Anyone ever dealt with Heritage Web Solutions?

September 11, 2007 5:15 PM

Anyone ever dealt with Heritage Web Solutions?

So I did something I never do, which is click on a Google ad, and then I did something I _really_ never do, which is answer an ad for "work at home" work. I got an e-mail back from Heritage Web Solutions with a freelance work-at-home web design gig. A google search shows that they are a real company based on Utah and that some people like them and some people hate them, but I can't find anything about whether the work at home thing is really legit or if it's somehow a rip-off. This falls into the gray area of "might be good, probably a rip-off" so I'm curious to see if anyone knows anything more about this.

posted by katyjack to work & money (5 comments total)

Is it too good to be for real? I.e., does the advertisement make you feel like you'd either:

A. Make some money doing practically nothing.
B. Make lots of money doing a something.

If so, it's a scam.
posted by odinsdream at 6:01 PM on September 11, 2007

For what it is worth, Utah is a hotbed of dicey businesses.
posted by Good Brain at 6:59 PM on September 11, 2007

Well, they were just in the newspaper around here today for moving from Salt Lake City to Provo to attract more BYU students. This could mean:

A: They want good, hardworking, pioneer stock; not those unreliable heathen you get in Salt Lake

B: They have a hard time retaining employees, and they can't attract U of U students, but they know BYU students will gladly take some really crappy jobs.

(The plethora of pest control or security system sales companies that advertise for summer jobs here is truly amazing. There also seem to be a huge amount of "independent distributors" for MLM companies here -- how could your friends at church not want to buy/sell the latest overpriced vitamins you're hawking?)

I'm guessing B. Especially if they are also posting "work-from home" ads -- recruiting full-time students OR stay-at-home moms could be interpreted charitably, but recruiting both seems desperate.
posted by rossmik at 7:46 PM on September 11, 2007

I'm sure you know that if you have to pay anything or buy anything in order to work from home you should run away.
posted by Gungho at 8:05 PM on September 11, 2007

Wow. After checking out the posts on this site (which was one of the first Google results, right above this question!), I wouldn't work for them, hire them, or even click on their name again. If you're asking "will you get paid?" I can't say for sure, but I'm guessing you might. If the question is, "will you be involved with scamming people out of their money," I think the answer is quite probably. And people who are willing to scam customers are generally willing to scam employees.
posted by Banky_Edwards at 8:07 PM on September 11, 2007