DO NOT APPLY/WORK FOR CUTCO OR VECTOR MARKETING. They pick out naive high school seniors and new high school graduates and college kids. It’s unpaid training for 6 hours for 3 days straight. They make you pay $100 to get into a training convention after they force you to work meaning calling your family and friends to sell $1,000 minimum knife blocks/sets. There are so many red flags including the fact that I called a friend to sell to them and they told me that their son got scammed from Vector

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Wow that sounds like a lot of red flags. I am really sorry to hear that happened to you. Thank you for warning the rest of us though.

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I remember about my 70 something parents complaining how they sold cutco knives door to door in their teens.

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They’ve been doing that since my parents were in high school lol. Which is a shame because I’m told they really do have good knives but their business model seems unethical. Told they sell them in Sam’s Club or something like that anyway so why wouldn’t people buy them from a brick and mortar store rather than some random kid. Very sorry they did that to you. I was similarly scammed in college with Rainbow Vacuums. A friend tried to get me roped into the “sell to friends and family” model by telling me they had a job for me.

That's insane. I really appreciate you sharing that info here! I'm sorry you had to go through that, but being able to help others (like me) not fall into that same trap is really helpful and kind of you 🙏

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