Scentsy Speaks: Behind the Context (What, Why, WTH??)

[@happilyscentedlife]

APPARENTLY IT STILL CUT OFF THE AUDIO. I WILL LOAD THE LAST 6 MINUTES IN ANOTHER VIDEO....SORRY FOR THE DEAD AIR YOU CAN STOP WATCHING AT 23:37

[@happilyscentedlife]

IF YOU PREVIOUSLY WATCHED THIS ALREADY: I DID NOT REALIZE THE LAST 6 MINUTES OF AUDIO WAS CUT OFF! IT HAS NOW BEEN FIXED, SO JUST FAST FORWARD TO 22:00 IF YOU ALREADY WATCHED THIS BEFORE! SORRY GUYS! HOT MESS PROBLEMS! 😁

[@sheherezadek.3812]

Lol I was wondering what was going on.....I thought the Scentsy Scent-soring Police got you and got your video taken down! 😂

[@happilyscentedlife]

@@sheherezadek.3812no but it looks like it didn’t load right again LOL 😂 idk I give up ⬆️

[@Martha_FragranceCorner]

I missed the zoom meeting because I was at work. I’m here for the recap. Thanks for sharing

[@happilyscentedlife]

You’re welcome! Glad this was helpful!

[@Cdixon-vn3hz]

I love your perspective and how you always keep it real Amy, I’m also a hobby consultant and I’ve been buying more vendor wax lately, especially with these changes I doubt I’ll purchase much from scentsy this year

[@happilyscentedlife]

I'm definitely continuing my no-buy with Scentsy for the fist part of the year. I currently have enough Scentsy wax to warm a new scent everyday for the next 6 months....LOL

[@rebekahstinson8511]

Hey. I missed the meeting due to work, but I wanted to say I work in contracts and licensing and I’ve worked with Disney, NIL, and others for my company and as a licensed vendor you typically pay a licensing fee to gain the rights and they a royalties on each item. I assume they are paying a large amount of licensing fees throughout the contract periods and sales may not be high enough to offset those cost, which may explain why they raised the price on those bars, warmers, ect..

[@juliebngracieandolive6750]

This morning’s pool of thoughts based on part of your video dialogue …. If part of the pitch really was “we want to go back to what worked before”, sorry, that’s hot air. They changed from what worked before because it stops working. You can’t go back to pre-online shopping which eliminated the main need for a direct sales consultant. You can’t go back to needs that existed before PWS was an option. We have access to sooo many retail items, you can’t undo that. You can’t undo knowledge given to people and expect them to behave and make same choices they used to that created profit back then. Go back is hot air, to me.

[@juliebngracieandolive6750]

My internal battle is how can I justify high direct sales prices for items I may want. Flash sales, clearance, 10% discounts, B5G1, reward on purchases all help ease this price gouge. Become a consultant, slightly more discounts and more for your money spent. If they are whittling away at our discounts, then we are back to “is it worth the high direct sales prices??”

[@happilyscentedlife]

exactly they are taking away the incentive of being a consultant and maximizing the savings with discounts, party rewards, commission....etc

[@trixxylee6918]

I just checked dashboard original contract info is there as well as current chart before changes I suggest everyone get on and copy both go to bottom of page click on scentsy standards …. I assume we all signed this agreement meaning it’s binding if anyone knows a lawyer ?

[@terri6537]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I love Scentsy and I’m a long time customer since around 2009 or so. I agree that scentsy needs to make changes in their business because they are losing sales. I just think there are other ways they could have made changes such as in LTO‘s, licensed products, scent/warmer of the month, poor performers, etc. And Good leaders collaborate and use surveys to assess needs from customers and employees

[@Sixkidlets68]

Have they not figured out that most vendors do it cheaper and better? Give people what they want and they will get more sales.🤷‍♀️

[@happilyscentedlife]

They seem to be completely ignoring the elephant in the room! 🤷‍♀️

[@jacquelinesmith2553]

I'm just going to say thanks Scentsy for these changes you are saving me money. Canceled my website as the 2 customers I have that order off my site only order bundle and save bars, my family orders through me anyways. No site means no flash sale purchases saves hundreds. More money needed to close parties will take me more months to close so will go from 6 a year to 2 or 3 saves hundreds there also. My clubs i will let them ship cause I love every bar in them. Money saved on Scenty is more money to try vendor wax.

[@happilyscentedlife]

@@jacquelinesmith2553 I feel you 💯 this will be my last video addressing the changes. I’ve said my piece and we all seem to be in the same boat. I love having the opportunity to share my dead pan humor and sarcasm approach to the craziness and give you guys a laugh and break from reality. I truly love Scentsy wax and probably won’t stop using it as long as they stay in business but my shopping habits will definitely change going forward! Thanks for watching as always 😊

[@jacquelinesmith2553]

Thanks for the video I love your honesty and humor and giving us a place to vent lol. I will also buy Scentsy as long as they are in business. My husband wants me to quit Scentsy all together and he was reading off all these scents to me asking what sounds good and he put them in a cart little did he realize the shipping was way more than the price of the bars because it was from a U.S. Vendor lol. We have a few in Canada I'm starting to try so it might fill the gaps with not buying as much Scentsy.

[@KathGlista]

When I first started buying Scentsy years ago (over 10 +) I literally had three different consultants trying to recruit me. Fought them off for a good long while but finally caved. I'm sorry that Scentsy is now regretting recruiting (very much encouraging) hobby consultants but hey you should've thought about that well before now. I'm over it. Love certain products truly do, but I'd rather support vendor wax at this point. There are SO many great small wax businesses out there that would be extremely grateful for Scentsy castaways 😂

[@happilyscentedlife]

You caved for good reason, discounts off our own purchases, it is how we were all sold.

[@crystalssquad24]

Where can we watch the recorded zoom meeting on the workstatio

[@allthingswax]

I believe it will be accessible by Monday. Idk what the hold up is.

[@crystalssquad24]

@ thanx

[@allthingswax]

@@crystalssquad24 I hope they also share the q&a portion as well

[@happilyscentedlife]

They said it would be uploaded on the workstation on Monday. If the link is shareable, Ill post it in the community tab here on my channel

[@crystalssquad24]

It would interesting to see the q&a. Hopefully it's shareable

[@jeharlinbonilla1407]

Excellent video Aime! Well said. For me, I still can’t hear the audio after you take your son to the washroom 🤭 I was like “did she just leave us waiting?” Hehehe!

[@happilyscentedlife]

@@jeharlinbonilla1407 I uploaded the missing audio in a separate video lol 😂 I’m never filming and editing at 5am again

[@jeharlinbonilla1407]

@@happilyscentedlife 😅 😂 oh okay! Thanks for explaining 😊

[@happilyscentedlife]

@ it was a mess! I pinned a comment hoping people would catch it lol 😂

[@KiaraLemmone]

Just to clarify if I drop to 20 percent because I am not active one month, do I go back up to 25 percent as soon as I am active, or am I now permanently downgraded to 20 percent. By the way Scentsy is supposed to give 60 days notice for these changes. I believe it is only 43 days notice they are giving us.

[@allthingswax]

Any month you sell $250 or more, you'll earn 25%. Any month you sell under $200, you'll earn 20%. Your commission will change every month depending on your PRV.

[@happilyscentedlife]

if you are active that month (sell 250+ prv you get 25% commission and then it resets every month so as long as you sell 250+ prv the following month you will continue to get 25% otherwise any month where you sell less than 250prv you only get 20%

[@HappyHomeScent]

Thank you for the video! I have a hard time with this “unsustainable” story when they’re off to Bora Bora, Greece, Mexico, whatever every few months. Then they build a new robotic warehouse - of course that’s just so they don’t have to pay as many actual humans - but how many millions did that cost? And you’re going to make that back by claiming Scentsy Spirit and punishing your sales force? Going back to a 2005 party mentality is just baffling. I’ll do the absolute minimum just to keep my club and hope the whole ship doesn’t sink….that would be sad indeed.

[@betsybabf748]

The new robotic system didn't reduce workforce at all so your assumption is incorrect. They are still paying the same number of humans. The difference is making the job easier for the humans. Instead of the humans running around to bins all day, the product is brought to them to fill orders.

[@wendyirons]

When you have 150,000 consultants and only 39,500 are doing anything those at the top are going to suffer but by their own doing. 😬 Those at the bottom have suffered from the day they’ve joined. Many will just leave and bad mouth the company and it’s already happening with those leaving telling people to go to Walmart. When you see so many consultants are their own customer it’s breaking the 70/30 rule per the FTC and from what it sounds like that’s partially what’s happening. They’ve all been told that you can sign up customers just for discounts but by doing that you create a pyramid scheme where all the participants are part of the company and they lack customers from the outside. It’s why the FTC put the 70/30 rule in place from the Amway decision of 1979. Good luck but it looks like the writing is already on the wall.

[@happilyscentedlife]

ooh interesting i don't pay attention mention to the FTC stuff myself.

[@ashleydand15]

Do you have the link to Robin’s video by chance? ❤

[@happilyscentedlife]

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[@ashleydand15]

@ thank you!!

[@daniellejohnson9684]

I totally agree with the grandfathered in for the 25% commission for life...that's the most disappointing thing with All of this to me.

[@wendyirons]

How long do think these partnerships will last when they find out about this? Oh the questions

[@happilyscentedlife]

IDK, depends on how long the original contracts were created for; I wonder how many licensed LTO we will see in 2025

[@wendyirons]

As we see, contracts are made to be broken.

[@trixxylee6918]

Can’t this be a breech of contract for a lot of people?..

[@christyalmond6810]

I feel that the decisions Scentsy made has irritated so many people and that people will actually be ordering less. I know I will be ordering less from Scentsy. This then defeats them making more money.

[@michellelyman7092]

I'll do the bare minimum from here on out

[@happilyscentedlife]

Me too

[@mistirose]

Sounds like they are on the way out - people are tired of MLMs and their shoddy business practice of preying on the vulnerable.

[@trixxylee6918]

Being a consultant if you do a quarterly club for $250 will it be 25%so if I did 4 clubs a year will it be %25 ?

[@rosab7372]

I dont think the mlm model is gonna be sustainable They cannot keep increasing prices Is wax!! $6 for a bar is very expensive already I think in the very near future the company is gonna switch to a different model Im a hobby consultant too, and honestly really love scentsy stuff so whatever money i can get back from my own purchases is ok

[@happilyscentedlife]

I'll take the 20% at least its something but I agree with Robyn that consultants should be grandfathered into the 25% as thats how it was marketed (certified for life)

[@Sixkidlets68]

Oh the quintessential love bombing that comes with cult mentality. Please. It’s greed.

[@happilyscentedlife]

Right. Those top 50 sellers in the company are the ones that are panicking because they are making 6-7 figures off their downline.

[@mistirose]

Honestly, you can buy warmers anywhere and Swann Creek Candle Company has wonderful wax melts - they’re a larger size with an excellent scent cast. Save yourself the $250 a month to stay active and just purchase GREAT melts from a different company. Scentsy is dying and you’re going to have to find another product anyway.

[@michellelyman7092]

I wish they had explained it before they put out the notices about the changes though...

[@happilyscentedlife]

Right.

[@michellelyman7092]

I think the waiting period to rejoin is 6 months

[@LeticiaWorboys]

Yep we are smart and I'm going to be even smarter and buy less from scentsy. 😂

[@happilyscentedlife]

I'll probably order more from destash if I want Scentsy it will end up being cheaper at this point LOL

[@SpanishHalo]

I hope they do offer us free websites at least. You want us to sell more. Throw us a bonus

[@lindseyrhynes4072]

How many consultants make up that 25% and how many make up the 75%?

[@happilyscentedlife]

i dont think they said it....but i may be wrong.

[@Theninjakid2012]

This is pretty much what tastefully Simple did to the consultants last month.

[@michellelyman7092]

they're trying to do damage control now - well guess what? I'm pretty "positive" they'll get $250 a month out of me and that's all

[@happilyscentedlife]

yes, lots of love bombing and cheerleading on FB right now

[@iwillstom]

If you seriously believe the Department of Education will be shut down you’ve got much bigger problems than wax.

[@happilyscentedlife]

@@iwillstom I don’t believe that it will but all the talk around it does get people thinking 💭 Wax is the least of my concerns. I can drop Scentsy like a bad habit no problem if it comes down to their demise. 😉

[@mistirose]

Honestly, you can buy warmers anywhere and Swann Creek Candle Company has wonderful wax melts - they’re a larger size with an excellent scent cast. Save yourself the $250 a month to stay active and just purchase GREAT melts from a different company. Scentsy is dying and you’re going to have to find another product anyway.