# Has anyone here replied to a job ad stating you can make $1,000 a week working from home?

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**Created:** [July 1, 2009, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-replied-to-a-job-ad-stating-you-can-make-1-000-a-week-working-from-home/501625 "2009-07-01T20:26:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-replied-to-a-job-ad-stating-you-can-make-1-000-a-week-working-from-home/501625/21 "2009-07-03T21:19:12Z")

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I work a “real” job from home and I don’t even make $1000/week.

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**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-replied-to-a-job-ad-stating-you-can-make-1-000-a-week-working-from-home/501625/22 "2009-07-03T22:06:46Z")

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> [@TheMadHun](#):
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> I got sucked into this one in college as well. The premise was you’d sell Cutco Knives- subsidiary of Alcoa Aluminum. They supposedly would supply the “leads” (people who entered their name to win a boat at the last home show) But you had to buy a full set of sample knives, a couple hundred dollars. But when I and the other suckers realized that people entering boat drawings had no interest in knives, we all bailed out and sold the samples to our long-suffering relatives.

To be fair, while Vector Marketing and Cutco knives are probably a waste of time to get involved with, they aren’t nearly as polluting and annoying as Herbalife. They don’t even push their recruits to do more recruiting - they just want them to sell knives. Of course, most people who want knives as expensive as Cutco ones don’t want to buy them through college-aged salespeople.

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