Rachna says

My fledgling career in Creative writing and Content development received a jolt when I recently worked with a web marketing company called kwebmarketing.com. I had a satisfactory interview with them in which I had quoted my rates to them. They seemed fine with it and sent me a financial website to work on which had 7 pages. I began working and asked them for feedback after doing the first and second pages. They told me to continue doing the rest of pages which I took as the acceptance of quality on their behalf. I took 4 working days and completed the complex research and writing work and zipped across my file to them. They gave me the link of a medical website to begin working on but I said I wanted something in black and white about the payment cycles and refused to begin new work.

After 4 days, they revert saying that some parameters are missing and that I should rework only 3 pages now and that payment schedules will be discussed only after the reworked content is received by them. I was furious – they had wasted my time in doing so many pages if they did not need me for all. They could not expect me to wait for weeks for their inputs and most ridiculously what was there to discuss about payment? How could they have asked me to do work for another website and I thank my lucky stars that I did not begin work on that one. I told them that I was not willing to work for such unprofessional people and would sue them for copyright infringement if they ever used my content in any way. I have set alerts to check on this.

The whole experience left such a bitter taste in my mouth. Among all the clients I have worked with, this one was most unscrupulous. They made me work, did not pay me and displayed utter unprofessionalism. It was my mistake also that I continued doing work for them on good faith alone. A very big lesson for me. I have become very careful these days and upfront want all payment schedules and other guidelines to be laid out. I hope the other who read this are also wary of such people and take necessary precautions.