Hi, Sadekjake has cleared some of my doubts regarding Payment and agreement process in GAF. I have still some doubts.Iam going to do my first project, thats y im asking such 'foolish' questions,please excuse me 1)As per the the details given about this particular project, I will have to complete 5-10 articles a day.And he has'nt mentioned how long the project last. So I dont know how many articles I hav to complt for him. Anyways I agreed to work for $1/article. In this case how will i get paid as it is done on a daily basis? how can I make sure that he will not cheat me after 2 days of work? Remember I dont have a paypal account.... 2)Here the provider has asked me to start the work before formally selected , and the reason he said was that he has to get some more writers. In this case, how can i make sure that i will get paid for my service? Is there any provision in GAF to prove that I have done some work for him? 3)How will I know whether the provider has payed the amount to escrow or not? Ignore if you find answering this questions a waste of your time...And for anyone who helps me by answring my doubts, thanks in advance....
I followed the other thread you posted and here are my two cents: You have to ask the client about the volume of work and the payment schedule. The only way you can be safe is when you begin working only AFTER the escrow has been funded. The site will notify you that the project amount is already escrowed (or you should see some status update in the awarded job). I *strongly* suspect that you're dealing with a scammer who intends to get free work from you. Mention that you're ready to deliver the articles and that you're just waiting for the escrow to be funded. Funding the escrow should not be a problem for any honest client who's serious about hiring you. Good luck and tell us how it goes.
A lot of clients dont' use the escrow, but those who don't will normally pay a percentage fee up front for your deposit if they are using paypal. also let me offer something else which is WHY you are likely being paid a dollar an article. the reason most of us left GAF is this Gaf authors accept 500 items. at 3 dollars an item. THEY then turn around and resell th em. making others write them for one dollar and they pocket 2 dollars of the pay for the article you just wrote. Try this for a test .. take the name of the man who hired you and click on it.. see what articles HE has accepted for writing and what jobs he has listed on there for people do to//Jobs he is selling.... you will likely find that he has bid on them from another client and is farming out the work to other workers at a cheap price to get you to do the work and he pockets the pay. Let me just say that one dollar an article is OUTRAGEOUS. ask yourself if you can do more than five in an hour and if you can't, yo'ure getting seriously ripped off. I' ve been doing this for about 9 years,. I make my entire living at it and got listed in several books for seo writing, but here's the thing.. everyone starts out cheap, until they make a name for themselves and their company but writing for 5 dollars an hour, you just can't make a living. Right now I do copy/content writing as well as website monthly management for some of the bigger sites out there, but like you, I started writing for a dollar an hour..BUT.. let me inject that was back when the internet was a baby. LOL. if he wants good content, he will offer a fair price and not take your work as something anyone can do. I'd honestly reconsider accepting that assignment, cus I"d be willing to bet it's someone who took the articles from the original client at a higher price and is sub-letting them so to speak. and keeping more than half your profit.
These problems are why rentacoder.com is the best site to freelance thru. None of that foolishness you mentioned above is allowed at rentacoder.com!