RealWritingJobs.com is a website that’s designed to help people find a variety of writing jobs; they claim to have a ton of leads and are simply acting as middleman between writers and contractors.
These types of sites have been around before and usually provide mixed results. These sites work by using software which visits a collection of job search sites, freelance websites, and other areas online where work for writers gets posted. They then return these results in your members’ area.
In most cases these are real writing jobs and are usually put out by website and blog owners who want cheap labor to fill their sites full of content. Other examples may involve writing product reviews that again are used by webmasters.
The one thing you need to be careful of is overhyped promises of riches; you may have been told that you can get paid up to $125 for writing one article but that is by far the exception and definitely not the rule when it comes to working with sites like RealWritingJobs.com.
First off, the really high paying jobs require the ability to not only write well but to be able to write on highly technical issues like medicine or electronics. Second, if these jobs do get publicly posted they are reserved for highly experienced writers that can provide web references for their work.
Bottom line is, don’t get too excited about massive payouts. Realistically you’ll be looking at a range of $5 – $12 per article or blog post. The sad fact is that real writing jobs, along with other coveted online work, gets outsourced overseas, making it difficult for US based freelancers to compete and making them work for much lower pay.
Is RealWritingJobs.com a Scam?
Since RealWritingJobs.com does what they say they do – provide you with leads for real writing jobs – it’s not a scam in the sense that they are being blatantly deceptive. However, there have been issues in the past with their billing policy and the quality of their service.
RealWritingJobs.com used to require a monthly payment for continued membership access to their writing responsibilities, which was frustrating for members who were paying more to maintain their membership than they were often earning.
The website has addressed this issue, and they are now offering membership for a one time fee. This fee has changed over time and is currently quoted at $34.00, though the one time membership fee has been as high as $68.00.
Fortunately this one time fee is processed through Clickbank. This means their service also now comes with a 60 day, no questions asked guaranteed refund policy if you are not happy with the service they are providing.
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Contact your credit card company and CANCEL the payments if you were silly enough to sign up. In future, if you come across a site like this, use your noggin and do a google search on reviews for the site you're dealing with.
I saw this site and decided to do a Google search, and of course, I expected comments like these to be there. Glad I used my brain!
Good luck.
I do not think they are a total scam because they do have the jobs, I believe they need to review their "Mission Statement" and policies.
It does puzzle me that 'Realwritingjobs" requests $68 to join. It is not ethical for job seekers to pay, it should be the other way around. When I pointed this out to them on Twitter, they called me a "freeloader" and then blocked my profile.
No one should pay to do a job, and the jobs do not come easy, these jobs will not drop into your mail box, you will have to bid for them and you will be re-directed to the next Web site requesting you to sign for other paid memberships to be able to bid.
There is no guarantee clients will choose your bid on the job leads, as there will be hundreds applying for the same advertised tasks. You will have to write probably 10 articles to receive $100 to $120 and you have already spent twice this amount on memberships. From what I read, it is a struggle to get paid.
RWJ gets paid by their clients and sponsors, why should they request further payments from members?
I hope that RWJ reviews their internal, contractual and "hype" cyber policies.
Indeed.com. I responded to what I thought was a REAL job offer.
I sent my resume, wrote a cover letter, etc. thinking I had a good
chance of getting some REAL work since I am a professional writer
with a lot of credentials. Instead I am asked to sign up for this
BOGUS website which basically charges you for job leads you can find on your own. This particular approach to getting people to sign up for this service is especially misleading, annoying and extremely
UNETHICAL!
As for Jillin here, lead, led, and punctuation? Is that the best you can do?
STILL THINKING
I am very skeptical and am not sure if I can subscribe to their jobs. Logically speaking, I have not been able to convince myself based on these reasons:
1. Why pay for a job when you don't need any experience?
2. Why 50% discount (i.e. half price) "save 50" on a package that has already been priced to include total costs?
3. Upon exit there is A FURTHER REDUCTION TO $24. I need explanation
4. When you are still determined to leave it is further reduced to $12. WOOOOOOOOOWWWWWW. . . Does it mean the total cost is less than $12 and their initial registration is about $64 dollars?
I then tried to zoom the check drawn but that was not possible. How authentic it may be, I am yet to know.
Based on these I goggled but have forgotten the exact sentence.
The result I got is summed up as:
1. All legitimate writing sites are to be a part of a body.
2. Their office location should be known and geographically locatable. With addresses and the likes.
3. Dont believe cheques without authentication from that body. Sorry I've forgotten the name of the body.
4. You are not supposed to pay for a job that promises earnings from your input.
GREAATTTTT. . . MAKE THE ANALYSIS FOR YOURSELF. I AM STILL MAKING MINE. AND GETTING MORE CONFUSED EACH TIME I THINK DEEPER.
Great day folks
don't fall for it!
cheers