Vector Marketing Company

Nope, that is not true. I have an interview with them on Monday and the woman made it clear not only in the ad and the website and on the phone with me that you would be paid $15 an hour.

NOT appointment. You should do more research on what your companies are saying because they are quite misleading.

What a disgusting organization! I have a 16 year old.

I will be sure to warn her against this rubbish. She needn't take my word for it either, thousands of reports about this garbage online.

I am sorry this happened and your time was wasted but that bit about knife salesman being invited into a strangers home was absolutely hilarious. I have been laughing for so long that my abs feel like I did 300 situps

I worked for Vector right after graduating high school and made $900 in 3 weeks. Very good money for an 18 year old.

It got old really quick. The managers are always hounding you about making appointments, even after you tell them you just want part time.

They also try to get you to come in all the time to make phone calls and set up appts. So if you know what you're doing and don't get suckered into everything the managers try to get you to do its not a terrible job.

I just graduated and at the time was

looking for a job. Turned out on SnagaJob

Vector had an opening for specifically

young teens looking for good experience.

I applied of course and soon enough got a call for an interview which at the time I was excited.

I was told and sent even a confirmation

e-mail of the date & time as well as guidelines. Dress professionally arrive

15 minutes early and be prepared.

Turned out to be group interview of three

which two lasted the next interview minutes

later. I moved on to the next interview which is how you came to find out what the whole thing was about.

You would seel these expensive CutCo knives

that are supposedly the best most likely but you would make appointments with people you knew and visit them to give a presentation of each item in stock. Also it was 'word of mouth' you pick people you know and do appointments at their houses. That was your job.

The commute for me was bad enough but having to travel & different times everyday. they should have warned me or something so I left after the third day of training. :(

Trust me people find a job that is best reliable and known.

pyramid scam period. No need to waste your precious time

I got the same email and decided to go through with it.. My interview was at least 3 hours long, and they had no personal interest in me.

They showed a slideshow presentation. Then you go through 3 days of training, 8 hours with no breaks OR pay. They don't tell you that it costs $150 for the sample kit and if you dont have it by the end you wasted your time. Little did I know, it was almost impossible to make a sale and the managers just said they were dissappointed and didn't even help.

To get my refund of the sample kit was supposed to be 7-10 business days..

ended up being 3 weeks. DONT WASTE YOUR TIME ITS A HUGE SCAM!

Our friends daughter was sucked into this scam. She asked to practice on us.

The knives are expensive and the hype to get the money from the kids is the real sale.

The sad outcome is the kids are lied to and they get their first lesson in how to scam.

First I would like to say, that yes, I am an employee of vector Marketing. Second, I would also like to say that I am one of the Alleged "victims" of this "scam", which as it turns out is not a scam at all. I am 18 years old, and I just complected my fast start (If you really workled for vector which I suspect you dont) then you would know what this means. Anyway, I was NOT required to buy my sample kits, I put a deposit on it that has yet to be cashed by the company, and I have not been made to pay for anything else during my time with vector. Also, you say that it is almost impossible to make a sale, this simply is not true. I live in rural Montana and in a very poor town at that. I have sold close to $6500 worth of cutco in my first 15 days, so dont tell me its hard to make a sale. it all depends on how much work and dedication you put into the job. it requires lots of real work, but you do get real rewards. Anyone who thinks this is a scam is probably like the lazy people who i see show up to the first two days of training all the time. They show up, see that the job entails more work than flipping burgers or mopping up puke at wal-mart, and they give up. it is really sad that vector and cutco get blamed for these *** children's ignorance. But whats worse is that these children go home and cry to mommy and daddy, who post libelous content on the internet (you know thats a crime right) because their kids complained about how big of a "scam" vector is. It makess me that a company that has given me so much has to have its image tarnished by lazy-libelous people like yourselves.

Noah Goffena

Advisor:Vector Marketing

I agree with Noah completely.

I, too, am just about to complete my fast start and this is an incredible company in work for.

People just call it a scam, probably because they didn't earn their own money. That's why it's called an actual JOB. You get paid for what you work. If you don't work hard, you don't earn money. If you work hard, you can make BANK and get tons of promotions, which can earn you more money.

If you have anything bad to say about this company, it means you failed. If you didn't succeed, it's your fault. Not theirs.

i went to an interview listened to what they had to say and stared the manager right in the eyes and told him, *** you, just *** you, you ***!

and out of those 6500 how much did you make?

600??? your a *** a real sales job for that much sold youd get atleast 1300

I worked for Vector for 6 months. I was a good salesperson.

I had grand days, and won some prizes for my fast start. But I can tell you that Vector is a scam. I worked hard, and even though I was selling, it was costing me more than I was making. They promised me $16/appt or my commission, whatever was higher that week.

Yet I ended up with one paycheck that was only $7. When I talked to my manager about it, he told me that I missed a morning call in (I can't for the life of me remember what they called them.) That was not true. Then they really tried to screw me over when one of my clients returned their knives within their 30 days. They returned them because they were rusting (which they aren't supposed to do.) Vector tried to take my commission back from that sale.

I earned that commission and it is not my fault that the product did not live up to the company's standards. I didn't pay it back because paying back a commission was not in my contract. And you know how I know this is a *** company? 3 months after I stopped talking to them, I got a letter telling me of "a great career opportunity" It was as if they never knew I had existed.

And what's more? After I stopped working there they moved out of the office they were in and I have no idea where they are know.

Don't fall for this scam. It is a complete waste of time and money.

Hilarious posting!

i worked for vector in 05 after high school and was promised alot of things that werent true. I even called the headquerters and complained about my manager and the lady told me she had gotten alot of complaints on him. It really was a waste of 4 months so dont waste yours with this scam company

For the ones saying good things about them where do you guys work because when i worked for them i got scammed my manager even said we had to bring in picture of him we find on the internet to get our checks thats like the most craziest thing i have ever heard in my life. everyone be warned that they will promise so much but deliever so little

I worked for vector for a short time back in 06. Its definitely a scam.

First of all why do they only target young people? Mostly kids straight out of high school that have no real world work experience. When I went for my interview everybody was young except for one man who was probably late 30s. He was dismissed right away while everybody else got to stay.

Probably because he wouldn't be naive enough to fall for their b.s. Second, I experienced the false start. I started off doing well selling 1000s of dollars of their products. Even got to go on a trip to a business conference held for the top selling salespeople.

When i got my paychecks they weren't as promised. I even had some money missing on one between what I sold and my commission.

I was promised a certain percentage of what I sold but on this check my commission wasn't close to the right percentage of what I had sold. When I confronted them about this I never got any answers just b.s.

I just started working at Vector a week ago and I have to say its a pretty good job. If you work hard the incentives should more than make you happy especially if you're in high school or college considering a minimum wage of $8.25 wont get you far.

I did not have to pay for my demo kit nor did I have to make a deposit on it. I have sold $2120 CPO for my fast start so its not too hard to make sales plus there is always the base pay ($16.75 for my office) to fall back on if you have a bad week.

Overall I think its a good job especially if you're young and need experience to pad your resume.

To Stephen, it sounds like your experience was more just with one manager rather than the entire company being a scam as you say, especially as they had had other complaints about the manager you were working with. The company itself is great and the idea behind it fantastic, as it gives younger people the opportunity to earn a lot of money, working flexible schedules during school as well as gain marketability after college.

Where the problem lies is not with the company, but with individual managers. What a lot of ppl tend to do is blame an entire company for a bad experience with one person, we do it all the time. Restaurants- a bad waiter and we won't go there again, stores- bad experience with ONE sales person etc. It's the people not the company itself.

That said, the "bad" people are few and far between. It's just an unfortunate experience that I'm sorry people have. I've met so many wonderful people with Vector, so my experience has been really positive.

Our nation is just one who for whatever sad reason, focuses on the negatives of something more than the positive. It gets more acknowledgement even when there is more good in the situation.

Their interview process is described accurately...it is how they *** out candidates with no stick-to-it'ness. If you can't last the interview you won't succeed selling Cutco.

I too found it odd when I sat through this extended interview. I stayed and was hired and found it to be one of the best opportunities for work during college.

Allowed me to work around class schedule and I made better $ than the $15/ hour. The experience I received was tremendous.

You are full of *** and I bet you aren't working there anymore.