eHow troubles
By kolsti87
@kolsti87 (521)
United States
June 22, 2011 12:21am CST
Now back over a year ago before eHow changed and went from largely member-generated content to hired professionals, I was a paid member. After the buyout and switch, I was forced to stop writing for them but I still earned residual income from the articles I had written. Yesterday I went to eHow to login and check on my earnings and BAM nowhere to login. 
No user profile or anything. So now I don't have access to the articles I or a place to see my earnings. I feel like I am being pushed out and now I fear my earnings may be cut off. Do any myLotters have information about this?
No user profile or anything. So now I don't have access to the articles I or a place to see my earnings. I feel like I am being pushed out and now I fear my earnings may be cut off. Do any myLotters have information about this?2 responses
@kingparker (9673)
• United States
23 Jun 11
I don't know about whether your earnings will be paid in the future or not. I got paid from ehow 2 weeks ago, and I had posted my earning here too. So, you got no way to access this website with your login name and password anymore? I guess, you simply wait and see if they still pay you or not.
@gowriter (104)
• United States
22 Jun 11
eHow, about a month ago, sent out a message to former WCP writers that they were shutting down the WCP for good. So they offered eHow writers the option to sell their articles to Demand Studios at $14 an article, or you could take your articles off and place them where you wanted.
I think a lot of people opted to keep their articles, but strangely enough, many people couldn't download their articles, including me. I simply deleted all my articles. If I couldn't download them like they allowed, then they weren't going to keep them either.
The only version of eHow in effect is eHow within the Demand Studios workspace. They pay people $15 an article. I've been paid by them on time. However, they're looking for good writers, and you've got to be patient with the copy editors. Sometimes it can take 2 days to get your articles looked at.
They're trying to keep quality articles, but they definitely have a firm group on who's running things over there.
So, sadly, I think your articles are gone for good.
@kolsti87 (521)
• United States
22 Jun 11
Well I tried searching for some of my old articles and I believe that they are gone for good and that's the end of my residual income there. I truly miss the old WCP days where I could just write and be paid without any of the complications of applying with Demand Media. I guess I'll just have to work on other sites. Triond and Bukisa have similar formats to the old WCP days but it doesn't have nearly as much traffic so it simply doesn't pay as much.
