Miss
Cleo RAISES FROM THE DEAD
by Lady Athena
Ever
wonder about the psychics you are calling and how this
industry works ?
There
are psychic recruiters out there which are called "call
centers" or "bookstores". They get people to
work for them (no psychic abilities required), then
the bookstores contract their services to a parent company
like ms cleo/prn was. There are hundreds and hundreds
of these bookstores out there. And no ones is taking
responsibility: the parent company contracts from the
bookstore (their not responsible) the bookstore has
a contract with the psychic (so their not responsible)
neither is the psychic who makes maybe $12.00 per "talk"
hour who has pressure on them for time lengths otherwise
they are out a job or their phone barely rings.
Nice
and easy way for the bookstores to rake in tons of money
and take no responsibility, have no overhead, not work,
but yet have employees who are independent contractors
so they can run the business as if IT IS an employee
and employer business. But they can set the rules tell
the "psychics" what they can and cannot to do. (And
if they don't do what the recruiters want, the "psychics"
will lose their jobs.
Yet,
as an independent contractor, the "psychic" MUST
work x amount of hours and they MUST have to
meet their time length average for the month.
What
does time length average mean? It means how
long you keep people on the phone line which they set
as a requirement. That is just ONE of the ways the recruiters
use to get as much money out of the caller as possible!
Now for the kicker: You call one of these
centers and your are paying anywhere from $ 2.99 to
4.99 per minute to speak to a psychic...like to know
how much of that the psychic receives? 20 to 50 cents
per minute! Most of the call centers I see out on the
web looking for help is paying $12.00 per hr (talk minute
hours)... Sound good HUH? Well, think about this; if
a reader is getting $12. an hour and you are paying
$4.99 per minute for a hour call the call center just
made $287.40 off of the call and the reader got $12.00.
Example: For a 4 hour work day the reader will get $
48.00 for the day the call center made $1,249.60 Now,
if they have 10 readers for that 4 hours of work the
call center is paying out $480.00 to the readers and
the call centered has earned $12,496.00, for NO work
on their part. And they have readers around the clock
and operate 24/7. The main company made it possible
for psychics to work for themselves, but now the recruiters
want to take over, and basically ruin the reputation
of the industry again!
The reader as an independent contractor MUST pay
out of that $12.00 all their expenses plus taxes and
the company has little to no expenses to pay out from
their $287.40 they made. Start adding those figure up...the
psychic is paid very little and the company is making
a ton of money. The Call centers owners have very little
to no over head expenses at all. Maybe a Home Office,
free websites, free classified ads on the web,or a pennysaver
help wanted ad. ( Gas for the car to deposit their huge
checks.) They are only paying the reader 4% of what
comes in. Most states sales taxes are more than that.
Who
do call centers hire...ANYONE... no experience
or psychic abilities required... (read script readers,
they give you all the tools and information you need.)
I
have downloaded a few things from some of these sites
that have PHONE PSYCHICS FOR HIRE...
Read it and be the judge!
NOW,
what's even more sickening is they have training manuals
on HOW to keep the customers on the phone. Not
to mention these readers are totally pressured with
call averages or call lengths, that's what your whole
job is based on, this is how much you get paid, and
whether or not you are fired, and how many calls a psychic
will get. If you make calls short and sweet (good for
the customer) you wont get many more calls, but the
person who drags them out (bad for the customer) is
the one they give the calls to! (This is what their
priority system is based on) Another BAD BAD thing about
call centers is they share customer information! So
if you call a psychic from one of these call centers,
chances are if you call another, (even one they may
"recommend") that "psychic" may already have your information
BEFORE you even place your call !!.
These
readers HAVE to worry about keeping customers on the
phone, and this is their 1st priority
since the company has set the whole pay scale around
it, and if they only have short call lengths they will
be fired! What does this mean to the client? Readers
that are ethical, wont be able to make a living, and
soon on huge relaying websites, all you will be talking
to are "psychics" who answered the ads, got the scripts,
and are giving you the raw deal.
Where
did these call centers come from you might ask?
Keep reading....
What's
pitiful here is: There are no laws
in place either on a state or federal level or the IRS.
It's all in print on the internet and the proof is out
there that these companies have a manual to train people
to con the callers out of their money per minute and
that the whole job is based and pressured around the
readers call averages and call time length keep their
jobs... NO ONE is Responsible.
There
are NO LAWS PROTECTING THE CONSUMER
FROM THESE HORRIBLE CONS STEALING THEIR MONEY,
and THESE independent contractors AS WELL are being
RIPPED OFF
AND
you thought
these scam artists were gone when the closed down Ms
Cleo ?
GUESS
AGAIN....
MS
CLEO RISES FROM HER GRAVE
Well,
these SAME recruiters/bookstores were the ONLY recruiters
for the "psychics" that answered the Miss Cleo/PRN lines,
(and if you haven't found out about how they scammed
people, click here) and now that Miss Cleo/PRN is out
of business, the call centers have now focused on a
huge relayed advice site and others, to saturate the
market with cheap wages for psychics, call length averages
to screw the clients, script readers and people who
have zero gifts and abilities taking YOUR call giving
YOU advice all in the name of GREED.
The
CALL CENTERS AND BOOKSTORES that the calls were relayed
too are ALL STILL in BUSINESS RIPPING OFF, BOTH AND
CUSTOMERS AND THE INDEPENDENTLY CONTRACTED PSYCHICS...
Making TONS of MONEY and taking no responsibility for
anything.
What
platform are they using TODAY to operate their businesses!
Good Question!
MANY
OF CALL CENTERS AND BOOKSTORES ARE ON A HUGE PSYCHIC
ADVICE PHONE SITE ON THE INTERNET. TODAY
THIS
SAME COMPANY IS SERVICING AND PROVIDING A PLATFORM FOR
THESE Fake Psychic COMPANIES TO STAY IN BUSINESS ON
THE INTERNET NOW..
AS
WELL AS PROMOTING THEM OUT ON THE INTERNET THROUGH THEIR
PARTNERSHIP WITH ALL THE "MAJOR WELL KNOWN" COMPANIES
ON THE INTERNET TODAY. Just same of these partnering
companies are MSN, AOL, About and Yahoo. Anywhere you
see a banner for free psychic readings.
So
the backbone operation of Ms Cleo/PRN
is bigger and stronger !
Once
they monopolized your TV set
NOW they monopolize your Internet..
SO
BUYER BEWARE
ARE
YOU CALLING A PSYCHIC WHO ONLY CARES
ABOUT HOW LONG THEY KEEP YOU ON THE PHONE,
So they can keep their job!
or
are you
Talking
to a professional honest ethical psychic
who's more concerned about doing a professional reading
and not keeping you on the phone as their 1st and only
priority.
PROTECT
YOURSELF-
STAY AWAY FROM CALL CENTER "PSYCHICS"
Complain
to the ftc,
the
internet fraud center,
and the companies you call!
LAWS
NEED TO BE PASSED NOW !!!
This
Time the backbone of Ms Cleo/PRN
needs to be cremated not burned!
(Excuse
me, I meant to say, independent contractors agreements)
posted:
November 2003
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