Good grief, this was probably THE worst work experience of my life. I finally became vocal to my 'supervisor' about the apparent rip-off scheme and was summarily dismissed. You see, Arizona is a right to work state and the employers abuse this draconian law to the maximum. It is nearly impossible to retain employment in a state that has an 80% employee turnover rate even in boom times (with the exception of the health care field).
With I-Fortuity, you have a 100% chance of becoming unemployed within two weeks or less. Nepotism rules the company, and my supervisor was a snot-nosed substance abuser brother of the owner who vociferously bragged about his sundry exploits while we were on the phone; this coupled with a radio blasting away at a decibel level that would wake the dead.
The better companies in Arizona force you to sign an arbitration agreement or they won't hire you. This effectively keeps any egregious corporate behavior out of court and off the public record. I-Fortuity, back in 2008 when I had the misfortune to work there, was a complete scam.
I noticed that the 'leads' I was given were mainly of a caliber of folks who were on various disability programs, unemployed or underemployed. All of them had made the mistake of clicking the wrong box somewhere on the internet and voila! They became fodder for I-Fortuity's grist mill. They were all folks who were looking to better their circumstances by doing a little side job and garnering some extra income.
Thankfully, due to usacomplaints.com, many of them got online during my pitch, Googled the company, and hung up on me. I did make a few sales, but my conscience began to get the better of me. Unless you market the hell out of your page, you will get zip in the results arena. And you have already invested between $99-$499 for a basically worthless spot on the information highway. Even if you did aggressively market the page via advertising, the returns would be marginal and could take years to actually approach 'residual income'. That's the catch phrase I-Fortuity uses, residual income, to hook the unwary.
Another trick they use to forestall refunds is to send you the papers to sign by mail.in the bizarre state of Arizona, there is some law on the books that renders you helpless if you sign a contract from Arizona by mail. And since most of their prey is out of state, this law serves them well.
In my case, as soon as I began to catch on, I quickly fell out of favor and was dismissed. That the injured parties have not begun a class-action to shut the joint down is too bad.
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