Earn money from home

Hoochiemama

Me and my mates in college were talking about this. One of them is considering do it? i was telling him they're a sham. anyone ever heard anything good from any of them?

0utshined

Are you talking about those ads you see up in shops? I've never heard of anyone doing it but I would say if she is asked for any money up front, for whatever reason to be wary. It screams scam to me but I can't say for sure that it is.

On the other hand, I know a couple of people who have worked from home for themselves so a home business can work.

Stephen

From what I hear those jobs are usually ****e like stuffing envelopes.

silly

ya i heard that its like putting stamps on hundreds of envelopes...think i even heard u buy the stamps urself, so when u get paid , its not all that much....could be wrong though.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Yeah, buy our starter kit for only $99.95!!! GUARENTEED EARNINGS!!!$$$$
LOL ask my arse tbh
Approach with extreme caution imo.

hussey

Earn Money from home ... sure isn't that the scam where you sit at home all day .. or in the bookies/pub and you claim your working and the government give you some money??

magpie

Its a pyramid scheme

JoeSchmoe

its probably network marketing type thing like Amway or similar www.amway.com, which work if you are willing to dedicate your every waking moment to it and never be able to enjoy the company of a new friend without trying to get them to sign up with you, you know that film "Go" like the last scene of that

xzanti

Steer clear of anything that says you have the "opertunity to earn" so much money... A friend of mine who is in college went for something like that one summer and it turned out she had to carry this big black back of pound shop style crappy merchandise around dublin all day trying to flogg it and earned 10% of the price of everything she sold... she only did it for one day and came home with about 10 quid in her pocket for her troubles.. complete waste of time...

joejoem

I hate those guys, they allways come in to my work. Get out! I'm not interested! "why dont you have a look?" - If I wanted to buy something I would walk accross the road to a shop, I dont want to buy anything from your pound shop on wheels! - Rant.

I went for something simialar, I had to go door to door and sell gym memberships (significantly reduced) or sign people up for concern. You would get 10 or 20 pounds for each sign up. Now I'm quite good at sales so I made about 100 - 200 punts a day, but the company was really stupid. You had to come in in the morning for a "team" meeting where you stood around practicing your pitch on eachother, then someone high up would give you a pep talk "look at how rich I am in just 5 years. If you work hard 18 hours a day 7 days a week for 5 years you can do it too".

At the end of the day when you came back (the day was from 9am till 10 or 11pm) you gave in your report, then everyone stood in a circle. In the centre of the cirle was a horn, a bell and a pair of sunglasses. Everyone would start clapping and if you had 6 sales in the day you would walk to the centre, pick up the bell and ring it then walk around inside the circle giving everyone high fives. If you had 10 or more you had to walk into the middle and put on the sunglasses (steven roche reject glass's) blow the horn and ring the bell and walk around inside the circle giving high fives to everyone.

I lasted five days, took the money and ran. Bear in mind this was in Dublin NOT America!

toiletduck

magpie wrote:

Its a pyramid scheme

or perhaps a trapazoid scheme, they're even worse

Saruman

Depends what it is.. if its something like Kleeneze then its not a scam.. though you will still need to go out delivering catalogs etc but you would be home based..

Just like cosmetic stuff like Mary Kay.. They are huge in the US and have real good beauty stuff for women (do men stuff too i think). My wife (from US) looked to see if they are here and they are but very small so she is going to be a consultant for them now.. part time work. Basically she buys the products wholesale and then sells them on.. does make up parties etc.. she is waiting for a starter kit now and has a teacher of sorts to help set her up. You can even get gifts and after a while they will give you cars (or cash). Not sure how it works but her consultant who is the Irish sales manager has a nice merc soft top from them!! She now does it full time.

Anyway like i said it depends on what it is.. if you see it in a mag or paper then prbably avoid unless they tell you who the company is first.

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xzanti

Well thats true, you can make a few quid doing Avon, my mother used to do it and you get a few free gifts thrown in.. well its good it your a girl