Ok let's break things down. 12 posts for $497 - which makes it about $41/post, which by further calculations comes out to about $12 a word assuming each blog is 500 words.

Alright, this is not my area of expertise, so let'e get the SEO gurus in here here.

My understanding is the Google ideally is looking for 2000+ word posts, and these posts are one quarter of that.
If people will just publish the posts, or don't make enough changes to the text, isn't Google going to mark the posts as duplicate content, or even worse, plagiarized content?

So, if my assumptions are true, one has to expand the content of each post by 4 times !!!, and/or make enough changes to the text to the degree that he/she might as well write the whole thing themselves, and save the $497 ...

Again, someone with knowledge please correct me if I'm wrong... what am I missing?