Thursday, July 12, 2007
Someone in New York came to this site by googling, "Has anyone been killled for working with Vector Cutco?" Ominous.
Job #6: Cutco (cont.)
Here's how Cutco works. You are encouraged to sell knives to your family and friends, making a small commission off each sale. You get paid $10 or $15 for each presentation you make (assuming they fit certain criteria) whether you sell anything or not.
My plan was to give as many presentations as possible, not sell any knives, and clean up on the presentation fee. I actually encouraged people not to buy the knives.
Me: Look, they're expensive. I get $10 no matter what.
Sympathetic Family Member: I feel like I should buy something.
Me: My commission is very small. You'd have to buy a lot of stuff for me to make more than the $10 I'm already making.
Sympathetic Family Member: I want to help you out. I'll buy something. What's the cheapest thing you sell?
Me: Well... the paring knife.
I sold a lot of paring knives.
During my final meeting with my Cutco Team Leader, he put the squeeze on me.
Team Leader: [looking at my list of presentations] So, do all these people you gave presentations to fit within the criteria?
Me: ... they should.
Team Leader: All the right age? All married couples?
Me: Well, maybe one or two were a little younger. And a couple of the parents are divorced, I guess.
Team Leader: [tapping on calculater] Mm-hmm... we're going to have to take those off. [sighing] Look... I'm going to have to go through and check up on all of these. I'm not saying you're lying, but I need to make sure you did these presentations. That's going to take a while. Can't pay you until that's all settled.
Me: Oh.
Team Leader: Or... I could just cut you a check myself. For say... [doing balancing scales gesture with hands]... half? My own checkbook. Then I'd just add your sales numbers to mine. Take over the responsibility myself, in case something doesn't add up.
I took the check.
It sucked.
And now that I'm a chef, I know that the knives pretty much did too.
"Who do you know who like nice things?"
"People you used to date."
"How about people from jobs you used to work?"
"Go over your Christmas list"
"Who is the most successful person you know?"
"Nurses, airline employees, bank employees"
"Local government officials"
: 7:06 AM, July 17, 2007-They must be atleast 25+
-they must be gainfully employed on a permanent basis, in the case of a married couple the person with the permanent job must be present(permenant meaning non temp service or seasonal work)
-you must show at the prospect home on a "one on one" basis meaning no groups just immediate family of the household.
that criteria doesn't seem to strict. So if you sell at least over 150 on an appointment you would make more than the base $15. and your commission goes up the higher your Career sales go up, my nephew sold for a month and a half and was making 30%. also he is lazy in my eyes, but I don't work for vector anymore but the experience was amazing i still love my ultimate set and my family and other customers still call me to get more cutco (so i send them to my nephew or best friend) and love there cutco for the last 30 years so the not so true negativity is just cruel. Also i am a chef at Trattoria Da Vinci and id rather use my cutco than the henkels that i have to use at work any day! partially because i can sharpen my own cutco with the sharpening kit i got but i've only sharpened about 4 times in 30 years so if that isn't a test of time i don't know what is?.......
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