This article, deals with another aspect of product assembling. As the title suggests, it is about how you are set up to fail in your work of assembling crafts products at home right from the start. And by none other than the very company that you are working for.
Several people have tried working with assembling products and crafts at home and have had varying experiences. It is an established fact that a majority of the people who do try this work actually do not succeed.
There are several reasons attributed to this failure by the people as products are different and the company policies are different.
We have investigated several of the aspects of why product assembling is by large a controversial subject. In this article we bring forth one more opinion that belongs to certain faction of home based assemblers.
Some people claim that you are set up by the product assembling company to fail at making their craft. This is made possible by sending you raw materials that are faulty. You are a sample of the product that you to assemble which is made out of superior raw materials while the ones that are sent to you in your starter pack are not of the same high-quality. Which means that no matter how well you make your product it will never match the sample in design and workmanship.
Sometimes the techniques used in the sample are also different the same techniques are explicitly forbidden to the assembler. For example person speaks of the instance when he was trying to assemble a relatively simple product, that of a bracelet. This person says that the sample of the product had used the blob of adhesive the whole thing together. But assembler was forbidden to use any such gluing material. It was this person is expressed opinion that the bracelet was impossible to make without the use of this blob of glue.
You are forbidden by several companies to use materials of your own buying which means that you have to use the ones that they send and if they happen to be of inferior quality it goes without saying that you will find it impossible to make the craft up to the standards that the crafting company professes to have and want to maintain.
Another instance is that of a person speaking of the time when they tried to assemble a product that involved in electronic assembly. This person claims that they could not make the gadget to work the matter how hard they tried using the circuit that had been sent by the company. However when this person replaced the circuit sent to him by another circuit that he himself bought from the market gadget worked just fine. So what this person did in the end was use the circuit that he bought himself sent it to the company in our fully working condition. But to his surprise assemble electronic item was still refused on the grounds that it was not working properly and it was sent back to him for examination.
On receiving the product back this person opened up the gadget and discovered that it had already been opened at the company and tampered with.
We try and bring you as many different point of views and experiences regarding the product assembly jobs at home in order to give you a clearer picture of of what exactly is going on in this community. Product and craft assembling jobs have been touted as a great work at home opportunity but the truth is that like any other so-called opportunity they are riddled with scams. Most of the product assembling companies are dishonest untrustworthy.
By reading different reviews and opinions we hope to save you from losing a substantial sum of money these work at home offers. Some product assembling websites, electronic assembly in particular, charge a relatively high price registering with them which goes up to $200.
This kind of an offer brings up the red flags immediately. Stay as far away from them as you can.
Even if you do and that with a genuine product assembling company please realise that you are not going to make a substantial income working for them. This in spite of the tall claims that you might have read on several websites. Most of the people who are involved with craft assembling at home do it because they are fond of crafting as a hobby and not because they are hoping to make a great deal of money out of it. If making money is basic aim of getting a home based job then you should look at more realistic jobs and business options.
It’s not that it is not possible to make money working at home. But the people who are making money in this fashion do it on the basis of their skill and qualification.
Do not believe in any magical formula of get rich quick schemes that are so plentiful on the Internet. There are no get rich quick schemes there is no magical formula. If indeed someone had such a measure to make thousands of dollars every weak why would they be selling the same concept on the Internet just a few dollars? Would you? Think logically and reasonably. The same logic holds true for all the so-called home-based opportunities like data entry, envelope stuffing, form filling and so on.
These so-called jobs have the same thing in common. They promise you fantastical sums of money without requiring you to have any skill, experience or knowledge. Stay clear of of all of them.
The only people making money are the ones who are selling you these false promises.
I think this would apply to any work at home offer that has comments from clients I would think. I went to Survey Bank and when I got to the names and comments I googled each name……….. Of the seven names listed I only got one name/city match which leads me to believe these people dont even exist. Something to think about when you read the testimonials for these offers.
Thank you that was my point.
Hello Mrs. Coats,
I did not confuse what you were saying at all. I understood it precisely when you said they did not have any samples available. The informatin about their approval process and sample makikng was written just as a way of offering more information about the company.
What I was trying to suggest was that there are delays anywhere and everywhere. Even my favorite mart chooses to run out of the very items that I am looking for 20 minutes right before you need it!
However, I am surprised that they did not give you any reasons or a time frame in which to come up with a solution to the problem. That, indeed, would be unprofessional.
Yes that’s understandable but Cottage Industries said that they don’t know when a sample is available, that has nothing to do with me, but it would seem if you are company you don’t know what month or year a sample of your kit would be available? I’m not buying that. You confuse the idea of me making a sample with the company not having one avaiable a sample. I understand how important is to submit samples, also these work at home companies have been around since before I was born and around as lomg as the history of the circus. With this said I really could not wait months for a company to send me sample.
Hello Zipporah,
So great to hear from you again. I was wondering what you said about Cottage Industries. This company seems to have everything going for it, except for the fact that it is a product assembling company and we know not to trust those easily, don’t we…lol. But speaking in terms of the standing that the company has with the better business bureau and the profile that they present on their website, they sound pretty good at least almost as good as it can get in cinerea like this.
As for the fact that they did not seem to have the sample that you requested, in my experience some of the top businesses and companies can surprise you with their lack of organisation and unpreparedness.
A classic example in this case will be the phone companies. I cannot remember the number of times that I have called regarding billing related queries or special service related queries, when the customer service agent that I was speaking to was clueless. I seemed to know more about the features of my own connection than him/her.
Another thing that I have learnt from a few other people is that sometimes it does take time to work your way through with the product assembling companies, especially the genuine ones. I guess the the whole process is faster with the fraudulent companies because they know they are not getting into any kind of serious work commitment with you.
Taking the example of the NEC that a lot of people seem to be assembling crafts for, they also take some time in finally approving their craft assemblers. You have to keep sending in one sample of the crafts that you are interested in making for them till the time that you get it absolutely right. Till you don’t, they keep sending it back to you for redoing and further instructions. This can take weeks and sometimes a couple of months.
Another thing about the NEC is that they maintain a list of the people that are working for them as home assemblers that is viewable online.
Maybe you can cosider these factors when when giving Cottage Industries a try. I know that they implement the same procedure for approving the people to make crafts for them. You are required to make one sample of craft whose kit you have ordered and send it to them for approval. They usually get back to you in a couple of days with your inspection report to tell you if you have been approved or not.
Your information is so valuable, and I’m glad to be able to respond with my own personal experiences. As far as Cottage Industries my experience with them was brief, I sent for and paid for a box kit I received it in a timely fashion less than five days I examined the gift box kit and decided it was for me to try I then return the kit to Cottage Industry to exchange for a jewel miniature box kit that I could assemble two weeks went by and I did not received my exchange, so I called someone told me that they did not have any samples to send with my exchange kit and it will take two weeks or more time before they would have a sample in that specfic kit and they told me to keep calling to check. Well at that point, I decided I could not keep waiting and calling. Which would be a waste of my time totally. So I requested my money back and I received my refund Thursday. What I thought was odd was the fact they did not have a sample in the kit I requested that they advertise in their ad. They say how much money you can make how can you make any money if they never have samples? Why do they advertise and than act like why are you calling? There are lots companies I have mailed letters to on this website that have came back undeliverable to me. Why advertise if they don’t want to pay anyone to work.
Your article has been insightful, work at home opportunities such as paid surveys, paid typing jobs, get rich, and so on are all a waste of time. There are some trustworthy assemble craft companies. I wish that article can be written about the craft companies that actually pay for peoples work done. Also affiliate companies don’t work as well they never pay you for your part. There are a few websites that advertise work at home craft companies for free. A lot of times you don’t have to pay for a directory.
Dear Mrs. Coats,
Good to hear from you again. Paid surveys and typing jobs are indeed a waste of time. The experience that I have had with paid surveys is that if you sign up with a couple of reputable companies, and their is no need to buy a subscription from one of the survey websites for this, every now and then you find a survey in your email that is worth $5 – $10. So it comes as a pleasant surprise. Not that you make any substantial money out of answering surveys but because it is just simply fun to answer a few question knowing that you are getting paid to do it.!
And a large part of the intent behind this blog is to figure out which of the product assembling are actually good and genuine. Getting a feedback from people who have experience helps in this regard. It is exactly for the reason of shortlisting the real craft assembling companies that there is a TOP 5 COMPANIES section on the navigation. So far I am going with the NEC ( New England Crafters/ Magical Gift Company ) and the COTTAGE INDUSTRIES ( cotind.com). Apparently there are a lot of people working for the NEC. More than I have information of anyone working for others.
A good reason for putting these two up on the list is that both of them have their own stores for which they provide you the address. You can drop in any time and check them out for yourself.
Cotind.com even allows for the starter kit to be picked up directly from their offices. And you can drop off the batch of the finished crafts there as well, if you happen to work locally. I think a company promoting a direct interaction like between themselves and the home assemblers speaks well for them.
However, there is something that I find surprising about the NEC. As many people as they might have working for them and popular as they might be, they do not seem to be in a very good standing with the Better Business Bureau. They have a rating of F and it says in the report that the mail sent to them by the BBB was returned to them because of the address being undeliverable. I find this hard to understand as so many people are working for them.
The Cottage Industries seems to be in good standing with the Better Business Bureau, though.
What makes it hard to decide on the good companies is that one needs a multitude of people to vouch for them. Many people who find a good company do not like to share the experience as they feel it might do them harm. That is a very normal tendency of course. With so many scams and fraudulent work at home schemes, when someone does find something genuine they consider themselves very and want to keep it to themselves.
Which is why I would like to thank you again for your generous contributions about your own experiences with these product assembling companies.
Would you like to offer any opinions on the NEC and the COTTAGE INDUSTRIES..?