My girlfriend/fiance and I were talking about starting a home based business and decided to go with smcorp. The initial membership fee was approx $400 paid out in 10 monthly payments. We were excited about receiving the start up kit which included 2 videos about the business (confusing at best to understand at first), along with a number to a business coach and one copy of each of the World of Products catalog, Bayberry catalog, and several brochures.
Also included was one order form with one envelope to mail in orders and a customer order book. The business coach was hard to get a hold of on the phone. Four days later we finally got him on the phone. He was helpful in telling us how the program worked (the basics on a few things). After that we were pretty much on our own. We made a few sales to a few people we knew at work and got excited, however when it came to selling to complete strangers, it became next to impossible to get their confidence in the product. Perhaps it was the World of Products catalog cover that scared them off. One lady we tried to sell to, practically told my girlfriend/fiance off for trying to sell her smc products.
Apparently she recognized the catalog and knew our merchandise source immediately. We went out and bought a computer thinking we could sell the products online on our own website.
Smc was advertising a full 3800 product e-commerce website for $395. We even had a rep e-mail us and tell us this. When I called the smcorp 800# to ask about the website, I was told by two different people that the cheapest website they had was $2000 with no easy payment plan. We are currently having a friend build us a website at the cost of approx $500, however will only be able to have about 40-60 products on this site to start. It seems that smc has removed the website where you can easily download the world of products catalog and thus get the 3800 items inexpensively.
I have not given up on smc yet, however feel that they do not do everything exactly right. I do like their product line and think it is fun if you can make a sell. I think for $400 you should get a full product e-commerce website with your own domain; especially after spending $400 on a membership. My girlfriend/fiance has almost flat given up on smc. If it does not sell on the internet I will too.
I believe SMC should offer a 90 day money back guarantee because 30 days is not enough time to establish whether or not you can effectively sell their product line.
Terry
Lindsay, Oklahoma
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