Vector Marketing. What?

[LinktheDeme]

You have to buy the knives first then you sell them. That's about it really so if you can't sell them your stuck with em.

[Tricen]

Isn't this one of those pyramid schemes?

[Shalyn]

I did this before or the summer after my first year of University because I was desperate for money. Basically you're selling knives, and I never had to pay a cent except to purchase the knives I was selling for a fraction of the price that they sell them for, or just rent them... but I chose to buy ($175) and I still have these knives and they are still my favourite to use. I wouldn't have paid the price they were selling them for, though.

You do not make anything per hour unless you sell, so I guess they take your 'potential' commission and spread it over a week or so into 'hours'. I spent more time going to the office for pep-talks and meetings than selling anything.. I sold one set and that was at the discount price (I couldn't bare to sell them at full, even if I was getting less commission). Anywho, a free lunch out of the boss and a set of knives for life later, I guess it was none so bad. They might have thrown a fee on top to keep people who just join for the cheap knives away, but if the $150 is for the knives, it isn't so bad, imo. Buy em and gtfo

[geno]

Its the legal version, multilevel marketing imo. I just remember them not saying shit about what they do or sell in any of their advertisements or letters and it always seemed pretty shady to me.

[Elites]

I went for the walk in interview with them last month and it was pretty hilarious when this chick was doing the presentation of how great these knives were. I found it pretty fishy and I didn't feel comfortable how we had to get our family/friends involved. They did make close to a million bucks around my area last year however.

I just didn't think it was worth it to waste transportation money going to places, but mostly the sales people will make most of their money off sales revenue. Friend of mine who started working made a thousand bucks within a week.

[tyven]

like half my friends did cutco in high school. i think maybe one lasted more than a week. just get a job waiting tables till you are ready to get your career on

[ferigor]

I worked for Vector/Cutco the summer before my freshman year at college. They wanted to train me to be the regional manager for the next summer, but they wanted me to move somewhere to do it (weren't allowed to manage in your home town area) and I felt bad about selling the knives because I sold them to a lot of people that couldn't afford them, and honestly, unless you are some kind of retard, its impossible to not sell these knives.

You get 16.95 for your first 10 demos (which should take about an hour) so thats how they get away with advertising that. Seriously, if you are approaching actual customers, you'll make more than that. Most the people that got the minimum were people who just did the demo for 10 of their friends.

You can choose to rent the demo set or buy it, I'd say buy it because they are genuinely good knives and you get them at like 1/3rd or 1/4th the retail price. I've had mine for almost 9 years and I use them all the time. My chef knife needs honed, but all the knives with the double-d edge are still good to go (Its not serated mother fuckers!). The super shears are also pretty boss. They show you a cheating way to cut a penny, but you can cut them in half if you try. Anymore, the only extreme thing I use my shears for is cutting guitar strings, but they haven't ever gotten dull (they have gotten sticky from otter pops, but they are dishwasher safe so its all good). The company also has these stupid meetings twice a week, one is businessy and the other is more of a fun meeting (and we'd usually go out afterwards). At the fun meeting they usually do demos of other products and give away other pieces. They also have sales conferences that you can go to, and those were pretty cool, but hardly necessary (unless you want to climb the ladder at the company).

Its also not door to door or cold calling. You start out with a list of family and friends, and then they give you referrals (closest thing to a pyramid scheme in the whole deal). They really discourage cold calling because its really not an effective way to sell... anything. It also helps if you ask the people you sold to, to talk to their friends about the thing before you get there. I had tons of demos where people would already have their own knives ready to go when I got there.

I am a pretty good salesman, but the knives honestly sell themselves. After awhile, I got sick of selling people in trailer parks knives they couldn't afford and quit. I made pretty good money and had a hell of a good time doing it. Its definitely not for everybody, but overall I think its a decent experience. There were also a lot of hot girls in my office, so that helped too.

[trinironnie]

Same thing in Brooklyn
Cutco
Ameriplan
Vector
I remember going to a interview with like five other people..then when we realized what was going on we all ran out....literally ran out lol.

[Arnwulf]

I like the people that go door to door selling magazine subscriptions for college. I had one guy basically tell him that if I didn't buy a sub from him, I didn't support higher education. He got the door in the face haha.

[Ikith]

Google is your fucking friend... Seriously. I remember looking up this company about a month ago and the first 2-3 hits are posts from people with family members that are doing it or have done it themselves.

[viperlasson]

I remember when I graduated high school there were 5 or 6 of these people passing out envelopes to all the graduates. How they got in our school I have no fucking clue but I knew (from one of my not so lucky friends) that this was a horrible job.

[Shade]

My brother went to one of these presentations, some years ago. I guess it was for knives/scissors or something. But they were doing the "Look! It can even cut through the penny!" demonstration. Sure did cut it in half. But one half flew out into the audience and hit somebody right in the fucking EYE.

[Therin]

Shady shit selling stainless steel silverware.

The alliteration here turned me on a little.

[Senoska]

A friend of mine worked for these guys and they sent him a check for $0.00

Was pretty funny. It cost them more to cut the check of ZERO DOLLARS...

[altwight]

Holy crap. I applied for this ad "Work for students" and the job description didn't have anything relevant as to what I would be doing. Had no payment type no types of hours or what I would be doing. However since I've applied to 500 places without a single call back I decided to just apply anyway. As soon as I replied my phone rang and it was them. I didn't answer it because I was a little shocked to be honest.

The lady left a voice mail telling me to call back to schedule an interview. I then received THREE emails telling me to call back. It had only been 10minutes after I filed my application and I had already received 4 attempts at communicating.

Now that I read that I'm really glad I decided not to even call back. Thanks for saving my life a few hours.

[BadKarma]

I got the same thing, door to door sales arent the best thing to do with the current state of affairs in out economy. Which is why i said no, the girl i talked to in the interview was hot though.

[Isiolia]

I went to one of their presentations way back before I went to college. Targeted at students n' all. At least the one I went to was reasonably low pressure. They did their presentation, I saw what it -really- was, and said thanks but no thanks...
Sadly, I think I was the only kid to walk out without signing up <_<

[_chuchu]

I got the same thing, door to door sales arent the best thing to do with the current state of affairs in out economy. Which is why i said no, the girl i talked to in the interview was hot though.

This isn't quite door-to-door (cold selling,) in fact, they discourage it because they highly insist you get recommendations (warm selling.) But yeah, depending on the kind of thing you're selling, it can be very hard.

Don't mean to derail, but inbound sales in a call center doesn't seem to be very horrible and it's warm. I have a bunch former of co-workers working DirecTV sales and Winback (winning DTV customers back that want service again, but it's not as pressured as regular sales.) They're experienced and have done it for years (3-5+) and that's what recruiters are currently looking for, unfortunately.

[ClarkSammich]

Tyven, why don't you log the fuck on to FFXI for once?
Also I just blew it off. "Training starts at noon, ok?" Woke up at 12:30.
Back to finding a real job!

[_chuchu]

Tyven, why don't you log the fuck on to FFXI for once?
Also I just blew it off. "Training starts at noon, ok?" Woke up at 12:30.
Back to finding a real job!

hi5 to you, sir. They're gonna call you a couple of times though lol