SAFE AT MYLOT.

Bubblews was mismanaged and they were deceitful towards the members. I enjoy mylot too and the wonderful writers on here! I do hope that it does not fold like the others have!

A lot of us got taken by Bubblews, but it paid well before it started its downhill slide. MyLot is the only site I'm currently writing on.

Wrote for myLot before and then this site stopped paying. Change in business direction. No problem though as I kept writing here but not as often as when they were paying. Moved to the 'B' site. Got paid there but I knew something was off with that site. i was glad to get paid but I knew that the business model that they have was too good to be true to continue. True enough, they folded. Moved to another site, PersonaPaper. Now, that site was better than the 'B' site in terms of the quality of posts and content. they paid as well but sadly, it had stopped paying as well. Went back to myLot to catch up with old online friends. Glad that the site started paying again.

Bubblews made the mistake of paying too much and they ran their business into the ground, is my guess.

I did not have any problem with Bubblews.I guess I was lucky.they paid me up to the end. Made good money from them.No complain

I see other are saying what I was going to say, Bubblews mismanaged the site and paid us way too much to keep them afloat, I love it here and this is the only place I am using. I've tried other but they bored me....

I have seen many sites come and go but I believe in the saying - make hay while the sun shines. myLot stopped paying once and hopefully this will not happen again. And as far as Bubblews is concerned I was paid well there.

It definitely is an online thing. Problem with basically starting a business with virtually no money if you look at it that way. Where in the offline world you pretty much have to get a loan from rich people and you better believe they are going to try their hardest to make sure you do not fail because they want a return on their investment. Many places online are poorly run and are the very same people that promise get rich schemes to get people to join them and that is why they end up with so many scammers joining their sites. Which is pretty much what happened to Bubblews if you think about. The difference with Bubblews is they either had a lot of money saved up or did indeed have investors also, by the way they started paying so much in the beginning and how much money they put into always changing the website. It all eventually came to a head when they realized they were paying people way more than they could afford and that is when they chose to start only paying certain people and not others, raising the withdrawal cap, and lowering what people made per post with comments, likes, and stopped paying for views altogether.

I feel safe with Mylot and I'm happy here which is why i will stick with this site only. I don't want to be disappointed like I was when Bubblews went down.

Bubblews went down because the owners had no business sense.

I went from Bubblews to here but have no desire to look for any other sites. I'm comfortable here and hope this place remains in business for a long time

I feel safe here as well, and have no interest in joining other writing sites. I assume that some have bad business sense, and others are just scammers. Did you ever see that eerily prophetic Bubblews video of Bubblews writers on a sort of conveyor belt, being led to the slaughterhouse?

I did write at many that shut down so I am breaking from the people who do not have business sense, seems to me that they change/update the site an right after they will crash. I have my own non paying blog that I am building, I am learning how to make my own money blogging, cut out the middleman.

It will be interesting to hear what others say. I had a great experience at Bubblews and always got paid. They paid well too. MyLot is safe but doesn't pay much. I really am here for fun rather than money anyway.

I suspect a lot of it has to do with a good vs. less well thought out business plan--but that is purely supposition on my part

Yes MyLot is a safe spot !!

I think my Lot has learned from the Bubbles mistakes. I too feel safe here, especially as many friends from previous sites are now here.

I had been with two sites that closed down–Yahoo! Voices (which I joined when it was Associate Content) and the big B. I tried to join another site, which I can't remember the name of, just before the big B closed. They wanted a writeup on me (and anyone joining). I did the writeup and sent it in. I got an email back saying I was not a good enough writer for their site. I shot an email back saying: Thank you for letting me know I'm not a good enough writer for your site. I'm glad that, after being a freelance writer since 1986, someone has the nerve to tell me I am not a good writer. They shot back an email apologizing all over the place and said they could tell from my email that I was a good writer. The email went on to say that it was a standard email that was sent out automatically if something happen to set it off. They said if my writeup was similar to another that I had online that may have caused the email to be sent. They ask me to try again, but after that I was no longer interested.

Wikinut is also still in existence but they no longer pay writers either. My balance there was very tiny so not getting paid wasn't that big a deal. I still keep all my articles there though I don't post anything new. I log in to the site from time to time and I see that I get views pretty much every day. Not huge views but still they are views and I am not even active there. Interesting...

I was once at bubblews too, I've earned a lot of dollars there, and after what happened to bubblews I discovered Mylot and now I'm starting working here and I hope so that I will not encounter any problem this time