A Real Work at Home Assembly Opportunity?
You have probably heard of the scams in the "home assembly" type opportunities.
Here is how this scam works:
You see an ad that offers free information on how to work at home assembling crafts. You order the information and they send you a brochure showing you the types of products they are looking to have assembled along with an order form to buy the supplies to assemble the products. You see, even though you could buy the supplies locally for much less, they have to make sure you are using only the highest quality. Of course, they will be the only source for these "high quality" expensive supplies.
So you bite the bullet and buy their "high quality" supplies which they send along with an instruction sheet. You follow the instructions exactly and spend days assembling the products to their specifications. You carefully pack the products into a shipping box and send them to the company for payment. Then you wait.
Six weeks later you are still waiting for payment. Then, you receive an envelope in the mail. Finally a check! You anxiously tear open the envelope, pull out the contents and...
It's a letter rejecting your crafts. You see, you didn't follow the instructions exactly. The glue wasn't applied correctly. A bead fell off during shipping. You should have zigged when you zagged. Or any of 100 canned rejection excuses.
But, why would they do this? Because they have no buyers for the crafts. They make their money selling you the materials.
Over the years I have seen hundreds of these Home Assembly opportunities. None were legitimate.
However, I recently received a recommendation for a company that appears to be legitimate.
The company is Disciples Cross
Basically what you do is make crosses.
You can read all about it in the link above but in a nutshell you can make money two ways:
1) Make the crosses and selling them to others, or gift stores.
2) Make the crosses and sell them back to Disciples Cross.
If you check out this opportunity please let me know how you do so I can report back to others. I am still skeptical because I don't understand why they could not just have the crosses mass produced for pennies instead of hiring "home workers." But my sources have told me they have been paid for the work they did and they are very pleased.
Comments anyone?
James
8 Comments:
A Google search came up with comments from Work At Home Moms. Here's that link:
http://www.wahm.com/boards/Forum131/HTML/000270.html
It is a real opportunity, but "unfortunatly" successful. The creator is having a hard time keeping up with the supply so payment for finished goods is irregular. It sounds like selling them on your own is a route to the best income.
By Chuck, at 4:31 AM
I stumbled across the disciples cross opp. and sought out people who joined.
Overall, they report late pay, high rejection on crosses and slow material supply. I have yet to recieve an email from 1 satisfied person.
Disapointing...I needed a legitimate opp o'well
By truthchaser, at 7:11 AM
legimate? they don't even reply e-mails. I've sent e-mails from 3 accounts, hotmail, gmail and my pop account but they replied neither.
By Wishm, at 8:22 PM
My sister is a disciples cross producer. The company got "slammed" with orders at about the same time they were moving into a larger facility to handle the growth. Yes, the payouts went from relatively steady (average 3 weeks) to sporadic (2-3 months)
What my sister wound up doing was selling the crosses to local Christian book stores, Church youth groups and at local Church Bazaars as a wholesaler. It seemed that whenever someone bought a cross from her, they would call a few days later asking her to come to their job. When their co-workers saw the crosses they immediately wanted to know where they could get one too. And occassionally she'll get a repeat orders out of the blue.
So all I can say is that for her it has been a successful way to earn some money to be able to stay home with her baby.
By Jen N., at 10:43 PM
This is a real home business opportunity, I have been in it for about a year. I sell my crosses locally and always have orders. When I have the time I can make $100 a day selling these little babies. They sell themselves all you have to do is make them visible to the public.
Jim
By Jim, at 9:37 AM
I've been a Disciples Cross Producer now for a month and half. I've made my money back for the starter kit and am in profit. I sell them locally to friends and others and have so many orders for more that I can hardly keep up. Eventually I will start selling to local stores if it ever slows down so I can make enough crosses to sell to the stores. :) It's really enjoyable to make these crosses too. I don't use the buy back program, because I make so much more selling them myself. All you have to do is wear one or show it to one person and you get 10 orders from it. I'm glad I purchased the starter kit.
By Cristy, at 12:41 PM
any 2007 comments?????
How is this company doing now????
By Jil, at 8:26 AM
There is a website that now sells pre-bent nails, the exact same type as sold on the Disciple's Cross website. The good news is that it only costs .3 cents more than the straight nails, ends the frustration of throwing out bad nails and the aggravation of it all (not to mention how much it speeds up the entire cross-making experience!)
Anyway, it's located at www.AngelCross.org so I highly suggest you check it out.
By Author, at 7:01 PM
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