MillionDollarWiki: Not A Great Company To Work With
Last month I wrote a sponsored review about the MillionDollarWiki who are selling Wiki pages for $100 each. So far 1035 have been sold, generating $103,500 in income.
Despite this success, I still can’t see what real benefit the MillionDollarWiki site offers to advertisers, and so did several readers who pointed out several flaws in the site’s strategy. As with all reviews I gave my honest opinion, and even though this was made clear to the site owner they have refused to pay me or to honour the offer of a free Wiki page because I did not write a positive review. One of my other friends was also not paid by MillionDollarWiki, even though they wrote a positive review.
This experience has brought to life the disadvantages of selling advertising directly. If the review had been purchased say via ReviewMe I would have got paid. I could have protected myself by taking payment upfront, and I won’t be making this mistake again. However, it has really upset me that a service that has generated $103,500 in income in only a few months couldn’t honor a $250 contract.
The moral of this story? Always make sure you get paid in advance!
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Pingback by MillionDollarWiki Payment Update | Connected Internet on 23 October 2007:
[...] to write a sponsored review. Because I didn’t write a positive review of the service, they refused to pay me and also one of my friends who actually wrote a positive [...]
Comment by Sofna on 15 October 2007:
yikes, thats sad. they made all that money and wont pay you for your honest review? im sure this post will make its way to DP and the other webmaster hangouts. they sold a lot of pages in the beginning and then when all the good names were gone or running out, they have slowed down a lot. I do not foresee 10k pages being sold. he had a good run though.
Comment by Micah on 15 October 2007:
Wow, what a pathetic website…only want’s positive reviews. I hope this post gets around to them, and they pay what they owe you before more bad publicity comes their way.