My story with fastessays.co.uk

I would just like to tell you about my experience with Fast Essays who I will never use again. They have lied to me dozens of times over the past week.

It all started before I even ordered. I sent them an email asking if they had anyone available to write my essay. They replied that they did so I ordered thinking that they would have it in time. The deadline was Tuesday.

I waited in all day. I hardly left my computer from 6am until midnight but it never came for 2 days running. This was despite repeatedly contacting the help desk who were less than helpful to say the least. They either ignored me or told me the writer would upload it soon. He never did. I was then told on Tuesday night that he was having trouble uploading the file to the site. I was told he wouldn't stop until he had uploaded it. That turned out to be rubbish.

Yesterday I was told that he had suffered a powercut and at 8am he was going to his nearest internet cafe. I don't think he ever arrived. Despite private messaging me 12 hours later he had still not uploaded the essay. I am not even sure there was an essay to upload.

I went asleep quite angry and hoping that I would have the essay by the time I awoke. Nothing was there and about 10 mins ago an admin private messages me asking for an extension, even though the paper has already had an extra 2 days (possibly 3) and I am due to meet my lecturer in about an hour.

I will never trust fast essays again. As far as I am concerned they are a bunch of scammers who had no intention of ever writing my essay.

A tough experience for a student. Difficult to understand some of the essay writers and companies.

I thought by using a recognised operator like UK essays might help but I have been treated in a similar way. In fact the only thing they did get right was to get a document over to me on time. I think they think that is all they have to do.

The document was of no use and now I am left trying to produce work with considerably less time available. I also have the massive distraction of my ongoing fight with them in trying to recapture funds.

I do not think this industry can continue. The companies are either scams or are just plain rotten. There is no appreciation of who the customer is and how important it is that money is spent in this industry for the sake of all; the writers and the students who at times desperately need GOOD help.

This place seems like a good place to begin a much needed community effort to raise the standards of this industry. I am certain there are honest writers out there who don't think all the students they write for are scumbags and that they genuinely want to help students and create bespoke items of work no matter what. The battles you find yourself in when becoming a customer in this industry is awful and should make the industry as a whole unsustainable in its current form.

I have a dream :(

Why did you leave your essay to the last minute? I read this over and over again how time becomes critical yet it is clearly the fault of the student for failing to get organized and do the work. What are you students doing? Drinking, clubbing, Facebook? Why use a service in the first place when the Internet has all the information you need at your fingertips and plenty of free material out there to model off of. If you do use a service (and as a working writer that is fine by me) then don't go by lowest price and use common sense to sort the conmen from the genuine providers. Use Odesk or Elance or a site you can verify has a real address in the UK, USA or where ever.

There are a number of things that students can do to save themselves from being scammed. Such information stays within the digital boundaries of this very forum. What is ironical is that rarely does anyone bother to do the basic research.

You are clearly not a native English speaker, and really shouldn't be writing for companies in these countries without informing your customers of this fact.

Oxybridge essays did the same thing to me

2days to a dead line - they asked for an extension

and i had to hurridly write the piece of work myself

In your two weeks on this forum, you have complained about several companies with the same basic story. This makes it very difficult to believe you, and even more difficult to care.

Gee, for anyone else, that would have triggered a red flag. Nobody would hire a company that gave them problems even before they hired the company to work on their paper. I mean, if you cannot get clear information from the company, or get them to offer you some sort of communication that you could make sense of, when the lies are that evident, you should never go through with the deal. Remember. the problems when placing your order is an omen. It tells you what kind of service and paper the company may produce for you.

The OP should rejoice at the confirmation that the company has officially gone offline. A sign that it may have gone out of business. I pray that the company did not just change domain names to avoid the negative publicity that their previous name garnered across the web. It would be a shame if that is all that happened because there is nothing positive at all with regards to business dealings with this company. It is a bit difficult to trace exactly where the previous owners are and if they are still engaged in academic writing at the moment. From the looks of it though, it appears they have disengaged themselves from the business. At least, that is what the evidence points to at the moment.

I noticed this trend is currently rampant, making many students coy from ordering essay help from people online. However, there are tricks worth applying in order to safeguard yourself from getting scammed. First of all, request for a sample, read it through, and gauge if the person you are engaging can handle your paper. if otherwise, keep looking. Second, for a first-time customer, a writer will request payment afterward; that is after completing the work (I'm talking about legit writers who want long-term-relation). Check the paper, air your observation about it, and then pay. lastly, the writer should agree to unlimited revisions that may be projected by the instructor. That is how I build my clientele base. My customers are always happy and we have never had any disagreements. Zero-plagiarism and quality work guarantee. crediblewriters07 at gmail dot com is the dm path. We can chat over your worries and build a trustworthy relationship. Take care.

As I've explained many times, "samples" are worthless to whatever extent their purpose is to determine whether or not you can trust the quality of a writer's work, because you have no way of knowing who really wrote that sample.


I know no legitimate writer who would ever even consider providing a project before payment. All writers want long-term relationships; but the way you pursue that is by providing quality work, not by exposing yourself to possibly being ripped off by a non-paying customer. No writer can afford to waste the time it takes to write a project that ends up either not being paid for or that requires folow-up emails chasing after payments. Scams go both ways in this business, and at least prospective customers have a way of researching the online history and reputation of writers; conversely, there's no way for writers to research every new prospective customer's reputation, nor do we have that kind of time.

@FreelanceWriter Would you be open to having clients pay in installments? say 50% upfront, 25% midstream, then the last payment before the submission of the final part of the paper? Some students say that the upfront complete payment is what prevents them from hiring some direct writers (not necessarily you). They say writers who are open to a payment schedule tend to get their business more . For the students, would you also prefer payment schedules? If so, why? If not, please share your reasons.

I don't expect someone who has never used me before to pay me in advance for a 20-page project. As long as their deadlines are long enough for it, I have always advised clients to pay any new writer (or company) for a short section of a longer project before trusting anybody with full payment in advance for their entire projects. On the other hand, your suggestion doesn't work, because it requires writers to spend their time on work that hasn't yet been paid for. There's simply no reason to complicate things that way, either. If new clients want to be careful, they should simply order (and pay for) as few pages as they wish; then, if they're happy with the first section(s), they can pay for additional sections.

No legitimate writer who is already busy working on projects almost every single day of his life can afford to spend even one hour of his time working on anything that hasn't yet been paid for. We don't need the headache of keeping track of who owes for completed work and we're never taking the risk of writing even a single page of any project before it's paid for, because whether or not we deliver it, we've still already wasted our time working on it by that time. I have two such projects pending right now: new clients have paid me for just the Introduction section of much longer projects. That's how cautious clients can protect themselves, not by expecting busy writers to do work before it's been paid for. Ultimately, someone has to take a risk on the first project: either the client risks receiving bad work (or nothing) after paying for a couple of pages or a writer risks writing a couple of pages that might never be paid for. The worst case scenario for a client is possibly wasting a payment for a couple of pages. However, on the writer's side, just imagine if we had to write 2 or 3 pages before payment for every new prospective client: We'd be writing 10 or 20 pages every week and then have to chase down payments, let alone getting ripped off by clients who never really intended to pay for the work they ordered.

As I've explained many times, at least clients have this forum (and Google) to check the reputation of writers; but there's nothing comparable for writers to check out the payment history of new clients. Those of us writers who have been operating under the same forum ID (and email) for a decade or two also have incentive to protect our reputations by providing good work; conversely, there's nothing comparable to provide incentive for clients who might want to try to rip off a writer.


These are the students who end up finding out for themselves that only the most desperate "writers" who have absolutely no projects on their schedules -- and usually, for reasons that quickly become obvious -- because no experienced writer who is already actually making a living doing this will ever even consider providing any work (even one page of writing) before it's been paid for. I'm perfectly comfortable letting those clients find this out for themselves; and the same goes for clients asking for "discounts" because some other writer or company offered them a lower price. I just warn those clients not to order more than a very short project (or section of a longer project) from those competitors before trusting them with payment for their entire projects. At least once a month, someone who declined my price quote contacts me again a few weeks (or days) later asking me for the exact same project, precisely because they found out exactly why my competitors charge less. They sometimes end up paying me more than the original price they declined to meet the same deadline, in addition to the money they wasted hoping to save 25% (or whatever) by going with my cheaper competitors.