Grandma threatens to report me!

First of all let me just say that when I first started the WorkAtHomeTruth site I got a lot of very valid complaints.

If you saw the original WorkAtHomeTruth site (I could show it to you, but it’s too embarrassing…but you can still find it in Archive.org if you want) – you can see why. It was a horrible site.

But nowadays the complaints are few and far between. Basically very rare.

When they do come in they are basically some nonsensical rant.

I got one from a grandmother recently that fits the bill. What’s odd is that this person has been a subscriber of the WorkAtHomeTruth newsletter for over 2 and a 1/2 years and one day she wakes up and decides to make an unfounded accusation such as this (Hint: I don’t sell any $17.00 products):

Grandma says: “I will report you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you just got $17.00 from me and proved you are a scam and anyone who can take money from a GrandMother,, trying to make enough money to help her Grandchildren, how could you???????????”

My reply: “OK. I have no idea what you’re talking about as I don’t sell anything for $17.00 that I’m aware of (I don’t at all, actually). In fact right now I don’t even sell any products on this site at all. I do refer people to other sites that sell products sometime.

But if you feel like you need to report me. Go ahead.”

Paul Schlegel
Founder, WorkAtHomeTruth”

My takeaway on this:

  • Be yourself.
  • The customer is not always right.
  • No need to be a prick (although I get very close if not all the way there sometimes).
  • Don’t try to count the number of exclamation points or question marks a person uses if they use more than say three or four. It can really give you a headache and blurred vision.

Filed under: “Huh?”

Bob said he unsubscribed for this reason:

"You recommended that I not associate with any site that requests you to invest any money to start up. Then you request $ for a list of recommended sites."

Huh? While that’s mostly true for people looking for telecommuting positions, it’s not absolutely true. In fact if you read the rules you’ll see that I don’t explicitly say to never pay for a database of telecommuting positions.

And when it comes to business our section on self-funding businesses here merely suggests starting with a very low-cost business and reinvesting the profits in growth.

Harvard Business School Grads get sucked into Scams, too

I just talked to a man who is a graduate of Harvard Business School. A very smart man AND a man who has served our country with honor in several wars.

We owe a lot to men like him, but I feel saddened that I could not help him because he insisted on screaming at me instead of time to listen. He clearly still has a sharp mind, too.

I actually took time away from my family to call this man and help him for free. Yet his only motivation for talking to me seemed to be so he could scream at me. And he couldn’t give me any reason for it other than perhaps because he had been ripped off by OTHER people.

The real problem is that internet culture has gone too far beyond him for him to understand and despite the fact that he’s been scammed several times he still insists that he just wants something easy he can do to make $300 to $400 a week.

I did lose my temper with him – which was hard to do because I have a great deal of respect for him – but I could not get him to stop screaming at me.

The only upside is that I was able to provide information to a lady the other day that hopefully helped her to get $197.00 from one of those crazy rebate processing sites.