extremely sympathetic to the need to earn extra money and independence and self-esteem from a career.

But there has to be a better way!

Over the years, I have encountered
--pressure to buy products I couldn't possibly use, for example, children's clothes that stopped at 6X when my youngest child was in size 8-10
--pressure to buy products that I could not afford, such as expensive make-up
--pressure to keep buying after I bought everything I would ever buy from the company (toys)
--pressure to buy from companies who had absolutely NOTHING I wanted (home decor)
--multiple neighbors selling for the exact same company (at one time THREE selling the same cosmetics)  
--school parents using the directory to mail invitations to all the mothers in the class 
--secretaries at work hawking products

and of course, the pressure to host a party of my own (NEVER!)

Be my friend, my neighbor, my cousin, my work colleague, but please do not target me as a source of income!

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