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Your Crafting Opportunities:
Watch For Scams
by SolveYourProblem.com
No matter where you turn or where you look
there is always a scam going on. Business opportunities are
one of the most abundant of all scams. One of the biggest
types of work opportunity that is going around is craft making
scams. Many people fall into this type of scam because they want to
work at home and spend more time with their families. Learn
how to notice and avoid falling victim to such scammers.
Work at home assembly and craft scams are abundant, even though
they usually sound real and completely legit.
Here is how they
work:
These
types of scams usually are advertised through window ads,
bulletin boards, local magazines and papers and widely
on the internet. They claim that they need workers to fulfill
a part or full time position in creating craft or assembling
items such as envelopes, dolls, toys, clothing, cards and other
related items, stating that they will pay you top dollar per
each item. These scam companies usually work in one of two
ways.
The first
one is that they will send you all the materials
and instructions you need to create or assemble the items they
ask.
The second of these types of scams is when they ask you to
pay for the materials, which can usually go into the hundreds
of dollars. After they have received your payment they will
send you the materials and the instructions you need. Most
of the times the materials you receive or there lack of, will
be shoddy and usually impossible to make anything decent from.
In both versions of this scam, once you have finished making
the products you will send them back to the company and wait
for a check in the mail. Most times you will not receive a
check but instead a letter stating that your craftsmanship
did not pass their quality checking test and therefore they
can not sell the items.
In the first scam they will sell your items, the ones that
weren’t good enough to sell, and make a tidy profit on them.
In the second scam, they are not interested in selling your
items in the first place, hence the shoddy materials. Their
only interest is in getting your payment for the materials.
Scams such as these, you can usually smell a mile away. Here
are some things to look for and do to make sure that you don’t
fall victim to them.
Beware of any business opportunities that ask for lots of
money up front, even if it is refundable. The above also applies for opportunities that state that you
can make a lot of money and start you business for free.
Don’t go with companies that say you can make a lot of money
in a very short period of time. If something sounds too good to be true, then more often then
not they probably are.
If you do think a company is legit but want to make sure,
do a little bit of research. Check with your state to see if
they are registered. Check on the internet to see what others
who have worked for them say.
If
you have crafts that you want to sell, there are
plenty of ways that you can sell it yourself.
Talk to local craft outlets and see if they would like to
buy your crafts from you or will display them in their store.
Set up a stall at the markets or a craft show and sell them
yourself.
Start your own business from home and do all the set up yourself.
Taking steps to do it yourself is the best way to starting
your own home business. This way you will know that everything
is legit and that the money is going in your pocket. If you
don’t have the resources to start your own home business and
want to use a business opportunity to help get you started,
there are a lot of legit ones out there. Sometimes they are
hard to find beneath all the scams, but they are out there.
While looking for such a business opportunity take all the
precautions, keep an eye out and know all of the latest scams
to keep your self from falling victim to them. # # # # # SolveYourProblem.com : 2007
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