Why is There a Fee Involved With Product Assembling

Asking why there is a fee associated with joining any product assembling company is a tricky question.  It kind of depends on two lines of thought.

One line of thought that dictates the answer to this question is that product assembling is actually a genuine home based work opportunity. The other line of thought is that it is a scam.

Let us explore the reasons for a fee being levied for product assembling jobs following the first line of thought, i.e. it is a genuine home based work opportunity.
The number of reasons that can be attributed are as follows:

1) With the most of the product assembling companies the initial money that you send it to the company is used to buy the starter kit.  This starter kit contains the raw materials to make the first batch of finished items, detailed instructions for making the craft and even a finished sample to guide you along with your work.  The logical reasoning behind this is to make the product for the company you are going to need and materials anyway, even if you have to buy them yourself.  It is a good idea to buy them from the company because they are able to send you the standard materials which are required to make their product the way they want it to be made. Since you are going to be making their craft items for the first time it is a good idea to receive the materials and a sample of the product from them in order to rule out errors in design and workmanship based on the flaws of the raw materials used.
2) Since the cost of the raw materials is refundable after you have finished a certain amount of crafts for them, charging policy initially only ensures that the people who are seriously interested in working apply. Sending in starter kits without charging anything to anybody who applies would be disastrous for their financial setup.
The flipside of this is the fact that they can work this the other way round and have the person who is interested in working with craft assembling send in our sample of their home-made product in order to gauge their craft making ability. You should be allowed to buy a sample craft item from them and see if you can replicate the same. 
Some companies in fact do allow this.  They do sell you the sample of their craft for a few dollars but do not provide you with the raw materials to make it by yourself. Some companies ask for a registration fee and then say that you are free to buy your own materials. But that comes to the same thing as you have already paid the company on one pretext or the other.

Let us now explode the reasons for they had been a free to join product assembling from the other line of thought i.e. it is NOT a genuine home based opportunity.

1) The number one reason is the obvious one.  The companies are making money out of selling you raw materials and the charging you registration fee. If they are not going to approve of your finished products means that they do not have to pay you and they get to keep the money that you centre them to join.

2) Your first batch of products may get approved. This will result in you sending in for more raw materials from the company may be even in larger amounts than you bought before. The product assembling company ends up making more money and rejects your finished batch of items the second time around.

3) the company is selling you inferior quality of raw materials that will make it impossible for you to make the product according to their finished sample. Hence, they do not have to pay you and make a profit on the raw materials by charging you much more than what they are actually worth.

4) the common money back guarantees offered by the product assembling companies calls for the starter kit to be returned in an unused state in order for you to qualify for a refund. In case you have tried to assemble the product and used up even some of the raw materials centre to you you do not get your money back. Even if you do return the starter kit by deciding not to make the craft just by looking at it, only half of your money is returned and that the shipping cost deducted. The product assembling company still makes money. The money back guarantees offered by the product assembling companies most of the times laden with such stringent conditions that it becomes almost impossible to comply by them and get your money back. Getting your money back as a refund on the basis of these guarantees is almost always difficult if not impossible.

The idea of presenting the reasons for a fee attached to the product assembling home jobs is that while most of these kind of home based work offers false promises, there are a handful of companies that have a lot of crafters working for them enthusiastically. But even these seemingly legitimate crafting businesses charge a fee for joining them.
However, the method and the work practice is seemingly better than the others. For example, while you need to send money to register with the company, you never need to pay anything to receive the raw materials for your craft. As you keep finishing your batches fresh raw materials are sent to you that no extra cost.
Also, in order to get approved and start working for these companies you do not need to finish an entire batch of craft items and ship them for inspection. You are expected to only make one sample and keep sending it to the company tell it is approved. The product is up to the standard of the company the company keeps sending it back to you with the reports and instructions of what you did wrong. Once both you and the company are a sure that you are in the position of starting to make crafts for them that meet the quality standards of design and workmanship, only then do you get to start working on the whole batch.
This saves a lot of time and effort.

The general consensus on the Internet is that there should be no fee to join any work at home jobs. home based jobs should be like any other job where you joined based on your qualification and your experience.  The money should on the flow one way which is from the employer to the employee that is you.  However, one has to concede the fact that hiding people to work from home for in formal jobs like product assembling creates an element of risk for the hiring company.  They have no idea about the sincerity of the person applying for the home based job.  They have no credible means to verify the credentials of the person unless they devote a lot of man power and  financial resources to their human resource department. As far as product and craft making jobs are concerned, they stem from relatively small business enterprises.  Many of the crafting businesses have their story and also wholesale to other sellers across the country.  But the crafting business comes under the category of small business enterprises.  It is not viable for them to devote resources and finance for a separate human resources department. Most of the time such businesses are run by a single proprietor with a couple of other people hired to serve as sales and customer representativeness.
Charging a fee from people covers some of their cost. But make no mistake.  All of these companies and to make a profit from every single person who buys a kit from them.  Regardless of whether you get approved or making their craft or not, they stand to earn money from every single person that applies to them. This does not automatically mean that the company is a scam. Whether they are profiting from charging you an initial registration fee is somewhat unconnected to whether the company is a genuine business not.
Even if the company is paying you all the work done they are always making a profit anyway. They pay you out of the profits that they make by selling the crafts that you make for them. So profiting is not a bad thing. Not for you and not for the company.
Of course, in the case of fraudulent home based offers, charging a fee becomes an ultimate means of making money because they have no intention of ever paying you for any work done by you.

  So in the case of product assembling it is hard to judge the credibility of a business solely on the basis of whether they charge a fee not. Because they all do. It is the other business practices that determine the genuine nature of the business.  We shall cover this in our next post, how to be a better judge of which home based offers are genuine and which are not