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I have a question re: hostess benefits. I'm having my annual SU party soon and I've always been a bit confused about this. . . Let's say I qualify for $35 in benefits and I want a stamp set that costs $36.95. Can't I just pay the extra $1.95 for it? My demo says I have to choose something that costs under $35, that I can't make up the difference. This doesn't seem right to me since there is never a way to get the items total to add up exactly to the hostess benefit amount, so I'm always shorted a couple of dollars in benefits. Is she correct about this? ''

Thanks for your help

Yes you can pay the extra $. I just had a customer do it. She had $15 in benies and wanted a set that was $17.95 so she paid the extra $1.95 to me.

Your demo is mistaken, you can pay the difference.

Right you can do this I am a new SU demo but I have always been able to do this even as a hostess myself

HTH

Thanks for your answers! I didn't think it seemed quite right. Now I'll have to figure out how to tell her I can do this. I've tried to pay the extra amount before and she's told me I needed to change my order. This will be my 10th party with her and she's always said I couldn't pay the difference. Any suggestons on how I should go about this without making her feel bad about the mistake all these years? She's also a personal friend of mine.

Maybe you could suggest that she call demo support to verify as you know a number of other demos who can do this.

Maybe the rules have changed since she became a demo and she just didn't keep up with it. In any case, you are doing her a favor by pushing this as I'm sure you're not the only hostess who would like this option. ;)

Thank you. I'll have her do that. I can also tell her I saw this discussed on a SCS thread :D

Hmm.........odd. Maybe she doesn't know??

I know you can't pay the difference on a stamp set when you sign up to be a demo on the starter, but my demo has always told me I can pay the difference on an actual "credit" from SU!

LOL Just noticed that should say my customer paid me the extra $2.95 not $1.95. I hope you get it all worked out!

SU will calculate what they call "hostess overage". You will get charged shipping and tax only on what is overage (the amount over what you qualified to get free). If your demo uses the "Hostess Benefits form" it is all spelled out there, step by step.

Big thanks to all of you who've helped me out here! Kim, I'll make sure she's using that form. It's been maybe 2 or 3 years since I've tried to pay the difference, so maybe she is doing that now anyway. I just wanted to make sure I had the right info for this year, just in case.

Thanks again!