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ctoc.co.uk/homeworking_work_from_home.htm |
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08/05/01 (390 review reads) |
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Advantages: looks like easy - ish money
Disadvantages: they don't pay you for your hard work
I can't believe it!
I, of all people, have been conned, scammed, ripped off - call it what ever you like but I am feeling pretty sore about this.
The reason for my anger and disappointment - Freephone Directory!
This time last year I was really strapped for cash and was surfing around looking for some work - ideally internet based, which I could do from home. I visited a site dedicated to finding homework for home-bound Parents and saw there an advert for the Freephone Directory.
All they wanted was for people to track down freephone numbers and to input them into their on-line Database. Payment was based on the amount of entries you made in a set period and the amount of information you could provide, so if you could suppliy a web address, postcode, address you'd get more money than if you only input the name of the company and their freephone number.
Well, I was going great guns! With it being on-line I was able to input Freephone details in my Lunch Break at work - perfect.
I checked my earnings every few days on their earnings board, which showed all the data inputters names and how much they had earned. Some of the people were well up in the £600 bracket!! WOW! I though that this was the greatest thing since until I logged in one day only to find a message saying that the site was under going some work and that it would be back on-line very soon for more Data inputting - in the mean time, earnings from the previous months was being collated and we could all expect a cheque in the post soon.
HA!! After several e-mails to the company I eventually got e-mailed an earnings form to print out, asking for personal details and address so that my cheque for £16 could be sent out to me.
That was MONTHS ago ...... I even paid for a stamp to send these shysters my details because I truly believed that they were going to pay me.
I can only imagine how the people who had totted up earnings of over £500
must be feeling.
So - the reason for me venting my spleen now.
Well, I had an e-mail today entitled 'An £30,000+ income for life organising local distribution of Freephone Directory' - 'This has to be the perfect business opportunity.
£30,000+ p.a. for life organising the free distribution to households of Freephone Directory May 2001'
http://freephonearning.com/
If you are sent this e-mail PLEASE do not take these people up on their offer. This is just the biggest scam going. I can see people pouring in time and money to help this company get established only to be ignored when they ask to be paid.
There are plenty of genuine oppertunities out there from genuine, well meaning companies who value people like me who need to earn a few extra pennies - PLEASE, don't get suckered in like I did by the Freephone Directory.
UPDATE....... 09/05/01
Had an e-mail last night from Freephone directory claiming that thier 'software writers think that some sort of crash lost data on our site - and blew the commission system up'
They 'simply can not trace - or recover whatever went on - but the site is being built with a manual payment system - and we are prepared to look for your money manually and pay it to you.'
I will keep you informed and let you know if I do ever gt paid by them........
WATCH THIS SPACE!
UPDATE 2............ 10/05/01
recieved this mailing today:
"Been here before? We have paid over £30,000 for the data we list - but this is tricky technology - and we now know that we somehow 'lost' the records for 180 'freephonenumberspotters' in the last generation of our software. We are sorry -and we will go to any lengths to recover our records, manually, to pay anyone we owe money to. Note: The problem was caused by a handfull of people 'over-writing' the work of other people. The cheaters got
paid instead of the real 'in-putters'. We have eliminated that 'bug'. Previous 'freephonenumberspotters' will notice the difference in our methodology!"
Still waiting to see if they are going to send me my earnings ......
I'll keep you all posted - If they pay out then I might have to change my opinion!
LOL :0)
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- 25/02/04 This company is advertising (in Dalton's Weekly) for Quality Controllers to check existing records and update them working from home. A licence fee of £6,000 + VAT is required up front. Trying to check out this company, I have asked for more info. Your site may have saved me a load of grief! I'll let you know the company's response. In the meantime, if anyone has any other info I'd be grateful. I had asked for contact with an existing Q Controller. A person called Simon called with a v impressive spiel. Could this be the elusive Simon Harris of stevo40's review? I did 1471 as a precaution - a mobile number. I have left 2 subsequent messages but have not been called back. |
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- 25/11/03 I can absolutely confirm that this is a company to avoid. I bought into their business directory delivery opportunity and paid £4,000 for a territory. Once they have taken your money, you are more or less abandoned! They are perhaps the most incompetent disorganised business I have ever encountered. Their business support is non-existant, once you have spent a day in 'training' you go home and you're forgotten about.
Their director Mr Simon Harris, is the most elusive man, and since I bought into this woeful business opportunity, I have neither seen or heard sight nor sound of him. He doesn't answer letters, emails, and just disappears. I had to beg for 2 months for them to actually send me directories to deliver. I did deliver them, sent the 'receipts' back and never got any acknowledgement or any payment from them - that was about 4 months ago. They never sent me any more directories, nor contacted me again. So I haven't made a penny from this opportunity.
At present my credit card company are investigating their misrepresentation. They still advertise for all sorts of 'positions' , but take my advice don't go near them, you will be buying into the most inept, shambles of a business opportunity! I just wonder how many other 'suckers' they have conned. Anyway, I hope to recover my money from the credit card company or through legal action |
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- 14/06/01 Well done for giving us all the warning, l will watch with bated breath to see if you get what you deserve (hope you do). Think l'll give it a miss though. |
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