does anyone know anything about this company? i'm looking for a job and they say in their ad that they pay well. but i've never heard of them.
I wouldn't work for vector if I were you. They aren't a reputable company in Canada. As a matter of fact they have a little place in Toronto that 'supposedly' houses sweat workers in order to get what you would be doing off the ground with flying colours. Don't do it. For the sake of god don't do it.
I applied there a few years ago and just got this wierd feeling about it. It seemed WAY to easy to get hired and so I didn't take the job. The people who were in charge were all like 17 and looked like models or something. They interviewed in groups and then took us aside in groups of 2. They asked me and this older guy why they should hire us. I made up some bullshit /cause I really didn't want the job. The other guy said he really needed a job to support his family. They picked me over him! I didn't think that was right. Anyways, I always thought there was something wierd about that company.
weird company indeed... i remember being inticed by the ad also... i rolled into the place, this one was mechanicsburg, pennsylvania, in an office building, during the time when no other offices were open. inside, plush furnishings and a nice stereo set up greeted us as we sat down for a chat. young management types, hot cars and women... they also took us back in groups of two. my buddy chickened out... they asked me if i like to work hard or have a good time. i told them have a good time. i got hired and began work selling cutco knives, which really are quite excellent. this was back in 1994. you start by buying a demo set for like 125 or so, then you have to schedule your own appointments and get your own leads. if you do like 20 appointments (maybe it's 10) per week, you're guaranteed like 400 dollars. if you sell more than $400 worth of comission, you get paid your comission, or if you only sell $250 comission but do the required number of appointments, they'll give you the other $150, so you can pretty much guarantee you can make $400 a week if you play your cards right. you need to ask the people you start with to give you leads, then call and see if you can set up appointments. i cheated and had groups of people get together in one place so i could give just one presentation but reach a lot of people... i'd get a lot of orders with large groups, plus each person there usually had their own address, so i just filled out my papers saying i went to each one individually. some weeks I made just 400, some i didn't do many appointments but i always made at least $200. a few weeks I made $800 and one I made over $1200. all in all it wasn't a bad job if you can find people who want the best cutlery on the planet. i was running out of leads, then my girlfriend at the time totalled my car so i was unable to continue working there... interesting experiences though, we did a lot of weird things after meetings... stuff you don't normally do with people you work with. but it was cool.
i really think my sister's ex's brother worked there, he showed us the demo once in her apartment, they were nice knives.. i'll ask him about it. what did you do after meetings?
Dont do it! i signed up for selling cutco knives. They make you pay over $100 for the demo set to show your customers. The job requires you to go door to door and sell knives. Thats all it is! sounds fun and easy? yeah right. its not all fun and games cus if you dont sell you end up losing money
hey thanks you guys. i'm not going for it. i figured it was something bad. i mean by the words in the ad, it sounds like a dream come true for a starving college student, but when i called i got these really bad vibes. i knew there was something wrong with it.
i worked at this hunting and fishing store in durango, and we had a cutco display there. the knives were pretty damned awesome, i must say, and well priced. i also had a friend named sarah who sold them, she did pretty good, she says, but she didn't like sales.
i have a friend who is "management" there and he is a huge fuck up he would just walk up to random people trying to get them to work at his sketchy job
Im in northern california, and i imagine every vector office is different, hence different experiences, BUT i LOVED working there. If you aren't successful person you may get shady vibes. Heres the low down on vector. Yes, you buy your demo set. You are a contractor, get to make your own hours and you have to schedule your own apptments and get yer own leads. ITS SALES! What do you ppl want? Go work at McD's! anyways, the $125 for the knives was WELL WORTH the sales training and meetings i got to go to. That was the funnest job ever. Rick, the manager where i was at was a cool down to earth guy and kind of the motivational speaker type. his job was to get everyone else PUMPED UP about cutco and then also give you training. The more pumped you are about your product the more it shows to the ppl your showing it too. Seriously, these knives sell themselves. HANDS DOWN! BEST KNIVES IN THE WORLD! If your married, own your own home and are 25+ then spending a couple hundred bucks on knives you'll NEVER EVER have to replace is actually a smart thing to do. ANyways, I got my girl pregnant and needed a job where i KNEW what i was making every week and left one of the funnest jobs i ever had. you work there and you will be surrounded by positive vibes, so positive its almost weird, as you described above. If someone was having a bad day and they walked in down and you could tell, all it took was one person yelling WATERFALL!!! and then you get to walk back out the door, come back in under the imaginary waterfall at the door to wash away your downer vibes. now of course the waterfall was imaginary and didnt work, but 20 ppl you work with chanting WATERFALL! WATERFALL! WATERFALL! and the silliniess of it all, was enough to make anybodys bad day good. but yeah, awsome job. Product sells itself. The company makes money on the people that puss out, but in all honesty, I wouldnt trade my cutco in for anything. A full set will be on my wedding registry!! I dont even work for them and i tell everybody thats getting knives about cutco. Full tang, surgical steel blades and the blade is a patented "Double-D" edge that just rocks anything. So, the advice from someone that ACTUALLY worked there is that it was fun, enlightening, positive and a great atmosphere. I got some good training. I got some good knives. I met some cool ppl. The end. P.S. the weird stuff we did would be like barb queing with everyone and shit at the park. play baseball or whatever. Just hang out and build relationships, smart companies encourage people to build relationships with each other. Anyways, once you sold enough cutco you make 50% comission, so the homemaker set which went for 760 when i worked there was the one most people (over 25/own home/married) bought. you do an hour demo and slam in 330 bucks. 20 min driving time. not bad at all. work less, make more. ANymore questions i'd be happy to answer. really was a fun thing to do if you like talking to ppl. Its not door to door either, thats a myth.
The people that quit or that decide not to interview. We had a name for them. Not something we poked fun at or named them to lower them. but it was actually something that like the current CEO of burger king or some shit made up (he used to work for vector, you'd be surprised who used to work there). Its an acronym for psychological negative influences. SNIOP Subjective Negative Influence of Other People So by listening to the people here tell you things like its a door to door sales gig rip off, instead of checking it out for yourself. You've fallen victim to being SNIOP'd.
one thing i do remember learning at the state convention where all the offices got together for a hella big meeeting. something i jotted down while taking notes. "NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF THE HUMAN SOUL, ON FIRE!!" (for those who read to much into it, on fire is not literal, its not a witch burning gig, sorry)
Geez, who let all the Cutco/Vector representatives on this forum... Both of these companies are SCAMS. They both have abysmal records with the Better Business Bureau. They both make the vast majority of their money from their own EMPLOYEES, who have to buy their products and usually end up getting stuck with them. Can you make money if you work hard at these jobs? I don't know. I doubt it. But even if you can, you can make just as much money at a legitimate sales job without the stress of unloading all of the crap they force you to buy.
um, for the record, I believe I spent a whopping $129 to get my set of knives and everything I needed to do my job with them, and that is all the money I ever spent there. In less than 2 months, I had cleared over $2500, and maybe spent about $40 in gas money to get to the people I had to see. All in all, I cleared over $2300 in 2 months. Much better company to work for then say all of those companys who make you part of a "club" and then innodate their helpless customers with automatic shipments they didn't order, billing their credit cards, and customer service reps who are told to do anything possible to avoid letting the customers cancel their accounts. There are a lot shittier companys out there. Bookspan, American Mint, etc.
No thank you, there is a whole workforce out there with tons of jobs better than Vector or McD's! Which is why they have to be sold via sales demonstrations inside the home of their reps friends and family instead of on a store shelf. People forget that before Alcas/Cutco acquired Vector, Alcas/Cutco was a money losing company about to be shut down. The Double-D edge is NOT patented and the experts suggest such serrated edges to be avoided for most kitchen tasks except cutting bread and some veggies. Surgical steel is just a marketing ploy, there is no surgical or non-surgical grade. After selling $25,000 worth of Cutco and then ONLY if you make your sales quotas, otherwise it's 30% commission. they say this only because the appointments are set up over the phone beforehand, but after setting up several appts you will in fact go from doorstep to doorstep The Wisconsin Consumer Protection Dept surveyed 940 Vector Marketing recruits in 1992 and found that almost half either earned nothing or lost money working for Vector and that workers in that state earned less than $3 a day on average selling cutlery for Vector. Master Chef Wylie Dufresne told GQ magazine "I have plenty of friends whose parents have Cutco in a knife block. You pull them out and they're all as dull as can be." Norman Weinstein, a nationally recognized kitchen knife skills instructor was quoted by the Baltimore Sun newspaper as saying "Why, why, would you buy such a knife?" Consumer Reports said the handles (which were made by the same person who made the handles WearEver Cookware dumped about 5 decades ago) are more uncomfortable than most, the blades corrode easier than most, and rated many cheaper knives above Cutco. They are stamped being thinner, flimsier, lacking bolsters, and heft. links: http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff71189.htm http://umsl.edu/~nki4z3/articles/vector.html http://www.omgjeremy.com/vector.shtml http://www.petitiononline.com/vector/petition.html http://www.cornelldailysun.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/10/23/108143310240755c0e1bbe5 http://www.datelinealabama.com/article/2004/03/11/5559_news_art.php3 http://www.wten.com/Global/story.asp?S=682631
I love using cutco knives. They are sturdy and they cut very well and easily. I will ask for cutco on my wedding registry. My mom has had cutco for over 30 years thay still work. And if you have the recipt they will replace them for life of you ever need it. and cutco scissors kick assss
the manager was really young and modelish, as described above. we had to call after every appointment and explain why people didn't buy the knives, if they didn't. i sold quite a few, but no was never ever an answer. then the office closed and the guy disappeared and i never got paid for a quite a few appointments. it did seem kind of shady all along.
