Pros
Picked my days to work, managed my own work hours. Easy to self motivate. Lots of spiffs and incentives if you sell certain things, but changes up. Product knowledge available everywhere from daily morning meetings, vendors and reps. I found that everyone in management do help when you seek/demand it. Managers do support you otherwise you have the executives backing you up. Great, if not the best employee discounts you can imagine. (When I was at Nordstrom, it was a measly 20%- I was never motivated to work and spend). At Neiman Marcus, you are motivated to sell to dress the part and own your style. This job was initially a "fun" job that turned out to be lucrative. They give you all the tools- especially the iPhone. All the inventory in your phone and capability to call another store to get the item you need and process the sale at another store while you can be sitting at home watching tv. Yes, if you sell, you can be that good.
Cons
You have to be in the "right" department, i.e. Handbags. You don't want to be in some department selling Eileen Fisher all day at Neiman Marcus. The chemistry of your "teammates" must work for your personal success. It is cut throat and pretty vicious in the sales world so you have to play your cards right, build trust to not have your colleagues stab you in the back, steal sales or fight over "your/their client". RETURNS sucks. After 6 months, someone can return a $5k bag and it's like the company reached into your personal checking account and literally take $350 out of your pocket. And you got taxed on your commission only to have customers returns dock your $$$pay in full (not taxed). Returns really hurt your bread and butter so you better sell, sell, sell.