On Jul 7, 2005, at 3:33 PM, Ol' Man River wrote:
Ok so here’s my little civic duty for this month. I got recently unemployed and decided I still needed a source of income. After carefully sifting through hundreds of emails offering unlimited income potential, I settled on one offering 2 dollars for each envelope I stuffed. Sounded pretty simple. I sent in my 46$ for 200 envelopes (the smallest order) and got an 11 x 14 envelope about as thick as a time magazine, hardly 200 envelopes worth. The envelope contained 5 sheets of poster looking pages with the following:
ATTENTION NOW HIRING – For work-at-home opportunities. Find out how you can be employed by dozens of little known companies hiring on a nationwide basis for simple jobs. To find out how to make money from the comfort and convenience of your home send your request together with a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the address shown below. (the bottom would have ten tear off strips with my address on them) as these requests came in (I might need to rent a po box for all the mail) I was to stuff another included offer into the sase describing how the sender could request more info – a HOME WORKERS DIRECTORY - on doing assembly work, sewing, or crafts from home for only $29.00 – a special markdown from the regu! lar $39.00, and send these envelopes in a big bundle to MAILER PROFITS INC. They would then send me 2$ for each sase enclosed.
The HOME WORKERS DIRECTORY is full of names and addresses of mom-n-pop garage operations who need grunt labor to assemble angels, dolls, toys, sew, knit…..
What a convoluted way to make a buck.
dave
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