to= too. You blew it. I guess it's still better than an Indian. How many words for $3.55?
Fuck all the mediocre, undriven content jokers in this forum. Hire a legend.
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to= too. You blew it. I guess it's still better than an Indian. How many words for $3.55?
I've got no problem with India. My best friend in college was Indian, and he's probably a better writer than most Americans. That said, I didn't, and wouldn't, hire a non-native English speaker to write this type of content. Why? Because no matter now much you study grammar and spelling, you'll never learn that "under covers" should be "under cover" because it's a colloquialism that's used regionally. You have to live in region for a long time to learn that last 5% of a language. When you don't know that last 5%, it's obvious.
India get's dragged into this thread, because more likely than not, I received content written by an Indian, and it sucked. India is a nation of people who generally speak English as a second language and therefore most Indians aren't suitable for writing my content. The same can be said for Germans, french, japanese, etc. except that this forum isn't full of Japanese guys looking to write content.
This is complete speculation, so maybe I'm way off, but If I were to guess, this might be where it came from http://www.wickedfire.com/content/74387-click-see-whats-inside-you.html#post677906
Just shut up and wait for your article......
I too waited for a bit longer than expected - but by God, I got the "GOLDEN SWAN" from him last night.
It is the best article I had ever gotten from any writer.
Plus, take into account: you are not dealing with a spinner or one that sweats blood to come up with a paragraph. You are dealing with someone that hits the paper when the creative thought occures in his brain. And that is not something that one can control/demand at the snap of a finger.
I rather wait for the superior creative quality, then collect a ton of even decent articles.
Unless you just want to fill your pages with some bum-fuck generic shit -
you better bow down to Josh and his ability.
Plus, he is not just a writer - there is a humanbeing there too, with all the ups-and-downs of life. Give him a break. You all should know 'when it rains it pours'.
So, allow him the time to deliver to you the best you can get anywhere and be grateful that he writes for you in the first place.
I held my campaign off for 2 weeks [which I really could not afford to do] -
but it was worth every minute of waiting time.
Not only did I get far more than what I paid for [words], I got the top-notch article I always dreamed of.
Crackajg - THANK YOU for one hell of a article, you are :smokin:
I too waited for a bit longer than expected - but by God, I got the "GOLDEN SWAN" from him last night.
It is the best article I had ever gotten from any writer.
Plus, take into account: you are not dealing with a spinner or one that sweats blood to come up with a paragraph. You are dealing with someone that hits the paper when the creative thought occures in his brain. And that is not something that one can control/demand at the snap of a finger.
I rather wait for the superior creative quality, then collect a ton of even decent articles.
Unless you just want to fill your pages with some bum-fuck generic shit -
you better bow down to Josh and his ability.
Plus, he is not just a writer - there is a humanbeing there too, with all the ups-and-downs of life. Give him a break. You all should know 'when it rains it pours'.
So, allow him the time to deliver to you the best you can get anywhere and be grateful that he writes for you in the first place.
I held my campaign off for 2 weeks [which I really could not afford to do] -
but it was worth every minute of waiting time.
Not only did I get far more than what I paid for [words], I got the top-notch article I always dreamed of.
Crackajg - THANK YOU for one hell of a article, you are :smokin:
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I got "bum-fuck generic shit."
Honestly wouldn't give a fuck if I was just delaying some campaigns. I'm delivering for a local client. I can't just eat two weeks, but that's not why I'm pissed. I'm pissed because he didn't make it right after he fucked up.
I got "bum-fuck generic shit."
Honestly wouldn't give a fuck if I was just delaying some campaigns. I'm delivering for a local client. I can't just eat two weeks, but that's not why I'm pissed. I'm pissed because he didn't make it right after he fucked up.
understand - but just being pissed does not solve anything either.
write him an email, am sure he will correct whatever there is to be done.
I think the issue here is more that people are paying up front for service that is not delivered on time. The reason you typically pay up front is because the service provider expects people to not pay up, in general. In this case, its Crack that's not coming through.
I am also not sure whats going on whit him. I am still waiting (about two months) for some articles he promised to write me. He is trully a good guy but to much shit going around. If you ever are in such personal circumstances just don't do business if you can't deliver...
Josh is a good guy but I think he's pulling a Jamman and running away.
...I've ordered lots from Josh and none of it has ever been on time. But for me it was no big deal - shit happens.
He came to me, fuck probably a month or more ago, asking if I needed anything written and gave me this story, which is probably true, of not being able to afford his rent etc etc
I like Josh. He seems like a good guy. So we worked out a deal and I sent him $50. No questions asked.
When shit started to go down on this thread I contacted him, even though it appears he blocked me on Yahoo! chat, and asked him what's up.
He told me he couldn't handle personal shit anymore and was financially strapped. He said he was taking a job at the liquor store to make ends meet. (Good on him.)
He told me i'd get a refund really soon and apologized a few million times. We had a good talk and I even shared with him how I used to work at Wendy's to fund what I did online to at least get somewhere - sometimes the hustle doesn't sound very cool.
I'm not one to go and remind someone 24/7 and be on their ass. Josh owes me the money and I would like to hope that he'd pay up soon - even if that means not being able to buy a new computer/dvd/whatever he spends his money on.
Josh had a real good thing going on here. There's no reason he couldn't hustle when he gets off work for a few hours and make a few hundred dollars more a week. There's a few bigger posters with more "reputation" that haven't gotten their articles either but don't want to totally kill what Josh had going here.
Hopefully this is a wake up call for him.
...I've ordered lots from Josh and none of it has ever been on time. But for me it was no big deal - shit happens.
He came to me, fuck probably a month or more ago, asking if I needed anything written and gave me this story, which is probably true, of not being able to afford his rent etc etc
I like Josh. He seems like a good guy. So we worked out a deal and I sent him $50. No questions asked.
When shit started to go down on this thread I contacted him, even though it appears he blocked me on Yahoo! chat, and asked him what's up.
He told me he couldn't handle personal shit anymore and was financially strapped. He said he was taking a job at the liquor store to make ends meet. (Good on him.)
He told me i'd get a refund really soon and apologized a few million times. We had a good talk and I even shared with him how I used to work at Wendy's to fund what I did online to at least get somewhere - sometimes the hustle doesn't sound very cool.
I'm not one to go and remind someone 24/7 and be on their ass. Josh owes me the money and I would like to hope that he'd pay up soon - even if that means not being able to buy a new computer/dvd/whatever he spends his money on.
Josh had a real good thing going on here. There's no reason he couldn't hustle when he gets off work for a few hours and make a few hundred dollars more a week. There's a few bigger posters with more "reputation" that haven't gotten their articles either but don't want to totally kill what Josh had going here.
Hopefully this is a wake up call for him.
shit, i don't even know how long its been since I ordered, maybe 45 days or more ago. Last I heard from him was on Halloween.
I needed something written quickly, he said he couldn't do it quick for $55 (5 500 word articles), but it would probably be 4 days. But I could get them quicker for $75. Good thing I didn't pay $75. He said he needed money to pay bills and was in a jam, so I decided to just go ahead with the service and pay the $55 and get them whenever. I still don't have the articles.
I sure hope he's doing good financially now that he has everyone's money, but still couldn't find the time to write the articles.
What I don't understand is why everyone was so hyped up about how good he writes. Who fucking cares how good he writes if you never get the articles, I mean shit, by now I could've written 50 of the same articles, and I know that I'm busier than he is if he's strapped for cash to pay bills.
I needed something written quickly, he said he couldn't do it quick for $55 (5 500 word articles), but it would probably be 4 days. But I could get them quicker for $75. Good thing I didn't pay $75. He said he needed money to pay bills and was in a jam, so I decided to just go ahead with the service and pay the $55 and get them whenever. I still don't have the articles.
I sure hope he's doing good financially now that he has everyone's money, but still couldn't find the time to write the articles.
What I don't understand is why everyone was so hyped up about how good he writes. Who fucking cares how good he writes if you never get the articles, I mean shit, by now I could've written 50 of the same articles, and I know that I'm busier than he is if he's strapped for cash to pay bills.
still waiting on my refund also, its been around 6 weeks now.
Originally got a bunch of promises about receiving it in the next day or two then about 2 weeks ago stopped receiving any sort of reply at all from Josh. Looks like there will be a few of us in the same boat.
Originally got a bunch of promises about receiving it in the next day or two then about 2 weeks ago stopped receiving any sort of reply at all from Josh. Looks like there will be a few of us in the same boat.
God forbid : May be he is in a mess, or suffering from some physical problem.?? I don't know..
I don't know him personally, but I don't think he would really want to corn people for money...and just vanish if he knows his potential...I wish you all...all the best.. I hope you'll get your refund..or the articles..
may be he is just not in the pink of his health...who knows...
I don't know him personally, but I don't think he would really want to corn people for money...and just vanish if he knows his potential...I wish you all...all the best.. I hope you'll get your refund..or the articles..
may be he is just not in the pink of his health...who knows...
Okay, let's see. I was going to try and handle each case individually behind closed e-mail doors but I eventually figured it would be easier to lay everything out on here just to get everyone on the same page. Regardless of how embarrassing and incredibly humbling it may be. First off, the quick backstory:
Some of you (who were around for it) may remember back to the beginning of this year when I was MIA for about a month or so. I documented on here briefly a summary of what went down -- basically it involved me going into a detox and rehab for opiate addiction. I got myself turned around for a good portion of the year and was doing well and remaining productive.
However, I ended up getting a bit too comfortable and eventually began telling myself a few weeks (in which I had started drinking regularly again) that I was strong enough to do some Oxy's, Perks or Vikes from time to time. Though, for anyone who even knows just a fucking smidgeon about addiction -- that just isn't the way it works. Unfortunately...
I fell and I fell hard. I begun to take on about 3-4 times as much work as I normally would in order to help support the habit and also ensure that I had at least a good portion of my half of the bills each month. Eventually I ended up getting bogged down but since I'm a moron and love to tell people what they want to hear, I kept quoting entirely-too-quick ETA times -- mainly because it's just a bad habit. I will never try to admit that my content writing has been the most punctual, but for the most part when I did send it in it was of quality. Always on time? Not so much.
Somewhere along the line I tried to get a group of other freelance writers under me to help with the vast workload and I would edit what they sent in an effort to keep my quality level consistent. Suffice to say, that didn't work very well at all, either. (Although I did discover exclusivewrites and a few others who are better writers and more importantly, more punctual and responsible than I could ever hope to be)
On the addiction side of things, eventually -- like all things -- shit hit the fan. After falling from a fucking skyscraper. About a week ago I needed to go and get something but didn't have access to any funds in which to get it. It fucked with my head quite a bit and I actually ended up trying to smash one of my fingers (one of the one's I didn't need for typing of course!) in with a hammer. I ended up hitting it three different times, trying my best to focus on the light at the end of the tunnel thoughts (which in my warped, fucked-up case was ample prescriptions to some pain meds -- ideally some Oxy's) but unfortunately (fortunately I guess though, now that I'm looking back in a somewhat sane state) I didn't do any serious damage. Suffice to say, I woke up the next morning and was able to look back on what happened in a somewhat more clear light. There's really no way around it -- that's certainly not something that normal people do. What in the FUCK was I thinking? Trust me when I say this -- it certainly wasn't one of my proudest moments. But as they say, the night is the darkest just before dawn. Or something like that. But it was definitely fucking a dark night right then...
I knew I had a problem before but at that point I knew I had to try something different recovery wise in order to get my fucked up ass on track.
To make this portion of a long story short, I got an appointment with a doctor specializing in addictions and he put me on Suboxone -- which basically helps to alleviate all the cravings and more importantly, makes it so that even if you do opiates they won't do shit for you. Literally -- they won't work. It's used primarily so that people who're addicted to opiates can get back on their feet and help try and get their fucking shit together. And as we've seen from the last part of this thread recently, I indeed have a lot of shit that I need to get together. And I plan on doing just that.
Now, onto the more important topic of everyone who I've unfortunately inconvenienced and most certainly let down. Please believe me on this -- I plan to pay back every single one of you what I owe. In addition, if you would let me, I'd like to complete all the articles I owe each of you AND pay you back (if applicable) in order to make things right as best I can. I'm not going to make the same mistake and try and say I'll be able to get everyone paid back in 2-3 days or anything. In a perfect world, ideally, I'm hoping to get everything all set with everyone on here by the 1st of January 2010 (a little less than a month away).
I have no one to blame but myself for what has happened and I hope most of you can find it in your hearts to accept my sincere apologies and understand that admitting all of this on here isn't the easiest thing I've ever done. If not, then that's cool too. Completely understandable.
Please know that I have every intent to set things right with each of you contrary to how rocky things have been going thus far. So far the shit I'm taking has been working great -- I don't have hardly any cravings at all, I'm not so fucking pissed off and semi-depressed all the time and I've resumed going to daily AA meetings once again (in addition to working part time at my buddies moving company -- something that's humbled the shit out of me and showed me just how good I had it having the privilege to write for all of you for a living) and I haven't felt this good about my future in a long time. At least sobriety-wise that is.
While it's certainly humbling coming on here and telling everyone this -- especially the part with the hammer -- that was just fucking stupid as fuck -- it needed to be done.
On a related sidenote, I'm also going to take a long break from writing freelance on here (save for a select few people I've continously wrote for for a while) and frankly, I really don't even think I even deserve to. So it's probably going to be indefinitely.
In conclusion, once again, I sincerely apologize. I'm not sure how much many of you know about addiction and stuff, but please know that this was certainly nothing personal. I wasn't in the right frame of mind to be doing much of anything nevermind handling in-good-faith up front payments from people who for the most part, have treated me far too kindly then I've deserved. If you'd like to substitute the article orders you'd originally put in for others then that's perfectly okay, but I really do wish to not only complete what each of you had ordered, but also pay you back as well. It will make me feel better about all of this because, quite frankly, I've felt like complete and utter shit with this WF situation alone -- nevermind the whole addiction shit. In my mind, there's nothing else more I could do besides that to show how sorry I am that any of this has occurred.
Threehundred, your order got lost in the shuffle and since I lost everything on my old computer from a virus, I didn't have any records of the job through Wicked Fire PM logs that I usually search in my e-mail if I can't remember a particular job. I believe you had originally IM'd me about the job which was why I couldn't find it when I was trying to piece everything I had together about any still-to-be completed jobs. My offer I discussed previously of course applies to you. There's really no excuses for why it's nearly been two months for your order, but I would appreciate it immensely if you let me do what I can to make things as close to right as I can hope to get them.
The lesson, as always, is don't do drugs kids. You might end up trying to smash your finger with a hammer. Seriously though, if you use opiates of any kind -- be fucking careful. Tis a slipper slope with opium and thankfully I was lucky and didn't go down the heroin route although that probably would have been a better business decision since it would have been cheaper. As many of us know though, my business sense is horrible so there we go. I'm glad I didn't, though. From what I've seen heroin able to do -- it's no joke.
All in all, I still fucked up big time though and everyone has every right to be mad.
But please... just bear with me while I go about making things right. And I WILL make everything right. I swear on Acai!
Some of you (who were around for it) may remember back to the beginning of this year when I was MIA for about a month or so. I documented on here briefly a summary of what went down -- basically it involved me going into a detox and rehab for opiate addiction. I got myself turned around for a good portion of the year and was doing well and remaining productive.
However, I ended up getting a bit too comfortable and eventually began telling myself a few weeks (in which I had started drinking regularly again) that I was strong enough to do some Oxy's, Perks or Vikes from time to time. Though, for anyone who even knows just a fucking smidgeon about addiction -- that just isn't the way it works. Unfortunately...
I fell and I fell hard. I begun to take on about 3-4 times as much work as I normally would in order to help support the habit and also ensure that I had at least a good portion of my half of the bills each month. Eventually I ended up getting bogged down but since I'm a moron and love to tell people what they want to hear, I kept quoting entirely-too-quick ETA times -- mainly because it's just a bad habit. I will never try to admit that my content writing has been the most punctual, but for the most part when I did send it in it was of quality. Always on time? Not so much.
Somewhere along the line I tried to get a group of other freelance writers under me to help with the vast workload and I would edit what they sent in an effort to keep my quality level consistent. Suffice to say, that didn't work very well at all, either. (Although I did discover exclusivewrites and a few others who are better writers and more importantly, more punctual and responsible than I could ever hope to be)
On the addiction side of things, eventually -- like all things -- shit hit the fan. After falling from a fucking skyscraper. About a week ago I needed to go and get something but didn't have access to any funds in which to get it. It fucked with my head quite a bit and I actually ended up trying to smash one of my fingers (one of the one's I didn't need for typing of course!) in with a hammer. I ended up hitting it three different times, trying my best to focus on the light at the end of the tunnel thoughts (which in my warped, fucked-up case was ample prescriptions to some pain meds -- ideally some Oxy's) but unfortunately (fortunately I guess though, now that I'm looking back in a somewhat sane state) I didn't do any serious damage. Suffice to say, I woke up the next morning and was able to look back on what happened in a somewhat more clear light. There's really no way around it -- that's certainly not something that normal people do. What in the FUCK was I thinking? Trust me when I say this -- it certainly wasn't one of my proudest moments. But as they say, the night is the darkest just before dawn. Or something like that. But it was definitely fucking a dark night right then...
I knew I had a problem before but at that point I knew I had to try something different recovery wise in order to get my fucked up ass on track.
To make this portion of a long story short, I got an appointment with a doctor specializing in addictions and he put me on Suboxone -- which basically helps to alleviate all the cravings and more importantly, makes it so that even if you do opiates they won't do shit for you. Literally -- they won't work. It's used primarily so that people who're addicted to opiates can get back on their feet and help try and get their fucking shit together. And as we've seen from the last part of this thread recently, I indeed have a lot of shit that I need to get together. And I plan on doing just that.
Now, onto the more important topic of everyone who I've unfortunately inconvenienced and most certainly let down. Please believe me on this -- I plan to pay back every single one of you what I owe. In addition, if you would let me, I'd like to complete all the articles I owe each of you AND pay you back (if applicable) in order to make things right as best I can. I'm not going to make the same mistake and try and say I'll be able to get everyone paid back in 2-3 days or anything. In a perfect world, ideally, I'm hoping to get everything all set with everyone on here by the 1st of January 2010 (a little less than a month away).
I have no one to blame but myself for what has happened and I hope most of you can find it in your hearts to accept my sincere apologies and understand that admitting all of this on here isn't the easiest thing I've ever done. If not, then that's cool too. Completely understandable.
Please know that I have every intent to set things right with each of you contrary to how rocky things have been going thus far. So far the shit I'm taking has been working great -- I don't have hardly any cravings at all, I'm not so fucking pissed off and semi-depressed all the time and I've resumed going to daily AA meetings once again (in addition to working part time at my buddies moving company -- something that's humbled the shit out of me and showed me just how good I had it having the privilege to write for all of you for a living) and I haven't felt this good about my future in a long time. At least sobriety-wise that is.
While it's certainly humbling coming on here and telling everyone this -- especially the part with the hammer -- that was just fucking stupid as fuck -- it needed to be done.
On a related sidenote, I'm also going to take a long break from writing freelance on here (save for a select few people I've continously wrote for for a while) and frankly, I really don't even think I even deserve to. So it's probably going to be indefinitely.
In conclusion, once again, I sincerely apologize. I'm not sure how much many of you know about addiction and stuff, but please know that this was certainly nothing personal. I wasn't in the right frame of mind to be doing much of anything nevermind handling in-good-faith up front payments from people who for the most part, have treated me far too kindly then I've deserved. If you'd like to substitute the article orders you'd originally put in for others then that's perfectly okay, but I really do wish to not only complete what each of you had ordered, but also pay you back as well. It will make me feel better about all of this because, quite frankly, I've felt like complete and utter shit with this WF situation alone -- nevermind the whole addiction shit. In my mind, there's nothing else more I could do besides that to show how sorry I am that any of this has occurred.
Threehundred, your order got lost in the shuffle and since I lost everything on my old computer from a virus, I didn't have any records of the job through Wicked Fire PM logs that I usually search in my e-mail if I can't remember a particular job. I believe you had originally IM'd me about the job which was why I couldn't find it when I was trying to piece everything I had together about any still-to-be completed jobs. My offer I discussed previously of course applies to you. There's really no excuses for why it's nearly been two months for your order, but I would appreciate it immensely if you let me do what I can to make things as close to right as I can hope to get them.
The lesson, as always, is don't do drugs kids. You might end up trying to smash your finger with a hammer. Seriously though, if you use opiates of any kind -- be fucking careful. Tis a slipper slope with opium and thankfully I was lucky and didn't go down the heroin route although that probably would have been a better business decision since it would have been cheaper. As many of us know though, my business sense is horrible so there we go. I'm glad I didn't, though. From what I've seen heroin able to do -- it's no joke.
All in all, I still fucked up big time though and everyone has every right to be mad.
But please... just bear with me while I go about making things right. And I WILL make everything right. I swear on Acai!
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