Why Is This Always The Case!!?

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Gromit said:
The worst offender is the $10 per 100 words content thread on here. The first sentence in the sales copy isn't even grammatically correct.

Grammarly is free. Make use of it.
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lol the writing here is pretty cheap altogether and I wouldn't expect any of them to give me anything but fluff
I cut them some slack
 
Maybe it's like those scam emails (eg. Nigerian prince); If suckers can't identify poor spelling/grammar, they'll probably believe the crazy story being told.

Or maybe they outsourced the graphic/copy and didn't proofread. They're blackhatters, churn and burn.
 
Pesonaley hay thinks is no problems speling ans shits likes that. Fucks spelings. May artecowls R top kontentss. Pleeez by.
 
Well, you'll notice that the content-writing BST's with the shitty infographics and poor spelling and grammar are usually the ones that are, like, $3 per 500 words. That's a laughably small amount, so you can be sure that it's most likely Indians or Filipinos who are running an agency in their home country, paying their writers something like a dollar fifty per 500 words, and pocketing the difference. That's their business model. If you pay pennies for content, expect to receive content that's worth pennies. I don't even really begrudge them that - obviously there's a market for low-quality filler content, seeing as many of the threads, even those created only a year or less ago, are 30 to 50 pages long.

What's really annoying, though, is the guys who charge 10, 15 dollars per 500 words with blatant spelling and grammar mistakes - I'm not talking about little mistakes like a typo, a missing comma, or a misused apostrophe, I'm talking incorrect conjugation of verbs and glaring grammatical errors. That's when I feel they're ripping people off, especially non-native speakers who can't see the mistake and hope that if they pay the prices they're asking, they'll get "native" (yeah right) content.
 
H0BB5 said:
Maybe it's like those scam emails (eg. Nigerian prince); If suckers can't identify poor spelling/grammar, they'll probably believe the crazy story being told.

Or maybe they outsourced the graphic/copy and didn't proofread. They're blackhatters, churn and burn.
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The bad spelling on the Nigerian prince emails is done on purpose to improve their conversion rates. It limits false positives.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-nigerian-scammers-say-they-are-from-nigeria/?from=http%3A%2F%2Fresearch.microsoft.com%2Fpubs%2F167719%2Fwhyfromnigeria.pdf
 
Tamerlane said:
Well, you'll notice that the content-writing BST's with the shitty infographics and poor spelling and grammar are usually the ones that are, like, $3 per 500 words. That's a laughably small amount, so you can be sure that it's most likely Indians or Filipinos who are running an agency in their home country, paying their writers something like a dollar fifty per 500 words, and pocketing the difference. That's their business model. If you pay pennies for content, expect to receive content that's worth pennies. I don't even really begrudge them that - obviously there's a market for low-quality filler content, seeing as many of the threads, even those created only a year or less ago, are 30 to 50 pages long.

What's really annoying, though, is the guys who charge 10, 15 dollars per 500 words with blatant spelling and grammar mistakes - I'm not talking about little mistakes like a typo, a missing comma, or a misused apostrophe, I'm talking incorrect conjugation of verbs and glaring grammatical errors. That's when I feel they're ripping people off, especially non-native speakers who can't see the mistake and hope that if they pay the prices they're asking, they'll get "native" (yeah right) content.
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The reason you don't see a difference with $15/500 words is because that's cheap too. You aren't getting an expert at that price either.
 
bonerlicious said:
The reason you don't see a difference with $15/500 words is because that's cheap too. You aren't getting an expert at that price either.
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True, the "big boys" who get their business outside of BHW, by calling and pitching to big businesses or just those who don't have time to trawl the internet for cheap and alright content services are getting hundreds of dollars per such post. $15 is cheap, but I can see a self-employed native speaker without the connections or sales acumen charging that amount. But you're right, non-experts pretending to be experienced native experts charge that amount, too.
 
Tamerlane said:
True, the "big boys" who get their business outside of BHW, by calling and pitching to big businesses or just those who don't have time to trawl the internet for cheap and alright content services are getting hundreds of dollars per such post. $15 is cheap, but I can see a self-employed native speaker without the connections or sales acumen charging that amount. But you're right, non-experts pretending to be experienced native experts charge that amount, too.
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yep ;)
 
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