Woman claps back at salesperson who tried to shame her into buying anti-aging products

Photo via Facebook/Annick Rbsn

Between countless anti-aging products crowding the counters in department stores and adverts featuring young models with impossibly flawless skin, it’s easy to get caught up in battling fine lines and age spots (and not to mention, spending a pretty penny while doing so).

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Not for Annick Rbsn. Rbsn has greater things to worry about and had no problem taking a rather pushy salesperson to task for using her age to market her anti aging serums and creams.

As Rbsn recounted in a Facebook post, she was en route to her gate at Calgary International Airport when she was approached by a salesman from a skin care shop. The unidentified man offered her a free bar of natural soap but as she soon found out, there’s a catch.

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After being showered with compliments on how lovely she looked without makeup on and how she looked over a decade younger than her age (haven’t we all heard that before, ladies?), the man launched into his sales pitch for facial serums and eye creams warning her that if she wasn’t “careful to maintain [her] skin now, those wrinkles on [her] face will get much deeper by 45.”

“What’s wrong with my eyes?” wrote Rbsn. “I have a miracle baby at home and haven’t slept in two years, so if I have bags I am grateful to have them, and my husband and I laugh a lot. Those are his fault. He loves how I look… I don’t think I need your cream.“

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The man ignored her comment and nervously continued his sales pitch but Rbsn shut him down again.

“What’s wrong again with a woman aging? You know, my husband and I can’t wait to grow old together, we talk about it all the time, how we’ll be this funny wrinkled old couple. My husband is going to age too, we all are. It’s kind of how life works.”

At this point, their conversation started attracting the attention of other customers in the store prompting the salesperson to offer her a discount in a last ditch attempt.

“Wait, if it’s the price that’s an issue, I can offer you our special this week, all three creams for $199 - that’s cheaper than Botox!”

However, Rbsn assured him that she look fine right now and she will look fine when she is 45 or 50 because there is nothing wring with a woman aging.

“Old age is a privilege denied to many, and I don’t appreciate you marketing youth instead of your products, and denigrating aging women as a sales tactic. Thank you, but I don’t want or need your cream,” she wrote. “This is the face my children and my husband love. I think I’ll keep it.

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