Comments on: Why I Will Never Own a Pink Cadillac

By: Lost File Cabinet Key

Lost File Cabinet Key — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:25:13 +0000

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By: Cheri Pryor

Cheri Pryor — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:32:33 +0000

btw…I have NEVER heard of Cutco knives. *GASP!*

By: Cheri Pryor

Cheri Pryor — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:31:17 +0000

I had to sell advertising for about 2 days until they found out I typed 90 wpm (on an electric typewriter no less!). I then became their typesetter-extraordinaire. I can’t tell you how much sweat came out of my body in the 2 days I was an “account executive”. Fancy title for a sucky job.
But I do love me some telemarkets. I completely waste their time by asking 4,327 questions about the product they want me to purchase/subscribe/make an appointment for and fein interest. THEY usually hang up on ME. I’m certain to end up in “ex-account executive hell” for teasing them. I should know better. I was them in a life long ago!

By: Dogmudgeon

Dogmudgeon — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:08:42 +0000

I used to sell Cutco knives. After 31 years, they’re still sharp as the day I started hustling them onto my friends and family. Once they see that patented Double-D Edge, they can’t say ‘no’! (Unfortunately, the attorney general of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania just did not know fine cutlery when he saw it.)
After my parole, I also sold Encyclopaedia Britannica, Amway crap (forgive me), Fuller Brushes, and finally, insurance — for Progressive, in fact, so now I have something in common with Stephanie Courtney. No, it isn’t good looks, charm, a career, a tricked-out name tag, or tens of thousands of smitten fans. But, gee whillikers, someday I will! Rev. Warren says I can do anything if I just work hard enough!
But for today, I toil in the fields of obscurity, workin’ for The Man every night and day.
I like your blog. “Nanny Goats In Panties”. That’s even better than pre-teen robot Japanese girl superheroes in skimpy clothing. Which, thanks to weekly shots of court-ordered Depo-Provera, no longer have anything to worry about from me.

By: dana

dana — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:43:03 +0000

I sold AMWAY cleaning products to my friends. They seemed to like them. I know I did. But I always felt like a pauper trying to SELL THINGS so I always charged MY price. Being an idiot, I never even TOLD them!! Never made a penny. Never sold another thing in my life.

By: Blicky Kitty

Blicky Kitty — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:43:07 +0000

OMG we have the Cutco set! I have to say I’m pretty satisfied. We use them to cut leather and soda cans mostly. One of the steak knives broke though. I can send it back to you, right? C/O NGIP.
My husband used to call the big one OJ. Funny guy.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:58:37 +0000

I love Cutco knives and so badly wish I had my very own set. You are a good sales girl after all.

By: The American Homemaker

The American Homemaker — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:57:12 +0000

I sold Mary Kay and did one whopping party. I hated selling something so expensive. Yes I loved the products, but if I can’t afford them, why would I talk others into buying them
I hate, hate, hate asking people for money. I have to do it for work sometimes and I can’t stand it. If I was better at it, I’d probably have a lot better of a program, but I just can’t do it.

By: Deidre

Deidre — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:01:46 +0000

One summer in college, I went door to door asking people for money for the environment. Selling stuff is hard, man!
In other words, I feel ya.

By: Jenners

Jenners — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:05:53 +0000

All I got out of this was Michael C. Hall … I love him. Love Dexter! So appropriate that he would have sold knives I think.
And I used to beg for money from alumni in college too. Easier then because there wasn’t really caller ID. I dodge those same phone calls now.

By: kat m

kat m — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:34:50 +0000

SOLD! except – oh wait, we have lots o knives already – ah well….
I once “sold” Kirby vacuum cleaners – OMG – in one month I made $146 and $100 was my boss taking pity on me and giving me one of his sales *LAUGH*

By: Yaya

Yaya — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:26:46 +0000

Well you beat my brother. He sold those knives for about 1 1/2 hours.

By: Laura

Laura — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:57:46 +0000

So that’s not you working on one of the many shopping channels? Would the world be a better place if their were fewer salespeople or fewer gullible people?
I pride myself in always saying “No” when someone tries to sell me anything. It’s the never-trust-someone-selling-you-something gene that I inherited from my parents.
Who wants a pink Cadillac anyway? Except all the Mary Kay ladies.

By: Breathe

Breathe — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:24:06 +0000

I can’t believe i never sold knives. Sure, I was a semi professional clown, but that seems so lame.
I do still have my foam nose. They are crap. don’t buy one.

By: midlife slices

midlife slices — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:02:22 +0000

You missed the one point that might have tipped me over to the “sold” side. Can you put them in the dishwasher….over and over and over again?
My handy dandy high dollar knife set from Cabelas says “no dishwasher” and it means it. ugh…

By: Larissa

Larissa — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:38:38 +0000

Those damned Cutco knives still sit in my kitchen today (minus the very tip of one my SO intelligent mother used to pry frozen hamburger patties apart with).
Great knives if you can afford to sell a limb for only a partial set.

By: Jen

Jen — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:20:38 +0000

My first ex sold Cutco knives. I’m not sure he actually sold any but I made sure I got the demo kit in the divorce. They are really great knives. Not sexy like those German knives we just had to register for our wedding but they work fantastically.
I’ve sold cars, balloons, books, clothing, all retail. It’s the MLM aspect of even great products that I am unable to do. I just don’t have enough friends that I feel comfortable giving up their names. I don’t have enough that I can afford to lose even one.

By: LiLu

LiLu — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:41:09 +0000

“for you scatalogical readers”
Why you gotta call me out like that?

By: Blond Duck

Blond Duck — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:13:51 +0000

When I worked at Gap, I talked people out of clothes. I didn’t work there very long.

By: mrsmouthy

mrsmouthy — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 06:10:14 +0000

I’d buy but two of my fingers have been bleeding for a week, thanks to my own Cutco knives. (And from two separate incidents.) Unless…does Cutco make anything in plastic?