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Is Envelope Stuffing
a Scam?
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The envelope
stuffing business is a big industry, companies by the hundreds
of thousands post ads in every imaginable place, offering you
the consumer the chance to make big money sitting at home. It’s
easy work, you just stuff and mail envelopes, the ads
claim.
They offer to get you started quickly and easily. They
tantalize you with the promises of profits in excess of fifteen
hundred a week, and all of it sounds great so far. So you the
consumer, wanting that kind of money for yourself, dial the
number in the ad, and that’s when you find out.
First of all, it’s going to cost you at least thirty dollars
and in most cases more, just to get started, to receive your
first “packet”. So you the consumer does some math in your
head, and with some swift mental juggling, manage to convince
yourself that you can afford to part with that money for a
short while because if you work hard you can make it right
back.
It’s stuffing envelopes …how hard can it be? So you send
away for the packet and cross your fingers till it arrives.
Okay, you the consumer have received your first package from
the company. You tear into your office, or if you don’t have an
office the kitchen, or wherever you can find the largest amount
of well lighted workspace.
You are prepared to lick and stick your way to the good
life, no pun intended. So you get all ready, you have your
coffee, you’ve eliminated all the distractions. You tear open
the envelope and find.
Not envelopes, stamps and addresses, which is what was said
to have been included. What you actually got instead was a list
of companies that sell lists of people’s names to home based
entrepreneurs and telemarketers alike, usually at considerable
profit to them and not you.
What the company forgot to tell you before they cashed your
check was that the way that they wanted you to make money was
to advertise for the same program that you had just sent away
for all the information on. That’s how you earn the promised
thousands of dollars a week. By selling the same information
you just paid for to someone else, or hopefully a lot of
“someones”.
Perhaps in the future, the nature of the market will change
as more legitimate companies use this market to advertise. As
it stands right now it is hard to separate legitimate offers,
from outright dishonest ones.
And the ones that do deliver always seem to disappoint, or
misrepresent when sending out information.
Having sent away for several envelope stuffing jobs while I
was living in the Midwest, I can honestly say I never found a
way to make money in this business and would not recommend it
to anyone else at this time. There are far easier, less risky
ways to make money, some of which I’ve already written
about.
I work online with a method where you can make several
hundred dollars for a couple hours of work, whenever you have
time.
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Good
Luck,
Sarah
Newman
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