So I am starting to see more and more commercials on TV for these penny auction sites. I honestly thought to myself that it looked like fun and a good way to get some stuff for cheap, so I began to look into it a little more. Things are not as good as they seem.

I recently flew to Las Vegas from Chicago. Like most of us I used one of the travel websites and found a reasonable fare on Spirit. This was not the actual price that I would end up paying.

I bought into the slick advertising of the DeVry institute and I feel like it was a mistake. In the ads they are guaranteeing job placement for graduates and everything looks great.

Classmates.com which has turned into memory lane is a scam. Once they have your credit card you are stuck.

I know that this is my fault, but there are certain things that can be worked out between sensible people. I was renting a couch from Aaron’s and I was also getting ready to move. During the month of the move, I was running a little low on funds.

I received a sales call from someone representing US Online America Group, and he told me about an opportunity to make some extra money. The idea is that I pay them money to set up a website for me and then I get paid every time that someone buys something from the site.