VocalReviews of vocal.media

I have a $9.99 chrge on my debit card and never signed up Don't have a phone or anyting. SCAM!

I wish there was a way to dm Screw you to a whole website lol. Can you believe they have the fucing audacity to charge you to literally just write your own stories, and then they put it in the algorithm that if you dont pay then people won't see your work. Plus the people who are writing to compete usually are trying to get the money bcz they need it (like i was trying to do and spent 1 hr working on a short story to realize I cant even post it) are getting scammed out of the chance to win anyways. Its all BS and it couldn't be more obvious I feel really bad for the people wasting their money on it I hope they get their money back somehow <3

ugh...I really wanted Vocal to work. I felt really excited about having worthy contests to enter. However, when my story got published, there were words missing that were there in the original writing. When I tried their edit feature the words were there. SO CONFUSING! I wrote customer service and tried to explain but just got vague replies. I wrote back 4 times each time getting a canned response. I even asked if I was talking to a real person, no response except for "your story has been returned to edit". SO STUPID! I'm done.

I tried this site out at the suggestion of my partner who writes on there regularly (mostly game/movie/music related), thinking I could switch from a free site I was at to something that might make me a few bucks just for writing but I fail to see that happening. For a site as big as this with money to go around as prizes for writing challenges (the winners are a joke btw), you would think they could at least have a more robust text editor function and/or a simple 'preview before you post' button but don't. It made trying to transfer my work over a pain so I stopped. I still have not figured out how to delete my account. From other reviews here I gather it's not at all easy.

Pathetic. I submitted a piece, and it was arbitrarily placed into a category that DOES NOT EXIST AND IS NOT ACCESSIBLE! So I have had friends try to search for it specifically, with no luck ... how on Earth does anyone ever read what you write? I feel as though if the piece is not PC enough, and doesn't appeal to SJW's, they sweep it under the rug and make it impossible to access. Meanwhile they showcase Youtube channels and writing that is frankly so amateurish and full of virtue-signalling that it is rendered unreadable to any discerning adult. For this utter rubbish they want you to subscribe for more than a Netflix account would cost you? A totally demoralizing experience - avoid it like the plague!

The contests are a complete joke. They pick ridiculous winners with entries riddled with spelling errors, and one winner didn't even abide by the word count. It's a giant waste of time and they clearly don't have the manpower to read every submission so they select winners at random... or have some poorly formulated algorithm do it...it's unreal. If they truly selected the winners, they have no grasp of writing mechanics. I'd also suggest they give one or two sentences on why they are giving that piece thousands of dollars.

All I wanted to do was change my password, and so I clicked that link. No reset link ever arrived at my email regardless of repeated requests. Very frustrated.

Encouraged by a friend to try this way of generating income from my writing, I got as far as halfway writing my bio, in setting up my account when it froze - then emailed Help Desk ditto. After a day or so, got a reply they're ready to help! What browser are you using? OMG, I think, this is going to take forever. So I tried logging in, reloading, refreshing over another 3 days and decided to close my account, start again. THAT's where you'll discover your powerlessness. There was NOTHING on how to delete your account (only how to delete a Stripe account). I googled, how to delete Vocal Media account? And saw how impossible it is. I then copy/pasted the T&Cs onto Word, searched 'account' and 'delete' - and found the words "You can delete your account any time"... with no instructions how to do so. *red flag* I resorted to going to my profile and renaming it 'THIS PERSON WANTS TO DELETE THEIR ACCOUNT BUT IS FINDING THAT VERY DIFFICULT, SO THIS PERSON SAYS THEY ARE UNDER 13YO AND VOCAL SHOULD EXERCISE THEIR AUTHORITY AND DELETE IT FOR THEM - or something like that. I then changed my email address to their email address, and on saving that, saw an email was sent there (for them to confirm "updated email"), changed it back to my email, and back to vocal a few times so they will receive a few emails that "You've updated your email addres..." and hopefully by some obscure method they'll be led to help me delete my account, by deleting it themselves. Wow, am DEFINITELY glad I didn't get into business with them. Oh - and I couldn't simply delete my profile photo, only had the choice to change it with another photo, so had to choose a random photo so as my own photo is in no way attached to Vocal Media and thus professionally embarrassed by my halfwritten bio.