Sorry to burst your bubble, but getting straight to the point these are usually scams.

The basic concept of this scheme is to get you to pay a fee for a “kit” which contains the basic materials of the product they supposedly want you to assemble for them.

The fee varies from company to company but I’ve heard people charging up to $250.

This fee is easily justifyable as the the materials DO cost money and they can’t be sending out kits to every Tom Dick & Harry who inquire about this “business opportunity”.  So anyone thinking of doing this doesn’t get suspicious about the fee.  They just pay and look forward to getting their kit and having a go at assembling the sample.

Sometimes they send an example of a “perfect product” for you to copy and also the raw materials for you to assemble one yourself.  You then send your sample back for it to be “inspected” to see if it meets their “quality standards”.  Regardless of how good or bad it is they will always fail it as they aren’t in the business of assembling products at all, their business is to scam you.

I have read stories of people who were sent kits that had components that didn’t work.  So, trying to be smart they switched the faulty components with the working components on the sample.  Therefore they were able to actually produce a working sample, but of course the company said “not bad, it worked but it still wasn’t good enough”.  I’m sure they were very surprised that the product worked.

Further, the parts you get sent could likely be purchased by yourself for half the price because that’s how they make their money.

This isn’t to say these jobs don’t exist, just don’t expect to find them on the internet or through some ad.  The only legit ones would come from people whom you know who are actually doing this type of work and I personally don’t know any.

With the cost of labor so cheap in Asia, it’s highly unlikely any companies are looking for people to assemble products from home as it’s too expensive and too much headache to micro manage people all over the country.  Having all people and products together in one factory is the logically best way to go.

So stay clear away from anything that even resembles a home assembly job.  It’s just a scheme designed to trick you out of a few bucks and waste a few hours of your life assembling something that will likely be thrown straight into the garbage or even just dis-assembled and sent to the next sucker who fell for this trap.

This is a huge scam on the internet these days.  You get lured in by the low price of $1 or $2 which is just for the “shipping” of the “kit”.  In reality nothing ever arrives and you have just signed up to a monthly credit card billing cycle of anything from $50 to $100 or maybe even more.

Worse yet is you can’t call your credit card to cancel this subscription you have to call the “Google Money Kit” company themselves as only they can cancel it.  Good luck! Expect to be on hold for a very long time as they try to process the 100s or 1000s of other angry people who are calling to cancel just like you.

If you only signed up within the last few days you may be ok as they normally wait about 7 days before billing the first big one.  Either way be sure to get on the phone ASAP and sort this out as many people have lost a lot of money.

How they get away with this is beyond me, and worse yet is they are trying to cash in on Google’s good name.  Fact is these company are in no way whatsoever related to Google.  So Google should be suing them if you ask me.

So I received an email just now about this Fortune Frontier and decided to check it out as I usually like to do. What did I find ? Absolutely nothing !!! Just a pre-register page asking for my name and email address ?

What kind of ridiculousness is that ?

“Hello we are a company with a mystery product that we are positive is going to be a great seller. We can’t tell you what the product is, how much it will cost nor can we tell you what type of commission you will make. Just sign right here and you can be a part of this amazing opportunity.”

Am I the only one that thinks this is completely ridiculous ? Are people actually pre-registering for programs that have absolutely no information regarding what they are about ?

Any company that requires your email before they tell you anything STAY WELL AWAY. What that means is they know their program isn’t good enough to get people to join from an info page. The only way to get people to sign up is to bombard them with emails until they finally give in.

I hope you don’t waste your time. You will find a lot of opportunities on this site that are crystal clear. No smokes and mirrors here.

Fortune Frontier, what a joke ! Perhaps once they actually launch I will be able to update this post as to what program they actually have.  Until then I have filed it under “not recommended”.  But I’m pretty sure it won’t be anything special, just same old same old.

TVI International claims to be some sort of travel company.  Upon visiting the website the first thing I didn’t like about it was how the “product” is not clear cut.  I don’t know what they are selling, or what I will be selling, when I visit the website.  Further they require you to give your name and email address before they offer up any more specific information – FIRST WARNING SIGN.

After further research I discovered that it is basically another MLM Pyramid scheme except the dollar figures are higher.  It’s a whopping $250 to join which reminds me of the ReGenesis 2×2 scam that recently went down.

For the $250 you get a “travel voucher” which in reality I am sure you could obtain elsewhere for much less, as these things are common giveaways by many companies.  Then it’s the same ol same ol try to get “2 others” to join you and do the same.  Once you do that successfully you train those 2 how to replicate the process and voila you make $10,000 or some other nice lump sum of money after reaching a certain point.

I’ve seen it all before, this is the same scheme with a different packaging.  Some things to be worried about are the fact that their address appears to be fake.   Some people have phoned the building in London that they claim to be located in and they aren’t there.

Further, their banking apparently takes place in Cyprus, but if they are located in the UK why go to the trouble of using a bank in Cyprus ?  More warning signs.

Now this isn’t to say you won’t make money with this.  If you join and in turn get others to join you will very likely make money, the same way that many people made money with ReGenesis 2×2.  All scams pay money in the beginning, it’s just that eventually they close up shop and run with the left over money (and then likely do it all over again).   I can’t say that this is what TVI Express is doing by any means, but one cannot rule it out either.

Perhaps you have read some success stories of others who have made $10,000 or some other great sum of money.  I am sure it’s absolutely true, there’s ALWAYS someone, or a group of people, who are making good money in any scheme.  However for each person who is making money there are at least 2 or possibly 1000s who are losing money.  It’s impossible to have someone making money without 2 or more people losing money.  It’s just simple mathematics.  You never get to hear the stories of the people who lose money, just the wonderful success stories of those who make money.

However, here is something to consider before joining.  First of all how easy/hard do you think it will be to get people to part with $250 to join this ?  Most people are already skeptical and $250 is by no means pocket change.  Compare that to the simple $3 program I recommend.  The idea behind TVI Express is get 2 people to join and train them to do the same and so on so the 2×2x2 etc replicates.  You eventually get a $10,000 payout for accomplishing this but I’m not quite sure when that occurs.

How about my simple $3 program ?  If you were to recruit 3 people (ie get 3 people to part with $3 ) within one month and then teach those 3 to do the same within one month thereby retiring after 2 months., do you know how much money you will earn in your 11th month if everyone accomplishes the same ?  Your 11th month will get you over $17,000!   So, what do you think will be easier ?  TVI Express at $250 joining fee or Work for $3 at a $3 joining fee ?

With Work for $3 I was able to recruit about 60 people within my first 2 months, an average of 1 per day.  However that has slowed down since and many of those who have joined me have not been able to be as successful as me.  There are about 10-20 people who have recruited 3 or more people but the majority haven’t recruited anyone.  This is possibly due to it being a forced matrix so it attracts a lot of people who don’t want to do anything.  Nevertheless it is working and I am making money at it every month on autopilot now.

So, if you are thinking of joining TVI Express I would recommend you first join Work for $3 and try to be successful at that first.  It has the potential to make millions just like TVI does, but it’s only $3, not $250.  If you can’t be successful with Work for $3 then you have no chance whatsoever at being successful with TVI Express and I have just saved you $247! (feel free to donate some of that money to me if you like :-) )

If you have any comments about TVI Express feel free to leave them below.

I was unfortunately sucked in by this scam.  I clicked on an Adwords ad I think that took me to the sales page for this so called “Google Cash Kit“.  It was a while ago so I’m not sure what the sales page was like however it wasn’t one of those blogs where someone tells their experience.  I don’t think I would have fallen for that.

Anyways, I paid the $2.95 with my Credit card thinking if it was a scam no big deal just call my credit card and get it refunded.  I have had an illegitimate charge before and got it charged back with just one phone call so this made me confident in being able to use my credit card online safely.

I was wrong !

Anyways, if you have been unfortunate enough to buy this “kit” you have unknowingly signed up for a subscription service.  They will bill you anything between $50 and $100 per month until you call the company and cancel.

Unbelieveably you cannot cancel via your credit card company.  This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard, but the only way to cancel is to call the billing company directly and cancel with them over the phone.  Of course this won’t be easy.  You could be on hold for hours on end, perhaps they will never answer the phone.

Further reporting your card lost won’t work either unless you don’t admit to the $2.95 charge.  You would have to say the card was lost/stolen BEFORE you made the $2.95 (or whatever the “kit” cost you).  That way in the eyes of the credit card company the entire transaction was fraudulent.

If the credit card company knows you made the $2.95 charge in good faith, cancelling the card won’t do any good as the charges just go automatically to the other card.

If you are curious what this scheme is all about, it’s basically a monthly subscription service that gives you tips on how to make money.  I never even looked at it myself as I was so angry.

If you go back to the sales page where you signed up you will find the small writing in barely legible size and colour telling you about the monthly charges.  Because that writing is there we are legally liable for the charges and the Google Cash Kit company aren’t doing anything illegal.  Crazy but true.

So I hope you can cancel before you get billed the big money.  Feel free to leave your comments below about this scam that is catching many people unawares.

Here is some more evidence of this scam http://www.business-opportunities.biz/2009/06/22/google-cash-kit-is-a-scam/

7 Day Wealth are a little different from the rest as they don’t really have a product.  They claim to be an investment club.

This is a great idea in theory.  Pool everyone’s money together and invest it and share the profits.  They also claim you will never lose any money and in fact “guarantee” you will make money.

I always get a bit leery when companies make such far fetched guarantees.  Anything that sounds too good to be true normally is.

If you search the internet you will hear both good and bad stories.  People have paid money and got nothing whereas others have.  One problem I can already see is that they pay a 50% commission on your first level referrals and 25% on your 2nd level.  That’s a total of 75% commission paid on your first 2 levels alone !  If at least 75% of every dollar invested is paid directly to members as referral commissions how much money is left over for investing ? i.e. if i choose to invest $100 into the club, $75 (or possibly more depending on the other 8 levels commission structure) is paid immediately to the people above me.  How can my investment make any money when there is barely any investment left ?  How can they turn $25 (or less) into more than $100 in a short period of time ?

So for these basic reasons I think it’s pretty safe to say this is just another scheme that will eventually fall apart as they are very likely depending on the growth of new members and new money coming in, in order to fuel commission payments.  Once the growth slows down they won’t have any new money coming in and the payments will stop and the whole thing will collapse.  Just my prediction.

As for me, I will just stick with my simple Work for $3 program that has consistently been paying me commissions for the past 7 months and continues to grow week by week.

Feel free to leave your comments good or bad regarding 7 Day Wealth below.

I have seen a lot on the internet about working from home stuffing envelopes.  This seems like an easy and a great opportunity.  Just sit around in your pyjamas watching TV and getting paid to stuff envelopes.  In fact the idea seems plausible as many advertising companies need a lot of envelopes stuffed so it would seem logical that such a business opportunity exists.

What you will find though is that whatever ad you are reading about this opportunity has a lot of hype.  What is worse is they will likely ask you for some sort of up front fee.  They will justify it by saying they need to weed out the time wasters and only want people who are really serious about the opportunity.  Or perhaps they will say something like they need the money for postage and packaging of the info pack with the instructions of how to get started in this “home business”.

If you do pay that fee because your curiousity is killing you, what you will likely get is a kit telling you how to promote the same business you just bought into.  It’s essentially another pyramid scheme where you earn commissions by “tricking” others into paying the same fee you did.  Where does the “envelope stuffing” come in you may ask ?  Well the company can easily justify it’s claim by saying you need to “stuff envelopes” with ads about the “envelope stuffing business” and then mail those out to as many people as possible in hopes of hooking someone else into the dodgy business opportunity.

Further, there are many machines that do this type of work much faster and cheaper than any human can do it.  I should know because I used to fix them.  Companies like Pitney Bowes and Francotyp Postalia make  folding and inserting machines that do this work.  So why would any company pay a human to do a job that they could get a machine to do ?

Further, there are many companies that specialize in these services that have these machines.  They can do the work very cheaply.  I am sure it works out to less than $5 per hour, so why would any company in their right mind pay a human big money to do this tedious task ?

The answer is obvious.  The ad you have read or stumbled upon is just another scheme trying to prey on the desperate and needy.  Unfortunately it works well, but hopefully you have stumbled upon my site before sending off for your “info pack”.

If you have any experiences with this type of scheme please post them below for others to learn from.