Vector Marketing Reviews: Is The CutCo Parent Company Running A Scam? (2023 Update)

Vector Marketing Online Reviews

Let’s hear what the people have to say:

“I was tricked into “working” for them by a former close friend and I can say with certainty that it’s a pyramid scheme, I was suspicious when I was told I’d get paid by-appointment and that I had to hock stuff to my family and friends.

Anybody that does “pay-by-appointment” like that and requires you to either recruit new “team members” or hock shit to family and friends is likely a multi-level-marketing scheme. It’s probably one of the least shifty of the MLM’s that I know of but it’s still most definitely multi-level-marketing and if I were you OP I’d cut my losses and split.

I worked with them for about 2ish months before realizing how I was barely breaking even and making next to no money. After I quit I got into contact with people that used to work in my office and we all kind of came to that realization we were in a marketing scheme, or had been convinced of such by family and friends.

I made way more in one month of Inventory Auditing than I did with 2 months of Vector, any wage job will typically pay you more unless you’re lucky enough to have a huge social network of people with disposable income (the only successful people in my office were rich kids who had rich friends and rich friend parents to hock stuff to).

Outside of my experience I know they target high school and college students because they assume that at that age we’re easy targets (which is unfortunately true for a lot of people, it’s how I got roped in). They also use deliberately misleading language, not technically lying per-se but hiding a lot behind fine print; like the pay-by-appointment thing, it seems like a lot until you realize it’s basically working below minimum wage. They also do the old trick of pimping these legendary salespeople but usually they’re the 1% that actually achieve the dream you’re sold.

As Princessluna44 mentioned, check r/antiMLM. It’s a subreddit dedicated entirely to pyramid schemes and MLM shenanigans and you’ll find a lot of resources there as well as an audience to vent your frustrations, including reformed people like myself. Again, Vector isn’t the worst but they’re still an MLM, so take that as you will.”

“Basically there is this company Vector Marketing that markets towards high school and college students. They say you can make $15/hour base pay, and you don’t need any experience. This sounds great right? Perfect Summer job! That’s what I thought. I applied for a job with this company online, and they literally called me back 30 minutes after I applied, which is absolutely crazy; that never happens. The person I talked to was very vague about the job description. She then told me the only open available times to come in for an interview was the day they called me or the next day.

So they scheduled an interview and I was psyched that I got an interview and all that. So then I googled the company because I realized I had no idea what the company did. Turns out if you google Vector Marketing you end up with a bunch of forums and pages telling you it is a scam. I was shocked and researched further. Turns out they sell kitchen knives from a company called CUTCO. I also learned that every single person who has gone in for an interview says the interview is the easiest interview ever, then you go in for a group interview and they give you a long presentation about their knives.

Now to actually work for this company you have to buy a set of the knives to use as demonstration knives. It costs around $100. So before you would even start you are in the hole 100 bucks. Then I learned that you have to schedule “appointments” by your self with no help, and what I mean by that is you have to first rely on friends and family, and then you just have to find people by yourself, with no help from Vector. Also these appointments are how you get paid, $15 per appointment. So all in all, don’t fall for this. yes you could potentially make money off of this, but you would have to work extremely extremely hard to get the money. Don’t fall for it like i did. I don’t want the karma, but I would appreciate the upvotes so that other college and high school students on reddit can see this post. Thanks guys, and I hope your job prospects are going well.”

This next one sounds a little exaggerated.

“I went to the interview (without prior knowledge of the company) and I thought I wouldn’t get it because I was late 20 minutes (I wasn’t familiar with the area), but they took me in and treated me for a serious interview which I thought was weird considering my gaffe.

Then they said that I came just in time to watch a video to get a better understanding of the company. I thought no big deal, I mean I’m just spending my time here so far. It was a bullshit vague video that lasted 30 minutes. As soon as it ended and the lights were flipped on, the person next to me immediately turned to me to get me to buy something.

At that point I looked at the person and I said “are you serious?” He looked at me dumbfoundedly, “Are you seriously about to ‘sell’ me something during an interview?” He was trying to shush me (group interview) and trying to keep the conversation quiet.

I got up and said loudly to him “Thanks for wasting my time with this bullshit. If I would’ve known I had to actually pay for this crummy product that I never heard of before, I would’ve never showed up.” I left promptly, ripping the application up that he had for his ‘order’ and let it litter the floor as I left.

Some people, not all, followed me after.”

“Gonna get downvoted for this but what the hell.

Back in the day when I was a young lad, I also heard about this company. Read about it, realized what kind of feedback/press these companies were getting and decided to steer clear. Now I am a fairly outgoing guy and can generally sell most things. Even with this being the case, I still decided against it.

Now, my best friend on the other hand is this super quiet guy who on a separate occasion heard of the same opportunity. But instead of me, he took it upon himself to give it a try. It was hell for him the first little bit because not only did he have to sell this stuff, he really had top come out of his shell to even have a chance. But as it turned out, through trial by fire and brimstone he decided he was going to do a damn good job at it and did. Ended up making decent money over the summer and became super outgoing because of it.

tl;dr had a friend who became much more outgoing and social because he had to knock on strangers doors to sell knives. Good life experience if you are willing to see it that way.”

“I went in for an interview with this company YEARS ago. I noticed that my interviewer was younger than I was and had a stutter. At first it wasn’t a problem but I caught on that this was a bullshit scam, like amway, and played along just to see what the next step was because the details of the position are left purposely vague. The next step was a group presentation given to all of the candidates that still remained, 10-15 people scattered haphazardly among the folding chairs of the makeshift room of a rented second floor office in a highway strip mall. So Mr. Smith (we call him) started into his spiel about the company, which isn’t going along so well as he is nervous and stuttering a good deal more now he is the center of attention. This is when I get the giggles. Every time he seizes on a word I’m snickering uncontrollably. It gets to the point where he calls me out and I decide to leave. Felt like a champ, even though I was acting like a schmuck, unintentionally.

BTW its $15 an hour base pay by app. or apportionment from what I remember. What shady shit pay that means I have no idea.”