This morning I was faced with an ad for making money at home. As a mother of 2 with no income personally this intrigued me. What mother wouldn’t love to stay home and take care of her kids and still be able to make a little extra cash for the family? Well, the website claimed that you could make like $77/hour. The “system” was only $2.97 to ship AND if I acted NOW they’d waive the 33.99 activation fee. Good deal, but was it too good.
So I started searching. There was no information as far as what company this was or any way to contact them before purchasing. I looked on Whois and got a server unavailable to respond message. Then finally I went back to the site and did find a Terms and Conditions link. I clicked on it and this is what I found:
It was too good to be true. The $2.97 got you a book and a disk maybe, but the real sock it to you came 3 days after placing your order. They charge your credit card $139.95 for access to their Internet Profit Success System and then $4.95 in perpetuity to have a website selling stuff hosted by them. You only have 3 days to cancel. It doesn’t even sound like you have to have the system in hand to review before they start charging you big bucks. That sucks!
So moms (and dads) the search continues for a way to earn money from home without losing your shirt first.
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March 21st, 2010 | Tags: finances, making money, read the fine print, work at home | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment
Well either my child is a genius or her little fingers were just in the right place at the wrong time. My brother in law’s family was over for a visit and their oldest daughter tagged along while her husband went to work for a few hours. She has a picture of my oldest daughter, Yeyda, on her phone and she showed it to Kiki, the baby. Kiki just started walking so she got up and took the phone and started cooing at it.
Everyone thought this was really cute. My sister in law then decided to call the phone so the “I like to move it” ring would play. This got Kiki dancing and everybody was ooing and ahhing over her. The one problem with this is that the act of receiving a call unlocks the keypad so that you can answer. If the cancel key is not pressed after the call is lost or ended then the phone goes to the recent calls screen allowing still for keystrokes. I had a feeling something was up when after being so cantankerous for the evening she was suddenly quiet and very occupied sitting by herself on the dining room floor with the phone. I believe it was at this time that Kiki was able to somehow dial 9-1-1.
Kiki gave the phone back to her cousin with an “Emergency Call Back” message flashing red across the screen. Moments later she got a call from an unrecognized number. She didn’t answer at first and allowed the call to go to voicemail. Upon checking the message she immediately got up and went to call back the number. Turns out it was the local Sheriff’s department calling because they had received a 9-1-1 dispatch call from her number and they could hear a child. She explained what happened and thankfully no police came out to the house. Yikes!
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March 6th, 2010 | Tags: accidental dialing, baby fingers, calling 911, cell phone play | Category: Child Care, Family | Leave a comment
