Vector Marketing at OU: Are They Legit?

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I am going to let you know off the rip that Vector Marketing IS NOT a scam. They have developed a bad reputation through fishy hiring practices and a past of making mistakes resulting in several lawsuits. One of those mistakes was having sales reps buy into their product to start selling their product, this was a scam, but since 2011 Vector Marketing has not been doing that.

Vector Marketing is a sales company branching off of Cutco to help sell Cutco knives. The quality and price of Cutco knives are questionable, but they are a real product. If you work with Vector Marketing your goal is to sell a real product. This article isn’t to tell students that you bought into a scam or that you’re being scammed if you scheduled an interview with them; this article is to tell students exactly what they signed up for. My experience with the Vector Marketing table was very pleasant, but I walked away not really knowing what they did or how they operated.

If you look it up you’re going to be told by a bunch of redditors that Vector Marketing is a scam. This isn’t 100% true, but I can see where they get that idea. Vector Marketing’s approach to recruitment is definitely suspicious and I thought for sure it was a scam when first interacting with them. However their tactic of recruiting students to sell their product is just a way of getting cutco products in front of more people. They pay the student to set up meetings with potential customers of cutco products. To me the numbers are a little absurd, like giving students $25 to have a meeting with a potential buyer of a 150 dollar knife doesn’t seem that sustainable, but I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt that

cutco maybe just has really good margins.

You aren’t paid hourly or are given paid training. All training is unpaid and the

interview process is really easy for this reason. If you walked away from their table thinking Vector Marketing is for sure a scam like I did, do some more digging, you’ll be surprised at what you find. Door to door sales is basically what they do and you could do 100 calls and not be paid, but this is typical of most sales jobs,

you need results to get paid.

Before you think that this article is a paid sponsorship for Vector Marketing, I do not recommend selling overpriced Knives if you want a job as a sales rep as there

are better perceived companies to work with that pay more. I am just giving you guys as students more awareness of what Vector Marketing is because their table was busy in the Oakland Center today and like me you guys are probably going to walk away with a lot of questions about their credibility as a business.

Stay Safe OU

-Elliott Zech

(Assistant News Director at WXOU)