I see ads every weekend in my local newspaper that look like this:
"Assemble products from your home. Start today, no money needed. Make $600 a week from home doing easy assembly call 866-xxx-xxxx"
Sounds simple, right? Who doesn't want to assemble craft items and get paid for it? Well, not so fast.
It ISN'T really that easy to do this work. In fact, easy assembly work at home is rarely ever easy. The products you get are usually craft items and trinkets, and have to be 100% PERFECT, otherwise you don't get paid. So let's say it takes you about 3 hours to do one of these for the first time. You check and double check for perfection, you send it in with your weekly batch, and the Fed Ex driver uses it as a kickball in the back of his truck. Your items arrive at the company, busted, and you get paid nothing. Zilch, zero, nada. You lose. These assembly companies always win because they will dock you for the slightest defect, but then still sell the product, so they'll still get their money but you won't get yours.
Easy assembly work at home is really a myth of gigantic proportions. Unless you are willing to lose money for the first month or so training yourself to be a perfectionist, you'll never succeed with these companies. You'll lose more money than you make most times. What's worse is that some places even require you to pay for the product they ship you up front... what kind of company makes you pay them to work for them? A scam company, usually.
These companies do deserve credit. Easy assembly work at home companies aren't all scam jobs and con artists. They're legitimate companies looking for people to assemble their products at home. Unfortunately, their standards are so high that it's nearly impossible for anyone to succeed at working from home in this position. For extra cash, it's a great option. For a full time job, not so much, unless you become the craft master and fully insure all of your shipments to prevent damage in transit.
So that's what these companies do. I'm sure you've all seen the easy assembly work at home ads before, and probably wondered "what's the catch?"
Well, now you know. If you search online, you can probably even find more information on these companies and which ones are okay to work with versus which ones aren't.