Thoughts on 'Commission Only' Sales Jobs

You'll be hard pressed to find someone for this unless they were very certain they could sell your product/service.

Personally I'd never take a job like that and would also never hire someone on a commission only contract. Very easy for them to find a better offer elsewhere and will just lead to an increase in frustration your end and high staff turnover.

Maybe a low base salary with high OTE might be a better solution.

You weren't 100% sure! when its well known there is such a thing as minimum wage and you want to employ someone, pull the other one.

slavery isn't permitted also, in case you weren't sure

I had a couple of experiences recently with door to door sales people, which might not be the same thing would be the sort of thing you can come up with.

In the first case an elderly relative was advised to change electricity provider, the issue with this is that the free electricity could only be handles by some providers, but not the one he moved to. Even though he got the creidt lodged to his current account, he did not really have the cognative ability to make the decision and he may have been taken advangage off.

In another case someone sold ma a broadband package and when teh docummentation arrived the package was completely different to what he sold me and I was asked to confirm the contract on a tablet.

With a high percentage of income based on comission, there is the risk that the person might engage in sharp practices to get sales, as a result there is an electricity provider and a broadband provider that I would never do business with again,

I cant see how companies think this sort of thing is a good idea, they must be doing long term damage to their brand.

Reflect on the damage that someone could do if they were motivated by the wrong thing.

I also had insurance sales people sell me stuff in the past, some of it was probably not in my best interest either, particularly a pension product I was sold at one point in time.

I think these Commission Only sales jobs are something North American I've seen them a couple of times in Canada.

In some industries they are more common place, mostly in selling some machine equipment or heating and cooling equipment for houses. Also realtors / real estate agencies seem to work that way in North America.

In Ireland, I don't know if that's even legal.