Vector is not quite a scam. However, it is exceptionally deceptive. I got scammed because I got into mid-level management... And got evicted. This is my story.
I began working as a sales rep in the spring of 2007. I earned around $3k over the summer and continued to work "full time" (doing 3-8 presentations per week and working 40 hours per week as an Assistant Manager) during the following fall. I had heard from several of my friends that Vector was a scam; I researched it; I thought I had all the answers.
I thought people only got paid because they didn't sit down with qualified customers. Wrong. There's a document every manager has, describing how to take someone off of base pay and make them WANT to receive commissions only.
I thought managers did not get paid for "selling" sample kits. Wrong. Each manager earns $25 for each sample kit they "sell."
I thought managers only accepted maybe 50% of their applicants. Wrong. The standard is about 90% nationally.
{I have photographic evidence of the above.}
Most importantly of all, I believed my Division Manager when he gave us a document stating that the average Branch Manager NETS $5,000 in their first summer. (If there's a lawyer reading this - could I use that document to sue him, since of 4 branch managers last summer, none netted ANY profit whatsoever?)
I was an absolute MORON.
I wound up investing over $4,000 of my own money.in April, May and June, I was doing OKAY; not fabulously but I was surviving. But in the third week of June everything went to pieces. I was spending - at my manager's advice - more than I was earning (and none of it on personal stuff, by the way; I can prove that. I didn't even have a DVD player; I wasn't even able to make car payments). My manager had told me that if I ever got into a tight spot I could borrow $5,000 from Corporate without any interest.By the first week of July, I was DEEP in the red - we're talking thousands of dollars in the red.
I e-mailed to ask for money and got rejected; to this day it has not been explained. I got evicted from my personal "apartment" (which was actually one room in a two-room apartment - AND I shared it with another local manager! - it was cheap). I wound up sleeping in a HOMELESS SHELTER for five weeks because the company still refused to lend me money. (At the time, by the way, I was a 19-year-old female.) In fact, I got yelled at by my manager for "allowing" it to happen.
So please, if you're reading this, do not become a Vector manager. It will ruin your life. If you're a lawyer who's reading this, I'd love to talk to you. I want to take this evil empire DOWN. If you want to see some of my evidence, please contact me. I'd be more than happy to provide it.
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