When someone offers you $10 For Nothing, it is understandable for you to consider that there might be a 'catch' involved. In the case of Authorship.com's recent 'funding' process that yielded them $4 million of investment - the catch appears to be that they can just completely reverse their offer and give you nothing and then not speak to you!
I recently shared a link to an offer from a new startup that is attempting to revolutionise the Publishing industry. They offered $10 for everyone who registered with them and an additional $10 for each referral that users brought to them. I brought about 7 new users to them via my posting of their links on social media, so according to their offer they owe may about $80USD. They stated that this would be paid on the 14th September.
I was already seeing the red flags when they stated that on the 13th they had received major DDOS attacks against their servers and that (paraphrasing) they would "Not extend the funding period to make up for the lack of connectivity because it would make them look bad". The red flag for me came up because their logic is the total opposite of what I would have thought, since they were placing their perceived 'image' ahead of the desires of the potential investors who sought to benefit from the offer that they had put forward.
A lack of intelligence and integrity?
I checked the Ethereum wallet that I had registered with them and it was empty. I checked their website and it said that the payments were in process. Then I received an email informing me that they had encountered numerous technical problems in using the ETH network to make the payments and had given up - so most of the referral commissions would simply not be paid! They literally just decided to tell 1000s of people that they were giving them the finger because of their own technical ineptitude! Is that really the way to launch a successful business that is attempting to promote itself as having the moral high ground as compared to traditional publishing companies?
They did, though, offer a $100 voucher for books from their service once it launches - which might sound like an acceptable alternative, except that there is no guarantee that the service will ever actually launch or have any books that I or anyone else actually wants or needs.
Next up, they sent out another email saying that - yes, they WILL pay out all of the tokens for referrals after all... They had found that there were (predictably) numerous scammers attempting to get large amounts of tokens from them by using fake referral accounts and so they were employing some strict rules to limit how many tokens were paid out. They claimed that a high percentage of applicants had given incorrect wallet addresses and/or registered from IPs that were also used to register numerous other applications. They stated that only applicants from an IP address that had had 3 or less applications from it would be paid.
After all of this, I still felt I should be paid from them, since I am the only applicant from my IP address, I didn't scam them and have done nothing wrong... But, I got nothing at all!
Worse than getting nothing at all, they state that they will not respond to any enquiries about an absence of payment!
This reminds me of the BBC TV series 'Watchdog' which would keep track of dodgy offers and con artists - exposing their twists and turns as they made offers and then used every trick in the book to not come through on them.
Apologies if you used my link
Just know that I also received nothing from them and am very unlikely to be putting any of my own publications through them as I was thinking I might one day do.
Did anyone here actually get paid from them?
Wishing you well,
Ura Soul
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Followed and upvoted.
Authorship screwed us in an arrogant and insulting way and deserves all the public whipping we can give them...
Let's make these bastards famous... xD
I suggest we all upvote, re-steem, etc. our Authorship-related posts, this needs all the exposure it can get.
https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@martinwanderer/breaking-authorship-ico-bounty-program-was-another-fraud-forget-that-platform
greetings! hehe.. i followed you back and upvoted your post.
I did some research and found Nolan's profile and an auto repair business that he owns in Maryland.
https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@mikej/scam-alert
Great, thank! Upvoted and followed!
Thank you! Following back.
i also face this on 80% on my online business, presently am even scared of joining any other platform. Thank GOD I found steemit which is yielding something reasonable. good post, i have upvoted ur post
Thanks! It's the 'wild west web' right now ;)
I haven't heard about Authorship.com so thankfully I didn't participate.
Let's say they indeed had fake referral problems. First of all, companies have to be prepared for that. All the decent crypto startups offered tokens for things that grow their company. Like giving a few tokens for joining their discord channel or giving out a portion after the tokens your referrals bought. That's how they raise money after all.
Of course, some people will spam them with fake referrals but if they don't have a plan to tackle a simple problem like that, then what did they even want?
Authorship seems like a failure. I wonder if it will ever make it to an exchange or coinmarketcap.com
The exact poor experience here. No coins, nothing at all. I'll see how the project turns out.
Well i don't know if it is a scam or not yet.
Although i haven't received mine too.
Regarding their free tokens, why do i care if they got problems if i haven't done anything wrong? It's their problem and they should make a simpler one with a limit. I don't need fake proposals with millions if i don't get anything. I'd like to participate to good projects, but now made me think twice.
I did sent them an email even in their last one said they will not response to such emails.
Also, did my job with a presenting post and hopefully i haven't bought any of that ;-) I wanted to buy for $1 to check how things are going in this ICO thing
but said better at first to play with that referral thing.
I don't believe in this overall ICO thing to invest at the beginning because you can't know who you send them... Better enter after they launch and being listed on an exchange and try to play there.
This project looks very interesting and if behind it are the ones said in their website it should be.
We'll see what happens soon with it.
They say on 15 nov is beta project testing and then in january beta project launch...
Eh, it is what it is and within all my posts i say to people that is their decision what to do and i don't oblige anybody to do things. I will rarely share this kind of things and... hmm, got an ideea now. To make a special page on my blog with links to that kind of referral links just for fun... who wants to play with them good, who not, they can find about them and if i have some bad info about them will leave them there to be known.
It is better to be shown in many places to be seen by others.
Cheers and don't be too sad... because you make me feel the same ;-)))
Let's go to real things now!
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welcome to steemit! done.
Not sure if i followed your link but i did all that was asked and ended up with nothing.. Whether a scam or not its definitely a company to steer well clear of and probably dump your tokens before they become worthless if you bought any
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They scammed me too.
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Here is Authorship co founder, Noland Warfield, business information if anyone would like to call there and ask for your money.
https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@mikej/authorship-co-founder-info
Yeah, I didn't receive mine as well. I felt red signs from their CEO when I saw him reading off his computer screen when introducing the company. I followed you as well, hope you can follow me back. Cheers :)