I want to stress how important it is to be honest about your online earnings and success. There are so many scams out there that the entire "work at home" industry is suffering because of it, and it's about time we, as entrepreneurs who actually do the "dirty work", laid out our cards to let each other know the good, the bad and the downright ugly.
Instead of trying to scam each other, we should instead expose the big scam companies for what they really are. I'm not just talking about the obvious scam sites either, of which most go out of business rather quickly. I'm talking about some of the big sites we've been hearing horror stories about lately.
No doubt many of you have heard about the Ebay Seller Strike and how poorly Ebay is treating those who have supported the site and pay seller fees. Many of you reading this are likely Ebay sellers as well, working from home to make extra money and were also shocked by some of the irrational changes the company wants to impose.
It doesn't stop there, however. There have also been several horror stories of sellers getting ripped off and gouged by Paypal as well (owned by Ebay). The forums at Link Referral are overrun with these tales of woe, where the "little guy" trying to make a few dollars online has his profits diminished by the rich, greedy corporate bastards at these huge companies.
And let's not forget a certain search engine company, which I can't name for legal reasons, but which I used to admire back in the early days of the internet, when they took on the big search engines at Yahoo and MSN and won. They were the kind of upstart dotcom that really stood for something, back in the day. Now it's all about profit over helping real people. Everyone wants to get to the top of the search engines and now they make BILLIONS every few months helping you get there. They charge you an arm and a leg to place your own ads with them, yet they find every excuse they can NOT to pay you the meagre earnings you might get in return for placing other company ads for them on your own site. I can't even begin to count how many posts I've read in forums of how people almost got to their $100 threshold (which is too high for small sites in the first place), only to have the company suspend or terminate their account for totally arbitrary reasons.
It's time we stood up to these greedy bastards and supported the smaller sites with REAL customer service. I had contacted support from 3 big sites just this week and never heard back from one! I've also read of other people never hearing back from the support at a big site. Do we not count? These big companies do what they can to stomp out the small companies because they know the competition might bury them someday, and they will. I predict many of these big sites will go the way of the dinosaur someday, and soon, if they don't start paying attention to the hand that feeds them.
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