Sia, we do pay regularly. But I guess by having it posted two years ago, you should probably have learned that by now.
dollarlady, we have a payment minimum, depending on your location and payment preference. For example, if you are from the Philippines and request to be paid by Western Union, you would need to reach $100 to have it disbursed to you, less the transfer fees (we currently waive WU fees for transfers over $200). However, if you register for a Paypal account, there is no minimum amount, we can send two dollars if that is what you've earned within the payroll period.
This "evil policy" has nothing to do with our "corporate greed". Here is the math: To send a Western Union transfer, a company employee has to spend approximately 30 minutes filling out the paperwork to get the MTCN number, not to count the time to drive to the nearest agent office. We love our writers, but we have to consider our resources as well.
Kisii1941, sometimes we are late and here is why. If you were located in the US, we could have sent you a check or a paypal payment. We are never late with them. However, sending a wire transfer overseas can be a hassle: we need to send 50-70 of them a week. sometimes the bankers cannot keep up with the load, some of the wires get delayed by counter-party banks, sometimes the information gets misspelled.
Sometimes there are week-ends and national holidays of both countries of transfer. We have a similar issue with Western Union: sometimes there is not enough transfers to visit a WU location on a given day, and it gets postponed making some writers angry.
Some of the payment solutions that we offer (like Travelex/Coinstar) do not operate out of the United States, and thus we need to arrange for double-transfers to make your life easier.
We have been battling with it for years, and we always try to do our best, even though it may seem like a lousy job to you.
Last year we have incorporated an in-house solution that has proven to be very convenient for both writers and the company. Approximately one third of our writers have already switched to use it. I am not going to advertise it here on this forum, but feel free to join Allwriting.net to see for yourself.
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