<p>It’s a smam…Vector uses impressionable kids who think $17.50 is a lot of money! WOW! You make the money by appointment. A friend of mine does it cause he couldn’t find anything else…its pathetic.</p>
<p>cali, It seems like every one of your posts is bitter and negative. I can’t imagine how you can go through life happy with such a cynical attitude toward everything. Everyone and everything is <em>pathetic</em> to you. Is this any way to be happy?</p>
<p>my in-laws have a set of Cutco knives. they work great and have lasted for decades. I love using them when I visit – I have Wustoff knives at home. I think maybe we don’t care for them like we should – we only sharpen them every couple of months.</p>
<p>Once when I was considering purchasing some Cutco, I did some checking around – if you are seriously interested, you could easily purchase the knives on Ebay or Craigslist for less than the home-sales route, although they are still expensive.</p>
<p>The daughter of a college friend in VA started selling Cutco 5 years ago when she finished high school. She continues to sell them to this day and has made a LOT of money. My friends who have bought the knives swear by them and say they’re so sharp that you have to be careful not to cut yourself when using them. I’ve never tried them but if someone offered to come to my house to demonstrate them, I’d probably agree - they sound great!</p>
<p>My mom, who if she was still alive would be 86 years old, had Cutco for as long as I can remember, and slowly over the years, gifted us with pieces for special occasions. When she moved into an assisted living facility and was getting rid of things, I was very vocal about wanting her table knife (we refer to them as steak knives) set and was thrilled to get it.</p>
<p>When I got married 23 years ago, some people sent us pieces of other brand-name cutlery, and I did not like it. Yes, it may be expensive, but when I buy a piece, I know I will never have to buy that specific knife ever again, and will probably be able to pass it down to my own daughters some day because it’s made so well. </p>
<p>I had never bought any pieces myself before, so when a college-age kid we know called up a couple of weeks ago, I was thrilled when I learned he was selling Cutco. He, too, is majoring in business and absolutely did not put any pressure on me to buy anything… he just wanted the practice. </p>
<p>I am a snob for scissors (I label scissors in our house which can be used for fabric, and which cannot), and thought it was high time I get the Cutco ones. I also got the cheese knife (I’ve been through about four of other brands that eventually break or have a poor design), the turning fork and a petite slicer. The stuff arrived yesterday, and I used the cheese knife for the first time today… absolutely brilliant design - wish I hadn’t bought all those other name brand ones. Unfortunately my invoice does not show how much each piece was, but I know that for a good pair of Gingher scissors, I pay at least $40 for them, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the Cutco scissors were in the $50 range. But you know what? I’ll never have to buy another pair again (unless I lose them, or someone walks off with them).</p>
<p>By the way, the kid who sold them to me, I heard has already been ‘promoted’ twice since he began over a month ago. One thing he shared with me - he said his best customer so far has been the person who already owns the most Cutco. The stuff sells itself if you give it a chance.</p>
<p>The sandwich maker!!! How can you make a sandwich without one?</p>
<p>You may like Cutco knives but they use and abuse students. Do a search
on Cutco on sights such as Scam.com…</p>
<p>OK, I did a search on that site for “Cutco” and “abuse” and nothing came up. Then I did a search for just “Cutco” and it was a discussion board (similar to this).</p>
<p>I don’t know about you, but I have to have a lot more evidence than just discussion boards before I believe stuff like <em>abuse</em>.</p>
<p>Seems like everyone who has posted that actually owns Cutco likes them. When my friend’s son was here the other day we did some comparisons:</p>
<p>Cutco knives cost less than Henkels (remember, I have an entire professional set of Henkels) and are 100% life time guaranteed. I have received a brand new knife, when one of my older ones needed sharpening. I have had so many other knives come apart, get too dull to sharpen, etc. These just hold their sharpness and the handles stay nice.</p>
<p>Dishwasher safe! Handles are not wood and won’t split, crack, fade
The scissors do work really, really well.
The cheese knife is totally unique and works really, really well
The individual knives do not cost more than the sets, so you can buy them one at a time if you want. We compared the package prices and individual prices.<br>
You can buy some of their smaller knives for about $28, not the $50 someone mentioned earlier.</p>
<p>The students are paid $18/hr presentation. Not a bad first job salary.</p>
<p>You are under NO obligation to buy or give referrals. they are paid to make their presentation.</p>
<p>It is not a scam. It is direct sales. If you buy your knives from a retail store, remember, some of the cost goes to the middle man, the retail real estate etc. so the $ amount that actually goes into the knife is less. You do have to pay shipping…</p>
<p>This thread is very dangerous.</p>
<p>It is making me more and more attracted to buy more CUTCO! Seriously.
I HATE my current set of knives.</p>
<p>They tried to recruit my son. A quick google search yielded:</p>
<p><a href=“http://cutcocomplaints.blogspot.com/[/url]”>http://cutcocomplaints.blogspot.com/</a>
<a href=“http://consumeraffairs.com/news03/save.html[/url]”>http://consumeraffairs.com/news03/save.html</a>
<a href=“http://news.statesmanjournal.com/article.cfm?i=85450[/url]”>http://news.statesmanjournal.com/article.cfm?i=85450</a></p>
<p>The young man who came to our house has made his investment back in spades already this summer.</p>
<p>I guess if you don’t want to go out and beat the pavement you might be upset about spending $150 to set yourself up in a business. Welcome to the real world. That’s still a small cost to realize that maybe you’re not cut out for marketing/sales. And even if someone didn’t sell a SINGLE THING, $150 ain’t bad for a summer of the best presentation training you can buy. OH, unless you sat on your a** all summer and didn’t do anything; then I guess you won’t learn a thing.</p>
<p>My son got a letter from “Vector”</p>
<p>It didn’t even say “Vector Marketing”</p>
<p>That’s the problem I have with it. This letter described a “job” without saying what, for whom, where, or anything. When I looked closely at the “bullet points” I have to say it was misleading.</p>
<p>I had to google the firm Vector to find out that “Vector Marketing” is the company that sells Cutco knives. OK, thank you, not interested. </p>
<p>That type of misleading come-on may have worked 20 years ago, but now we have the internet. Why not just state in the letter that they are looking for sales reps to sell Cutco knives door to door? Hey, I had a similar experience with Kirby vacuums when I was in college. Fantastic high end very expensive product. Didn’t sell any. Lasted about 2 weeks.</p>
<p>Oh please, if you love your friends, family, and neighbors, do NOT inflict the pain of this upon them. I have known quite a few college students personally who have sold these items. They are expensive and friends, family, neighbors hate to say no to students they have known all their lives and it just becomes an awful mess. Friends, family, neighbors spending more money than they should on these items -a terrible imposition-
Please advise your child to find some other line of work.</p>
<p>I guess I just think an hour of my time is ok to help a kid who is trying to do something challenging. It is perfectly ok to say no to buying. I prefaced my appointment with “I will let you practice your pitch on me” but I probably won’t buy anything today. His answer “thank you! I get paid for the hour and I need to practice.”</p>
<p>Several of the neighborhood kids (who I’ve known since they were 3rd graders – the years we moved into this house) are doing Cutco. Very expensive. I had wanted to get more stuff, but I couldn’t justify the cost. My salesperson was the wonderful young woman across the street who is trying mightily to make money for school. I felt ike writing <em>her</em> a check instead.</p>
<p>people…
Part of the learning experience is dealing with rejection!
These kids can handle it! If they can’t, they will find out now, before it’s too late, that <em>sales</em> is not the career for them.
For crying out loud, they get $18 bucks just for the one hour presentation. Not too shabby.</p>
<p>If you love your kids, please do not inflict the pain of performing arts upon them. They will have to try out, audition for, parts…and will receive rejection upon rejection. It just becomes an awful experience. Tell your children to find another line of work!
:rolleyes:</p>
<p>Never used the knives, I will look for them at Goodwill. </p>
<p>But I what really want to say is that the knives are a product that are probably pretty good, better than average, but more relatively expensive than what most people are used to. If you use knives extensively, its probably a good value, if you don’t used them, its probably a bad value. </p>
<p>There probably is a statistic somewhere that says that college graduates feel that their major is a bunch of hooey and some will say their Dream education was great. The question that comes to mind is how much to Hooey cost compared to to the Dream?</p>
<p>My neighbor friend is a business major and is by nature somewhat shy, and I was impressed at how she has learned to present herself. I just recoil at the sales jobs, because I know I would starve if forced to do it!</p>