Thinking of selling avon?

[Anna E]

While I have not sold Avon personally, my daughter and a cousin have. My understanding is that you charge your customers a certain price, Avon sends you the product, and you send Avon in the money for the merchandise less a certain percentage, which is your commission. If you sell to family and friends, you may be ok, but both my daughter and my cousin were selling to people in the neighborhood and ran into people who ordered the merchandise, but when it arrived, did not have money to pay for it or no longer wanted it. Avon discourages getting the money up front when a person orders, so my daughter had to eat some of the merchandise cost (you can't return it once you have received it).