Is eHow a Scam?

Dawnella said... on October 16th, 2009 at 1:28 PM

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I have been with ehow for over a year, and up until now have never had a problem with them. However, they have refused to pay me for the month of September, and I have received no email notification of any problem. I messaged the managers, total waste of time, customer service only responds with a generic form letter, and my last ditch effort is demand media, which owns ehow. Noone can give me a reason for why I can't be paid and Im going to delete all of my articles because I don't trust this site anymore. Thank you for writing this great article! Ehow is a scam as far as I'm concerned.

marie.thomas said... on September 4th, 2009 at 11:53 PM

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I agree. If you have an account on ehow, check out the profile of Dianna Bocco. She is a 'phantom writer' on ehow -- a Novice writer with 0 points - AFTER WRITING well over 600 articles listed on her account!! She was a "Member since Mar 2 09" AND she was "last seen on Mar 2 -09". I ran across others as well, having written hundred of articles, yet with no points, no friends, no recommendations, no stars, and almost no comments. There are others - maybe many - maybe making money off your deleted articles? I wrote for ehow for 5-6 months - I am a published author and content writer and I paid no attention to blogs where people said they wrote for ehow and had problems, or people who said they suddenly had some of their articles deleted. I knew I was a decent writer and it wouldn't happen to my stuff. You're right - many have poor spelling and are not well punctuated. I just thought it was a great place that accepted anyone who tried hard to write. I liked them for that. I found good ideas not well-expressed, but I and many others looked past the typos and were touched by them. SO I assumed that those who had articles deleted or accounts suddenly closed were because Ehow was upgrading the standards they expected of their writers. I figured that was their prerogative-- until it happened to me, with no explanation. I got an email saying they were purging articles and several of my articles - several of my better paying ones too - were deleted. There was nothing wrong with them - reason given waas something "Legacy rejection". One wasn't deleted - and when I clicked on it, it to me to to Dianna Bocco's account to a similar article page. My friends and following were coming to read and comment on my articles because I read and commented on theirs. But when they clicked on my page, they were linked to Diana's profile. When they clicked on my article, they were linked to her article. And since she doesn't exist, who is earning the money? Either the ehow programmers are the sloppiest ones going, or there is something fishy going on at ehow. When I emailed them, I got a reply saying they had a 'broken connection' and they were working on it. It's been weeks and I've heard nothing further. Pay attention to this article - it's a common sense caution about the ehow web site. It's disappointing, because I was comparing my earnings with several other content sites, and for the same number of articles I wrote, they paid the best - but I won't be writing for them again. Beware of ehow and if you do write for them, be sure to save your drafts and photos.