Complaint Review: Textbroker

Textbroker pays writers a few cents per word to writer articles for them. I wrote 6 or 8 articles and they owe me over $35.00. The first time I asked for payment they said they needed a W9 form and thats all they said they needed so I completed the form and sent it to them.

After waiting several months and emailing them several times for a status update they finally replied and said they had to verify who I was and this was after I wrote articles for them. I was asked to send a copy of my drivers license and a picture of me holding my drivers license.

After several months and numerous emails which they didn not reply to. They finally said they would pay me but they pay through PayPal and they had the wrong email address. Their system will not allow you to change your email address you have to contact them to do that. I contacted them to change my email address and again after several attempts by email I finally received a response that they couldnt change my email address until I sent them a photo of my drivers license and a picture of me holding my license.

I emailed back and told them I had just done that a few weeks ago. Again another long waiting period for a response and they emailed me and said this time they needed a picture of me holding my license and a piece of paper with my signature and the date on it and another picture of my drivers license and the piece of paper. 

I still have not been paid and all these hoops for $35.00 which I have never received. And now they have my picture and a copy of my ID which who knows what they will do with it. And I worked for them wrote articles or them which they got paid for but I received no pay what so ever.