Most people willing to start a work at home business do at least one of two major mistakes. First, they sign a contract with scammers who promise them excellent work opportunity only to cheat them out of their money and/or making them work free of charge. This is much more common than you may think! However, even if one avoids scammers, there is also another pitfall - a business which does not bring regular profits home. Unless you are able to start a business which brings regular, stable profit, working at home may become dangerous to your family finances. Why do we discuss those problems in the article about envelope stuffing? Read on and you'll soon find it out.

Things they never tell you - If you hear a proposition which sounds REALLY interesting, it is probably too good to be true. For instance, if you hear that you get paid $1.50 per each envelope stuffed, this sounds great. You can easily make more than a professional graphic designer simply by stuffing envelopes. Well, there is a catch. First of course, you have to buy a starting kit - this can be quite costly (usually a few hundred dollars for stuff you can make yourself for $10). What is more, and they never tell you that until it is too late, you get paid only for those envelopes whose receivers decide to sign up. In short, you get paid only if the company gets paid. Most of the time it means that all you can hope for is getting paid for a 5-15% of your envelopes. $2 per hour does not sound too well, don't they?

Information is power - Scammers never tell you exactly how much you will earn, what you are going to do and what it takes to actually do the job. If you are asked do sign up on their website first, or buy their starting kit in order to receive more information, this is not a business opportunity. This is thievery. When you buy the kit, you may find out that, for example, you have to advertise envelope stuffing business among your friends and relatives and are paid for their sign ups rather than anything else. Or that you really have to find the addresses to send letters, or that you even have to send the letters yourself for your own money!

Warranty - While all businesses are risky, legitimate companies always issue some warranties or assign some minimal payment you receive regardless of the conversion rate. That's how real legitimate business is done. The point is that there are virtually no envelope stuffing companies which offer minimal payments or any other guarantee.

To sum everything up: There is virtually no such thing as a legitimate envelope stuffing business. It's that simple. Look elsewhere, there are plenty of legitimate businesses to associate with.