work from home

Mupette · 27 September 2011 at 11:27AM

http://www.newsdaily14.com/business/1/uk/article.php?id=8817210

i keep seeing this pop up on fb, am really tempted, but....

i need to get back to work, and i think the best start for my needs is to start working from home.

I have nothing i can sell on ebay

i have been reading a lot of these threads about working from home, and nothing i have looked at has come to anything..

cold calling is something i will not do. any telephone work from home would be a no no, barking dog here is a major put off.

Anyone heard of this, what it does not tell you is what do you do....

Jingo · 27 September 2011 at 11:50AM

I'm dubious to say the least.

"If something sounds too good to be true, it usually is"

Misty_Blue · 27 September 2011 at 12:29PM

It looks like it wants you to be one of those forum spammers you see here sometimes, posting sales links all over the place and getting money (I suspect fractions of pence) for every link tracked. Or it will be a pyramid scheme where it asks you for money and then gets you to ask other people for money and so on. I agree with Jingo about it looking too good to be true.

I work from home, but it was utter luck - I happened to be in the right place at the right time. Most of the things you see advertised are scams.

Does it literally have to be from home? Have you tried/thought about mystery shopping and field marketing?

jhp · 27 September 2011 at 3:34PM

This scam has been discussed here many times.

EG: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3443793

cybermum · 27 September 2011 at 4:33PM

It won't help OP,they circulate these around and around and then you have to do the same in order to generate anything .

If they sound to good to be true they 9 times out of 10 are sadly .

I work from home too but as a business which I needed to invest in,researched and researched some more.Checked out as sound with better business bureau etc and so I felt confident in that it would not be a dead end.

What are you looking for,what are your hobbies,as this can often help you narrow down a field to start in and it then is a lot less like wading through a jungle.

wongawonga · 27 September 2011 at 4:47PM

cybermum wrote: »

Checked out as sound with better business bureau etc

But there is no Better Business Bureau in the UK.

Mupette · 27 September 2011 at 6:34PM

Thanks for the feedback, i think i will give that one a miss.

the reason for working from home is i have MS and want to get back into working but want to start from home, if i can get into a routine at home then it's a start.

Also just enrolled in a bookkeeping course with the OU to help me with a career change to what i used to do as i won't be able to do half of what i did.

cybermum · 27 September 2011 at 7:41PM

Sorry should have clarified,US company so started looking there.
Months old here so couldn't investigate any standing here.

Apologies for any confusion