Payment Deferred.

Planet College regularly emphasizes the essential principle that hard working students like you  be paid for their work.  They should receive  earnings in a timely fashion following what ever tasks or contribution or work they performed.

College students are generally known to be some what more literate than the general population.  They are also usually desperate for cash.  Money.  Some enterprising individuals and even groups attempt to exploit this combination of skill and need to get students to get people to work for nothing.

This is what they do.

You have probably noticed while looking through job postings the term 'payment deferred'  in an offer of employment ad. This typically means that the worker,  whatever their contribution, will not be compensated for their work.  The ad usually explains that the payment will be forthcoming upon ( or contingent upon) some future event.  Often this event is the actual sale of the item which the student/ worker has contributed to.  These types of ads commonly appear in reference to writing which the ad poster wants done.  ( There are other kinds but the writing one is so common it makes a good example.)  Essentially the ads say something the sense of which is " write a script and when I sell it I'll give you some money. "

That is the approach.  Not quite an outright scam.  Who knows, maybe those involved really think they will be able to sell your work.  Maybe.  But. Basically you will be working now for possible payment in the future. Even if they do sell it what binds them to paying you?  If they hadn't paid you yet and the work is done, why should they pay you when they actually receive any money?  Sound like a deal?  No, no it doesn't. 

That is the Planet College report on 'payment deferred.'