Nena
Santa Clara,#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Tue, June 24, 2008
So last summer i responded to an ad in the local newspaper for office help. Just like everybody else i got an interview and a second interview and i was a sucker and PREGNANT! and wanted to work. So they promise you your own office in 6 weeks and 30,000 a year starting. YEAH RIGHT!!!!!! My experience there was AWFULL!!!!!! so the first two days you show up at 845 in the morning taking notes all day until about 2 pm. Afterwards and everyday after that you start at 8 in the morning and by noon they load up cars filled with employees and their cheap perfume to sell on the streets of different cities all over they bay area! I personally was all over san jose, mountain view, redwood city,gilroy, campell and oakland. There is NO paycheck and the way you make your money is that you sell the perfume on the street for whatever you can, but nothing lower than 20 dollars because that money is what pays liz and evan! They are not just business partners but also a couple which they also don tell you! So you go out everyday and there is a meet up time where you meet up at the office turn in your cash and get more bottles. This is usually around 6 or 7 pm. The same thing happens all week. HOWEVER things are a little different on fridays because on fridays they send out "fun cars" which basically means you take a whole lot of perfume and go out of town for the weekend to sell this cheap perfume! I went every weekend i was there for 3 months! I went to madera, fresno, merced, vallejo, los banos on the weekends. You pay for your hotel by selling perfume bottles! And the way you get promoted to your own office is by selling a certain amount of bottles! not by training for 6 weeks. BOTTOM LINE.....this is a scam and something needs to be done because im sure soliciting on the streets with an imitation product is not legall! ****NOTE***** we were almost arrested by the local police for this! several times because you need a permit to sell on the streets and most of them thought we were prostitutes! SAD
Nena
Santa Clara,#3UPDATE EX-employee responds
Tue, June 24, 2008
So last summer i responded to an ad in the local newspaper for office help. Just like everybody else i got an interview and a second interview and i was a sucker and PREGNANT! and wanted to work. So they promise you your own office in 6 weeks and 30,000 a year starting. YEAH RIGHT!!!!!! My experience there was AWFULL!!!!!! so the first two days you show up at 845 in the morning taking notes all day until about 2 pm. Afterwards and everyday after that you start at 8 in the morning and by noon they load up cars filled with employees and their cheap perfume to sell on the streets of different cities all over they bay area! I personally was all over san jose, mountain view, redwood city,gilroy, campell and oakland. There is NO paycheck and the way you make your money is that you sell the perfume on the street for whatever you can, but nothing lower than 20 dollars because that money is what pays liz and evan! They are not just business partners but also a couple which they also don tell you! So you go out everyday and there is a meet up time where you meet up at the office turn in your cash and get more bottles. This is usually around 6 or 7 pm. The same thing happens all week. HOWEVER things are a little different on fridays because on fridays they send out "fun cars" which basically means you take a whole lot of perfume and go out of town for the weekend to sell this cheap perfume! I went every weekend i was there for 3 months! I went to madera, fresno, merced, vallejo, los banos on the weekends. You pay for your hotel by selling perfume bottles! And the way you get promoted to your own office is by selling a certain amount of bottles! not by training for 6 weeks. BOTTOM LINE.....this is a scam and something needs to be done because im sure soliciting on the streets with an imitation product is not legall! ****NOTE***** we were almost arrested by the local police for this! several times because you need a permit to sell on the streets and most of them thought we were prostitutes! SAD
Nena
Santa Clara,#4UPDATE EX-employee responds
Tue, June 24, 2008
So last summer i responded to an ad in the local newspaper for office help. Just like everybody else i got an interview and a second interview and i was a sucker and PREGNANT! and wanted to work. So they promise you your own office in 6 weeks and 30,000 a year starting. YEAH RIGHT!!!!!! My experience there was AWFULL!!!!!! so the first two days you show up at 845 in the morning taking notes all day until about 2 pm. Afterwards and everyday after that you start at 8 in the morning and by noon they load up cars filled with employees and their cheap perfume to sell on the streets of different cities all over they bay area! I personally was all over san jose, mountain view, redwood city,gilroy, campell and oakland. There is NO paycheck and the way you make your money is that you sell the perfume on the street for whatever you can, but nothing lower than 20 dollars because that money is what pays liz and evan! They are not just business partners but also a couple which they also don tell you! So you go out everyday and there is a meet up time where you meet up at the office turn in your cash and get more bottles. This is usually around 6 or 7 pm. The same thing happens all week. HOWEVER things are a little different on fridays because on fridays they send out "fun cars" which basically means you take a whole lot of perfume and go out of town for the weekend to sell this cheap perfume! I went every weekend i was there for 3 months! I went to madera, fresno, merced, vallejo, los banos on the weekends. You pay for your hotel by selling perfume bottles! And the way you get promoted to your own office is by selling a certain amount of bottles! not by training for 6 weeks. BOTTOM LINE.....this is a scam and something needs to be done because im sure soliciting on the streets with an imitation product is not legall! ****NOTE***** we were almost arrested by the local police for this! several times because you need a permit to sell on the streets and most of them thought we were prostitutes! SAD
Stop Scentura
San Diego,#5UPDATE EX-employee responds
Sat, April 05, 2008
They are for the same company which is a distributor of Scentura Creations. They recruit you, impressionable people to peddle knock-off perfume on the streets. Please see ripoffreport link for more info: http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/266/RipOff0266748.htm The office help is part of your Branch Manager training program where you are paid on commission based sales from the $28 perfume bottles you sell. You are paid in cash and no taxes are paid, no actual paycheck or 1009. They lie and mislead you and do not tell you about selling on the street. There is always a contest on your first day and they encourage you to sell to FFAR (friends, Family and Relatives). They use these tactics every week over and over again to make their money. Please the see following links on how to shut them down! http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=scentura+shut+down&qt_s=Search+Groups You must take action or nothing will be done.