Earn loads of dosh sitting on yer ass @home

Trojan · 22-01-2002 11:54am #1

You know what it's about - you've seen the ad 40,000 times in the supermarket or in the papers or in a bloody spam:

"You can earn between £200 and £2000 a month part-time working from your own home. Ring Kevin at 087-$some_dodge_prepaid_phone for more information."

So what's the deal, where's the catch, what's the scam?

I'm not particularly interested in taking part in this but after seeing the ad plastered all over Donabate yesterday I do need to know what it's about.

Cheers,
Al.

Lenny · 22-01-2002 5:18pm

Well, I have a fair idea of what some of them might be
see, he delivers loads of different leaflets to your gaff, and your job is to staple tem, or budle them alltogether so he doesnt have to do it.

Bard · 22-01-2002 5:27pm

I live in Donabate... whereabouts did you see them Trojan?

/me could do with earning between £200 and £2000 from home ...

- particularly now that I'm down to a 3-day week in work

hence... I'm thinking of starting my own company...

but that's a whole different thread... eh... story.

Trojan · 22-01-2002 5:40pm

In the newspaper shop there beside the chinese, also on the new supermarkets notice board.

Stapling? You know someone who's done this OJ?

Al.

Mountjoy Mugger · 22-01-2002 5:58pm

Originally posted by Trojan
Stapling? You know someone who's done this OJ?
Al.

Of course, it might be one of these - send me €60 and I'll send you a leaflet telling you how to make easy money. Or, it could be writing names and addresses on envelopes, etc. ...etc...

Trojan · 22-01-2002 6:58pm

In the newspaper shop there beside the chinese, also on the new supermarkets notice board.

Stapling? You know someone who's done this OJ?

Al.

Victor · 22-01-2002 11:16pm

I notice that it is always a 'self-employment' oppurtunity, which makes me think you have to buy something from them.

Lenny · 23-01-2002 12:10am

I was thinking that you might have to be sorting out a **** load of leatlefts at home like..
something along those lines...

WhiteWashMan · 25-01-2002 9:47am

hey al, did you find out anything more about this. im really curious myself. always wanted to know how i could earn up to 2000 quid a month from home. do you have to draw up plans for bank robberies or something?

alb · 26-01-2002 12:17am

Come on, it's gonna be no diffferent from the spam we all get saying we've won something, or can make a fortune from some amazing get rich scheme. It doesn't matter if they say 200 per month or 2000 you arn't going to see a penny. You can bet there's some small inital amount you'll have to pay for something and thats the last you'll here from whoever it is running the scam.
Rather like the lottery, a tax on idiots, except you can't win anything with this (well maybe a court case if you manage to catch the bastard

sceptre · 27-01-2002 3:43am

Always been suspicious (and curious). Stayed away from the ads, purely because I assumed it was something like one of those "add your name to my list and send me a dollar" things, then send the same crap to your friends.

If anyone can tell us all it's a legitimate work opportunity to earn 60-200 quid an hour @ home, I'm sure we'll all go phoning.

The Clown Man · 27-01-2002 6:52am

Just a thought but they might just want to come around to your house with a video crew to film you getting done up the bum or something like that.

Does however sound like a porn ad I .. er ... saw in a documentary once. They leave out the bit about the porn in the actual advertisement.

It's a longshot but try it - you may be on to quite a carrer opportunity there.

(This post contains a lot of sarcasm although the writer would like to point out that he has INDEED seen this on a documentary)

smiles · 27-01-2002 5:21pm

You earn about 1p per letter you staple, fold, envelope and address. Takes alot of letters to get €2000!

<< Fio >>

Bard · 27-01-2002 5:25pm

Originally posted by smiles
You earn about 1p per letter you staple, fold, envelope and address. Takes alot of letters to get €2000!

<< Fio >>

presumably it would take 200,000 letters... which is not entirely unfeasable- and very do-able (for SOME people) when the reward is €2,000...

I'd have thought you'd get more than a penny a letter, mind you..

yossarin · 27-01-2002 5:40pm

that particular one is :

send me money (e.g. £10 : an initial fee to 'discourage timewasters who aren't serious about making money !').
your address is then forwarded to the master office as a member

Then i will send you details about how to earn cash :
1: put up similar signs in your home prefecture (using the guide i sent you to make your money legal in my hand)
2: and watch the replies (those £10's again) come in.
3: keep the £10 (or part thereof, depending), and pass the names on.

So, the idea is that you scam others out of £10, and get some cash, but everyone you touch in this gets put on a bulk mail address list and becomes a victim for a Tom Champagne-type person

the reality is that you are the one being scammed, and in order to prevent feeling like a rube, you perpetuate the thing...

it is wonderfully designed though - whoever invented it gets some money and a load of addresses to sell for very little initial work

Incidently, if anyones interested, I'm starting my own investment scheme: send me £5 for a free information pack.

Rather like the lottery, a tax on idiots

- its worse than that, its a tax on the desparate, and we've all been there at least once.

alb · 27-01-2002 6:51pm

Well the idea behind a pyramid scheme is simple. Those at the top and higher levels get money from the suckers left at the bottom. This works of course because the bottom is always the widest level with the most suck..i mean participants.

It's fine to get involved as long as you make sure you don't get left at the bottom. If you can line up enough people yourself to pass it on to first, then go for it.

Trojan · 28-01-2002 5:08pm

So, has anyone tried it yet? Bard?

Is it an envelope-licking (Simpons episode!) or pyramid scheme?

And pyramid schemes are usually illegal (tho we're prolly too backward to have done that yet here).

Al.

Victor · 28-01-2002 7:05pm

Tehy are illegal in cases involving goods and services.

PYRAMID SELLING ACT, 1980

Irish_Ranger_IR · 01-02-2002 5:33pm

Why don't you call the number, I lost the number, I think its the same one as I picked up in a Carlow petrol station on my way home to Dublin.....

Some one call for the crack !!

Trojan · 05-02-2002 2:10pm

Bard, you try this?

Whas the story?

Al.

Figment · 09-05-2002 1:46pm

http://www.cockeyed.com/workfromhome/workfromhome.html

ToxicPaddy · 09-05-2002 2:58pm

here is a prime example except they dont seem to go to the lenghts to conceal the name of the company..

seamus · 09-05-2002 3:08pm

Originally posted by smiles
You earn about 1p per letter you staple, fold, envelope and address. Takes alot of letters to get €2000!

<< Fio >>

Let's do the figures.

We'll make it 1c per letter. To staple, then fold, the envelope, then address this letter will take what? Let's say 90secs, working flat-out.

As Bard said, €2000 p/m = 200,000 letters

200,000 letters @ 90secs/letter = 18,000,000secs

18m secs = 300,000 mins = 5,000 hrs

Let's assume 30 days in a month.

5,000hrs/month = 166.67 hrs/day

Oops! Have I missed something?

Ok, 1c is too low, let's make it 10c per letter.

10c per letter = 16hrs 40mins/day

So. It is feasible. If you work almost 17 hours a day, without breaks, and which leaves you with 7 hours sleep per day.

Has anyone got an actual per letter figure so we can verify these silly claims?

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strat · 10-05-2002 1:20pm

"There not pyramids - we use the trapezoid model"

Earn loads of dosh sitting on yer ass @home

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