I've just started working freelance from home doing telesales.
I started working for one company generating leads and interest but I never seemed to get any commission as I had to pass the customer over once I'd got their interest for the company I worked for to close the sale and I don't think they were being honest with me about sales they had closed. They also started demanding I do 3 hours worth of admin and reports at the end of each week. All for free, on a commission only basis. I had also told them that I would be doing a maximum of 10 hours per week yet they hounded me day and night asking me to do more calls and expected me to do a 50+ hours week. I stopped working for them.
I then had another company approach me, who were selling financial products. For FREE they wanted me to source leads, phone leads, get them to agree to getting a call from a financial call centre, and then ONLY if the person in the call centre managed to sell them a product would I get any money. So in theory I could work for hours and hours and hours and get NOTHING if the person from the call centre was a rubbish salesperson.
And now I've been approached by another company, who again want me to work for free, and have set all these terms and conditions about how I can get paid. I said that no, I work for an hourly rate and they were genuinely shocked and put out that I didn't want to work for free. In the past when I've done commission only telesales I've got commission for every interested lead I've had, its certainly been a lot easier to earn from than these companies make it.
I think companies just want a freebie and want to rip people off!