Although I was pissing mad that I wrote four posts with over a thousand words in total and then told to remove them because of credit card fraud, I did not lodge a complaint with them because they too are just as much a victim as I am.

However, after a few days, this marketplace paid me, and other people in the same boat, out of their own pocket. In my case, out of the four reviews, I was only paid for one. I don’t know about the rest of the bloggers but it is better than not getting paid at all.

Strangely, although the post has been removed about one day after going live, I still have traffic coming to my blog from searching for that particular keyword. That’s why, even when the posts have been removed, it is unfair to us if we are not paid. And it is also a loss to the marketplace to pay us with their own money since they have returned the advertising money to the rightful credit card owner.

But then, who said there’s no risk in doing business?

The administrators of one of the blog for pay marketplaces said that some members have complained that they never see any offers. So the administrators say it is because all the offers have been snapped up by the same ol’ bloggers.

And by the tone of it, they are blaming these people who work hard in booking offers and completing them within the stipulated time frame.

It’s really GRAND. And this is not the first time.

Why blame people who put effort into booking offers by logging in to the site and refreshing it regularly waiting for offers to be released? If you do not see any offers while others are seeing them, then shouldn’t you change the time you log in or whatever, because the problem definitely lies with the individual and not the system.

Because of all these complaints, the administrators have placed new restrictions trying to help these lazy bums. People who never make an effort to book the ads, log in a minute a day, do not see any offers and then shoot an email to complain. Yes, this is how I look at it.

Instead of rewarding people who work for the company, the administrators are placing obstacles in their path trying to trip them.

Imagine yourself running a 100m race. Just when you are about to win, they change their tune and say that from now onwards, this is a 100m hurdle race. Can you beat that?

This company has lost its gloss. Previously, nobody minded that they are paying a flat rate of $5 per offer. However, now they want two non-paid blog posts in between. And as if that is not enough, now they even want a review way longer than the stipulated minimum 100-word. OR ELSE!

If the length of our posts determines the score that internal staff gives us, then by all means CHANGE the required word length from 100 to 200 IN THE offer itself, just like how they suddenly changed their requirement of TWO non-paying interim posts, without a prior announcement or notice. I was caught off guard too.

Previously, this company started blog for pay to offer SEO services to advertisers through back links from bloggers. Hence the minimum of 100-word per post and the minimal rate of $5. Bear in mind, bloggers are not advertising or advocating anything to their readers but providing live links within relevant content in their blogs to be spidered.

Now, with all these restrictions, I too feel disenchanted with the company. It’s bad enough that I am losing 3.9% + USD.30 each time I receive a payment from them without all these additional stress.

Sometime last year, a friend started a slew of blogs, diligently blogging on them all almost daily. This year, though, he has been busy with work and has left all his blogs idle except for one.

Personally, I also started a few passion blogs last year before I started to blog for pay. However, since then, I have been so busy blogging for pay that I do not have time to blog for passion anymore. I wouldn’t say that my passion blogs are dead but they are dormant for now. If one day all these paid blogging ends, I would be going back to them.

However, I wonder, how many dead blogs are there? Maybe the blog is dead because the blogger has lost interest or moved to a own hosted domain, or perhaps the blogger himself is really dead.

I once read that there are X number of blogs created every second, myself a contributor as well, but how many people can actually upkeep them one year or two years from setting it up?