Posted by tcg on June 14, 2001 at 12:13:25:
In Reply to: Re: HA!!! posted by Christy Snider on June 14, 2001 at 01:46:55:
I seriously doubt it. What I read is nearly verbatim to the "opportunity" I sent money in for about 2 yrs. Luckily I only got stiffed $8, not $17.
Consider this, if they were a real employer, their web site would not be temporary sitting on a free web page, and they certainly wouldn't take the site down just because they met their quota of people to buy into their program.
The "training package?" I'll tell you what I received. A few pages stapled together telling me how to gather and send emails to other people offering them the same "opportunity" I bought into. How to create a web site to draw people to it to buy into the same .... That's where you make your money - by getting other people to send YOU $17, then you Process the Order, keep the $17 and send them their "training packet" (simply a copy of what you recieved from whoever you bought it from).
The software? 2 files via email in MS Works format. The chick I bought the stuff from was too cheap to even invest in MS Word! And both files were nothing more than the Free Reports you read all over the 'net for free on how to make money on the internet (and not one of them was legitimate).
I didn't have the conscious to try to scam anyone else into sending me money for some worthless overworked scam just because I fell for it. I threw out the papers and chalked my lost $8 up to experience. Oh, and when I tried to email this person back, the message was returned Undeliverable. Later on I read on a Scam Alert site that this person was charging up to $40 for the same stuff, and had a variety of alias's and emails and company names. The Feds were after her butt last I knew.
It is not a Job where you are an employee of theirs. No respectable employer asks for your money. Training manuals are at the cost of the employer to hand out to new employees; employees never have to buy them. Also, if an real employer was hiring telecommuters, most of the time you never need any additional software to do the work. If they have industry specific programs, you can usually upload the software to your pc or somehow get networked into theirs - AT NO COST TO YOU.
So, if I'm wrong, please post back here and let us know what it is you received and what your job responsibilities are as their employee. I'd be very interested to hear a follow-up.
And Good luck!
tcg
(sorry if I vented, but these types of outfits really Get My Goat!!)