Comments on: Why Isn’t BlogCharm Paying Its Bloggers?

By: StickyDrama.com

StickyDrama.com — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:50:24 +0000

[...] Universe family of companies, founded by Myspace founder Brad Greenspan. According to an article on TechCrunch, other Live Universe companies have not paid content providers their [...]

By: Lori

Lori — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:08:41 +0000

Well, miracle of miracles, I did get paid the $20 I was owed through Paypal. The payment came from Live Universe, so I guess they are still the owners.

By: Wizard_Yo

Wizard_Yo — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:54:24 +0000

I was very upset when I couldn’t access my articles on BlogCharm. After stewing a while, I was happy to remember Google’s ability to cache website info. If you’re an old BlogCharm blogger and would like access to your info, search Google for your individual blog and then click the cached link.

site:blogcharm.com

or click this link and look for your blog:
http://www.goog...amp;btnG=Search

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 04:51:24 +0000

Yes, we were given no warning at all that they would be discontinuing blogcharm. Supposedly they are still going to pay us (if we had at least $10 in our account). They owe me $20, which isn’t a fortune, but I moved my blog there since they said they were paying people to blog, and they should do so. That first $10 has been owed to me since December 2006, the other $10 since January 2007. We shall see if they will really do it or not. I can get to my blog content through cached contents on Google, but I lost a draft of something I was working on; also, I really don’t appreciate the complete lack of warning before my blog was disabled. I would seriously advise against doing any business with Live Universe.

By: golfwidow

golfwidow — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:18:21 +0000

Blogcharm has announced on its site that it’s discontinuing its service as of January 1, 2008. Unfortunately, they’ve already disabled everybody’s blogs, so if that was your main blog, you’ve not only lost all the advertising you provided for Blogcharm on your space, but you’ve lost all your hard work. Furthermore, if you haven’t placed a valid ($10 or more USD) claim with them, you’re not going to be paid.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:03:31 +0000

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By: ben

ben — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:45:54 +0000

Seems as though, given the connection to Omnidrive, TechCrunch should be expending the same energy looking into these allegations:
http://www.read...or_deadpool.php

More specifically those as outlined by the former CTO:
http://www.read...p#comment-28206

Well?

By: NicoKla

NicoKla — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:36:46 +0000

I’m glad to see this issue is getting some circulation. I am owed close to $200 from BlogCharm–money that this poor college student could have really used for the holidays. I spent one whole week creating the base content and get a ton of visitors daily. They’re just pocketing the money.

Class action lawsuit seems like the only way to recover these funds.

What do you think? Is class action reasonable? There are over a thousand members, none of whom have been paid for almost a year now.

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:28:24 +0000

…. because they were never going to anyway!

SUCKERS!

http://fakestev...er.blogspot.com

By: Ryan Milnes

Ryan Milnes — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:57:58 +0000

It seems every site they buy dies…

I know they bought http://www.dumpalink.com for over 1 mil which was one of there first buys and now that site is just crap…

By: mohno

mohno — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:38:20 +0000

“LiveUniverse, Inc.” was shown as registrant before they protected the whois information in September.

By: EH

EH — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:43:07 +0000

Let’s just put the whole concept of paid posts in the “if it sounds too good to be true…” bucket.

By: franky

franky — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:37:44 +0000

@Brad (#13) I’ve had 3 sales agreements with liveuniverse, concerning BlogExplosion, in February 2007. Every time they wanted to know if we could pay within 24 hours. I wished they could get their act together and get paper work done within 24 days!

5 Months after those 3 ‘agreements’ they asked me if I still were interested. 2 Months ago they tried again.

Deal with the negotiator and then hear that Mr. Green$pan doesn’t want to make a financial loss. Yeah, right.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:28:19 +0000

I was approached earlier this year by someone at Live Universe about posting video to Livevideo.com. Their whole intro pitch consisted of “it’s run by Brad Greenspan, the founder of MySpace.” Their initial terms sounded great – fair revenue split, good CPM, etc. As we got into the details, it was obviously a sucker deal and we would never see any revenue. When I sent them a counter-proposal, I received an incredibly rude response. Even on better financial terms, I would never do business with that company.

By: franky

franky — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:41:58 +0000

Blogcharm and Blogexplosion have been without admin since more than 3 months now.

LiveUniverse still owns both BE and BC but are looking for someone to take over. At $125k (that was the price 2 months ago).

Next joke.

By: thyroidcancertreatment.info

thyroidcancertreatment.info — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:57:37 +0000

At this time blogs are living encyclopedia of the virtual world

By: Trae Dorn

Trae Dorn — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:29:02 +0000

I’ve been slowly losing faith in LiveUniverse for months. I am/was a relatively popular user on their Livevideo.com site (www.livevideo.com/traegorn), and for months they’ve been teasing users with a reLaunch… and then doing nothing. The site is seemingly dissolving (which has led to my inactivity there over the last couple of months)

My impression is that LiveUniverse builds things, hypes them up, and then lets them die.

By: HS

HS — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:20:22 +0000

Thanks for publicizing about this problem. I’m one of the affected members who has been waiting for payments since December 2006. I hope your inquiries prompt them into action.

By: Davak

Davak — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:58:18 +0000

Our blogging network has never missed a payment to our authors. How sad to punish the heart of your business.

I ranted more about it here…
http://blogs.te...y-our-bloggers/

By: Dicky

Dicky — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:47:25 +0000

If any screwed blog charm bloggers want to try something else, at hubpages you can write about almost anything and you get paid directly by the affiliates (mainly adsense) through impression sharing. Total transparency.

By: LonelyBloggers

LonelyBloggers — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:26:37 +0000

This is very sad.

I’m actually one of the original founders of BlogExplosion/BlogCharm (along with Thomas) and the fact that BlogCharm isn’t paying their members is disturbing.

We sold our blog network (BlogExplosion/BlogCharm) a couple of years ago to LiveUniverse (Brad and group), whereby we made payments to all BlogCharm members before handing the site over. (that was a couple of years ago…)

So this has nothing to do with Thomas as we’ve long since moved on. I know over a year ago that they made payments to BlogCharm members because they were way behind and it looks like they are doing it (not paying members) again….

Since we sold the site, everything has been badly neglected. It’s frustrating to watch something you’ve put tons of time into, degrade to nothing.

I hope they do the right thing and pay BlogCharm members.. that or simply sell the site and let someone that cares keep it going properly.

By: Personal Development for the Book Smart

Personal Development for the Book Smart — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:01:47 +0000

Not again!

By: Shafqat

Shafqat — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:32:17 +0000

BlogCharm SmogShmarm lol

By: Planet Malaysia

Planet Malaysia — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:21:44 +0000

Stupid BlogCharm