BW_writer 1 | - Freelance Writer
Oct 03, 2018 | #1
This is how the con powered by BrilliantWritings.com begins on email: (writer's email address withheld).
a) Bogus claims of Missing Payment Records: This email is dated 10th August, exactly 10 days to BW's payment deadline. Writers' payment history cannot be found. No explanation is given as to how the company lost the records.
??? If payment records are missing on their end, where do they expect the writers to get the records?
??? If for some reason the writers/employees retained a copy of their payment history offline, why has BW failed to take such preemptive measures?
...the con continues!!
b) Deceit: You choose to comply and forward your payment history in a bid to expedite payment processing oblivious that the BW management is fattening you for the slaughter. An endless 'cheat'-chat on email follows while the management deliberates on how and where to spend your earnings.
...and spend your earnings they will. You receive a memo that "The billing department is on holidays for the week!" That was fast, don't you think?! Your monthly earnings will be spent in a week's time, talk of THE QUEEN OF SLAY QUEENS!...
You count your loses and make your disappointment known by revealing their noncompliance to their T&Cs among other vices you have noted in the recent past.
UNEXPECTEDLY: It seems your earnings are not enough to cover the 'holiday' expenses. Besides, why take a vacation on payday when there are numerous writers to rip-off? Holidays are cancelled immediately. Perhaps in the somber mood, someone from the billing department makes a payment to a 'wrong' account (your account) of $122.5 (see below). Could it be that this amount was actually a refund for cancelled reservations?? You acknowledge that a higher power has confused your would-be enemies!!
You are soon to realize that this timely reaction by BW is another card up their sleeves. It is actually a precursor to THE ULTIMATE CON!
a) Unresponsiveness and unethical behavior.
NB: Following the miraculous partial payment, you are advised to convey any inquiries through BW's General Messages section.
Unfortunately, they will never respond to messages sent via this section as illustrated above from a recent experience. The above inquiry, made in May, relates to the order below (191708), completed by April 30th. Being above the min. payable amount $10, it qualified for payment on May. The site's delays and some minor revisions push the order to May. As a novice to the site, you are barely acquainted with all their SOPs. You later discover from external sources that the order approval date is critical and determines the payment date regardless of the start or end date.
??? However, was it not prudent for the site to advise/respond accordingly concerning this inquiry?
b) Unjust fines and pitiable attention to details.
??? Is it ethical for BW to impose fines when you fail to respond to their communications, which are at times meaningless?
Consider a client who mistakenly sends the wrong assignment link. You request for an accurate link and there is a delay from the client. The order is not too urgent, but you have a deadline to meet. You decide to source for the right link based on insight gained from the instructions and complete the assignment before the deadline. By the time the client realizes the mistake and forwards the correct link (which matches what you used), you had already completed and submitted the work, and it has been approved. Unfortunately, the BW Support deems the client's message (correct link) as a revision and imposes a 10% fine for failing to respond without counter-checking.
NB: it is also clear that the client is neither aware of the order's completion nor have they received the completed assignment at the time s/he forwarded the correct link (see marked messages from 17th - 20th).
NB: Although the fine was reversed, messages sent to BW by the writer to inquire about the fine do not reflect in the writer's portal. For a fine to be modified, you have to intervene, failure to which the fine remains in effect. Sometimes, your intervention will NOT work (see the next section).
b) Greed
At times, login details to an assignment provided by the client fail to work on your end. You request for alternatives from the client and BW support. The response is overly delayed. You keep trying the logins while following-up on your request. Given the fast-approaching deadline, you decide to request for your first order re-assignment. BW counters your request by swiftly informing you that the logins are ok.
NB: Pursuant to your request, this order has at least 48hrs on portal (including the 18hr deadline policy), and up to 5 days to the client's specified deadline. No fine is necessary. However, they reassign the order and impose a double-100% fine for the same. Upon seeking clarification, you realize that you are dealing with a determined thief.
A silly Q&A follows as BW appears totally unaware of the double fine or that your payment record for the month indicates a -$20.00, an equivalent of the 200% fine. In their communication, they seem irritated by your 'nagging'. Simply, part of your earnings has covered the writer's fees plus bonus!
NB: As you ponder on this loss, you recall getting a $5 bonus on a particular order earlier that month. You had to follow-up the bonus for it to be added. In one way or another, BW has reclaimed their bonus in double portion! You wonder whether this was part of the con or merely an unfortunate coincidence.
The payment sheet for May below reflects that -$10 was deducted from the month's total earnings of $164.60. BW backdates this transaction and the order to April, which still reflects that they charged -10$ fine twice but cancelled only once. Before complaining, total earnings in May were $144.60 (less 20$). Remove part of the fine, the earnings become $154.60 (which is less $10), the amount paid for that month. "Better half a loaf than none" is a terrible presumption.
An established culture of stealing from their writers.
As your monthly earnings increase (especially from $100>), the management finds a way to deduct a percentage of your earnings or delaying your payment. When you complain on the same, they pay some percentage and advise you that the remainder will be carried forward. You continue working. However, the following month, they fail to forward your current and outstanding earnings. Payment sheets 1 & 2 below indicate earnings of $211.5 for July only.
Amount paid July = $122.5, Bal. $89.0 (reflected at the bottom of the August sheet below)
Indeed, your balance was carried forward as promised, but so will their payment deadline for outstanding amounts.
Despite reassurances, your instincts tell you to follow-up. 2 weeks later, you send another payment related inquiry. Typically, BW seldom has info. at hand, they have to consult the "Billing Department".
Strange is it not?! It seems the "Billing Department" does not have a local office. You wait for hours and decide to check again the next day. The "cheat-chat" resumes with a doubtful promise of payment - 'hopefully before 15th' of September. During this waiting time, you notice that BW's timing of uploading orders on portal has changed unfavorably in your case. You keep the issue at bay and wait to see if BW will pay outstanding amounts.
4 days past the deadline (15th), you send another inquiry. This time, no department is on holidays, however, their calendars and clocks are supposedly out of order. They do not know when exactly they will make payment.
Disappointed, you site the changes in order uploads on portal and remind them of their T&C's. You also state the immediacy of your budgetary plans. BW reassures you that you're a valued writer but leaves no comment on exact payment dates. It is definite that your earnings are the target!
You realize consecutive inquiries, including where you state the extent of their inconvenience on your personal life, do not move BW. Simply, your personal welfare is NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS! You take a page from their playbook and decide to issue an ultimatum.
Suddenly, BW finds their calendar and assures you of payment in 2 weeks (14th October). You remain determined, and it moves to 30th September. They apologize profusely for the inconvenience but you have lost enough already (see above).
You begin gathering evidence in advance. Your deadline passes and nothing is forthcoming. They call your bluff! Their deadline passes too and as usual, they issue a new deadline, 5th October. It's a cat and mouse game! Almost $300 GONE WITH THE BRILLIANT SCAMMER!! Others may have lost more.
If you have pending amounts/balances at the site, DO NOT expect to be paid. Start seeking alternatives to meet your personal obligations.
Anytime you launch a payment-related complaint/inquiry, expect a change in how you are treated by BW. Expect an increase in revisions for previous orders completed and approved!
Afterwards, expect to lose the confidence and trust of your close friends and family, and any other parties to whom you owe monies. If you have assets, liquefy them and pay your debts. BW DOES NOT & WILL NEVER GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THIS!
BEWARE! Their application process is as smooth as beach sand. This is a ploy to invite more writers to the platform and scam them. You are free to join; you may or may not get paid. But if you are new to the site, you have a clue of what to expect and how the SCAM begins. REMAIN ALERT THROUGHOUT!
You are the cream of the writing industry! However, you should know that sites like BRILLIANT WRITINGS mistreat their writers. Alongside poor rates, payment is NOT GUARANTEED! While you pay for the assignment/s, know that it is highly probable that a considerable portion of your monies WILL NOT reach the writer who puts their blood and sweat to ensure you pass your assignment.
If you are OK with this, bless you! If you find this INHUMANE, bless you too! Either way, you are now informed!
Sometimes you get stuck with some orders for days. Those orders can be done, but why should a writer take the risk of sourcing someone to do it and not get paid?
RIP-OFF AS MANY WRITERS AS YOU CAN, WHILE YOU CAN! YOUR TURN IS IMMINENT!
BRILLIANT WRITER SCAM 1
a) Bogus claims of Missing Payment Records: This email is dated 10th August, exactly 10 days to BW's payment deadline. Writers' payment history cannot be found. No explanation is given as to how the company lost the records.
??? If payment records are missing on their end, where do they expect the writers to get the records?
??? If for some reason the writers/employees retained a copy of their payment history offline, why has BW failed to take such preemptive measures?
...the con continues!!
b) Deceit: You choose to comply and forward your payment history in a bid to expedite payment processing oblivious that the BW management is fattening you for the slaughter. An endless 'cheat'-chat on email follows while the management deliberates on how and where to spend your earnings.
...and spend your earnings they will. You receive a memo that "The billing department is on holidays for the week!" That was fast, don't you think?! Your monthly earnings will be spent in a week's time, talk of THE QUEEN OF SLAY QUEENS!...
You count your loses and make your disappointment known by revealing their noncompliance to their T&Cs among other vices you have noted in the recent past.
UNEXPECTEDLY: It seems your earnings are not enough to cover the 'holiday' expenses. Besides, why take a vacation on payday when there are numerous writers to rip-off? Holidays are cancelled immediately. Perhaps in the somber mood, someone from the billing department makes a payment to a 'wrong' account (your account) of $122.5 (see below). Could it be that this amount was actually a refund for cancelled reservations?? You acknowledge that a higher power has confused your would-be enemies!!
You are soon to realize that this timely reaction by BW is another card up their sleeves. It is actually a precursor to THE ULTIMATE CON!
BRILLIANT WRITER SCAM 2
a) Unresponsiveness and unethical behavior.
NB: Following the miraculous partial payment, you are advised to convey any inquiries through BW's General Messages section.
Unfortunately, they will never respond to messages sent via this section as illustrated above from a recent experience. The above inquiry, made in May, relates to the order below (191708), completed by April 30th. Being above the min. payable amount $10, it qualified for payment on May. The site's delays and some minor revisions push the order to May. As a novice to the site, you are barely acquainted with all their SOPs. You later discover from external sources that the order approval date is critical and determines the payment date regardless of the start or end date.
??? However, was it not prudent for the site to advise/respond accordingly concerning this inquiry?
b) Unjust fines and pitiable attention to details.
??? Is it ethical for BW to impose fines when you fail to respond to their communications, which are at times meaningless?
Consider a client who mistakenly sends the wrong assignment link. You request for an accurate link and there is a delay from the client. The order is not too urgent, but you have a deadline to meet. You decide to source for the right link based on insight gained from the instructions and complete the assignment before the deadline. By the time the client realizes the mistake and forwards the correct link (which matches what you used), you had already completed and submitted the work, and it has been approved. Unfortunately, the BW Support deems the client's message (correct link) as a revision and imposes a 10% fine for failing to respond without counter-checking.
NB: it is also clear that the client is neither aware of the order's completion nor have they received the completed assignment at the time s/he forwarded the correct link (see marked messages from 17th - 20th).
NB: Although the fine was reversed, messages sent to BW by the writer to inquire about the fine do not reflect in the writer's portal. For a fine to be modified, you have to intervene, failure to which the fine remains in effect. Sometimes, your intervention will NOT work (see the next section).
b) Greed
At times, login details to an assignment provided by the client fail to work on your end. You request for alternatives from the client and BW support. The response is overly delayed. You keep trying the logins while following-up on your request. Given the fast-approaching deadline, you decide to request for your first order re-assignment. BW counters your request by swiftly informing you that the logins are ok.
NB: Pursuant to your request, this order has at least 48hrs on portal (including the 18hr deadline policy), and up to 5 days to the client's specified deadline. No fine is necessary. However, they reassign the order and impose a double-100% fine for the same. Upon seeking clarification, you realize that you are dealing with a determined thief.
A silly Q&A follows as BW appears totally unaware of the double fine or that your payment record for the month indicates a -$20.00, an equivalent of the 200% fine. In their communication, they seem irritated by your 'nagging'. Simply, part of your earnings has covered the writer's fees plus bonus!
NB: As you ponder on this loss, you recall getting a $5 bonus on a particular order earlier that month. You had to follow-up the bonus for it to be added. In one way or another, BW has reclaimed their bonus in double portion! You wonder whether this was part of the con or merely an unfortunate coincidence.
The payment sheet for May below reflects that -$10 was deducted from the month's total earnings of $164.60. BW backdates this transaction and the order to April, which still reflects that they charged -10$ fine twice but cancelled only once. Before complaining, total earnings in May were $144.60 (less 20$). Remove part of the fine, the earnings become $154.60 (which is less $10), the amount paid for that month. "Better half a loaf than none" is a terrible presumption.
THE ULTIMATE CON WORKING AGAINST WRITERS!
An established culture of stealing from their writers.
As your monthly earnings increase (especially from $100>), the management finds a way to deduct a percentage of your earnings or delaying your payment. When you complain on the same, they pay some percentage and advise you that the remainder will be carried forward. You continue working. However, the following month, they fail to forward your current and outstanding earnings. Payment sheets 1 & 2 below indicate earnings of $211.5 for July only.
Amount paid July = $122.5, Bal. $89.0 (reflected at the bottom of the August sheet below)
Indeed, your balance was carried forward as promised, but so will their payment deadline for outstanding amounts.
Despite reassurances, your instincts tell you to follow-up. 2 weeks later, you send another payment related inquiry. Typically, BW seldom has info. at hand, they have to consult the "Billing Department".
Strange is it not?! It seems the "Billing Department" does not have a local office. You wait for hours and decide to check again the next day. The "cheat-chat" resumes with a doubtful promise of payment - 'hopefully before 15th' of September. During this waiting time, you notice that BW's timing of uploading orders on portal has changed unfavorably in your case. You keep the issue at bay and wait to see if BW will pay outstanding amounts.
4 days past the deadline (15th), you send another inquiry. This time, no department is on holidays, however, their calendars and clocks are supposedly out of order. They do not know when exactly they will make payment.
Disappointed, you site the changes in order uploads on portal and remind them of their T&C's. You also state the immediacy of your budgetary plans. BW reassures you that you're a valued writer but leaves no comment on exact payment dates. It is definite that your earnings are the target!
You realize consecutive inquiries, including where you state the extent of their inconvenience on your personal life, do not move BW. Simply, your personal welfare is NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS! You take a page from their playbook and decide to issue an ultimatum.
Suddenly, BW finds their calendar and assures you of payment in 2 weeks (14th October). You remain determined, and it moves to 30th September. They apologize profusely for the inconvenience but you have lost enough already (see above).
You begin gathering evidence in advance. Your deadline passes and nothing is forthcoming. They call your bluff! Their deadline passes too and as usual, they issue a new deadline, 5th October. It's a cat and mouse game! Almost $300 GONE WITH THE BRILLIANT SCAMMER!! Others may have lost more.
Caution to Writers on the BW - Brilliant Writers - platform!
If you have pending amounts/balances at the site, DO NOT expect to be paid. Start seeking alternatives to meet your personal obligations.
Anytime you launch a payment-related complaint/inquiry, expect a change in how you are treated by BW. Expect an increase in revisions for previous orders completed and approved!
Afterwards, expect to lose the confidence and trust of your close friends and family, and any other parties to whom you owe monies. If you have assets, liquefy them and pay your debts. BW DOES NOT & WILL NEVER GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THIS!
Caution to potential writers joining the BW platform!
BEWARE! Their application process is as smooth as beach sand. This is a ploy to invite more writers to the platform and scam them. You are free to join; you may or may not get paid. But if you are new to the site, you have a clue of what to expect and how the SCAM begins. REMAIN ALERT THROUGHOUT!
Caution to existing and potential clients!
You are the cream of the writing industry! However, you should know that sites like BRILLIANT WRITINGS mistreat their writers. Alongside poor rates, payment is NOT GUARANTEED! While you pay for the assignment/s, know that it is highly probable that a considerable portion of your monies WILL NOT reach the writer who puts their blood and sweat to ensure you pass your assignment.
If you are OK with this, bless you! If you find this INHUMANE, bless you too! Either way, you are now informed!
Caution to Brilliant Writers!
Sometimes you get stuck with some orders for days. Those orders can be done, but why should a writer take the risk of sourcing someone to do it and not get paid?
RIP-OFF AS MANY WRITERS AS YOU CAN, WHILE YOU CAN! YOUR TURN IS IMMINENT!