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Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by Seniorwriter(m): 1:23pm On Jun 10, 2021
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Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by meobizy(f): 1:23pm On Jun 10, 2021
I haven’t written for anyone yet. Thank God I’ll dictate my pay when ready.
Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by ArticleBeast: 1:24pm On Jun 10, 2021
alaricsaltzman:
$0.4 per word
For most writers this isn’t bad when you convert it to naira and if the work is steady. That is over 16k for 1000 words which can be done in an hour or two. If you can do this for 30 days, you earn more than the average lecturer with a PhD

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Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by curiobling: 1:24pm On Jun 10, 2021
And I paid 100usd for 2000 words of great content though
Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by Kingsteve(m): 1:25pm On Jun 10, 2021
N1M after 12 months of writing articles. grin
Then, miscellaneous expenses for data and inconveniences: N1K for 6k words. grin


Whoever you are that offered such ridiculous contract on NL, I suggest you take up the offer, and shove it right up your a§ś!
grin

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Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by Divepen1(m): 1:27pm On Jun 10, 2021
Started out with 0.75.... per word

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Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by DrKinggi: 1:27pm On Jun 10, 2021
Abeg instead of asking how much low people had collected please tell us those sites that pays writers well or considerably so we can apply. I need to earn from writing too.

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Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by fisayodayo: 1:28pm On Jun 10, 2021
N370 after more than 20 articles for a month

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Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by SamJed(m): 1:30pm On Jun 10, 2021
GreenFarmsNG:
THIS THREAD WILL ONLY MAKE PEOPLE ENTITLED. SO LONG AS IT WASN'T FORCED AND IT WAS TRANSACTIONAL, THERE'S NOTHING LIKE WORST PAY. IF YOU FEEL A PROJECT IS TOO SMALL FOR YOU OR DOESN'T INCLINE WITH YOUR INTERESTS, DECLINE PARTICIPATING IN IT.
With due respect sir/ma, I disagree with this. Slavery shouldn't be a choice. It should be outrightly discouraged and discontinued. Because we know that there are people in desperate need of money that is why we choose to offer next to nothing as payments for jobs. This shouldn't be. Why should someone tell me that he will pay me 200 naira for 1000 words? Because he knows that I may be desperately in need for money and so I will accept the barbaric offer.

Most of these clients earn over 5 times what they pay. So why is it hard to pay the writer a considerate amount for the time, effort, fuel spent and other resources used? We shouldn't continue to accept such a mentality on the basis of choice. If this practice is firmly resisted, it will greatly help.

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Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by Jupoc: 1:30pm On Jun 10, 2021
Kingsteve:
N1M after 12 months of writing articles. grin
Then, miscellaneous expenses for data and inconveniences: N1K for 6k words. grin


Whoever you are that offered such ridiculous contract on NL, I suggest you take up the offer, and shove it right up your a§ś!
grin

I did.

The only writer who stayed with me from start to the end will be paid his 1 Million by September.


How many young dudes can save 1 Million after 2 years work?


Let's stop tarnishing the integrity of things. If I could pay 100k per month, I would, but as of then, I was at my startup phase. It took windy curves and turns, but after the whole storm, I bless God, all is now calm.



If I'm such a bad person, setup your own organization, have 20 workers and pay each 1M per annum to criticize me by superior action

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Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by Ororocelemi(m): 1:31pm On Jun 10, 2021
yusufu16:
Please I need website content writer
Call me 08136242613
Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by CHHng: 1:32pm On Jun 10, 2021
99.9% of writing jobs they post here is from unserious persons I have not seen serious persons posting writing jobs here





Quite unfortunate
Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by ebukajay184: 1:32pm On Jun 10, 2021
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Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by Dzeimzb: 1:37pm On Jun 10, 2021
Johnne32:
I have been on this platform for a while and have seen that some people actually offer just #500 per article....like that's really bad.

So, it just made me really curious. What has been the worst pay you have ever received as a Nigerian freelance writer?
Mine was 40$ to rewrite a 20k words content. It was to be in batches of 10$ for 5k word. It was the worst lows of my life. I was broke, hungry and no wear to go. Every morning, my brokeness would stare me in the face and make mockery of me. I took the job,and started. I must say rewriting is harder than the Israelites walking through the Arabian desert.
For 4 days and 4 night I was working till I finished the first batch of 5k words only for the man to return it for revision.
I managed to revise it till he approved the final draft.

Ladies and gents, that was my last time. I didn't go back for the rest of the work. I ran away for dear life.

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Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by yusufu16: 1:37pm On Jun 10, 2021
Ororocelemi:

Call me 08136242613

whats your price.
Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by stagger: 1:37pm On Jun 10, 2021
Johnne32:
I have been on this platform for a while and have seen that some people actually offer just #500 per article....like that's really bad.

So, it just made me really curious. What has been the worst pay you have ever received as a Nigerian freelance writer?

I offer 5,000 per 1000 words. Specialty work: N40,000 for 5,000 words. But you must be really good such as the guy I have now who I will recruit into the major team I am building.

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Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by TheDarkGamer: 1:40pm On Jun 10, 2021
What should be the optimum fee per word then? In your opinion.
Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by stagger: 1:40pm On Jun 10, 2021
SamJed:
With due respect sir/ma, I disagree with this. Slavery shouldn't be a choice. It should be outrightly discouraged and discontinued. Because we know that there are people in desperate need of money that is why we choose to offer next to nothing as payments for jobs. This shouldn't be. Why should someone tell me that he will pay me 200 naira for 1000 words? Because he knows that I may be desperately in need for money and so I will accept the barbaric offer.

Most of these clients earn over 5 times what they pay. So why is it hard to pay the writer a considerate amount for the time, effort, fuel spent and other resources used? We shouldn't continue to accept such a mentality on the basis of choice. If this practice is firmly resisted, it will greatly help.

The problem is that the so-called writers are bad. Poor English, bad use of punctuation, grammatical errors, and the number one cardinal sin: PLAGIARISM.

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Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by obamartins(m): 1:41pm On Jun 10, 2021
I need like five writers o. I hope N1.20k per word is not too bad for a start.
Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by sylve11: 1:42pm On Jun 10, 2021
Ppogbae:
100 naira for 8 pages


What! shocked cool
Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by TheDarkGamer: 1:42pm On Jun 10, 2021
stagger:


I offer 5,000 per 1000 words. Specialty work: N40,000 for 5,000 words. But you must be really good such as the guy I have now who I will recruit into the major team I am building.

I am interested.
Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by Jupoc: 1:42pm On Jun 10, 2021
stagger:


The problem is that the so-called writers are bad. Poor English, bad use of punctuation, grammatical errors, and the number one cardinal sin: PLAGIARISM.


Respectfully, I think you should give people the benefit of doubt. I've worked with many people here and there are good materials here.

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Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by wman(m): 1:44pm On Jun 10, 2021
TheDarkGamer:
What should be the optimum fee per word then? In your opinion.

$5 for 500 words.
Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by sylve11: 1:45pm On Jun 10, 2021
Dzeimzb:

Mine was 40$ to rewrite a 20k words content. It was to be in batches of 10$ for 5k word. It was the worst lows of my life. I was broke, hungry and no wear to go. Every morning, my brokeness would stare me in the face and make mockery of me. I took the job,and started. I must say rewriting is harder than the Israelites walking through the Arabian desert.
For 4 days and 4 night I was working till I finished the first batch of 5k words only for the man to return it for revision.
I managed to revise it till he approved the final draft.

Ladies and gents, that was my last time. I didn't go back for the rest of the work. I ran away for dear life.


Men! sad cool
Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by Jupoc: 1:45pm On Jun 10, 2021
wman:


$5 for 500 words.


Stop misleading people. This isn't quit easy to get consistently as a third party writer
Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by JoeOdion(m): 1:46pm On Jun 10, 2021
I offer 2, 2.5 naira per word. I believe that's a great place to start from. I upgrade with time if I discover how good you are. Most people claim to be outstanding writers and when they write for you, you want to tear your face off. How can I pay premium price and you give me below-average articles? Show me your quality first and I can give you what you deserve. No buyer is smiling spending on bad writers. Most people are paid what they deserve if you ask me. If you are not on the receiving end, you'd never understand.

What's more pathetic is when I write better than the seller.

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Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by Trojan8(m): 1:49pm On Jun 10, 2021
The lowest was N1 per word. I was doing 500 words for #500
Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by TheDarkGamer: 1:50pm On Jun 10, 2021
wman:


$5 for 500 words.

Hmmm.... That's good.

By the way, I'm a writer. I can write short stories and novels. I also do non-fiction. Anything you want, content writing or proof reading, I'm available.

NB: I'm referring to anybody that reads this post.
Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by TheDarkGamer: 1:52pm On Jun 10, 2021
JoeOdion:
I offer 2, 2.5 naira per word. I believe that's a great place to start from. I upgrade with time if I discover how good you are. Most people claim to be outstanding writers and when they write for you, you want to tear your face off. How can I pay premium price and you give me below-average articles? Show me your quality first and I can give you what you deserve. No buyer is smiling spending on bad writers. Most people are paid what they deserve if you ask me. If you are not on the receiving end, you'd never understand.

What's more pathetic is when I write better than the seller.

You can try me for any available jobs you might have or give me a sample task to do with no pay.
Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by nauto: 1:55pm On Jun 10, 2021
30usd
Re: What's The Worst Pay You Have Ever Received As A Writer? by NaijaOlosho(f): 1:55pm On Jun 10, 2021
I need a good writer

Asap.

You can write on any niche quote me for job

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