Becoming a Guru, pffft

I'm always on the look out for money making opportunities on the internet and when I find them, I try to post them here. For the most part I feel that my adventures in online endeavors has been successful. Currently, I'm earning a substantial "PT JOB" worth of earnings per month, only doing the things that I enjoy....playing on the net.

Tonight it was suggested to me to check out Guru.com, because it was right up my alley. Apprently it's a site, auction style, which enables you to bid on jobs. Some jobs are simple, such as filling in excel sheets, all the way to building and marketing a website. Sounded almost too good to be true and it was.

The site appears to be free all the way up through the registration process, until you attempt to search for a job. Once you begin searching through the 100's of jobs listed, you realize you must upgrade to bid on any of the decent ones. Seemed fair enough to me, they want to keep spammers out and a nominal fee is typical of such a site. What I didn't expect was their high prices.

Because I only do this for fun, experimentation, but take it seriously I was not willing to spend upwards of $80 per quarter just to bid on a job. By purchasing this Guru membership you were not guaranteed a job, nor were you even guaranteed payment by the employeers they let in. Merely, purchasing their guru membership enabled you to bid on the jobs listed.

Not all of the memberships were $80 per quarter mind you, some were in excess of $99 for categories such as Website guru and design guru's. If you were interested in the categories accounting or telemarketing however, it was only $29.99 to sign up. Christ, this just does not seem doable at this point in time.

I will do some more research and see what others have to say about this online freelancer "dream". There may be more than meets the eye, kind of like transformers...but first impressions left a stale taste in my mouth.

August 2, 2006 · Filed Under Making Money

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