Expertscolumn is a SCAM

Philippines
June 28, 2012 8:45pm CST
I a write for a year in Expertscolumn and lately I am near to my first cashout. Unfortunately they deleted my account. I have already a balance of 4.98$ and all of a sudden they sent me a message telling that I violated their terms which they could not pin point what violation is that. It is obvious that they just don't like to pay me. I am disappointed that my hard work turned into nothing. For this I will salute Knoji for they are paying on time and they pay high. Compare to EC, what a waste of time.
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17 responses
@sjvg1976 (41131)
• Delhi, India
1 Jul 12
Hello Jade, I not an active member of EC but i have heard lot of things about it and no body never said it to be a scam.Even there are lot of my friends who earned a lot from it.I doubt if they are scam.But i must say that you should remain in contact with the admin to let you the reason of your account deletion.
@akp100 (13640)
• India
1 Jul 12
Yes.. Talking with admin is the best way about this problem.. Even I will say that Expert column is surely not scamming, as I have earned quite much from this site. SJ.. Why you don't active on this site? You can earn quite good with your articles...
@akp100 (13640)
• India
2 Jul 12
That's true.. Having interaction with friends is always fun, nothing compareed to it. But on sites like expertscolumn, you can earn steady income.. I mean you just need to post article whenever you are free.. Its not like they will give you one time earning for those articles, your earning will be increased for all, whenever you are getting views on them.
@sjvg1976 (41131)
• Delhi, India
1 Jul 12
Hi AkP, As you know i don't get much of the time to write articles as one need to concentrate on them.Most of the time which i get for online stuffs i use it on the forums as i like to interact with people like you which i can't get if i devote it in writing articles.
@phoenix35 (384)
• Philippines
18 Jul 12
EC usually deletes my articles whenever I posts medicine facts especially when there's a brand name included. At one time, I got really annoyed that I deleted my articles there. My payout was about 3 dollars and something at that time. I came into my senses and started publishing at EC again. Compared to Triond, EC is still better and I need a second writing site. Like you, I also write at Knoji. Anyway, after a month I got my first payout of 5 dollars. Now with 62 articles (mostly originally written), I have earned 30 dollars. My friend, maybe you have committed a violation. EC is also paying attention to the number of words. Last month, I received a note that I was doing articles below 300 words. Although, the e mail was sent to me, the administrator was mentioning another name. I thought it to be a mistake never the less, I replied that my articles are complying to the word count. I hope you write again. I think EC is still a good site, very strict like Knoji, but still good, at least for me. Anyway at EC we can delete our articles, at Knoji we cannot do that.
@scheng1 (24650)
• Singapore
20 Jul 12
Hi Phoenix, I think you are rewriting articles when you post about medicine facts. You have to rewrite totally, and not keep to the same style or use the same words in your article. They are using software to check for plagiarism, and requires the article to be 80% or more of uniqueness. That is why bad articles sometimes do better than good ones. The reason is that bad articles are original, since the writer really rewrites everything. I am quite glad of the human moderation in Expertscolumn. It is doing its best to keep the quality of the articles instead of letting all kinds of spammy articles destroy the sites, which is how Triond is now.
• Philippines
23 Jul 12
I mean, I post my rejected Knoji articles to Triond sorry about that. Typo eror :)
• India
29 Jun 12
I paste my triond articles on Experts Column with the same usernames on both sites. I have read that this is ok by them. Right now, I have about $1.5 in the EC account but if more reports of such scam arise, I shall definitely not waste anymore time on that site.
• Philippines
29 Jun 12
I will not tell you to stop writing there, but my case is a big warning to everybody. I really hate the situation they put me into. Imagine they just earned from my articles then put me into trash.
@irene66 (1669)
• Philippines
29 Jun 12
Oh, this is sad. I even tried for the past few days to write as many articles to submit there. What a waste of time and energy. I might be the next victim in experscolumn. I am trying to make it to $10 at least before I cash out. I have reached $7.59 How can I join knoji?
@kiran8 (15348)
• Mangalore, India
29 Jun 12
Expertscolumns does not make you wait for a year before paying.The moment you reach the minimum payout rate of 5 dollars you can request and they send it immediately to your moneybookers account.I have been paid several times by them with absolutely no problem.However, they are very strict regarding copied contents ...
• Philippines
29 Jun 12
You just register on that site, Knoji.com. Before it is Factoidz, I just submitted articles for them to approve and I passed their qualification. I already earned more than twenty dollars from them and it won't take you a year to cashout unlike in Expertscolumn that you will need to wait for a year then when you near cashout they will delete your account.
@nicanorr (1789)
• Philippines
29 Jun 12
You've done a great service by posting this piece. It's a big help, a warning for people not to endure the same frustration that you've suffered. EXPERTSCOLUMN IS A SCAM, says jade... let all be aware.
• Philippines
29 Jun 12
Actually, I warned them first about what will happen if they will not pay me. They ignored me and tell stupid things like I need to provide proofs, they really want to escape.
@nicanorr (1789)
• Philippines
1 Jul 12
It's a sad thing to accomplish things with sweats and pain only to be rebuffed at the moment when most expected. Down with SCAMMERS they'll go nowhere.
@BabyCheetah (1911)
• Australia
29 Jun 12
Another person on MyLot was saying he had his account banned too after he had written over 400 articles! They deleted about 4 of them and then decided just to delete the account. I can't say for sure if it's a scam since I don't write there. Have you contacted them to find out more information as to why they banned you? I'd let them know the response did not specify what terms you violated. Good luck!
• Philippines
29 Jun 12
Yes, I already contacted them and they keep on telling me that I violated their terms and this is so annoying because I have more than twenty five articles there.
• Australia
29 Jun 12
Damn! They sound scammy then if they will not give a straight answer. The real unfortunate thing is in most terms they write that they can ban you at anytime without warning and you don't hold them accountable for anything. All that can be done now is to spread the word about your personal experience with them :(
@xtinelee (3371)
• Singapore
1 Jul 12
Well, since what is done is done, and there's nothing you can do, just learn a lesson from here? Good luck!
@abhi_bangal (3686)
• India
5 Jul 12
I think you might have done something that might have violated the terms and conditions of the site. Try to recall what things you did in the recent past on the site. What was your activity? Was there anything you did going out of the way? If you think all the answers to these questions are in your favor, you could better write to the admin. I just got a mail from the admin saying we writers should promote their work. Are you doing it? Or just writing and writing or being inactive on the site?
@Jotomy (6322)
• India
29 Jun 12
Hi anna, how are you? I don't think ExpertColumn is a scam, i heard from many members that they got money from them. You find out why it has happened some reason should be there.
@syoti20 (5293)
• Philippines
15 Jul 12
Good to know I didn't open an account with EC. I am interested in your " Knoji" maybe you can extend your knowledge in sharing the goodness of Knoji to us. Thanks in advance.
@inertia4 (27961)
• United States
8 Jul 12
I gave up on that site months ago. I thought it was good but it wasn't. I do have a great writing site if you're interested. And this site is affiliated with a social network that I use and get paid from every month. Let me know if you're interested and I will send you both links. The one for the social network and the one for the writing site. Forget ExpertsColumn.
• United States
4 Jul 12
I'm sorry to hear that your account got deleted. I've been on Expertscolumn a few months, and I received the one payment that I requested from them. I've heard nothing but good things about Expertscolumn, which is why I joined up. I do hope that you're able to receive an explanation for why your account was deleted.
@carben44 (322)
29 Jun 12
I thought it was common knowledge that they don't pay 90% of their members? I heard from a few people that once you write a certain amount, they either delete your account, delete your articles, or reset your balance. Seems they steal your work to earn money, and the only way you can actually profit from them is by being a "famous" member. By this I mean that you are a well known user, and every time you write an article, you literally get hundreds of hits a day. Basically, they don't want to pay out to the people who earn pennies, because if we earn pennies, it earns them pennies. They want to earn dollars!
• India
30 Aug 12
Hi friend, sad to hear about this, i am writing in EC for around 8 months and have around 750 columns in that site, till today i don't have any problem there. I got my payments in time and happy with this site, but i too heard some accounts are banned from this site due to various reasons, we must give more importance to the rules to avoid account deletion.
@akp100 (13640)
• India
29 Jun 12
That's sad.. I am also member of Expert Column.. And I never experienced like that.. So far I already earned 65$ from them. And they are paying on time. Not only me, I am having many friends which are doing quite good their. Currently I am having more than 10$ in my account, and no problem in my account.
• United States
29 Jun 12
That is messed up. I do not know anything about that site. I was going to try it one day though.
29 Jun 12
I tried it before but found it as a slow earner site. And my article was also deleted after running for few days. It's a good thing that I read your news about this site and I didn't pay much attention and time in that site. It's a great waste of time. Yes knoji is much better than experts column.