Blog Advertising Store AKA Paying Post is a scam.
Jenn at Blogging Girl is asking bloggers to help spread the word about what a bunch of scammers Blog Advertising Store AKA Paying Post are.
You can read Jenn's post for all of the details, but basically, Blog Advertising Store AKA Paying Post, get bloggers to do work and then they don't pay for it.
Basically, Blog Advertising Store AKA Paying Post are a bunch of scammers.
To quote some of Jenn's post,
Well over a year ago I signed up for Blog Advertising Store, though at that time they were calling themselves Paying Post. Between then and this past February I have written $109.00 worth of opportunities. I followed the instructions on each opportunity, included the required links, wrote relevant, high quality content, and submitted each opportunity on time. Every opportunity that I did was approved, and as of April 2010 I was eligible to receive payment, as my balance had rolled over $100 (that is Blog Advertising Store's / Paying Post's minimum payout amount).Only...I didn't receive a payment in April. I didn't receive one in May, either, despite Blog Advertising Store's / Paying Post's dashboard stating that I would be paid $109 on May 1st, 2010.
She followed all of their directions on how to receive her payment, and has sent them emails requesting her payment, and they still haven't done it.
She even sent them an email about how she had heard from other bloggers about their business practices and their handling of payouts, and they still did not reply to her or pay her.
I have been a bit wary completing posts for your company, as in the past I have read some unsavory things about your business practices and the handling of payouts. Please ease my anxieties and compensate me with the money I am rightfully owed. Again, the balance due is $109.00, and my PayPal account is x@jenn.nu.
She has sent them an email every single day requesting her payment of $109.00 for the work she completed and was approved to be paid for.
I forwarded the May 11th email to them on May 12th, May 13th, May 14th, May 15th, May 16th, and May 17th.
The situation has now gotten even worse.
Not only have they still not paid her, but they have now locked her out of her account on Blog Advertising Store AKA Paying Post, they have blocked her emails, and they have banned her home ip address so she cannot access the site at all.
Seriously, y'all need to go read Jenn's post about how Blog Advertising Store AKA Paying Post are scammers, and help spread the word.
If you are a blogger who is working for them, you may want to seriously reconsider that, and if you have a blogging friend who said they were thinking about signing up to work for them, send them the link to Jenn's post.
Blog Advertising Store AKA Paying Post are scammers, plain and simple.
DO NOT work for them.
Blog about this, post about this to Twitter, (to make it simple, you can use this to Twitter it; Blog Advertising Store AKA Paying Post is a scam! http://bit.ly/basppscam #paidblogging #scam) and post it to Facebook, everywhere.
Blog Advertising Store AKA Paying Post are scammers and they need to pay bloggers for the work completed.
They need to pay Jenn the $109.00 she rightfully earned and was approved to be paid.
They are being totally unprofessional by blocking her emails, banning her ip address, and refusing to acknowledge that they owe her this money.
Blog Advertising Store AKA Paying Post are scammers and they need to pay Jenn and all of the bloggers who work for them, the money they have earned.
Cross posted to KatScan
Comments
Thank you so much Kat!!! I really appreciate you helping to spread the word for me and for all of us bloggers! *hug*
Posted by: Jenn | May 17, 2010 10:14 PM
Jenn,
Not a problem.
I really hate it when shit like this happens to bloggers.
We do the work, we rightfully deserve to be paid for the work that we do, so to not pay us, is just really fucking shitty.
I hate when companies do this the most, be it a small payment or a large payment, be it they pay us late by a few days or by weeks, or not pay us at all.
I don't care what the excuse is either.
We do the work, we deserve to be paid in full in a timely manner, when they tell us that they will pay us.
If we abide by the contract for for doing the work, then they need to abide by that same contract that they made with us for doing the work.
A contract is a contract, and if we follow it, they need to follow it.
It's that fucking simple.
I really hope that they pay you.
I hope that all of these posts and Tweets shame them into paying you, and then all the bloggers they have working for them just get the money that is owed to them, and then they stop working for them as well.
They need to be put out of business.
Their business practices suck.
Posted by: Kat | May 17, 2010 10:24 PM
That's awful. I retweeted this. I hope she is somehow able to get the money owed her....that's a lot to those of us who really count on the income paid blogging generates!
Posted by: This Belle Rocks | May 17, 2010 11:08 PM
Exactly.
To those of us who depend on the pay when it's due, to not get paid and then be blocked from the site, have our IPs banned, and have our emails blocked in an attempt to not pay us, it really fucking sucks.
The more bloggers that spread the word, hopefully it will shame them into paying, but most of all, the more bloggers that know, the less bloggers that they can scam again.
We need to alert other bloggers, other blogger who might have just started working for them and haven't reached the minimum payout threshold of $100 yet, they need to know that it's a very high probability that they will NOT get paid even when they reach it, months after the posts have been up on their blogs.
The bloggers need to know and the advertisers need to know that this company, Blog Advertising Store AKA Paying Post, that they have paid in the good faith that the company, Blog Advertising Store AKA Paying Post, will pay the bloggers for the work completed on their blogs for months, is not really paying the bloggers.
That ends up looking bad for those advertisers, it ends up reflecting badly on them because Blog Advertising Store AKA Paying Post might start telling bloggers, as an excuse, that the advertisers didn't pay them, so they can't pay the bloggers.
I'm not saying that they did that, but it's an excuse that they might start using, and the advertisers don't need that kind of crap.
Blog Advertising Store AKA Paying Post is a scam, they are scamming bloggers and it ends up hurting both the bloggers and the advertisers because the bloggers may start taking those un-paid posts down.
Posted by: Kat | May 17, 2010 11:23 PM