Michelle R.

I wrote for them for Examiner.com for nearly six years and in that whole time, even though my articles always had a great deal of views, I made a whopping $10 a month, and that is being generous. If you don't care about money, though, this is the website for you because trust me, you won't make any here.

At first, writing for them was fine. The editors that Examiner.com employs are pretty useless and don't even read things properly. They once told me that I spelled the word "your" incorrectly, which I did not since the word I was using, within the context of the sentence, was in fact "you're." They probably had to justify their pay with corrections, so they always made stupid corrections like capitalizing words even when they should not have been capitalized. The number of times I had to re-submit articles for stupid corrections that their so-called editors made became far more trouble than it was worth to write for the peanuts this website paid. An editor of a high school or junior high school newspaper could have done the job just as well as these so-called professionals.

Their ads are now all over the place, making it extremely difficult to load and read articles. The community pages, where we Examiners used to speak with each other and air our grievances, was also taken away because pretty much everyone who had written for the site for any length of time would say how awful the website had become. Incentives were once offered as a way for the writers to make extra money by publishing an article with a video, slideshow, or a certain number of photos. Those incentives are nowhere to be found now. They are less concerned about having a useful, functional, and user-friendly website than they are with having ads that make them money (which certainly doesn't go to any of the writers) and a social media presence.

Since I wrote for Examiner.com for years, I once recognized the names of other long-term writers for the site who had a strong presence on the site. Most of those writers have since moved on, which I am about to do now. If you want to write, start your own blog. You will have more of a chance of making money with that than you do with Examiner.com these days.

UPDATE:

Well, now since Examiner.com has folded, I guess that pretty much tells you everything you need to know about their flawed business model.

I dated a few guys on this website, including my ex-boyfriend. Some of the guys were okay, others not so much. I wanted a guy with at least a college degree and some ambition, but only one guy I dated from the site had a degree. And the one who did have a college degree was creepy, and clearly had no social skills. Another guy got drunk on our first date, so I put him in a cab and sent him home. My ex-boyfriend had no education and zero ambition, and we broke up after dating for quite awhile. (It was my fault, I thought he would change but he never did, despite his family pushing him to better himself.) He wasn't a bad guy, but he was just wrong for me in every way.

This past year, after having been single for awhile, I decided to give this another shot. I think the website is actually worse than it was several years ago. I set up my filters so that only men who live in my area could message me- well, I'm getting messages from men in other states and even other countries? WTF! The guys who message me are pretty much all the same type of guy you would find on any website- lots of clearly fake profiles that vanish after one or two messages. Also, guys trolling for their next hook-up. One guy that I wasn't attracted to actually cursed me out for not messaging him back. Nice, right? Like they say, you get what you pay for. Will be deleting soon.

I kept getting emails from this website, so I figured I'd try it out. Bad idea. The clothes are absolutely terrible.

What looks cute and stylish online is misleading. The materials is extremely cheap, and very, very thin. When I got the outfit, I took one look at it and knew it wouldn't survive the washing machine. It barely even survived my workout!

I have not had (as so many others here have) an issue canceling my membership, but it took forever to actually speak to a live person since emails never seem to be answered with this place. Save your money and your energy. Don't even bother ordering from here.

For the people saying that people are only complaining about issues canceling their membership- no, that's definitely NOT the only issue with this brand. The cheap material clothes at ridiculous prices is the issue for me. Furthermore, this site does not even seem to keep much in stock, since most of the time you cannot even find what is on sale.

I don't understand why someone like Kate Hudson would put her name on such an inferior brand like this.