I've had a really hard time with Helium.com lately. I made about $0.20 from their site and decided that I wanted to use my articles in a magazine that wants to pay me a substantial amount for some of them.  This magazine wants exclusive rights so I can't have them posted anywhere else. So I emailed helium (at help@helium.com and at content@helium.com) to ask them to remove me from their website.  I emailed them 3-4 times and never received a response.

Soooo.... In an (immature) attempt to get my profile deleted I purposefuly published inappropriate content then reported my inappropriate article thinking they might pay attention to that.

Well instead of deleting my articles and my profile, they made me one of their premier writers giving the articles that I want to use elsewhere even more exposure. Not only that, but they have locked me out of my own account so I can't post new work or edit my existing work and profiles. I'm absolutely livid. They don't have rights to my work (by their own admission) and they certainly don't have rights to my picture and profile. 

I recommend that everyone just stay the hell away from helium.com. They have absolutely no respect for writers and their artistic rights.

Not only that, but writers should be getting anywhere from $10-$25 per page for their work. Why would you work that hard and not get paid fairly for it? Rankings on Helium.com don't pay the bills!

I knew I wasn't just a ranting, angry writer (or at least not the only one) when I started read some other complaints about Helium.com on the web.  Some were similar to mine while other people had a-whole-nother list of stuff to gripe about Helium.  I included some links to those complaints below.  Spread the word!

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/05/12/100234.php

http://www.my3cents.com/showReview.cgi?id=33644

http://www.complaintsboard.com/suspicious-companies/heliumcom-a68683.html

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/222701/how_heliumcom_denied_me_over_300_in.html?cat=9

http://hubpages.com/hub/Heliumcom---Scam-Report

http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/309/RipOff0309789.htm

Those are just a few that I got from Googling "Helium.com Scam".  If you go to Wordpress.com, Hubpages,com or any other blog site and search for Helium.com you'll get two things:

1. Tons of complaints about how Helium.com didn't pay them, won't delete their profile, refused to answer their emails etc...

2. Lots of praise from Helium's Online Marketing Monkeys who get paid to draw traffic to their website by posting false praises in blog form. 

Screw you Helium.com.  You're on my s!*t list.