I saw an add in craigslist which advertised that people with good handwriting can do hand addressed mails. I stay home full time so I applied for it. I called Pen and Ink, and I was asked to fill in an application and send along $10 for processing fee.
I kept in touch with the person in charge and he said that he would get back to me as soon as he can. But I was the one who was persistent about it. He never gave me any updates unless I called him. After a couple of weeks, I just was frustrated that he didn't inform me if I had projects or not. When I first talked to him over the phone, he sounded like he had lots of projects that needs to be done and just no one to writing the address.
I just felt that he never explained what the charge was for. Then, I emailed him again and just let him know that I was frustrated to wait to hear about projects that he may have and may not have (I dont think he had any) and had kindly asked him to return my check. He neither replied me back nor did he return the check.
So yes, it's a ripoff... It may be just be $10, that's not huge money... You may say. It's true... It's not huge, but I think that business should be built on integrity and honesty. It wouldn't matter if he had just told me that he has no projects for me to do. I would have been alright with that.
Just imagine, if there were 10 people like me who believed this was legit, he just had made 100 bucks easy... The chances are, probably, people are much smarter than me not to trust an ad from craigslist and send a check...
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