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Our Promise to
You
We promise no
information will be posted on this site unless we
feel it is of genuine value to our viewers. We have
offered as much information free as we feel we
can
We will only offer
links to programs that we have investigated or
tested, and can offer a reasonable assurance that
if you work the program as suggested that it will
return income worth earning. We will not accept
advertisements from companies offering business
opportunities unless we have screened them
first.
The one exception
to our ad policy is Google Adwords or other third
party ads. We do not control the content of the ads
placed here by these services.
Please remember,
you still need to be vigilant and make sure that
any information you use from this site makes sense
for you.
What We Class As A Scam
Any business that
cannot meet good business principles is suspect. We
do not class all of them as scams, but we feel they
are unsound, and not a risk worth taking. Some of
the things which tip you off that something has
unacceptable risk are:
1. Unsolicited
email invitation to join. If you did not request
it, and it comes in with a title such as "The
Information You Requested", it is not legit. If it
has misspelled words in the subject line, or words
that use odd characters instead of letters, it is
also not legit. Legitimate businesses do not have
to resort to tricks.
2. Any email or
website that hints at asking you to participate in
anything illegal, or even close to being illegal.
If they are asking you do do something dishonest,
why would they be honest with you? Some long
standing scams use this tactic to suck you in, and
eventually they threaten you, and can actually put
your life in danger (do a net search on Nigerian
Scam if you think we are exaggerating).
3. Never reply to
an email that asks for any personal info, financial
info, credit card info, or other confidential
information, which is not from someone from whom
you have asked to purchase from. Do not click a
link from an email to confirm any financial
account, EVER...you will be redirected to a
website which exists solely to collect your account
info for theft. If you receive such an email, use
your regular web address (not the one on the email)
to go into the account and check it out. Forward
the letter intact to the fraud department of the
company it purports to be from. They will usually
email you back if it is a scam.
4. Business
Opportunity programs that require that you make
minimum purchases to qualify for compensation are
highly suspect. A few are legit, but they have a
long standing reputation to back them
up.
5. Business
Opportunities offered by someone who is not willing
to tell you their name, up front. If they are not
willing to tell you who they are and what they
sell, they are not planning to be there to back up
what they sell.
6. Anything where
you are expected to pay before being given a good
sample of what you are buying. Be sure information
is up front and available. Ask questions. If they
don't answer them, don't buy.
7. Any program that
is sold on a page full of programs, where the
person listing it gets compensated for your
participation. Specifically if they are telling you
that they do it and it is the way to financial
freedom. If it worked so well, why would the seller
need the other ones?
8. Any program that
requires that you sell something technical in
nature, which insists that you do not need
technical expertise to sell it. Web space, web
hosting, web design, internet access, and other
similar products are difficult to sell if you do
not have technical expertise. Also, if you lack
that knowlege, you may not realize that the product
you have just paid a large amount to be able to
sell is not worth the price you will have to pay
wholesale for it when you sell it to others, and is
nowhere near worth what they suggest you resell it
for.
9. Any program that
does not have a sound product to back up the sales
figures. If the product is not worth the money, is
overpriced, undersupported, or underdeveloped, then
the business cannot sustain itself. The ability to
resell the product is not a product in itself. Any
business that gives you nothing more than the
ability to resell the business is not built on a
sound product.
10. There are two
types of businesses to avoid. Outright scams, where
they want your money, and will deliver nothing of
value, and possibly put you in personal danger or
finiancial risk long term, and then the less
dangerous, but still risky "business opportunities"
that gain some popularity, do sell some, but burn
out (they ran out of suckers), or have an extremely
high failure rate. We try to avoid both, and to
help you know ahead of time what the realistic
chances are with the risky but possible
options.
11. Any program
that promises that you will make money without
either work, or any kind of investment. Eventually
you have to invest something (even if just for
supplies, though not necessarily to them), and
nobody makes ANYTHING without working for it.
Common sense tells you that if they can make money
just by putting up another website, they don't need
to put your name on it and share the profits with
you. And if they are making so much money from
their own store, why do they need to sell it to you
to make more?
Don't take just our
word for it. Check it out in other sources, and
make sure what we are saying makes
sense.
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