So I got this phone call today....

[Softball]

....from a guy with a company called http://www.netsolutionsonline.com/?

This guy calls me and wants me to sign up ($199 to $499) for this home based business where all I have to do is advertise web sites for up to (4) different online businesses. The businesses are: 1) Web Healthcare ($60/month for a family of 4), {this sounds to good to be true}, 2) Web Based Mall, where you point friends and family that order items online from stores such as Walmart, iTunes, 1-800 Flowers, etc... and you get from 1% to 12% of each sale, and 3) Web based mortage referrals where you get $100 for every 7 referrals to an online mortage company, and 4) is this business of getting other people to sign up for this program at Netsolutions Online. (50% commission).

The offer was this, (1) of the above listed businesses for $199, (2) for $349, and all (4) for $499. I'll be honest, I think the businesses have the potential to work, but I really do not want to fork out $199 to $499 to someone I just met on the phone. I have always told myself, if it is too good to be true, it probably is.

Anyone else have any experience with this company or does this sound like a scam? I did a whois on the domain name and it was created on 10-24-08, seems a little suspicious to me.

[Grifter]

This appears to be a pyramid scheme of some sort. I would stay clear. When I first starting selling things on the web, I fell prey to a similar scheme where a web design company offered to set-up a website for me for 200.00 dollars, but in the end it ended up being a referral portal and a faulty ID. I've never felt so stupid. I knew it was a scam, but somehow I talked myself into it. I wanted to believe. For 200.00 I'm a lot smarter and thankfully I haven't made the same mistake since.

[Hammer]

sounds like a lotta BS to me. you are supposed to give them money?

how do you have to advertise? or do you have to get folks to sign up and use you as their reference? if you do, Grif is right - typical pyramid scheme.

also way too new a domain to have much track record.

[Softball]

This sounds a bit like what Grif described. I am not going to do it, but I just wanted to see if anyone here has heard of this business model or company.

[daofcmacg]

I was just thinking the same thing as soon as I read you pay $199 to $499, last I checked dosen't someone pay you to advertise on your site?

DA

[daofcmacg]

Not to steal your thunder softball but on a related note I got a call a couple days ago about toner for our copiers at work. Mind you we have a lease agreement with Ikon that will not change during the duration of the current contract (another two years). She says she is from Ricoh (God I can't wait to get rid of these dayum things) Customer Care and that our price for toner has gone up from 150 a bottle to 189 a bottle now I'm thinking wow I pay per click not per bottle so I played along for a bit and let her speak (I knew she needed to fax me something and get my signature for approval, this was done last year almost the same way) so when she is done with her whole speach I tell her you do know that we have a contract with Ikon that is not up for two years and if our account was turned over to Ricoh since Ricoh merged with Ikon not to long ago please give me your full name and number plus the name and number of our account Manager at Ricoh so I can get both the new account manager and my current Ikon Account manager on the phone and sort this thing out. She paused and I could hear her mind racing and the only answer it could come up with was hang the phone up which she did. I knew this was a hoax when I rechecked the caller id and it read unknown.

So yes its amazing how a phone conversation can get you to thinking more than you should and the fact that it has come to that is amazing in itself. It seems that there are more scams out there and virtually a endless number of them both old (just tweaked and respun) and new everyday. Our Government needs to do more to stop this madness, and in the same breath give these companies 700 billion to bail their asses out and leave us the common joe out here to fend, fight, scrap and sooner or later die for ourselves.

DA

[PanzerMeyer]

I would have hung up on that guy after about the first 15 seconds.

[Buffalo Six]

heh if its not number I know or is a 1-888 or [Out of Area]....they get the machine

Softball this sounds like a scam....as your already figured out.

[Grifter]

But a good question to ask SB. You're better off asking now then regretting later. Believe you me.