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(Chicago Sun-Times)   Seventy thousand people call Better Business Bureau after discovering you can't "earn an excellent weekly income, working from home," and "help solve your money troubles" by stuffing envelopes at home   (suntimes.com) divider line 75
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2003-11-24 08:53:35 AM
Tards.
 
2003-11-24 09:12:13 AM
Don't people ever think that making about $30k stuffing envelopes sounds a bit suspicious? I've even seen some suggesting you can make six figures a year. I mean, if that was possible, I'd be sorely tempted myself. I could sit at home in my undies watching Ricki Lake and eating Beefaroni, all while doing something as simple as envelope stuffing.
 
2003-11-24 09:29:55 AM
watching Ricki Lake and eating Beefaroni

Brrrr, that would be enough to make me go get a real job.
 
2003-11-24 09:34:12 AM
GIS for stuffing envelopes

 
2003-11-24 09:50:59 AM
watching Ricki Lake and eating Beefaroni

Brrrr, that would be enough to make me go get a real job


St_Francis_P: I, of course, would never do such a thing. I'm just saying it would be an option. Just as fapping all day to Michael Jackson's mugshot is an option. Again, I would never do such a thing.
 
2003-11-24 09:57:07 AM
Heh. I have a real job, now shut up - you're interupting my hourly anti-bush rant reading time.
 
2003-11-24 10:07:51 AM
I applied for a job where I'd stuff envelopes. Sadly it wasn't even close to what I thought it was.
 
2003-11-24 10:52:31 AM
I wonder what would happen if you stuffed envelopes with invoices for random things and sent them to various companies. Wonder if anyone would pay.
 
2003-11-24 11:18:37 AM
EatHam

I'm sure somebody would pay. Chances are, however, it would be the feds, paying you a visit.
 
2003-11-24 12:09:18 PM
What's wrong with eating Ricki Lake and watching Beefaroni?
 
2003-11-24 12:10:22 PM
I betcha all the people that complained had enlarged peninses that were %5 bigger than they were three weeks ago.
 
2003-11-24 12:10:27 PM
Yeah, and the Easter Bunny is real too!

"There's one born every minute" P.T. Barnum
 
2003-11-24 12:11:07 PM
My wife was unable to find work (for a salary worth getting dressed in the morning) in our local market for a long time. She looked into several "Work at Home" options against my better judgement. I assumed it was all Bull Shannon, but she felt there might be something to it. Guess what??? It's all Bull farking Shannon... Unless, of course, you are willing to scam. Then there is PLENTY of money to go around...

Too bad we believe in Karma...
 
2003-11-24 12:11:24 PM
Aren't there special yellow buses for people like that?
 
2003-11-24 12:14:10 PM
Pfft. Suckers. Everyone knows the big money is in being a "secret shopper" I can make a fortune while shopping in the stores I normally shop at.
 
2003-11-24 12:15:32 PM

" They just wanted to supplement their income," Bernas said. "They see green at the end of the tunnel, unfortunately.""


Now the only color they can see at the end of the tunnel is brown since the were so royally buttfarked.

 
2003-11-24 12:15:39 PM
P.T Barnum was right! There really IS a sucker born every minute.
 
2003-11-24 12:15:44 PM
Vinnie Beefarino
 
2003-11-24 12:15:59 PM
Don Lapri would be proud
 
2003-11-24 12:18:10 PM
You know, ripping off the lazy and/or stupid is a long standing tradition, it's in the constitution infact.



/learning how to buy property for $.17 and sell it for HUGE PROFITS
 
2003-11-24 12:19:25 PM
Sorry...but I just have to give a big farking laugh at the degenerate retards who thought this was legit.... [insert riotous laughter] ....


thank you
 
2003-11-24 12:19:32 PM
Did anyone else notice that the article has an ad for an envelope stuffing scam on the bottom.

Work At Homewww.PostalMarketing.com
Earn 2,500-5,000 Weekly PT or FT Stuffing and Mailing Envelopes
 
2003-11-24 12:21:34 PM
"I was just giving the poor girl a ride home..."

/Eddie Murphy
 
2003-11-24 12:22:54 PM
Someone keeps putting stuff like this up in my neighborhood. I tear them down, they keep putting them back up. I keep hoping that the asshat that keeps putting em up confronts me about it, but people like that tend to prey on the weak so I figure he wouldn't have the sac...

I'm thinking I may get all my friends to start calling the guy, waste his time and basically keep him from talking to real suckers.
 
2003-11-24 12:25:25 PM
I had a girlfriend once who wanted to do one of these envelope stuffing things when she saw an ad that said something to the effect of, "Make up to $5 per envelope you stuff! Work from home! etc."

She thought it would be a good idea to quit her job with the school district and stuff envelopes for $5 each. She wasn't too bright.

I finally got it into her head that it made no sense for them to pay that much for an envelope stuffer when they can buy a machine that stuffs 10,000 an hour, or if they were legit they could hire minimum wage workers to do.

Duh!
 
2003-11-24 12:29:04 PM
Ok let me think which is more cost efficient and productive for a business

A. send out envelopes around the country and stickers to people working at home. Who must then put the addresses which have been printed out by a printer on sticky paper on the envelopes and send them out.


B. Buy some printers that print address on envelopes and print the addresses.

This is a tricky one.
 
2003-11-24 12:30:13 PM
Uhhh, why is this important news? A bunch of morons responded to SPAM email ads and they got screwed over. Big suprise. Move along.
 
2003-11-24 12:31:32 PM
The only way to make out in a pyramid scheme is to start your own.
 
2003-11-24 12:31:46 PM
To: Posters of stupid posts about how stupid and lazy these folkal are
Re: Stupid posts about how stupid these folkal are

It may come as a surprise to learn that not everyone in the word is as intelligent as the average farker. We have not all been as blessed with such amazing thinkological abilities to spot such obvious fakeries and improbablehoods.

OllieWilliams:

That website of yours uses <blink> tags, there is no way that it is a real business. That alone would make me suspicious.
 
2003-11-24 12:36:20 PM
A girl I went to school with graduated with a degree in Public Relations, moved to NYC and got a job as a spam e-mail writer (no porn, she swears). What a waste. She's now blocked from my AIM.

For the record, I always told her she would end up selling her soul.
 
2003-11-24 12:41:32 PM
I work from home. The only envelope I stuff is an FedEx envelope with me expense report each Saturday.
 
2003-11-24 12:43:36 PM
Silly people..... haven't they learned that the only, one TRUE way to make easy money is by the divine guidance of Dave DelDotto?
 
2003-11-24 12:45:25 PM
What are all the lazy farkers going to do, take a break from their pro-Bush propaganda spouting?
 
2003-11-24 12:46:50 PM
It's just sad that people waste their time on these things, when they could be loosing 30 lbs in 30 days, and turning their life around by buying books on government loan programs.
 
2003-11-24 12:47:50 PM
i named my secret girlfriend "envelopes"
put it together...
 
2003-11-24 12:49:08 PM
"...unsophisticated people..."

Ha. Dumbasses.
 
2003-11-24 12:49:54 PM
Yeah, but in the end, will it make my penis bigger?
 
2003-11-24 12:51:36 PM
Find out how to get your Fark submissions posted! Send me $5.



/fishing
 
2003-11-24 12:57:00 PM
The only way to make out in a pyramid scheme is to start your own

Currently starting my own soap, lip balm, moisturiser, shampoo business.

At this stage testing and making the products, picking out labels etc

I'm hoping down the line to start hiring distributors.
Yes my own pyramid company.
 
2003-11-24 12:59:35 PM
ARGH!! Jesus Farkin' Christ on an electric scooter! Can't we have one farkin' thread that someone doesn't change in to a political flamewar?
 
2003-11-24 01:01:46 PM
Some folk'll never believe the scam,
But then again, some folk'll,
Like Cletus, The Slack-Jawed Yokel

 
2003-11-24 01:02:12 PM
Guest - You make soap?
 
2003-11-24 01:02:14 PM
Anyone else see that the title of this article changed from 70,000 to seventy-thousand?
 
2003-11-24 01:04:33 PM
I hear Kelly Grant will be opening a room in the area pretty soon.
 
2003-11-24 01:05:22 PM
/ begin Ishkur's infamous 'marketing' rant
I hate marketers. Marketing, in its purest form, is the art of getting other people to do your work for you, and taking all the credit. Marketers are the most soulless, scumsucking parasites to ever walk on the face of the earth. At least microorganisms and bacteria aid in breaking down dead matter, and at least lawyers serve some function in the squabbling over our rights and freedoms, what the hell do marketers do? Nothing. Zero. The very nature of their job performance depends entirely on hype, deception and greed. People who become marketers have not the talent nor the originality nor the skill to create anything of their own accord, but they know how to lie very well. They have made an artform out of weaseling their way into what were once harmonious transactions to skim profits off them. They utilize smoke and mirrors plans of action as a conscious display of their relevance, they constantly find ways to foster non-existent needs in order to keep their position, they cause confusion that only they can solve and deliberately invent problems so that they can award themselves the task of coming up with solutions for them (or the converse: prolonging the problem to justify their continued usefulness by pretending to deal with it). Marketers are the type of people who over-inflate meagre tasks to make themselves appear more important than they really are. "Hey! I just held open the door for you! Look how much work I have to do in that. I should get paid, y0!" They strive any way they can for any edge, but for all the hard labour they do and resources they consume doing it, they still produce absolutely nothing. At all. True productive achievement does not depend on hype and oversaturation you dickwads. If 98% of all the marketing jobs in the world were suddenly eliminated, the world would be a far better, less stressful place.

/ end Ishkur's infamous 'marketing' rant
 
2003-11-24 01:06:07 PM
Pyramid schemes are a young man's game. I'm just an old Giza.
 
2003-11-24 01:09:50 PM
The "real money" is acting as an agent for deposed kings, prime ministers, business leaders and military officials from Nigeria. Never leave home and collect the big $$$.
 
2003-11-24 01:10:32 PM
Democrat Farker: You're racist and love guns and Jesus!

Republican Farker: You don't have a job and are poor and feel bad for being white.

Okay, now that's out of the way......
 
2003-11-24 01:11:06 PM
2003-11-24 12:19:32 PM OllieWilliams

Saw it. Laughed so hard, I had to point it out to co-workers.
 
2003-11-24 01:14:50 PM
Make money at home by signing up for mass mailing schemes then suiing when you don't make any money! Great opportunity!
 
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