Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, along comes that greedy ehow shark once again. This time they are pulling off the art of the $80 scam. Say what? Sounds kind of silly, until you begin to see the entire picture.

Back a while ago ehow announced it would begin to pay out $80 per article to hand selected ehow writers. Needless to say, many became excited at the thought of making $80 per article compared to the peanuts they had been paid up intil now. So people began to ask, how can we get in on the deal. Well, don't saddle up the horse just yet. If you know anything about ehow, its that they have mastered the art of double speak. No no, we didn't mean you ehow writers, we meant DS writers who also place their articles onto ehow.

that's what we meant to say when we said ehow writers. DS writers. So many just threw up their hands and passed the whole thing off as yet one more example of ehows lack of communication.

But was it really a lack of communication, or was something else much darker taking place, something well thought out ahead of time? Glad you asked. Breaking in blogs and news stories all across the UK yesterday was stories cheering on the arrival of ehow, proclaiming that ehow pays its top writers $80 per article. Now I would like to think my mama didn't raise any fools, and you can smell this skunk a mile away. Ehow knew exactly what it was doing when it announced ehow writers would be making $80 an article, when in fact it wasn't talking about ehow writers at all. That statement was put out there so they could feed it to a news hungry media over in the UK, and the UK took the bait without as much as asking any questions at all of ehow. In bold pring, ehow to pay writers $80 nan article. Unbelievable, Once again ehow the esow has proven they are indeed the kings when it comes to making dimes do the work of dollars. And talk about free press.

I have news for our over seas friends, they are about to be hit with one of the biggest scam machines out there. ehow writers do not get paid $80 per article nor will they ever get paid that much.
Another story put it this way, some ehow writers will get paid $80 an article, while others can expect to make between $3 to $75 per article. Say what? Poor bastards, they don't know what's about to hit them. This sow can't squeal, and there ain't enough scraps in the UK to satisfy its hunger.

Check out this news story and see how misleading ehow has been with the $80 per article scam they are now running. http://psmithjournalist.com/20.....e-d…

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, along comes that greedy ehow shark once again. This time they are pulling off the art of the $80 scam. Say what? Sounds kind of silly, until you begin to see the entire picture.

Back a while ago ehow announced it would begin to pay out $80 per article to hand selected ehow writers. Needless to say, many became excited at the thought of making $80 per article compared to the peanuts they had been paid up intil now. So people began to ask, how can we get in on the deal. Well, don't saddle up the horse just yet. If you know anything about ehow, its that they have mastered the art of double speak. No no, we didn't mean you ehow writers, we meant DS writers who also place their articles onto ehow.

that's what we meant to say when we said ehow writers. DS writers. So many just threw up their hands and passed the whole thing off as yet one more example of ehows lack of communication.

But was it really a lack of communication, or was something else much darker taking place, something well thought out ahead of time? Glad you asked. Breaking in blogs and news stories all across the UK yesterday was stories cheering on the arrival of ehow, proclaiming that ehow pays its top writers $80 per article. Now I would like to think my mama didn't raise any fools, and you can smell this skunk a mile away. Ehow knew exactly what it was doing when it announced ehow writers would be making $80 an article, when in fact it wasn't talking about ehow writers at all. That statement was put out there so they could feed it to a news hungry media over in the UK, and the UK took the bait without as much as asking any questions at all of ehow. In bold pring, ehow to pay writers $80 nan article. Unbelievable, Once again ehow the esow has proven they are indeed the kings when it comes to making dimes do the work of dollars. And talk about free press.

I have news for our over seas friends, they are about to be hit with one of the biggest scam machines out there. ehow writers do not get paid $80 per article nor will they ever get paid that much.
Another story put it this way, some ehow writers will get paid $80 an article, while others can expect to make between $3 to $75 per article. Say what? Poor bastards, they don't know what's about to hit them. This sow can't squeal, and there ain't enough scraps in the UK to satisfy its hunger.

Check out this news story and see how misleading ehow has been with the $80 per article scam they are now running. http://psmithjournalist.com/20.....e-d…

The lack of transparency is the biggest issue. I work in the IT industry, and I am very familiar with writing and publishing terms of service, privacy statements, etc. for web sites. The terms of service and writers compensation program rules are not written in a clear, concise manner.

EHow tried to empower their memebrship. They off-loaded the burden of monitoring members’ activities to the point that no one, even eHow, knows what the rules really are. The big “R” [retrograde] is buried in his/her own BS.

Ehow.com is a site that the FTC needs to take a close look at. A class action suit on behalf of writers would be appropriate. Has anyone looked into the past accusations our Federal Government has made about the key players in the Demand Media/Ehow organization?

No wonder the owners want to sell out. Dump and run before the whole thing collapses.

But you can thank them when you receive back compensation in February, because it is those 'disgruntled writers' that caused eHow to announce yesterday that they would pay back 'some' vague amount of stolen earnings.

Mr. Rosenblatt conveniently fails to address eHow writers when he claims- “We transparently pay a range of rates for various roles and assignments, and we generally target an hourly rate comparable with the average salary of a journalist. We’ve even created a program that enables frequent contributors to gain access to affordable health insurance and a grant program that helps them pursue their creative aspirations.”

eHow writers do not get any of those perks.

What happened with eHow and the UK situation was horrible. I agree that they should have had a system in place to at least compensate writers for the articles on the UK site. However, I think she may have been talking about the writers who left b/c they did not want to format their articles in a manner which suits eHow. Yes, the company does have some faults–and I do agree that eHow writers are missing many of those perks–but I’ve also seen forums and sites that are worse.