Software Review Writers

[phoenixx]

From one of my freelancer job posting lists:

Will Pay For Cool Software Reviews
Reply to: gigs-152158875@craigslist.org
Date: 2006-04-18, 4:42AM

We pay for original creative software and game reviews. The pay is currently capped at $50 per review max, but you can submit multiple reviews. The rules of submission are brainlessly simple:

http://www.softwarejudge.com/rules

Original URL: http://www.craigslist.org/sfc/wrg/152158875.html
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[nc10]

Thanks for the tip.

Obviously, your review has to be damn good for us to pay you fifty bucks and not every reviewer is going to get that much for a single review. However, you get paid at least a buck for any review published here. Ten reviews – ten bucks. Twenty reviews – twenty bucks. You do the math. The better your work, the more money you get for writing fewer reviews.

Have you tried submitting a review? Are they saying that your 10th review will earn $10 and your fiftieth will earn $50? Or each published review will earn a variable amount between 1 and 50? Looked over their software list, nothing I've heard of. I wonder if they hope to earn money by selling software to potential reviewers (maybe I'm too cynical)

I see they give no-nonsense advice.

Submit only original reviews that you wrote personally. If we find out that there is a sentence that’s not yours (it’s very easy to find that out with Google), you won’t get paid.

Don’t submit more than three reviews in one day. Better yet, submit one review and see if it gets published or not. If it does not get published, it’s not good enough and we don’t want to spend several hours a day reading crappy reviews. Not everybody is good at this.

Don’t be stupid. Don’t review software that you never tried. Don’t say software is good, if it’s bad.