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So I was looking at the Today site and I saw advertisements for making money on the Internet.  The add even had comments from readers and some of them admitted to have tried the suggestions in the add and claimed to have made decent money right away.  This intrigued me so I decided to give it a try.

 I followed the link and it took me to a web-page that asked for my name and credit card information.  I gave it.  On the easy Google Cash site, they processed a $1.97 charge and promised an email confirmation which I didn’t receive until a few days later.  The ad on Today also suggested another link on EBay tutorials.  I paid another $1.97 and was given a link, a user-name and a password.  Sure enough, the site gave me access to live tutorials on how best to use EBay.

 However, a little while after I signed up for all of this, I got a call from an individual who claimed to work for a marketing company in connection with the Google Cash offer I had signed up for.  He said that he was interviewing me to see if I was the right candidate for a success story.  He then asked me a bunch of personal questions about my finances, martial status, debt, etc.  He kept asking me questions like “Would you say that it takes money to make money?”.  He then told me that the program essentially involves starting an online business.  These guys provide you with the advertising (at a cost) and you pick what you want to sell online.  They gave me an example of two people who did the same and made a ton of money.  Well that’s all good but I still have to come up with what I’m going to sell.  In the advertisement, they make it sound like you can start right into making money as soon as you follow their easy steps.  What they don’t tell you is that some guy is going to call you and say that you need to invest $5K to $10K. 

My view?  I wouldn’t say that it is a scam but I would say that it is misleading.  I don’t have that kind of money to invest and certainly am not thinking of starting my own business, I just wanted some extra income.  So, if you do not have an entrepreneurial spirit and don’t have money to invest, don’t bother filling out the information.  If you do, good luck.  You have as good a chance as the other thousands of people that responded to the same add.  After all the abysmal statistics of the number of businesses that fail applies also to the online world.  If you pick a product that’s not in demand, all the advertising in the world ‘aint gonna help ya.