But I decided to give the whole thing away to everyone. Apparently that wasn't good enough for Michael from New Zealand as he sent the following email:

Email from Michael:

"Your ''standards"……are certainly dropping,
COMPARED to the 1st….. 3. emails !!!

I actually believed @ long last, here is
someone whose UPFRONT !!!
Was I wrong……Mr Work @ Home??? ???

Here was my reply:

(You'd think I'd be more polite, but honestly I have LITERALLY taken thousands of hours of my own time to help people for no charge, answered just about EVERY SINGLE one of the thousands of emails I've received over the years and PERSONALLY helped people recover as thousands of dollars – one lady recovered close to $3,000 with my help).

With that context in mind, let me reveal exactly what I said, because some people are basically UNHELPABLE and this is a great example:

"Well, I suppose I could SELL you a $35.00 ebook on Mystery Shopping like everyone else instead
of GIVING YOU this ENTIRE REPORT which took me close to 120 hours to put together for FREE.

Would that be better? I don't know what more you want. Do you want me to just come over and GIVE you some money?

I've taken you off the list since you don't want this info any more.

Thanks.

Paul"

Now that doesn't mean I didn't help the guy I did, as you can see from a quick follow-up message I sent:

"I've helped you by preventing you from being able to subscribe again.

If someone's going to complain about quality FREE information, basically there's not much left for them.

Bye.

Paul

Oh, by the way. I've personally helped people, held-their-hand, to get thousands of dollars of money back – at NO cost. So I have no time for this nonsense."

See, I'm such a nice guy.

Or maybe they found something seriously wrong with the site.

That's fine.

But it would be helpful if they could be more specific.

Here's how NOT to complain:
Q: I get VERY angry, and very annoyed with INVITAIONS that goes no-where……and you have several of
those on your webpage.

That tells me, you are quite willing to WASTE my precious time sending me on wild goose chases !!!
To me, your CREDIBILITY,INTEGRITY & RELIABILITY…is COMPLETELY, flawed !!!

My note: I really couldn't ascertain from this message what the person was talking about. So I wrote back to try to clarify:

A: Can you be more specific?

Are you talking about the disability section I put up
to help the disabled navigate the maze of free
programs? I know that's still tough. The one
here:

http://workathometruth.com/disability.php

Or maybe you're talking about the free list
of homeshoring companies found here:
http://workathometruth.com/work-at-home-phone-jobs.php

I was trying to explain how people could find more.

or maybe you're talking about that lady who talked
about how I helped her recover around $3,000
at no charge even though it took us a lot of
time.

I'm really not clear which section you're talking about.

Could you let me know? That would help and maybe
I could fix it.

thanks.

Paul

By the way, the ConsumerAction.gov site has good examples of how to complain in ways that are more likely to accomplish the end results you're looking for.

Update: So the person emails me back with a big R.E.M.O.V.E. image.

Now, what's the wrong with this picture? First of all, this person is NOT on any of our email lists and SECOND the person actually bordering on SPAMMING me through my email form now. Shouldn't THEY be the one's getting the R.E.M.O.V.E. request?

Here's what she says about us promoting the Rich Jerk (which is NOT true at all):

"You promoted Rich Jerk – he is WELL KNOWN for being a cheat.  After reading that, credibility was lost for your insights and advice."

- Crystal

Ummm. Guess what Crystal. We might have lost credibility in your eyes, but you've lost your mind in ours…if she were to actually READ (hey, we know how to use ALL CAPITALS, too, Crystal) the actual review of the Rich Jerk here  you'll see we don't even recommend the Rich Jerk there or anywhere on the site.

Look, we're always helpful, but we're NOT always nice.

A: LOL. The Google Cash at my site doesn't involve a CD at all and in case you misplaced your brain today, you'll also realize that I don't even RECOMMEND Google Cash for most people at my site and say numerous negative things about it.

You bought some OTHER product ripping off the name "Google Cash".

Please locate your brain and try again.

Thank you for playing. Get a job.

Paul

OK. So I have a site that warns people about the current rash of rebate processing scams and even tell people HOW to get their money back – get a refund – and where to report the sites to hopefully get these phony rebate processor job sites shut down.

Yet, Norm apparently ignores the extensive information on this site and other sites I link to and sends in this question to which (as I am want to do) I do NOT respond to very kindly…

Q:

visa tells  me you have asked them to charge my account $197.00 and they have put it on "hold" for seven days.  I want this attemptd charge to be cancelled immediately.
Norm

A:

I have NO clue what you're talking about.
I am WARNING people to STAY away from
those types of products at this site.

Put on your glasses and read about it
HERE:

http://www.workathometruth.com/blog/2008/02/21/telecommuting-psychosis-an-analysis-of-magical-thinking/

Is there a special school people go to to become so stupid?

Peace out.

Mr. work@home

"I'm always very helpful, but NOT always very nice"

btw, I don't really say "peace out" in real life, but it was only way I could diminish my rage against the guy's idiocy at the time.

Q: I have been ripped off so many times that i do not take anyones word on any program.

Now i check things out for my self with the BBB and Internet online crime.

I did find out that all of the typing and data work is owned and operated by one company, such as Data entry made easy, type4dollrs ect, these alone have had 456 complaints within the last 36 months, so please do mislead people by saying they are great programs, because they are not.

Iam yet to find an hones person who is up front with the truth of what they offer, i am searching for an opportunity to make money now not buy some another useless ebook to teach me a bunch of junk.

So if you know of a great program please let me know, but i will check them out with the BBB, FBI's internet crime, Federal Trade Commission and Yahoos Corop Offices.

A:

Hi, it seems that you have my site confused with some other site, which explains why you might be easily mislead if you're not able to keep various sites straight in your mind.

We've never recommended any of the sites your talking about. We have analyzed their sales letters for similar sites and pointed out major inconsistencies and red flags that we saw. If you somehow think that constitutes a recommendation there's absolutely no way we could recommend any product that would help you.

I would have to say in your case your best bet is to keep a traditional 9-5 job.

Also, I would point out that your claim that every data entry and home typing program is owned by one company is completely wrong. It's true that many of the sites are owned by one company which can be determined by doing a reverse-ip lookup and then checking whois records.

You can do the reverse-ip lookup here:

http://www.reverseiplookup.net/

For example when we enter dataentrymadeeasy.com into this reverse ip lookup tool, we find the following domains:

• www.trafficdealz.com
• www.trafficgurl.com
• www.trafficpayouts.com
• www.type-at-home.com
• www.paidsurveysetc.com

Now, this tool shows you the domains hosted in the same IP address, although it doesn't directly show you what the IP is. You can find the actual IP usinghttp://www.iwebtool.com/reverse_ip

At the time of this writing the tool gave the IP address 74.205.85.187 which I then put back into the original reverse-ip lookup tool and it returned the same set of sites. There's really no reason to do that though, except to confirm that the first tool works as claimed.

Now, if you want to go the next step with trafficdealz.com, trafficgurl.com, trafficpayouts.com, type-at-home.com, paidsurveysetc.com you can look through the whois records to determine who the owner and registrant are. It's always possible that someone has put misleading information in there, but it will still give you some pretty good clues about what's going on (i.e., if they put the SAME misleading information in all of the whois entries).

Now if you use the same process on say dataentrybusiness.com, edatajob.com, or worldwidedataentry.com I can almost guarantee you that you'll follow a path that will take you to different owners.

Finally, I assume you mean the following as far as agencies to check out:

• The Internet Crime Complaint Center or http://www.ic3.gov/
• The Federal Trade Commision at http://www.ftc.gov – not the best syntax for checking the ftc via google is site:ftc.gov "product name" as sometimes searching the FTC directly actually turns up less results than searching this way in Google. Really you should search both ways.
• The Better Business Bureau – definitely should be checked out but you must realize that just because a company seemingly has a lot of complaints doesn't mean anything if you don't know the volume of transactions it does. You can get some sense of a sites popularity by checking Quantcast.com, Compete.com, & Alexa.com, but I would do an overlay of all three statistics to ferret out any inconsistencies.

Let's take a look at DataEntryMadeEasy for example.

Currently it ranks as follow across these three services:

• Alexa – 51,526
• Quantcast – 10,485
• Compete – Shows 208,664 unique visitors per month although as Compete mentions you also need to look at "Engagement" as some sites can artificially drive up their unique visitor numbers by sending people who leave the site immediately.

However, we would be extremely skeptical of information provided by a site called Ranking.com which claims to test a sites "trustworthiness". For example – when we ran workathometruth.com and trustgauge.com through McAfee's SiteAdvisor, TrustGauge got the following message:

"When we tested this site we found links to browseraccelerator.com, which we found to be a distributor of downloads some people consider adware, spyware or other potentially unwanted programs."

While WorkAtHomeTruth got this one:

"We tested this site and didn't find any significant problems."

Which is why you can't just rely on ONE site to make a determination about the reliability of something.

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p.s., if you want to read a great article about the problems with Rankings.com, Alice Seba wrote a great article about it here:

http://www.internetbasedmoms.com/seo/about-ranking-com.html