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Personal Experiences with HomeCS?
whoami-ky asks: "If you believe the info on their homepage, HomeCS is 'the Internet's Premier work from home career portal which unites thousands of job seekers and employers everyday.' But, when you try to apply for a job through them, you're immediately asked to pony up $29.95 for a 'lifetime' membership. Has anyone used this company to successfully find a telecommuting job? They have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Anybody gotten a refund? A quick Google search on the term HomeCS didn't seem to show any positive or negative feedback (I only went through the first 3 or 4 pages of results)."
RUN AWAY!
From the HomeCS website under the "Companies" link:
The following is a list of employers who have historically hired telecommuters. Although they may not all have jobs posted with us currently, these and companies like these are examples of companies that could hire you via HomeCS.com.
...which sounds somewhat like a load. I work for one of the companies listed, and they do all their hiring through a company-owned hiring service. There are *no* full-time telecommuters in the division I am in, it's a "couple of days a week" thang.
Of course, I could be wrong...
Cool, you can get a job working for SCO from home!
# QT
http://www.homecs.com/telecommuter_employers.php?
At least that way, you wouldn't have to worry about getting all of your stuff packed up and out of the office when they finally go under.
I'll tell you for $15 :)
And maybe you'd like to buy a computer from Micheal's computers to work from?
This signiture copied from somewhere.
Maybe they'll hire me to sell Michael's Computers!
[GROAN]
Operator, give me the number for 911!
The following are pictures of women who have historically dated. Although they may not all have accounts with us currently, these and women like these are examples of girlfriends you could meet through date.com!
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
Google Webquotes is one of Google Labs' projects; to quote the blurb it "annotates the results of your Google search with comments from other websites. This offers a convenient way to get a third party's opinion about each of the returns for your search, providing you with more information about that site's credibility and reputation."
Sad to say, the news isn't good. Check out this forum thread for a comprehensive bashing.
Processing Payments from Technology Professionals!
You can earn $5 a peice for processing $29.95 payments from today's top technology professionals! We receive countless individual payments from morons^^^^^professionals every day and need your help...
US Democracy:The best person for the job (among These pre-selected choices...)
Let me get this straight -- this outfit wants to charge you money up front for
the valuable opportunity to do business with them and possibly get a job, and
you're sufficiently unsure whether this is a good idea that you have to ask on
slashdot?
Dude, nobody legitimate has to charge you for the chance to work. A temp
agency might charge your employer more than they pay you and so skip off the
top, but they don't get a *dime* until you get a paycheck. Similarly, a more
traditional employer might place expectations on you (dresscode or whatnot)
that might result in your spending money before your first day on the job,
but you don't pay *them* anything.
Work-from-home is notoriously fertile ground for scammers of all kinds, but
if they're wanting to charge you up front for a lifetime membership for the
opportunity to work, that should set off loud alarms and flashing red lights
in your brain even if the job in question were more traditional (e.g. factory).
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
So the website is not even registered in the US. So good luck if you get scammed. And then when I do a whois of nssrv, I get that it's registered to 127.0.0.1.
Registration Service Provided By:
Contact: dnsadmin@nssrv.com
Visit:
Domain name: homecs.com
Administrative Contact:
hostmaster mp3s (dnsadmin@nssrv.com)
+1.5095626502
Fax: +1.5095626502
Dubravska 9
Bratislava, 842 38
SK
I'd be concerned...
Seriously, these guys are pushing one of the oldest scams in the world. Send us money for work at home opportunities has been one of the FTC's main scam warnings for years and is a common theme in spam messages.
Here are some references:
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/ftc_work_at
http://www.keytlaw.com/FTC/Actions/ftc020730.ht
http://boston.internet.com/news/article.php/217
The FTC should be informed of these guys so they can shut them down.
I am surprised that Slashdot's editors would let an article like this get through. Rather that posting this as a question, it should be posted as a warning. For all we know the person asking the question could be trying to attract traffic to this site.
This story should be pulled ASAP.
They have hit most of the scam signs I know of, and none of the ones that might give me the benefit of the doubt. I'm not stupid, I'm not giving you money unless I think it is worth it. If they got me a job I'd give them money ($100 is cheap compared to what the other recruiters I'm talking to would get if I get hired...), but not until. Not having a free section they don't even have a chance to prove there are real jobs there, and I wouldn't pay them money for until it was proved they have jobs, right now it appears more like a scam to get my money.
I'm ticked off at these people, everytime I search monster for a real job they show up in the results. Monster at least has real jobs. (Either that or once in a while they pay someone to call me, I haven't gotten a job through them, but I have got hints that some exist). Just based on their advertising I'm no longer willing to give them money even if they would help me get a job.
Haven't pursued it yet - it was a couple of months ago, and I've had other priorities. But I'm considering taking legal action if they don't respond when I get around to sending a paper letter.
I write code.
jeez, people fall for this crap all the time. I'm leery of ANY work at home opportunity I hear of. Critical thinking should tell you that it's not worth one second of your time. There's always exceptions, but ANY time some company or business opportunity wants you to front money, you're begging to get scammed.
-- After all is said and done, more is said than done.