Vector Marketing Reviews

I told her I was not the right person for this since I am not good at selling things. She said I would be trained in doing so. I kept insisting I was not interested and hung up. I got about 2 more phone calls back to back from the same number. At that point I felt harassed. They would leave a voice message or anything. After reading all these comments I'm definitely glad I never worked for them. I don't know how 2 of my classmates ever worked for them. They're shady AF!!!!

When it came to the interview, it took place in a small office in a sketchy looking rent-an-office type place with one other applicant. It took forever for the manager to actually come in to interview us, where he gave us what I came to learn was basically a miniature version of the demo given to customers. I was impressed, and when offered the position I agreed. He had made it sound like a great job, but I came to realize that it wouldn't be, especially with 21 hours of unpaid training.

Day 1 of training: Fifteen of us were asked to show up wearing professional attire, packed into a small room with folding chairs set up (no space to walk between them) from 11 AM to 5PM with one break at 12. We were instructed on how to read from our manuals, and we made jokes that it was like they were trying to brainwash us. I figured maybe day two would be better.

Day two: Two of us had made the decision to quit already. Once again we were packed into the small room but from 10AM - 5PM. 7 hours. With one break. Unpaid. The manager had us call people meeting their requirements to sell to that we knew. 30+ year old women that owned homes and were married. They kept making comments about how they didn't want us doing demos for men because "women are the ones that cook and work in the kitchen". If we tried to schedule an appointment with a someone who didn't meet all of those requirements our manager would have us call them back and cancel. We were also told that we'd be expected to put in 1.5 to 3 hours of call time a day, unpaid.

Day 3: 9am to 4pm training. 7 hours. 3 breaks finally because the manager had to deal with some personal issues. Went through more calling and he would have us go through our call list to show him how many calls we had made. Got our demo bags without a deposit, thankfully. We also had to have scheduled demos, 3 or more, for that night after training. 1 demo = 1 hour. Training = 7 hours Calls = 3 hours so we were expected to do 11.5-13 hours of work with them on a Friday, not even figuring in the time it would take to drive to each demo. Plus, we were told to call our manager after every single demo to "check in".

At this point I had put in about 20 hours of training and was ready for a weekend. Only, we were expected to do several demos over the weekend and to do advanced training the Monday after. At the time they hire you they say that this is a part time job, but it honestly isn't. You don't get a day off, and most of the work you put in you don't get paid for. Yeah you can earn $16 for one demo, but it's not worth it. I'm currently in the process of trying to quit. I called up my manager and explained that the job is not for me (leaving out that I feel like we're scamming our customers. A pair of kitchen scissors is $107), only for him to try talking me out of it, getting exasperated, and ordering me to come in on the morning of advanced training.

I went back to the lobby and there was another guy sitting there with my boyfriend. He gave him an application as well and pulled him back for an interview also. We never saw the guy leave the building or ever again for that matter. I told my boyfriend that the guy insisted he leave and that's when he knew something wasn't right. The manager or whatever came back and took me to like a conference room and my boyfriend followed. The manager got extremely upset about it and told him to leave so he just sat in the lobby.

I figured I'd give the guy the benefit of the doubt and let him do the second interview which was a presentation about Cutco knives. He went on a big rant about what the company was about and what employees had to do (which was set up appointments with families or women 30+ years). He explained that I had to have 3 days of unpaid training. He had me cut up several things with the Cutco knives and explained the pay and asked me ridiculous questions about everything. Then he gave me a questionnaire and proceeded to put on rap music while I filled it out. He pulled me back in his bland office where there was nothing but a desk and 2 chairs and told me I was hired. Luckily while my boyfriend was waiting he looked up the place since it was oddly empty and very suspicious and told me that it was a scam. I never came back for my UNPAID training. Vector and Cutco is ** and I wouldn't recommend going to them.

After listening through a presentation of the product, knives, I was pulled to the side and in an effort of feigning hard thoughtful consideration was given the job. The scheme was 17.25 per appointment made with a person over 30, and with a full-time job. YOU must forage through your contacts, make an appointment, attempt to sell their product over an hour of talking to them, and then if you sell it you receive either commission, or the $17, whichever was higher. I came back the second day for training for about 6 hours and about half or more of the people that were from the interview were there, which showed how competitive it truly was. The people that made the cut, were also obviously not there because of some special reason. Many of them had trouble speaking basic English, much less sell products to customers.

All in all if you wish to run around the city, contacting everyone you worked hard to create a relationship with and annoy them trying to sell them knives, this is for you. The entire business is unprofessional in every sense of the word, and while yes if you happen to know a lot of middle-aged relatively wealthy women you can make a decent amount of money if you put in the work, but I got the feel that the company just abuses the college kid's desperation for a job to make profit off of their personal relationships.

You were scheduled to begin your training with Vector at the Altoona office on Thursday, June 18th at 12:00 PM. When you didn't arrive, we were forced to begin the training seminar without you. Can you please give us an immediate call at (814) 889-0337 and speak with one of our staff? We would like to hear what happened to keep you from arriving as scheduled so we can decide together whether we should reschedule your training for another date.

If something legitimate kept you from arriving as scheduled, we might work with you this one time to ensure you can retain your position. If you did not show up because you wish to cancel your position with Vector for some reason, please give us a courtesy call so we don't contact you again. We look forward to hearing from you!

How could I attend a training for a job I wasn't hired for yet? Adding to my dissatisfaction, when I attempted to call the office at two different numbers, both were disconnected. I do not believe I will take the job opportunity.

In my first month at the job I made around $4000. The pay is either based on appointment ($16.05/appointment in Canada) or on commissions if you make a sale. The product is amazing and no other knives have come close to it in the ~60 demos I have done so far. This job helps build time management, people skills, phone skills, and sales is a good experience for anyone looking to be successful in life. The job can be done part time or full time, it all depends on how many demos you book. Your schedule is in your control and it is the perfect summer job for ambitious students or young adults looking for some money to get their lives started. However, this job is not for lazy people.

In order to succeed with Vector you must invest time, energy and it can be very difficult at times. It is all worth it once you see your pay cheque. The job starts by making practice appointments with people you know and then expanding your clientele with leads/referrals. If you are uncomfortable with basic human contact then this is not the job for you. If you are not looking to work hard then this job is not for you. This job is for people with ambition and who want to make serious money that is proportional to their effort.

In regards to the unpaid training, you should look at it as an investment. Why would the company invest their time into training someone who is not serious. And if you are unemployed you probably do not have a lot going on anyways. It is worth it to do the training before deciding the job is not for you. You get paid once you start doing demos. The sample kit is also an investment. You cannot sell the product if you have nothing to show the customer. At my office, the rep can either purchase the sample kit or just pay the deposit and get their money back once they return the kit.

The people who complain about Vector usually did not give the company a fair chance. The people who succeeded with Vector are too busy making money to leave reviews about how good this job is to them. I look forward to advancement opportunities with a company that embraces experience-less students and anyone willing to work hard. In conclusion, I am glad I decided to give the company a chance as it has been one of the best financial decisions I have made so far in my life.

A word to the wise, Cutco is not easy hours. In training they tell you just to book five demos you have to spend 1 to 2 hours on the phone. You constantly have to be calling people just to work, and you don't get paid those hours of calling or training. That's the other reason I didn't stay with Cutco is that it wasn't a part time job I could slide into my existing schedule. They are also pretty controlling - you have to call before your first demo of the day and then after each demo and you won't get paid unless you're showing the product to a married couple who are between the ages 30 & 60 and own a home. If you're comfortable selling knives to friends and family and don't have another commitments, this may be the job for you.

So it seems the pay has gone up since then. After telling us all this he showed us some of the products we would be selling. After that he said he would pull two of us out to be selected for the job. A guy my age and I were pulled aside and offered the jobs and after hearing all that I declined and told them the job wasn't that appealing to me. I thought I was done with them until today actually. My girlfriend recently started applying everywhere and Vector was one of them. They called her back right away and did the same thing with her. But they asked her for names and numbers of friends. She assumed it was a reference. They ended up calling me on my break and offered me a job working for them. I told them that I already have a job working at Publix and that I am happy here and as soon as I said that she said "okay" and hung up right away. So I have to say that my experience with Vector has not been a very pleasant one at that.

I figured out where to go for applications (the second one btw), and turned it in. Afterwards I was called in with two other people. So the first interview was three people, ugh okay. I didn't get that but okay. Then we got moved into another room where about 15 people were. I sat down and waited about 45 mins until someone came in and chatted about them going on vacation. Then I waited another 25-30 mins until someone else came in and did a presentation. Which entailed the job description, which was not a cubicle job answering phones. No, it was a "door to door" or "family to family" marketing system, where I only get paid 17 dollars per presentation. And the presentation only counts if there is a women over 30 there, WTF.

After the 50 min presentation that woman left, and that same 19 year old guy came in and just went on the computer and showed us youtube videos. THE MOST UNPROFESSIONAL WORK ENVIRONMENT EVER. They talked about random things that did not even matter, about 5 people came in and out of the room. And then they started calling people into a one-on-one interview; which consisted of the main women talking and telling you that you have the job and that you start training. I got the job and I was already irritated, then she gave me a training schedule and said it was unpaid! NO THANK YOU. 20 hours of unpaid training nooooope. REALLY UNPROFESSIONAL AND JUST A BIG SCAM. DO NOT WORK THERE.

Then, today, which is when I had my interview. I cancelled about 3 - 4 hours ahead of time to cancel and they were very snobby about it. I went to my brand new job at a local grocery store to finish up training which took about 4 hours. When I got done with that, I had 2 text messages, 1 email, and two back to back calls from the lady with NO voicemail. They placed blame on me for 'missing' the interview when I had cancelled it a few hours prior. She left no voicemail and the email and text messages made it seem like there were going to be serious repercussions for allegedly 'missing' it. This is also the company that has sent me multiple letters in the mail trying to convince me to work for them! It's a load of bull! BE AWARE!

Back then, I had low self esteem so having people tell me I was awesome was nice. The problem was there was like a behemoth 10 layers up that raked in the profits. My manager was so overwhelmed and her manager hiss the pressures of his manager. If you're a college kid with a need to buy some ganja and beer, get a "plain old mindless job." If you're trying to make rent, etc. DO NOT DO VECTOR unless you're convinced you can sling. The guy who was a super stud seller when I first came in quit and started working at Home Depot. He looked like he loved himself. Haha! It was a fun summer doing it and I had good times with people but honestly I could profited and gained professional skills elsewhere.

Crazy thing is, I did awesome my first 4 months with the company. I was averaging a pay check of $300 a week. So of course, I was prime meat for the "management" position. I was one of the older kids, 21 believe it or not was in the upper age group for the company, and I did everything they asked because they were promising me so much. I worked so hard for me and I sang their praises like a good employee.

At about the 5 month mark things weren't so good. I wasn't selling as much, I had a couple bad weeks where I made maybe $100. I was stressing about money and appointments, plus I was now an assistant manager and the pressure was on for me to be the best. My manager treated me great when I was selling big, but when things turned around and I went to her for advice it always back fired. She would always end up yelling at me and calling me worthless. She would break me down and I'd cry in her office. She would punish me by making me do more unpaid work, but keeping the promise of my own office one day.

For whatever reason, I stayed. In early 2011, I tried twice to quit, I tried more than once to tell my boss why I didn't want to run an office about how it felt like too much pressure, that I was worried about failing, but one way or another she would break me and I would stay. I didn't know at the time, but when I opened an office she also got money, she got a $10,000 check off my back.

In April 2011, I opened my own office 30 minutes away in Sharon, PA. I asked a friend to let me pay her under the table as a receptionist, they sent me a big check for $8,000 to get started. I worked my ass off, over 100 hours most weeks, to get people in for interviews, make my training fun, motivate my reps. All while not getting paid. From April 2011 to July 2011 when I closed my office I did not get 1 pay check. I was broke, desperate, confused. I had a break down, full blow mental breakdown over all of this which lead me to closing my office. They tried to get me to stay, but my account with them was in the negative and I had no income. My parents didn't want to help me, they had already done so much. Given me gas for appointments and out of town meetings. Buying food for my training. I couldn't do it anymore. I had to leave the company.

I did the one thing they told you to never do my last team meeting, tell the TRUTH! I told them I worked for months and never got paid, that the check they sent me covered my cost up front, but didn't last long. I broke down and cried and told them that I tried and that I just couldn't do it anymore. I couldn't force them too for a company I didn't believe in. I told them sell for as long as you want, but don't get into management that it's not worth it. When I was leaving the company I asked them about my negative balance, I talked to two people above me about it, and they told me don't worry about it. The company would write it off as a tax break and I didn't have to pay it. So I moved on with my life which included a year in therapy because of the company and other personal issues that I believe stemmed from my time with the company.

I got a job working at a library, went back to school for my masters, mend bridges and found myself in a very happy place and then came a letter from the IRS. The letter stated I owed back taxes from my time working with them, about $1,200 worth of back taxes. I began calling around to Vector people to get information which eventually put me in contact with someone from the Mid-West district. I spent about an hour on the phone explaining my situation, trying to find answers. They were very hustled with me and told me I was lying about the managers telling me not to worry about it, they would never say something like that. When he laughed at something I said on the phone I lost it. I told him not to patronize me, which his comeback was he didn't, I told him "yes you are, you just laughed" and me and went off.

I told him about my mental break down, I told him about my manager verbally abusing me for two years, I told him about how I was finally in a good place and I get this letter from the people I hate the most and when I am just trying to get answers that dare to laugh at me. By the time I was he was silent, he had nothing to say. I told him I had to get off the phone with as I was becoming too overwhelm by everything. So, the IRS took my refund last year and this year. That was money I worked hard for, that I earned fair and square and still, years later these people at Vector still hurt and haunt me.

I was told that I would have to come back for two more additional trainings like WTF, I'm there for 20 hours unpaid and you still want me to come back for more unpaid training. I can't make it to two of them coz I have testing for school. Like I said this is not a part time job and I don't know a single person who will spend 2000 dollars on knifes. People nowadays don't have money for that. I really was getting pissed at this training. I want to go back there and go off on everyone there. He said he had to babysit us younger kids which he meant anyone under 25. This is a student work thing but yet he wants to work with people over their target people to sell to. This is all BS.

I can't believe any of the people I saw yesterday at the stupid ** training actually went back today for the second "lame" day of training. I mean, I can't even believe we had to stay for 5 ** hours at this junky business. I was actually happy to tell my parents and now since I found it Vector is just an ** scam, and a big joke, that's when I got very angry and I'm not happy AT ALL!!! I mean, really? Who would actually fall into this STUPID ** trap!!! I call **!

As a receptionist, he takes out so many taxes that we figured it out and you'll actually be bringing home less money than you would making min wage, which I thought nothing of. But I still haven't received a w2 and the manager will not return calls or text messages! Also, I was pregnant as his receptionist and his whole demeanor changed when he found out. He went as far as asking if abortion was an option and telling me how stupid I was for "letting that happen". He's just a terrible person!

He tells you about all this money you could potentially be making and has sales reps that are in their prime to come talk to new reps and they make it sound so good (I was one of them) but didn't realize at the time what I was in for. After so many customers, no one will buy and you have no one and that's it! You're done! He will call you every single day, 5+ times a day wanting to know what you're doing and if you take the day off, he wants to know why you would do that and then try to convince you to call more people and set up appointments anyway. And then he'll call back an hour later to see if you did it yet. It's just absolutely ridiculous!

Next week, I found out from the Career office at Wright College that Vector Marketing is a scam and too suspicious to be part of their job fair. Wright College did not welcome Vector Marketing into their Job Fair. Warning: please search for more famous good reputable companies such Groupons, etc. Please be careful and choosy.

I finished this middle school worksheet and was called back. He acted as if it was a hard decision but I was hired. He told me to come back for the training but failed to mention that it was unpaid until I was there. I didn't leave the interview til 8 at night. What place does that? When I returned I saw almost everyone who was there to interview. We did the training which is so pointless.

After the second day two people were absent, the last day of training a girl simply walked out. As everyone was leaving many were saying they thought it was a scam. They told us we'd be making 13.50 an hour but failed to say that we'd be only getting that per appointment that we scheduled once. Not for the duration of the appointment but for the appointment itself. "This isn't a minimum wage job so we don't expect minimum wage work.'' They only care about making their cut of your commission sales.

The environment was very childish and fratboy like. Not very professional. So basically walking and paying for taxis was pointless. I'm getting nothing back for training or wasting my time. I currently don't have a job and I'm going through the last money I had just to get there. I am embarrassed because my friends and family were excited that I landed a job with good pay to finally get on my feet but I don't plan on going to the next meeting, I refuse to grovel at my friends feet for them to buy these knives just to get a pay check. Now I'm back to square one in search of a job. There's no stability and these people are so unprofessional.

Ok another month pass and they still have the same excuse. I did a total of 8 demos that week and made 3 sales and they're gonna try to tell me all they can try to pay me is $30.50. So I contacted the BBB on the company and they're handling my open complaint now. IN ALL CAPS DO NOT WORK FOR THIS COMPANY. THEY'RE LIARS, SCAMMERS AND WANT YOU TO KEEP WORKING, AND NOT GET PAID. DO NOT DO ANY SECOND THOUGHTS. THE COMPANY IS HORRIBLE. UNPROFESSIONAL. DO NOT DO IT. PASS ON THE JOB. THEY'RE SCAMMERS.

So I drive an hour to get there, and when I walk in there is absolutely NO ONE in the office. The door was unlocked though. From my experience with the sales manager that hired me, I expected a nice little office. This place had a few plastic chairs in a lobby, and nothing on the yellowing walls that had holes in them. A few minutes later some more people walk in and our manager shows up in gym shorts and a tshirt and goes into the bathroom to change into his suit. REALLY?

This manager was not even the manager of the location, he was filling in while our manager was on vacation. Both of them are in their early twenties. Anyway, they train you, give you a sample kit, and encourage you to write down everyone you know. Then they want you to use your personal relationships that you have put time and energy into creating to sell their products. No thank you. This is still door to door because you are still cold calling people.

When the manager hired me, he told me that there would be one time a week that I would need to drive the two hour round trip and that would be the team meeting, on Wednesday at 9. After these meetings, which lasted an hour and a half, we were expected to go to a restaurant nearby to "socialize" with one another for at least 30 minutes and then we could leave. So it's now 11 pm and I have to drive an our to get home. He said that he would meet at my college for the paycheck meeting since there were a lot of people working for him that attended this college.

That was a lie. In the two weeks that I worked there, I had to drive up there EIGHT times. These "paycheck" meetings lasted 15 minutes, so I had to drive two hours total and be there by 8:30 for a fifteen minute meeting. Then there would be random things that he wanted me to come to the office for, like "extra training" that also lasted 15 minutes and could have been done over the phone.

He certainly was on his enough. During meetings when he would be telling us stuff, he would just stop in the middle of a sentence and pick up his phone and stay on it for five-ten minutes. He wanted all of us to call or text during/after every appointment, though, so I tried to rationalize that it was justified. However, there were multiple times that I called the office and his cell phone two or three times, as he asked, with NO answer, and no call back. Once, I was unable to get him on the phone for three days. He just said, "Oh, it didn't show that you had called." Right.

I made $500 in those two and a half weeks, but it was really not worth it for all the driving I was doing to go up there and to make it to my appointments, so I spent almost 500 in gas and an oil change. It was ridiculous. And now, after the fact, they have been sending me letters claiming that there was an issue with my commission calculation once and that I now owe them $36 dollars. I have done the math, and there were no issues, and I will not be paying it! I think they owe me $36 dollars for the terrible and completely unprofessional experience.

I didn't have anymore numbers and the manager came up and said "I see you're not putting any effort in" and I'm like well i asked you what do I do when I don't have anyone to call and no one would refer me. All he did was kept saying look at your list of people. I'm like whatever, done, good bye and left. They don't have the proper paper work, don't ask for your previous employment or any of that, and they don't pay you of your quit before a pay period.

I told my friends about it and two of them said, "don't do it." One had been to the interview and the orientation as a prospective employee. They tell you at the orientation that YOU WILL HAVE TO BUY the cutlery, and then you'll be attempting to resell it to Costco's customers. My other friend confirmed that this is indeed what happens, according to someone she knew.

This was in 2011. In their Emeryville, CA office, they looked like they had just moved in, but now they are gone. Apparently, they're still all over the country in 2014. I would advise any young person not to waste their time and money. After my experience, it seems they have a very lucrative scheme that rips off young people without doing anything illegal, though according to Wikipedia they have been brought to court a few times.

There seem to be a very vocal and aggressive 1% of them who do well in this company, and they are the hiring managers who work to hire more employees. On Yelp, or any website, you'll see glowing reviews of their cutlery quality and sometimes of their employee experience, but there are far, far more bad stories. The Yelp review I left was filtered into reviews that are "not recommended" on Yelp. However, there are a few that are on the Vector Marketing San Francisco office page that tell the same story. Like I mentioned, it doesn't matter whether you're hiring-material or not-- they will hire you because you will be a paying customer, as well as an "employee."

When I was at the interview, I noticed that the office was a mess, almost like they had just moved in. They also had an article framed on the wall that was about a college student who had done well at the company, published by the Wall Street Journal. Shame on them. 99% of the employees are low-income, uneducated youth with poor self-esteem, who will be swindled by this company and will probably blame themselves.

We live 15 minutes from his office. While we were driving he leaves my daughter a message telling her that he doesn't have time to wait on us and that we better get there within the next minutes or he's leaving, "he doesn't have all day". When we go into his office he asked me how I was doing? I told him that it didn't matter how I was doing. Then I said where is the paperwork? So my daughter can fill it out... Then, he asked for my daughter to step out of the office that he needed to speak to me. I said "there is no need for my daughter to step out of the office". And "there is nothing we needed to talk about". We were there for one thing and one thing only and that was to fill out the paperwork. Then he tells me that he hopes I condone myself as an adult. I told him that I am adult and he's a crook!!!!

I asked, how come it took him this long for us to get any results? I also asked him how come you haven't returned my calls? On his answering machine he goes by the name of Richard. All of this time I thought his name was Paul **. So I asked him do you go by Paul or do you go by Richard? Then he points at his nametag and asked me "can you read?" He also told me "you're being recorded". I said "that’s good because his company needed to know how he does business and how he's a crook". I asked if he understood what we were there for? Then he says "No I can't understand what you're saying because of your thick accent." I stepped out of the office and I called my husband since he couldn't understand what I was saying. My husband showed up - paperwork gets filled out. I told him very clearly that I would speak with somebody about what had just happened. He told me that there is no need for me to call anybody because he worked for himself.

Next day I called the Southwest region office and spoke to Richard. Richard conducted himself just like Paul **. He was very rude, wouldn't listen to anything I have to say. And said that he didn't understand what I was saying because I didn't make any sense. I asked to speak to his supervisor. He also said that there's nobody above him I could speak to. I had to call the corporate office again. I spoke to Sharon about what happened. While speaking with Sharon my daughter received text messages from Paul **. I took the time to call the corporate office, the Southwest region office because I felt that I was done wrong. I am a business owner and I would never have anybody like Paul ** and or Richard work for me... The images of the text messages are in this email. My name is Jocelyn **. If any questions **.

It is meant to trick people into not reading the 'fine print' and realizing if you sell $600 of their product and make 4 demonstrations, the base pay will be $44 and the commission will be about $42 when starting off with the 10% (and thanks to the cpo which another comment has mentioned, if you haven't read it basically there is a retail value, what the person pays for the product, and the cpo, which is what the sales rep gets their commission from and is about $3-10 per an item. Making a set that's $600 be almost $200 less cpo), so for that week you will have made $44.

I felt I needed to add this because every chance I have to warn a fellow working man/woman like myself that doesn't want to PAY for a JOB, the reverse of the norm, the more chance I will save someone from going through the same crap as I did. Also....the district manager when I went to return my starter kit was EXTREMELY unprofessional. Resorted to name calling (ha) and vulgar comments about how I'm lazy, weak, and a 'wiener'.... I mean really.... when I did NOTHING to provoke it other than mention how I've lost money since I've started working for the company.

I assume he took it as an insult instead of the truth which it was and flipped out. When I tried to tell him how I will still promote Cutco products and will be back (which was a lie but if you can't beat them join them....) even after his very unprofessional behavior, he simply said "no you will not" and got up and left. If it had not been for this district manager I would have continued to support Cutco products just because they seemed like nice enough people trying to make a living, but after that little ordeal I can no longer do that without supporting the, what I would call, man child at the head of this office in Salem, Oregon.

I can no longer do it. I've done my best to make this little rant fair, and I hope someone will have the brains to avoid getting a job like this. My uncle with a MBA (masters in business administration) had warned me that when he went to the interview himself it seemed like a bad deal which is why he didn't take the job. Me, being younger or less experienced or both, was not so smart and so I find myself sitting here typing this. Please read this. Please listen. Please don't support these people by working your ** off for pennies to the dollar.

In my honest opinion, I strongly recommend trying the job out for yourself and seeing if this is the right thing for you. Too many times have I heard people call Vector Marketing a scam. It is not. Like I said, different offices are run by different people so naturally things may be different. I also think it would be beneficial for you to keep in mind that people who have bad experiences with the company are obviously more likely to leave reviews than people who have good or normal experiences. So once again, I highly recommend keeping an open mind on sites like these. These are all true stories but they tend to be biased. My advice is to just try it for yourself. You'll probably end up thanking yourself.

She told us how we would have to buy a kit for $150. She hired me and a bunch of other people on the spot and I immediately knew I wouldn't be returning. I feel bad for people that went back only to inevitably learn, as I did on the internet that evening that you would need to set-up your own appointments with people, most likely won't get paid at all and definitely won't get paid for the training. I have far too much dignity to haggle my personal friends and family into spending over $1,000 on a knife set. No thanks. Here's a very, very simple rule: never get involved/proceed with a company that one, doesn't pay you for training, and two, makes you purchase your own kit. That's absurd and no respectable company will do that.

Fact: You had to call friends and family to set up demos. The demographics for sales were: Married, 30-60 and owned a home. We were told that our base pay is $265 per week (sweet). Fact: The base pay is $13.25 x qualified demos (8 demos per week). I was told that Online Demos counted towards a qualified demo. I did seven demos total (most of the people I know cannot afford 1049 on a new set of knives). Our loaner kits could be bought for 84 dollars.

I did my demos and then saw my pay check (I was only paid for four demos). My manager decided what qualified and what didn't. I told him numerous times that I had to change my demo tactics. In fact, I know one person that did a demo for a couple that wasn’t married and didn’t own a home and one person wasn’t employed. CUTCO is not BBB accredited whatsoever. I reported them to BBB and I explained to them that I only got paid for FOUR instead of SEVEN demos and currently awaiting my check.

3) The ad for the $3,500 set of Wusthof on sale for $2,000 is very real. It was in the Williams Sonoma catalog.

Here's the link: https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news03/save.html. I understand that many people do not do well with Vector Marketing. Sales and providing a high level of customer service can be hard. However, I wouldn't call it a scam. It is kind of like the music industry. Many go into it, and many fail. Many find a little success, and a few who contribute great effort find great success. However, just because many musicians fail, it doesn't mean that it is a scam.

Please remove or edit this article - it is outdated and misinforming, and is costing several people an opportunity with Vector every day.

He asked me "Did you get your first check in paper?" I replied, "I haven't gotten anything in paper." Tim **: "You saw your statement online right? When you went to VectorConnect." Jacob (Me): "What statement?" Tim **: "How did you know how much your check should be? By going online on VectorConnect?" Jacob (Me): "Ok ya... My commission check is $64.62." Tim **: "Yeah so that's already in the mail for you. I have no control of when it gets here. The postal device does and the rest will be deposited Monday." Jacob (Me): "You said Thursday...It's not here." Tim **: "I assumed Thursday but Flagstaff also does not have a Postal service on Saturday so maybe that's why it's one day behind. In Texas we get them Thursday. "Jacob (Me): "Assuming makes an ass out of you and me." Tim: und this time of the week. I'm in training so I can't be trying to answer all your small questions. Come to the team meeting and ask Brittany when she got her first check, Look Jacob it's in the mail. You saw it yourself inline "Paid via Company Check" and you can ask any rep when they get their check and they'll tell you are"

After that I quit the following Friday July 23, 2010. Now it is Tuesday July 27, 2010, my check is still nowhere to be seen. To be noted that I never filled out a W-4 form, meaning they are not paying their taxes, nor having those that they are receiving checks are not paying their taxes either.