Edge Marketing ripoff scam dont go to interview Cincinnati Ohio

Edge Marketing is a scam!!! dont waist your time, this guys discription is aboultly correct!! this is excatly how it is there and when they call you back on a second interview they want you to pay them!!!!
I was looking for a marketing job in Cincinnati so I decided to look on Careerbuilder.com. I found an offering that sounded interesting from a company claiming to be "The Edge Marketing Inc."

Here is the ad:

Company: The Edge Marketing Group
Location: US-OH-Cincinnati
Base Pay: $30,000.00 - $40,000.00/Year
Employee Type: Full-Time Employee
Industry: Advertising

n the next year, as part of a company initiative to better service our clients nationwide, we plan to open at least 2 new offices since expanding to Cincinnati two months ago. We hope to provide more companies in the sports and entertainment industries with the benefit of our services. We also plan to use this continued expansion to solidify our client base and to continually add to our client portfolio.

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It goes on and on, but that's the gist. So I send an e-mail, get a phone call from a young female giving me a time for an interview. I asked the girl on the phone "exactly what does The Edge Marketing Inc. do? She said "Oh, you know, sales, marketing n stuff..you'll learn more about it during the interview." Hmm ok.

So the next day I show up, on time at 11311 Cornell Park Dr. It is a big building full of company offices. Each office has the company name outside of the door. The Edge Marketing was located in suite 125. On the outside of its door was only a piece of paper with "125" written on it.

I walk in the office, and right away I notice how small it is. It has a very small lobby type area, a front desk similar to a doctors office, and maybe 2 or 3 rooms in the back.

There are about 5 people sitting in the "waiting area." It turns out they're all applying for this "job" too.

After a little talking with the other applicants, it turns out these people are as equally curious about this supposed business as I am. "So what exactly do they do?" was a common question. "This is some bullshit" replied one person. This office was about as dull looking as it could get. It looked like the just moved in the day before. In fact, I asked the "secretary" how long they've been at the office, and she said "1 week." Hah, well at least she was honest. She made up some story about how they were somewhere else, but something happened blah blah blah.

On their website and on their job postings, they mention that they're expanding from their milwaukee base. Quick note: I actually saw a job posting for the same position 4 months or so earlier. So I know they've been around recruiting for a while.

Also keep in mind, the whole time I was there I only saw 3 people working there: The secretary, a young female that was giving interviews, and a young guy giving interviews.

It started to become sort of a joke out in the lobby as we started thinking this was all some huge scam. I asked the secretary how many employees they had. She said 12. I said "where are they, out in the field"? in a jokingly way. She said "yes."

They had picture frames in the waiting area showing their previous work with companies, such as a print ad for a pizza restaurant. One applicant sitting there noticed that they all had dates on them from many years ago. 1998 was the most recent.

Finally, the young guy there (maybe 25 or 26) comes out and calls me and a gal to come back with him, to interview us both at the same time.

First of all, the guy talked a mile a minute. And said nothing. I chimed in and asked him if he could tell me a little bit more about what exactly they do. He got very tense and seemed offended, and said "that's the second time you interrupted me. Are you going to listen or not?" Apparently questions made him nervous.

Sensing that I actually had a brain and was trying to figure out what was going on, he focused most of his attention on trying to charm the female applicant who was being interviewed with me. She seemed a bit skeptical, as I was, however she almost seemed to be buying it.

I'm trying to think of all of what he said, but it's a bit hard, as it was all nonsense.
At one point he said the job was 100% performance based. I asked "so 100% commission?" And he replied "100% performance based." Oh..so there's a base and then commission. "Well we reward our employees for their work." So is it just commission or base and commission? The female applicant was starting to ask too. He answered every question like a politician, leaving you with no idea of what he's trying to convey.

He went into this long thing about how movie theaters have to pay their costs no matter how busy the theater is. So even when no one is there, they still have to pay all the costs of operation. So what they do is offer discounts to people during those times. Then they might get popcorn, and come back later paying the full price. It was a cute example. But I was still wondering, "ok do we walk around handing out coupons?"

He asked myself and the female questions like "Why did you apply here" and "what is a skill you can bring to the table." He asked all these questions quick and in the way a telemarketer talks, almost not really paying attention to the answers.

He said they did the training in the office. There was nothing in that office, there were no people, no nothing. He had a degree certificate on the wall, probably fake.
It was obvious that this really wasn't a company at all. It was a guy pretending to be the head of a company, interviewing applicants. What's bothering me is...Why??

Does he collect personal info on people, collect resumes for some scam operation?

I could not find a d**n thing about them. At all. No corporate filings, no websites mentioning them. Nothing. They put out tons of ads on careerbuilder.com, have applicants come in and give them a bunch of mumbo jumbo, and send them on their way.

this is exactly right when i went the same thing!! please dont waist your time here!!

Daisy
cincinnati, Ohio
U.S.A.