Anyone who condudts a google.search for “vector marketing” scam, will bring up some 64,000 search responses which simply state: “It’s a scam!”

Good luck!

First of all, Vector is not a scam.

It is however, hard work and you do have to sit through many unpaid hours of “phone time” (i.e. contacting potential customers). “Phone time” is done at your house and you can choose to do as much or as little as you want. This job can be very stressful, but it gives you valuable training in marketing and personal relations skills for the future. (It looks impressive on resumes).

Also, you are not a door to door salesman employed by a company, but rather a self employed worker (that means no taxes on paychecks, but you do pay a tax at the end of the year. all business expenses, e.g. mileage and food/entertainment are tax deductible.) who schedules his/her own appointments through phone calls first to friends and family then referrals.

Vector jobs was featured in the Wall Street Journal; it gives a pretty accurate description of the job.

Yes you do have to pay $144 for a sample set, but you can return it when you’re done with the job or sell it for profit (it’s worth $540). And you make $14 to $18 per appointment depending on where you live (these you have to schedule)

Vector is now a BBB accredited business with a grade of A+.

It was known in the past to have various lawsuits against it, at times in the past people did lose money or receive very low paychecks while working at vector. Now it has cleaned up, you can visit the link for the Better Business Bureau rating and review.

But…
Vector’s methods of getting employees is sketchy (but quite smart). They target recent high school graduates or college students, who are usually the poorest and most desperate people on earth. They are also the most sympathetic salesmen to potential customers. (my parents bought $900 worth of books from a college door to door salesman because they felt bad for him. No one in my family has touched those books) Also, Vector is very vague in the job description. Never is the potential employee told that he or she would be selling knives to their friends and family. The routine used during the sales appointments is scripted and targeted to getting the customer to buy the $945 set of knives. The closing part of makes me feel like a jerk, so I often word it differently than said in the manual. But the routine given is marketing genius. And the knives are incredibly good. They were featured on the History channel in Modern Marvels as some of the sharpest things in the world.

The company is pushy though in the beginning, offering various prizes, including $2000 if you can sell $10000 worth of knives in 10 days. They make you feel terrible if you can’t sell; even though you get paid if you don’t sell, the fact that commissions (starts at 10% then goes up to 50% if your career sales are $30,000) can earn you much more drives you to sell a lot. And the reason they hire anyone is because a lot of kids quit because this job can become very stressful. It’s really hard to schedule appointments with friends and family who really don’t take you very seriously and are reluctant to buy for the most part (though you may be surprised-I sold a $400 set to my neighbor) I thought about quitting, but decided against it because of the valuable skills and life lessons this job will give me. Oh, and the paycheck keeps me here, which varies depending on how many appointments you schedule and how much you sell. The girl that hired me had a paycheck of $10,000 last summer-she’s an incoming sophomore in college, age 19 (of course this is highly rare, she sold just over $22,000 worth of cutlery and kitchenware over the course of a few months). Expect to earn about $3000 this summer (this is the average income of a newbie sales rep)

I would say go to the “interview” (you’re guaranteed to get hired) and see if you like it. If not, decline the offer.

Better yet, visit all of the links I posted under my sources on the job to decide if it’s even worth your time going to the “interview” (link is below in the sources).

If you have friends and family to take to the cleaners for overpriced knife sets and $140-$170 to lose to buy a set of these as demo products, which you have to sell for $700, then go for it. But the best knives in the world won’t cost you this and these are NOT the best knives in the world. Vector make their money from conning students into their ‘get rich quick’ scheme.

stay away from them. its a scam. they will want 300 for the knife set which costs a fortune. you have to sell knives. they will waste your time with the “job interview process”

What the last answer said. Unless you are a real go-getter with a large number of friends and family that you don’t mind annoying with your sales pitch, you would be better off with just about any minimum wage job.

I went to an interview with them. They gave me an interview with about 20 other people. They tell you at the end of the interview that you will know if you got the job with in 30 minutes. They called my cell phone before I even pulled out of the parking lot to tell me I got the job. I didn’t take it though. Basically, you need to know a lot of people who would want to purchase these expensive knives. Plus, you need to either put down a deposit or pay for the starter kit to go around and do demonstrations with. Then, you are asked to sell the knives and get contact information for other people, aka referrals. Once you are out of leads, you are done, they don’t give you any sources to try and they will let you go if they found out you sell door to door. Also, they have an ideal set of people they want you to sell to; ages 25+, married, and making over $50,000 a year (I’m not quite sure the exact numbers, but it is something along those lines). If you know a lot of people that would be interested, and I mean A LOT, this job could be a good idea. On the other hand, if you don’t know that many people who would want to buy them, I’d say just pass it up at this time. Hope this helps.