Blogit: Writing Scam?

[Aurora Black]

I was checking my messages on Gmail last night when a text ad for the following site caught my eye and said something along the lines of "Earn $1000 or more from writing online!"

Here's the site: Blogit

I was skeptical, to say the least. Has anyone heard of this place, or tried it out? What's all the fuss about, and more importantly, is it a scam of the GROUPMVP variety?

 

[zeb1094]

Any place that has only links to a submit button and the terms of service and privicy statement looks like it's fishing for email addresses. Under the new laws in the US spammers who don't have a business relationship with the spammee can be fined upto $1,000 per spammee. So now it looks like they may be fishing for valid email addy's to continue to spam. You fill that in and you now have a business relationship with them.

Or I could be all wet and not know what I'm talking about.

Either way I wouldn't give them an email addy that I needed for other things.

 

[zeb1094]

After reading the terms of use, it's a scam. You pay them $9.95 a month to host your blogit and they get all rights to whatever you write there. Sounds fishy to me!

 

[Guest]

I was checking my messages on Gmail last night when a text ad for the following site caught my eye and said something along the lines of "Earn $1000 or more from writing online!"

Here's the site: Blogit

I was skeptical, to say the least. Has anyone heard of this place, or tried it out? What's all the fuss about, and more importantly, is it a scam of the GROUPMVP variety?

I got an email at another of my email addresses about that site, when I researched it, I found out it's a legit site but there is now way I'm paying to write. I'd rather let people read my stuff for free then pay to write it.

 

[Aurora Black]

That's that, then. Thanks for the advice. I'll have to resort to the good old fashioned way instead of these "earn money quick" scams.

 

[zeb1094]

After further reading of the terms...this is a pyramid scheme fitted to the internet. If you pay them a small sum each month...the take a small % for admin fee's the rest is divided up amoung the blogers who have been read by you. So if you have a blog and no one reads it, you don't get paid. If you have a lot of people read it, you get a large amount of money.

 

[Aurora Black]

After further reading of the terms...this is a pyramid scheme fitted to the internet. If you pay them a small sum each month...the take a small % for admin fee's the rest is divided up amoung the blogers who have been read by you. So if you have a blog and no one reads it, you don't get paid. If you have a lot of people read it, you get a large amount of money.

Fishy.

 

[zeb1094]

Fishy.

Indeed!