I have no formal complaint to file against this company at present. However, their ad—placed on craigslist santa fe this week—revealed some pretty suspicious stuff. I reproduce it below in its entirety:
"article writers / bloggers needed. Compensation: $650+ weekly; employment type: part-time. Go to our website for more information. Www.Alluramedia.com"
Clicking on the weblink leads you to a completely differently named site, www.Writing-jobs.Net -- this site claims to broker thousands of freelance writing job opportunities for those who sign up to be members of the site. They charge a monthly $27 fee for membership Although they are as of tonight 12/17/15 offering a first-month's signup for $1), offer a money-back guarantee within 60 days, and claim to be seen on msnbc, entrepreneur.com, about.com, working mother, and other legitimate sites. They further claim I quote):
"when you join writing-jobs.Net you will:
Earn as much $30-$120 per hour
Get paid up to $50 per article
Get paid $500-$1,000 for short ebooks
Get cash from 1,000's of our daily high-paying writing jobs
All kinds of writing jobs from you to choose from
Flexible working hours, work when you want to
Write content anywhere in the world
No experience needed to join!"
Suspicion #1: they give no telephone number, fax number, email, or other explicit contact information for those interested. They have you fill out a form with your information instead.
Suspicion #2: they give no details on how a writer is selected for a given job. On legitimate sites, this is usually done via a bidding process, which is explained up front.
Suspicion #3: they require no experience needed "to join", but say nothing about the experience needed to land a job with one of their so-called numerous corporate contacts.
"clickbank is the retailer of products on this site. Clickbank® is a registered trademark of click sales, inc., a delaware corporation located at 917 s. Lusk street, suite 200, boise idaho, 83706, usa and used by permission. Clickbank's role as retailer does not constitute an endorsement, approval or review of these products or any claim, statement or opinion used in promotion of these products."
I've been using this for a couple of months now, and it's actually worked. I just do it a few hours a day when I have a chance. I've actually considered quitting my regular job to do this. I don't want to talk about how much exactly I get paid monthly, but we're paid every 15th and last day of the month. I can tell you however my Paypal always receives 4 figures on this days. In addition this site has been around since about 2009 I believe, and there has been no reports of scamming from them. So please don't judge books by their covers. You just gave it one star, that's like going on yelp and giving a restaurant you didn't even go in to one star because you don't like it's location.
Writing-Jobs.net Reviews
I have no formal complaint to file against this company at present. However, their ad—placed on craigslist santa fe this week—revealed some pretty suspicious stuff. I reproduce it below in its entirety:
"article writers / bloggers needed. Compensation: $650+ weekly; employment type: part-time. Go to our website for more information. Www.Alluramedia.com"
Clicking on the weblink leads you to a completely differently named site, www.Writing-jobs.Net -- this site claims to broker thousands of freelance writing job opportunities for those who sign up to be members of the site. They charge a monthly $27 fee for membership Although they are as of tonight 12/17/15 offering a first-month's signup for $1), offer a money-back guarantee within 60 days, and claim to be seen on msnbc, entrepreneur.com, about.com, working mother, and other legitimate sites. They further claim I quote):
"when you join writing-jobs.Net you will:
Earn as much $30-$120 per hour
Get paid up to $50 per article
Get paid $500-$1,000 for short ebooks
Get cash from 1,000's of our daily high-paying writing jobs
All kinds of writing jobs from you to choose from
Flexible working hours, work when you want to
Write content anywhere in the world
No experience needed to join!"
Suspicion #1: they give no telephone number, fax number, email, or other explicit contact information for those interested. They have you fill out a form with your information instead.
Suspicion #2: they give no details on how a writer is selected for a given job. On legitimate sites, this is usually done via a bidding process, which is explained up front.
Suspicion #3: they require no experience needed "to join", but say nothing about the experience needed to land a job with one of their so-called numerous corporate contacts.
"clickbank is the retailer of products on this site. Clickbank® is a registered trademark of click sales, inc., a delaware corporation located at 917 s. Lusk street, suite 200, boise idaho, 83706, usa and used by permission. Clickbank's role as retailer does not constitute an endorsement, approval or review of these products or any claim, statement or opinion used in promotion of these products."
Worth further investigation, it seems to me.
Judging a book by it's cover?
I've been using this for a couple of months now, and it's actually worked. I just do it a few hours a day when I have a chance. I've actually considered quitting my regular job to do this. I don't want to talk about how much exactly I get paid monthly, but we're paid every 15th and last day of the month. I can tell you however my Paypal always receives 4 figures on this days. In addition this site has been around since about 2009 I believe, and there has been no reports of scamming from them. So please don't judge books by their covers. You just gave it one star, that's like going on yelp and giving a restaurant you didn't even go in to one star because you don't like it's location.