Why one company would need more than one essay service website?

Something just occured to me... I see there are many essay websites that are actually one company. Say essaywebsite1.com, anotheressaysite.com, essaysite3.com etc. Why do these companies create so many websites under different names? Why don't they focus on one site? Do they try to hide their identities or something? It doesen't make sense to me. I don't only mean website for freelance writers, but most of all websites providing essay writing services for students.

I think that is a good general rule. multiple sites seem like a way for a fraudulent company to keep attracting consumers even when one of its sites is being exposed as a fraud.

however, from what i've read, there are some cases where more than one page seems reasonable. for example, some companies have sites in different languages. i've seen a lot of people ask if korepetytce.com (something like that, i'm not looking up the exact address) is legit and then see that it's just the polish version of an essay writing company based in the US - exact same site, just in polish. i've also noticed some companies offer less expensive, lower grade level alternatives through secondary sites that are somewhat distinct from their main site. however, when they do, it's still clear that the less expensive site is linked to the main site.

it's when the same company owns multiple sites that apparently compete against each other that you have to wonder what is up...

Multiple business names always seems suspicious, but there are some legitimate reasons why a company catering services for students would own multiple web sites.

Search engines base their listings on the number factors, including links that point to a site. By owning multiple research sites, the company can create its own network and thereby increase its presence in the search engines. This has become even more critical since Google decided to play god and stopped taking term paper and custom writing ads through AdWords.

Another reason would be for price / product differentiation. Just as a number of car companies have different lines for their low cost cars and their luxury models, a company may have different price points for different target markets, such as different sites for undergrad and graduate work.

You might also want to target a specific market segment, such as nurses, education majors, business majors, marketing, finance, English language, or whatever.

I agree that it is frustrating to find that the majority of essay service sites listed online point to the same back end in Pakistan or Ukraine. However, simply because a company has multiple entities does not necessarily mean that it is a scam. It may be a strong indication of suspicious activities though.

All of the above are good points, but I'll suggest the real reason some companies have multiple sites. Let us take academic answers as an example (uk essays, law essays, oxbridge graduates, scanmyessay, markmyessay etc).

1. As above, marketting - each site links to all others. Someone uses scanmyessay for free and they may be tempted to click on the uk essays link.

2. (This is the most important in a business sense) Multiple companines = all monetary losses are 'balanced'. i.e. say uk essays makes 20,000 porfit, whilst law essays makes a 20,000 loss. By having two 'companies' the parent company academic answers ltd can claim a nil gain = no tax.

Initially I thought this was a silly question until I remembered the golden rule of business..... create your own competition. When you do that, no matter what site of yours they go to, you still win. Its like casinos in Los Vegas, so many are owned by the same person, and one casino might fit your personal style more than an other one owned by the same company/ person.

The best part of the likeness between some of these sites and casinos, they are still going to walk with your money. Not all companies, but some.

Be Happy,
DW

Hi All,

I work for UKEssays.com and we're part of the Academic Answer Ltd group, and I thought I'd explain why we operate under a few names;

It's easier for us to specialise this way, we can diversify our services.

We've always been transparent about this though, and while I can understand people thinking it's sinister to operate like this, please remember that most MNC's operate under various guises!

Regards,
PeterParker

A: to make more money

I do not think they make more website because I have seen more companies with just one website.

Why? Because it creates ILLUSION of choice. Just like on this forum and essaychat, freelance writers that supposed to be independent, in reality are just few people working for the same company. For a student however it looks like this site is FULL of freelance writers. It also helps to maintain higher prices for services. Students are being played like there is no tomorrow and they have no clue.

This is the only word in the English language whose pronunciation depends on whether it is capitalized or not.

Why would they need more than one company name? The reason is simple, they are con artists playing a con game. Just like with any con game, they need to make sure that their illegal activities have so many channels to pass through, nobody can tell where everything about their business originated. It's like the mafia. There is one big boss who's got so many tentacles out there, somebody will always take the blame when a deal goes south, and it will never trace back to the big boss. In this case, by having multiple company names, the same con artists can run the web with their "academic writing services", catch a few unsuspecting clients, play their con and then move on. They can shut down the current company and still be in business because of the "tentacle" company sites they own. Don't be fooled. These are all dummy corporations and your orders enter one and the same server and are written by the same writers. It's only the entry point for the business that always changes. That way, the milking cow is never affected. One company ends up on the DND list of EssayScam? Fine, shut it down and move on to the next business / website name. It's all part of the vicious money scam cycle for these people.

It's not necessarily a "scam" in and of itself; it's probably more of an attempt to just capture more customers. On the other hand, there's obviously an element of dishonesty to it, especially in connection with customers' attempts to try different companies after disappointment with one. I also noticed that some of these subsidiary companies charge a lot more than others, even though they're all just the same company with the exact same stable of writers.

As a writer for one of the biggest of these companies, I first noticed this from some of the files uploaded by customers. Ordinarily, we writers had no idea which of the many subsidiary companies took the order, because they all just got funneled to the exact same assignment board for the exact same group of writers, regardless of which of the main company's subsidiary companies the customers used to place their orders. However, sometimes, the customers uploaded files (especially faxed files) that fully disclosed their complete order information, because they happened to include their receipts or invoices as their cover pages. Those documents clearly identified the company they used.

However, there were also definitely some occasions where an order would specifically say something like this: "I really hope you guys can do a good job on this, because I already wasted a lot of my money ordering this project from _______ company and those guys did a horrible job. I am never using them again and I hope you guys have some better writers than they do."

On one hand, I don't think the purpose of using multiple subsidiary companies was to "trick" clients dissatisfied with the work of one of their companies into using another of their companies and all of the same writers. On the other hand, if you're one of the clients described above who purposely went out of his way to try to find a totally different company and different writers from the company that disappointed him, you might have a very different take on the whole issue of what seem to be many different essay companies all really being the same company using the exact same stable of writers.

Owning more than one essay writing service website helps the essay mills and scam companies keep a monopoly on the business. It is just like one company that has various business interests under different names. It makes it easier to sell the services of the company to the students when nobody is clear that it is a subsidiary of a well known scam company or that the mother company has built up a questionable reputation online. It is all about keeping the money coming in, regardless of where the student turns for service. By owning multiple companies, the main office is assured of an income, regardless of where the client goes. They don't need to spend on advertising, don't have to worry about social media backlash regarding certain company affiliates and services, and they can easily deny being connected to those companies if need be. It is all about making more money and nothing else.

Another reason they establish different customer-facing websites might be that it also allows them to market some of them as being more "specialized" in particular academic areas or in projects for different levels of academia. It might also allow them to appeal to customers looking for bargain prices as well as to customers looking for the best possible work available, for whom price is less of a concern. For example, some of them maintain websites that claim to specialize in the highest levels of academia (including using abbreviations for those degrees in their company names) while others emphasize their ability to handle a broad range of academic areas and levels. I know, just from having checked some of the prices on different websites through which orders from the same parent organization came my way, that the former charge more than the latter, even for the exact same projects and even though all of those projects still get posted for the exact same pool of writers (who earn the same per page), regardless of which website the customer used to place the order. That way, they don't lose prospective customers who are looking for the best prices they can find or customers who are willing to pay more for what they believe is a "premium service" that specializes in higher-level projects. I'm sure there are other reasons, as well.

That does seem to be the truth in many cases. When looking for a "good" essay service, the first thing to look for is the professionalism of its customer service. If in a chat, how is their written English. If via phone, are you speaking someone who is clearly a native English speaker? If not, proceed at your own risk. If all seems go so far, start with a trial to see the writing quality. While there are ways to "test" a company's customer service and how well it treats clients, there's no real way to know how they treat their writers or staff, sadly. Overall, though, unless a company is truly offering different services, there's no practical reason for a company to have multiple websites apart from, as @WriteReview said, to make more money--whatever the cost to the clients and writers.

Well, in the world of business, having several companies under one roof, involved in the same business just makes good business sense. Each company delves in the same business, but caters to a different crown and money bracket. The quality of the work depends upon which company subsidiary you chose, without knowing it. For example, a real estate developer can have 3 subsidiaries under the corporate umbrella:

Company A - caters to the first class crowd willing to pay a premium for the construction of his house and the location of the property.

Company B- Offers the middle class a similar service. Lower prices mean a moderately constructed house and middle class property location.
Company C - Caters to the people who would like to have a property but cannot afford the prices of company A and B. They take what they can get in whatever location is offered.

The same theory applies to the writing companies and their reason for having several company names. The cheaper the price, the lower the quality, but the client will still take what he can get.

The only problem with that theory when it comes to essay companies is that those companies typically have only one pool of writers. Projects all get posted on the exact same assignment board, regardless of which of their customer-facing websites handled the order. It isn't the case that each of them maintains a different pool of writers taking orders off a different assignment board depending on which of their websites sold the project.

Sounds like good marketing and survival tactics. I recently received an invitation from professorpapers.com and can surely tell that it is an affiliate
to the company I work for. I guess the tactic works for them anyways.

The companies used to have several partner companies to help them keep their taxes low, prevent students from going to other essay writing companies, and also, allowed them to bury their negative image companies. It was all about protecting the company from charge back situations and trying to keep as many students hiring the same company, without their knowledge. The owners thought this was a good business practice until the writers got wise to it. They began to realize that the companies were owned by the same people, who were paying them less, depending upon which portal they were signed up to as writers.

The (main) site that I used to work for only used its main company name to hire writers and it maintained only one assignment board from which we took orders; and they didn't use that company name as one of their (many) customer-facing websites. Their many essay sites funnelled all of their projects to that one project board; and it was the same 3 or 4 administrators who dealt with all of their writers. Unless we happened to receive project materials that included order information and the name of the website, we had no idea what essay site booked the project or what essay sites the company operated, because the only company name we saw was the parent company. Eventually I came to know of about a half a dozen of them, just from project materials or customer notes. Some of those sites charged customers higher prices than the others, but those orders weren't identified to writers as being any different from cheaper projects; they all just got posted on the same assignment board. It didn't affect what they paid us, because the payout of every project was posted on the assignment board and simply reflected whatever a writer's rate was.