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I agree, Jordan. I also think Connie’s payment being redacted is also proof that they intended to end things this way. They wanted her to front the cost of the images, and only sent the payment when she refused to the work otherwise, remember? And then once she held up her end of the bargain, they reversed payment.
Yeah, I’d say they had this planned all along. And I think Jordan’s right — at this point, they just don’t know what else to do anymore. Their legal threats haven’t kept a lid on things, and in fact has only made them look worse.
On the bright side, I think we put a major kink into any plans to use LCP as a scam. It’s all over the web now, and hopefully advertisers and investors are smart enough to check before just throwing money at Quincy.
On the other hand, though, I think they’re probably just going to set up shop with another name and another scheme. I guess at least we’ve taught them never to involve WRITERS in a shady business venture. We know too well the power of the written word.
Liza,
A few different writers have forwarded me their emails from Hope, and as far as I can tell, you’re right — both her note and the attached letter were the same for all of the writers who sent me their correspondence.
The part of Hope’s letter that I love is this:
“If you would like to be considered as a writer for any one of the Laray Carr magazines, please contact Shadra Bruce, Executive Director of Editorial & Publication Development at desertchild71@yahoo.com as she will now be handling the freelance writers and their contracts.”
And then in Dean’s (or David’s? ha!) letter:
“If you have interest in writing for our company or any of our publications in the future, feel free to contact us anytime.”
As if anyone would volunteer to go through all this again.
Deb,
I realized after posting my last comment that I probably should have removed the email address when I quoted Hope’s letter. Below is my entire comment with the email address removed, so that you can delete the other comment if you would like.
Liza,
A few different writers have forwarded me their emails from Hope, and as far as I can tell, you’re right — both her note and the attached letter were the same for all of the writers who sent me their correspondence.
The part of Hope’s letter that I love is this:
“If you would like to be considered as a writer for any one of the Laray Carr magazines, please contact Shadra Bruce, Executive Director of Editorial & Publication Development at [removed for publication] as she will now be handling the freelance writers and their contracts.”
And then in Dean’s (or David’s? ha!) letter:
“If you have interest in writing for our company or any of our publications in the future, feel free to contact us anytime.”
As if anyone would volunteer to go through all this again.
Haha~ Katharine, I found that part really funny. And I think Nicole would be amused there’s another “Person” involved.
I too have not posted anywhere about this, and yet I still received the “rejection” letter. The really annoying part is that I asked Hope about this very thing prior to starting work on the articles.
Here is what I asked Hope on August 3:
“Also, am I correct in thinking that you would like me to submit 10 articles, which you may or may not choose to publish?:
Here is her reply:
“These are all requested/assigned articles. You will get paid for all of them one week after launch date of Sept 20.”
I’m not sure if that gives us any legal recourse.
This whole thing is really discouraging. I’m just starting out (naive _and_ inexperienced). I’m staying home with my baby and wanted to get started with a freelance writing career. This made me feel like I had a good start on the whole thing, but now….
Liza, Katharine >>
I’m afraid they have already partially succeeded in ripping off advertisers. As an industry standard, they should have had advertising contracts weeks before launch. In fact I think the first deadline delay (Sep 20th to Oct 5th) was due to greed.
Many of you discussed the circulation figures. An other standard procedure is to have those figures SUGGESTED by surveys to attract more investors, so I see nothing wrong there.I think their Piggy Bank is not entirely empty after all.
Kate –
I’ve mentioned this before, but if your contract does NOT have a clause stating that it supercedes all other written or spoken agreements, emailed promises such as what you are describing MAY be legally binding. I don’t know for sure, not being an attorney, but I believe written communication such as email does have bearing if the contract doesn’t say otherwise.
HAHA YES, I AM AMUSED ABOUT THE FACT THAT THEY MESSED UP AND PUT DEAN PERSON INSTEAD OF DAVID. THE RESPONSE WILL BE THAT THEY ARE BROTHERS–OR FATHER AND SON–OR COUSINS. LOL. THEY ALWAYS HAVE THE BEST REBUTTALS!
This is the first time I’ve posted to any blog, and I got the rejection letter also. Hope actually tried to get me to write additional articles last week or the week before. Thanks to all of you and your information, I had the good sense to say no. Wish that sense would have kicked in a little sooner. But I truly appreciate the support and community that is going on here!
I have posted regularly about this, and I did not receive any sort of rejection letter. Why didn’t they include me?! Haha!
Maybe you should email them and ask where your rejection letter is.
I’m half-serious — one writer posted on Writer Beware and said that she didn’t get hers until she emailed Hope. Apparently they forgot about her.
Hi,
Add another victim to the heap! Fortunately, I only wasted a few hours submitting one article compared to the vast work many of you submitted to LCP. My concern however lies not with the lost hours or wages, but with the fact we provided our perosnal information, including our SSNs, to LCP. Even if LCP’s major focus was an investment scheme, what is stopping Carr or his associates from selling our personal information to any con with a $100.
Regards, Hindsight 20/20
Yes I received the rejection letter too. The “I’m sorry about this” is really laughable. This is the same stuff they did with the Chef International scam.
What a crock.
I googled the desertchild71 Yahoo address and she’s looking for photos – free photos.
http://www.google.com/search?q=desertchild71%40yahoo.com&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Good thinking, Heather.
Did you notice how she started out that ad?
I am the managing editor of a group of magazines that are launching the 1st of October.
How do you suppose they’re launching on the 1st of October without any articles?
Maybe LCP went to one of those content banks and got a bunch of trash articles, or like some other poster suggested they rewrote the articles submitted
Hey – is this the same company?
http://craigslistcurmudgeon.com/2007/09/26/writers-arent-the-only-ones-getting-the-shaft/
I just noticed the date on those ads — Sept 5th and 11th. Had anyone heard of her before now?
Yup. That’s the same ad I was just looking at. Seeing as how Hope gave her email address (which you can see on the real ad) as the future contact for LCP, and seeing as how the description sounds like LCP (group of magazines launching the 1st of October), I’m thinking that’s them.
Interesting thought about David/Dean (Deanvid? Davean?) Person.
There is a signature on the letter that was mailed around (from “Dean”). Does anyone have “David’s” signature on their contract? If so, do they look similar at all?
Google Shadra Bruce aka desertchild71@yahoo says she the managing editor for one of the mags Urban Bride.
I see it. Here’s the link:
http://savannah.craigslist.org/wan/417968010.html
David didn’t sign my contract. I have an “electronic signature”. One (Dean) is VP of Corporate Development, and the other (David) is Director of Publishing Development. Hmm, they sure are “developing” a lot!
I don’t think they accepted anyones articles. I’ll make sure to let craigslist about the scam so they can’t screw over other people.
I don’t know if you guys are aware, but there are several “under construction” sites that are supposed to be sites for the magazines. Like http://www.certifiedonl.com/ and several others. (if you google laray carr publications you will find them if you go through a whole bunch of pages). They are creating pages for each of the magazines.
I don’t know about you, but I’m going to be checking online magazine ordering sites in the next couple of months. If any of these magazines actually GO to print, I’m going to be ordering copies of any of them that I was “hired” to do work for. If our stories show up in the magazines, and we have the origional files as well as the emails from Hope, that is definite legal action that we can take.
I’m not saying that the will actually go to print, of course. But if they do – well, then we can have some proof.
They wouldn’t be THAT stupid, would they? To tell us all that our articles were not accepted, and then to actually put them into magazines under different names? I mean, that’s pretty dumb. Even they are only distributing them in small areas or to small populations – with the internet and magazine subscriptions and Amazon and all, we can get our hands on any magazine in the world, practically, if we want to. Its not like they could get away with it.
Oh, I hope I didn’t just give them an idea.
Unbelieveable.
You know how I said I was going to contact Stephanie? I sent her an email today stating that the writers aren’t getting paid, and asking if she would provide the information about the company that she had promised in this event.
In return, I got the nastiest email I have ever received: a three-page rant, complete with messages for other posters on the thread. And THEN she asks that I don’t post her contact information.
Because Stephanie was so unbelieveably rude to me, I would like to point out that the vast majority of her contact information is available on her site anyway. You can also do a WHOIS search on the URL, of course.
Of course, I am not going to repost her nastiness. If she wants to fight, she can do it herself. However, I will say that the gist of her three-page email was that Laray Carr IS her client (contrary to what she claimed above), that 80% of the articles were crap, and that she — SHE — was the one who recommended to the company that they reject the existing writers.
I don’t know if what she says is true, or if she is part of the scam (if scam it is) — but either way, folks, Stephanie Todd had a hand in you not getting paid.
In response to Katherine’s emails to me here is my response, since she said she isn’t going to post anything but to tell the writers that *I* am responsible for them not being paid. When in fact, that is not true. Stick to the facts, people. You signed contracts stating you would be paid if your articles were published. They will not be published. You don’t have to “believe” that, but that is the truth. And, as long as they aren’t published you are not entitled to payment. If have evidence that you were promised payment regardless if your articles were published or not, I encourage you to seek legal counsel and/or contact the Laray Carr Company to discuss the matter.
Katherine,
Certainly you are without substantial proof that “ALL” of the writers received rejections notices, right? Why do you people (members of Deb’s forum), believe that blanketed statements, assumptions and generalizations can be said as if they are truth? Besides amateur investigators don’t you guys double as journalists? Aren’t you taught that you can’t state things as fact without having a source? In fact, there were few writers who were offered and have accepted permanent editorial jobs with the company. And, in addition to that, out of the editors that were previously hired for Laray Carr’s magazines, only one of them was not asked to continue on. All of the other editors were asked to continue on and all accepted. I don’t think people who have devoted so much work to these magazines already, would continue working if there were payment issues or organizational issues within the company.
Furthermore, contracts writers signed stated if articles were not accepted, payment would not be made. That is industry standard, is it not? So how were people “stiffed”? They were full aware that payment would only be remitted if or when their article was accepted for publishing. That is the term under which they agreed to submit articles.
I would think all of you would be grateful to receive a letter stating that your article(s) will not be used and clearing up prior misconceptions that Laray Carr was holding the rights to all articles submitted regardless of having plans to publish them or not and not paying until they were published. Instead of waiting and waiting wondering if they’ll use your articles, if you have any rights to use your article and if you’ll be paid for them. Although, I can completely understand how everyone would be even more grateful if they were paid. That simply was not the agreement per the contract, nor is it anything different from what every other publisher in the world does. Writers are paid when articles are accepted not SUBMITTED.
Since the core staff of the company have been made aware of the negative remarks found online and as they have grown more into the world of publishing they have recognized the many challenges that anyone launching a new magazine faces. Let alone, 40. As I stated within my very few posts in Deb’s blog, this company is only guilty of not having experience in magazine publishing. They are no different than the thousands of people every year that believe they have a strong magazine concept and wish to pursue it- without having any knowledge of the many different levels, tasks and hurdles involved in publishing a magazine. It was not until all of these issues have gone out of control that I was approached by the company to advise them on how to fix it all and get their launch schedule back on track. I quoted them a large sum of money (which includes the cost of my company hiring several new employees and increasing our office space) to take on this monumental task, one I thought they would not be willing to accept- but to my surprise and delight, my company has experienced no issues regarding payment. I am assisting the company in fixing their prior mistakes, the company is restructuring how the editorial content, design and production is being handled from now on. I can say that I am 110% sure this company has all intention and will publish each and every one of these magazines. My company has been hired to make sure this launch happens and our services are not cheap by any means. If this was a scam for writers, designers or investors- they will not be working so diligently or employed my company’s services with the only objective being “Make the launch happen!”.
It was me who advised the company that the main concern of writers was that by submitting their articles to the company, they lost all rights to them and will only be paid if or when the article was published. They completely understood that concern. I advised the company to scrap everything they have done from the start of this and to regroup and start over with better policies and systems in place. I advised the company to have editors turn in the work they have done, still incomplete for most of them as well as the designers without images and ads and to pay all of the editors and designers for the work they have done, even though none of it will be used and 90% of it is incomplete. That is what the company has done. I also advised the company, based on the agreement with the writers that payment will not be used unless the articles are used to not use any them (since with all honestly over 80% of them were complete crap- I’m sure your fellow blogger “S.” aka Susana can attest to that since she contacted me on numerous occasions by both phone and email that the articles she was supplied with as an editor were “complete crap”). I advised them to hire individual editors for each magazine and to give each editor a budget and control over hiring and retaining writers for their magazine. This is the model they are diligently putting in place, right now.
I know you have all intention to post whatever is said here on the blog and I am completely okay with that. I have not misrepresented myself or my company in anyway. To Jordan, I am disappointed by your comments on the other blog regarding me. I’ll have you know, I have been pleading your case for the past week since it had already been predetermined that designers will not need to include images or ads in their templates. But to simply turn in what they have done and they will be paid for it. Unfortunately your patience and frustration got to you a tad bit sooner than the email from me could stating to turn in the work you have done and you will be paid- the full amount of your contract, even though the work is incomplete. I completely understand your frustrations and have explained that to the company. As recently as six hours ago, I said to them that they need to make an arrangement with you to get the work you have done and get payment to you for them. However, I do not have authority to make that the final decision. And since legally, the company isn’t obligated to pay any of the designers until a final product has been delivered, which you deferred on- they again are only guilty of lacking experience in all that magazine production involves.
It’s quite ironic how all of this has played out. These blogs, designed to inform writers of potential opportunities and educate them on what to look for in contracts and job postings caused a perfectly legit (perhaps, low paying but legit) opportunity and misunderstandings that could have easily been resolved to blow up into this mountain of false accusations, personal attacks and a lot of money lost for a company who has no intention to steal from or scam anyone, in anyway. There has been absolutely no substantial evidence provided by anyone claiming that Laray Carr is a scam. I’ve talked to core members of the Laray Carr company and to be honest, these guys are heartbroken that false records, information and flat out lies have been said about them when they have done absolutely nothing immoral or illegal. They are baffled yet, more determined than ever to follow through with the launch- if for nothing more to show all of the naysayers that they are serious and never intended any ill-will towards any person or entity. They have even been advised by their attorneys to just change the name of their company to avoid being identified as the company under this scrutiny and in the midst of so much controversy. But they refuse because they know they haven’t done anything wrong and believe that changing their name will just give all of you more fuel for your fire, which should have maybe been the size of a lit candle given how disorganized everything was in the beginning and how that could be perceived vs. this full blown forest fire powerful enough to destroy half of California.
You guys have a personal vendetta against this company for no reason other than wanting to be mad at someone. Every single thing posted about them turns into something negative. I could post “I was just paid over 100,000 dollars by Laray Carr. I can assure you they are not a scam.” and someone here will say “This is probably just someone from their company trying to cover their asses and pull more people into this scam.” then 20 people will say “you’re right, that isn’t a real person. how dare them trying to trick us!” but- if someone posted something negative about the company or its employees you all take it as if it is a legitimate, logical and truthful statement.
Now you all may go forward, ripping apart everything I have said, twisting it all up to fit whatever it is you already believe is true. I have said all I have to say and will not respond to any further emails, phone calls or blog messages. As I am sure you all can imagine, I have a ton of work to do. =)
I’m sorry, I got bored with the first words…the first sentence did not grab me. Are you trying to say something profound?
I only have one small response. In an email, to Hope Hunt, upon accepting the assignment, I asked “What I am curious about is if I am doing articles for sure – meaning that once I do them I’ll be paid for them (after Sept 20th) or if I am querying articles, and these might not be published or paid for at all? Your guidelines are mostly query guidelines, but your email gives specific titles of magazines and how many articles you need completed.”
And her reply was “You are doing articles for the Sept. 20th issue for sure. You will be paid for them the week of Sept. 20th. ”
Stephanie, can you please tell us – was Hope on the wrong track when she told us these things (I know that I am not the only person who asked the question and got the same answer). Is it that Hope didn’t know the answer to the question and therefore told us all the wrong thing?
Or, is it that they INTENDED to pay everyone for the articles, and told us all so, and then changed their minds?
What you say makes sense, and I am sure that we all understand it, but surely you see our delima? If we were told that we were not sending articles for consideration, but that we were sending articles as assignments, and we would be paid for them, can’t you see where we would be upset when that didn’t happen? Regardless of what the contract might have said, our contact person told us otherwise. Most of us work with that kind of situation on a daily basis and always believe what the contact person tells us.
So, if you can, please tell us what we did wrong, and where the confusion lies. We were told we were not sending articles for consideration, that we would be paid, and now we are supposed to believe that all along we knew what was coming?
Was it that Hope hadn’t read the contract and didn’t understand what she was telling writers? Or did circumstances change later on?
That might help some of us understand what happened. And if we can understand it, things might go slightly better for the company’s image.
Liza,
I had seen the sites, and I think that ordering copies of the magazines (IF they actually are published) is a very good idea.
I was told the same thing by Hope and that is where my anger comes in. Why lead us on about when payment is coming? I have kept my e-mails also.
Stephanie,
I just looked at my contract which stated that the list of ten articles I was sent were requested or ‘assigned’ and would therefore be paid. Anything that was queried may or may not be paid; I just double checked it right now!
Also, I have emails from Hope saying that I will be paid. She promises and promises and says that checks are going out when they DON’T. She waited until the day the checks SHOULD have come to say that they weren’t going to be used. And the letter from LCP says they won’t be using ANY OF THE ARTICLES THAT WERE SENT IN.
If he is an ex-NFL player he can afford to pay us anyway. As promised. The fine print reads otherwise so obviously THEY didn’t read the website-borrowed contract. If you would like to read my contract, Stephanie I would be happy to send it to you.
ALSO, there is no refuting the fact that this is the same name and even address as a known scammer, Quincy LARAY CARR! Come on…Stephanie, you act like we are stupid. We didn’t NOT do our homework. I am glad you got paid, but that doesn’t help us any unless of course you would like to share
Sorry to say to you all, but it doesn’t really matter what Hope said or didn’t say to you. Legally, it only really matters what the contract says. If the articles aren’t be published, then they don’t have to pay you.
It’s too bad if Hope led people astray. At this point (I know everyone is angry) it should just be lesson learned and everyone try to re-sell their articles.
I didn’t do any work for them because I didn’t like the contract terms or lack of disclosure about the company from the beginning. I feel bad for those who did. But I don’t think you have any legal recourse if you signed a contract that states payment upon publishing and they never published.
I am still not sure how legit the whole thing is, which is why I steered clear in the first place. But though it sucks, there’s not much you all can do. LCP didn’t do anything wrong by their contract terms with the writers.
Good luck to everyone.
–Kori
No they did nothing wrong by contract terms except that the contract contradicts itself.
AND is it DEAN or DAVID person?
The contract I have doesn’t contradict itself, but I imagine that others might have a different form of the contract.
Liza, thank you for your response. Reading THAT, does help me understand why some of you are so enraged. I would be upset as well. Being a creative myself, I have always understood why people have the views they have about the company- and that is one reason I have only NOW been approached by them to come in and help them sort all of this mess out.
I previously read something similar to that on another site, earlier this evening. I immediately called Roger regarding it.
An employee should never promise anything that is not written and signed for in the contract. And, as a freelancer, you should ALWAYS make sure that anything that you are told that differs from the contract agreements is also put in writing.
That being said- if this was the case with any of you- please forward a copy of your contract and any proceeding emails from any Laray Carr employee stating anything different from the contract to me, personally at steph@aceincmarketing.com
I have absolutely no problem taking them to the company. I can not guarantee that they will go along with paying people anything more than what is agreed to in the contract, since that is what is legally binding and I’m sure their accountants and attorneys will hold much weight in that decision. But, I will promise each and every one of you where that may have been the case, that I strongly support you and will firmly let that be known.
These honestly aren’t bad guys. I’ve worked, dealt and known plenty of bad guys. I’ve been stiffed for thousands of dollars since I’ve started my own company. So I understand what each of you who may have been told anything different from the contract is feeling.
Kori,
I’m not sure that is correct.
Written correspondence — email or any other type — are often used as documentation of agreements in lieu of contracts. So unless the contract specifically states that it overrides any other agreements, I think emails with agreements made after the contract was signed could be construed as an amendment to the original contract.
And for the record, I do now have a copy of the contract, and it does NOT say that it overrides other written agreements.
Yes, that is the problem/issue. The contract says
“Payment Terms and Method
Payment paid in full to the writer once work is published. If assigned an article then payment will be paid once issue launches.”
Which does, very clearly state that we won’t get paid if they don’t publish our stuff. Yet, at the same time, it states that if we are “assigned” an article, we’ll be paid when the issue launches.
BUT we were each told that there would be no question of whether or not they would publish it. we were told that we were being ASSIGNED articles that WOULD be paid for. That’s the way a lot of this business works. We get assigned articles, and then we get paid for them.
Maybe there is nothing we can do, and maybe there is no legal recourse and they actually did nothing wrong.
But its a really cruddy way to do business. They made some big mistakes and even if they didn’t legally steal any work, or do anything “wrong” – in the deeper, moral sense of what really matters in life, they took advantage of a bunch of writers and caused them to waste time and energy running around after payments that were constantly strung in front of our faces. Thats not right, its not fair, and even if it isn’t “illegal” it is wrong, and everyone else deserves to know about it. Seriously.
Oh and please, for the sake of my sanity- when you forward me your contract and emails, please put them all in one email and title the subject “your name- laray carr”.
That would be most appreciated.
Stephanie –
She has emails. It IS in writing. And the courts have previously recognized emails and other written correspondence to be evidence of an agreement between parties.
Liza, if you want to take her up on her offer, go for it. But my recommendation is to also consult an attorney regarding the validity of the emails. Letting someone in the company plead your case will never be as effective as taking action on your own.
Katherine, I think it would incredibly difficult for an email from Hope who is merely just a virtual assistant herself (as far as I know) to override a written contract that states:
“Writer acknowledges and agrees that Laray Carr Publications will only pay writer for Articles that are published and Laray Carr Publications has the sole and exclusive authority to determine whether or not to publish any and all Articles submitted by Writer.”
I mean, you could try. But I don’t think it would hold any water and it would probably be a waste of time and energy.
My real point is that you all could be focusing your energy on re-selling your articles, instead of on LCP. If it’s a scam and you have proof, then I suggest you contact the authorities. If you don’t have proof then this thread is enough publicity that people know about it. If it’s not a scam, then good luck to them and their magazines.
And sorry for misspelling your name, Katharine.
I agree Katharine. As I stated in my earlier reply this evening, if anyone feels they may have a case against the company, I encourage you to seek legal counsel.
Knowing that the company has employed a team of legal counsel, I can only assume that they aren’t doing anything that would warrant legal action against them.
I have no clue if Hope has even divulged that she promised payment to anyone in the company and as of right now, no evidence to back that claim.
Not bad guys?
Maybe the people associated with Laray Carr aren’t all bad, but you are forgetting that we DO have evidence against Quincy Carr. He has run at least one other scam in the past, using his grandmother’s name and address and credit card I might add, and he has a rap sheet. We have a personal acquiantance of his, Intellius, and other sources to confirm this.
Believe it or not, we are not just going off of — how was it you said it — “blanketed statements, assumptions and generalizations” here. We have dug and gathered information, and although I won’t try to speak for everyone else, I can say that I for one think Quincy Carr is exactly what you might call a “bad guy.”
Morally corrupt = bad guy.
Katharine, you may think whatever you like. Frankly, your opinion of Quincy Carr means VERY VERY little to me.
And, as far as the whole rap sheet thing is concerned, your colleagues have already pretty much determined that since whichever Quincy Carr they pulled up information on, would’ve had to be 13 years old to commit at least the first offense, that it would be pretty impossible for a juvenile record to be released. So if that is the case, why should anyone hold any weight to that “report”??
Ok, Stephanie. I sent you the emails. I can wait to try to sell my articles for a few days and see what happens. If you think that you can get information, or plead our cases, please go ahead and try. If you think that nothing can be done, that is fine.
I would just tell you to please explain to LCP that what they did to the writers was very wrong, and not at all a good way to run a business. Many of us are angry about this, and if LCP is truly a legit business that simply made mistakes, I feel very sorry for them because they are going to have a hard time overcoming what has gone on here. It is unfortunate that by promising checks and not sending them, not responding to emails for many days, and doing things other than what they said they would do, they caused themselves a lot of problems, a lot of bad publicity, and will probably have to spend a lot of time overcoming it. That is very unfortunate.
But we all have to live with our mistakes and hopefully they can learn from them… and hopefully us writers can learn from them as well. The sad part is that what WE learn is to not trust people, and that is certainly something that this world does not need more of – lack of trust. But that is off subject.
As for my part, I know that my articles are of high quality, and have no doubt that I will be able to resell them if I need to. So, I guess, let us know if you know anything. And to LCP, if you are a scam, beware because you have been found out and will probably not be able to continue the scam or move forward with it. And if you are legit indeed, good luck dealing with all of these messes. Hopefully you can overcome.
Kori –
Thanks for catching the misspelling. Most people don’t.
I know what you are saying about the amount of time it takes. However, isn’t that just what unscrupulous clients want — you to not bother going after them because it’s not worth your while? Aren’t they counting on it?
Personally, I think it’s more about the morality of the issue. I have had to chase only three clients for payment before, and one of those times it was over $25. Still, if you don’t go after them you send the message that it’s okay to treat writers immorally. You’re setting the next writer up for getting shafted the same as — or worse than — you got.
Stephanie –
Because the personal acquaintance verified that those charges did happen.