Originally posted by Gollnick
If one of their lawyers thinks your complaint has potential, then they instruct you on how to set up a website such as the Cutco one and try to attract others to your case. Of course, if you attract enough people, then the lawyers will work on the case.
bigclassaction.com gives you a brief lesson in class action lawsuits. They give you a cursory evaluation of your potential case, and then they send you out on your own to try and sell your case to others. If you do sell it, bigclassaction.com's lawyers take the case and persue it for you. But bigclassaction.com's investment in you and your case is minimal. If you fail, it's very little skin off their teeth. If you can attract a huge interest, bigclassaction.com profits from the footwork (literally) that you do. bigclassaction.com gets all the upside with very, very little downside risk. You do the hard work, you take all the risks, and they reap the profits.
At bigclassaction.com you are not sent on your own to sell your case as you said, you send them a complaint and they send it to lawyers who subscribe to bigclassaction.com then the lawyers decide whether or not they want to take the case. The site is just a tool for lawyers who want to recieve complaints so they can generate cases and for people are are interested in forming or joining class action lawsuits so they can have their complaints sent to lawyers. This is pretty obvious just from visiting the site, which from the looks of it you never did.
bigclassaction.com will not lie, cheat, decieve, or manipulate you like Vector will. They tell you right upfront what they are and what they do. They don't go putsying around with things like "customer service/sales position in housewares and sporting goods with no telemarketing or door to door sales" telling you "positions are filling up fast but I can squeeze you in for an interview at such and such time" scheduling a weeks worth of inquiries for a sales pitch on a job at that certain time making it look like the place always has that many people coming in for jobs and telling them "there's just a few positions available." Then after making you play dress-up, boasting vaguely about the job for some time, having you watch videos, and sitting through a sales pitch demonstration they finally let you know you sell knives. Of course the parts about being an independent contractor with no employee rights or benefits, buying or putting a deposit on a demonstration set, soliciting your appts over the phone, and starting with your friends and family all come later once they've buttered you up even more. Then there's all the deceptive misinformation they give about their company and products like the Henckels ad showing an 18 pc set of Henckels 5 star for over a grand when you can buy 18 pc sets at cooking.com for less than $500:
http://www.geocities.com/cutcocomplaints/henckelsad.html
and a training manual saying Henckels 5 Star is made out of 420A steel and only one type of edge:
http://www.geocities.com/cutcocomplaints/training1.html
or saying they give out $170,000 in scholarships:
http://www.vectorscholarships.com/
when $120,000 of it are not even real scholarships but instead are just donations to their rep's schools without paying their tuition, room and board, or benefitting them financially at all so Vector can get some goodwill with the school while they still call it a scholarship during recruiting:
http://www.vectorscholarships.com/regional-program.htm
and of the remaining actual real scholarships only 100 of their reps get while in 2002 they claimed 40,000 recruits just that summer (one quarter of one percent) in 500 offices (1 person per 5 offices) which only 3 or 4 got the maximum amount of $1000 while 60 of them only get $250 ($100 more than they put down for the knives)- of course they don't tell you these things in training, they just boast about endless scholarship opportunities.
I have experience with both businesses having worked for Vector myself and having sent a complaint to bigclassaction.com and in my opinion Vector Marketing and bigclassaction.com are not even in the same league when it comes to shady and scamful business practices just like in that site creator's opinion Vector Marketing and Mary Kay are not in the same league when it comes to deceptive and deceitful business practices.
p.s. Where on earth did you get the idea bigclassaction.com instructs you to set up a site like the Cutco one? They never instructed me to do that and in fact I know they never instructed the creator of the site Ash linked to to set up that site because she put up the site before she ever heard of bigclassaction.com, here's an archive of the site in 2002 before bigclassaction.com was even linked to:
http://web.archive.org/web/20021201...s.com/cutcocomplaints/cutco_vector_alcas.html
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Yeah, I noticed that, too....seems a bit odd. But the facts on that site are credible enough, and the number of disgruntled former employees is so great, that I'm gonna trust her (Kay Bible) and cancel the interview.
