Comments on: Is that a Legitimate Online Business Opportunity?

By: john

john — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:30:35 +0000

I got tricked by this site! First you pay $0.99, then you have to pay about $80 per month without your permission. I canceled my credit card right away and requested a new one. Just wish I have read this before.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:27:46 +0000

I have no affiliation with this company other than being a user that thinks this is a wonderful product. Hope you don’t mind me sharing this with your readers Rosalind.

Here’s an add-on I found that might help you decide if it’s legitimate or not. In one of the many newsletters I’m subscribed to the author wrote about a Firefox/Internet Explorer (Windows XP/2000) add-on called Netcraft. http://toolbar.netcraft.com/

Once you install it, not only will it give you a risk rating, it tells you when the domain name inception was, their current rank, has a link to a site report for this domain and tells you who their host is.

I’m more apt to trust a site that’s been consistently around for a while than one created a month ago. That’s not my only criteria these days…but its a big one in my book.

By: Laura

Laura — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:34:33 +0000

Thanks for the great content and information on legitimate online businesses. I search the net looking for this type of content to give me ideas on future articles that I am going to write on this same general subject. Appreciate reading your article and information on this particular subject.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:47:03 +0000

The new FTC rules that went into effect Dec 1 should help put an end to these scams. Everyone promoting affiliate sites should become familiar with these new guidelines.

By: Celisse

Celisse — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:37:04 +0000

Thanks Rosalind, finally SOMEONE has commented about how UNlegit that site/product is!! I’ve seen that Google product being offered on all kinds of sites via banners or links: blogs, Google, Myspace, Facebook, etc… except the format & the name of the girl in the picture is ALWAYS different & the “news publication” is always different too, so I knew there was something off about it!!
I’m a young mom of 2, so I definitely see how other girls/ women in my position or even just a stay at home mom would fall victim to something like that; they play on your emotions & the fact that money’s tight in my type of position. I think that’s just wrong to do though. It’s kind of like all those Acai pill websites out there that talk about Oprah endorsing their product when she really doesn’t; apparently she’s taking legal action now if she finds out about any sites using her name unethically… I wonder if the girl in that picture even knows her image is being used to promote a scam… I feel bad for her!!

By: Rosalind Gardner

Rosalind Gardner — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:24:14 +0000

Hi Nancy,

You are most welcome, my pleasure indeed and I wish you much success!

As to the scammers, if everyone were as thorough as you (and they should be!) then there wouldn’t be any get-rich-quick schemes at all!

Cheers,
Ros

By: Nancy

Nancy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:29:14 +0000

Actually there is a get-rich-quick scheme that works. These scammers prove that every day with this stuff. I almost fell for this one as I’m unemployed and out of money. But I have always have read the privacy policy, the TOS and everything else on the website BEFORE I spend anything.

I so desperately need to buy your handbook to guide my way because I’m in information melt-down trying to learn my through the affiliate maze but for right now I just can’t afford it.

Anyways I want to thank you for the information you do post for free. Wish me luck, I think I need it.

By: Jaime Edwards

Jaime Edwards — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:18:44 +0000

Hi Rosalind,

Help!! After looking at countless online businesses, I found your name on a scam review site. They spoke very highly of you. So, here I am, with no experience, and having no idea how to get started. I purchased your handbook gold.
I’m a salesman that drives about 200 miles a day covering a 14 county area in Illinois. Things aren’t going so well and I want to work for myself. I’m hoping and praying this is the one.

By: Larry from Singapore

Larry from Singapore — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:08:44 +0000

It took me a while to understand what Geo-targeting means. I used a Thai proxy server and it displayed “Mary, a mother from Bangkok, Thailand”.

My bad!

By: Larry from Singapore

Larry from Singapore — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:45:38 +0000

Hi Rosalind, thanks for posting this. I’m from the Philippines and been living in Singapore since 2000.

I read the article and just reading the first paragraph sounded like a scam. The sentence is already a scam alert – “Jennifer, a mother from Singapore, 00 is thriving”. This looked like a product of an article writing software. There is no such thing like “Singapore, 00″. The software may have taken a city and a state (e.g. CA, NY, etc) from a database. In this case, there is no state for Singapore, obviously so a default value of “00″ appeared.

If the article is talking about Singapore – the city-state in Southeast Asia – then, Jennifer Pallin is an expatriate (on Employment Pass or as a Permanent Resident). If Jennifer lost her job, her Employment Pass should have been cancelled and she cannot stay in Singapore as a self-employed mother. One cannot work here (self-employed or employee) in Singapore without a legal Employment Pass or a Dependant’s Pass.

Jennifer may have a Dependant’s Pass, through her husband’s Employment Pass. However, the image caption that says “Jennifer Pallin worked 4 years as a manager in the local hardware store”, tells us that she was on Employment Pass. Managerial jobs are not for Dependant’s Pass holders.

Again, the article says she worked as a “manager in the local hardware store” is a joke. This is a job that a local Singaporean can do. Just looking at the picture, Jennifer is 99.9% non-Singaporean.

Oh well, this is not the first article that I have read about many online Job Opportunities with a testimonial from someone who doesn’t look like they are from the place they said they were.

Nice post!