Betterware Catalogue

The Betterware catalogue came flying through the letterbox. Sometimes I picked it up and had a nosey through and sometimes I just never got around to it. If I had a nosey through I would often think, Now, there's a good idea. I could do with one of those. But rarely did I ever get around to actually putting pen to paper and ordering. A couple of days later the Catalogue would be picked up, devoid of order. Or I would just forget to put it on the ...
...took on the role of Betterware distributor. Boy do I feel bad now, and so I have decided to write this review from the other side of things. ~~~The Delivery~~~ The Catalogues come out every five weeks. As most distributors don't last more than that, it means a new distributor may re deliver to some houses. This gives the impression that the Catalogues either come very frequently, or you may go months without seeing one if a new distributor cannot ...

LUNAH_C 21.01.2007 · Read full review
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...wanted some items from the Betterware catalogue. I also noticed that I could use their website to place an order, which I found useful because I was never in when the Betterware agent came by. I chose three items from the catalogue, which where: Stainless Steal Hob Covers - £9.99 Freezer Defroster Aid - £3.00 Clothes Depillar - £3.50 I was pleasantly surprised to find that delivery is free because agents personally deliver the items. Also, you ...
...~~Payment: Betterware are quite good on giving you choices. For instance if you are weary of giving out your credit card details you can pay on delivery, which is the normal way of paying if you order direct from a Betterware agent in person. However I chose to pay online to save any hassles latter. Betterware also gives you a choice of a separate delivery address from the correspondence address. I chose to get it delivered to a friend’s ...

Ulysses 31.08.2001 · Read full review
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...suggested that he became a Betterware agent and that I would drive him round the area and help him out.. We contacted Betterware and a local manager called out to see us, within a week we were Betterware agents. He supplied us with our books and two shoulder bags for carrying them in. I looked like a complete prat but I didn’t care because we were going to make a fortune, or so I thought… We were given an area that only we were allowed ...
...son!!. Now with Betterware you get paid 20p for every pound you sell so I reckoned I would be making a £100 a week easy. Anyway my son and I dropped 100 books out on the Friday night and left a note inside saying we would collect them in on the Monday. It took about an hour dropping them out and another half-hour for me to get my breath back, god that hill was steep and I am not a young or fit man anymore. Monday has now arrived and my son and I ...

art1954 31.10.2001 · Read full review
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...buy from catalogues or from Betterware and must get annoyed at having to remember to put books out and then being disturbed by the distributor who comes to collect them, another about supplying a list of houses that are not interested, but to no avail. I also suggested to Betterware Head Office that a more cost effective and less time consuming way of finding a customer base would be to distribute leaflets offering the choice of whether or not the ...
...set up something else and Betterware was one of the few legitimate home based jobs available. I therefore have to work around my baby and this is very difficult when you have to walk for miles lugging heavy books and trying to appease a toddler at the same time. Hence the odd hours. If any member of your family is ill you have to stay at home and sometimes miss your catalogue collection but I am a very conciencious worker and always made sure my ...

Cecilia 23.01.2001 (16.02.2002) · Read full review
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I use to be a Betterware agent. I did it for about a month., but got fed up with having to carry ironing ironing boards, whilst delivering stock. The Catologue. A betterware book, is usually delivered every six weeks. An agent will come and post one through your letter box. They will then come back, in a couple of days, to pick up the book, and take your order. (if you have one) The betterware book provides you with reasonably priced products for ...
...In all products from Betterware are worth the money. You might come across a few things that are a little more expensive than the shops, but overall, you could make a saving. The cleaning products are about the best I have come across. I have tried and tested some, and here are my favourites: *Sticky stuff remover *Fungus and mildew remover *Glass cleaner *Bathroom cleaner *Computer wipes I can guarantee you that these products do work, and are worth ...

purebitch 21.02.2002 · Read full review
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...I was glancing at the Betterware brochure and i noticed a product claiming it would get rid of sticky residue left by glue, tape etc. I purchased some and waited two weeks for the delivery. It cost £4.99 for a 125ml bottle. When it came i tried it out straightaway , I put a little drop onto a piece of kitchen roll and dabbed it onto the sticky area. The smell was like oranges, very pleasant. The stuff is quite greasy but definetly worked , it ...
...was wipe away the area with a clean kitchen towel. Hey presto it's magic !!. You can use this product on plastic, glass, fabric and paintwork. If chewing gum get's stuck on something it will remove that. First of all pierce the gum to allow the liquid to penetrate, then leave for 1 minute.Ease the gum from the surface. This product lasts ages and is worth the money. Betterwares phone number is 0121-693-1111, or it was when i bought this product, ...

Dave39 03.03.2001 · Read full review
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Betterware ... well, what can you say. Full of lots of plastic gadgets and gizmos that serve no useful purpose, that you don't want and certainly don't need. Maybe that's a bit harsh, but we have a Betterware distributer in our area and although we have had many, many of their booklets through our letterbox through the years, we have yet to order a single item :-) You would think he would have got the message by now. What I mean to say is ...
...amazed by the ingenuity of the uselessness of many of the items contained within. I can just imagine a couple of little boffins in an office somewhere (throwbacks to K Tel and Ronco) 'inventing' all these little plastic kitchen items which have no real use - they are superfluous to the job they are intended for - and which I cannot imagine anyone forking hard earned cash out for. Sorry - but I don't need door openers, lidded cat food trays, 'fur' ...

gailmill 13.09.2000 · Read full review
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This catalogue has been coming through my letter box for the last four years, and in the time I may have bought half a dozen items in all. I usually get home in the evening and find it a poly bag with a note saying that it will be collected the next day. This does not really give me time to sit down and look at it properly. It does have a good range of bits and pieces, but I think that many of them are vastly over-priced for what they are. I looked ...
...and realised that I had seen one at my local outdoor market for half the price. Okay, the cheaper one wasn't as nice a colour, but it's for drying socks, not looking at. Once it's been out in the sun, the sun-light soon fades the plastic Sometimes when I leave it out on the mat for collection it's there for a couple of days, and if it rains, the book doesn't stand a chance, left under my doormat for collection. ...

RuthJean 04.09.2000 · Read full review
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...a tube of it off Betterware it lasted forever. Long ago Betterware was the brush type salesman at the door with the brown suitcase. It survives today and that speaks for its quality and endurance. If you sell the stuff you get all the rebuffs and insults that go with door to door, low commission and a busy overcrowded day full of customers with tiny orders, customers who disappear when you wanted them to pay and just occasionally the super prat who ...
...company runs detestable little schemes to make you feel involved like writing success stories in the staff magazine and an obscure bonus thing. However, Betterware products cover a wide range and are often durable and high quality. People have been buying it for years and there is respect for it. ...

parker-munn 04.03.2002 · Read full review
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...number of products from the Betterware range. Originally we had an excellent agent who called round in the evening with your goods and was prompt and pleasant. Our current agent can't even be relied on to collect the catalogue so I decided to use their internet site instead. This is easy to use - no problems there - but where was my order. Twice I have used their site, and twice the goods have failed to arrive. On both occasions I have e-mailed them ...
...me, and on both occasions they have re-sent the goods. Both times they then arrived within a couple of days. It would appear that the goods were not despatched at all after my internet orders as the missing orders never arrived. From personal experience it would seem their website is simply a way of collecting money, because that was taken promptly enough. It is a shame that it is all run so inefficiently as the goods that I have managed to receive ...

PARKFIELD 01.06.2001 · Read full review
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I am a Betterware Distributor at the moment, and it can be both a rewarding and sometimes crappy job to do. I got the job because I am currently a student, and the job fits around my studies very easily. I have most of my evenings free, so I thought that I may aswell do something with that time, rather than waste it away on the computer doing nothing. Before Betterware, I worked for Letterbox Direct, a company which deals with the delivery of free ...
...Funnily enough, I found the Betterware Distributor job in the free paper. I looked every week for a better job than delivering the local free paper, and I finally found one. As a Distributor, I get 20%25 of any sales I make. So, say in total I make 300.00 pounds in 1 week, I will end up with 60.00 pounds of that money to myself. I don't always make 300 quid, most of the time it's around the 250.00 pounds mark, which is still pretty good. When ...

RyanKingdaka 12.06.2008 · Read full review
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...many people get annoyed with Betterware but i would just like to say that it is not always the distributers fault as they are trying as hard as possible to do their jobs. thanks for taking the time to read this and if you ever get a catalogue just put it out on the doorstep it saves you having to answer the door when Eastenders or the footie is on. ...

wegiephill 18.03.2005 · Read full review
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...finally ended up as a Betterware agent. At first it seemed a very tempting way to make more money: you can do it in your own time, no boss to make your days hell, no colleagues you have to smile at all the time. But after three months I felt I`d rather emigrate to Alaska than see one more Betterware calagogue. Why was it so? Because I the more time I was spending with delivering and collecting catalogues the less money I earned. Besides, I hated ...
...here to deliver/collect catalogues... About Betterware goods: In my opinion they are fairly expensive, you can get the same quality products much cheaper in stores. We spent lot of time laughing at some of the products saying things like "Who can have the idea to make a square-egg-maker?". Some products are very silly, but I have to admit some are very practical( like the long-handled dustpan and brush)but still too expensive. You can`t always be ...

picur 07.09.2004 · Read full review
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Week and Weeks of this Betterware book, i look at it while drinking a cup of tea, see some sweet little things i think of buying and for the first time place an order. I order a bin that goes inside your unit under the sink and some great little air freshners you can stick on your radiators and fill them with oil.Well they looked great until they turned up. When i opened the bag the products didnt really please me, the air freshners were tiny compared ...
...let down really because this is a company we have all heard of. so i moved on to the bin but wait for it, there were no screws with it so now i had to hunt to find the right size screws. Living in a rural area mail order is a great idea, but this isn't one i would try again. ...

melsey 27.03.2001 · Read full review
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...I could have become a Betterware rep myself with all the brochures that nobody came back for!!! I can only imagine that the percentage profit for reps cannot be very good or you would think that they would call back in the hope of getting an order. I think the thing is that nowadays people like to browse round the shops, and when you can pick up products at reasonable prices at shops like Semi-Chem and 99p shop then the need for Betterware decreases. ...

MotherLove 05.04.2001 · Read full review
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