Another Blogging Site that Fails to Pay Its Users

I'm thinking it must be something about human nature in general that makes us kind of greedy when it comes to getting paid. The more money we receive for a lesser amount of work, the better and I'm not saying that thinking about that is wrong, I'm just saying that it's not something that's likely to happen any time soon, or if it does, the queue will start behind me.

Blogging for money has always been one of the dreams and dare I say myths of the Internet. I know many people who tried, it but ended up giving it up either because they weren't as creative as they thought, or because the blogging site of their choice couldn't pay, and that ruined the blogging idea altogether for them. Usually, such blogging sites don't last very long, anyway.

I don't know if you've ever heard of BlogCharm.com. It too had that idea to begin with, but lost the "paying the bloggers" part somewhere en route. It was said to give its users fifty percent revenue shared, based on revenue made against their content from a mixture of CPM ads and AdSense units, as Duncan Riley of TechCrunch.com pointed out. Obviously it hasn't, or else there'd be a totally different title to this story and much more praise in it.

The site was launched in 2006 and payments have been due since… December 2006. They don't answer the respective emails and, furthermore, not even the ownership of the site is clear, so people don't know who directs their inquiries. The one way to find out who is really running the show, at least on paper, is to check it out with Alexa.com, but the information there isn't 100 percent sure, as there's been a bit of a transaction being made with the site and we don't know if the data has been updated.

The strange part is that BlogCharm is still open for joining, which I find odd because they should at the very least close registration until the financial issues are solved, instead of going deeper in the debt pool. And if they can't pay, they should shut it down and sell it and then pay with the money they got.