For good stuff, I can get you 13$ for a 500 word tutorial. If the guide really is top-notch, I think 15$ for a 500 word tutorial can be arranged. This means you're earning 2-3cents for every word you type. That's good money.
These tutorials can be about ANYTHING you want. I can't guarantee that it will be sold though. Guides like, how to jump on a skateboard are worthless and probably won't even go up for sale.
As for payment, you only get paid for the articles you written that have been sold. If we have a pot and share it equally, those who have made more guides and sold more could potentially make less. You could earn less if you don't make as good guides, but that's up to you.
Wow Sucks, if people don't write guides for MONEY, they as hell won't do it for free and I'll shut down user ed. People get lazy, so we demote them and bring new people in. There's always going to be someone who wants to make cash, I can guaratee that. User eds point is a to help people, true. But as of this moment they aren't doing anything with the guides we've made and they are going to waste. We only thought up of this idea because of that.
I think that all guides can be viewed by sythe users until they are sold. The person buying the tutorial will most likely not know where it comes from. When a guide is sold, I then delete the tutorial from sythe. Sure the sythe users lose guides, but they weren't really using them anyway. Since sythe himself would be earning cash for basically nothing, I don't see any problem. I have yet to talk to him.
As for paypal, that's the default payment system and the way all transactions are made on internet marketing sites. E-gold is a possibility, but less people are using it.