<p>The BBB is a scam. It is not a government agency. BBB is a 501C non-profit that solicits “membership” donations from businesses. This creates an obvious conflict-of-interest problem because businesses themselves are the BBB’s source of income. But businesses are also their object of consumer complaint. So, if I as a consumer complain to the BBB, I’m complaining about one of their sources of income.
What happens when you file a BBB complaint? You fill out a BBB consumer complaint form and the business is allowed to respond to the complaint directly to the BBB (not to the consumer). The BBB then notes that the company attempted to resolve the case and the company keeps their A+ rating.</p>
<p>You pay for your demo at 75% off and whenever you stop if you dont want to keep the kit they will give you your 150$ back. they give you alot of stuff not just plain kitchen knives.
I work for another direct sales company now I get 45% of everything that I sell though. But it is a little tougher to get started than Cutco.</p>
<p>God… Someone ****ing help me. My name is Nick. I was reading these post on the subject of the Cutco knife company. I had a few questions. First off, I am very nervous with trusting this (SEEMINGLY) cutthroat company. My biggest concern is: I need to move out of my parent’s in 2-4 weeks, drop-out of my (continued) senior year, and raise my soon to be daughter. I have no idea where else to turn. I am scared, and confused. Am I making the right decision? I DO need experience. Bottom line is; “I got bills to pay, I got mouths to feed, ain’t nothin’ in this world for free…” Do you have any advice for a barely legal adult who needs to raise a family with his pregnant girl friend? I figure since you have worked for the company you would be able to some-what foretell whether this is my one shot “sink-or-swim” moment, or a complete bomb and waste of time with a fat dead end. Please help me.</p>
<p>Sales of anything is difficult if you don’t have the training or the desire.</p>
<p>Its been said that the very best salespeople are lawyers, especially trial lawyers.
Second best salepeople are teachers. </p>
<p>Cutco probably have very good knives but will the product make an improvement?</p>
<p>If you intend to go into sales, find something that will help people change their future.</p>
<p>i really dont think its a scam. im going in for training next week. and if it is your buying your demo set at 75% off so if they did then stop responding to you. you could sell those knives on ebay and make a profit. or you could keep them. because the knives are very high quality they have a forever guarantee.</p>
<p>My main issue with Cutco is that their marketing division pulls a bait and switch with respect to employment…my S didn’t want a sales position and he was told over the phone that he was being considered for an office position. He took the time and drove 25 miles to the office (can’t blame him when the promise was $16/hr) and sat through the sales pitch and was then told that the only positions were the sales positions.</p>
<p>I got a letter from Vector. I like how they try to hide the Cutco logo until you get in there. It’s dumb. Scam. Pay a lot of money to manipulate your friends and family. You could profit, but are highly likely not to. You just have to stay motivated. I scheduled my interview this morning, then googled it. Now, my interview for tomorrow, I will not show up.</p>
<p>Cutco is certainly not a scam at all. You pay something like $250 for your start up kit (with their business model of hiring kids, it’s smart to make them pay for their demo set since otherwise they would be giving away a lot of free knives), and then you get commissions on your sales in addition to something like $16 or $17ish for each demo you schedule. You aren’t required to do much other than contact friends and family to sell them knives. If you are comfortable doing that, then it could be a good job. If you aren’t, then it’s probably the wrong thing for you. The knives themselves are of quite excellent quality.</p>
<p>A few of my friends did the Cutco thing and did relatively well because they had no qualms about cold calling everyone in their personal networks. If you can’t profit on a $250 initial investment, you are doing something terribly, terribly wrong.</p>
<p>The problem many (most?) people have is qualms with guilt-tripping friends and family into buying the knives. Besides having better things to do over the summer, that was the biggest factor against it for me.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, the actual stuff you need to do seems terrible to me, but it is a personal preference thing. If you’re really good, you wouldn’t need to guilt-trip friends and family. Good salespeople make their customers feel like they are winning on the transaction… it isn’t a matter of “buy these knives so I can have money for college,” but rather “your purchase of these knives will improve your daily life in a more meaningful way than the money you would have saved… and you know it.”</p>
<p>It just isn’t a job suited for everyone (thus the absurdly high turnover rate, even for the demographic of salespeople they hire).</p>
<p>Agreed, though even if you’re a good salesmen a lot of F&F will buy just to be nice. You don’t have to intentionally guilt trip to do so, which is what killed the idea for me. Again, nothing against people who like this kind of work, and kudos to those who did very well. Just not the kind of work for me. I enjoy sales, but I prefer to work with people I don’t know outside of business.</p>
<p>I currently work for. Cutco( still in fast start) I hate it. They say it’s a flexible job and you help the customer. Although I do like the product they are very high end no doubt about it. This job is killing me on the inside. I had told them I wanted just a part time job bit yet they are expecting me to fill and entire weekend full of appointments. This is not a stable job. I highly discourage this job for people who have trouble with stress. This job isn’t for me and I am gonna bail out on this job ASAP. I am not a guy who don’t like hard work I prefer more of a labor job ( factory work ect.) I need a more stable job. Where it’s possible to get 40hrs. Week but with this job you can’t. The product is great but selling sucks.</p>