have u heard of Onyx marketing?

R.Shackleford

Hi im just wondering had anyone had any experience with a company called "ONYX Marketing" i have a job interview coming up with them an im just want to find more info on them as they dont have a website. ive got a feeling it may be door to door sales.
any information would be great.:)

Dravokivich

(Dammit sorry Link irrelevnat gimme a sec gotta double check...)

K... here i go again...

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=63302814&postcount=20

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basic post there about another guy who had an interview with them. Marketing jobs by quick shoot companies like this are in abundance.

A quick search and i found at least 20 sites advertising jobs for Onyx. Must have a high staff turn over (Never a good thing), personally I'd avoid it.

- Drav!

leggo

Con job. Worked in a similar company...who are under the same umbrella as Onyx...and walked out after two weeks. It's a glorified pyramid scheme. Though people who work there won't admit it...as they're brainwashed into believing they can be millionaires as soon as next week. They work up to 60-70 hour weeks selling Sky, Eircom etc on a commission basis. You'll come out with about E200 a week if you're VERY lucky. That's about E3.50 per hour.

Take away transport costs, costs of buying lunch etc and you're left without a life and broke.

AVOID!!!

Do NOT think that because we're in a recession you NEED this job and do NOT believe their lies. The bigwigs pay people off to pretend to be rich from these schemes (read up on network marketing if you don't believe me) to con you further. They prey on those who think they 'need' this job. It's not even the 'manager's' fault, he's the most conned person of it all.

As you can see, I could rant on all day about this. I've done research into this and the depth at which people are conned is scary. It bears repeating though...

AVOID!

Gillington

I've had similar experiences,worked for a crowd who(I think) are from the same crowd as ONYX,the way it works,the people who are interested in this line of work go on for about a year workin for a similar crowd then set up their own branch,its not a compnay per se,just as I ay "their" branch of it.

I sold Sky Digital Door to door,was trained for a week were you make no money as you are not allowed sell on your own.Then it falls under a pyramid scheme,I think it was you get 60% of your sales in your wages then the remainding 40% in 3 months,s basically it takes you 3 months to get a full weeks wages.

Some people are naturals at it so OP if you are going for it and you like it I wish you all the best.But as they even tell you themselves,its a numbers game,the more you people you try to sell to the more sales you will make,similarly the more people they get going for interviews,the more that will take the job.

EskimoJack

Stay away from these con artists

Patser

Lasted one day in a job like this while in Australia years ago.

Basically you're on door to door sales, working off commision. So if you're a natural sales person, maybe it'll work out for you, but remember you've no control over what and where you're selling - could be Sky, could be stuffed teddy bears.

The 'scam' part of it, the bit where they promise you big bucks, is that if you last you'll get a trainee under you and a percentage of their sales too. Last longer do well and you'll get to be manager of a branch getting commission off everyones sales. That's why the managers want you in so much, try to sell it so hard to you, the more workers the more they earn (also the fact they are now a manager shows they're good at sales having gone through the trenches). So they'll always be looking for staff as they're always expanding, but most people last less than a week on crap earnings and long days.

noodler

Con.

R.Shackleford

Thanks for the replys folks. Im definitely going to avoid this one and tell them i cant make it. It was too good to be true, just glad i coped it before going all the way into the interview. I wish the job websites would be more strict on how companies word their job vacancies. Onyx had the job down as an "junior marketing executive"
Ah well back to the hunt! Thanks again.

jr1984

i have an interview with these to, i will not be going there now, thank god for boards

muffy

Just had an interview there today, I should of known something was wrong since I've been called back for a second interview despite basically telling the interviewer I had no idea what the company did... makes me prime candidate for brainwashing!

sweepingbrush

sweepingbrush wrote: »

oh no i have a second interview tomoro n im so unsure wat to do now

Don't go?

Romka

leggo wrote: »

Do NOT think that because we're in a recession you NEED this job and do NOT believe their lies. The bigwigs pay people off to pretend to be rich from these schemes (read up on network marketing if you don't believe me) to con you further. They prey on those who think they 'need' this job. It's not even the 'manager's' fault, he's the most conned person of it all.

As you can see, I could rant on all day about this. I've done research into this and the depth at which people are conned is scary. It bears repeating though...

AVOID!

Network Marketing is totally different scheme than door-to-door sales on commission. Read a book of Robert Kiyosaki 'Business of 21st century' and you will understand why

Denerick

I had an interview with one of these kinds of companies. I rang before the interview yesterday and asked straight up if it was door to door marketing. She said it was. I asked why they didn't mention this on the add. She gave a typically evasive answer. I said I thought they were dishonest, wrong for getting peoples hopes up, and that I wouldn't be going to the interview. I've a good mind to report ACT marketing to the advertising standards body. Fúcking disgraceful.