D B.

Hi DB,
I am sorry that you had trouble getting paid, and I am assuming that you have been paid long ago, as your review is from 2012, but I wanted to leave a response here for anyone else reading it. We here at Hatchwise are proud to have a track record of paying out every penny earned to designers in contests that they have legitimately won, it is our entire business model and if we didn't pay our designers we obviously would not be around long.

We've been in business since 2008, have paid out millions of dollars to designers since then, and consistently make payouts of many thousands of dollars multiple times a month. Occasionally it can take a little while to verify a contest win: making sure there are no issues with plagiarism or copying, that no credit card fraud is happening, collecting the designers info, getting accurate payment info, and making sure that contest holders did not enter the contest and pick themselves as the winner to get around having to select a winner - which is against of our terms of service and unfair to the legit designers who participated in the contest.

All of these issues can cause occasional delays (up to six months in a very few cases in our history - mostly in cases where the initial payment had been flagged as possibly being fraudulent) in payouts (although 99% of all winning designers are paid out on the first payout date following their win), but as long as the required information checks out and the win is legitimate we ALWAYS pay out our winning designers.

We have over two thousand unedited and uncensored reviews (which link directly to the project they are for - with all work done for that project on full display) at https://www.hatchwise.com/testimonials for anyone interested.

If you have any issues or concerns regarding Hatchwise please email support@hatchwise.com

Sincerely,
George Ryan
Hatchwise CEO