Bookmark It – Bella Beads

People are on the lookout for the easiest products to assemble from home. Hence, another popular item that is looked at is the Bookmark. There are two main assembly jobs that involve the making of bookmarks. One is, however, quiet different from the other. The bookmark that the Bella Beads offer to be assembled from home involves working with beads and thread. You will be stringing along the beads to assemble the bookmark much like assembling bead jewelry.

The second comes from the house of Valerie’s Hattery. As mentioned before this is one product assembly that is not only in good standing with the Better Business Bureau but also a member of the Michigan BBB.

If you are looking to find a simple product to assemble, the likelihood of it getting simpler than this is tough. Many people like to assemble products according to their crafting interest. Some are fond of sewing and embroidery so look for products that offer that kind of work. Some people enjoy woodworking and painting and therefore choose products likewise. However, a large number of people possess no specialized skill and yet are interested in craft making. For these people choosing products like key chains and bookmarks makes sense.

This does not go to say that these products are simple and just about anyone can assemble them successfully. That is the commonest mistake people make when trying to assemble products at home. Even the bookmarks that are offered by Bella Beads and Valerie’s Hattery will need careful and precision work. You need to be good at working with your hands and making crafts that are near to perfect in order to meet approval of the company. Remember, whatever product you are assembling, needs to be good enough to sell in stores and for people to buy.

Following are the details available on Bella Beads and Bookmark It:

Bella Beads, P.O. Box 249, East Irvine, CA 92650

Phone: 949-218-8977

Type of Work: Assembling Book Marks

Payment Description: $144.00 per set of 18 book marks

You will be assembling book marks. All you need to know is how to thread a needle. No Sewing is involved. They have a customer line to help you. The pay $144.00 per set of 18 book marks. They accept 5 sets per week. Earn $720.00 weekly.

Bookmark-It, P.O. Box 205, Cedar, MI 49621

Website: http://www.valeriehattery.tk

Type of Work: Assembling Book Marks

Payment Description: $10.00 for every 40 bookmarks

A craft by a guy for guys! They pay $10.00 for every 40 bookmarks you send them. Their bookmarks are made with only 3 materials and require NO SEWING! Materials are FREE! They have a customer phone line, accept all major credit cards, have a great refund policy and they are members of the Better Business Bureau! In business since 1991! Want a sample of the bookmark- send $5.00 or 14 loose first class stamps. Send a SASE for more information.

Artisan Corporation Of America

Here is one controversial product assembly job offer. The Artisan Corporation Of America is probably one of the oldest names when it comes to product assembly at home jobs. They are also one of the most heard off names when one is seeking to work at home and assembling products for an income. They do not seem to have stirred up too much of a problem with the Better Business Bureau as there are not many complaints against them and the few that there are, they all have the status of resolved.

But if you read the customer reviews that people who have worked for them have shared online, you will be hard pressed to find anything remotely close to flattering. To read the complete report of the Better Business Bureau on The Artisan Corporation Of America, follow this link.

There is a thread on a highly popular forum for home based working women that goes by the name of wahm.com. There is an interesting thread there that has people talking about their experience of assembling jewelry for The Artisan Corporation Of America. A funny incident shared by one of the assemblers is that even when they got someone professional to assemble the jewelry and sent in a perfect pair of earrings, the assembly business still rejected the work saying that it was inaccurate. That should get you thinking if nothing else. Besides no one had anything commendable to say about this assembly job offer. To read the complete thread on wahm.com about The Assembly Corporation Of America follow this link.

Artisan Corporation of America, P.O. Box 10472-NF, My. Washington, MD 21209-0472

Fax: 410-585-0081, Phone: 410-585-1455

Website: http://www.artisancorp.com

E-mail: info@artisancorp.com

Type of Work: Assembling Beaded Jewelry

Income Potential: $350.00 for every 50 earrings per week with no income limit. Artisan Corporation is one of the largest home assembly companies in the industry. They are looking for people to assemble their jewelry based on one simple American Indian technique. For every set of 50 pairs of earrings you will get paid $350.00 and for every half set of 25 pairs - $175.00. There is no limit on how many pairs you can make and no deadlines for your production. The only specification is that all the products must be made according to the easy to follow instructions. The company will provide Instructions and supplies for 5 pairs of earrings. They also have a 10-day trial offer and a fast payment schedule. For more information, please send a long self-addressed, stamped envelope to the above address.

Angel Pin Creations – Angelic Creations

I have come across questions from people regarding assembling Angels. They have professed their interest and love for making Angels as a craft. Well, there are a couple of assembly companies that offer this craft item for assembly, Angel Pin Creations and Angelic Creations are two such home assembly work offers. The first among them is actually about assembling angel pins. The second one are actual angels that are 12 inches tall. Surprisingly enough there is no sewing involved.

The good news here is that Angelic Creations is a company that is also know as Valerie’s Hattery. This company is in a very good standing with the Better business Bureau. It is also a good representation of the product assembly work and does not make false claims as to the work and the earning potential. The work of making the 12 inch angels for Angelic Creations is for some one who is an art enthusiast and probably not suited for some one who is looking to make a full time income by doing product assembly.

We will discuss more about Angelic Creations or Valerie’s Hattery in another post.

Angel Pin Creations offers a hotline number that they can be contacted on. There is also a special line for Spanish speaking people. They have a website as well that makes communications with them that much easier. The pin is basically created for different holiday and other themes for different times of the year. Angel Pin Creations also makes the started kit available for what is probably the cheapest price.

But here is where is get a little confusing. This company has all the markings of a real home assembly job company. If you visit their website, you are likely to be impressed because they offer a lot of information. Although they could do with starting a forum or a blog where the people who are assembling products for them can interact with one another as well as the people who are seeking to do assembly work at home. Some assembly companies have started them. Coming to the confusing part, this company has a large number of complaints filed against it with the Better Business Bureau. It should be duly noted that it is not the number of complaints filed against the company as it is the way the company responded to solve them. In Angel Pins Creations’s favor, they seem to have responded and strived to solve each of the complaint filed against them. It also goes to show that a lot of people have worked or tried to work for them in the past. It is equally possible that many of those are successfully working for them even now. Do what we always tell you to do when checking out a work from home job offer. Call up and ask for references of people who are working for them. Try to find these same people online on forums and blogs.

To read the complete report on Angel Pin Creations on the Better Business Bureau follow this link.

This is some further information that we have available on Angelic Creations and Angel Pin Creations.

Angel Pin Creations, Inc., 1957 SR 60 East PMB 124, Dept. NHA, Valrico, FL 33594.

Or,

2505 Thonotosassa Rd #302, Plant City, FL 33565

Phone: 888-728-9834, 813-626-0808, (Spanish) 813-635-9526

Website: http://www.angelpin.net

Type of Work: Assembling Darling Angel Pins

Income Potential: $500.00 per week maximum for 200 Angel Pins

You need no experience or special tools to assemble these “Darling Angel Pins”. You will get paid $2.50 for each 3” x 4” pin that meets the specifications and you can assemble up to 200 pins weekly. Saving your time to look for supplies, you will purchase the lace, ribbon and beads materials from the company, as they have various holiday schemes at different times of the year. When you submit the assembled items, material and Shipping costs will be refunded to you. A starter kit is available for only $12.99. Inside, you will find you free Angel Pin, supplies and instructions. For more information, contact the company or visit the website above.

Angelic Creations, P.O. Box 237, Cidar, MI 49621

Website: http://www.valeriehattery.tk

Type of Work: Assembling Country Angels

Income Potential: $20.00 for every 5 angels with no weekly limit. Make beautiful angels that everybody loves! You will get paid $20.00 for every 5 angels you assemble according to specifications. The materials you will be using to make these 12” high angels are muslin, ribbon, roses, paper twist and strings of pearls. The best part of it is that there is no sewing involved! A Starter Kit is available with a sample Product and an information line phone number. If you would like to receive a sample angel, please send $8.00 and it will be shipped out to you immediately. For further information, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the address above. (Not valid in MI.)

Advance Marketing

We mention this product assembly company because a lot of people display interest in assembling key chains at home, mostly because they think they are simple. Two things are to be said, however. Even assembling key chains from home is not simple. It may very well seem like something that anyone can do, but it is not. Sometimes certain products are designed specially to sound simple but the actual design is made so complicated that the assembler finds it impossible to make with the resources and the raw materials provided. So beware of the products that sound deceptively simple. Always question the merit of the product you are assembling as only the products that are popular items are sellable. This in turn is the basis of why anyone will pay you to do assembly job for them at home.

Secondly, this particular assembly company seems to have an unfavorable record with the Better Business Bureau. There have been several complaints filed against it. Almost all of which are unresolved. The company even failed to respond to a majority of them. It is considered that it is not the number of complaints filed against a business that determines its reliability but the way that the business chooses to redress those complaints. And this assembly company seems to have done a poor job doing that. Sometimes a business exists in the kind of field where it is common place for consumers to have complaints. In such instances it is paramount that business deals with them to the satisfaction of the consumer. Work at home job offers are rife with false offers. The Better Business Bureau records a lot of complaints filed with them for the various work from offers advertised online and offline.

The Better Business Bureau issues the following notice for all work at home enterprise, including product assembly at home.

” Every day, ads for work-at-home jobs appear in newspapers across the country as well as in national magazines and on the Internet. Some of the offers include stuffing envelopes,
assembling products, reading books, reviewing movies, medical billing, or selling advertising on the Internet.
The BBB suggests using extreme caution when responding to any such offer. While ads claim high earnings and short hours with little or no experience, BBB files nationwide indicate no evidence of anyone making the promised money. Rarely, if ever, are these ads an offer of legitimate employment. Generally, these "jobs" require up-front fees for information or supplies, and only the person who ran the ad makes any money.
You should be aware that the United States Postal Inspectors regularly investigate these fraudulent schemes, and that you risk investigation and possible prosecution by postal or other
law enforcement agencies if you become involved in one of these schemes.”

There are two more work at home companies that exist under the same name i.e. Advance Marketing. One is located in Florida while the other in Texas. Whether or not they are the same product assembly company or not remains unclear. If you any information regarding them, please post your comments here.

To read the complete report on Advance Marketing on Better Business Bureau follow this link.

This is some more information available with us on this product assembly offer.

Advance Marketing, 330 W. Square Lake Road, Troy, MI 48098

Type of Work: Assembling Beaded Key Rings

Payment Description: Contact the company for more information

The company will provide all directions and patterns and there is no limit as to how many you can make. There are very few materials needed for assembly. Please send a S.A.S.E (Self Addressed Stamped Envelope)for more information.

Abundant Resources – City Capes – Kitchen Crafts – American Home Crafts

Abundant Resources is a work at home assembly job offer for those people who are interested in sewing jobs. Specially for those people who look forward to making baby items. You are going to need to be good with doing straight stitching with a sewing machine. The maximum income that can be made is $447 a week. This amount includes supplies and postage. Your net income will be roughly about the $360. But this is near impossible to achieve. It is more optimistic to expect to make this in the entire month. You should be well aware of the fact that the income from doing product assembly at home is not all together regular. You are going to have to put up with long delays in approval and payment. You are required to send in a sample of the Baby Bonnet for approval before you can work full time. This process can take up to a month and you might have to send in the assemble product sample more than one time. There is a hotline number provided that you can call for all assistance.

Important Note: According to the Better Business Bureau this company also exists under other names: City Capes, Kitchen Crafts, American Home Crafts. These are the names of all the same companies, although the address locations seems for these seem to be in California.

The rating with the Better Business Bureau for this company is an F. This is lowest rating that the BBB gives to a business and reflects the reliability that the company has in view of the Better Business Bureau. A partial reason for the reason is the industry that this company belongs to. The better business Bureau receives a lot of complaints regarding the various work from home offer. Since product assembling jobs at home are another example of this, they are liable to circumspection.

Another thing to note about this home product assembly company is that there have been no complaints filed against it with the better business bureau in the last 36 months. However, the BBB issues the following warning to all people looking for home based jobs.

“The Better Business Bureau warns against paying up front fees for work-at-home opportunities, which are often described as voice mail retrieval, reading email, stuffing or mailing of envelopes, processing mail, being a home mailer, updating mailing lists, typing labels, home secretarial work, e-commerce at home, or home computer work. The Bureau's experience is that these are often a variation on a chain letter. Those schemes are regularly shut down by the United States Postal Inspectors. If you are calling to complain about a problem with this company, and the complaint involves one of the opportunities just described, please file your complaint instead with the Postal Inspectors by calling 800-372-8347.
Other schemes may be described as medical billing opportunities, reviewing movies, reading books, or home assembly of various products.
How do you find a real job, which allows you to work at home? You can sign up with your state's employment commission or check out the classified ads. Do not expect to find real jobs that pay good money for easy work to be done at home. The request for an up front fee is a big warning sign. Even if the company is offering a home assembly opportunity or a directory of companies looking for home workers, we advise caution before paying any up front fees for any reason. You normally will no more have to pay to work at home than you would to work in an office, if the job is real. Because these types of companies come and go so quickly, the absence of complaints at the Better Business Bureau is not a good indicator that the company is legitimate. The victims may be too embarrassed to complain or the scheme may be structured to make it look like any problems are the fault of the victim.”

Read the complete report here.

To read the report on American Home Crafts that also seems to be an alias of Abundant Resources, click this link.

This is the some further information available to us on the Abundant Resources Product Assembly company.

Abundant Resources, P.O. Box 112063, Carrollton, TX 75011-2063

Type of Work: Sewing Baby Bonnets

Payment Description: $447.00 maximum per week for 150 Baby Bonnets. This product is easy to make and you won’t need anything else but a standard straight stitch machine and basic sewing skills. This company has been producing baby items since 1992 and has received the Seal of Approval. For every 30 bonnets that you make according to specifications, you will receive $95.40 ($65.10 for your labor, $30.30 for your supply cost, plus up to $4.00 shipping). You can make up to 5 packages of 30 bonnets each per week ($447.00). If you wish to obtain pattern, a help-line number, instructions, fabric and supplies for making one sample bonnet that you can return for inspection, you can purchase a starter kit for $25.95 plus $4.95 shipping, handling and processing (if in Texas, please add 8.25% sales tax). You can also buy a finished sample for $8.95, plus $2.00 shipping and handling. For more information, please send a long self-addressed stamped envelope.

US Crafts

Not much information is available on this product assembly company. They do have a large assortment of products to assemble at home though. They have 4 different product for assembly. One that requires woodworking skills, while the other require sewing to be done. The rating with the Better Business Bureau is not great, being an F. But something that works to the advantage is that BBB does not have a record of any complaints being filed against the business during the past 3 years which the standard duration for which the BBB reports.

This company has been in business since 1997 which makes it over 10 years old. When the Better Business gives a rating to a business, it also considers the field of operation. In this case the field of operation is a home based employment opportunity. Because of the nature and the frequency of the complaints that the BBB receives concerning work at home opportunities, this field is determined to be unstable. There are many complaints that are filed against several work at home offers as they turn out to be not what they claim. Frauds and false offers are rampant when it comes to finding work at home.

It is a strong recommendation to proceed with extreme caution when trying out any work at home opportunity. Specially if you are required to send someone money.

That said, in order to assemble products for US Crafts you will either have to be a woodworking person or know sewing.

The product, by the sound of them, seem to be serious crafts and one that could support an actual business.

If you are interested in working for US Crafts, give them a call and get all the details. Also ask for references of the people who are currently working for them. The best way to verify the credentials of any company is to get a recommendation from employee who have a history of being paid by the company.

U.S. Crafts, P.O. Box 1529, Dept. NHA, Gardnerville, NV 89410,

Phone: 800-311-9909

This is the information available on the Better Business Bureau report:

Name: U S Crafts, Phone: (775) 782-6524, Fax: (775) 782-6056

Address: 1420 Industrial Way STE 1, Gardnerville, NV 89410-5744

Principal: Ms. Shelley Beale, Owner.

To read the complete report on US Crafts by the Better Business Bureau, follow this link.

This is other information that we have.

The company has (4) different home working opportunities for you. For woodworking, you will need to use a curve-cutting power saw (for example, scroll saw, band saw, or Table mounted jig saw). The products also need flat acrylic paint. If you wish to sew, you will need simply some basis hand and machine skills. To work on any of the following products, you need little or no experience.

Type of Work: Wood Angel Ornaments

Income Potential: $133.00 for 38 wood angels

This wok consists of cutting and painting a wooden angel. For this job, the company will pay you $133.00 for every 38 wood angels.

Type of Work: Sewing Hair Barrettes

Income Potential: $157.00 for 60 Hair Barrettes

This product is Hair Barrettes and you don’t need any special tools. Just some basic hand sewing and gluing will do the job. The company will pay you $157.00 for each unit of 5 dozen finished products.

Type of Work: Sewing infant slippers

Income Potential: $150.00 for every 30 pairs of slippers

To make these cute infant slippers, all you need to do is a simple embroidery stitch and basic machine sewing. The company will pay you $150.00 for every 30 pairs of slippers.

Type of Work: Assembling Tooth Ferry Ornaments

Income Potential: $150.00 for each package of ornaments. Contact the company for additional information.

This decoration requires basic hand sewing and some gluing. For each package of ornaments, the company will pay you $150.00.

This family owned company has been in business since 1992 and they offer you the choice to assemble one, a few or all of their products. To get more information, please send a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

Valerie’s Hattery

Valerie’s Hattery is an assembly jobs at home company that is in good standing with the Better Business Bureau. They have a rating of A+ which is excellent. This is rather rare. It is a BBB Accredited business for more than the past 10 years and has had only 3 complaints filed against it, all of which have been resolved. The start up fee for ordering the kit seems to be more reasonable than many others.

What also makes it notable as far as assembly jobs at home are concerned is the fact that the owner states clearly and categorically on the website that the assembly work is more for the craft enthusiast rather than someone looking for a serious and substantial home based income. If you are looking for means of earning from home on a long term basis and need the income as a stand alone means rather than a supplemental one, then you should best look elsewhere. In fact this applies to all product assembling at home offers. This kind of work is only good for the hobbyists whose primary concern is recreation rather than income. This is partly because of the fact that only the people who are genuinely fond of making crafts can sustain themselves in this work. Others may quickly find themselves getting bored.

There is something to be said however of the invalidity of the assembly job offer in MI. Kindly check if this is true. Also check why this is the case the offices themselves are located in MI and post your findings here.

There is a difference between the address listed here and the one on the website of the Better Business Bureau. These are the details with the BBB:

Additional DBA Names: Angelic Creations, Butterfly Garden, Bookmark-It

Phone: (231) 228-4562

Address: PO Box 5250, Traverse City, MI 49696-5250

This is what we have. Be sure to tally both and confirm when you give them a call.

To read the complete report of the Better Business Bureau On Valerie’s Hattery, follow this link.

Valerie’s Hattery, Inc. , 13435 S. Cedar Road, Cedar, MI 49621

Website: http://www.valeriehattery.tk

Type of Work: Assembling Potpourri Bonnets

Income Potential: $17.50 per 12 Bonnets

Since 1991, this company has offered home workers with an opportunity to work on pretty, scented and extremely easy to make bonnets. In fact, they are so simple to make, it would take you about 5 minutes to complete one. Materials will be supplied by the company for a deposit fee. They will pay you $17.50 for a dozen bonnets. A starter kit is available for only $27.50 and it provides you with full instructions and a sample bonnet. The starter kit fee will be refunded to you as soon as you make $100.00 with the company. For more information, please send a self-addressed, stamped envelope. A sample bonnet is available for $5.00. (not valid in MI)

Wine Keepers

Wine Keepers are a company that offer the chance to work at home by assembling beaded wraps that are used to distinguish your wine or champagne glass at a party. These beaded strings can be wrapped around the stem of your glass in order to distinguish them from other glasses. These beaded strings or what the company calls the ‘wine keepers’ are assembled using colorful and pretty beads.

The work is seemingly simple although one of our readers has commented that it is difficult to get the beads strung out. Someone also mentioned that they allow you to buy your own supplies to assemble the product but the beads required to make the wine keepers are not easily found.

Nothing much is known about this company to us except that there have a few complaints about it to the Better Business Bureau, most of which have been resolved by the company. It is to be remembered that it is not the number of complaints that matter so much as the way the company deals with resolving them. So far Wine Keepers seems to have done a decent job. It should be noted that the rating that this company has with the Better Business Bureau is a F. This is the lowest rating that the BBB gives to any business. There are several reasons why the Better Business Bureau can allot this rating and it does not necessarily mean that the business is not a real business. Read more about it on the website of the Better Business Bureau. To read a complete report on the Wine Keepers follow this link.

They do, however, list a complete physical address and a phone number. Make sure to contact them over the phone and run your back ground checks before you start to deal with this company.

Wine-Keepers, 7301 Burnet RD., Austin, TX 78757

Phone: 512-420-0931

Website: http://www.wine-keepers.com

Type of Work: Assemble Beaded Wine Keepers

Payment Description: Contact the company for additional information Assemble beaded wine keepers. These wine keepers wrap around the stem of a wine glass so that you can identify your glass. Visit their web site for more information, or Send a SASE for more information.

Windrifts

This is a relatively unknown product assembly offer. There is no data for them on the website of the Better Business Bureau. We encourage you to find out more information about the at home assembling offer that they have. Their products seem to be interesting. You will need to have some experience with sewing to assemble their product. If you are interested in assembling woodwork items then they have something for that as well. Listed below are some of the details for this work at home offer. The listed website does not work. Also they only list a Post Box address that we do not really trust. A real work opportunity should list out all pertinent details, including the actual physical address. They have phone numbers listed which you can call for further information. Please remember to verify all the details before considering to work for any work at home company.

Check out their references. Ask for the reference of some people who have worked for them in the past or who are currently working for them. Do not send your money to any work at home offer till you can verify that people are successfully working for them, no matter how good the offer sounds on paper and in theory. Many work at home offers have devised extremely smart ways of deceiving you and earning money the fraudulent way. So be alert and through with your checks.

Windrifts, P.O. Box 2360, Vacaville, CA 95696-5850

Phone: 707-446-4197, 775-575-0264

Website: http://www.windriftonline.com

Or,

Windrifts, P.O. Box 3749, Sparks, NV 89432

Type of Work: Assembling Towel Holders

Income Potential: $306.00 per week maximum for 60 Towel Holders. These towel holders are assembled using an embroidery hoop, fabrics, ribbon and floss. They have been popular since 1990. It is you chance to start making money off this easy product. You will get paid $102.00 for every 20 products and $4.00 for their shipping. Windrift will buy a maximum of 3 sets of 20 holders per week.

Type of Work: Assembling Place Mats

Income Potential: $200.00 per week maximum for 460 Place Mats

No quilting is required to make this product. The fabrics are sewn together with a machine. You will use broadcloth, calico and little batting. The company will pay $100.00 for every 20 mats and up to $4.00 for shipping. They will buy a maximum of 2 sets of 20 mats weekly.

Type of Work: Assembling Wood Products

Income Potential: $400.00 per week maximum for 80 Log Cabins

Windrift also has woodworking opportunities. You can make Log Cabin Planters-small plant or candleholders. No special tools are required. The job includes gluing and painting. If you take pride in your work, this is an opportunity for you. The company will pay $100.00 for every 20 Log Cabins you make. You can submit a maximum of 4 sets of 20 per week. For more  information, please send a self-addressed, stamped envelope,  visit the website, or contact the number above.

Cottage Industries

Cottage Industries is one of the better known home based product assembly job offers. It has some interesting points going in its favor. Usually assembly at home jobs require you to send the money and also your finished product via the postal mail. However, Cottage Industries offers the option of visiting their office and dealing with them in person. This probably does not mean much to someone who is not living in the Orlando area but it should. Cottage Industries is trying to exercise a transparency in their dealings with the home worker. They are not hiding behind a P.O. Box Address.

The second thing is that they seem to have a fairly square refund policy. You are refunded your deposit after you have completed one kit for them. If you do not then you are given only half your money back, regardless of how much raw material you have consumed.

You are also not required to make any further deposits to receive additional raw materials, either for correcting mistakes or for your next batch of items.

We did get a report from one of our readers who called up the Cottage Industries office. She was disappointed because they did not have the item available that she wanted to assemble and she was not given a date till which it could be available. If you make a call and find similar results, do post a comment here. The list of products available with the Cottage Industries is somewhat updated and listed below.

If you have the chance of going around to their office and paying them a visit then you must by all means do that.

A very important point to keep in mind if you want to assemble products for Cottage Industries is that they deal with making miniature items. The dollhouse products that you will be assembling are extremely tiny in size. Many people get a shock when they first see the work they are expected to do. Attempt this work only if you have the dexterity and the patience to work with very small objects. For some one who is new to this kind of work, it will definitely take time and practice. The following is the summary of Cottage Industries available with us.

 

Cottage Industries, P.O. Box 149163, Orlando, FL 32814-9163
Phone: 888-745-1731 (For Ordering) 407-898-7097 (For Questions)
407-894-9655, 888-745-1731
Website: http://www.cotind.com
Type of Work: Make 3-Drawer Wooden Dollhouse Jewelry Boxes
Income Potential: $5.00 per item with no income limit. (All listed items)
This 1” high, by 1” side, and ¾” deep 3-drawer jewelry box has no hinges and the wood
grain is matched in the front of the drawers only. The box is made from cherry wood.
Make 1-Drawer Wooden Dollhouse Jewelry Boxes
- With the same dimensions as the 3-drawer box, this one has one drawer with a
lid that opens. It is made from cherry wood as well and has dividers in the top
compartment.
Make Wooden Dollhouse gift Boxes
- This box has no drawer, knobs or hinges. It is a two-compartment box with a
lid. The dimensions are also 1” high, by 1” wide and ¾” deep and as the rest, it is
made out of cherry wood.
Make Wooden Dollhouse silver chests
- These are small silver chests assembled from wood, with one drawer and a
hinged top. Their size is a bit bigger than the jewelry boxes – about 1” high, by 1”
wide, and 1-1/8” deep.

Start making as many items as you wish at no registration fee! All items are assembled
using cherry wood and you will be paid $5.00 for every one you make according to
specifications. You can choose to make any one of the above items and Cottage
Industries will pay postage both ways. To begin making these exciting products, you can
order a start up kit that includes pattern, wood, glue, knife, velvet ribbon – enough materials to assemble 10 items of the products you wish to make. The wood is not
precut. For your benefit you will find extra materials included in case of a mistake. The
Best part of it is that postage for the kit is paid as well. The kit can be yours for a
deposit of $50.00 that will be given back to you when the company buys the 10 items
back. Otherwise, you will be sent another kit. The items described above are the only
ones available at the moment. For color brochures and complete information, please
send two 34- cent loose stamps or call the above number.

Woodworking Product Assembly – Bay Frame Company

As you will be well aware of by now, the product assembly work is mainly of 3 different kinds. One where you are required to have sewing skills, another where you are required to just wield a pair of scissors and a glue bottle or a glue gun and then there is the kind of assembly work where you are required to have woodworking skills. This product assembly job offer has some element of woodworking involved. Unlike some where you are required to know the basic woodworking like drilling and sawing, this one is slightly more complicated. You are required to make picture frames where you will need to know how to burn the stenciled design on to the frame. While you will receive the instructions with the startup kit, this is not the easiest of exercise. A golden rule with attempting woodworking assembling jobs is that only those who have experience with woodworking and are adept at it should try it. It is also a field where having a natural interest in woodworking helps.

Another aspect of note here is that the details of this assembly offer does not list a phone number. We usually do not recommend the companies that do not list a telephone number where someone in charge can be reached. You should not send money to any assembly work at home offer without speaking to the owner of the business or a customer care executive. Even if they send you a brochure, you should have exact details about the company such as the address of the office, name of the owner, number of employees, track record of payment, nature of business etc.

Make sure you get all this before you even consider sending your hard earned money to join a product assembly job offer. The following are the details for Bay Frame Company that claims to hire people to do product assembly from home.

Bay Frame Company, P.O. Box 15889, Jackson, TN 38302

Type of Work: Assembling Wood Burning Picture Frames

Income Potential: Contact the company for additional in formation.

This company is looking for home workers to make wood burning picture frames. You will be required to trace stencil design onto frames, then wood burn the design on the frames. For more information, please send a long self-addressed, stamped envelope to the above address.

Wicker Furniture Product Assembly – American Wicker Corporation

 

There are so many different variations of the home assembly work. And yet they have the same things in common. This company pays for making wicker furniture for dollhouses. Believe it or not making and selling of doll houses seems to be one of the favorite items for product assembly at home work. The problem, however, with this kind of work primarily is that the work is extremely fine and detailed. Assembling dollhouses is difficult enough but making miniature wicker furniture for it is going to be even more tedious. Only people with extremely fine fingers and an ability to work with extremely tiny objects should attempt to do this work. Even before you send them a Self Addressed Envelope as they request, you should first give them a call on the phone number specified. Sometimes companies come and go. If a product assembly is not available on the phone number that they have listed then it is a good idea to forget it all together. Listed below are the details for this product assembly offer.

American Wicker Corporation, 1040 Woodstock Road, Suite 175, Orlando, FL. 32803.
Phone: 407-894-9221

Type of Work: Wicker Furniture assembly.

Income Potential: Contact the company for additional information. This company is looking for home workers to make tiny wicker furniture for dollhouses. Scissors and a small pair of wire cutters required. For more information, please send a long self-addressed, stamped envelope to the above address.

Please make sure to call and satisfy all your queries before taking the next step. This holds true not just for the product assembly jobs but for all the work at home offers.

Do the best you can to check the credentials and the past record for the company. Ask for references when you speak to the person in charge. Check online on blogs and forums and see if anyone has any information on them.

Product Assembly – American Home Crafts

This is another product assembly company that offers to employ people to work from their homes. While the product may differ the concept of the work remains essentially the same. There are, however, a few differences. This company offers a list of dealers where you can purchase your own supplies at a discounted cost. This means that you do not have to constantly keep sending the money to the company for additional supplies. Also you have the freedom to sell the assembled items on your own if you can. This is however not something that many of the home assemblers look forward. Product assembling at home is essentially about being able to make the items at home and then let the parent company take care of the selling and the marketing aspect of the operation. If you are to sell on your own then you might as do everything yourself without having to pay to receive the startup kit.

American Home Crafts sells baby items like burp pads and baby bibs. You will be required to have sewing skills in order to assemble these items at home. You will be allowed to make a maximum of 4 batches a week that will roughly fetch you around $460 a week. This is however the maximum and the ideal income. It is rare for any one to make this much money assembling a single product from home.

What needs to be seen is how regular and professional this company is when it comes to paying the people that work for them.

There is a phone number available that you should call to clarify all details and doubts. Please remember that product assembly is still a very uncertain area as far as working from home is concerned. the amount of money that you can earn and the regularity of that income is highly suspect. Please read what the Better Business Bureau had to say about working from home here. View all posts filed under BBB Tips & Advice

American Home Crafts, P.O. Box 700-NHA, Vacaville, CA

Phone No. - 95696-0700

Type of Work: Sewing Baby Burping Pads or Baby Bibs

Income Potential: $460.00 per week maximum for 144 pads or bibs Since 1989 American Home Crafts has been producing quality baby items. You can assemble burping pads or baby bibs – both very easy to make! All that is needed is basic skills and a simple sewing machine. American Home Crafts will pay you $63.00 for production and $52.00 for supply cost for every package of 3 dozen pads or bibs plus $4.00 to cover shipping. You also have the option of selling the assembled products on you own to friends, relatives, flea markets, etc. You can make a maximum of 4 packages per week ($460.00 total). A startup kit is available to you. It includes, pattern, instructions and fabrics to make one trial burping pad or bib. Also, the company gives you a list of suppliers where you can purchase materials at 40-50% off. A help line is available for you for phone assistance. For more information, please send a long self addressed stamped envelope.

Product Assembly Vs. Home Based Craft Business

As far as I am concerned about this debate, a home based craft business wins hands down.

Here is how I choose to look at things. Craft and product assembly work at home is for the amateur crafter. It is for the non-serious hobbyists that is satisfied with some extra income every month. These are people that are either not skilled enough or inclined enough to grow a business for themselves. As far as craft making is concerned, it is very feasible and possible to develop a business from home.

If you need to make a choice between the two home based income options, check the following conditions to be true before you decide.

Who should try a Craft Business from Home:

1) You need to be a motivated person who is passionate about his or her crafts. If you have an original craft, even better. You need to either have the skill or the craft that will sell.

2) You want to be your own boss but are also ready to devote time and capital to your work.

3) You are able to develop clear and correct business plans for your enterprise. This means that you have a vision the company you want to create in terms of operations and assets, you have a strategy for advertising and marketing and you have capital and expense resources that are required for starting, launching and growing a business in its initial stages.

4) You are looking at long term goals. You are willing to put in the hard work and the resources to sustain the business in its inception stages. Most businesses take time before they start showing a profit or even break even with the cost required to start and run it.

5) You are an entrepreneur who is motivated and inspired by the thought of running your own business. You are prepared to be challenged by the demands of starting a successful business enterprise.

Who Should Try Product Assembly At Home:

1) you are mostly interested in making crafts as a hobby.

2) You are looking at a part time income that will allow you some extra money at the end of the month for a few extra indulgences.

3) You are good at making crafts and are able to generate work of very good workmanship.

4) You are living in a small town or city where the money you earn has more buying power. If you live in a bigger city then the amount you earn may not seem to be worth the effort.

5) You are looking for part-time work but still are able to give some time to this work almost everyday. It is important to make sure you work regularly in order to generate a suitable number of units every month. The more you make the more you earn.

6) You do not have the capital for a business start-up. This does not have to be the reason why you choose product assembly work. There are several financing options available to the enthusiastic entrepreneur today and not all of them are complicated.

Who Should NOT try Product Assembly

1) If you are looking to make a substantial and a serious income from home.

2) If you are a skilled and professional crafter. You are better off trying to find a professional craft job or a business of your own. If you can make professional crafts you can sell your crafts in various ways such as craft stores, craft fairs, to friends and family, through your neighborhood, on the internet etc. Do not waste your time and skill with an assembly job that only gives you mediocre returns. Read about increasing craft sales in these articles: http://assembleandearn.com/about/2009/04/5-tricks-to-increase-sales-of-your.html
http://assembleandearn.com/about/2009/04/selling-your-crafts-online.html
http://assembleandearn.com/about/2009/05/selling-wholesale-to-craft-stores.html
http://assembleandearn.com/about/2009/05/advertising-and-marketing-methods.html

3) If you do not have the patience to do enough research to find the right assembly jobs offer. The assembly jobs offer are a dime and a dozen. A lot of them are scams. If you are not going to research the offer enough, the odds are that you might end up loosing money with another home based scam.

Where To Find All The Assembly Jobs

There are many websites that have a list of product assembly jobs.  Some of these websites require you to pay in order to download this list while other websites list it would free.  The reason why you need a comprehensive list of the product assembly companies is that there are so many of such offers available out there today. 

The truth is that a majority of them are not reliable work at home offers in order to find yourself a suitable assembly job offer you need to contact as many companies as possible.  Having compiled a list ready at hand saves a lot of time.  You can easily take a printout and start getting in touch with the companies systematically.  Different companies listed different methods of contacting them.  You may be able to register through their website, telephone, fax or to the postal mail. 

We always recommend trying to work for a company that has its physical details listed out clearly such as address, phone number, fax and the name of the person in charge.  Many assembly companies only list out a P.O. Box address.  In such a case you usually have no information as to the location of the company or the name of the person in charge.  You have no idea where your money is going, who is paying you and who is running the show.  It is usually a good idea to avoid these companies unless you are able to speak with someone at the company office and derive the real address.

It is your choice whether to search the Internet for read assembly job listings for to buy a comprehensive compiled a list from one of the websites that you may come across.  At this juncture it should be mentioned that this website has a list of more than 1000 product assembly company's and craft jobs that can be downloaded for the price of $7.99.  This is the largest listing of craft and assembly jobs on the Internet.  Venue subscribe you also stand

Questions You Should Ask Before Joining An Assembly Job

Many people make the mistake of not communicating thoroughly with the assembly company they are intending to work with. Do not feel shy to ask any questions that you may have in mind. Many people do not ask too many questions with the fear of upsetting the person in charge and being refused the chance to work at home. You should dispense with this fear immediately. Any assembly job offer that is genuine will come from a company that has nothing to hide from its potential home based assemblers. They will not mind answering questions were used since they will have no secret agenda. A company that is genuinely hiring people to assemble crops for them at home will be a genuine crafting business in itself. They will be selling the crafts made by you either through a retail or wholesaling chain. The following is just a small list of some important questions that you should ask the assembly company before you decide to send them the registration fee to join:

1) if you are communicating through the postal mail and all you have is the P.O. Box addresses the company for its real physical address. Also ask for the phone and fax number and how you can speak to the person in charge. This is important because if all you have is a P.O. Box addresses then you do not know who is running the show, where your money is going, who is paying you and what the business is all about.

2) Asked about the nature of the business. Enquire as to whether the business is our crafting retail business or a wholesale business. How is it exactly that they sell the crafts you make for them. Do they have any outlets? Do they have a store of their own?

3) Is it possible for you to pay them a visit in person? This can be at their store or the address that is given out for their office. Even if you have stay in another town or another state and have no intention of traveling all the way, do ask this question. Say that work or a pleasure trip is going to bring you near about their area and you would like to pay them a visit. If a business office exists at the address they have given you then they should not have much problems with having you pay them a visit to talk over the work of agreement. One such company that allows this is Cottage Industries.

4) Ask whether they can give you a reference of some people who are currently working for them and who can vouch for the company. Product assembly company that is in good standing with its home assemblers will have plenty of satisfied of workers who will be more than happy to vouch for the company. An example of a product assembly company that has a multitude of people working for it and who are actively part of a forum on www.wahm.com goes by the name of New England Crafters, also known as The Magical Gift Company.

5) Ask questions about the difficulty of making the craft. Many companies have multiple products that are varying in difficulty level. Explain your own level of skill and experience as far as craft making goes and get a recommendation as to which of the crafts will be suitable you.

6) Ask any and all questions you may have in mind regarding income potential, consistency of work etc

Form Your Own Opinions

In the previous posts we have highly recommended and strongly suggested that you do your research before joining any work at home offer. The same applies to assembly jobs at home. You can learn a lot by reading reviews and experiences posted by other people. But what remained and said in those posts was that it is equally important to form your own opinions. One person's failure at product assembly does not have to be yours. Just because a person field at doing in product assembly job for a certain company does not automatically mean that the company was scam. A person can fail at a product assembly job for several reasons and none of them may have anything to do with the unscrupulous nature of the company. Many people get into this work with false presumptions such as the work is going to be easy, they are going to make hundreds of dollars every week, they do not need any special skills of experience, anybody can do it etc.

these are all misconceptions about product assembling jobs. If you want to work at home with product assembly you do need to have special crafting skills to be able to make your crafts to the standards of workmanship required by the company. You are also required to display plenty of patients as the what progress can be slow in the beginning and so is the income.

There are more than 1000 product assembly companies listed on this website. It is impossible to judge each and every one of them by reading what other people have to say about them. Just because one person had a bad experience with a certain product assembly of her does not necessarily mean that you will have the same experience. This does NOT mean that other people's experiences mean nothing. They do mean a lot. but you cannot base your entire judgment on it. Unless of course there are several feedbacks that came the same thing about a particular assembly company.

When you go through the list of the assembly job offers on this website you are recommended to contact as many of them as possible. At least all of those whose craft you find yourself interested in assembling from home. Judge from your communication with the company as to whether it is right for you are not.

We have spoken about various points that distinguish between a scam and a real job offer in other posts. Keep all these points in mind throughout your communication with the assembly company.

Remember, forming your own opinions is about being able to process all the information that you have managed to collect. In the case of a certain product assembly company this can be the reviews that you have read online, the experiences of other people, the report on the website of better business bureau and your own personal experience with interacting with the assembly company.

Why People Don’t Tell

Sometimes, just sometimes, you happened to come across a favorable review of some assembly job offer. The person seems to be fairly satisfied as far as he is on our experience with working from home by making crafts is concerned. And these two are mostly by the people who have done product assembly in the past but not doing it any more. But you will not find many of these on the Internet. Mostly you will find only the favorable reviews. You will mostly get to read about how they were scams out a them money and never got paid for their work. I believe that there is a reason why many people who even after having had a favorable experience working from home by assembling products do not openly speak about it. Anybody working from home by making craft items for the product assembly business realizes that the number of openings are a few. They also realize that the amount of work they receive from the company depends on the size of the business itself. Most of the craft businesses are small-time businesses. People who do manage to find successful employment with a craft assembly job do not like to publicize it for the fear of jeopardizing their own position. As more and more people start applying for a particular assembly job the more tentative the position of the current home assemblers becomes. If there are too many people applying them sooner or later the company starts rejecting applications. Or worse they start rejecting the craft units shipped by the home assemblers. This is really not a good policy on the part of the company but we feel that this happens all the time. Ideally what a craft business should be to when they cannot hire any more home assemblers is that they should close down the application for further job openings. But what happens instead is that new home based assemblers get in their work rejected repeatedly just because the company does not have a high in demand for the product in order to sell this extra input of products.

There are certain product assembly company is that have informed their home assemblers in the recent past that they are unable to balance the demand and supply for the craft and hence in order to get rid of the surplus production, will not be able to provide work to home based assemblers any more.

Every home based assemblers knows that he or she is working as an independent contractor. The company has no obligation to continue the work agreement with them and can terminate the same at any point of time. As every home assembler is aware of the instability of the assembly job and income they are not keen on sharing with other people interested in the same job. It is the simple case of self preservation in the field of work where it is tough to find a real home based job.

Get The Complete List Of Assembly Companies

There are many websites that have a list of product assembly jobs.  Some of these websites require you to pay in order to download this list while other websites list it for free.  The reason why you need a comprehensive list of the product assembly company's is that there are so many of such offers available out there today.  The truth is that a majority of them are not reliable work at home offers. In order to find yourself a suitable assembly job offer you need to contact as many companies as possible.  Having compiled a list ready at hand saves a lot of time.  You can easily take a printout and start getting in touch with the companies systematically.  Different companies listed different methods of contacting them. You may be able to register through their website, telephone, fax or to the postal mail.  We always recommend trying to work for a company that has its physical details listed out clearly such as address, phone number, fax and the name of the person in charge.  Many assembly company only give out a P.O. Box address.  In such a case you usually have no information as to the location of the company or the name of the person in charge.  You have no idea where your money is going, who is paying you and who is running the show.  Working for such a company is not recommended. Getting a refund from such a company can also become problematic as you have no real address at hand.

It is your choice whether to search the Internet for agreed assembly job listings for to buy a comprehensive compiled a list from one of the websites that you may come across.  At this juncture it should be mentioned that this website has a list of more than 1000 product assembly company's and craft jobs that can be downloaded for the price of $7.99.  This is one of the largest listing of craft and assembly jobs on the Internet and has been maintained and updated for the last 5 years.

When you subscribed you will also be able to download several free e-book is about working from home such as distributorship opportunities, how to get paid to drive, getting paid to pass out free sample, getting paid to read e-mail, a guide to time management and so many others.

The Popular Assembly Companies

The popular product assembling companies are measured not by their own success but by the amount of success that people have had assembling crafts for them from home. 
There are a hand full of product assembly companies that have a lot of satisfied home assemblers working from them.  Some of these people have been employment with these companies for years.  The popular product assembly companies have been regular with their payments and have a good working business policy in place.  Most of the legitimate and popular product assembly companies are also craft businesses in their own right.  They are into either retail or wholesale selling off craft items.  In order to support the production of their craft line they hire assemblers to make their crafts from home.  A few examples of the popular product assembly companies that are in good standing with the people working for them are Cottage Industries, Valerie Hattery and The Magical Gift Company also known as New England Crafters.  All these three names have certain features in common which makes them a cut above the rest.  First and foremost both Cottage Industries and The Magical Gift Company have their own craft retail store.  When you visit their website the first thing that you will spot is the photograph of their store in one of the prominent districts with the address and listed phone number.  You are welcome to give them a call or pay them a visit if you happen to be in the neighbourhood.  Both these companies allow you speak about the home based assembly job opportunity face-to-face with the people in charge.  Cottage industries even goes as far as to let you pick up your starter kit and drop of your finished craft units at their office.  This kind of an arrangement works very well for the people staying in the nearby areas.  Valerie Hattery is an assembly company that is in relatively good standing with The Better Business Bureau.  A good rating with the Better Business Bureau is something that a majority of the product assembly companies do not enjoy.  All of these three companies ask the home assemblers to send one sample of the craft to them for approval before they are allowed to work full-time.  Instead of having to make the complete batch and send it to the company for the inspection process you are just required to make the one.  Only after your Sample has been approved can you go ahead and finished the rest of the batch will stop this way you save a lot of time and effort in case you are not doing it right in the first place.  Till the time that you can get the Sample craft correct it is sent back to you with instructions and report about what you are doing wrong and how to fix it.

The magical gift company has a list of all the people working for it present on its website.  The day that you did approved to work for the magical gift company your name will also appear alongside the rest of the people successfully assembling crafts for the company.  The magical gift company also maintains its own blog where the people working can freely exchanged ideas tips and thoughts about the various jobs that they are doing.  This provides a good platform for any beginner.  You are in a position to gain some helpful insights into how to conduct your assembly job at home in the best manner.  You can not only share your experience but learn some important tips that may help you get the job done better and faster will stop Valerie Hattery is the company that tells its potential home assemblers that the work of product assembly that it provides is mainly for the creation of purpose.  It is work that the person is supposed to do as a hobby and enjoyment rather than for a full-time income.  While there is money to be made it is only part time.  Clarity in the policy of this company makes it an attractive choice for many people.
There are other companies that are also popular with people interested in doing assembly at home.  But almost all of them have a few certain points in common.  They have a valid craft business which is either a retail or a wholesale enterprise.  They have a good approval process.  They list out their physical address and phone number and are ready to render friendly assistance over the phone.  All you queries are answered and you are given clear and precise information about your job.

How Much Can You Earn

Its hard to fix a number. Income varies with people. Safe average is of few hundred dollar, less than $1000, each month. The amount of money you make depends on the number of units you assemble so, theoretically speaking, the more you work the more you will earn. But this too is dependent on several other factors. You will probably take a couple of weeks before you can start working with the assembly company full-time. This duration includes the time that is spent in contacting and communicating the employer. After your registration fee has been processed and you have been dispatched your starter kit you may still take a few weeks to finally get approved to work. The approval process is generally about making one sample of the product that you are supposed to assemble. Only when your sample gets approved by the assembly company are you allowed to work. So you can expect your income to be nothing at all in the first month or so of starting up.

Once you have started working full-time for the company your work is slow owing to the fact that you are new to making the particular craft. You may require much practice by making the first several units before you are able to turn out the respectable number of batches every month. Till the time that your work is slow and tedious and the output limited, your income will also be slow and limited in a similar fashion.

What can be said with absolute certainty is that you should not believe the tall claims you may read on certain websites and advertisements regarding product assembly jobs at home. These are exaggerated. They are not impossible just improbable to achieve in the beginning. It is the idealistic measure of income. An income of several hundreds of dollars every week, as stated by most of the product assembly jobs, can be earned by making the maximum number of units every week. But experience and feedback as shown this to be an unlikely situation, specially for the beginner.

What is also true is that there is always a potential for growth. If you feel that you cannot make a particular craft any faster than you already are, then you can always sign up with another craft company. Assembling two or more products at home simultaneously will serve to enhance your monthly income.

Start Your Own Assembly Business

If there is a craft that you want to sell on your own then you might consider setting up your own assembly line up. The first thing that you're going to need is a craft idea and the ability to sell it through the retail or the wholesaling market. Once you have determined your craft product you need to apply some reverse engineering to the finished product. You need to break down the craft in easy compliments so that an assembler working from home can put it together for you.

Most of the product assembly businesses today include detailed instructions as well as instructional video and the finished sample of product in the starter kit. The starter kit is a collection of raw materials, supplies and instructions that you provide to your assembler so that he can assemble the first few units of the craft for you. There are various ways of hiring home based assemblers.

One, you can choose to hire locally. Put up advertisements in the local newspaper. Put up fliers in places of interest such as craft stores and malls. The advantage of having people locally is that you will be in a good position to determine the skill and temperament of the people you are hiring. You will be able to choose the right people right for the job and not have to waste time with a lot of mis-hits. Dealing with your craft assemblers personally will let you supervise and assist them better in getting the job done for you. You also do not have to waste time in packing raw materials and supplies in packages in order to ship to remote assemblers and waiting for them to ship your product back. Any kind of inspection and approval process for the finished craft can be conducted quickly. In short your craft will be ready for selling sooner. There are two options available to you as far as the infrastructure requirements go. You can either hire people to work from their own homes or you can provide some sort of working space for them. Both these options have the advantages and disadvantages. The advantage of hiring people to work from home is that you are not going to have to provide infrastructure support and you will save money on overheads. You will however lose out on being able to assist and supervise directly. It will also be hard for you to exercise much flexibility in the work routine. If in case you to have extra space readily available then having people come to work every day means that you will be able to conduct better supervision. You will be able to fix a regular hours to the job. You will get the work done much faster.

Two, you can put an advertisement on the Internet or in the newspapers nationally. If you are willing to hire remote assemblers then you will need to get together a starter kit to send to the people applying for the job. The starter kit will contain all the materials required for the assemble to finish the first batch of craft units. You will not be in a position to judge the skill and qualification of the craft if you hire the person remotely. You may have several people applying for the job and many of them may not be suitable. You will mostly be required to set a joining fee to cover the cost of the starter kit and shipping. You will have to set up a quality check and inspection process in which the crafts being shipped to you by your remote assemblers are appraised for quality standards. You will also need to have an organized departments that take care of shipping raw materials, returns, correspondence, brochures and payment checks. You will need to have a detailed brochure or a website that gives out the details to the people interested in joining. You will need to have a system where the crafts being shipped to you are appraised for quality and, if not up to the mark, are sent back to the assembler with detailed instructions as to how to set them right.

Hiring people remotely has its advantages as long as you can establish a system that works. If you cannot handle the process of shipping in, shipping out, corresponding to post, setting up a past and comprehensive approval process and a regular payment system then you should not think about having people to work remotely for you from locations other than your nearby local areas.

Are Product Assembly Jobs Genuine

The biggest questions surrounding product assembly jobs at home is whether there are genuine jobs available on not. There certainly are some craft businesses that hire people to work from home. Most of these craft businesses have a retailing or a wholesaling network through which they sell their craft. Some of them even have a front-line store. In order to spot a genuine assembly offer feel free to ask questions about the nature of the business with the person in charge. What you are going to need, foremost, is patience. There are hundreds upon hundreds of assembly job offers but only a few of them are genuine. As long as you are ready to contact as many of these companies and research them comprehensively, you should be able to find the right work for yourself. Most of the work from home offers that are scams have been built upon an idea that was a genuine opportunity at one point of time. The same holds true for product assembly jobs. In the beginning there were only a handful of companies that use to hire assemblers to work from home. These companies were crafting businesses that sold crafts through retail or wholesale. In order to maximize their output they took to hiring people who could work from home and make simple crafts. This opportunity quickly degenerated into a scam. Most of assembly job offers now feed on the need for people to work from home and earn extra money. Everything is said in order to convince you that the work is easy and no experience or special skill is required. On this website we always tell you that this is not true. You need to have good crafting skills in order to be able to make the crafts required of you. Any kind of imperfection results in your work getting rejected along with the payment cheque.

If assembly job offer is genuine you will not have much of a problem finding other people working for the same company. There are many blogs and forums online that have home assemblers actively exchanging ideas and opinions about their assembly jobs. You will also find a genuine assembly company willing to disclose their business details such as address, phone number and the name of the person in charge. They are also willing to reveal the income potential accurately. Do not trust any company that seems to be hesitant in giving out information that is vital to you making a decision about joining it or not. Think about it as applying for a regular job with a regular firm. Does anybody ever join a job without knowing what it is that company does and what it is that the person is expected to do in the company?

Signing up for home assembly job should not be any different.

You are of course advised to research the company online. Type the name in the major search engines and see what kind of results come up. Go to the website of your local better business bureau www.bbb.org.

Do Assembly Jobs Pay

This is a murky area as far as for the assembly jobs are concerned. If we are to determine which companies pay and do not it is hard to speak in terms of black-and-white. There are many areas that lie in the shade of grey and are hence unclear. Some assembly company's pay, some pay only a couple of times and some do not pay at all. The companies that pay are real crafting businesses. It is not difficult to spot these when you communicate and correspond with a person in charge. Many of such companies are also likely to have their own craft Retail outlet. we have already discussed how to spot the genuine assembly job offer in another post.

There are some assembly company that will only pay you one or two times. This system is geared to given the assembly company to advantages. First of all, any company needs to have some sort of a credibility to itself even it is this can more people out of their money. It assembly company constantly keeps taking money from its assemblers and does not pay them anything back the very soon the company will be in the reputation of being an absolute scam. There will be plenty of reviews and reports posted by the people who have had a bad experience in order to deter people from joining the same assembly job offer. But if the same company pays a handful of assemblers every now and then it still makes the money and also keeps its reputation intact. At least it manages to create a mixed opinion with people. This may be enough to trap for the people in paying for the work at home scam. The second advantage that an assembly company gains from paying a handful of assemblers every now and then is that usually when a person gets paid for their first project, they rushed in and out of a lot more supplies for their next few batches. Which means if an assembler paid $25 for the first batch, after getting paid for the first time, he or she might think that the company is genuine and order in $100 worth of raw materials. So while the company was making $10-$15 on the first purchase they are now making much more. Having paid you for the first time and made much more money out of it, they can refuse to pay you on the second of the third occasion.

There are of course certain companies that do not pay at all. No matter how well you make the craft for them your work always gets rejected on one pretext or the other. These are companies that often only placed postbox office address without a phone number and the name of a person in charge in their advertisements. They are harder to trace since you have no idea where real money is headed and who is the person behind the scam. Do not trust any company that does not list out valid physical details about itself. You can locate such companies by doing research on the Internet. Type that name out in the major search engines and see what kind of responses come up. If all you can see is negative reviews then perhaps you are better off in avoiding the company. You can also check out the website of the better business bureau www.BBB.com and see how many complaints have been lodged by them. It is not only the number of complaints launched by the people but the fashion in which the company chose to redress these complaints. The report on the better business bureau should be able to give you information regarding this aspect. If the website of the better business bureau does not have any valid information about the company you are interested in assembling products for them it will be a good idea to stay clear of such an offer.

Who Should Join Product Assembly Jobs

Who should do product assembly: people who enjoy crafting as a hobby, people who have crafting skills, people who have the patience to do repetitive work, people who are looking to make a supplemental income from home and not a stand alone income. People who stay in smaller towns rather than big cities, people who are more interested in recreation rather than a full time work and income.

Is working from home by assembling products for everyone? You may believe the answer to be a ‘Yes’, but is it not so. There is a criteria of people that fit in more with product assembly jobs than the others. These people are also more likely to succeed. If the following qualities seem to hold true for you.

1) You are a craft hobbyist. You enjoy making crafts. You want to do craft assembly at home because you have a passion for crafts. Most of the product assembly work is about simple crafts. Many of these crafts need careful working in order to assemble. As in any other kind of art form you need to show patience and perseverance. Experience has shown that people who are genuinely enjoy making craft as a hobby are more successful with product assembly jobs.

2) You want to do product assembly more for recreation and pastime rather than an income. We feel that the primary intention behind doing product assembly at home should be that a recreational pastime. If you are interested in product assembly solely for the purpose of funding from home than it might not be such a good idea because income from this kind of home based work is limited and not consistent. It is possible that you may get frustrated with the work and find it not worth your while to continue after a couple of months. If however you enjoy the work as well you are more liable to continue it and making an extra income at home every month.

3) You only want to earn a spare income for a few extra indulgences every month. As mentioned before the money to be made out of product assembly jobs is not in a to constitute a complete income. It can at best be thought of as a spare an extra income that will help you support and already exist in income or serve to put some extra spending cash in your pocket every month.

4) You live in a relatively smaller town or city. The kind of money that you can make whether assembling products at home will be more appealing to someone who is living in a smaller town where the cost of living is lower. It may not be to person living in an expensive city where a few hundred dollars every month might not seem like a substantial amount. Living in a small town means that a smaller sum of money has more buying power. A few hundred dollars every month will get you more in a small town than it wailed in a larger city where cost of living is higher.

5) You have a few spare hours to give to this work everyday. It is important that you are able to give a few hours every day to assembling the products at home. Since your overall income in a month is dependent on the output of your work, the best way to make a consistent and substantial amount of money is to work in a regular fashion and maximise output.

6) You are good at making crafts. Do not get into the work of assembling products at home with the presumption that anybody can make crafts at home. It is one thing to make craft as the casual hobby and quite another to do with as work that you are getting paid for. You are required to make crafts that perfect in design and workmanship. The crafts that you assemble will go through an inspection process where there are matched to the company standards.

If you feel that you fulfil the criteria above then you may try giving work at home assembly jobs a try.

Jewelry Making Vs. Product Assembly

There are many many people who are interested in making jewelry at home. Some of them want to do this out of a recreational interest, as hobby, while others would like to make it their vocation. As with the most of the home based enterprise the choice is between working for somebody else starting your own home based business. The same choice is available to the people who are interested in making a living out of making jewelry at home. There is almost nothing better than running your own business from home. But if you are interested in having gradually making job at home than craft assembly jobs for something of a solution for you.

Product assembly work at home is mostly about assembling easy craft products. There is a wide variety of such products that are offered to home assemblers by a multitude of craft businesses. Some of these businesses offer jewelry products to assemble at home such as bracelets, earrings, necklaces and other trinkets. These are mostly non-precious all semi-precious items. We mention this but because some people who are interested in jewelry making at home are solely interested for the reason of working with exotic gemstones and precious metals. That has a charm of its own and unfortunately is not something that you are likely to get with jewelry assembly jobs.

If however this is not your contention then you can try work at home and making simple jewelry products as already mentioned above. The main feature of a jewelry assembly job is that you will be making fairly simple jewelry and you will be doing so in bulk. You will be making the same jewelry that repeatedly unless you join up to make more than one product.

You will get paid according to the number of units that you are able to finish and ship to the company every month.

The amount of money that you can make by assembling jewelry at home is not so much as compared to running a jewelry making business from home. There are certain companies online that sell a complete jewelry making kit as well as instructions to go about establishing themselves in a you to business from home. If it is the charm of handling precious jewels, selling beautiful and expensive jewelry that appeals to you then product assembly is not the job for you. If you want to derive pleasure out of personally designing the jewelry that you sell to your customers then product assembly is not the job for you as well.

If however you enjoy making simple trinkets like semi precious bracelets, earrings and necklaces and would like to on a few hundred dollars every month doing this work at home than we should consider assembling jewelry products at home.

Craft Assembly Vs. Sewing Jobs At Home

There is a close comparison that can be drawn between sewing jobs and craft assembly jobs. There are several similarities as well as a few differences. As far as sewing jobs are concerned there are a few reasons why someone who wants to work at home as a seamstress may consider craft assembly work instead. Some of the common problems with finding a home based sewing job are as follows:

1) rigorous sewing jobs are hard to come by unless you are willing to start a sewing business of your own. It is possible to find sewing jobs with some local boutiques but they are often not many of these. And not many of them are very high profile in order to be hiring multiple seamstresses.

2) Most of the major sewing jobs are located with big factory outfits. Most of these jobs are located in and around way these factories exist. So sewing jobs are mostly concentrated around particular area or states. If you do not have and to be living around the same area it is unlikely that you will be able to apply these jobs.

3) The regular sewing jobs and do not allow telecommuting and working from home. It becomes difficult to supervise telecommuters. Having to ship the row materials along with instructions and waiting for the finished items to be shipped back creates uncertainty and is time-consuming. There are many spur of the moment changes or instructions that are needed to be implemented. This makes telecommuting virtually impossible as far as sewing jobs are concerned.

4) Sewing jobs usually require a high level of skill. You are required to know how to work on professionals sewing machines. You are also required to know different kinds of stitches and techniques.

These are the points that make craft assembly jobs are favorable enterprise has completed the sewing jobs. They are easy to locate and can be done from anywhere in the country and sometimes from anywhere in the world. You are not required to have any prior skill of experience. Anybody who is interested can join. Although it should be mentioned here if you are intending on doing sewing projects craft assembly jobs you are advised to have a good sewing skill. The crafts that you will be sewing needed to be of a good professional quality. Only try a sewing assembly job at home if you are confident of your sewing ability.

The following points make a regular sewing job more favorable as compared to sewing assembly jobs:

1) Sewing jobs are usually higher paying than assembly jobs. The income is consistent and you get paid monthly. Income through assembly jobs is solely dependent on the output you are able to generate every month as well as the amount of work that the company provides you every month which may fluctuate.

2) You are working under a work contract and assured of an income for the period of the contract as well as additional benefits. With assembly jobs you work as an independent contractor and there is no guarantee of how consistent your work agreement with the company will be. Assembly company may choose to sever the agreement at any point of time. You are also not entitled to any special benefits.

3) Sewing jobs count as professional experience. The time spent are working on a sewing job will stand in good reference in the future in locating another and a better job.

4) Infrastructure is provided you. You do not have to worry about buying expensive sewing equipment. With sewing assembly jobs you are expected to have a suitable equipment in order to accomplish the job. Of course, you can always start with a simple sewing craft which does not required more than a variety of needles and an it array of threads.

If you are someone who is looking for a sewing job at home and are having difficulty finding one than based on the reasons listed above you can give sewing assembly jobs a try.

How To Increase Your Assembly Job Productivity

You need to be patient in the first couple of weeks when you are not so good with the job, you need to increase your skill without getting rejected due to haste, increase the number of crafts you make, increase the number of people working, involve the whole family, buy the right tools without depending on the materials supplied to you.

Many people end up in a situation where there work gets rejected by the product assembly company even before they have started generating much income out of this work. You will come across many complaints by such people on various review sites on the Internet. Do not be one of these people. You need to be patient in the beginning. It takes almost everyone little time till they can get the hang of making the crafts to perfection. It can be a time-consuming and frustrating process in the beginning. Do not let this make you compromise on the quality of your workmanship. If what you end up assembling is not up to the mark do not bother to send it to the company for the inspection process. The likelihood is that it will be rejected and sent back to you for re-doing. Save yourself a time and the trouble. A great step in turning out quality craftsmanship in minimum amount of time is to buy certain tools on your own from your crafts store. Many people rely on the is provided in the starter kit which frankly are not much. You are provided with a bottle of glue and a poor quality cutting knife when required. As for the crafts that require stitching and sewing you are expected to the right equipment to finish the job. While working with any craft make sure you have a good quality cutting knife. You may even go and purchase a hot glue gun. Either of these plants do not cost much. Before getting into a craft that requires any kind of sewing and stitching make sure that you have the right to require to accomplish the job. Speak to the person in the customer care and enquire as to whether advanced equipment such as the sewing machine will be required to do the job.

A good thing about product assembling at home is that you can involve the family at home in helping you out with the job. This can be kids during the vacation time just about anybody who has what spare time on their hands. It can even be a fun recreational activity with the kids. You can get into a partnership with one of your friend who also shares your interest in craft making. Not only will this make the work much faster but you will and earning more as you will be able to accomplish making many more units every single week.

Do not be overcome by based in order to earn more pride in the beginning. It takes most of the people several weeks to get accustomed to the kind of work that they are required to do. Some of the crafts such as miniature items are tedious to make and can require quite a bit of practice. Take your time and do not let impatience and when the quality of your work. Nothing is to be achieved by making that quality crafts in haste as you are not going to get paid for badly assembled crafts. Save yourself the time and the frustration and work carefully in the beginning. Lest assured your speed will increase right after having made just a few of the products.

How To Maximize Your Assembly Income

pick out the craft matching your crafting level, work with a established company, make a craft that you can make the best and the fastest, increase the number of crafts you make gradually.

There a couple of tricks that you need to maximize your earnings with product assembly. Start with choosing the right product to assemble. We have already explained how to spot a genuine product assembly job offer. Now you need to choose the right product. Base it on a few points. Choose a product that you are interested in. For example, there are people who are fond of making toys. There is a huge faction that enjoys candle making. For you to make the product repetitively and in bulk it will serve you well to be assembling a craft that you can enjoy.

Choose a craft that matches the level of your skill. The more suited you are to make a particular craft the quicker you will be able to make each single piece. Since the amount you earn is directly proportional to the number of units you can finish every week, you will earn more by choosing a craft that is easy for you to make.

Do your best to choose a craft business to work with that is established. We have already enunciated the various points you should keep in mind in order to check out and assembly job offer. Choose the one that comes from a well-known name with a satisfactory record with the various official agencies and websites such as the better business bureau and the postmaster's office.

The amount of money that you make assembling each craft usually varies with different crafts. There is the difficulty level that is graded from beginners easy to professional difficult. All of these crafts may seem simple to make at the outset. You may be tempted to pick up the crafts that pays more without realising that this craft is much more difficult to make than the ones that a less. Start with a craft that is easier to make rather than one that pays more. You can always graduate to more advanced crafts once you have got enough experience under your belt.

Always tried to advanced aircraft making skill. Be patient in the beginning and tried to learn. You may need to purchase certain basic tools such as a hot glue gun and a good cutting knife. These are not provided in the starter kit. But in order to achieve higher efficiency and quality in workmanship it is highly recommended that you purchase these on your own. They do not cost much anyway and are easily available in most of the local provision stores.

If you are unsure of your crafting skill before starting out with any company you can practise at home so that you enter a job well prepared. You can pick up a crafting book from the closest bookstore choose from the thousands of craft products that are available online. Choose a craft projects and that is closest in design to the craft that you are interested in assembling. Practice still you are satisfied that you can turn out the craft close to perfection.

The bottom line is that as long as you keep the quality and the workmanship of your work five and are able to turn out a respectable number of units every week you will be in a good position to earn a few hundred dollars every month working from home.

How To Avoid An Assembly Job Scam

Strangely enough, you can mostly spot a scam from a mile away. They all share certain tell tale signs but its funny how so many people still become victim of the work from home offers. There are two main reasons for this. One is that most of the scams are designed to appeal to the innermost desires of a person. More than that they bring about that emotion that the human heart desires the most. Hope. Every single scam home based job offer has an excellent sales copy written for it. It wants to make you believe that maybe its still possible to make thousands dollars over night. The second factor responsible is the numerous new people finding their way on the internet everyday. More and more people are looking for home based and internet related work in order to supplement their incomes. This has become even more true in the face of the suffering economy.

So the first lesson to be learnt is that do not believe everything you read on the Internet. I know it is hard. After all these many years on the internet, I still get fascinated by some of the work at home programs that I read about. I must confess, the sales copies just keep getting better and better. And every now and then I do pay up to get that secret formula, just to see what latest junk is being used to mislead and scam the people . And that’s when I realize. It’s almost always the same stuff, but in a different package. The sales copies have become better. The websites are sleeker. But the useless information being sold remains the same. There is no formula for making instant riches on the internet. And no one is certainly selling it to you for $25.96. So never go into an assembly jobs offer on the merit of the sales copy alone. Do your research.

See if the company claiming to hire people to assemble products from home is listing an address with a phone number or not. If all you can locate is a P.O box address, then that is a big red flag.

Check out the company by speaking to someone on the telephone. If you are initially communicating by post, ask for the name of the person in charge and the phone number. If they are un-willing to divulge this information, do not consider doing business with them.

Always ask for the real address and ask if you can pay them a visit. Even if you stay in another state and have no intentions of traveling, tell them that you plan to be in the vicinity. The response will tell you a lot about the standing of the company.

Always check the company out online. You will find out various reviews as well as reports on websites such as the Better Business Bureau ( www.bbb.org). Call up your local Better Business Bureau to check if they have any information about the company that you are interested in working for.

If you cannot find existing information on the Internet, post your queries on some of the popular blogs and forums such as www.wahm.com. You are very likely to receive a response from members over there.

Whenever you speak with a representative of an assembly company, do not shy away from asking questions about the business such as, how many years has the company been in business, the number of employees, the name of the person in-charge, the nature of their business ( whether they are a craft store retailer or a wholesaler) and the number of people currently doing assembly work for them. A popular assembly company that goes by the name of Magical Gift Company maintains a list of all the crafters approved for working with them on their website. The say that you get approved to work for them, you will see your name listed as well.

2 Things You Should Concentrate On

There are two main things that you need to concentrate if you wish to succeed at product assembly jobs. One is spending enough time in researching and finding the right assembly company to work for. The second is to work steadily towards improving your expertise with making the craft. If you give these two factors enough importance then your chances of succeeding with product assembly will increase manifold.

Finding the Right Assembly Company:

Whether or not you make money working with an assembly job at home depends largely on the company that you choose to work for. There are several reasons for this:

Different companies, different products – Different companies have different crafts that they offer for home assembly. Some of them are more difficult than others. You are advised to choose the company that offers the right product for you. For example there are some product assembly companies that offer miniature items to make. These may sound simple but are in fact rather difficult. There are others that have a multitude of products and crafts. Some of them are more advanced than others. Choose the one that is more apt for beginners. The person in charge of the customer care should be able to help you make the right choice so consult with the person first.

different companies, different procedures - Different companies have different policies. This determines what their approval process is and other things like their payment process. Some companies adopt the method of getting the assembler to make just item for them and send it in for approval. You are only approved to work with the company they are satisfied that you can make the craft to perfection. This saves a lot of time and effort since you do not have to make the entire batch of dozens of items and risk all of them getting rejected in case you have not been able to get it right. Instead of having to redo the entire batch you just have to make the single item again till you get it right. There are some companies that allow you to visit them personally in the office. This provides for a better one to one interaction with company and the people you are working with.

different companies, different volume of work available - Different businesses have different work volumes they deal in. it is an obvious fact that the more volume the business has, the more work they will have to give to their home based assembler. This can be determined

different companies, different work ethics, policies and reliability - Do not go with the first advertisement that you read. Which is why you will find over 1000 assembly companies listed on this website.

Increasing your Skill:

Working on your skill increases your overall productivity. Increasing your skill takes patience. You need to concentrate more during the initial period in order to assemble the craft just right.

If you feel that your crafting skills are not up to the mark, you should practice beforehand. You can purchase a crafting book from the closest book store or look some of the free craft project that are available online. There are plenty of them both and easily available. You can start with a simple craft and then work your way up to something more complex. You should also pick out a craft project that is closest to the product that you want to assemble. For example, if the craft you want to make is a stuffed bunny, then you can practice with making stuffed toys. Once you feel that you are proficient enough with crafting in order to make crafts professionally, you can register with the product assembly job offer you have shortlist for yourself.

Once you start working you will feel the need to increase your productivity in order to make more money. Try to make your work faster with time. Do not try to do it all of a sudden as you might end up compromising on the quality of your work. Once you have become fast enough, you can even undertake other home assembly job offers.

A good trick to increase your proficiency with product assembly work is to have good tools to work with. The tools that are provided with the starter kit are usually only the basic tools and not really ideal to make the craft. You may be provided with a bottle of glue and a cutting knife, but you may be able to work faster and better with a hit glue gun and an Exacto cutting knife. Both of these items are easily available in stores and are also reasonable in cost.

Stay focused at all point of time and do not let the quality of your work slip. One of the main reasons why people do not succeed with product assembly is that their work gets rejected during the inspection process. You should do all you can to avoid this pitfall. Many of the assembly companies allow you to set your own pace and do not present any sort of deadline. Resist the urge to finish the work faster in order to get paid quickly if it compromises with the craftsmanship.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Craft Assembly Jobs

As far as working from home is concerned, Product assembly jobs have certain advantages and disadvantages that are peculiar to them alone.

Advantages of Craft Assembly Over Home Based Craft Jobs:

Craft Assembly Work Is Easy To Find
Home based craft assembling work is easier to find. There are many craft businesses that hire craft assemblers to work at home. You are not limited to looking for work in your town or local area. Home assembly work can be managed by mostly any where in the country and sometimes even from different countries as well.

No Special Eligibility Criteria For Joining An Assembly Job
There is not a very strict joining criteria for craft assembling jobs. They do not require anything from their assemblers in terms of experience or special skills. At least not formally. However, you are well advised to have good crafting skills for the sake of your own success. Almost anyone can join. Many craft assembly jobs require you to go through an approval process before you start assembling crafts. You are given a single craft to assemble and when you are able to assemble it just right, you can begin the work for that company.

Craft Assembly Is Mostly Simple
The work is mostly simple. When you assemble crafts, you can predict the work that you will be doing most of the time. There are a few areas like that of assembling miniature crafts that has caught people by surprise, but apart from that if you are clear in your communication with the crafting business before you start working for them, you should know exactly what you are getting in to. You are mostly required to assemble the simplest of craft items from home. There are some companies that offer more complicated crafts to assemble as well.

More Independence And Flexibility
You work independently without direct supervision, so there is more flexibility in managing your time schedule. You have the freedom of arranging your work schedule along with your other responsibilities as you see fit. You work as an independent contractor and are not accountable to any other person for your work. If your days bring about unexpected duties and chores then you can still manage to work whenever you can manage to find the time.

No Deadlines
There are mostly long or no deadline. You can work carefully and patiently. Surprisingly enough, a lot of the crafting businesses do not set up any deadlines for their assembler to finish the work. You can work at your own pace. The going can be slow in the beginning. You can take your time in order to ensure that the craft turns out right and meets with the companies approval process.

Get Assistance Of Family And Friends
You can take the help of family members and friends. Since you are the independent contractor, you can take any and all measures to accomplish your  work. You can take the help of family and friends and increase your work force by hiring other people to help you in your work as well.

Assemble Multiple Crafts, Have Multiple Streams Of Income
You can work with multiple companies and assemble multiple crafts for multiple income streams. There is nothing stopping you from working for many craft assembly companies at the same time. If you find that you can manage to finish your work fast enough with one craft so as to be able to assemble another craft then you can choose another home assembly work. This not only enhances your income every month but also provides variety in your labor.

Call the Shots - Decide Your Own Craft To Assemble - Change Anytime
You determine the craft that you make. You can change your craft any time. It is you who decides what craft you want to assemble at home. You can choose from the hundreds of craft assembly companies. Choose what you think you will be able to make with ease as well as the craft that you will enjoy assembling at home. Both these aspects are important as you are going to assembling the craft in bulk and repetitively.

Easy To Find Plenty Of Tips And Advice From Fellow Assemblers
You can find help, advice and tips by fellow workers on various forums. For many of the craft assembling businesses, you will find other crafters on several well known forums on the internet. They are not only sharing their own experiences but also giving out helpful tips and tricks to other assemblers. You can use these forums as a guidance channel to help you perform better. Many of the craft companies have started their own forums where the people working for them find a platform to exchange views and ideas and coach other assemblers to perform better.

Don't Need To Be An Expert - Let Practice Make You Perfect
You assemble the same craft in large numbers. You do not have to a really well trained crafter to work with craft assembling jobs. You can choose the craft that you are interested in assembling and then slowly and steadily make yourself better at making it. You are going to be making the same craft repetitively and in a bulk quantity. You can begin easy, work carefully and let practice make you perfect, which you will invariably be getting plenty of. You can become fast and expert at making a couple of crafts without being the professional and trained crafter.

Disadvantages of Craft Assembly Jobs:

Too Many Assembly Scams
There are many crafting companies that claim to hire home assemblers for making their crafts. It is hard to locate the real offers from the scams. This is the first drawback that you will come face to face with. Like any other work at home opportunity, craft assembly at home is also riddled with false and fraudulent offers. Craft assembly jobs are widely advertised not just on the internet but sometimes also through the classified ads in newspapers printed nationally. It can be safely said that a majority of these offers are not real work at home jobs. So the first struggle that you will have to go through is sift through the myriads of craft assembly offers in order to find the genuine one.

No Fixed Income
There is no fixed income. It varies with work and is greatly dependent upon the working of the company. Craft assembly work from home is not a very organized way of earning an income. There are two major reasons why your income may vary every month. Number one, there can be delays on the behalf of the craft company that you are working for. There may be various causes for this such as fluctuations in demand for the craft, shortage of materials or your product not meeting the inspection process. There are unforeseen delays in between the time that you finish and ship your work till the time that you get paid and receive the next project.
The second reason for the inconsistency in income is you yourself. Many of the craft companies do not put a deadline for completion of the work. Many crafters find if difficult to get organized in a manner so as to assemble a consistent number of crafts every week. If your work output fluctuates, so will your income.
Both these things throw off the projected income off track.

No Special Benefits
There are no benefits. Since you work as an independent contractor, there are no benefits offered of any kind. This is not so common place as whenever you work for yourself, you will be missing out on extra monetary benefits that are normally offered to workers in a regular job. This disadvantage is however mostly offset by all the advantages of working for yourself and working from home.

No Accountability
The company has no accountability. They can stop giving you work anytime. There is no fixed contract of kind with the craft company that you work for. There are no guarantees that you will continue to receive regular work and payment from them. They can terminate the work relationship anytime they choose. So there is no job security as such. Which is why it is recommended to have more than one craft company short listed that you can work with.

Difficult Time Consuming Work Can Limit Your Income
Work can be difficult and time consuming. Income is limited to the amount of work you can accomplish every month. It is wrong to presume that the work is going to be easy while going in for any craft assembly job. It may seem like that in the description and profile of the craft but is seldom the case. A classic example is that of the “BookMark” craft. A lot of people get very keen on making this craft. They presume how hard is it can be to make a bookmark, right? But if you go in to the craft details and read what people have to say about making the “BookMark’ craft, you will realize that it is not just a normay bookmark. It is a crafty bookmark that is made in special way using an intricate knotting technique. Many people find it difficult just to get this knotting technique right. You will probably need a lot of practice initially to get comfortable in assembling the craft. The work output is slow in the beginning and therefore the earnings are slow as well. It may take you the first couple of batches to become sufficiently proficient in making a substantial quantity and hence a substantial income every month.

Starting May Be Slow
It takes time to get started. Finding the right company and getting started may be time consuming. The initial going can be really slow. Especially for the inexperienced crafter. Many companies require you  to go through an inspection process before they approve you to work for them full time. Many people, in fact most of them, take several tries before they qualify to work full time. So when joining up you should be ready to give in a few weeks and even maybe a couple of months before you can settle down to making an income every month.

No Professional Association Or Affiliation
You are not associated with any company. You are required to establish your own setup. It does not count as professional experience. If you are a crafter by profession, working for a  craft assembly job will not count as a professional experience. There are also certain expenses that you will need to make on your own in order to set yourself up in the business of craft assembly. This depends of the craft of your choosing and could range from buying a cutting knife and a hot glue gun to purchasing a sewing machine. The advice is to start with something simple that can make without spending any extra money. Only after a few months of having consistently worked with a craft assembly job, should you contemplate investing in infrastructure growth.

Small Outfits - Small Volume Of Work
Most of the craft assembly offers come from small craft business that cannot sustain a lot of people working for them. There may be lay offs. There may be fluctuations in the sales which will determine the amount of work they accept from their crafters. Recently there have been a few cases of craft assembly companies informing their crafters that they will no longer be able to provide work to them.

Repetitive Work
The work can get highly repetitive. Although you may try making different crafts for different companies, you will still need to make each item in bulk quantity. The work may begin to feel stale to the crafter that desires more challenging and variety of craft work.

Why Patience Is A Virtue In Product Assembling

It is important to be patient while working with product assembly work at home.  You will need patience on two counts. At the very outset, when you are looking for a genuine company for which  you can assemble products at home, you will need to sift through a multitude of company listings. There are many offers that are published either through the internet or the classified ads in the newspapers all over the country. You may even receive flyers in your post. Not all of them are real offers. In fact most of them are frauds. There is a  large list of assembly companies available on this website. There are more than 200 major product assembly companies listed. You will need patience to go through all of them and contact as many as you can. One of the important ways to determine the legitimacy of an product assembly offer is to contact the company for all the details and then trying to verify those details with consumer agencies. You can also try to locate other people who are working for the company. Based on the response that you receive from the company and what your research about a company tells you , you will short list the top favorites. You also decide the company you want to work for based on the craft that you would like to make as they all offer different ones.

Once you have narrowed the choices down to the one name that you want to start you assembly work with, you need to start the approval process. This is usually where you send in for the starter kit and then make one sample product for them. Only after does your sample meet with the quality check of the assembly business do you get approved to make further crafts for them. This process can sometimes take several weeks. It is important not to give up during this time. There is also the off chance that the particular product that you want to assemble might not be available with the craft company at that time. You might be asked to wait for some time before it becomes available again. Use the time when you are waiting to hear from one company to contact other product assembly firms. It is best to not to count on one assembly company till the time that you have worked for them for a couple of months. Till then try to get information about as many assembly companies as possible.

Now comes the part were you have started working with some product. Some more patience here. The going can be slow at the beginning. You will need to practice and get better and faster in making your craft. But it is most important at all times to stay focused and not allow carelessness to creep in your work. Even if the work is slow in the beginning you have to make sure that the products you assemble match up to the quality standards of the company you are working for. You may feel the impatient need to finish making the entire batch, ship it to the company for approval and receive your first paycheck. But there is no point in getting sloppy in order to finish faster. If you slip in the area of your workmanship, your products will get rejected during the inspection process and that will be an entire waste of your time and effort.

There is another aspect of product assembly that you need to exercise caution with. When you receive your first paycheck from an assembly company, do not be hasty and order in lots of raw materials from the company in order to assemble several batches of products for them in one go and make more money. Wait for a couple of months till you have been paid 3 to 5 times before considering increasing the volume of work for the company.

9 Steps To Success With Product Assembly Work

There are a few thing you need to do in order to succeed with product assembly. These are some helpful tips that will make the job easier for you.

1. choose an assembly job offer from a company that has valid address details. Contact as many companies as possible. This may take time but is essential to weed out the bad assembly job offers from the genuine ones.

2. if you are unsure of your crafting ability, it is better to try your hand at making crafts before you  sign up to work for a company. You can pick up a craft book from your closest book store of choose from the thousands of free craft projects available on the internet. Choose a craft that is closest to the product that you want to assemble. Start with something simple and then move on to something more advanced. When you are sure that you can make crafts with a high degree of accuracy and great craftsmanship then you can attempt to sign up with an assembly company.

3. accept an offer to assemble products for a craft business only after you have managed to speak with some one over a customer care helpline. All your doubts should be cleared.

4. choose a product that is the closest to your crafting skill. Do not bite off more than you can chew. Often a crafting business has a choice of crafts that it offers for home assembly. These products are also varying in difficulty level. It may be tempting to pick up some of the more advanced products since they usually pay more. This would be a mistake. You should only pick up a craft to assemble that you are sure you will be able to make. In fact it is advisable to start with the simplest of craft to begin with. Whoever you speak with on the customer care helpline should be able to provide you with ample information regarding the complexity of different crafts available for assembly with them.

5. choose a product that you feel you can enjoy making. The process of craft assembly is a repetitive job. You will have to make several similar items to finish a batch of the product. One finished batch can comprise of a 6-100 items. The more difficult the craft to assemble, the lesser is the quantity. But it is should be obvious that if you love what you make then the work will be more enjoyable. Therefore, you should choose a craft that takes you feel you can enjoy making or always have. Other wise you may feel the work soon getting monotonous.

6. do not count on just one company. Contact as many assembly companies as you can. Even if you are working for one keep contacting other companies at the same time. It is always prudent not to keep all your eggs in one basket. Not only will this enable you to increase the volume of your work but also provide for variety.

7. involve your family. If there are other members of your family who can give you a hand in their spare time, involve them in your work as well. Assembling a craft works much better if the labor is segregated. For example, one person can do all the cutting while the other can do the gluing. This also serves to speed up the process a great deal.

8. buy additional tools from your closest craft store. You are often supplies with basic tools with your starter kit. But sometimes they are not sufficient or good enough. For example, you may be given a given a bottle of glue in your starter kit but you are better off buying a glue gun from your Walmart store. It provides for a higher degree of difficulty. For all cutting purpose, including the woodworking items, the knife provided in the starter kit is often of a poor quality. You are well advised to buy a good Crafto Knife from a craft store. Having better tools shaves off a lot of time in finishing your items. You will also be able to achieve a higher level of accuracy that may otherwise not be possible with regular tools.

9. become part of the crafting and product assembly forums. You will get to be a part of some important discussions regarding the various aspects of product assembly. You will also get to learn and exchange important tips on how to work better with product assembling jobs.  Some of the product assembly companies have started their own forums where people working for them can exchange ideas.

Hopefully these tips will make the work of assembling products at home somewhat easier for you and help you generate extra income for yourself.

5 Reasons To Try Work At Home Assembly Jobs

If you want to work at home and don’t have enough experience or qualifications to qualify for formal lines of work then Product Assembly at home could meant the solution for you. Product assembly jobs are not particularly highly paying but can fetch you a supportive income every month. Following are the reasons why you can and should try to assemble product at home to earn a supplemental income from home.

1. Product Assembly does not require any formal qualification or qualification for you to start working and making extra income from home. It is said that anyone can assemble products at home. While this is true in the general sense of the statement, we only encourage those people to try out product assembly jobs who have crafting experience, are good at it and enjoy it. These qualities are essential to enjoy your work and to be able to make crafts that live up to the quality and workmanship standards required off you.

2. if you are fond of art and crafts, then you have the ability to turn your hobby into a job. You will not only be making an income from what you do but also enjoy what you do at the same time. That is a rare combination.

3. many of the assembly businesses allow you to set your own timetable. You are not pressed with deadlines. You determine how much you earn depending on how much you are willing to work.

4. there is a potential for growth as you can increase the number of crafts you make every week. As you grow more and more proficient making the same craft, you can start to make more of that item every week or take on other crafting projects from other assembly companies. You have the option of involving other members of the family in it. Product assembly projects go faster if various people divide the labor amongst themselves. Since the work is repetitive, you can segregate the tasks to different people. If there are more people in your home that have spare time on their hands, you can turn your assembly job into a home based enterprise where everyone joins in with their contribution.

5. you can experiment with different crafts. In case you get bored with making one kind of craft or you enjoy making something in particular, you will find that there is a large variety of crafts that are offered by various crafting businesses. You can spare yourself the monotony of repetitive work that becomes the bane of many kinds of home based work.

All home based jobs have certain disadvantages and advantages to them. Product assembly jobs are a part of the work at home culture. There share the general advantages and disadvantages with other home based work. But there are also certain factors that are peculiar when you assemble products at home.  Since product assembly is connected to the field of art and craft the main advantage of this work is that you can turn your crafting hobby into an income generating work at home.  The main obvious disadvantage of assembly jobs at home is being able to find a genuine offer.  This is something that product assembly shares in common with all other kinds of home based work offers.

5 Reasons Why People Fail At Assembling Products At Home

You may have come across several negative reviews by people for product assembly jobs. These are mostly by people that have tried home assembly jobs but have been unable to make any money from them. There are several reasons for people failing at assembly jobs and not all of them can be attributed to the offer being a scam. Although a lot of people will claim that they were unable to make money because the work offer was as scam, this is not necessarily true.

1. The very first step that determines your success or failure with product assembly is the ability to find the right job. There are several offers for assembling products at home and making an income, not only on the Internet but also on other public mediums as well such as newspaper classified ads. They are not all genuine. Do not trust any assembly job offer till you can verify the credentials of the company as well as the owner. Most of the people neglect to do this crucial screening process. How is it that you can spot a genuine product assembly job offer from a scam, we will discuss in our other writing here.
2. The second step that determines your success is patience. You need to be patient in searching for the right assembly company and assembly job. After you have found the offer that is right for you, you need to show patience and perseverance in working for it. The initial approval process can take up to several weeks till you can finally start working as a home assembler.
3. Do not presume that the assembly work is simple and that you be able to do it without a glitch. Although the work may sound simple, making craft items with the highest level of perfection and craftsmanship may not be possible for everyone. Even children do craftwork, but while doing it professionally for a craft business, you need your items to be perfect and sellable in the craft market. If you doubt your craftsmanship then you should either practice beforehand or consider doing sorting else.
   Remember that crafts that sound simple and easy in description such as bookmarks, greeting cards etc are not so in reality.
4. People also believe that they are going to be making several thousand dollars doing assembly work at home every month. This is not true. An income of a few hundred dollars is a more realistic aim. If you want to make a more substantial income and for a sustained period of time, you should consider something else.
5. People also presume that no experience is necessary. While no formal experience or qualification is called for, it is equally true that only the skilled crafter can be successful at product assembly jobs. There are two reasons for this. One, the crafter will be able to make more crafts that meet the quality standards of the craft business. Second, the skilled crafter will be able to finish more work every week and make more money. For a non experienced crafter, the going can be slow and tough. Not being able to finish a substantial amount of work every week will mean a low income every month which in turn can be frustrating for the person.
   These are some of the reasons that people end up being dis-satisfied with a product assembly job. They often end up asking for a refund for their money. They end up complaining about the legitimacy of the job because they went in with either wrong expectations or a wrong skill set.
   Asking for a refund also proves to a problem in some cases as you might not have read the fine print. Most of the assembly companies offer a refund only in the case of the starter kit being returned to them in a completely unused state. And then too shipping charges and restocking fee is deducted from the refund amount.

How To Find A Genuine Home Assembly Job

There are a few tell-tale signs that hallmark a genuine product assembly business and one that is a scam likewise.  It can be a simple matter to spot the genuine product assembly job offer if you keep the following points in mind.

1. If you are reading a product assembly offer from any company there should be a clear listing of physical address, phone number and even a customer care helpline. Many offers for assembly jobs at home come through as advertisements through websites online or through classified ads in the newspapers. The only detail that he is offered view is a post box address.  This does not offer a you any information about the legitimacy of the business itself.  Avoid such offers where the details of the job ambiguous and insufficient. You have no idea in such cases as to whom you are working for, who is going to pay you and where your money is going when you to register to work with them.

2. If the company claims to be the craft retailer or wholesaler they should be willing to give certain details about their business such as the location of their store or warehouse. If a company is willing to hire people to work at home by assembling crafts for them than common sense dictates that this company should either be the craft products retailer or a wholesaler.  If an assembly business has to pay people to assemble products for them and then it has to be making money doing the same work in the first place.  In order to establish that the assembly job offer is a genuine one do not refrain from asking questions from the employer.  They should be adequate transparency regarding the nature of their business.

3. The person in charge of the customer care should be willing to give you all information about the income potential and the skill required in order to work for them. If the company you are interested in working for is making a genuine job offer them they should be able to give you precise details regarding the work arrangements, conditions and terms.  They should also be able to give you a fairly accurate idea of the income potential that you are looking at working for them every month.

4. You should be provided with ample assistants in choosing the right product to assemble that matches correctly with your crafting skill level. Many assembly businesses have several products that they offer people to assemble at home.  Some of these crafts simpler than the others.  If you are just starting out with assembly jobs at home and do not have much experience with crafting work then you are well advised to choose the simplest craft.  The person that you speak to on the customer care service number should be able to guide and instruct you in picking up the right craft that matches your crafting experience and skill.

5. If the address of the assembly company is a local address you should be able to take an appointment and go visit the office in person. It may so happened that you find out that the assembly business is located in your town, city or state.  It may also be possible for you to go pay them a visit physically. The assembly company should permit you to make an appointment and go pay them a visit in order to ascertain the assembly job offer by speaking to someone face to face.  Some of the assembly companies that are fairly popular and established over the past decade allow people to visit their office and store. This is a welcome more as it helps to remove many of the doubts in the minds of the person interested in working for them.

6. You should also be allowed to pick up your starter kit and drop of the finished work in person to the warehouse of the office. In most of the cases you receive your starter kit and raw materials to make the craft by postal mail.  You are required to ship the finished craft items to the company in the same manner.  These few days that go in the shipping of the materials to and fro waste time. It means that from the time that you finish making your batch till the time that you product are received, approved and the payment dispatched to you, you are sitting idle when you could be doing more work and increasing your monthly productivity for more income. Some of the genuine product assembly companies allow you to pick up the starter kit and the raw materials from them personally. You can also drop off the finished crafts with them when you are done. Your products are inspected immediately and if you have managed to reach their office before 11 a.m., you can collect your check the same evening.

7. You should be able to locate other people who are successfully working for the crafting business. You should be able to locate these people online or through the database of the business itself. This  is a very obvious factor that most of the people ignore. Genuine work at home offers are hard to come by. So if an assembly offer exists that is genuine and is paying people on a regular basis the odds are that you will not have much difficulty in trying to locate other people working for it.  A genuine work at home for means that it is bound to be a popular choice with a multitude of home workers.  You can run a search by the name of the company on the Internet and you should be able to locate various reviews in forums and Blogs by people who are actively doing product assembly for this company.

8. The product assembly company should be willing to disclose certain facts about themselves such as the number of people working for them, the nature of their business such as wholesaling or retailing, the income potential for you if you are working for them etc. if you are unsure about the nature of the business or the genuineness of the work of you should not shy away from asking questions pertinent to the profile of the business.  Since one of the key factors in determining the legitimacy of a work of is to find other people working for the company, you can ask the product assembly company to reveal the number of people currently working for them.  Many product assembly company's list the names of the people working for them on their website.  This list is kept constantly updated and when you are approved to work for them you will find your name on the list as well.  This provides for a great degree of transparency in the business of the company that builds trust with the people.

9. the product assembly company business should not just exist on the Internet.  They should have a valid address with a record with consumer agencies like the better business bureau and the local chambers of commerce. Many of the assembly job offers simply come across as hastily made webpages online or vague advertisements in the classifieds or national newspapers. This is simply not enough to convince one that the job offer is a genuine one.  Any business or company that is looking to hire people as to have a physical entity and identity.  This means a registered office and workspace.  A post box address is simply not good enough as it is completely ambiguous. No genuine business or company operates from a Post Office address.  Even if the initial correspondence happens through a Post Office address the company should be able to give you the address for the office or warehouse.

10. The company should be in good standing with consumer agencies such as the better business bureau www.bbb.org and the local chambers of commerce. This is an easy check to perform. Just run the name through the website of the Better Business Bureau and see what comes up. The trend that we have noticed is that most of the product assembly companies do not have a good standing with the BBB. This is even true for certain companies like the New England Crafters that has a lot of people actively making crafts for them. There are others such as Valerie Hattery that are in fairly good standing with the BBB. Cottage Industries is another name that brings up favorable results as far as product assembly companies are concerned.

Follow these simple guidelines and the odds are that you will not go astray in finding a genuine work at home assembly job offer.

Paying For A Product Assembly Directory

We dont know if this can be labelled as a scam or not. Probably not, but it is definately misleading in projection. The setback with product assembly company begins long before you decide to work for a particular assembly company. You will probably come across websites that are selling you directories of product assembly companies. they may sound like they have compiled the foolproof list of companies that is like no other directory of assemble at home companies.  Some websites also give the impression that the assembly jobs are available with them and they are the ones who are going to provide employment at home.  Both these facts are not true.
The list of the product assembly company's is the same one that has been going around for the past many years.  There are no new companies that are credible.  In fact, the known names the product assembly field flaunt this very fact that they have been around for a decade.  Sadly, we have learnt that even this does not amount to much.  Company may have existed for the past 10 years does not in that it is a legitimate home based business.  The website is selling the directory of home assembly company's claim that they have checked and cross checked each and every business and the this functioning once constantly being weeded out of list.  This in itself is a disturbing fact because what this states is that there is no guarantee that a company that has surfaced today will also be a round a few months down the line.  Maybe it will be in existence long enough to collect enough money as registration fee from innocent people who did not know better so as to recognize it as a scam, and then simply vanish perhaps to resurface in another state and under another name.  The reports from various official agencies such as the US postal office And the Better Business Bureau suggest that this is in fact a trend many companies that come about offering home based work opportunities like data entry, form filling and the likes.
But the sad truth is that no matter what the website claims they are not doing anything about weeding out the back names from the list.  The directory of product assembly company remains the same and it is the innocent buyer of such information who is left to find out to his own great disadvantage that a majority of the names are fraudulent or non-existent names of companies will pose to be a legitimate home based product assembly work provider.

The second kind of website may leave you with the impression that it is the who are providing home based employment and that once you pay the upfront registration fee which the demand you will be automatically considered for hundreds of product assembly jobs that they have.  A hundred, or a thousand, it does not really matter.  This kind of website is exactly similar in nature to the one previously mentioned.  The two simply selling a directory of product assembly companies. Sometimes to make the package even more alluring and attractive they claimed to couple it with foolproof information about easy home based jobs such as data entry, form filling, transcription and envelope stuffing.  If you don't know this by now than you should definitely committed to your mind.  It has well been known and established that these kind of get rich quick schemes are all frauds.  You are not going to be making any money from them and definitely not in the way that is promised.  To know more about such schemes and how this can people out of their hard earned money read out section on Common Scams and Work at Home Frauds.
The truth is that even these websites are not providing any sort of employment personally.  They will just saddled you with a list of so-called product assembly company's most of which only have a post box address as means of communication.  You will be sending self addressed and stamped envelopes and hoping to get a reply from these companies.  Even if you do you will have no way of knowing about the true establishment of such a assembly company, where it is located or who is in charge.  Both the website which sells this directory and the companies that the list in the directories are mostly cloaked behind postbox addresses without any tangible and quick means of communicating with them such as an e-mail, telephone or a fax number.

If in case you do find a legitimate product assembly company, please note that you will need to pay some sort of a registration fee upfront in order to join it.  This may be in the nature of a sign a fee or a free to buy your initial raw materials for making the craft from them, which is also known as the starter kit.  Since you will be paying some money to join this work, even with a legitimate product assembly company, it is highly recommended that you do not waste your money buying the directory list from any Web site that claims to be selling it.
The list of all the product assembly companies along with the details of the products that they claim to employ home assemblers to make, is listed on this very website and you can view it all that completely no cost to you.

The Flower Workshop

Business Contact & Profile
Business Name: The Flower Workshop Business
Address: P.O. Box 778, Mammoth, AZ 85618
Phone Number: (000) 000-0000 This business is not a BBB Accredited Business
Type of Business: CRAFT SUPPLIES
Customer Complaint History
When considering complaint information, please take into account the business's size and volume of transactions, and understand that the nature of complaints and a firm's responses to them are often more important than the number of complaints. BBB processed a total of 2 complaint(s) about this business in the last 36 months, our standard reporting period. Of the total 2 complaint(s) closed in the last 36 months, 1 was closed in the last 12 months.

Read a complete report of this company here.

Worthless Money Back Guarantee

If you have reached to the stage of reading this article it probably means that you have done your bit, subscribe to a home-based product assembly company, tried to accomplish working for them but, alas, for any of the other disconcerting reasons listed in this section, you have not succeeded in making any money out of it.
So now having finally having gone through the rigmarole of sifting through the multitude of such assembly at home offers from various indigenous companies, ordering your starter kit from one or a multitude of them with hopeful intent of making a substantial income from home you have finally decided that it has totally not been worth your while and that you want your hard earned money, which has been spent in futile on the registration fee or whatever else the product assembly company chooses to call it, sent back to you.  And it is only natural to expect such a turnover as before joining a home-based product assembly company you made sure that they did have a 100% iron clad money back guarantee.
You even went so far as to confirm this with whatever complication that you had with the representative of the crafting business.

I am here to tell you that this is not to be for either of the reasons listed below:

You Did Not Read the Fine Print:
perhaps you do not read the fine print of the money back guarantee in detail.  Perhaps you skipped the section that is termed as Policy and Conditions. The fine print will probably state that the money back guarantee is only valid if you returned the starter kit and the raw materials contained therein in a completely unused state. So this is obviously does not work in the case where you feel that you have been scanned and the company is deliberately denying approval to your finished work in order not to pay you. If you have consumed the full or even a very tiny part of the starter kit that was sent to you the money back guarantee is invalid. You will be surprised how well well concealed this small fact is in most of the assembly at home work offers.
This is also an incredibly clever condition to conceal in a money back guarantee. Most of the people can only decide whether the work of product assembly that from is for them not after they have actually tried to make the product at hand.  It is reasonable to assume that a person cannot decide simply by staring at the raw materials and the starter kit whether this is actually the kind of work that he or she can manage.  So in almost all cases the home assembler will probably try before he or she accepts failure.
This condition also holds true in the case of the home assembly company persistently and deliberately refusing to approve of the finished batch made by the home assembler.  If they keep claiming that the product is not matching quality standards then they do not have to provide any kind of a refund to the homeworker since he has obviously consumed the the material is provided in the starter kit in order to finish the first match of the craft.

You Only Get Partial Repayment:
so when you read 100% money back guarantee he automatically assume that they mean one hundred percent of your money back, right ?  Wrong.
They are simply trying to tell you that they are 100% committed in giving you at least some money back, and not without a certain amount of resistance. 

You will never, in any case, receive all your money back. And in 99% percent of the cases, it will be less than half of the money you sent them. So regardless of whether they do send you a refund are not, it is the who and a making money out of this enterprise alone and nobody else.

Many many people have only managed to get a refund from a product assembly company when they have lodged official complaints with certain authorities such as the Better Business Bureau.

Rejection of Finished Work

this is perhaps the most crucifying argument against assembly at home jobs.  One of the major reasons why  people who have tried to assemble products at from and and earn an income call it a scam is because they feel that their work is constantly and deliberately rejected by the company as a pretext of not having to pay them for their effort.
It is commonly stated not only by the home assemblers who have experience in this kind of home-based work but also on certain prominent and official websites that a majority of the product assembling companies that offer home based work programmes unreasonably and perpetualy reject the work sent in by the people working for them. Websites like the official website of The Better Business Bureau and About.com both of which are prominent, noteworthy and respected sources of information state that anybody interested in working from home by doing product assembly should be very careful before applying to any such company and sending them money by means of registration fee.  The main reason stated for this is that people who have in the past applied for such so called home-based opportunities have not received any payment from this company.  The reason being that the company constantly objected to the craft assembled by the assembler stating that the quality and the workmanship did not meet up to the high standards of design that they are crafting business demands.  The truth, however, may be that no matter how well you make the craft of the product it will surely and perpetually get rejected at the company since they have no intention of paying due in the first place. The idea was to get you to fall for their easy and simple sounding offer to work at home.  The allure was that of no special experience being necessary and of making hundreds of dollars every week by doing relatively simple and novice work.
Once you have sent the registration fee or bought the raw materials from the product assembly company, which they also called the starter kit, the company will dispatch to you a package that will contain enough raw materials to make your first batch of product along with a sample of the finished product which you are supposed to match.  Most of the product assembly company's require you to finish an entire batch which usually contains several dozen individual items of a single craft and then send this entire batch of products to them for approval.  Only once dispatch goes through the inspection process and meets their so-called standards of design and workmanship to take dispatch your payment by means of check.
This right here lies the problem.  Your product will never get approved as the so-called product assembly company will find some fault or the other with your shipment.

Products Too Difficult To Assemble

In this section we will try and speak of the problem is that people have with product assembling at home jobs.  The first complaint that we are going to discuss is that of the crafts being too difficult.  Now this is the rather a subjective complaint as it is also possible that the person who is complaining might have misjudged the amount of expertise required to assemble a craft at home.  Most of the people believe that the work of assembling at home is simple and easy but this is not true in most of the cases.  Regardless of whether these complaints establish assemble at home jobs as a scam or not, let us discuss this problem in more detail.
The main reason why this problem occurs is that the details of the craft that you are supposed to assemble are skimpy most of the time. 90 per cent of the product assemble company is on the list in their post box of this address as a means of contact.  What you receive from them by way of information once you have sent the self-addressed stamped envelope, may or may not give you an adequate idea of the assembly job at hand.
The other product assembling at home companies that list a customer care phone line or a website also unable to provide much detailed regarding the craft barring a few exceptions.  Some of the very prominent assemble at home websites list detailed instructions and descriptions of the craft that the person is required to assemble at home.  They also offer assistance over the phone where you can enquire regarding the difficulty of a certain crafts before choosing to assemble it.
You are assisted in choosing the right craft for you based on your crafting skill level.

That said and done you must make a note of that even the seemingly simple crafts are not that simple to make.  The main reason behind it is that while you may feel that you will be able to make that simple craft you may not be able to make it to that absolute perfection which is something that is demanded of the assemble company you are working for. Since these crafts are being made for a commercial enterprise and are supposedly being sold further to buyers and wholesalers, you cannot get away with making something that does not match the design and workmanship according to the company specifications.

On a more specific note, you may keep a fact in mind that miniature items and crafts usually more difficult to make than the others.  This is because of an inherent fact that not many people are good with working with many small things with their hands.  And miniature crafts extra tiny.  The commonest reaction that you get from people who try to assemble miniature crafts at home is that they are simply shocked by the sheer small size of the craft that they need to assemble.  Some have even reported surprise to the extent where they believed that making such a tiny craft with any amount of the mess with their hands was going to be impossible.  Couple of product assembling at home companies offering miniature craft items to assemble are Tiny Details and Cottage Industries.  Tiny details offers crafts like making miniature books and doll houses whereas cottage industries offers different kinds of boxes and dollhouses which are essentially woodworking products.  Cottage industries also offers one more miniature craft to assemble which is that of the miniature bow. These boxes are approximately the size of a single dime with dimensions being that of 1 inch in thickness, lenght and width. So as you can imagine these products are really tiny in size.

Other seemingly simple crafts such as bookmark have also proven to be a handful for many people.  They have complained that while the description sounded simple the final making of the product proved to be extremely difficult.

Having said all this, many people have claimed product assemble jobs at home to be scams based on the sheer difficulty of the project and claiming that these projects were impossible to be managed by bare hands to the degree of perfection required by the company.

Inferior and Inadequate Raw Materials:

Another complaint that we have received from people who have tried to assemble products at home is that they have received substandard raw materials in their starter kit.  Most of the product assemble companies allow you to include a finished Sample of the craft that you will be assembling in order to give you an idea of what you're finished craft is supposed to look like. It is also the way of telling you what your craft once it has been assembled should look like and that if it suffers from any discrepancy from the samples supplied, your craft will probably be rejected.
The complaint received by a certain home assemblers is that the raw materials used to make this sample craft and the ones supplied to them to make their batch of crafts differed in quality.  So much so that these home assemblers claim that it was impossible to assemble the product with the same finish using the material is sent by the company.  Since these same companies also prohibit the home assemble from buying raw materials on their own, home assembly of such a craft becomes futile in nature. 
It is unlikely that you will be successful in assembling the given craft at home using inferior quality of materials because this is a crucial point that determines the final finish and a look of the craft.  Inferior quality of raw material means that it tears, breaks, stains and just does not hold up to the rigours of this craft assembling process.

The products that are a part of the basic assemble category where what you mostly need to do this cut and paste the products also suffers from provision of inadequate tools.  For example in a majority of the starter kits you are provided with a knife to cut paper or cloth or wood, whichever of being the building material for your craft. In most cases this knife is flimsy and completely unsuited for cutting raw material.  It is commonly and usefully advised to purchase an Exacto knife for this purpose which may be commonly available at your nearest Wal-Mart store. There is often a bottle of Elmer's glue included with the starter kit if it is required.  This is insufficient in most of the crafting projects. You will be unable to achieve the neatness and the accuracy in your work using this regular glue.  You are also better advised to have a low-temperature glue gun for more accurate pasting and assembling of the craft. This works out in the long run as well as any crafting guide would suggest that you use a low-temperature glue gun for making crafts that require fine and careful handling.
If indeed you intend to work with home based assembling jobs and projects these tools will come in handy and serve you for your future work as well.  Consider it an investment well made.

The summary of this post is that providing in adequate tools not only increases the expenditure of the home assemble in buying the extra tools such as a good cutting knife and a low-temperature glue gun, but the bad quality of raw materials makes it impossible to be able to finish the craft with neatness and the same exactness of design and quality as is required by the assemble at home company in order to get approved and paid by them.

Misleading Sales Copies Of Websites and Brochures:

This complaint is somewhat similar of the one in which the home assemblers complained that the craft was too complicated and difficult to assemble at home using their bare hands. There are two common ways in which you can receive information about the product assemble company and their craft that they offer for assembling at home.  The easiest way is to browse through their website but unfortunately the majority of the assembling at home companies do not have this interface.  The second method is in fact what the majority of assemble companies use.  They list of our postbox undress and expect you to send them herself and rest and stamped envelope in which they in turn stuff there brochure and product details and mail it back to you.  Whichever may be the option, the complaint here is that the copies of her websites and the brochures are entirely misleading.
We would be inclined to agree with this complaint.  If you visit the website of some of the product assembling companies you will realise that it sounds like any home based offer where there are desperate to sell you something that sounds too good to be true.  We know from experience that these kind of websites and home based work programmes are only interested in getting you to send them your money by means of a registration fee.  It is often said and strongly advised not only by this website but several official agencies such as The Better Business Bureau that sending in money to any work at home program is entirely risky and should be avoided whenever possible.
The way the websites or the brochures of a majority of the product assemble at home jobs reads makes it sound extremely simple and easy to on hundreds of dollars every week.  They emphasise on points like there is no experience required and that you can take as much time as you like to assemble their craft at home.  You should be wary of any work at home program that sounds like making it easy money doing very little work.  This is never the case with any real job home based on not.  The most successful people at their jobs or in business are the ones that work hard, have qualifications or have learned from experience.  There are no secrets to making easy money from home online or offline.  If there was indeed such as secret they would not be sold to anyone who wished to buy for a few dollars.

The legitimate assemble at home jobs will always provide a customer care number so that you can speak to representative who can guide you accurately as to the difficulty level involved with making crafts for them.

It is good advice to practise making crafts at home before you decide to work with any assembling at home jobs.  You can do this by picking up a craft project either from the Internet or from a crafting book.  You should try and see if you can make the craft with any level of accuracy and exactness.  This is a simple procedure that will help you figure out whether you are suited for assembling jobs at home are not, especially if you are unsure of your crafting skills.

The summation of this information is that many home assemblers who have tried to work with certain product assembling companies claims that it is a scam just like any other home based scam like data entry, form filling, ad posting, envelope stuffing and the list goes on and on. You are duped into sending money to company claiming to be a crafting business that offers assemble at home jobs to people interested in working from home and earning money by making simple crafts at home.  Once you have sent in the registration fee and bought the raw materials from such a company you are set to make a craft that is either impossible to accomplish or one that will never meet the approval standards of the company when you send it in.  Either way such a company is never going to end up paying you and simply going to pocket your registration money.

Misleading Sales Copies Of Websites and Brochures:

This complaint is somewhat similar of the one in which the home assemblers complained that the craft was too complicated and difficult to assemble at home using their bare hands. There are two common ways in which you can receive information about the product assemble company and their craft that they offer for assembling at home.  The easiest way is to browse through their website but unfortunately the majority of the assembling at home companies do not have this interface.  The second method is in fact what the majority of assemble companies use.  They list of our postbox undress and expect you to send them herself and rest and stamped envelope in which they in turn stuff there brochure and product details and mail it back to you.  Whichever may be the option, the complaint here is that the copies of her websites and the brochures are entirely misleading.
We would be inclined to agree with this complaint.  If you visit the website of some of the product assembling companies you will realise that it sounds like any home based offer where there are desperate to sell you something that sounds too good to be true.  We know from experience that these kind of websites and home based work programmes are only interested in getting you to send them your money by means of a registration fee.  It is often said and strongly advised not only by this website but several official agencies such as The Better Business Bureau that sending in money to any work at home program is entirely risky and should be avoided whenever possible.
The way the websites or the brochures of a majority of the product assemble at home jobs reads makes it sound extremely simple and easy to on hundreds of dollars every week.  They emphasise on points like there is no experience required and that you can take as much time as you like to assemble their craft at home.  You should be wary of any work at home program that sounds like making it easy money doing very little work.  This is never the case with any real job home based on not.  The most successful people at their jobs or in business are the ones that work hard, have qualifications or have learned from experience.  There are no secrets to making easy money from home online or offline.  If there was indeed such as secret they would not be sold to anyone who wished to buy for a few dollars.

The legitimate assemble at home jobs will always provide a customer care number so that you can speak to representative who can guide you accurately as to the difficulty level involved with making crafts for them.

It is good advice to practise making crafts at home before you decide to work with any assembling at home jobs.  You can do this by picking up a craft project either from the Internet or from a crafting book.  You should try and see if you can make the craft with any level of accuracy and exactness.  This is a simple procedure that will help you figure out whether you are suited for assembling jobs at home are not, especially if you are unsure of your crafting skills.

The summation of this information is that many home assemblers who have tried to work with certain product assembling companies claims that it is a scam just like any other home based scam like data entry, form filling, ad posting, envelope stuffing and the list goes on and on. You are duped into sending money to company claiming to be a crafting business that offers assemble at home jobs to people interested in working from home and earning money by making simple crafts at home.  Once you have sent in the registration fee and bought the raw materials from such a company you are set to make a craft that is either impossible to accomplish or one that will never meet the approval standards of the company when you send it in.  Either way such a company is never going to end up paying you and simply going to pocket your registration money.

Anonymous Post Box Addresses:

This fact is perhaps the biggest giveaway of a product assembly company not being exactly kosher. The majority of them provide only a postbox address as means of communication.  You are supposed to send a self addressed and stamped envelope to these companies if you want more information.  They in turn stuff this envelope with their brochure and project information and mail it back to you.  This brochure of his commonly made colourful and attractive with alluring promises of easy income.  They do their best to convince you that you are in a position to make hundreds of dollars every single week and do not require any prior work experience.
Why are you only have the copy of their very attractive and convincing brochure to make your decision on you really do not know where exactly this product assembly company is located or what it's business profile is like.
Since these companies do not have a presence on the Internet it is not possible for you to check them up with official agencies like The Better Business Bureau.  You only have to rely on their word and the faceless entity that you are communicating with.  When you send them money for registration fee, in case you do decide to fall for the offer, you have no idea where your money is headed or who is receiving it.  You are in opposition to decide that the people you are sending the money to in the faction of a crafting business that hires home based assemblers to assemble crafts for them. They are simply a post box addresses.  Nothing more.

Be very wary of companies that do not provide additional information about themselves or do not make a representative of the company to speak with you in order to clarify your doubts and problems.  Under most circumstances you should absolutely refuse to work with an entity that claims to be the home job or home employment provider that requires you to send them money to join their home based in compliance and specially when they maintain an anonymous identity. Any legitimate business will not shy from revealing information about its business profile, physical location, name of the person in charge and means of contacting them which includes phone, fax and e-mail.  Ask yourself this, do you know of any legitimate business, right down to the small store around the corner from where you live, that does not have a physical address, a phone or and e-mail?  Just answering that simple question will tell you why you should avoid product assembly company's that hide behind the anonymity of post box addresses.

The summation of this post is the complaint of product assemblers who have had experience with working with such companies who only give out their postbox addresses as means of contact with them. After deciding to join such a company, people have sent in their finished and assembled batch of crafts only to find that they were constantly rejected.  On trying to get a refund from the company they found it impossible to do so because they had no idea what the address of such an assembly company or the person in charge was.  Since they had no presence on the web, there was no way to look up information on the business via agencies such as The Better Business Bureau.  All they could do was sending in male to the post box address which predictably went unanswered.  It is common for people to stop trying after a few times to get their money back as they figure that it is not worth their time. They accept that they were scammed. They learn, and sometimes do not, from the experience and move on.

Assemble NEC Products At Home

Speaking of the popular products to assemble from home, you cannot get away without discussing the products listed with the Magical Gift Co. / New England Crafters ( NEC ).

There is an impressive array of crafts that you can assemble if you choose to work for the magical gift co. Provided you get approved to work with them! Getting approved to work for the Magical Gift Company / NEC is not a simple achievement.

PROJECT
1     Cd Case
2     Tiny Tutu
3     Mama Clause
4     Reindeer
7     Lion Hobby
8     Sheep
9     Snowman
11   Carousel Horse
13   Penguin
15   Gingerbread House
16   Tropical Birdhouse
17   Gingerbread Boy
18   Joker
19   Toe Ring Set
20   Angel
21   Glitter Nest
22   Santa
24   Clay Snowman
25   Little Drum
26   Poodle Magnet
27   Sitting Poodle Magnet
28   Poodle Skirt
29   Scottie Magnet
30   Kitty Magnet
31   Magical Love Birds

The company known as New England craft is or the magical gift company is a rather active and popular product assembling company that offers assemble at home jobs.  The crafts and products listed with this company are numerous and also very pretty to make. It is not hard to imagine to see that the crafts that this company makes good indeed have a voracious market of demand.  You will have a wide range of choice of crafts to assemble at home if you work with New England Crafters / magical gift company. Both these names are the names of the same product assembling company.

England Crafters is an easy choice to work for since it has an active list of people who are currently working for it.  These people can be found on various forums discussing the various products that they are making for the company and exchanging helpful tips. Not only that but the magical gift company has started for of its own where the people working for this company exchanging messages and helping each other out.  This goes all on the way to prove that this company is indeed a legitimate entity. Finding numerous people who are working at home for product assembling company and can vouch for it is perhaps the strictest test that the product assembling business can undergo.  Listed below is the current lists of products that you can assemble at home if you choose to work when New England Crafters/magical gift company. 

As mentioned before the crafts that are available with New England Crafters rather professional.  This in turn means that they are not all that simple to make.  Magical gift company probably has the most interesting and the toughest craft that you can find with any product assembling business.

If you choose to join this company do take the assistance of the customer care representative to help you choose the right product according to your skill and experience in craft making. The customer care representative will be able to the ideal to choose the right product matching your skill level.  If you are not entirely sure of start with the easiest one.
The two products that are pretty popular with the magical gift company and the Tiny Tutu and the toe ring.
You are required to send in one sample of the finished product in order to get approval for making that craft for this company.  It usually takes people several times before they can get approved. There are other products as well that people have tried such as the bird houses, but you will have to find more information on these products by visiting the popular forums on the website of the magical gift company or other popular websites such as WAHM.com

Read more about New England Crafters/  Magical Gift Company and how you can start working by assembling crafts at home with with this company click here.

To read the report from the better business bureau about New England Crafters/Magical Gift Company about its standing as assemble at home work provider click here.

Assemble Miniature Boxes, Dollhouses, Bows At Home

Speaking of the pop group crafts that you can assemble at home, we cannot really go ahead without speaking of the products available with Cottage Industries.  There are approximately 5 items available that you can assemble at home.  Four of these are miniature boxes made of wood.  These four boxes of varying difficulty requiring different level of crafting skill. One such a box is a dollhouse while the other three jewellery boxes.  The difficulty required to make each of these boxes is specified when you view the products on the company's Web site.  The design of these boxes is more or less the same and they are all about 1 inch high, 1 inch wide and .75 inch deep.  As you will realise these are extremely tiny items and you shall only endeavour to make them if you are good with making tiny things with your hands.  Making miniature craft is not everybody's cup of tea.

Dollhouse Gift Boxes

    

 

 

Miniature bows - Another product with cottage industries that you can assemble at home is miniature bows.  These are again extremely tiny crafts about the size of one dime.  The bow is made up of ribbon which is made by wrapping it around a special bow maker that is provided to you by the company.  You will be using paint and glue possibly a hot and glue gun to make this craft.  While a majority of the crafts available to assemble at home with this company are woodwork items miniature bows is the only craft that is that of basic product assembling.  You can choose to assemble this product if you are not to deft or comfortable with woodworking. Since this is a fairly simple item you are required to make 400 of these to complete one finished batch.  You are paid $.25 per piece which means that if your complete batches accepted you get paid hundred dollars for assembling these miniature bows at home.

Cottage industries, however, does come highly recommended because it is one of the verifiable assemble at home companies.  Judging from the few feedbacks that feed had come to people who have worked for cottage industries it is possible that the whole process of getting approved to assemble products at home does take a while.  So be prepared to be waiting for several weeks before you are doing home assembly for their crafts.

Please note that you are paid on a per piece basis.  Which means that if in finished batch there are a few items that do not match the company inspection, you are paid for the once that up to the standard.
We mention the products of this company because this company seems to be fairly upright and honest.  It lists its address and the address of its crafting store on the website.  You are allowed to visit the store and we will examples of the craft that you will be making for them. You can even take up your starter kit and drop off your finished batch of assemble products at their store.
The photographs of these five products that you can assemble at home with cottage industries are given alongside on this post.

Business Contact and Profile
Name: Cottage Industries Inc.
Phone: (407) 872-0588
Address: PO Box 568904, Orlando, FL 32856
Business Category: Doll Houses & Accessories
eMail: cotind@aol.com
Web Address: www.cotind.com
Primary Contact: Mr Barry S Ettinger (Vice President)
Complaint Contact: Mr Barry S Ettinger (Vice President)
Alternate Business Names United Homeworkers of America

To read more about this company and how you can work by doing product assembling at home click here.

To read the complete report on cottage industry and its history home based product assembling at home opportunity at home from the better business bureau click here.

Ideal Craft Company

Business Contact & Profile
Business Name:
Ideal Craft Company
Lisa's Fancy Hat Sachets
Lisa's Fancy Hats Little Charmers
The Ideal Craft Company
Business Address: 27708 John R Madison Heights, MI 48071
Original Business Start Date: 1/1/1989
Principal: Lisa Dalia , President
Phone Number: (248) 543-4031 (248) 643-9322
Fax Number: (248) 879-0145 :
This business is not a BBB Accredited Business
Type of Business: WORK-AT-HOME COS. CRAFT SUPPLIES HOME BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

Business Management BBB has no information regarding Business Management at this time.

Customer Complaint History
When considering complaint information, please take into account the business's size and volume of transactions, and understand that the nature of complaints and a firm's responses to them are often more important than the number of complaints. BBB processed a total of 8 complaint(s) about this business in the last 36 months, our standard reporting period. Of the total 8 complaint(s) closed in the last 36 months, 1 was closed in the last 12 months. Mail Returned : Mail sent to the business on 01/26/2008 was returned by the U.S. Postal Service as Undeliverable as Addressed.

Read a complete report of this company here.

New England Crafters

Business Contact and Profile
Name: New England Crafters
Phone: (860) 482-3955
Fax: (860) 482-4633
Address: 38 Main St Torrington, CT 06790-5303
Original Business Start Date: January 2001
Principal: Ms. Cheska Arnone, Owner
Customer Contact: Ms. Cheska Arnone, Owner - (860) 482-3955
TOB Classification: Work-At-Home Cos., Gift Shops :
This company is not a BBB Accredited business.
Additional DBA Names:
The Magical Gift Company

Additional Locations and Phone Numbers
Additional Addresses
PO Box 875 Torrington, CT 06790-0875
Tel: (866) 844-5091
Additional Phone Numbers
Tel: (860) 482-4633
Tel: (860) 482-3995
Tel: (860) 456-9698
Tel: (860) 601-2867

Customer Complaint History
When considering complaint information, please take into account the company's size and volume of transactions, and understand that the nature of complaints and a firm's responses to them are often more important than the number of complaints. BBB processed a total of 15 complaints about this company in the last 36 months, our standard reporting period. Of the total of 15 complaints closed in 36 months, 7 were closed in the last year.Read a complete report of this company here.

Kraftco

Business Contact and Profile
Name: Kraftco
Phone: (775) 782-4537 Fax: (775) 782-6056
Address: 1420 Industrial Way STE 1  Gardnerville, NV 89410-5744
Original Business Start Date: September 1991
Principal: Ms. Shelley Beale, Owner
Customer Contact: Ms. Shelley Beale, Owner - (775) 782-4537
Entity: Sole Proprietorship
TOB Classification: Work-At-Home Cos. :
This company is not a BBB Accredited business.

Additional Locations and Phone Numbers
Additional Addresses
PO Box 980 Gardnerville, NV 89410-0980
Additional Phone Numbers
Tel: (775) 782-8990

Customer Complaint History BBB processed a total of 0 complaints about this company in the last 36 months, our standard reporting period.

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Klondyke Frames

Business Contact and Profile

Name: Klondyke Frames

Phone: (406) 667-2246

Address: PO Box 48 Lavina, MT 59046

File Open Date: February 2004

TOB Classification: Work-At-Home Cos.

The BBB has requested basic information from this company. The BBB has not received a response. Without this information, the BBB may not have current information concerning such things as the company's management or its nature of business.

Products and Services

This work at home opportunity offers a "start up" kit for making hand-crafted country barn picture frames. The cost of the kit is $18.00 plus $27 for paperwork and shipping making the total cost to the consumer $40.00. The company states in its literature: "You work for yourself, so you are your own employer...We will furnish payment records to you and the IRS as required by law, at the end of the year when our payments to you exceed $600.00 in one year." We wish to caution consumers that this company is asking for social security numbers upfront on its paperwork. The BBB cautions that you are in no way obligated to give such personal information to any entity that states that you are your OWN employer. If you do business with this group, you do so at your own risk. Often times, in dealing with "assembly-style" work-at-home opportunities, once you have purchased supplies and have done the work, the company decides not to pay you because your work does not meet certain "standards." You are then left with merchandise that is difficult or impossible to sell.

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Makin It Easy

Business Contact And Profile
Name: Makin It Easy
Phone: (770) 389-9833
Fax: (770) 389-9833
Address: 2708 E Atlanta Rd Ste 536  Stockbridge, Ga 30281-1060
Website: Www.makiniteasy.net
Original Business Start Date: April 1998
Principal: Ms. Alice Becker, Ceo
Customer Contact: Ms. Alice Becker, Ceo - (601) 845-8386
Entity: Corporation Incorporated: December 1998, Ga
Employees: 2
Tob Classification:
Work-at-home Cos. : This Company Is Not A Bbb Accredited Business.
Additional Dba Names:
Makin' It Easy, Inc.
Kalas Krafts Business
Management: Additional Company Management Personnel Include: Mr. Ronald P. Beck - Cfo

Additional Locations And Phone Numbers
Additional Addresses:
Po Box 536 Rex, Ga 30273-0536
Po Box 920 Rex, Ga 30273-0920
Additional Phone Numbers:
Tel: (601) 845-8386
Tel: (800) 642-8702
Tel: (770) 507-6296

Customer Complaint History
When Considering Complaint Information, Please Take Into Account The Company's Size And Volume Of Transactions, And Understand That The Nature Of Complaints And A Firm's Responses To Them Are Often More Important Than The Number Of Complaints. Bbb Processed A Total Of 1 Complaint About This Company In The Last 36 Months, Our Standard Reporting Period. Of The Total Of 1 Complaint Closed In 36 Months, 1 Was Closed In The Last Year.

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Kids Are Forever

Business Contact & Profile

Business Name: Kids Are Forever

Business Address: P.O. Box 708, Dept. NFP Winkleman, AZ 85292

Principal: , Phone Number: (000) 000-0000 :

This business is not a BBB Accredited Business

Type of Business: WORK-AT-HOME COS.

Customer Complaint History

BBB has processed no customer complaints on this company in its three year reporting period.

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New England Crafters – The Store

Business Contact & Profile
ID: 53369
Business Name: New England Crafters Business
Address: 140 Main Street Freeport, ME 04032
Original Business Start Date: 1/1/1990
Incorporated: 1990 in ME
Principal: William R. Roberts, President
Number of Employees: 18
Phone Number: (207) 865-1404
Fax Number: (207) 865-1450 : This business is not a BBB Accredited Business
Type of Business: CRAFT GALLERIES & DLRS

Products & Services
New England Crafters is engaged in the retail sale of craft products. The business was established and incorporated in Maine in 1990. They employ 18 people. Mr. William R. Roberts is the President of the business. Ms. Frances E. Roberts is the Treasurer. Any questions or problems should be directed to the attention of Ms. Frances E. Roberts. A branch is located in the Dansk Square Mall, Kittery, ME. The business states refunds or exchanges are given with a sales receipt within 7 days.

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Windrift Product Assembling Company

Business Contact And Profile
Name: Windrift
Phone: (707) 447-1866
Address: P.o. Box 969777  Vacaville, Ca 95696
Original Business Start Date: October 1989
Principal: Chip Osborne, Owner
Customer Contact: Chip Osborne, Owner - (707) 447-5209
Employees: 3
Tob Classification: Work-at-home Company :

This Company Is Not A Bbb Accredited Business.

Additional Dba Names:
Sonlight Marketing – Sonlight - Sonlight Kitchen Collection - Sonlight Photography - Sonlight/windrift - Sunlight Marketing - Windrift Wood Products - Windrift Details - Windrift Exchange Products And Services

This Company Offers Work-at-home Opportunities.

Additional Locations And Phone Numbers
Po Box 6254 Vacaville, Ca 95696-6254
Po Box 6267 Vacaville, Ca 95696-6267
Po Box 2360 Vacaville, Ca 95696-2360
Po Box 3749 Sparks, Nv 89432-3749

Additional Phone Numbers
Tel: (707) 447-9270
Tel: (707) 447-5209
Tel: (707) 449-4197
Tel: (707) 446-4197

Customer Complaint History
Bbb Processed A Total Of 0 Complaints About This Company In The Last 36 Months, Our Standard Reporting Period.

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Stuff-4-Kids

Company Profile : Stuff-4-Kids

P.O. Box 1060 El Toro, CA 92630

Phone: (949) 454-1307

Fax: (949) 454-1307

Contact: Edward Rider - President

Business Start Date: 1/1/1990

Company ID: 61000919

Nature of Business:

This company's business is offering a work-at-home offer to sew baby bibs for $100.00 per set of 15 Baby Bibs earning $500.00 perweek. An advance fee of $32.95 for a starter kit is required. Complaints allege the company refused to pay for sample bibs that were completed. One complainant alleges failure to explain that sample bibs must be returned for approval prior to getting paid. The company responded by issuing a refund to one customer and stating to another customer that no shipment... >More

This company is not an accredited business. This fact does not disparage the company in any way.

 

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Quickwork Littleguy's Many Crafters Quickmoney Business

Business Contact & Profile
Business Name: Quickwork Littleguy's Many Crafters Quickmoney Business
Address: 9820 N. Malpais Winkelman, AZ 85292
Original Business Start Date: 1/1/1982
Principal: Rawnie R. Hirst , Owner
Phone Number: (520) 356-6923
Type of Business: WORK-AT-HOME COS.
Products & ServicesPreviously known as Miniwork, the company offered booklets on how to market home-assembly products. It also sold a work-at-home program involving jewelry assembly. Under the present ownership and name Quickwork, the company sells starter kits for making flowers at home.

Business Management: Mr. Larry Hetrick Ms. Rawnie R. Hirst , Owner Heather

Additional Locations & Phone Numbers
2018 Christmas Winkleman , AZ 85292 Box PL1 Winkelman , AZ 85292
Box 47 Winkelman , AZ 85292 Box NFP Winkelman , AZ 85292 HCR1
P.O. Box 3045 Winkleman , AZ 85292 HCR1
P.O. Box 3032 Winkleman , AZ 85292

Customer Complaint History When considering complaint information, please take into account the business's size and volume of transactions, and understand that the nature of complaints and a firm's responses to them are often more important than the number of complaints. BBB processed a total of 1 complaint(s) about this business in the last 36 months, our standard reporting period. Of the total 1 complaint(s) closed in the last 36 months, 0 were closed in the last 12 months.

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Best Work For You/ Promotional Duffel Bags

Business Contact And Profile
Name: Best Work For You
Phone: (937) 599-1293
Fax: (937) 599-1793
Address: 500 N Main St Apt 1  Bellefontaine, Oh 43311-2234
Website: Http://www.lattimermarketing.com  Www.bestworkforyou.com  Www.hometeamstore.com

Original Business Start Date: December 1988
Principal: Mr. Dean D Lattimer, President
Customer Contact: Mr. Dean D Lattimer, President - (937) 599-1293 Tob
Classification: Work-at-home Cos., General Merchandise-retail, Internet Shopping, Wholesalers & Distributors : This Company Is Not A Bbb Accredited Business.
Additional Dba Names: Promotional Duffel Bag String Art Promotional Duffle Bag Lattimer Marketing & Distribution Lattimer Sports Distributors Lattimer Outlets Lattimer Motorsports Direct

Products And Services
According To Information In Bbb Files, This Company Offers A Number Of Work-at-home Programs And Business Opportunity Offers Via An Online Store And In Advertisements. These Include: Making String Art Pictures; Sewing Sport Duffle Bags; Reselling Nascar Merchandise; And Locating, Buying And Selling Clothing And General Merchandise As A Distributor.

Additional Locations And Phone Numbers
Additional Addresses
Po Box 500 Bellefontaine, Oh 43311-0500
7143 State Rt. 54 #256 New Port Richey, Fl 34653
Additional Phone Numbers
Tel: (800) 238-1693
Additional Email Addresses
Customerservice@bestworkforyou.com Info@bestworkforyou.com Dean@nascarmotorsport.com

Licensing
This Company Is In An Industry That May Require Licensing, Bonding Or Registration In Order To Lawfully Do Business. Bbb Encourages You To Check With The Appropriate Agency To Be Certain Any Requirements Are Currently Being Met.

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Northwest Craft

Business Contact And Profile
Name: Northwest Craft
Phone: (405) 256-1524
Address: 2006 E. 2Nd Street,  Woodward, Ok 73801
Original Business Start Date: April 1988
Principal: Darla Martin, Owner
Customer Contact: Darla Martin, Owner - (405) 256-1524
Tob Classification: Work-at-home Cos.

Additional Locations And Phone Numbers
Additional Addresses P. O. Box 627 Woodward, Ok 73802
Customer Complaint History
Bbb Processed A Total Of 0 Complaints About This Company In The Last 36 Months, Our Standard Reporting Period.

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Pin Jewel Company Business

Business Contact & Profile
Business Name: Pin Jewel Company Business
Address:
P.O. Box 224 Eastpointe, MI 48021
This business is not a BBB Accredited Business
Type of Business: WORK-AT-HOME COS.

Customer Complaint History
BBB has processed no customer complaints on this company in its three year reporting period.

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Sierra Gift

Business Contact and Profile

Name: Sierra Gift

Phone: (775) 783-9204

Address: PO Box 2236  Minden, NV 89423-2236

Original Business Start Date: January 2001

Principal: Mr. Mark Moglich, Owner

Customer Contact: Mr. Mark Moglich, Owner - (775) 783-9204

TOB Classification: Work-At-Home Cos. : This company is not a BBB Accredited business.

Customer Complaint History

When considering complaint information, please take into account the company's size and volume of transactions, and understand that the nature of complaints and a firm's responses to them are often more important than the number of complaints. BBB processed a total of 1 complaint about this company in the last 36 months, our standard reporting period. Of the total of 1 complaint closed in 36 months, 1 was closed in the last year.

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Sweet Success Publications

Business Contact and Profile
Name: Sweet Success Publications
Address: PO Box 35083 Tucson, AZ 85740
File Open Date: February 2008
TOB Classification: Business Opportunity Cos.
BBB has requested basic information from this company but has not received a response. As a result, BBB may not have current information about the company.

Customer Complaint History
BBB processed a total of 0 complaints about this company in the last 36 months, our standard reporting period.

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Tiny Details

Business Contact and Profile
Name: Tiny Details
Phone: (407) 323-2900
Address: P O Box 1015, Sanford, FL 32772
Business Category: Work-At-Home Cos., Collectibles, Wholesalers & Distributors
eMail: info@tinydetails.com
BBB file opened: November 20, 2002
Business started: April 1999
Primary Contact: Mr Kristopher Buchan (Owner)
Complaint Contact: Mr Kristopher Buchan (Owner)

Alternate Business Names
Christian Miniatures

Products and Services
The Company offers home assembly work creating dollhouse miniature accessories.
Additional Locations and Phone Numbers
(407) 688-9887 (407) 894-4807 (407) 936-0197 (800) 472-9887 (877) 489-2900 (407) 228-1102 (FAX) (407) 302-4501 (FAX)
Customer Complaint History
The company's size, volume of business and number of transactions may have a bearing on the number of complaints received by the BBB. The complaints filed against a company may not be as important as the type of complaints, and how the company has handled them. The BBB generally does not pass judgment on the validity of complaints filed.

Read the entire report by the better business bureau on tiny details here.

Tongue River Bows

Business Contact and Profile
Name: Tongue River Bows
Phone: (307) 655-9272
Address: PO Box 6399  Sheridan, WY 82801-1799
Principal: Mr. Rick Brown, Owner Customer
Contact: Mr. Rick Brown, Owner - (307) 655-9272
File Open Date: October 1993
TOB Classification: Work-At-Home Cos. : This company is not a BBB Accredited business.
Customer Complaint History
BBB processed a total of 0 complaints about this company in the last 36 months, our standard reporting period.

Rick Brown, owner of Tongue River Bows is also the owner of Western Leather Creations and Big Horn Wood Products. A separate report  is available on these companies.

And read the entire report on tongue river bows by the better business bureau here.

Unlimited Country Creations

Business Contact and Profile
Name: Unlimited Country Creations
Phone: (407) 860-4120
Address: 642 Ft Smith Blvd, Deltona, FL 32738
Business Category: Work-At-Home Cos.
BBB file opened: January 17, 1995
Business started: July 1994
Primary Contact: Mr. Dennis E. Mitchell Adams (Principal)
Complaint Contact: Mr. Dennis E. Mitchell Adams (Principal)

Alternate Business Names
Unlimited Creations Unlimited
Custom Creations

Products and Services :
According to information obtained from sources deemed reliable, the company advertises nationwide offering work at home making stuffed bunnies. The company charges a non-refundable registration fee of $40.00 and a $70.00 per kit to receive the materials to complete 10 bunnies.
Additional Locations and Phone Numbers
P O Box 390069, Deltona, FL 32737
(407) 574-7552

Customer Complaint History
The BBB has processed no customer complaints on this company in its three-year reporting period. Additional Information : When responding to an advertisement for working at home, for assembling stuffed animals, you will usually be charged a non-refundable registration fee and a fee for the materials, plus postage to receive and then return the finished product. You should be aware, however, that the crafts may take longer to assemble then presented, and that the company will only pay for the finished product that meets their standards.

Read the entire report on unlimited country creations by the better business bureau here.

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US Crafts

Business Contact and Profile
Name: U S Crafts
Phone: (775) 782-6524
Fax: (775) 782-6056
Address: 1420 Industrial Way STE 1  Gardnerville, NV 89410-5744
Original Business Start Date: January 1997
Principal: Ms. Shelley Beale, Owner
Customer Contact: Ms. Shelley Beale, Owner - (775) 782-6524
TOB Classification: Work-At-Home Cos. : This company is not a BBB Accredited business.

Additional Addresses
PO Box 1529 Gardnerville, NV 89410-1529
Customer Complaint History
BBB processed a total of 0 complaints about this company in the last 36 months, our standard reporting period.

Read the entire report on US crafts by the Better Business Bureau here.

Western Leather Creations

Business Contact and Profile
Name: Western Leather Creations
Phone: (307) 655-9648
Address: 1842 Sugarland Dr # 108 Ste 159  Sheridan, WY 82801-5775
Original Business Start Date: December 1991
Principal: Mr. Rick Brown, Owner
Customer Contact: Mr. Rick Brown, Owner - (307) 655-9648 TOB
Classification: Work-At-Home Cos. This company is not a BBB Accredited business.
Rick Brown, owner of Western Leather Creations is also the owner of Tongue River Bows and Big Horn Wood Products.
Additional Locations and Phone Numbers
526 H Street Sheridan, WY 82801
Customer Complaint History
When considering complaint information, please take into account the company's size and volume of transactions, and understand that the nature of complaints and a firm's responses to them are often more important than the number of complaints.
BBB processed a total of 3 complaints about this company in the last 36 months, our standard reporting period. Of the total of 3 complaints closed in 36 months, 0 were closed in the last year.

Read the entire report on this company by the Better Business Bureau here.

Wine Keepers

Business Contact and Profile
Name: Wine-keepers
Phone: (512) 420-0931
Address: 7301 Burnet Rd #102-925  Austin, TX 78757
Original Business Start Date: April 2004
Principal: Pamela Grant, President
Customer Contact: Pamela Grant, President - (512) 420-0931
Entity: Partnership TOB Classification:
Work-At-Home Cos. : This company is not a BBB Accredited business.
The BBB has requested basic information from this company but has not received a response. As a result, the BBB may not have current information about the company
Customer Complaint History When considering complaint information, please take into account the company's size and volume of transactions, and understand that the nature of complaints and a firm's responses to them are often more important than the number of complaints. BBB processed a total of 6 complaints about this company in the last 36 months, our standard reporting period. Of the total of 6 complaints closed in 36 months, 0 were closed in the last year.

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Dalstor Creations

Business Contact and Profile
Name: Datslor Creations Inc
Phone: (863) 666-5821
Address: 115 Dons Ct, Lakeland, FL 33801
Business Category: Work-At-Home Cos.
BBB file opened: December 22, 1992
Business started: June 1992
Primary Contact: Mr Thomas D Rolstad (President/Owner)
Complaint Contact: Ms. Maryann Mirabito (Operations Manager)
Products and Services The company offers a work-at-home opportunity assembling a stuffed animal which stands approximately 10 inches tall and is made out of cotton and polyester fabrics. The company charges a one time non-refundable registration fee of $45 and explains they will pay $7.50 for each animal, however, consumers must complete 10 animals before they receive payment and the animals must meet the specifications of the company.
Additional Locations and Phone Numbers
P O Box 7225, Winter Haven, FL 33883-7225, Polk County 5961 Fox Hollow Dr SE, Winter Haven, FL 33884, Polk County (813) 325-9886 (863) 295-9717 (863) 325-9886

…..Read the Better Business Report On this company here.

Assemble Cd Cases At Home

Among the more popular products that people look to assemble from home is, assembling cd cases at home. Assembling cd cases is a popular product assembling enterprise. There are some obvious reasons for it. It is a product that people are familiar with. Every one knows what a cd case is and have probably used one themselves. It is a product that is not only highly identifiable for people but also one that finds its requirement in every home.
This does not mean that you have to assemble and then SELL these cd cases on your own. You can work a few product assembling companies that assemble high quality CD cases. These company accept finished batches of assembled CD cases every week and pay you within 72 hours of approving your work. It is estimated that you can make anything between $200-$400 by working for any one of these CD case assembling companies.

There are basically two product assembling companies that you can work for in case you want to make CD cases at home. One such company is called the Elk Creek Case Co while the other company is called New England Crafters or Magical Gift. Fortunately both these companies have a helpful website and a fairly lucid business policy and programme. They also have a dedicated customer helpline for number which you can call and address all your queries to.
If you have read some of our previous posts before you will know how important it is for a product assembling company to have the valid and a clear identity. Both these companies seem to be fairly respectable and established and are not hiding behind dubious post box addresses.
Here a special mention should be made for the company that is called New England Crafters or the magical gift company. This company is perhaps the most popular and valid product assembling company that is around today. Not only do they have are dedicated customer service helpline but they also have their own crafting store for which the address is available on their website. You can just as easily pay them a visit and check them out for yourself in case you happen to be in the area. The addresses and the phone number listed below with some more details of these two companies. New England Crafters also has one of the most comprehensive website with one of the most impressive array of craft products listed there on. The craft products are professional and beautiful enough to tempt many are home based craft to work for them. They have even added an active forum were all their members recently.

There are a few crafting companies that hire people for assembling cd cases at home. They are listed here as follows:

Elk Creek Case Company

Call us at: 541-878-2642
Email us at: makecases@gmail.com
Mail us: High Point Marketing, P.O. Box 379, Shady Cove, OR 97539
website: www.besthomejobs.com, www.makecases.com

The Elk Creek Case company actually hastwo kinds of cases that areavailablefor assembling at homeand are fairly similar.One is the CD case while the other is the eye glass case. All of you who are looking to assemble CD cases at home can alsohave a lookat their eyeglass productas if you can make one you can easily make the other as well. Apart from this they havetwo kinds of CD case is that you can assemble at home. One is a sewing product and requires you to have sewing skills while the other one is a woodworking project and needs you to makethe CD case out of wood. You can view both these products on their websites which are www.besthomejobs.com and www.make cases.com.

you will get paid up to $409.20 per week for these CD totes. Like the eyeglass cases, you get your payment within 72 hours of receiving your finished batch ofCD totes. these CD cases of assembled with simple straight stitch sewing, from a very basic pattern. They use cotton calico fabric, as well as many other fun prints. There is no selling for you to do because you send them to us, and we buy them from you.To get started with assembling CD totes you will need a starter kit. This kit includes everything in it that you'll need to begin this project, minus the thread. In the starter kit you receive our finished sample case, so you have our product to compare your work to. Also included is the pattern, instructions, all the materials needed to complete your first case, fabric swatches, and our quality control check list. This is the same list that is used to inspect your cases. It allows you to sew your case, lay it down right next to our finished case, and go down our check list looking at the exact same items. This takes all the guess work out of the inspection process; and you will know exactly what the product assembling company is looking for. you can call them at allregular business arts with any questions and extra assistance that you might needin completing your workof assembling their CD cases. the eyeglass cases starter kit is $35.90 including shipping and handling. the assembling CD totes starter kit is $38.90 including shipping and handling.

you are allowed to makefinished sets of five batches for both the eyeglass case and the CD case every single week.That is the maximum amount of quantity thatthe Elk Creek Case company is ready to acceptfrom you every week. each batch contains a set of 48 itemsand the payment should you for making the CD cases is as follows: $81.84 gross payment which includes $39.20 for labor + $27.36 for supply costs + $4.00 for shipping.

You can also ask for a refundable sample of the CD case to be sent to you before you actually decideto start assembling the product. After you have seen an observed the product carefully,you will be in the better position to make a decision regarding whether you want to work for in this company are not The refundable CD sample case is $10.95 plus $4.95 for shipping & handling ($15.90 total). This option allows you a risk free opportunity to make your decision.

If you do decide to work for the Elk Creek Case company your start-up cost forregistrationwill be refunded to you after you have completed eight batches for the company.

New England Crafters:

New England Crafters:
Magical Gift Comany or New England Crafters is a popular product assembling company that has a large following amongst craft lovers and home based Crafters. It has a wide range of crafts listed on its very professional website that home based crafter can assemble at home. One of these is there popular and simple product of assembling CD cases. While the rest of the crafts have images posted to give you an idea of what they look like for some reason the CD case product does not have an image on the website. But they do have a dedicated helpline number of where you can call and get all the information that you need. You are also sent a sample of the product you are trying to assemble venue subscribe to the starter kit.
As mentioned before New England Crafters is an impressive product assembling company. They maintained a list of the people who are approved to assemble products for them. Which means that in case you are approved to make CD cases for them you will find your name listed on their main website as an approved assembler along with the dozens of others. You can find an active forum dedicated to the people working for New England Crafters on www.WAHM.com.
Not only that but they have also started for on their own wear different people regardless of whether they are working for the company not can discuss different crafts and ideas. Both these websites are a great place to get input from other people who might be doing the job of assembling CD cases at home. The address for the crafting story in Torrington, Connecticut is listed below along with their dedicated helpline number. You are welcome to pay their store a visit where you can see in person the sample of the product you are interested in assembling which in this case is the CD case.

The Magical Gift Company Store: Located at 38 Main Street in Downtown Torrington, CT
Showroom Hours: Mon.-Fri.10am until 6pm, Saturdays 10-5pm

Customer Service & Order Line : 1-860-482-3955
Hours Monday-Friday 10am until 7pm E.S.T.
Saturdays 10am until 5pm E.S.T. ( Closed On All Major holidays)
Website: www.magicalgift.com

If you come across another company website by the name of HAND CRAFTED WOODWORKS, this is to inform you that this company is the same as the Elk Creek Case company which has been mentioned before. This name is only the subsidiary of the Elk Creek Case company and offers the same product to assemble which is that of the wooden CD case.

ValerieHattery.tk - assemble bookmarks, refrigerator magnets, christmas angels

Let us speak of another product assembling company that goes by the name of ValerieHattery.tk, also know as Angelic Creations.  This is a rather popular name in the community of product and craft assembling and I am sure several of few to have already heard about it.  Why we want to mention this company in the top list of the product assembling companies is that it is one of the very rare crafting businesses that has an excellent rating and standing with the better business bureau.  It has a rating of a class.  This is the highest rating that the better business bureau gives to any business on company.  This goes a long way in establishing the credibility and honesty of the company.  Not only are the reports could but it is also an accredited business with the better business bureau.  It can be noted here that for a business to become accredited by the better business bureau it has to fulfil certain guidelines and provide certain information along with having to pay a certain free to get certified in such a manner.

Vallerie Hattery
Name: Valerie's Hattery Inc. Phone: (231) 228-4562
Address: PO Box 5250 Traverse City, MI 49696-5250

On visiting the website of this company you will see many crafting products that are available to the home assembler to make.  The proprietor of the company states candidly that this work is only meant for those who enjoy craft work as a hobby.  The idea is specify clearly and accurately the there is not much money to be made out of it and it should not be treated as the home based work offer.
We feel this is the great statement to make sense we feel it is acutely true for all product assembling home-based work of us.  There is not much money to be made out of doing this kind of work at home.  It is mainly meant for people who enjoy crafting as a hobby.
There are no records whatsoever with us or even the better business bureau that the product assembling jobs at home have made people are substantial amount of income for a sustained period of time.  The better business bureau reports that it has no record whatsoever in their nationwide files of anybody having been successful at making a substantial home based income doing this kind of work.
ValerieHattery.tk is the popular company because it offers simple crafts and a clear business profile.
This is a good company to work for if you are crafting hobbyist.  You will not stand to make much money but will enjoy the crafts and the knowledge that you are actually making a little profit out of it, small as it may be.
ValerieHattery.tk also allows you to buy your own materials from the market as just another company that we have spoken of earlier that goes by the name of cottage industries.
I don't believe there is any sort of our time limit in which you are expected to finish making the batch of crafts.  You can take any amount of time as possible.
This would have seemed strange for any other business that was claiming to be a serious crafting business.  They would have had to meet deadlines and cater to the supply and demand chain and hence could not really afford not to implement the finishing deadline for their home-based workers.
But as mentioned before the profile of ValerieHattery.tk states that the work is of a nonserious nature and Mentmore for enjoyment and fun of the craft rather than as a home based income job.  So in this case it is all right that witchery does not have a deadline for its home-based assemblers.
You can view the website and call up their phone number to speak to a customer service representative.
You may also read the full better business bureau of report here.

Magical Gift Company / New England Crafters

Let us talk about other popular and a prominent product assembling company that goes by the name of magical gift dollhouse is or the new England crofters both of which our the name for the same company.  Before we start say anything about this company you should note that like many others this company to as a poor rating with the better business bureau.  The report in the bureau says that the last time the check the address for the company was not valid.  The mean that they sent to the offices of the company came back to them as being undeliverable.  Now I was a little surprised to read this is the is a robust community of people who is working for new England crofters.  There is a huge thread devoted to the New England craft is on the website that goes by the name of WAHM.com.  You can find several dozens of people who are actively involved in making crafts for the magical gift houses or New England crofters.
Why I am particularly impressed by this company is because they have the very own crafting store which you can pay them a visit in order to speak to someone face-to-face before starting to work for them.  This goes a long way in proving that the company does actually have a physical presence and actually does business with the crafts that they make.  Once you visit the website you also realised that they have a list of impressive craft items that you can very well CB in demand and being sold.  Most of the time a problem that crops up with a lot of product assembling companies that you come by is that you find it hard to imagine how the products the in the business of making could actually have a demand in any sort of crafting market.  The new England crofters is different.  They have extremely likeable and professional looking crafts that can very well be sold as respectable and decently placed and priced craft items.  Some of the product at the assembling companies that pay you or rather promise to pay you to the dunes of several hundreds of dollars for making a batch of inane craft items makes you wonder how do they actually managed to make a profit by selling them as who would be willing to pay a high price for such items.
The new England crofters does not fooled around with having miniature is and other such nonsense kind of crafts which are so popular with some other well-known product assembling companies.  They have normal regular crafts such as a snowman, stuffed toys, and other such feasible items.
Given these facts it is also safe to assume as I'm sure you have by now that these crafts are not exactly simple.  While the reason awaking level of difficulty in their crafts all of them require distinctive crafting skills.  If you are completely unexperienced or unsure of your crafting ability than I recommend first giving making crafts at home short all by yourself.  Look for free craft projects on the Internet as there are several available or by crafting book and tried to make those items at home.  Only if you can manage to achieve these crafts with a satisfactory level of perfection should you attempt to work for the new England crofters.

There is the phone number given on the website of the company for a dedicated customer care representative.  When you call-up this person you can address your enquiries regarding the work and the work difficulty.  This person will help you in picking up the right crafts you based on your craft level.  If you are not experienced and wish to start with a simpler product then you should specify this to the agent you are talking to and they would make a suitable recommendation.

The approval process
the approval process for this company is also critical.  Once you have purchased their starter kit which is for about 30 to 40 to $50 you will receive all the raw materials and the tools required to make the craft by made.  It then certain items that you are advised to purchase on your own in case you want extra accuracy in making the craft.  For example you are strongly advised to buy our exact though cutting knife and a good quality glue gun for a better finished craft.  These are usually available at the nearest Wal-Mart store.  In order to get approved for working with the new England crofters you need to make one single craft and send it to the company for approval.  You keep sending this one single craft till you get approved.  Every time that you do not the company sends back the craft items with instructions and reports as to where you went wrong and how to make it correct.  Only when you are approved.  Only once you have managed to make this single item with accuracy does the company approved view of making the rest of the batch.  This means that you do not have to waste time making the complete batch and sending it to the company and having it rejected because it didn't need the quality standards.

Know What You Are Getting Into

Perhaps it is the various sales copies of product assembling websites that are to be blamed, but people as a general get the wrong impression about home-based product assembling jobs to begin with.  They tend to assume that the work is extremely simple and that they can make hundreds of dollars every week by doing this job.  They are also led to believe that they do not need any experience and they can manage find with whatever skills they have or do not have.  The truth of the matter is quite different.  Making crafts is not a job that everybody can accomplish.  Sure everybody can accomplish it but not everybody can make it to the kind of perfection that may be required in this kind of a work at home job.

People who are searching for product assembling jobs mostly come across to kind of websites.  Number one, they can come across the actual website of product assembling company such as tiny details, artistes and Corporation of America and so on or they may come across a third-party Web site that is selling the directory listing of the various product assembling companies and job offers.
Letters discuss the first want.  Needless to say most of the product assembling companies are not truthful in their offer of four of home-based job opportunity.  I think this is a plain fact that you should be made aware of right at the very beginning.  So what happens when you do come across the website of a company that is masquerading as the product assemble and crafting company is that you see tall claims of easy work and lots of money.  Website like this probably goes all out to give you the idea that you do not require any experience of any kind to do this work at home and that even a person with no prior crafting skill or experience can make their products.  This is hardly true.  The description of the products are mostly listed in a manner that makes them seem simple and basic.  Experience has taught many home-based assemblers that even the simple sounding crafts are indeed difficult to make up to their specifications after craft-based assembling.  A classic example of this is the bookmark.  A lot of people search aridly and voraciously to make the simple bookmark at home and make hundreds of dollars making it every single week.  Imagine the surprise when they learned that the seemingly simple bookmark is indeed a difficult one to attain perfection with.  It involves breeding and knocking techniques that make it incredibly hard to get up to the standards of the perfect craft items that is asked for by the product assembling company.
So no matter what you read on the website of a crafting business company or how easy the work of this seems you can take it for granted that it is not so.  In fact if and when you do decide to work for such a company you must make it a point to speak to the representative of the company in great detail about the difficulty level involved.  It is also a very good idea to speak to someone else who is working for the same company and get first on experience from him or her.  You can try and locate these people on the Internet or you can ask the company to referee you to a few of its home-based assemblers.  The latter option however, you may not get much success with as only the very established and the completely genuine product assembling company will give you the names of the people who are working for them.
An excellent point comes to mind when I say this.  There is a product and craft assembling company that goes by the name of magical gift houses or the New England craft is that actually maintains a list of the people who are working for them on their website.  If you apply to work for this company and you get a proved to work for them your name kits listed along with all the others on their website as well.

Let us discuss the second kind of website that you might come across.  These are the websites that came to be having hundreds of product assembling jobs in the dietary and ask for a sign up the in order to receive this information.  The seals copy on the website actually makes it sound like they are the ones who are providing the employment.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  The truth is that they merrily have compiled a list of all the product assembling companies that do exist or have known to exist in the past.  The website that is selling such a list has absolutely nothing to do with any of these companies and not to take any responsibility for providing or ensuring that you do get work as a home-based craft assembling.  But their website will say things like you are guaranteed employment and an income of several hundreds of dollars every week.  These kind of websites are perhaps the most misleading as they are only interested in selling you did compiled a list and offer no assistance in actually helping you get the job.  Once you have bought the list from them you are left on your own to choose out of the various company names that they have provided you with.  The website will also claim that they have checked and cross checked all the companies listed with the and that they are all genuine.  This is also not the truth the fact is that most of the product assembling companies are doubtful and known to be scams.  They do not reveal this fact you while making their sales pitch.  We extremely wary of the website is trying to sell you several hundreds of product assembling jobs.  Please know that you do not have to pay a single penny to excess the names of all the product assembling companies.  No matter which website is trying to sell you this list you should know that the list is completely the same.  The same names have been sold for eight years after years.  Only the look and the seals copy of the websites keeps changing.  The list remains absolutely the same.  You can access this list at absolutely no cost you hear.  Click on the link and you can view almost 100 product assembling companies.

The point that we have been trying to make at this post is that people have and tend to get our misleading idea about product assembling jobs when they first come across it.  They get into it expecting a simple and it easy job that they will simply sailed through without any age.  This almost never happens.  Most of the people who to work with product assembling at home hobbyists and craft is who enjoy making craft is at home.  Most of these people do not do it for the money but to it because it has been a hobby with them for a long time.
So if you think that anybody and everyone can make the crafts that are available to available that the product assembling company then you are mistaken.  This work is only for one that possesses the crafting skill and that to an immaculate skill where you are able to make a craft absolutely perfectly.

Before you sign up to work with any product assembling company and in case you are unsure of your ability to make the items we recommend the following process.  Try and making a simple craft at home one that ideally matches to provide off the company that you are trying to work with.  This can be easily accomplished as there are several craft projects available on the Internet with complete and detailed instructions.  You can even pick up a book on crafting from your nearest bookstore.  Try in making the crafts listed their.  If you are a new craft then start with the easier ones and try to upgrade your skill to the more difficult and the tricky ones.  This will give you a fair idea of how good you are at making crafts and how much you actually enjoy it.  Making the same craft again and again intend to get pretty monotonous.  You should have the ability and the patience that is required in making a craft that needs to be made to the highest quality and perfection.  When you are making something for personal use you know you can tend to slack off a bit and take help of extra materials.  But product assembling jobs do not allow this sort of our leeway.  You are supposed to make the craft specifically according to the guidelines of the product assembling company and by only using the materials that are approved by them.  You are in most cases forbidden from purchasing materials of your own using different materials than the one that the company sends you.
All this goes on to say that product assembling jobs cannot be managed by everyone even in this scenario that you have actually come across a field and a genuine and an honest product assembling company.  Evaluate and know your skills as a craft before you decide to start working with a craft making company. 

Tiny Details - assemble miniature items like books and dollhouses

Tiny details is another very popular product assembling company.  It is one of the most well known names in the field of product and craft assembling because of several reasons.  One of the reasons is that this company has been around for a very long time and the second reason is that they have a very comprehensive and a detailed website which is easily to be found on doing a Web search on any major search engine.  While tiny details has an impressive Web portal and an impressive list of crafts for the assembly to make at home the reports and the reviews attained by this company are not wholly satisfying.
Tiny details has a pool creating with the better business bureau.  It has a rating of F..  As you well might be aware this rating is the lowest that is given by the better business bureau to any company or business.  The better business bureau bases its reports on several factors such as the complaint history and the response given by the company in order to resolve these complaints.  Other factors such as the clarity of the business and the company and business details provided by any respective business are also taken into consideration while giving a rating...you may read the entire report by the better business bureau on Tiny Details here.
We shall discuss the profile given by the company regarding its work at home offer briefly.

Contact Details:
Tiny Details
129 Main Street Groton, NY 13073
Phone Number: 607-898-9046  
E-mail questions: info@tinydetails.com

Summary
tiny details makes miniature craft and items and offers the same for home assembly to anyone who is interested in working from home.  You will be making miniature items of several products such as dollhouse is, books, a fan and so on and so forth.
You can choose any product that you wish to make based on your experience and the kind of difficulty level that you are able to implement in your craft work.  The registration fee for tiny details is $55.  This is the amount that you have to pay if you wish to start working for the company by making any one of the craft products.  However, tiny details does not call this a registration fee.  They call it a deposit because they return this money to you after you send in your first finished batch of craft products.  They pay you $50 to $200 per finished batch of crafts plus the postage involved in shaping the item to them to the maximum tune of four dollars.

Details

Making miniature crafts is a relatively difficult process to begin with.  The various crafts listed on the website of tiny details are graded according to the different difficulty level.  Some people might want to start with a simple craft while other expedients crafters might want more difficult one.  In case you were wondering why anybody we want to make a difficult craft in the first place the reason is that they pay more for our difficult craft rather than the easier one.  For example, you get paid $50 for making a batch of simple craft and you get paid up to $200 for making a difficult and an advanced one.  The time required to make the craft also depends on the same difficulty level.  The easier once take less a time while the harder once take more.  The number of items that you need to finish to make a complete batch also varies according to the difficulty level.  The simpler ones have more items in a batch was a difficult once have less.

The starter kit
when you sign up with tiny details to make any particular craft for them you receive a starter kit.  This kit contains everything that you need to make your first batch which includes materials, detailed instructions and the necessary tools.  Along with this you also receive a payment request form and an extra materials request form.  The payment request form is obviously for you to fill up when you want to receive your payment after making the finished batch.  You are supposed to send it along with every single batch of products that you shipped to the company.  The extra materials request form is meant for you to request extra materials in case you need them.  This is a helpful feature as a beginner might make mistake or the craft may be complicated enough for you to require more materials at any given point of time.  The company ships the extra materials to you at no extra cost.

The $55 that you pay as a deposit in the beginning to start working is refunded to you when you're finished batch of craft products gets approved by the company.  The typical time taken by tiny details to process kit orders and send them into mainly is two to three days.  They are normally sent by first-class mail and may take up to a week to get delivered to you anywhere in the United States of America.  There is also the option of paying for dollars extra to have your cake shipped to you by priority may.  This reduces the shipping time but about half.

What the starter kit contains
as mentioned before he should receive everything that you will require to make your first batch of crafts in the starter kit.  These include certain tools such as a knife and even a small bottle of glue if that is also required in the craft making.  The raw materials provided are enough to make the number of items that comprise a full badge.  The number of items that you are required to make in a batch depend on the product that you have chosen and are usually in the tune of 20, 50 or hundred items.  You need to place every single item once you are finished making it into a little plastic bags which are also provided by the company.  You may be required to put one or more items in these plastic bags depending on the craft that you are making which is specified by the company.

The approval process
Tiny Details has a good process for approving its assemblers.  You will be required to make one sample of the product and send the company for approval.  Only after the company approves of this one single item you allowed to make the complete batch for them.  This is helpful as you do not have to waste your time finishing the whole batch not knowing for sure whether you are doing it correctly or not.  You will also not have to risk getting your entire batch rejected by the company simply because you have been making it wrong all along and he did not know it.  Every time that you send your first sample to be approved the company will send it back with an approval report telling you whether you had done it right not.  In case you did not manage to get it right you will get instructions and report as to how to make it the right way.  You can continue to improve and sending impact of the company till you get it right.  There are no limitations charm tuition in North in which you need to get it right.

Completing the batch
after you have been approved to work on their products you have 60 days to finish the entire batch and send them.  There is a little confusion here regarding whether the 60 days begin from the time that day she you the starter kit or from the date that you actually get approved by sending in your first sample product.  You must clarify this if and when you decide to work with tiny details.  You also need to package you finished batch in a box which is sturdy.  You can also use the box that were shipped to you containing the kit.

Payment process
when you complete product set is accepted by tiny details you received a cheque which includes the amount for three things were stuck the amount that was agreed upon for the assembled product which usually ranges from $50-$200, your deposit of $55 educated initially to start working for the company, and shipping costs up to four dollars to cover the posting expense undertaken by you to ship the finished batch to tiny details.
If you decide to continue with tiny details with making more products for them you can have your free of $55 rolled over to the next kit.  Which means that you do not have to keep sending them $55 every time that you wish to purchase the starter kit from them.  You are allowed to switch from one craft to another any time that you wish.
They could no limits on the number of kits that you can make at one time.

Examples of the products available with tiny details

Large sparkle notebooks with designs
this is relatively difficult miniature crafts to make for the company which is that why they pay to dollars per notebook in a batch of hundred.  Which means you get paid $200 from making hundred tiny notebooks for them.  This notebook is made by cutting off the covers and six insight sheets of paper.  The covers are made from a light card stock and the insight sheets are made from regular paper.  Despite a binding is made from a wire that is supplied to you.

Silverware chests
at all point of time you must remember that all the crafts that you are making for tiny details miniature crafts.  Most of them are about not more than 1 inch in length.  This particular craft is a dollhouse miniature of a lovely silvery chest with a working draw.  The interior is a line to dwell it.
This is essentially a woodworking craft and will need you to use sandpaper for smoothing out the wood that is provided you.  The sheets of wood might also be needed to be cut by you.  You should confirm all details about this product when you start working for the company.  This is a relatively simpler product than the spiral notebook mentioned earlier and you will receive $60 for a batch of 10 completed silverware chests. 

Other examples of products available to tiny details include Victorian calling cards, spiral notebook set, Roosevelt 1937 hand-in-hand, squarish notepads set, Chinese take upset and more.

The reviews and the ratings

This is the critical part about the profile of any home-based work company business.  Tiny details has been around for several years and has are comprehensive and a professional sounding home based work of.  However, the records and the reviews were the people who have tried to work with tiny details in the past has not been very encouraging.  A lot of people seem to be of the opinion that the description of the products listed on the website is slightly misleading.  This may be true or it may also be true that people do not anticipate the difficulty involved in making miniature items.  Miniature items are suited for people who are deft at making very small things with their hands.  If you find that you are cumbersome at handling small crafts and detailed items with your hands then making miniature crafts might prove to be difficult for you indeed.
Tiny details has received a lot of complaints in the past from the people.  You can read the complete complaint history and the better business report by visiting this section here.

As a general rule you must remember that you should be very careful before starting to work for any company that offers home-based employment.  Any company that charges are free to start working for them creates a room for scepticism.  Although it is quite understandable why a home-based product assembling company might want to charge a certain free as a deposit in order to ensure that they get their things back, the truth of the matter is that most of these product assembling companies are not in a good standing with the better business bureau.  More people have failed at working for these companies and the ones who have actually succeeded.  By succeeded we do not mean getting paid once or twice but generating a substantial income for a sustained period of time.  We have not been able to come up with a lot of good reviews for this company from people who have managed to generate a home-based income by making products for them.  Whenever you are looking for home-based work it is essential that the work beef reliable and designed to provide income to you on a regular basis.  Product and craft assembling jobs in general have failed to accomplish this for the people who have tried that marked.
You will also be well advised to read the tips given by the better business bureau about working from home by clicking this link here. 

other interesting reports and articles that you can read about tiny details are listed below.  Visit these links for further information on other websites.

Report on ripoff report.com:
I, like many of you, found this posting too late. I had googled Tiny Details and searched for hours to find out if it was a scam. After actually recieving the kit I decided to try Metacrawler and thats how I found this website. When I found the Tiny Details website I was fooled by how safe it sounded....Read More.
what is interesting about this posting is that it actually has the rebuttal from someone who actually works in the company or for the company.

here is the post found on telecommuting general.com. Although it is slightly old by a couple of years it has by then drawn several more comments from other people.  It is definitely worth a read

Tiny Details - Enormous Headache
By Lisa, Editor...

I know you think this is a post about how it’s the little things that matter - but it’s not! It’s about a company called Tiny Details! Here’s who they are:

Tiny Details is a home assembly company that creates beautiful and realistic dollhouse miniature accessories. All of our products are assembled in the U. S. A. by people like you who work in their homes at their leisure. Our products are carried by the finest dollhouse miniature retailers.

In a nutshell here’s their pitch (notice the wording - their pitch, their spiel, their line):

You give them a $55 deposit to have them send you a kit of your choice. You assemble the products in the kit and ship them back. They send you the price for the completed products PLUS the $55 deposit PLUS a reimbursement (up to $4) for the shipping charges you incurred. You have 60 days from the postmark date to turn in your work.... Read more...

The report on consumerist.com that claims that the person who had subscribed for working with tiny details actually received some unpleasant mails and notices from the company.... read it here.

everyone who is looking for home based work has probably come across an extremely popular forum by the name of WAHM.com.  It is a very popular discussion forum for people involved in different various aspects of  telecommuting and working from home. you can read this specific thread devoted to information about tiny details.  Read it here.

another interesting article can be found on this thread on the website by the name of associated content.com.  It is by a person that did indeed get paid by tiny details although it took her a long time to complete the process of getting that first initial check.  She does specified that she received payment from tiny details and that it took her about five months to go through the complete process of sending in her Sample for approval, having it sent back to for re doing, sending the whole batch of hundred items and having backed returned to her because of some fault with the packing to the point of finally receiving her payment.
She however does not write further whether she received any more payments from the company or not.  Getting regular and multiple payments for your work from a company is an important factor in determining the stability and the legitimacy of the company. read this article here.

Cottage Industries – assemble miniature dollhouses and jewelry boxes

Cottage Industries
this product assembling company offers products such as dollhouse and jewellery boxes.  Cottage industries is one of the few product assembling companies that seems to be in a relatively good standing with the better business bureau.  Most of craft and product assembling companies have a rating of F with the better business bureau.  This rating is absolutely the lowest that is provided by the bureau based on the company's records for a number of factors such as the transparency of the companies address, phone number and business practices.  Other factors such as the complaint history by its employees, the kind of response given by the product assembling company as well as the nature of the business that a company conducts, all these determine the status that any company holds with the better business bureau.  Cottage industries seems to have satisfied most of this criterion.
As mentioned before this is an assembling company that makes miniature crafts like dollhouse is an jewelry boxes.  At this point you must know that the work of making any mini craft usually involves delicate and careful workmanship at the hands of the craftsmen.  Not everybody can do the job of making miniature crafts.  Some people are deft at the process of making small items with their hands while others just can't manage to do so.  If you belong to the earlier category who are good at handling small crafts by the hands then this probably is the good company to work for.

Name: Cottage Industries Inc.
Phone: (407) 872-0588
Address: PO Box 568904, Orlando, FL 32856
website: cotind.com

Details of the assembling job
the few basic things that you should know about Cottage Industries to begin with.  Their registration fee is relatively higher than most of the product and craft assembling company's.  The charge of $50 registration fee.  But the obvious advantage to this relatively higher registration fee is that you never happen to pay for buying your supply of raw materials.  Usually what happens is that as you finish making your batch of finished crafts, you have to buy more material from the company.  But not in the case of cottage industries.  They claim that they never ever charge you are sending you supplies for your next batch of product and the one after that or ever again.  Cottage Industries have their office in Orlando.  What is interesting about this company is that they have a store where they sell the products that they claim to make and the same ones that you will be making for them.  You are welcome to visit their office and their store any time before 4 p.m..  You will be in the unique position of actually examining the products that you are going to be making as they are on display in the office.  You can also drop off your finished craft at the same office when you are undone making it.  This removes the need for shipping the item once it is made and thus eliminates the time lost in the shipping process.
But above all what this means is that you can have one on one interaction with the people in charge of the company that you are working for.  This kind of transparency in the work policy is a welcome change from the usual subvert trend of the product and the craft assembling community.
You are paid $50 for every batch of finished product.  The number of items in every batch depend on the kind of craft that you have chosen to make in the first place.  This means that the more complicated craft you choose the lesser number they will be in the finished batch.

Refund policy
the refund policy of this company states that they will give you back half of your registration money which is $50 if you return the kit back to them and decide not to work for them.  The kit can be in the used or an unused condition.  Which means that you can either have returned the starter kit completely untouched or you can try and make the craft before sending it back.  You will get the same amount of money from the.

Verification process
Cottage Industries have a unique verification process for the home assemblers.  Once you have registered with them and received your starter kit you will be required to make a single product and send it along to them for inspection.  You do not need to make the complete batch.  Only after your first item is approved you get approved for assembling the rest of the items to finish the complete batch.   this is a good policy as you do not have to waste time in making the whole batch of products for it to only be rejected if it does not meet the designing and the quality standards of the craft making company.

Address
Cottage Industries  have their offices located at 915 Westlake Holden., formely known as 37th St, in Orlando, they run the office from a residential home of South orange blossom trail.  They are there in office Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. and you can always call and take an appointment on the phone before paying them a visit. Phone number for the office of Cottage Industries is (407) 872-0588.

We realise that the option of paying them a visit physically or physically picking up and dropping of your supplies and finished goods is not an option for everyone.  But for the people in and around Orlando this is an excellent option.  Another point to be noted about these visits to the office is that if you drop of your finished supply of crafts before 10 p.m. in the morning is immediately sent for inspection and if they get approved your cheque is ready by 4 p.m. the same evening.  If you happen to come by after 10 a.m. your cheque gets ready back the next day provided your finished products meet the approval

Product and Craft Details

The dollhouse gift box -- this box is made of cherry wood that is of the thickness of a dime.  It is about 1 inch high 1 inch wide and about 3/4" deep it has no drawers but opens into two line compartments and the lead that is also lined the materials that you will receive along with this kit is Elton was blue, pattern, knife to cut the wood, where the red ribbon for compartment lining and full and complete directions to make this craft.  You will receive enough materials to make 10 boxes.  Please note that the wood will be needed to cut by you.  Extra material can also be called for in case you require it.  This is rather helpful as first timers can make mistakes while making the box.  Other tools that you may require to make this dollhouse gift box is a scissor and the ruler which is not provided as a part of the starter kit.

The dollhouse one drawer jewelry box -- this box is also made of cherry wood and has the same dimensions as the one mentioned above.  This box is different from the first as it has one drawer and requires you to install hinges for the lid.  For this reason it is considered to be slightly difficult than the first one.  So as a beginner the first item is usually recommended.  You get paid five dollars for each box that you complete correctly.  Here it should be mentioned that you get paid for piece and not per batch.  This means that when you send in a batch of finished products and if some items meet the approval standards while others do not your whole batch does not get rid rejected fully.  You still get paid for the crafts that you made correctly.

The dollhouse three drawer jewelry box -- this box is made of cherry wood and has the same dimensions as the one mentioned above.  You will receive almost the same from materials as the first two boxes and the wood will be needed to cut by you. extra material is available in all these options.  As the title suggests this box has three drawers but does not have any hinges.  This box is also considered to be relatively easy to make.

The dollhouse one drawer silver chest - this chest is made of cherry wood and is about the thickness of a dime.  It is 1 inch high, 1 inch wide and about 1 -- 1/8 inch deep. The raw materials are pretty much the same as for the above boxes.

Miniature bows -- if you choose to make this craft remember that you will need to make a set of 4 hundred  bows to complete the full batch.  You get paid hundred dollars for each approved bow.  While all the products mentioned so far involve wood working this craft is for those who would like to do something else.  These bows about the size of a dime and made of ribbon which is wound on special bow maker that is provided to you.  You will use pins, glue and low-temperature glue gun.  You get paid $.25 per each bow that you make.  The same policy regarding getting paid per item rather than per batch applies to this craft as well.  You will get paid for all the items in the batch of 400 bows that meet the quality approval standard.

Why Do People Fail At Product Assembling Jobs

The truth of the matter is that more people failed at assembling products at home than ones that succeed.  There are a lot of theories offered for this.  Some say that the offer of working from home by making simple crafts and products is misleading.  What you read on the Web sites of several product assembling companies is that the work will be relatively easy and you will be able to make several hundred dollars a week.  Experience has taught us and many other people who have tried doing these simple craft making jobs at home that this is not the case.  In fact, most of the time the craft that has to be made is a tedious work of art.  Apart from this sum people who have tried assembling products at home also say that the matter how hard you try you will never be able to make the craft exactly up to the expectations of the company.  This is not necessarily because you are not able to meet the standards of the company but because the product assembling company is defiant and decided on not excepting any finished batches.  They are only interested in making you spend money buying their starter kit and raw materials for making the craft from them.
If we look at the various reasons why a lot of people have had their finished in batch of products rejected by the company you will also find a certain group of people claiming that the raw material sent by the company is faulty to begin with.  What these people are trying to say is that it is impossible to make the finished craft using the material sent by the company.  And the same companies prohibit you from buying better quality raw material on your own.  The only reason that comes to mind as to why our craft making company would do this is that they do not want their home assemblers to be able to make the craft that they have been designated to make.  And why they would want such a thing is because it had no intention of paying the people who have bought the raw materials from them and want to work for them.
A lot of product assembling companies offer to send a sample of the craft along with the start up kit.  Some people have complained in the past that the sample supplied by the company is made from different or better raw materials than the one that the company sends to them.  Sometimes the sample craft is made using slightly different and better techniques which on the other hand are prohibited to the assembler.  Sometimes extra material such as glue or strings is used to make the sample product but the same is not provided to the person assembling that product at home.  And as mentioned earlier the assembler is prohibited from using extra materials that has not been supplied to him or her by the company.
The point of view being covered here is that some product assembling companies deliberately try and make it impossible for the person to be able to make their craft at home.  The description and sales copy on the website reads differently from what the actual truth of the matter is.  It is safe to say sometimes it is misleading and false.

Is Product Assembling From Home Legitimate?

This is perhaps the most valid question of all.  No speaking of income potential and why there is a fee associated with joining product assembling jobs means anything if product assembling is not legitimate and real to start with.

You need to understand several aspects of product assembling in order to be able to answer this question to yourself.

Most of the product assembling companies are scams.  They make money out of selling people starter kits and raw materials required to make the product. They have no intention of paying you for your work. Whenever you finish your batch of crafts and send it to the company it will get rejected no matter how well you have made it. Sometimes the design of the craft is such that it is impossible to make it with the raw materials that the company provides. You are expressively forbidden from buying their own raw materials by some companies.
Sometimes your first batch make get approved but only so that you can send in for more supplies from them.

There are however certain companies like the NEC and  COTTAGE INDUSTRIES, that many people are working for. These two companies have their own stores from where they sell their craft items.  If you visit their website you will see the pictures and the address of the store with an open invitation to come and visit them personally. Cottage industries also allows people to come and pick up their starter kit and drop of their finished batch of products at their shop removing the need and delay of shipping by mail.
There is one more company that seems to have a good enough rating on the Better Business Bureau that goes by the name of Enchanted Hearts. You can read more about this company here and even view the report that the Better Business Bureau has on it... Enchanted Hearts. We have received a good feedback from some of the people who have worked for this company but un fortunately those feedbacks are a few years old. We have not heard from anyone who is currently working for this product assembling company. You can look them up and in case you have any questions or remarks to make about your interaction with them, post them as a comment on the main website.

The question of the legitimacy of Product And Craft assemble jobs is manifold. Sure it is true that most of the product assembling companies are a ruse to make people buy the starter kit from them and that is all. But there are some that are real crafting businesses and pay people to work for them. But you need to have the right view point regarding this work. You cannot expect to make a substatial home based income from this work.
What the legitimate companies do is provide you with regular work. They take a test of your crafting abilities before expecting you to make an entire batch of items for them. Once you qualify you are approved to make the crafts for them. The legitimate product assembling companies are not evaisve about surrendering their business details and provide help and guidance over e-mail and telephone through a customer service agent.
This does not mean that their crafts are easy to make and you will have a breeze workinf for them. On the contrary the companies like the NEC have some serious craft products and you will need to practise to get approved with them.
Almost no one gets approved the first time around. You keep sending your sample till you get it right. But they help you all along the way by telling you what exactly you are doing wrong. Not only that, there is a large thread dedicated to people working for the NEC on Wahm.com. People come there to share ideas and experiences. It is a very freindly forum where everybody helps each other out.

We are also impressed with the way COTTAGE INDUSTRIES sounds. They have a store of their own as well. They invite you to go and visit them as they have the crafts that they would like you to assemble from home, on display there. They also allow you to pick up your starter kit from their store and even drop off the finished batch there with them. This is great for the people who are staying locally in the area. Not only does it save the time and money involved in shipping, but also gives you a one to one interaction with the people that you are working for.

It is a fact that more people are rejected when they send them their work for approval than the ones that are actually accepted. So in the long run even if the company is paying a few people to work for them over the course of a few months, that can be thought of as a way to keep the credibility of the company alive. Keeping the credibility is important since they want for the people to apply for jobs and by the starter kits for them. So even if they are paying 10 people to work for them and rejecting 50 will apply, they are still making money out of it.

Bottom line is that there is no record of anyone making a substantial amount of money for a prolonged period of time by doing product assembly work. Even the better business bureau says that they have no records in their files nationwide that proves that anybody has ever made money doing product assembly at home.

Bottom line is also that there are people who are actively involved with making products at home for certain companies. Whether these are the lucky few working for the legitimate companies or they are just the byproducts of a smart company keeping its credibility alive, is for you to decide.

The truth is that even the people who are working for the past few months or couple of years making simple products at home are doing it for the love of crafting. You cannot hope to make a large income from this kind of work. If you want to pursue craft assembling as a hobby you can give the companies in good standing a try. But at no point of time should you expect to one to the tunes of the claims that you have probably read on the Internet.
It is worth mentioning that only are couple of companies of the product assembling nature are in good standing with the better business bureau. Almost all of them have a rating of F. This is the lowest rating that the better business bureau used to any business based on its credibility and past record. The rating given by the better business bureau involves several factors such as the number of complaints filed against the business, the way the company acted in order to resolve it, the information provided by the business as to its activities and nature, the verification of the details of the companies such as the owner, address, phone numbers and such other vital information. You can read the reports on the various product assembling companies by visiting the main website here.

The better business bureau also explicitly warns against indulging in any work at home offer that requires you to pay a fee up front. Product assembling at home, unfortunately, happens to be one such home based work opportunity.

That said, it is true that people have worked for product assembling companies. People have enjoyed doing this work and got paid over many many months and even a few years.
But you need to remember all along the way that the work is not easy and needs meticulous attention all the way. If you are unsure of your crafting skills, we suggest you try out some crafts at home by yourself. Buy a craft book and try making similar items. See how close to perfection you can get.
Because, anything short of perfect will probably get rejected by the company, you will not get paid.

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

What Are Product / Craft Assembling Jobs?

For those of you who are hearing this term for the first time, maybe are the full explanation of this home based work is required.  Product assembling craft assembling requires you to make simple items which are essentially craft work most of the time from your own home.  You get hired by certain companies,  that are supposedly in the crafting business,  to make the craft items at home. They then further sell these craft items on the market through their shops or through a wholesaling network.

So basically your job profile is that you need to make simple craft items at home and shape them to the company once you are finished. You are not required to do any marketing or selling yourself.  That is taken care of by the company that you are working for.

The reason why these kind of home based jobs are called product assembling

Is that sometimes the item that needs to be made by the home worker is not really a craft but of a different nature.  A good example in this would be the electronic board circuit, switchboards and such.  Hence the name product assembling.
Product assembling jobs come in three main categories divided according to the kind of work that needs to be done to make the product :

Sewing  (Requires sewing skills)
Woodworking ( Requires basic woodworking and painting skills)
Basic Assembling (Only involves cutting and gluing) 

The sewing category can be further divided into hand and machines sewing craft products.
Of these three the basic assembling category is perhaps the more popular as it requires no the skill other than being able to wield a pair of scissors and the use of glue gun. Apart from a handful of product assembling companies, they all claim that making their craft is the simple project and almost anyone can do it.  There are certain products like the bookmark which people generally feed that anyone with out any special crafting skill would be able to manage.  But experience has proved to the contrary.  No matter how easy the product sounds they are all relatively hard to make and require time effort and concentration.
There are certain reputable and respected product assembling companies that do actually tell you which of their craft items are the tougher ones and which are the more suited for a beginner to start with.
Getting the feedback from people who have tried product assembling with simple craft items has revealed that even cutting and gluing together certain pieces of crafts has proved to be a challenge.

Sewing products are also are very popular category.  A lot of the womenfolk are inherently fond of and capable of Lady sewing skills like cross stitching, embroidery and appliqué. The products that needs to be assembled in the category of sewing products are mostly of the nature of table mats, greeting cards, stuffed toys, T-shirts and capes, CD cases, eyeglass cases and more like these. The sewing products can further be divided into hand sewing and machines sewing items. There are basic to advanced sewing skills required. There are some products that you can make by simply knowing how to stitch by hand while others may require advanced sewing skills like embroidery and cross stitch.

The woodworking products are also supposedly not too difficult.  You will require to own tools like a saw, screwdriver, nuts and bolts,  hammer and an assortment of paints.
It is a category mostly targeted at the men folk. You have products like game boards, back supports, wooden toys, switchboards and such. While the products are claimed to be simple they do require a little bit of grit when it comes to sawing and hammering.

This information is the nature of product or craft assembling jobs at home.  To read in detail about how you are supposed to go about assembling your first product read next post.

Keep reading and good luck.

How Much Can You Earn With Product Assembling

How much money can you alone by doing product and craft assembling jobs at home?
This question needs to be answered before anyone can really decide whether product assembling is for them or not.  There are two factors governing the income potential with product assembling.
Number one, based on the requirement of the project how long does it take one person to finish one single batch of product. Given this time frame, the days required for the finished batch of items to be shipped and the time that it takes the assembling company to inspect the scent items and process the payment, this duration also needs to be added to the time that it took to just make the crafts.

The total duration from the time that the product assembling company dispatches the raw materials for your craft and  till the time that your payment gets processed by the company and send it to you, dictates how much work you can do every month.

Number two, is the factor of actual legitimacy of the product assembling companies.  You need to question whether it is actually possible to find work with a product assembling company and make a substantial amount of income during this work.  We profess views on this that it is not.  Even if you do find a legitimate product assembling job, a handful of which are available, these jobs are not to be taken as a serious source of income.  But we shall discuss that in another post.

So mainly speaking, the amount of money that you can make with product assembling is determined by two factors which are the number of finished batches that you can send to the company in a month and the amount of money that the company pays you for each finished batch. You may come across several websites that claim that you can make several hundreds of dollars doing product assembling jobs. Sometimes these websites belong to people who are trying to sell you a directory of product assembling companies. They want to sell you the directory for a few dollars and hence make at all claims on their website regarding the income potential.  These income potential highly exaggerated with no proof to substantiate their claims.

Then you will come across websites of certain product assembling company themselves who claim to help you earn thousands of dollars every month. This again is an exaggerated claim and we ask you not to trust any such company which is making it. If they sound too much like any other work at home job offer where you are promised a great deal of money for little effort, then this product assembling company is like any other similar home based offer which is false and fraudulent. In our estimate, it is not possible to make more than a few hundred dollars every month.

So if you want to do product assembling as a means of having regular and substantial income working from home, then this is probably not the work you need to be looking at.  Product assembling at home is mostly done by people who are fond of making craft. They do it as a pastime and a hobby and for fun.  If making a serious income is your intent of finding home based occupation then you should look elsewhere.  The kind of money that you can make by doing product assembling might serve to be of value in a small town.  But if you live in a bigger and a more advanced city the more inadequate your income from craft assembly proved to be.

If you are a crafting person, you should contemplate setting up a craft business of your own.  It is not as hard as you might imagine and you are likely to make more income than you would by doing craft assembly jobs at home.  We shall pick up on this subject in another post of ours. Till then keep reading and good luck.

What This Blog Is All About

This subsection of the parent site assembleandearn.com has been created to deal with some basic questions about product and craft assembling. While the main website has content related to various crafting companies and important information, this section is suited to learning about assembling products at home from the scratch.
If you are relatively new to the concept of working from home by doing product and craft assembling you will find this section useful as it will answer some of the beginners questions such as what exactly is product assembling at home, how much can you earn doing this work, is the work truly legitimate or a scam much like 90 per cent of all other work at home opportunities... and other similar questions like that.

After understanding the nature of this home based opportunity you will find more detailed and advanced information in the main website which includes and in depth look into several of the product assembling companies, some of which are well known if not infamous.
A decision to work for any company that pays you to work from home by assembling products or making craft should only be made on a well informed basis. It is our intent to provide you with lucid and detailed information so as to enable you to make such a decision. After you have gained an insight into the general principle behind this home based work, you can read detailed reports of the various assemble companies on the main website. You will be in the better position to choose amongst them, if at all.

In addition, this section will also list some of the work at home and product assembling resources which are not listed in the main website.
It is no secret that the work at home opportunities on the Internet are strife with scams and false promises. We always urge our readers to think and reconsider before sending money to join any work at home scheme. Having to pay money to work for someone for a legitimate job is not the natural order of things. unfortunately, all the product assembling companies that we know of require you to pay some sort of a registration fee or you need to buy your initial supplies of raw materials from them. This supply of initial raw materials is commonly known as the starter kit.

  Keep reading this blog to find out essential information about product assembling.