Knife scam?

guy at my high school sold beef jerkey.

he got $3 a day from me. it was pretty good stuff.

You Can, make $10-15 an hour with door to door sales.
You could also make <$1/hour.

Not many people want to buy knives this way anymore.

It was easier to do these types of sales before internet.

As far as having high school age kids do it. I think it's great. Will teach them how to do a balance sheet, a sales forecast, how to manage inventory and how to deal with customers. Better than bringing home a box of chocolate "that the school can't take back", forcing the parents to buy the entire box. By the way, anyone want some frozen six month old candy bars?

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Great knives. It's legit.

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Found another salesman.

It's not a scam (been around forever), but it's the equivalent of other in home sales shite. You can go to any store and buy knives. I don't want some stranger in my house selling me something I can get anywhere.

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We had a friends kid come by and bought some knives from him. He went to Catholic High. Great knives. It's legit.

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Might have been the same guy that sold my parents some knives. Also a CHS kid and family friend. They didn't really need the knives but wanted to support him. I got a peeler out of the deal.

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It's not a scam (been around forever), but it's the equivalent of other in home sales shite. You can go to any store and buy knives. I don't want some stranger in my house selling me something I can get anywhere.

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Not to mention the knives are WAY overpriced for what they are. For what you'd spend on those, you could get a much better set elsewhere.

I've had a pair of cutco kitchen shears for over 15 years and they are still awesome.

The knife set gave me sticker shock and I didn't buy them.

you answer the ad and go to this building across the street from the strip club and this dude with spiky hair and a suit is all like "yeah you see my bmw outside, you're gonna get one too" and it's mostly you and ghetto kids but by the second day of "training" its just you and like 2 other regular kids and then you pay 300 bucks to buy some knives (they're pretty good knives though) and then you proceed to hitting up your high school directory and your friends' parents will see the demonstration because they're nice but you quickly find out that a long procession of dudes that graduated before you already sold everything there was to sell to these people but they'll buy the cutting boards or something

basically try a newer fad product, cutco's been going on like 40 years and everybody who's ever gonna buy already bought

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As far as having high school age kids do it. I think it's great. Will teach them how to do a balance sheet, a sales forecast, how to manage inventory and how to deal with customers

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nah not really, you do the same sales pitch every time and they fill out in a book what they want and it gets mailed to them

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Anybody heard about the trend of people particularly high school and college kids selling Cutco Knives?

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What about taxes, and travel expenses and the documentation that goes along with being a salesperson? Maybe I'm too skeptical.

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You're not skeptical, you're logical. This is just another one of those "be your own boss" marketing schemes that catch people's attention because they make it sound so easy to make money.

I know quite a few young women who've done Pampered Chef, Stella and Dot, It Works, Mary Kate, Juice Plus, Advocare, Rodan and Fields, and so on. They make a few bucks at it, but by the time you factor in the amount of time spent at it and expenses for travel and hosting "parties" to try to sell to family/friends....its not worth it and they end up quitting. Always the same people over and over...quit one of those programs because the little bit of income wasn't worth all the time and effort or they ran out of friends/family to sell to.