CastingWords
Complaint 289264 Details

Castingwords is a transcription service that posts some micro-jobs online. They post the job at a very low pay rate, literally $1.00 or so for 11-30 minutes of transcription that can take an hour or two to do. They promise bonuses based on how well you do. Very quickly I discovered they were a scam. I would use Okay instead of OK, which they noted was wrong (it's not), and they cut my little bonus that was supposed to be $3.00 in half. There was a trend. I got better and better, but my bonus was never more than half what was promised. I quickly realized they cannot afford to pay people what they promise and make any money. They charge $1 a minute per transcript. If you pay the transcriber $4-$5 then an editor $4-$5, for an 11 minute recording, they make almost nothing. So the bonuses they "promise" are unrealistic. They are stealing labor.