Jacc Marketing - Blue Ice UK LTD info

latoya293 said:
hey all my name toya ive just been offer an interview with jacc marketing i wasnt sure to arrange a date. they said they would train me up for entry level sales but i dont know how competitive they will be it worrys me if i leave my current job i leave in to a job that would be very competitive WHAT DO YOU ALL THINK
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Read all the posts in this thread before you make your mind up. ;)

Welcome to FST :shifty:
 
This is one of the few serious threads in the Lounge, mate. From everything I've heard they are best steered clear off.

Let me put it this way, if Skweeky says don't touch them with a barge pole I'd be pointing my barge pole in another direction.

Tonight I shall mostly be using travel related metaphors.
 
Hey all - so glad I found this! They're advertising on all the big sites under the name Blue Ice Limited - found it weird when I couldn't find their website. Check out the ad:

Blue Ice UK LTD is a growing marketing company in London. We work with big brand clients such as Warner Bros, Samsonite and Crayola designed to raise our client's brand name awareness by attracting new customers and exposing their products.
This approach has led to the tremendous growth of our portfolio, which is where you come in!
Blue Ice is currently expanding our sales and management teams. All openings are full time and entry level, with growth and compensation being based on personal performance.
Openings are being filled IMMEDIATELY in the following areas:
  • Sales/ Marketing
  • Customer Service
  • Team Management
As positions are being filled immediately, it is preferred that candidates are already London based.
We regret that we will not respond to all applicants; only those selected for preliminary interviews.
Ref; Marketing

Contact name: Natasha KiziltanTelephone: 0207 614 1230Fax: UnspecifiedEmail: [email protected]

The hotmail address should have given it away! I'm sure Samsonite etc would oppose to that name dropping!

So I'm told I've made it to next level and they book an interview for Monday, and theres a Jacc Marketing link on the confirmation email. I thought I'd check out the site to research them and after seeing a spelling mistake on the homepage alarm bells really started ringing! I Google them and come here - just in time. Will be sending them a short smart email saying I've found work elsewhere. Talk about a let down!:frusty:
 
And also he dould do a thread where everyone was all like "Wow, they are a great company". Some sort of sponsorship deal perhaps.
 
latoya293 said:
hey all my name toya ive just been offer an interview with jacc marketing i wasnt sure to arrange a date. they said they would train me up for entry level sales but i dont know how competitive they will be it worrys me if i leave my current job i leave in to a job that would be very competitive WHAT DO YOU ALL THINK
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Don't even go there. They will bugger you rotten. :ph34r:
 
Agrajag said:
Well you're living with the evil Ming the Merciless, so no-one would expect you to put up with mongtards as well.
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I prefer ming to the evil witch of death I used to work for. I can stick up for meself, except against that horrible nasty would-be woman. (the boss, not cheese) My boss now is a ginger too. But he's quite funny so it's ok.
 
THIS COMPANY ARE FULL OF CRAP! They advertise as a GRADUATE training programme, promising exceptional training and a wealh of riches. The reality however is so much different.

If you have just completed university and have your heart set on a career selling bric-a-brac to mindless strangers in social clubs, bookies, and lock-up garages for twelve hours per day (under the guise of B2B marketing!) then this is the position for you! If DelBoy Trotter is you idol, then give them a call!

I know this as I 'negotiated' the first two rounds of the interview process.

I have no real problem with the manager - despite being completly misled - but would hate for some other genuine graduate to waste a full day 'in-the-field' as part of their second round interview.

I reiterate, THEYARE FULL OF CRAP!

If you have any remaining doubt ask yourself why such an international and reputable company does not have a website... WHAT DO THEY HAVE TO HIDE? I think that says enough.

DONT WASTE YOUR TIME!
 
JPaul said:
This is one of the few serious threads in the Lounge, mate. From everything I've heard they are best steered clear off.

Let me put it this way, if Skweeky says don't touch them with a barge pole I'd be pointing my barge pole in another direction.

Tonight I shall mostly be using travel related metaphors.
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Would that you saw fit to use a hyphen as well...
 
bertie28 said:
Does anyone know anything about JACC Marketing ltd eg. who are they? are they a good company to work for? Are they full of it? Had interview and got assessment centre but cant find any info on them anywhere. Their chat about money and stuff just seems bit too good to be true?!!
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I attended first interview for the graduate training programme on Friday 16th March 2007. Upon arrival, I had to complate a one-side application form, that asked for minimal details about me, address, and last job details, and the interview last 5 minutes with a foreigner (non-british citizen), who had been promoted to manager after 8 months with the company. This manager then started to explain how if I am selected, i would be on an intensive 12 month training programme, after which i would be running my own business, as he was. He was very proud to be running the London office (this interview was at Moorgate, central London), and gave me the belief that it can be achieved, he kept saying I run my own business now, which made me wonder exactly how it was his business?.

I was called that evening, and invited back for monday for a full day's training, which i imagined would be office based management training... How wrong i was! I basically spent the whole day, Monday 19th March 2007, following a Polish guy around (another highly motivated employee, again non-british), visiting garages, lock-ups, back-alley factories and warehouses, before hitting the highstreet and going into every single shop, pub, bookies, social club, restarant, estate agency, hairdressers, basically every single place with people, and we also approached people on the streets. This polish guy was dragging a massive bag, comparable to a suitcase with wheels, weighing about 45 kilos, and it was his job to empty this before the end of the day. We were selling rubbish cheap manufacture chinese tetris games, so we even approached any parent on the street who looked like they had kids.

We worked non-stop, going into every shop, from 10am till 5.40pm.

This is how it works. Each unit sold for 3 pounds, and this polish guy got 1 pound from every sale. Its cash in hand at the end of the day, you are not employed by JACC at all, you are self employed, so forget any tax reference, or employment reference from the company! This polish guy said he was there for 4 months now, and he made on average 60 - 80 pounds per day, as long as he visited at least 300 businesses!

So, being a graduate who is absolutely broke, i thought, even though its hard work, walking approx 6-8 miles per day with a suitcase, acting like Delboy himself, at least i will get 50 pounds in my hand at the end of each day, 9am to 6pm, monday to friday, not bad at all while i look for other work.

On the way back to the office, the polish man told me i would have a test waiting for me, and he liked me, so... he gave me all the answers on the trin journy back.

Back at the office, i had a one-page test waiting for me, sure enough, it was easy, because i knew all the answers, and after about 10 minutes of waiting, the main manager called me into office. He was proud to announce that i had passed, and that after 6 weeks, i would be a team leader, training others, and after 6 months, assistant manager, basically training others, and doing some office work, and after 12 months, have my own branch... I WAS HAPPY, i was WILLING to work hard to get the fulltime management position..

THEN THE DREAM WAS SHATTERED.... i was informed that i had to be in the office by 7.30am, and that you have to stay until 7.30pm every day... NO PAY ! Just commision, 1 pound for each unit you sell on the street.

I also learnt that for every unit sold at 3 pound on the street, 1 pound is for the salesman, and 1 pound goes to the manager, and apparently 1 pound goes to head office, wherever it is.

The salesmen on the street make about 50 pound cash in hand provided they walk 10 miles with a heavy suitcase weighing 45 kg, visitit at least 300 shops, and manage to sell to about 20% of those people. The manager who has his own branch is pocketing 50 pound from each of his salesmen, he had 17, so thats about 850 raw cash in hand per day, and 850 remaing goes to head office, the scammer who has set this all up and got mugs to be manager and salesman.

I was told that JACC Marketing was established in 1981, but i checked today on internet, it was formed in August 2004, and has changed directors too many times to mention. At interview, i saw JACC marketing, fosters marketing, and a few other names on the wall.

Yes, i believe the manager that it CAN be done, and he righfully worked his ass off for 8 months, became manager, has his own branch, and now pockets 800 pound per day, i believe that cause im very intelligent. But... what the manager fails to realise is that his bosses have passed the buck, they have probably registered a new company name for him, to make him fully responsible for the scam in his region. These companies pay absolutely no tax to the government, i doubt the manager is paying tax, he is taking home loads of cash every day, its only a matter of time before inland revenue screw him up.

Last point, there were about 17 sales guys there, so it is very competitive to become manager, even if you did want to head your own cash-in-hand scam, as arranged by JACC marketing, Fosters Marketing, or whoever else is in charge there.

The people who were "beaming" and looked like they had solid belief in this were the guys from overseas, the ones who know this is a good opportunity to make cash for a few years, and go back home. For a British Graduate, or any British person who has to stay in this country long term, this is not legitimate earnings at all. The foreigners are abviously being brainwashed there, its a shame they dont know the law, and cant see this is a scam.

I hope this helps you guys.
 
True...

although, I have to say...
It does teach you to work hard and you do learn some sale skills...
Well that was with the previous manager anyway.


I think it's not a bad holiday job if you want to get into business. Can't get ot the top if you don't start at the bottom
 
Was i bit curious about them when i couldn't find anything on the web (as you do when your going for an interview), then went for the first interview, didn't tell me much about who i would marketing to but their structure and how they became manager of their own team within 8 months. Got a call for second interview within an hour of leaving. Asked for website details, gave me the one in London, does not say much about them at all.....now getting very worried! Found this and registered and having fun reading about it all! Now i know why i was worried and rightly so!
I have called and canceled my appointment and they weren't bothered at all! They need shutting down immediately.
From Angry worm!
 
That's because you didn't speak to me :snooty:
I would've retained your account nae bother with my sweet talking lush Irish/Scottish accent :lol:

Not only that, I would've sold you the whole CPP, PPP, IPA, AC lot as well :P
 
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