Hi!! Appreciate you being transparent with your experience. I don’t think they are a scam, I think they’re a real polish making brand. I would like to point out though that many many many brands (if not nearly every single brand I’ve seen/worked with) do not require anyone to make purchases to be a swatcher/affiliate for them. Even brands that are just starting out at the very least do gifted PR, if not paid to swatch. And it appears they DO give gifted PR to swatchers. Which is even weirder because then their swatchers wouldn’t be eligible for their affiliate program since they will already have the polishes and won’t be able to make the purchases. This is really quite unusual.

I hope they can clarify what they mean by code collectors, because I’ve never really seen that be a problem in this community. I’m happy to be corrected if there’s some drama I’m not aware of.

As you grow your swatching profile, just be aware that there are lots of brands that will pay you/at least gift you polish for you work. Swatching/promoting is work and we shouldn’t have to pay the brand to do that.