After 1 million posts, Bubblews decided to shut down???

I agree. The early days were good at Bubblews. Then they disappointed people.

$300 is a lot of money. For me, anyway. That is like RM1200 - a month's salary for some people in my country! I read an article from someone who wasn't paid by Bubblews. She went after Bubblews tooth and nail. She sent numerous emails and even threatened to sue Bubblews and Bubblews finally paid her. I think that is what people should do. Threaten them and they WILL pay. You cannot sit quietly in one corner expecting them to do the right thing. They don't know what the right thing is. There should be a law that they must have broken. But alas, I'm not a lawyer.

@SIMPLYD I guess they must have liked you and decided to pay you again so as not to lose you. That was what happened to me once too. They missed paying me but then for the next redemption, I got paid so I continued writing for them. In retrospect, I felt quite stupid but then I did earn a lot of money so the $25 that I missed wasn't much compared to the later successful redemptions. Needless to say, the woman who threatened to sue Bubblews never wrote for Bubblews again after getting paid the $25 that was owed to her.

@UmiNoor Really she threatened them . Well , i just let it pass since after that unpaid ones , they again keep paying me .

I remember many veteran writers who are also writing for other writing sites kept questioning the sustainability of their initial payment rate. They were just way over their head or maybe they had planned to scam writers all along. What they wanted was the big number. The only way to attract big numbers was to offer a ridiculous pay rate no other writing site dares to offer. They were aiming to get an angel investor to give them money and they were indeed successful. After that, they just wait until most writers almost reach their redemption threshold and they shut down the site without paying anybody. If that is not suspicious behavior, I don't know what is.

I know this is old news. I'm just wondering why after 1 million posts, Bubblews shut down. Wouldn't it be more prudent to sell the website? With thousands of loyal members and 1 million posts, Bubblews should be worth a lot.

@UmiNoor May be may be or not. It is a million dollar question

Some people think that the site was set up to scam people from Day 1. It was a Ponzi scheme. Pay some and not others but they always pay the first redemption which made the members continue to write and then for the second redemption, they paid only a percentage of their members and the members who got paid would accuse the ones not getting paid for breaking the rules. The owners had an easy job. They let their members do the talking for them. They never stepped in. Never gave an explanation for why some people were getting paid while others were not. Members came to their own conclusion. They surmised that people who were not getting paid were breaking the rules; photos uncredited, posts plagiarized and so on and they even made up rules that were not even in the TOS. It was like a cult with Arvind as the cult leader almighty. Everybody praised him. Idolized him. But in the end, everybody got burned. Here's an interesting post about Bubblews Ponzi Scheme: The below link is not a referral link. And the article wasn't written by me.

That's really sad to just lose so many of your personal posts. It's like part of you had been erased.

Yes, they decided not to pay their members. I don't think it's because they don't have the money. They just didn't want to do the right thing.

It was beyond disappointing when I didn't get paid. I worked so hard to churn out 10 posts every day and managed to reach the payout of $50 within 1 week. It was an achievement for me but alas what's the point if I didn't get paid.