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Albert Speer
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Puerile Polemic
Mar 1999
time: 00:29
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I went there and told the workers about it. None of them should go back tomorrow. I also e-mailed NBC channel 10 news about it
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Last week, I recieved a mailing telling about Vector Marketing. The thing was that the mailing was very vague. It promised us 16.25 per appointment, no telephone sales or canvassing and various other appealing advantages but never said what Vector was nor what we'd be doing except that Vector was looking for students. The mailing then asked us to call (610) 664-5095 to set up an interview. If you call, the secretary refuses to tell you anything about the business or what you'd be doing and provides you with the time of your interview at, in my case, 135 Montgomery Avenue in Bala Cynwyd.
When I got there, I saw a small building next to a cleaners and had been told by the secretary to go around the back. There, I found about twenty other people, mostly out of high school with a few in college, waiting to be interviewed. No where was the word 'resume' ever mentioned nor was the job described until well into the 'group interview' that the branch manager, an Ankit Parikh gave. I was quickly getting suspicious.
After I learned Vector was a marketing company selling Cutco knives, I figured this couldn't be an illegit business as Cutco apparently had over 250 million dollars in sale and was a national company. Parikh then weeded off a few people after group interview, which basically was a sales pitch about Cutco then we were each given an individual interview. This was specifically designed, I soon learned, to make it seem like very few people were being hired when, according to former employees and their testimonies I found on the internet, Vector/Cutco probably hires everybody to scam as many people as possible.
We were then supposed to come the next to an unpaid training seminar which was basically a sales pitch about Cutco. Parikh went on to say that 6 out of 10 potential customers we'd call up and visit (no telemarketing or canvassing?) would buy and would spend an average of 190 dollars on knives.
Living in Philly (along with everyone of my other fellow trainees) this seemed odd. Who would buy expensives knives from a door to door salesman yet Parikh insisted that workers had made over one thousand in sales in their first two days.
The next day, a secretary put up posters all over the walls declaring all the immense sales of the workers which were unbelievable. Fortunately, the night before, while looking on the internet, I found dozens of websites declaring Cutco to be a scam where they grossly exaggerated the success of Vector salesmen, didn't mention the time involved in setting up appointments and getting to people's houses (which could take over three hours making 16.25 pay equivalent to minimum wage), and exaggerated the capabilities of Cutco knives.
At this second training seminar, I came early and waited by the door to show all my fellow trainees the dozens of websites I found and printed out. many had been suspicious of a scam and now knew those were suspicions were correct. Among the sites I showed them were...
http://atlas.spaceports.com/~cesquire/vector.html
http://www.petitiononline.com/vector/petition.html
http://www.geocities.com/cutcocompl...ctor_alcas.html
During Parikh's training, I recited from one of the sites and walked out and left. I hope that my fellow workers do not come back tomorrow for the next training but as the websites assured me, anyone who quits is immediately portrayed by Cutco managers as a quiter, whiner, or not "Cutco material" I hope the other workers are not brain-washed by this bullshit.
If you're wondering how Cutco got the names of so many students to mail to, they asked for our high school directories, which are usually illegal to use for sales or business purposes.
I hope that NBC10 does an expose on this company or something to warn hundreds of young high school graduates or college students to throw away any mail from Vector/Cutco |
Does that sound alright? Do you think they'd do an investigation?
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MRT144
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Seattle Washington
Oct 2002
time: 21:29
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good **** albert!
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Jack_www
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I think the same company does the same thing where I live. A few years a ago I go a letter in the mail sounding just like what you disscribed, but the place I went to was an office building. I went their for an interview but did not get an one one one because I did not have a car. And they still do it to this day putting flyers out around the collage I go to. These guys do this all around the country.
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Albert Speer
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Puerile Polemic
Mar 1999
time: 00:29
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Ming:
if they click one of the links, it's mentioned in there.
NBC 10 has been doing exposes for years on this kind of thing in the philly area so hopefully they'll investigate this
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Albert Speer
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Puerile Polemic
Mar 1999
time: 00:29
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Victor:
if they don't get back to me, i'll contact local Fox News which is the other station here in philly that is known for exposes
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MRT144
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Seattle Washington
Oct 2002
time: 21:29
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when are you gonna be taken away for deprogramming mad monk?
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