what do you think about home-based assembling crafts job?

United States
January 2, 2008 11:10pm CST
In response to those seeking a home-based, "crafts-n-assembly" jobs from home, now it's MY turn to ask anyone out there this following question: What have been either positive or negative experiences you have had, working as a "home assembler"? I seen this one Website, called: http://www.disciplescross.com On their Website, it's stated no upfront fees to join, just purchase their materials to make Cross necklaces; etc. for them, as they "buy back" the religious items assembled. For instance, let's say you assemble 25 Crosses, which costs $25 (for 25 of them) per kit. According to DiscipleCross.com, they pay home assemblers $1.25 per Cross item assembled, along with an extra $1.00 for reimbursement, each time Crosses are assembled and mailed back to them, plus an extra $5.00 for Shipping Costs. But here's the catch: You have to mail back Cross crafts in packages of 50 items at same time, rather than just mail one Cross here and one Cross there. This sounds legit, but if there's anyone out there that has tried a home business like this, especially through this company, please let me know. I would love to hear about your experiences, both good and bad you may have had, when doing either DisciplesCross.com or working as a home-based assembler through another company. I would sincerely appreciate any advice or opinions about "home assembly" jobs, including if you have ever tried assembling religious crafts for DisciplesCross.com. I am trying to build up a home-based business, but all of this takes time, don't happen overnight. Job market is EXTRA bad here in Cincinnati, OH area, as jobs continue declining in pay, while gas and cost of living soars. Property taxes are extra high here, along with heating costs, and it's even worse when having to pay at least around 2% for every suburb municipality a person has to work for (City of Cincinnati charges around 2.5% for working inside its limits), so if you end up working 2 jobs for eg., in 2 different areas of town, that's at least around 5% City Taxes deducted from your paycheck, along with another around 2.5% for State Taxes. Then when you factor in very high heating and property tax costs, people can hardly can live on those mainly $7.00-$9.00/hour jobs that comprise most of working positions here. 99% of all the jobs listed on CareerBuilder.com; Monster.com; and in the newspaper are nothing but very low-paying temp service jobs, which are very unreliable forms of employment. It's either hop from one temp service to another, just to stay employed, or not work at all. So from this type of horrible experience, you can most likely see why I am serious about doing a good, legit, work-at-home opportunity, even if it should only supplement low income I have been making. Many people in Cincinnati, who come out of college, can't hardly do no better, so they are working flipping hamburgers in fast-food restaurants and doing other very low-paying jobs, since very greedy companies don't hardly want to pay any wages to no one, while they give their CEO's huge, rich, whopping income increases, while paying their workers less! I would love to move to much warmer climate, where maybe there's more and better quantities of jobs, but real estate market is WAY DOWN, so people can't hardly sell their homes, and if they do, they have to sell at a price that's thousands of dollars lower than what they paid for it! Might as well be a renter right now, as being a current homeowner has NO equity, in fact, in the "negative range." I don't fall for those "Get Rich Off Selling Real Estate" SCAMS, as one can see for himself/herself that if investors can't hardly sell those homes they get dirt-cheap to try and make a profit, there's no way anyone else will benefit from this, either. Anyhow, not to get off the subject, please let me know if you have any information on DisciplesCross.com or other "home-based assembly" companies, who advertise paying home workers so much income per piece of work assembled and shipped back to them. May your New Year be bright!
2 responses
@Lexus656 (672)
• United States
26 Oct 09
have you worked with disciples cross yet? I have been trying to decide wether or not I am going to give it a go...Please get back to me and let me know. I know there are alot of companies out there that are hiring people to work from home because it lowers their overhead. Growing up there was a lady that I stayed with who actually painted gnomes for a living but for the life of me I can't find that company....
@Lexus656 (672)
• United States
29 Oct 09
There are a couple of at home assembly comapies that I found last night that have some really good reviews. I haven't decided If I am going to try them yet but have looked them up on the BBB and they have an A plus. And I also looked at the WAHM webpage and there are moms there that are working for these companies to. NEC, Tiny Details, and cottage industires are the ones that I found last night. The only problem with there is there is a kit fee of $45 to $50 dollars but they are refundable and you get that money back when you send in a complete kit of good work. I am thinking about trying the NEC and possbile the cottage induestries. Again Cottage industries has an A plus so it might be worth looking into!!!! Good luck and let me know how it goes!
@roberten (3128)
• United States
3 Jan 08
Check bbb 1st to see if company has any complaints logded against it. Always be suspect if you are asked to pay for doing a job.