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 Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 6:17 am |
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Can ANYBODY post a real work at home job that doesn't involve "buying" the job or scamming somebody else? It cannot be a product of dubious quality or usefulness (or safety) sold on a website and cannot involve signing ANYBODY up for ANYTHING! It must involve a product, a markup and a profit--backed up by a real address and a real business license.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 6:40 am |
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Sure. I can't give you specific addresses but I know folk who do this all the time.
Selling land and/or real estate on eBay. Land can be purchased dirt cheap if you take the time to search some of the more obscure real estate agents online and go for rural land. Homes can be purchased cheaply at sheriffs auctions. There's your legit product. You can do most or all of this right from home online, by mail and over the phone. You might have to actually go out to the town hall in your area for some sheriffs auctions though...
You don't sign anyone up for anything because you deal directly with the customer through eBay.
You can easily buy land and resell it almost as soon as it closes for a profit of $2000 or more. Invest some of the profits in more land. So there's your markup & profit.
Here's the down side though. It takes a big investment - you have to purchase the initial properties and it would be good to start with 2 or 3. You can find 3 acres or even 5 acres for $4000 and resell it for $6000 or even $8000 on eBay. I did something like that but my profit was more towards the lower end of that spectrum. You can either take a down payment bid and monthly payments, OR you can set a reserve price that automatically gauantees your profit and you get paid the full amount as soon as the auction closes.
The seller has a real address and if you do this as a business you'll need to get a licence, and I should say I hear the taxes are pretty steep on real estate selling so you NEED to have a high profit margin.
Like I've told my wife, if we had $20,000 to $25,000 to invest on a few cheap pieces of property we would be earning money right now as we speak. The key is to find cheap WOODED land, not flat land in Texas or in the middle of the desert somewhere. (I see tons of those desolate properties on eBay and was pretty agravated I had to sift through them to find anything worthwhile.) But if you spend the time to look you can find some beautiful wooded properties for really cheap with good zoning regs that will sell really fast.
I don't know if this qualifies as an answer to your question because it takes a large investment but you didn't say "no investment."
You're not buying the job from someone else.
You're not scamming anyone. (Your buyers are STILL getting cheap land)
You're not signing people up. (No recruitment)
You have a product, markup and profit.
You have an address and business licence.
I know some of the eBay sellers who always have half a dozen or more properties every week on eBay must be doing this!
Know any venture capitalists or philanthropists who would give me 25K to start?
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| Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 4:43 am |
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Good answer. Any more?
Don't you all find it telling that I have only ONE response when the other threads rapidly fill up in the same time period?
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| Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:52 am |
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Exactly.
It's just you and me so far......
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| Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:59 am |
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I've been watching this thread every day.......just waiting to see....
I was actually surprised that you had even ONE reply....& so fast.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 5:18 am |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 5:55 am |
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Quote: Originally Posted by scambuster Good answer. Any more?
Don't you all find it telling that I have only ONE response when the other threads rapidly fill up in the same time period?
I guess eBay is it then?
Or, a very similar one: make a quality product yourself and sell it on your own personal website direct to customers. Ebay gives you a lot more exposure to the public though....
Now here's my question (especially since it applies to anyone inmy situation):
Is there any home business that fits all the criteria in the original challenge and can be started as a "job" with no investment?
The only thing I can think of is again Ebay: if someone has such a huge stock of merchandise or real estate that they need an employee to manage their products, and they hired you to sell for them on a commission basis. And I'm not talking about those ebay powerseller scams listed on this forum.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 6:15 am |
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Quote: Originally Posted by scambuster Good answer. Any more?
Don't you all find it telling that I have only ONE response when the other threads rapidly fill up in the same time period?
Pre-Paid Legal does allow actual business entities to do business as a direct seller of the Legal Plans and Identity Theft services. Those are not physical products, but they have considerable mark-up for profit. PPL is more of a franchising senerio where an administrative fee is required to operate as a licensed PPL reseller and to cover inintial marketing supplies that are provided, but that is to be expected. Addresses are legit for both the direct selling business and PPL corporate office in ADA, Oklahoma. No website required, can work from a home office and legitimate profit is made.
The eBay deal is interesting, though. I guess you can go ahead and just say being in Real Estate is one, as well. You could even sell cars on eBay...well, crap you can sell anything on eBay for profit from home. I did for a month or two for fun and made a decent profit (just too many hours to manage all the listings). I made over $4000 in revenue and spent almost $2000 in listing fees for a 50% profit margin.
Wait, I got one...bake cookies at home and go sell them in the neighborhood. Or, open a lemonade stand (going old school). Both of those qualify, right? Just being funny, Scambuster, not a wise a$$.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 6:28 am |
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Being a wiseass is fine by me!
However, the ideas you listed are legitimate. PPL would qualify as a service, not a product. Leave the affiliate part out of it and it would qualify if legal services were tangible.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 6:28 am |
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This is harder than it looks, isn't it?
Whatever happened to the American entrepreneur?
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| Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 6:54 am |
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Quote: Originally Posted by scambuster This is harder than it looks, isn't it?
Whatever happened to the American entrepreneur?
Ok, ok...now you are making me depressed......
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| Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 7:41 am |
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Quote: Originally Posted by yowzza Ok, ok...now you are making me depressed...... The "REAL" depression would set in if you had already invested your time & $$ into something, only to find out..........
....so far it hasn't happened to me. (knock on wood!) I'm just too untrusting. I don't even make it to the "investment" part! LOL
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| Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 7:47 am |
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Quote: Originally Posted by PAYEK The "REAL" depression would set in if you had already invested your time & $$ into something, only to find out..........
....so far it hasn't happened to me. (knock on wood!) I'm just too untrusting. I don't even make it to the "investment" part! LOL
I knew I could count on you to get me out of my "funk." LOL Let's just say, it hasn't happened recently, but it DID happen...I'm sure that's why I'm here...to find some legitimacy....(if there is any, that is...)
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| Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:00 am |
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Quote: Originally Posted by yowzza I knew I could count on you to get me out of my "funk." LOL Let's just say, it hasn't happened recently, but it DID happen...I'm sure that's why I'm here...to find some legitimacy....(if there is any, that is...) ....As long as we are learning from our mistakes & not repeating them, we are one step ahead!
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| Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 4:22 am |
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Quote: Originally Posted by scambuster When you try to do this whole "making a living" thing HONESTLY, it gets a LOT harder!
Scambuster...that is a very subjective view, wouldn't you say? I almost take offense that you would suggest that I am not honest because I am in NWMarketing. I happen to pride myself and my success on being honest.
Bad form, brother.
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