My friend 'Lauren' has been a SAHM for over 10 years. she recent decided to go back to work part time but has really struggle to find anything with being unemployed for over a decade.
A few weeks ago she applied for an online sales job on the job centre website, the employer contacted her a week later and offered her a telephone interview.
The man she spoke to told her that he was the MD of a small electrical repair company and a year ago expanded his company to include buying and selling secondhand gadgets.
He now has a small team of people who he works with, basically they buy broken smart phones, laptops and tablets, fix them and then sell them.
The company has been doing well and they want to expand to online selling, and this is what he was advertising for.
He is looking for someone to make adverts and sell the reconditioned gadgets on eBay.
He said he would pay £50 for every item sold and 10% of the final value to her.
It all sounded great, until she mentioned these parts.
He said he wanted to trial it first so wanted someone willing to use their own eBay account for the first few sales as he didn't want to go to the haste of setting up a selling account if it wasn't going to be successful.
He also said that he would take photos and send them to Lauren, she would do the listing, sell the item, take the payment, forward it to him and then he would post the item and send her the tracking details to give to the buyer.
As soon as she told me she wouldn't be handling the items I thought it sounded dodgy, but when she said that the guy wants her to take the money and send it into him I was convinced it was a scam but she said the MD assured her that it was all above board and that she would have the tracking details to prove the item had been sent.
I would like the ever honest opinions of MN please, what do you think of this job?
I will be showing Lauren this thread to convince her this is a scam