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You will probably be surprised to read about Product Assembly in the home based scam section. After all this blog is about Product Assembly, isn’t it.. The thing is that one of the foremost reasons that inspired this blog was to root out the scam out of this home based opportunity. So many people claim that Product Assembly at home jobs is a scam and yet so many websites promote it that it called for a deeper look at this home based opportunity.

There are several respected websites that forewarn you against doing product assembly at home. and they are right in doing so. There is no doubt as to the fact that more people fail at this opportunity than ones that actually succeed at these craft assemble jobs. there are many reasons that are claimed for this, not the least of which is that the companies are scams. Product assembly companies, its claimed, are only interested in making you send them money for the starter kit, registration, or the raw materials. After you send them the product that you have assembled for them, you will not get paid by them. Your finished craft will never meet with the approval standards of the company and rejected. No matter how well you make your craft, the product assembly company will find some pretext or the other to refuse acceptance and will not pay you.

We are of the opinion that this might be true for most of the companies calming to pay you for assemble at home jobs. However, we always point out certain companies like the Magical Gift and Valerie Hattery that have their own crafting stores and operate with a complete disclosure of their business practice and policies.  It is also possible to find a large number of people working for these companies online. there is a large dedicated to the people who do assemble jobs for Magical Gift Company on www.wahm.com

At the end of the day, i cannot say for sure at all whether Product Assembly as a whole is a scam or just that  a lot of unscrupulous individuals have takes the advantage of the presence of this home based opportunity and found a way to twist it into a assembly scam to their own profit.

Which is why when working for any Product Assembly at home job you make sure of a few points. You should never work with a company that seems to hide details about it from you. Companies that only list a post box address for communication are not respectable candidates, You should only deal with business that have an address and someone in the customer care section who can speak with you in order to address all your queries.

But jut because a company has an address and a hone number does not mean that it is legitimate. They can still very well be running a product assembly at home scam. The STRONGEST proof of the validity of a product assemble job offer is that you can find people  who are actually working for the company and have been paid by it.

Another possible problem is that since the number of openings with a product assembly company are probably limited, people who do work with these companies might not want to disclose this fact. they may feel that by encouraging new people to join their company they are endangering their own position.

In this post I am going to describe in detail the two data entry scams that I personally feel a victim of.  If I am not very much mistaken these were two very popular kind of scams that were being run and perhaps still out there out there somewhere even today.

Online Data Entry Job:
here was this company that offers a clean and not confusing way of working.  Not to mention it was highly convenient, you pay a fee that was close to $100 and you would be given a login and a password to your own account section.  In this account section you found certain files that contain a list that comprised of names of people along with their addresses and phone and fax numbers.  There were more than one list present on the account and you could download any one of them to begin your work with.  These files were in a PDF format and you were supposed to enter each and every entry in an Excel format spreadsheet.  Each list contained several thousand names and addresses.  There was no time limit allotted in which you were supposed to finish this project but there was the restrictions on the number of mistakes that you were allowed to make.  I believe the maximum number of mistakes was around 10 in a list  that contain about 7000 names and addresses phone numbers and fax numbers.  I think it is pretty safe to assume that if you sit down to type such an extensive database almost anyone and everyone, barring a machine, will at least make 10 mistakes.  What was even more fantastic was that they already had this data typed out neatly and preserved in a PDF file but were asking you to do it all over again in an Excel format spreadsheet.  If you look at it logically it just does not make sense.  Why should anybody pay you to retype a list that they already have?  The answer is the simple.  They never had any intention of doing so.
While it will take any normal person weeks after weeks to just finished this simple list for which they pay something like $100, it used to take them only a day or two to analyse the completed list that you sent to them and point out all your mistakes exactly.  This obviously means that they had an accurate means of crosschecking the retyped list with the original data. They never really had any need of any person working from home and doing this kind of data entry work.  They even went so far to prohibit the use of optical character recognition software saying that it was not allowed.  What difference does it make to someone who just wants a list in an Excel spreadsheet format how the list is created?  There is no difference between a list that has been typed and one that has been read off an optical Character Recognition software.
Anyway, the final word is that me along with a couple of more people that I knew tried this opportunity out and predictably so, failed miserably at it.  There was simply no way of managing this huge data entry list with the kind of accuracy that they demanded.  And if that kind of accuracy was to be achieved it would take months on end to simply finish one list that paid you a meagre hundred dollars for all that effort.
But what took the cake was, if you made repeated mistakes in the work that is submitted to the company they cancelled your account after some time and you no longer had access to them.  They made sure in every single way that people would subscribe to them and the money would flow only one way. From the innocent people getting scanned by their data entry scheme is to their wallets.
Again, predictably so, this data entry company claims that all its positions were full after a couple of months and stopped taking new subscriptions altogether.  And a few weeks down the line of such an announcement this company disappeared altogether without a trace on the Internet.  It is probably around even today functioning under some other name and from some other location.

Compiling Mailing List Data Entry Job at Home:
so did I learn anything from a first experience with the so-called and disastrous data entry jobs at home?  The answer is, probably not.  I still had enough hope or stupidity in me to actually give this kind of work for one more try before I realised the true nature of home based data entry jobs.  This company made almost the same promises as the previous one.  In fact, as I recall they made better and more convincing ones. The only difference between this and the previous company was that this company said that they would actually mail you a list of data that comprised of names, addresses and phone numbers of people.  They needed this to be typed out in an Excel or a tabular format.  The company claims that this data was meant for use by clients for marketing and customer service and that this data was in fact the database of several of their businesses and clients.  Made perfect sense so far.  My positivity however was fast to dissipate when I received this list from the data entry company.  The printed pages were obviously nothing more than photocopies of pages from the telephone directory!  Nothing else.  The pages and the names had all been jumbled up together.  The quality of the scan and print out was so bad that it was almost impossible to read any single name and address with any kind of accuracy.  Thinking that this might be an inadvertent error on the part of the data entry company I wrote to them repeatedly about the bad quality of the printout but did not receive any response.  It was obvious that this was done deliberately and with the obvious purpose in mind.  The job was impossible to accomplish and finish. 

So while you end up paying to join the company you are handed and impossible data entry jobs which is just not humanly possible to finish.  If you are thinking why I simply couldn’t copy the names from the telephone directory if these pages were indeed copy of that, I did mention that the names and the pages were scrambled, which means that the names and addresses were not in an alphabetical order as they are found in a directory but jumbled up altogether and hence impossible to correlate with a phone directory without spending hundreds of hours doing only this.

The variations of data entry scams are many.  It is also known by many names such as form filling, ad posting, etc. .  The matter what the name says they all have the same feel to the kind of promise that they make. Any sort of a home-based opportunity data entry or anything else, that promises hundreds of thousands of dollars in income working at home every week without needing you to do much work and requiring any prior experience is a scam.  You will never get what you asked for.  And even if you to get some information in exchange for the money that you paid it will be completely useless and widely diverging from what you signed up for.  You will be doing anything and everything else except for typing simple data on your keyboard in the comfort of your home and making hundreds of dollars.  There is no secret to making money working at home by doing mundane and mechanical jobs such as data entry, envelope stuffing, transcription and so on and so forth.  This secret is not exist yesterday and it certainly does not exist today.  Hang on, maybe it does but it is not in all these foolishly bloated and obviously fraudulent opportunities.  If such a secret does exist it is certainly not being sold on the Internet to anybody who wishes to shell out $34 for it.

This bloke is about home based product assembling jobs.  But we know that oh people such as you looking to work at home with legitimate opportunity, all kinds of home based work that holds this promise is of interest to you.  Which is why we are going to take a diverse part in this section and discuss the other are various fraudulent home based opportunities that are present on the Internet solely for the purpose of cheating none suspecting work at home seekers such as yourself out of their honest and hard earned money.
It is only fitting that the first in line should be the so-called data entry jobs at home.  There was a time not so long ago when this was perhaps the most talked about and famous work at home opportunity on the Internet.  The Internet was riddled with seems that promised to make you thousands of dollars every week by doing simple typing on your computer at home.  No special experience was necessary or you required to do was sit and type.  It was an amazing and exciting idea and it took the fancy of all those people who were looking to earn money and how somehow or the other.  The sales copy of these websites were so convincing that thousands upon thousands of people were taken in by these schemes.  The catch was always the same.  You had to pay anything up to $100, and in a few cases several hundred dollars cost of to register with such a website and in turn you will be offered the opportunity to make thousands of dollars every week.  They were perhaps thousands of websites bringing out this offer in one way or the other.  They all have the same common elements.  They promised the same kind of job of simple data entry on your computer with no experience required.  Another cunning feature of such websites is that they make it sound like it is they who or offering the job and once you pay you are going to be in their direct employment where they are going to be your paymasters.  Such websites still exist with the same fantastic sounding work at home offer.
It was bull crap then and it is bull crap now.  What happens in a most of the cases is that once you pay up to be to join this so-called work at home data entry offer you are sent information about how to post similar ads promoting the same fraudulent data entry job.  The data entry that you will be doing is filling out the advertisement forms on various paid to click search engines or typing out endorsements on forums and Bloggs.  You only get paid your someone else falls for your false  advertisements .
Sir basically what you are going to be doing is promoting the same scam that you are a victim to.  If you have no problem with this you can probably go ahead and give it a shot.  But you will in no way be making those thousands of dollars every week because you’re encumber totally depend on some other sucker falling for your false statements.  And believe it or not a lot of people now know not to trust any data entry website that promises great riches without any effort.  Some prominent search engines have totally banished advertisements for such websites and websites that link to such work at home offers completely from their search results.  Not only will you have a hard time advertising such an offer but even a harder time convincing somebody of actually joining it.

All that said, the surprising bit about this scam regarding data entry is that it is still very much around and people are still continuing to fall for it.  False companies and websites are still coming up that pull in money from unsuspecting people who want to work at home, these companies stay around long enough under one name to collect in a cash and then usually disappear only to surface in another state under another name.

If you are signing up with any work at home program just because it has a Money Back Guarantee, think again. All those so called ‘Iron Clad’, ‘No Questions Asked’ guarantees are nothing that they are ever going to honor. Read the fine print. They have their backs covered. None of it will ever hold up even if you decide to file a formal and legal comlaint against them. And face it, no one is ever going to do that since it costs decidely more to pursue a matter than what you have paid them in the first place. That is what these spurious websites with bogus guarantees are counting on.
A few common example of the these so called guarantees are:

Almost 90% of all the work from home opportunities out there are scams. It is clear to spot one yet we get cheated out of our money because of our psyche. We all so deperately want that secret to getting rich quick so we buy that $100sss a day schemes. Take this for granted and engrave it in your mind. There are NO such jobs out there.
You cannot sit at home, do data entry, typing, form filling, email processing or whatever the website says and make that amount of money doing that sort of a work.
All the ads that you see for filling out simple webforms and earning are bogus. What they are going to tell you to do is post the same kind of ads on search engines, blogs and forums and dupe other people into buying the same magical secret.
Email prosessing is of the same nature. Instead of posting on the web, you will be mailing letters to people and asking them to send money to you in the mail. All work at home scams.

There is a simple checklist for finding out if the job is legit.
The hiring company should have a physical address.
The company should have a phone number where you can contact it.
The company should not have be asking you for a start up cost – in most of the circumstances. This is not true for all home based opportunites and just because a comapny is asking for money does not necessarily make it a scam. But be VERY careful in this case as well. Make sure that you are able to speak to someone at the work place first and they have a proper valid address.
Lastly, all data entry jobs, typing and word proceesing jobs that are promising you 100s of dollars a day are all scams. Think logically. If this were the truth, would anyone be doing anything else?

There are jobs out there which you can do from home. Regular jobs that allow telecommuting and pay like regular jobs. We will keep posting these as and when we find new leads so keep checking back.A good suggestion for working from home is that you start your own business. You do not necessairly have to work on the internet. Think of what you can do. Cook, sew, paint, woorwork, write, sell, tutor, daycare etc. There are a lot of options available to you. Just try and think of what you are good at doing. We wish you all the best. Keep checking back for more updates.

There has been a lot of discussion whether the work of product assembling is indeed a scam. We are perfectly aware ourselves that not all companies are genuine. We have not been able to draw conclusive argument for or against this opinion.
Some people have written in saying that this has worked for them while others have claimed that it has not. A lot of websites now list it in the top ten work from home scams going on around. We think you should be very careful while deciding to work for this enterprise.
Not to say that there are not any genuine craft assembling work out there but because a lot of it is indeed scam. If you have any prior experience or know-how about craft assembling companies, please post your comment here.
What is commonly said is that all these companies are trying to do is sell you their starter kits. When you send in your finished batch of items they are going to reject it for now being up to their standards no matter HOW carefully you have made it. And they will refuse to pay you for it. Or they will accept your first batch and ask you to buy the second starter kit from then and then refuse your work on basis of it being inaccurate.
What i find difficult to understand about this is. If they accept your first product batch and pay you for it in tunes of hundreds of dollars and then they go ahead and reject your second batch of finished items, how have they managed to scam you out of money? Because even if you have bought two starter kits from them the cost of buying those kits is less than what they have paid you for the first one. We have come across a lot of doubt and scepticism regarding craft assembly from home.
We believe there are genuine companies out there but there is no clear information about them.
This is also due to the fact that when people find the real thing that is working for them, they are reluctant to share it with others. Opportunities for working from home are hard to come by so they figure that they are better off keeping the genuine ones a secret. But this does not work in the long run. In the long run you need to have more than one business opportunity working for you.
So share your experiences. Every one benefits from it. All those people who have been scammed by product assembling companies please post your comments here. Good luck to you all.