Auction Job Finder Reviews
Is Catherine Thomas Legit or a Scam?
Auction Job Finder is a website that promises to show people a way to find work at home auction jobs. This is a term they’ve come up with to sum up the business of posting items on sites like eBay for profit.
They claim this is an easy opportunity anyone can use to easily turn a profit while working from home. They use Catherine Thomas as a spokesperson to share this program, claiming that she’s America’s top work at home consultant.
Now, as appealing as Auction Job Finder may sound there are a few things that you should know before you proceed. First, and most importantly, you need to understand that you are not actually applying for a job.
What’s the Auction Job Finder Opportunity All About?
As hard as they try to make it sound like you’ll actually be working for brand name companies helping them list items on eBay, that’s simply not the case. What the Auction Job Finder program does is introduce you to the wholesale/drop-ship business – auctioning off products at a discounted rate and keeping the difference as profit.
This is why if you join Auction Job Finder you’ll be instructed to sign up with another company, a wholesaling service that actually handles the merchandise. You’ll use your membership there to find and list the products you want on eBay; this service also charges an additional fee.
Along these lines it’s important to make the distinction that when Catherine Thomas says, “You can get paid as much as $5 for every single item you list,” it’s not necessarily a lie. But the key is that you only get paid when an item is sold, you won’t get paid just for listing items.
So is Auction-Job-Finder.net a Scam?
You may not know, but this is not the first version of this course. In fact, there have been a dozen of these websites along with a dozen “#1 Work at Home Consultants” touting this exact program.
The reason for this is simple; in the long run these programs end up generating lots of negative feedback, which obviously hurts sales. The marketers behind this program protect their bottom line by simply reinventing, or even just renaming, the product.
If you don’t believe me take a look at the last website they used, workathomepositionplacement .com, featuring Elizabeth Jackson as the spokesperson – surprise! They’re nearly identical.
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What’s important is to understand why this company generates so much negative feedback that they have to keep changing their image every few months. A legitimate business wouldn’t have to resort to these tactics as the product and customer service should be good enough to avoid being called a scam.
One thing that people find disingenuous about the company behind Auction Job Finder is that they’re always asking for more money. Even after you sign up for the drop-shipping and wholesaling service they pester you to join an upgraded coaching program which costs around $5,000.
You can’t tell people that you can make them rich with one program and in the next breath say that if you truly want to be successful then you need to invest in additional resources. This is how they’re able to ruin their reputation in a matter of months.
If you do want to learn how to sell on eBay there are legitimate resources out there, just know that when you’re trying to wholesale for profit it’s nothing more than a race to the bottom. Unless you can provide customers a cheaper price than the next guy you won’t make enough money to make it a worthwhile endeavor.
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March 13th, 2011 at 5:24 am
Hi all, just to let you know I joined this program, and minutes later realized it’s a scam, then I asked for refund of my subscription of over $200, waited for 2 weeks, the Catherine Thomas (Auction job finder) still have not responded. Please do not join them! They will cheat you and rip you off!
If anyone got your money back, pls post a comment. I suspect all have been ripped off!!!
February 2nd, 2011 at 3:09 am
I am one of those Gulliable, Naive fools. I am desperate to make an income as I lost my job before Xmas. I am 55 yrs and it is not easy to find a job at my age. And of course I got sucked into this one, especially when they tell you that you qualify for the position. I wish I had found this site first, as I already paid the $97.95 fee. And now I will have to go through the process of trying to get my money returned. I hope it will not be too difficult. I am so annoyed at my self. Why can’t these people have tighter regulations on these scams? What’s wrong with our Government that they can’t control these scammers? Or at least put up some sort of Alert! I’m well aware that there are those of you that will say it’s my own Fault.
January 11th, 2011 at 7:14 am
Thank you to all the people who commented, I was almost ready to sign up until I read all the comments thank you so much, I hope others will read these comments too.
January 4th, 2011 at 4:55 pm
Thank you so much for caring, i really dont have the money to be throwing it away!! Thanks for Caring.. as i almost fell for this BS!
December 27th, 2010 at 10:28 pm
For no other reason, when in doubt, check it out. If a host of information is given how good something is and you still do not still have the real information, they aren’t being up front with everything you need to make the right decision. Thank you for this opportunity to make a comment and for listing the truth about the job. I hope more people check this out and read the comments. It makes me feel good that I wasn’t taken in by all the fluff.
December 27th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Thank you for having this information available. I was beginning to believe the bs until I starting searching for more data. I did not join because of this data and information. again thank you :)
December 17th, 2010 at 10:47 am
Was tempted by this Auction Job Finder eBay Auction Listing Agent propaganda, but something made me slow down and do a Google search… and I found this website.
Thanks so much for providing this website, and helping us avoid these predators. You just saved me $200+ dollars – and probably a tremendous amount of angst and aggravation.
December 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Thanks for the warning on Catherine Thomas.
December 8th, 2010 at 2:54 am
What sort of people are they My acc was scammed out of $500
I have Rung them heaps I get a disconnected message
Emailed no response they left me broke, Does anyone know how to contact them please.
November 26th, 2010 at 9:56 am
Well, I did get sucked in and they have helped themselves to my bank account. I don’t know how to get rid of them… as for retrieving my money, I give up. What in the world can I do? They should be exposed in the worst way, really.
November 22nd, 2010 at 8:08 am
Well I almost signed up,yes thank God for this site. Usually I’m no fool, but I almost got sucked in.
Thanks every1 for your comments.
November 17th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
I paid my $197 to Actiondirect and sent a email and had no response. All I am looking for is a Legitimate job working from home so I can earn extra money so my husband doesn’t work long hours. Why do they keep on doing this? I found a email that gave me a number to get this money back? I have not tried it so good luck . The number is 1-877-214-1995
November 3rd, 2010 at 12:34 pm
I also am looking for a legitimate work at home job. Sewing, crafts or data entry. There are SO many scams out there. Why are people so cruel? If they have the brains to think up these programs, why do they not have the brains to make it successful? I wish I had an idea on how to make money at home. I would be thrilled and wouldn’t want to think about scamming people…. The people that do this are totally thoughtless and greedy!
October 13th, 2010 at 10:08 am
Auction Job Finder is a FINANCIAL PREDATOR as are their co-conspirators. M.O. always the same. Your financial problems are about to get worse. They sell/share your info with the big fish. Fortune Learning Systems, Ivy Capital, Wholesale Match, IC. They share the same website names, Mgt.etc. originate out of Utah. The money from the credit card co’s goes to IC in Nevada. BBB/utah rates them F as in FAILURE. They do not belong to the BBB. This Fraud has been allowed to continues for years. They take people for thousand of dollars each. They target seniors and Disabled Iraqi Vets. (Vets have the disability comp.$$$10-20,000). Where are our Federal agencies. THEY KNOW. Elected officials-out to lunch? or campainging?. Let them know we want action NOW.
October 12th, 2010 at 4:30 am
We just lost our $200, May i ask how Debra got her money back?
Scamming ass’.
October 8th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
i would like to know if the Catherine Thomas website is a scam to work on e-bay please help me out
September 8th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
I was just getting ready to click and give them my credit card information and I thought – Let me Google this because since this sounds too good to be true then it probably is and so I found this website that gave me the information. Thank you for saving me $200.00. I have already spent $3,000.00 on a business that I had no intentions of wanting to sell other than on the internet and I don’t know if I will get rid of that inventory. I thank you, thank you and thank you for this site. I am unemployed and can’t afford to lose any more money. I appreciate your help and honesty.
August 23rd, 2010 at 11:07 am
Just one other thing to note: All large companies do NOT use individuals to post content on auction sites. They use upload capabilities pulling the information from their own online catalogs/databases. RARELY will you ever find a company doing simple postings/listings by hand. It’s just too time consuming. All companies like ebay, google, etc. have APIs (application programming interfaces) that allow companies to connect their data to the websites listings.
Great POST!
August 22nd, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Well, well… after few phone calls and emails I did get my money back! Thank God for that, I will be more careful in the future….
August 17th, 2010 at 6:54 am
I wish I have read your comments, but…I was taken for a ride, I have paid $206.95 (special price!) with all their “guarantees” for a full refund…but I have had no response what so ever from them for a refund.I am physically sick with this experience! I want to warn all vulnerable people like me to keep off Auction Job Finder / Catherine Thomas / Kelly Richards and so on… Debs
August 12th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
Due to being a widow and not having enough income, they almost got me! Thank God I checked out Catherine Thomas name and found this page.
Thank you so much
Arlene
August 10th, 2010 at 11:35 am
I had a phone call today from “Richard” at 866-202-1960 saying that I had signed up for a $197.00 program with
CatherineThomasAuctionJobfinders.com. I told him I did not sign up. We talked for several minutes then he gave up and disconnected. I had talked with your company earlier–and if I left the impression that I was signing up, I am sorry because I do not want to sign on. If you have the impression that I did sign up, please cancel me out and do not submit any charges to me.
William Hubbard
August 9th, 2010 at 2:58 pm
Rest assured that every component of our program is legal. We operate within the guidelines set forth in our industry. Yes, there may be payment for testimonials and substitution of the users image, but the testimonials are 100% true and verified. Customers that submit a testimonial sign an affidavit attesting that the information is true. Any financial pay out is for the time and effort taken on the part of the customer to submit the testimonial. Some customers decline any pay out at all. It’s understand as well that not everyone wants their image to go viral on the internet for various reasons. If a customer wishes to share their story, but not their image, we comply. We apologize to those that are not supporters of our program and/or our industry, but we abide by all regulations that govern us. Again, if you have purchased our program and feel that it is not for you, you can simply refund your purchase.
August 6th, 2010 at 8:49 am
I too was starting to get sucked in until I did a search because something told me”this sounds way to easy, so it must be to good to be true”. I am almost always very carefull, probably because I am not desperate. So if you are one of those desperate people please take a step back and think about the opportunity before you pull the trigger. Always do some research before you give your money away. Thanks for the info!!!!
SR
July 28th, 2010 at 9:33 am
I would like to know how, if a business is supposed to be legit, but it’s really a “scam” that they can get away with using the logos and advertisements on their website to make the opportunity more attractive? True – they are offering a service, but isn’t this considered False Advertising if they are veering away from the person they claim to be? Are they paying rights to use the corporate logos? And are they paying royalties for the “news” announcer and the backdrop with the channel information? I’d really like to know. Any comments?
July 27th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Support Staff, clearly you work for these jerks.
Personally I’m of two minds about internet scams. First, the scammers are heartlessly taking advantage of people in serious financial straits, particularly with the economy going into meltdown as it is. This opportunistic scavenging means that, as far as life forms go, they fall somewhere between a cockroach and a vulture.
However, if people are too dumb to do a simple search about the program, they kind of deserve what they get. The fine print on their site alone warns you that results are not “typical”, and that the testimonials are paid for, and that the names and images of the attestants are false. They admit that “Catherine Thomas” and her image is fake also.
Always, always, always read the fine print. Always consider the source. A little caution now means a whole lot less pain later. Thank you SO much for the article and the link to less repulsive programs.
July 27th, 2010 at 7:57 am
Auction Job Finder is an excellent program for those that are willing to put in the work. We understand the program is not for everyone, which is why there is a 60 day refund policy. Any customer that is unsatisfied with what they’ve purchased can get their money back.
June 26th, 2010 at 6:10 am
Yeah so going through e mails see this. I thought it would direct me to something like Monster or jobing. No it was clearly a scam. It is very frustrating that people only want to help themselves and have such utter disregard for the welfare of the innocents they prey upon. There are too many people desperate for REAL jobs to feed their families and keep their homes to be pulling this kind of crap. There has to be a way people who don’t yet understand the evils of scams can be informed. That way the scammers no longer have any fuel… Life is SO depressing nowadays, don’t you think?
June 23rd, 2010 at 8:08 am
Thanks for the heads up. When you are deep with financial problems, you are open to the type of work they are promoting…offering…and being so sneaky. They are hitting on people who are trying to get help,need the income, and are very vulnerable. They are bottom feeders with no concern for you…only interest is lining there own pockets…while professing to be concerned with your well being.
June 22nd, 2010 at 6:56 pm
Came back to post one more thing i just found a really good website that shows you all the warning signs if a site is a scam site… NOT SURPRISED AUCTION JOB FINDER HIT 10 out of 10 of the descriptions it gave… alot of the same ones i pointed out too… plus it just gave a really good website where you can check on the domain names of the sites you find and yr not sure about… it will tell you all the valuable personal information on the domain name like who owns it… where they bought the domain name from… when it was created/ updated/and expires and the address of the owner… ONE REALLY GOOD TIP WAS IF THE SITE WAS CREATED LESS THAN 6 MONTHS AGO “FORGET IT” its a scam site… because like the owner of this website said once their domain names get blacklisted they just open another one… i checked on www.auction-job-finder.com and YEP the creation date was MAY 11 2010 only a month old and expires in a year so you know theyre only planning to have it up for only a couple of months…the page where you can check all personal info on any domain name is [www.domainwhitepages.com]… if youve been scammed by this site the the contact info listed on domainwhitepages.com is Administrative Contact:1(425)274-0657
Fax: 1(425)974-4730
PMB 368, 14150 NE 20th St – F1
C/O auction-job-finder.com
Bellevue, WA 98007
US
June 22nd, 2010 at 3:10 pm
forgot to add the comment box was ofcourse closed off to anymore comments too.. i actually went down to the end looking for it to be closed and wouldve been completely surprised if a comment box was actually open for real visitors to leave one
truthfully i dont think they tried that hard at all to look or sound convincing…
youve def got to be gullible and naive to fall for that crappy set up… but theres alot of easy ppl who fall for BS like this thats why hundreds of people have new scams running every min… pssh theyd be bums or living on unemployment checks if the world was filled with nothing but ppl like me
June 22nd, 2010 at 2:55 pm
another thing that was really cheesey and completely told me these people are lying and trying to be sneeky was the comments at the bottom of the page that are kind of mandatory now on all info giving websites… u know the comments just like these… they were all posted by time and no dates… thats never been done and wouldnt be unless yr hiding something and trying to be sneeky… and of course all of the comments were neutral to positive nothing negative at all… plus all the testimonial pics looked fake to me like model pics… the pic of one guy who was obviously mexican or hispanic had the last name OWEN under his pic… they couldve atleast thought up a fake hispanic name for the fake photo testimony on that guy
nope cant scam this B*** told u im anally non naive
:)~
June 22nd, 2010 at 2:43 pm
YEP knew it… i clicked on an ad on the side of a yahoo news clip on the april 20th oil spill advertising an At Home Job making $75 hour and clicked on it knowing i wasn’t doing nothing but making the ad holder of the page money by clicking on it… once i got on it the cheesey fake sounding name Auction Job Finder popped up with one of those cheap 10,000 worded pages that are always scam pages… they remind you of the first ever HTML websites online when the internet first started in the 90′s… im the complete opposite of naive probably anally non naive… so every word i read i was saying “yea right… too much BS storytelling… trying to hard to sell it get to the facts” “how much does it cost”… i got up to the part where it was trying to explain how it worked and once it started talking about putting ads up on EBAY with your own PERSONAL ACCOUNT which costs money YOU have to pay for… you dont just place an ad up on EBAY for free fools (owners of that site)… each posting costs like what $3 or $4 now? dk i havent tried EBAY since 2000… and then they said youd make $5 a posting… PSSH half of that is gone just with the ebay posting fee… anyway thats when i quit skimming over all the BS they had written and started looking for complaints online on the word :Auction Job Finder: and yep thats how i got here… no surprise but thnx for the real info i was looking to read on it
June 20th, 2010 at 7:23 pm
thanks for the feedback.
June 19th, 2010 at 6:31 pm
Geez, I too almost fell into this one. Is there anything on the internet as far as jobs go that isn’t a scam? Pretty frustrating. I’ll bet I’ve checked into at least 100 online jobs and they all end up being a bunch of you know what. Where have all the honest people gone?
June 19th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
It is amazing they can get away with this. I figured if they were using Ebay on their info, then it was legit. Thank you for saving me and my family more financial hardships!
June 19th, 2010 at 3:10 am
i was really getting into it because of the very good promises they in there but when i come across the charging fee for the training its there that i back-off. if indeed they i can earn about 500 dollars a month why they don’t deduct it from my first earning. i can even give them my one month earning just as for me to continue with this work..well it smells fishy so I google-search for Catherine Thomas only to find different names as you showed in here..
thank you so much for the concern
June 19th, 2010 at 12:06 am
Is it still possible to be an auction listing agent without going through that program?
June 18th, 2010 at 7:27 pm
Thanks for the info. As other commentators have said – it has prevented me from buying into a dead end endeavor.
I did a google search of “Catherine Thomas ebay’s Top Wok At Home Consultant” before going any further. That’s when I came across your site. That’s my advice to anyone who is presented with any of these potential scams.
Thanks again.
June 18th, 2010 at 6:15 pm
Thank you very much for an eye-opener analysis! Google search rocks!
June 18th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
if it sounds too good to be true it probably is!!
June 17th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
i was already filling out my information when it suddenly came to my mind to google-check who Catherine Thomas was and thank God i landed on your advice.
Its terrible how malicious people can be by trying to lure others into problems for their own selfish financial interests.
Thanks man,
Alfred
June 16th, 2010 at 8:35 am
Thanks for your info–just saved me 204 dollars that i don’t have to throw away!!!!! Again Thank U
June 15th, 2010 at 1:37 pm
Saved me from making a bad decision
June 13th, 2010 at 10:28 pm
Thank goodness for your honesty. Thank YOU for your honesty.
June 12th, 2010 at 10:19 pm
I agree with both Sharon and Mily. This prevented me from getting myself in deeper financially with this false hope of a “job.”
June 12th, 2010 at 3:19 pm
ditto from below comments..thanks Greg
June 11th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Thank you very much for the feedback. It prevented me from getting into something I would have regretted.
Thanks again
Sharon
June 11th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Thanks for the information. Very helpful :)