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Have you ever Googled a car repair and it took you right to EHow? The writers for EHow quite often instructs you to open up the hood, change the part, then shut the hood. How about a home repair article? Go to your home improvement store and buy the material, then repair your home. You are better off going to YouTube and getting the rest of the 99% of the steps that EHow conveniently forgot to tell you. If they do give you more than 3 steps, it's not always accurate.

I attempted to use the site "ehow.com". It turns out the site is a complete fraud, stealing "how-to's" from legitimate sites. I went looking for instructions on replacing a head gasket on a 1.9 liter ford engine, there were some errors on the site so I sent a question to the web- manager. After 30 days without an answer I get an email stating that "my problem" was resolved. I re-sent the same problem along with excerpts from "chilton's auto repair manual" using exactly the same wording(with exactly the same errors).
Please don't waste your time with "eHow.com", and tell their advertisers that eHow is a complete fraud, and reflects badly on their companies. Thanking you in advance for your attention, Henry

They list free Vin reports. You fill out all kinds of personal information and then at the end of it FreeVinReport.org tells you "our system is down" so go get one with one of our "partners" for a discount price. NO. Even though you have asked for No Services, including "insurance" my phone started ringing off the hook with auto insurance companies saying I asked for a quote. I will never get on EHow again. Ever. Scam, scam, scam

They disabled my account even though I never wrote an article for them. They did not respond after I contacted them to ask why.

Useless jabber

Asked 1 medical question. Their answer was of zero benefit (ie; offered no hints as to various things that could cause the problem I was having). They then sent me an offer to "subscribe" to their service, which I declined. Am still getting monthly fees showing up on my credit card (and I have to call my credit card to have them removed each month). I can find no instructions as to how to terminate my dealings with this company. The only phone number I have (as shown on my credit card bill) is answered by a machine who does not identify their company and where you can only leave a message that is never returned... It's a SCAM!

Two fundamental objections to this site:
1. They really need to discover the value of visual support for the "information" they post. They seem to think their clever wording of complex procedures and designs will suffice without pictures... when, in fact, it usually DOESN'T.
2. They have too many posts on the same topic, which tends to clutter up a set of search results with similar entries that are equally unhelpful. Hey, eHow... more isn't always better.

I have tried several times to use this site for solutions to problems for auto repair and lawn mower repair. In each case, the instructions were incorrect for the make/model of the equipment I was attempting to diagnose and/or repair. I have learned to avoid this site when looking for usable knowledge and advice. Its been a big waste of my time.

Didn't answer my question, took my money, locked me out of the link they gave me.

Ya gotta love 'em. They are very consistant

SCAM, SCAM, SCAM! Don't submit a question with your email address or your inbox will get slammed with spam.

Content farm with useless information. Most of the submitters are complete dumbasses. Cluttering up search results.

EHow may be fine for some types of advice, but it should **not** be relied upon for advice regarding the care of pets--especially sick ones! Some eHow articles on animal care are obviously written by people who have NO CLUE what they are talking about. I read an article that says you should put cat flea powder on a rabbit to get rid of mites. You should never put products on rabbits that are intended for cats and dogs. You can kill your rabbit. Frontline *forbids* the use of its flea products on rabbits due to so many rabbit deaths and neurological problems in rabbits whose well-meaning owners used it on their bunnies. I feel it is very, very irresponsible of eHow to put information out there that is so potentially harmful.

Inaccurate information and won't respond to correction request from manufacturer

Just read the eHow forum before you take a chance on this scam site. They used to be legitimate, but they are not any more. Many of us think they were just gathering enough content to lure investors, and now that they're big-time, they are scamming residual writers. But you can see for yourself if you spend some time on their forums.

99% of their articles are worthless trivia. Why does Google rank them so highly?

We've run into another problem with Ehow.
Ehow hasn't paid the hardworking writers for Oct. 2009. They blame it on a bug. This bug has infested the payment area more then once. Funny how this bug causes writer's not to be paid and never over-paid. It's December and the problems have not been fixed. If there was ever an overpayment bug, Ehow would squash it instantly.

It also seems that the article views have disappeared. Ehow updates the article count, article views and the earnings all separately. Lately when an article is deleted by Ehow, the views and earnings disappear too. The earnings update after the article and views get deleted then the earnings update and doesn't include the missing views. Does Google know?
You use to be a better place Ehow.

Ehow's Religious Bias
Ehow has been deleting articles like crazy and it appears they are under the category "Religion, Other" There are over 2400 Christian articles which is a lot more then all the other religions put together. They are deleting the articles saying they are opinions and not based on fact. In other words, they're not Christian articles. Ehow has also changed their format. When searchers try to find something they have to go page by page to get to the non Christian articles. Also the articles are in order of the author not the title or subject. Since the authors are not in alphabetical order it's hard to determine why they come up the way they do, the lumping of articles by author is extremely unfair since they would get all the views and make all the money. There are more complaints pouring into my email. Once I investigate these I will update this review.

People have been banned from Ehow, stating they committed Click Fraud. No payment will be issued.

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I just simply want the money that ehow owes me. They are giving me the run-a-round. They shouldn't be able to get away with this!
ehow.com: cheating me of my money
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Complaint about ehow.com: cheating me of my money

I am being cheated by eHow.com. They owe me $411 to finish paying for my articles that they bought. I have rec'd $356. Following is the proof:

An eHow support member has replied to your ticket. If you have any other inquiries, please reply back to this email. Thank you.

Eric (eHow Community Manager), May-17 16:57 (PDT):
Hi Shirley,
Unfortunately there is a bug on our which prevents you from logging in. I will tell you all the information you will need.
You have been offered $767.00 for all of your articles. If you would like to accept this offer, please let me know and I can accept this offer on your behalf.
Best,
Eric