I'm wanting to assemble items at home for extra cash. But afraid I will get scammed. Any ideas?

Answer 1

The Set-Up:
You see a job offer for "Home Based Assembly" to perform sewing or crafting work from home. The job might require that you make baby clothes, jewelry, Christmas ornaments, small toys or plastic signs and claims to pay you $30 per hour.

The Scam:
This is a common scam. These programs often require you to invest hundreds of dollars in equipment or supplies or many hours of time to produce goods for a company who has promised to buy them. For example, you might be required to buy a "special" sewing machine, or specific materials required to make the crafts. You're not allowed to buy the materials yourself. To insure quality and uniformity of the product, you must use the provided materials, according to the scammer. After you send in your fee you will receive barely legible instructions and materials far inferior to what you could have purchased on your own.

The Cold Hard Truth:
After you purchase the supplies or equipment and perform the required tasks, the company will not pay you for your efforts. Many consumers, for example, have encountered companies that refuse to pay for their work because it did not meet "quality standards." Unfortunately, no work is ever "up to standard." Thus you are left with relatively expensive equipment and supplies, and no income. Even if the ad "guarantees a full refund," don't be swindled. You will never be able to obtain a refund from these scammers.

Answer 2

I agree with GA Christie. Those things are always scams. I do my best to take down the advertisements where I see them. They are only ripping people off. They will tell you to send them $$$ for the materials or information. And it isn't a small amount like 5$ or so. Stay away from these things.

Answer 3

Until a few years ago, a local company employed hundreds of women as"home sewers" (that's so-ers, not soo-ers!) for their line of assorted cloth craft and gift items, on a piecework basis. Everyone was happy until the state government came along and said the women were "being exploited" by having to use their own homes, not receiving benefits, etc. . . . and so the work was outsourced to China.
So . . . if you can find a local company of that sort -- if such a thing still exists! -- it might be fine for you. As for answering national ads from far off enterprises that require even a penny investment on your part . . . as Mickey BlueEyes said in the movie of the same name, "fugedaboudit."

Answer 4

You WILL get scammed. There are no such jobs as assembling crafts at home, stuffing envelopes.

The best and FREE resource for finding real work at home jobs and finding out who is scamming is WAHM.com

Answer 5

I have been searching for such a honest job for past 6 months, nd till now no luck!

I am very wary of online job/survey stuff now, having been duped twice,

I suggest u also please check out the legitimacy of the job/survey u r joining,

Some widely used resources for checking them are the Better Business Bureau (www.bbb.org) and the national fraud center (www.fraud.org).

You can find more detailed information about a company at

http://tinyurl.com/gtb89

nd plz dont ever pay anything to anyone to get a job!
all the best :)

Answer 6

from my experiences the stuff you have to assemble is difficult or something you just don't want to

Answer 7

unless you plan on starting your own home base business, all the ones advertise are scams

Answer 8

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