anybody got the skinny on Vector Marketing?

[shogun rua]

i just got a call from them where they set me up for a job interview.

is it just a big o'l scam?

[laska]

This "job" they're offering you is selling knives door-to-door

[tiedye]

Man, after the painful process of relearning vector imaging, that six letter word makes me wary.

[mapleleaf4ever]

big ol' scam.

[laska]

http://www.humanityblues.com/2008/10...ting-scam.html

[cubed]

You guys are just killing his dreams.

[shogun rua]

well i'll be

[laska]

Originally Posted by cubed

You guys are just killing his dreams.

So will you be the first to buy a 900-dollar set of knives from him?

[cubed]

Where do I sign up???

Honestly though, how do people get suckered into things like this???

[NinjaBoy]

They called me once. By the end of the phone call I was laughing.

You won't tell me what the job is, or how you got my resume? Okay!

[ebbomega]

I tend to find jobs wherein you pay them instead of the other way around probably aren't worth your while.

[jenai]

vector marketing has the best training program tho

if you can sell cutco knives to your friends and relatives, then you can sell anything.

after a few years out of vector - by not returning ever again - i called them up and asked for a rep to come by to do her spiel for her credit.

she showed up in a tank top & shorts and sat in my chair and did her sales spiel. it was june 2003.

then i ordered the $60 4-piece dinner knife set with the knives holder.

Why? She did her spiel with sex appeal.

[jenai]

i feel that if vector marketing heads picked hot 19 yr old women as sales reps, then more people would buy product.

I dunno why. It could be because by age 19 more women have learned quickly how to sell themselves than men at that age.

[jenai]

tho i doubt it is unethical to do a cutco speil as part of a burlesque performance even if the guy has put $200 "for all those knives".

[jenai]

now i want one of those knives that flip out with the double-d edge which retails for $120.

so i might call up Vector Marketing and ask them to send over a sales rep, preferably female and 19.

[jenai]

hm i might want to join vector marketing, just to see if the boss is hiring cuties.

[NinjaBoy]

Jenai, if you can fall for the Vector marketing scam from now on all your points are invalid.

Please keep that in mind.

I mean, 99% of them were horrific and followed about as much logic as the average Might Morphing Power Rangers episode, but if you honestly fall for this I don't think we'll even have to point out the gapping flaws in logic, quite simply we will have to say: "Vector Marketing. Done, you lose".

[NinjaBoy]

Just read the rest of your posts (you know the five post jaunt you have down borderline statutory rape lane).

I urge you not to call. First off this isn't some grand scheme they have, by sending out 19 year old girls to sell stuff. Quite frankly only 19 year old girls, and perhaps you would be dumb enough to buy anything cutco/vector marketing related.

And second off, doesn't this set off any alarm bells in your life if you're calling a well known scam company/knife company to send over just out of high school? Christ, I know horror movies that start off better then this. And I'm pretty sure they did a case like this on Law and Order: Special victims unit.

There are plenty of ways to meet women, and not all of them involve being batshit insane.

[just.b.cous*]

I used to work for Vector selling those damn knives. Making a sale boosted up my confidence that's for sure, until I nearly chopped my thumb right off when I was demonstrating with the vegetable knife the 'ease of slicing veggies with no pressure at all..' (".. let the knife do the work..", I was saying - looking at the 'customer' instead of the knife), just before my thumbnail stopped the blade from slicing off the end of my thumb. Everything I remember is still 'slow-motion' in my mind from that point.

What I do remember (hazily) is being driven to a walk-in down the block-or-so, then waking up in one of the rooms with a bandage around my thumb.. I don't know exactly what happened, but apparently I passed out leaving a pool of blood in the waiting room while some parents were trying to calm down their freaked out children. (Wish I could've seen that though! Heh.)

The 'up-side' of it all, according to the doctor, was.. 'the blade was SO-O-o sharp it left a 'nice-clean' cut' that they were able to slide the loose piece of thumb back in place and bandage it up without any stitches! Woohoo! Heh. ~ Use that as the sales-pitch. Hah.

Needless to say, Vector wasn't too happy about the 'incident'... & I left the 'company' SOON after that.

[-evil-duerr-]

^did the customers buy the knife set?

[just.b.cous*]

Actually, yeah, they did. But not that actual set.. heh... I don't think. HAH.

~ That all happened in summer of 2001.. still have the scar... now that I'm touching it, it still kinda hurts.. faintly, but a bit still.

[-evil-duerr-]

^ lol.

sucks that you got cut, but it's kinda funny that they bought the knives after.

[gnosis]

In college, I went to an "interview" and got "called back" the next day.

The ONLY difference was that they were pushing Kirby vacuum cleaners.

I couldn't believe my eyes during the demonstration. IT WAS THE _EXACT_ SAME DEMO MY UNCLE GAVE TO MY PARENTS WHEN I WAS A KID!!!!

Just goes to show that all marketing is bullshit, and you can use the same bullshit right across the board. Just insert (product), __here__.

Frosty
(same goes for the speaker sellers out of the white vans)

[jenai]

dude, i actually want a frakken folding knife which the website says i can get for about 53 bux plus tax!

they could send me a guy fresh out of rehab looking to score cash for his drinking hobby for all i care.

that's why I called them the last time!

[SEAN!]

Originally Posted by jenai

vector marketing has the best training program tho

if you can sell cutco knives to your friends and relatives, then you can sell anything.

after a few years out of vector - by not returning ever again - i called them up and asked for a rep to come by to do her spiel for her credit.

she showed up in a tank top & shorts and sat in my chair and did her sales spiel. it was june 2003.

then i ordered the $60 4-piece dinner knife set with the knives holder.

Why? She did her spiel with sex appeal.

Damn son, not only do you have fucked up and crazy on lock but you're gunning for that creepy possible sex offender title too.

I gotta respect a man's hustle.