- Report: #71843
Complaint Review: Home jobs - Internet
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homejobs.com Internet, U.S.A.
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Homejobs ripoff misleading information, selling free information, DONT JOIN THEM! Internet
I am a single young mom, I have lost job after job due to lack of childcare, emergencies, ect. So now I am living off of my savings, trying to find a more flexible job I was reading family circle and found an add "Mysteryshoppers wanted! call 1800somthin."
I called, interested and I talked to a very nice lady. I told her I'd think about it. When we talked, she didn't tell me I was paying for a search engine. I was led to believe that if I paid them the 40 dollars I would be be working soon, and I would quickly make it back in "one or two assignments"
To rub salt in a wound, the ONLY thing I can look for in that search engine that I paid 40 dollars for is Mystery Shopping. If I want some information on anything else, I have to pay another 40!
Stay away from these people!
If you do decide to mystery shop, these people aren't giving you exclusive info, you get just as much using a free search engine
Andrea
greenwood, Indiana
U.S.A.
I called, interested and I talked to a very nice lady. I told her I'd think about it. When we talked, she didn't tell me I was paying for a search engine. I was led to believe that if I paid them the 40 dollars I would be be working soon, and I would quickly make it back in "one or two assignments"
To rub salt in a wound, the ONLY thing I can look for in that search engine that I paid 40 dollars for is Mystery Shopping. If I want some information on anything else, I have to pay another 40!
Stay away from these people!
If you do decide to mystery shop, these people aren't giving you exclusive info, you get just as much using a free search engine
Andrea
greenwood, Indiana
U.S.A.
2 Updates & Rebuttals
Chris
Slidell,Louisiana,
U.S.A.
My apologies
#2UPDATE Employee
Wed, March 03, 2004
Andrea, First let me apologize to you on behalf of National Financial Publications for your dissatisfaction. You were correct in assuming you could start working right away. Using our Mystery Shopping program, many people get assignments in the first week. There are opportunities available for all 50 states, Canada, Europe and many Worldwide. The member's area of our website was designed just like the familiar search engine so that member's would have a comfortable interface to begin searching from. For some location based opportunities (such as Mystery Shopping), this made finding the right job quite tedious. So we have recently added a Browse by Location feature to allow more accurate location based searches. I think, if this would have been available to Andrea, she would have the job she was looking for rather quickly. Andrea, I invite you to return to the website and try your search again. I believe you will find the new method far easier. Also you showed interest in the other opportunities in our database so I have given you access to everything. You can now search and browse through all 100 categories we have. I sincerely hope you are able to find what you are looking for. Again, please accept my apology for your dissatisfaction.
Beth
Covington,Kentucky,
U.S.A.
write the magazines that publish their ads and let them know
#3Consumer Comment
Wed, January 21, 2004
Hi. I read your report and think that maybe this actual company is National Financial Publications. I only think so because I paid $40 also for their service and noticed on their site that if you wanted a list for mystery shops they wanted another $40. (Sounds like your information but in reverse.) The web-site I was dealing with was www.homejobs.com. Anyway, if you think this is the same company, here is their real contact information in case you want to take any further action: NATIONAL FINANCIAL PUBLICATION 100 EXECUTIVE DRIVE CONCORD EXECUTIVE BUILDING SLIDELL, LA 70460 MR SCOTT POLK PRESIDENT Phone Number: (800) 467-5566 I have filed a report on them with the BBB, here and anyplace else I could think of to file a report. After all of that, he still only gave me less than half of my money back and did his best to try and make me look bad in a rebuttal letter he sent to the Louisiana BBB. In my opinion the company is pretty much just evil. He's attempting to use tactics of intimidation to get me to shut up, but he doesn't know that that just makes me louder. Anyway, I can relate to your story even if this isn't the same company since I am a stay-at-home mom and really needed extra money and instead just found someone wanting to take the little money I do have away in a hollow promise of work. I hope you get your money back! Oh, and I found the ad for my particular extension of this scam in 'Parents' magazine. Maybe we should write the magazines that publish their ads and let them know what their advertisers are up to? Just a thought..
