What’s wrong with this picture.
First, the “Terms of Service”:
Membership requires a 10 DAY $2.95 risk free trial. During this time, you have the opportunity to cancel your membership with REALWRITINGJOBS.COM to avoid the continuation of service and the monthly fee of $47. You will be billed the $47 on the (11th) day after you sign up, and thereafter every (30) days.
Cancellation
If you would like to cancel your service, you may do so at any time, no questions asked, by calling 1-800-886-6011 (U.S. Based Number). Please include your NAME, DATE OF PURCHASE and EMAIL ADDRESS. It is important to reference the email address you signed up with. We also accept cancellations online at our Contact Us page.
If you do not cancel your service, you will be assessed the monthly fee of $47/month and continue to receive our services including daily job listings, expert tips, unlimited support and other great bonuses.
What’s wrong? I guess if you cannot grasp how easy it is to find REAL writing jobs – without having to pay $47/month to locate them – then this “deal is for you”.
Find writing jobs? Start with CraigsList. That ought to keep you busy writing for the next decade, unless you’re a total no-talent, no-brains hack. If you can’t figure out how to post an offer or read offers at CraigsList then try Google or Yahoo or Bing and search for “copywriting jobs” or “content development”. Next, submit a few articles to EZineArticles to show that you know how to write . . and the offers will come. Next, sign up for Amazon’s “mechanical turk” or M-Turk/MTurk, where you can perform little writing tasks.
But, really, do me a favor: If you MUST pay someone to find you writing jobs PAY ME. IF you are any good then I, in turn, will use YOUR PAYMENT to write articles for me. I mean the math is simple: You pay me $47.00 and I, in turn, pay you $10 an article to write 5 articles for me. My net cost is $3.00 AND IF you are any good then chances are I’ll hire you to write more articles OR will know someone else who will. (See, e.g., TextBroker.com).
Alrighty. Back to the analysis of this . . “offer” . . cough . . cough . .
Next, the WhoIs record for who owns the domain name for RealWritingJobs.com:
Domain Name: REALWRITINGJOBS.COM
Registrar: MONIKERRegistrant [1815103]:
Moniker Privacy Services REALWRITINGJOBS.COM@domainservice.com
Moniker Privacy Services
I ALWAYS love companies that hide their identify behind “who is privacy” services. I mean, who wouldn’t want you to know the name, address, and phone number of the company behind the website?
Finally, this, which – unless you have particularly acute vision, you can only read by copying and pasting the text since the color of the text almost matches the page’s background color and the size of the font or typeface is infinitessimally small:
RealWritingJobs.com – Earnings Disclaimer
EVERY EFFORT HAS BEEN MADE TO ACCURATELY REPRESENT THIS PRODUCT AND IT’S POTENTIAL. EVEN THOUGH THIS INDUSTRY IS ONE OF THE FEW WHERE ONE CAN WRITE THEIR OWN CHECK IN TERMS OF EARNINGS, THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT YOU WILL EARN ANY MONEY USING THE TECHNIQUES AND IDEAS IN THESE MATERIALS. EXAMPLES IN THESE MATERIALS ARE NOT TO BE INTERPRETED AS A PROMISE OR GUARANTEE OF EARNINGS. EARNING POTENTIAL IS ENTIRELY DEPENDENT ON THE PERSON USING OUR PRODUCT, THEIR IDEAS AND TECHNIQUES. WE DO NOT PURPORT THIS AS A “GET RICH SCHEME.”
ANY CLAIMS MADE OF ACTUAL EARNINGS OR EXAMPLES OF ACTUAL RESULTS ARE NOT TYPICAL. YOUR LEVEL OF SUCCESS IN ATTAINING THE RESULTS CLAIMED IN OUR MATERIALS DEPENDS ON THE TIME YOU DEVOTE TO THE PROGRAM, IDEAS AND TECHNIQUES MENTIONED, YOUR FINANCES, KNOWLEDGE AND VARIOUS SKILLS. SINCE THESE FACTORS DIFFER ACCORDING TO INDIVIDUALS, WE CANNOT GUARANTEE YOUR SUCCESS OR INCOME LEVEL. NOR ARE WE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY OF YOUR ACTIONS.
MATERIALS IN OUR PRODUCT AND OUR WEBSITE MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT INCLUDES OR IS BASED UPON FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF 1995. FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS GIVE OUR EXPECTATIONS OR FORECASTS OF FUTURE EVENTS. YOU CAN IDENTIFY THESE STATEMENTS BY THE FACT THAT THEY DO NOT RELATE STRICTLY TO HISTORICAL OR CURRENT FACTS. THEY USE WORDS SUCH AS “ANTICIPATE,” “ESTIMATE,” “EXPECT,” “PROJECT,” “INTEND,” “PLAN,” “BELIEVE,” AND OTHER WORDS AND TERMS OF SIMILAR MEANING IN CONNECTION WITH A DESCRIPTION OF POTENTIAL EARNINGS OR FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE.
ANY AND ALL FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS HERE OR ON ANY OF OUR SALES MATERIAL ARE INTENDED TO EXPRESS OUR OPINION OF EARNINGS POTENTIAL. MANY FACTORS WILL BE IMPORTANT IN DETERMINING YOUR ACTUAL RESULTS AND NO GUARANTEES ARE MADE THAT YOU WILL ACHIEVE RESULTS SIMILAR TO OURS OR ANYBODY ELSES, IN FACT NO GUARANTEES ARE MADE THAT YOU WILL ACHIEVE ANY RESULTS FROM OUR IDEAS AND TECHNIQUES IN OUR MATERIAL
Oh yeah. And this “service” to you eager writers is being offered through an “affiliate program”, which basically means the same crowd that likely brought “offers” to consumers for ringtones, debt reduction services, and wonder juices like Acai berry wrapped in highly profitable recurring billing programs are likely now going to be hawking the “make easy money at home by writing” programs . . . .
I wonder who will be making the easy money?
More food for thought:
The FTC’s message about “Work At Home” schemes
Want to learn more about recurring billing programs? Search the FTC website using words such as “ringtones”, “acai”, “recurring billing”, “work at home” and others.
Also, search the web for the horror stories of how people who signed up for programs that involved rebilling experienced endless waiting when they called the number given to cancel their account.
The penultimate “Gee, I like this company’s website” observation: RealWritingJobs.com “address”, as provided on their website:
You may also contact us via these methods:
Our Postal Address:
World Survey Group, LLC
Don’t worry. I’m sure the postal service will have no problem locating it to deliver your letter explaining how you wish to opt out but cannot get anyone on the phone to talk with you.
And, finally, what’s not to like about all the RealWritingJobs.com – A Scam or Not “reviews” . . cough . . cough . . . ?
Take a close look at how all the “independent reviews” . . cough . . link back to the RealWritingJobs website via link that is an affiliate link (paid a referral commission) of RealWritingJobs.com. Since we don’t have public WhoIs records for the RealWritingJobs.com domain, AND I somewhat suspect that the review . . err . . affiliate site website domains are equally private or have WhoIs data that likely leads nowhere . . the circle is now complete: A wonderful . . cough . . offer, of paying to get paid to write . . . independent affiliate review sites that get paid IF they convince people that the “job offer” . . cough . . is meritorious . . . and . . . YOU . . who hopefully can figure out how good a deal it is . . . to pay me $47.00/month, to set you up with writing jobs . . . 
Argh.
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