Home Typists: Home-based business review 

Pros and Cons -   Most home typing jobs are advertised as data entry jobs, companies needing people to input customer service information into forms. At least that is the illusion they want you to have. The general impression most uninformed Internet marketers will get is, they are really going to be ""employed"" by these companies to input data into their systems. This couldn't be further from the truth. I signed up for one of these about a year ago, through www.hometypers.com. I was asked to pay $97.00 and they would give me a list of companies that need my services immediately, and I could start making money within 30 minutes. Best yet, it had a 100% Money Back Guarantee.

How gullible I was. Thank God I used paypal to pay the fee requested. As soon as the payment went through, I got my list of companies, and this attachment:- These companies are in need for you to type for them online on the daily basis. When you sign up with the companies, you are ready to work with them immediately and there is no need to wait for a response back from them. By typing in data and submitting these forms, you'll be helping them spread the word about their products and services. Just by typing these ads daily you'll be helping them generate more sales and they're willing to split the profits with you.

You do not need to build your own website or need to do any selling. These companies will handle all customer inquires, do all the selling, deliver the products and pay you for your work. What this offer is, is this. You put ads for products and/or services offered by these companies in classified ads, or other search engines like google adwords. Here you have a choice. You can target free classified ads, or fork out money to advertise. You ONLY get paid if someone responds to your ad and purchases the product or service. As you can see, there is no promise of getting paid per data input. What it is really is, you are an advertiser for your chosen companies.

You WILL get paid, but only if the company makes a sale from your ad. I did a thorough search of the forums to see if I could find 1 person who has a good thing to say about hometypers.com. Found none. What I did find was, the people that run this scam operate under various names, so you might think that there are many companies offering this service, but in reality, they are very few owners with very many outlets. Now when you try to visit www.hometypers.com, here is what you get:- SORRY, THE SITE YOU REQUESTED HAS BEEN DISABLED This does not mean that the perpetrators are out of business, they are just operating under another name as this one was busted. It took me 4 months of emailing back and forth requesting my refund. I only got it back when I lodged a complaint through paypal's resolution center. I also learned that if you used clickbank to pay for the fees, you can lodge a complaint through them. Go to the following URL, and fill the info of your purchase selecting ""I would like to request a refund for this product"" in the ""Subject of your request:"" field. http://www.clickbank.com/cs/cs-inquiry.cgi For information on filing refund requests through PayPal, log into your paypal account, then click on the resolutions tab. You should get your money back in two days. At least, I did.

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