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Anyone know about a company called Marketsource, got a call from them randomly about how they saw my resume online and want to know if i could interview for a HP Rep job for local Best Buys, but it all just seems sketchy, googled it and there are reports of it being a scam but those are rebutted by other posts but the other posts seem kind of like those that would be put out by the army of drones.

This feels really shady, maybe shego can use her super google/stalker skills to see if she can pull up some stuff. All the negative stuff I see is on rip off report but thats the only site I can find with shit about them.

Has anyone in the history of the world ever thought "this is a scam!" and then it turned out it was completely legit?

when you start typing "marketsource" into google, the first thing that comes up as an autocomplete suggestion is "marketsource scam." That should tell you something right there.

Scam. Scam scam scam.

Let me say it more clearly:

SCAM!!

All I read was the topic title and without a doubt, yes.

unless you apply for them initially, it is a scam. (the headhunter site)

Yeah. Apparently they are the ones that do provide reps for HP to Best Buy, a buddy that works at Best Buy confirmed this but that's really all he knew about it. From the shit on rip off report though it seems like they dick people over by randomly changing schedules and calling you to come in and having you drive to stores hours away without gas or travel pay.

They want me to interview with "Tim Latendresse – Territory Manager HP US Retail" tomorrow night, hut upon searching him I find no connection to hewlett packard, but his phone number does match up with
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his location on facebook but yeah basically sounds shady as fuck and I am going to write them a lengthy email after classes are done.

also I fucking hate the browser on my TouchPad because it won't let me edit my post when I accidently bumped submit.

Seems legit.

/trollface

HoboNinja said:

yeah basically sounds shady as fuck and I am going to write them a lengthy email after classes are done.

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Oh shit. They're in trouble now. Better hide, scammy fuckers, a strongly worded negative email is headed your way.

[De-snarked: don't bother with the email, they won't care]

Yeah man!

Yeah I saw that, I have people on facebook telling me I should take the interview / job anyways and just quit if it sucks but I think why the fuck waste my time with some asshole company... so I just sent them an email telling them I was not interested in the interview.

Likely completely legit, they just fuck you over.

Companies that contact folks out of the blue tend to do that because they're basically contracted to fill high-churn positions on short notice. Insurance companies in particular like doing that.

For them it's all a numbers game, so they don't give a shit if you stay a month then leave pissed off.

Not all headhunters are light-experience-and-up placement agencies, especially in large potential labor-force areas. In the Tri-State, we have headhunters for pretty much every possible level.

So many insurance companies in my area do this for phone sales positions. 3rd-party headhunter sends you emails/vmail about [insert position your skillset is perfect for!] and tell you to come to [insert location], and then you get there and it turns out its for insurance.

The churn is so high, the base pay so low, and the call script so polished, that all they need are enough warm bodies to hit that 0.5% conversion number, and they're done. They basically prey on minimum-wage workers who want to get out of their retail job and who aren't experienced enough to understand how sales commissions work.

You are an idiot for not going. This company pays about 15/hr working 20 hrs a week. Completely legit. I worked there for 2 years. One of the best jobs I've ever had. Not a scam at all. They are just a marketing company. Large clients(HP, T-mobile, Samsung, etc) hire them to drive sales in a retail environment.

I'm not sure an anonymous reply calling the OP an idiot for not going to something that sounds iffy is going to sway anyone in here thats it's super legit all the sudden...

Espy said:

I'm not sure an anonymous reply calling the OP an idiot for not going to something that sounds iffy is going to sway anyone in here thats it's super legit all the sudden...

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I say trolling cause if it was legit, the person posting wouldn't be anonymous

HoboNinja said:

Yeah. Apparently they are the ones that do provide reps for HP to Best Buy, a buddy that works at Best Buy confirmed this but that's really all he knew about it. From the shit on rip off report though it seems like they dick people over by randomly changing schedules and calling you to come in and having you drive to stores hours away without gas or travel pay.

They want me to interview with "Tim Latendresse – Territory Manager HP US Retail" tomorrow night, hut upon searching him I find no connection to hewlett packard, but his phone number does match up with
Added at: 16:51
his location on facebook but yeah basically sounds shady as fuck and I am going to write them a lengthy email after classes are done.

also I fucking hate the browser on my TouchPad because it won't let me edit my post when I accidently bumped submit.

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Hoshit, look at the tags! Someone is on to me!!!

• espy staffing scam

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Espy, you monster!

HoboNinja said:

Anyone know about a company called Marketsource, got a call from them randomly about how they saw my resume online and want to know if i could interview for a HP Rep job for local Best Buys, but it all just seems sketchy, googled it and there are reports of it being a scam but those are rebutted by other posts but the other posts seem kind of like those that would be put out by the army of drones.

This feels really shady, maybe shego can use her super google/stalker skills to see if she can pull up some stuff. All the negative stuff I see is on rip off report but thats the only site I can find with shit about them.

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I know this reply is months late but this is for people who come across this thread in the future. Its not a scam, I worked as an HP Rep for Marketsource for about 6 months. I worked for two best buys within 10 minutes from my house, and I worked at 3 officemax stores and 1 staples. Best buy is considered the "base store" where you work at for 5 hours each on the weekend ( i had one on Saturday and the other on Sunday). On the weekends my main priority was to boost HP sales by helping out customers in the Computer section. During the week I had to do employee store training for two hours at each store. Basically keep Best Buy employees up to date on HP products. Same thing at Staples and Office Max, train the employees, but that was only once a month. Its a super part time job, but they pay was decent. It was actually a cool little ob, nothing to try to live off of. Now here were my issues with it.. I interviewed with the district manager, and after working for like 2 weeks, he was no longer the district manager. I found that to be odd but I shrugged it off. So i worked under an interim DM from another district til another DM was hired for my district. They hired a new guy about a month later...then another month later he was no longer the DM. Im like ok, wtf is going on that they cant keep management??? So at that point i stopped taking the job seriously. the DM was supposed to check on me at the store- never happened. So it was almost liked i worked for best buy. The job required me to do a lot of reports, and participate in a conference call every saturday morning, with actually HP managers. And you had to stay updated with training for HP products. But on the flip side HP sent me alot of cool stuff. Pens, usb drives, mini flashlights, an orange HP bucket full of candy for Halloween..my best buy "co-workers" looked forward to get this, they called it "swag" lol. And we had exclusive events, like free midnight screening for transformers 3 with free food, and giveaways. So all in all it was a cool job. 100% legit. just iffy management.

Former HP Rep said:

And we had exclusive events, like free midnight screening for transformers 3

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You just lost Charlie as an employee.

this thread has been very educational

Since the thread was necro'ed by someone else anyway...

Speaking as a former Best Buy employee, I hated -- HATED -- most vendor reps. As "Former HP Rep" said, they were basically there to help customers, but most of them were fucking idiots that would end up pissing the customers off, and all the backlash would fall on the Best Buy sales team. Needless to say, turnover for those positions was extremely high.

This is what I say to the anonymous people trying to convince us this isn't a scam:

wait a minute...that wasn't the wallet inspector...

HoboNinja said:

Yeah. Apparently they are the ones that do provide reps for HP to Best Buy, a buddy that works at Best Buy confirmed this but that's really all he knew about it. From the shit on rip off report though it seems like they dick people over by randomly changing schedules and calling you to come in and having you drive to stores hours away without gas or travel pay.

They want me to interview with "Tim Latendresse – Territory Manager HP US Retail" tomorrow night, hut upon searching him I find no connection to hewlett packard, but his phone number does match up with
Added at: 16:51
his location on facebook but yeah basically sounds shady as fuck and I am going to write them a lengthy email after classes are done.

also I fucking hate the browser on my TouchPad because it won't let me edit my post when I accidently bumped submit.

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Indeed it is a real company. But a ripoff just the same. Cheat you on your hours. Learn by trial and error, then get a "warning" when you make a mistake. I worked in Jacksonville, FL, for a jerk named Bill Burgess. He fired his number one sales manager after spreading a rumor that this guy was stealing cell phones. I do not know the real reason for his termination but I worked at that store and did inventories of cell phones daily. There were NO missing cell phones.

Interesting. I wonder how HoboNinja's experiences turned out.

Dave said:

Interesting. I wonder how HoboNinja's experiences turned out.

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He must have gone for the free candy.

??

Damn, @Officer_Charon, I think Espy ninja'd you by exactly two years.

..... This is what happens when I don't review the whole thread. *facepalm*

But if anyone can ninja me, it's Espy. Something about a cigarette-smoking baby that just flummoxes my sensors...

Hahaha, this thread is awesome.

i was just recently called by marketsource about a job as a cox cable rep and i have a interview with cox sometime next week. i have also read the reports on ripoff and have taken it into consideation some things i see as fact some seem too exagerated but i cannot say that they are lyin im only taking this job to supplement what income i already have i will update soon.

GasBandit said:

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Seems legit to me.

Heh... Cox.

Yay!

Don't know anything about cox cable.
I imagine they're still less dickish than Comcast, though.

--Patrick

I have Cox cable and I fucking love it. You've seen my internet speeds and I package everything together. I have digital cable, all the tiers, phone with unlimited long distance, two DVRs. I have the works. I pay about $200 a month. You may think that's a lot but break everything down and you'll realize it's not.

Dave said:

I have Cox cable and I fucking love it. You've seen my internet speeds and I package everything together. I have digital cable, all the tiers, phone with unlimited long distance, two DVRs. I have the works. I pay about $200 a month. You may think that's a lot but break everything down and you'll realize it's not.

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That's actually pretty good. I wonder if they're available here in NJ.

Null said:

That's actually pretty good. I wonder if they're available here in NJ.

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You have no idea how difficult it was to locate this info.

--Patrick

Many Bothans died?

No, it's just that their website has no way to show their service area. You'd think they would be eager to tell you, but no.

--Patrick

I don't know what it is about cable companies and having crappy websites....

I had an internet outage earlier this week at my house. I had just replaced my router the day before, so I wanted to make sure that it wasn't something I did. I started by hopping on my phone and searching for an outage report of some kind on their website. The only thing that they had was a storm outage report map that was terrible and didn't show interruptions in service in any other way.

I searched high and low to find somewhere easy where I could just find out if there was an outage or not. I ended up having to call them, which made me go through a crapton of prompts just to get to a rep who, within 30 seconds, was able to say, Yup, there's an outage in your area.

I worked with utility companies for a good bit in my career, and they at least put up a recording reporting outages when they occurred.

BLAH

Bowielee said:

I don't know what it is about cable companies and having crappy websites....

I had an internet outage earlier this week at my house. I had just replaced my router the day before, so I wanted to make sure that it wasn't something I did. I started by hopping on my phone and searching for an outage report of some kind on their website. The only thing that they had was a storm outage report map that was terrible and didn't show interruptions in service in any other way.

I searched high and low to find somewhere easy where I could just find out if there was an outage or not. I ended up having to call them, which made me go through a crapton of prompts just to get to a rep who, within 30 seconds, was able to say, Yup, there's an outage in your area.

I worked with utility companies for a good bit in my career, and they at least put up a recording reporting outages when they occurred.

BLAH

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Dave said:

I have Cox cable and I fucking love it. You've seen my internet speeds and I package everything together. I have digital cable, all the tiers, phone with unlimited long distance, two DVRs. I have the works. I pay about $200 a month. You may think that's a lot but break everything down and you'll realize it's not.

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I can vouch for Cox as well. I used to complain about them until I moved to the East coast a.k.a. AT&T and TimeWarner country.

Cox used to be here but they sold our market to suddenlink. My time with them was brief but never had a complaint, surprisingly.

I also love Cox....

wait...

I haven't really actively sought out cox, but the couple of times I've had it, it wasn't that bad...

On the main Cox.com page at the top right it has a location icon. Click that and you can put in a zip code or browse by state.

Bowielee said:

I also love Cox....

wait...

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I've tried Cox. It was actually pretty good.

WasabiPoptart said:

I've tried Cox. It was actually pretty good.

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Heyo!

In Arizona if people don't pay their cable bills they cut their Cox off.

Thank you! Good night, I'm here all week, don't forget to tip your waitresses!!

Bowielee said:

I also love Cox....

wait...

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Gaaaaaaaaaaaay

fade said:

Gaaaaaaaaaaaay

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Five times gayer than you think, Peaches!


/superstar!!

All this talk is really making me want to try Cox! Sadly, there are no Cox to be found in Jersey. I'll never know what it's like to have Cox.

At least we have Dick's!

This is near where I lived in NJ.

Poor Kohls and Michaels.

--Patrick