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What are your thoughts and experiences with EssayShark?


lalaloulou  1 | 1   Student
Dec 05, 2012 | #1
I have a 12 page research paper due on the 5th and unfortunately I have two exams before that date so I've resorted to seeking help from a writing company. Essayshark seems like a pretty straight forward website but it's pretty expensive and I'm wondering if anyone has ever used their services and what your experience with them was like. I'm also open to better alternatives namely if someone has a lot of writing experience and would like to complete this paper for me.

Thanks.
mre  1 | 169  
Dec 05, 2012 | #2
Well...we cannot make recommendations, but I would check into custompapers.com. They are not frauds...if you are indeed attempting to avoid fraudulent sites.
OP lalaloulou  1 | 1   Student
Dec 05, 2012 | #3
Uh, that sounds like a recommendation to me and I'm trying to stay away from sites that don't provide a free draft.
Anyways, I'm really looking for opinions from people who have experiences with Essayshark.
mre  1 | 169  
Dec 05, 2012 | #4
Good luck finding a website that offers a free draft and is legitimate.

Essayshark is a foreign company. One can determine this from looking at the pages.

"With the advent of Internet, Essay Writers services have become a opportunity that anyone can afford."

Sounds borderline mentally challenged.....or ESL. I pick ESL. Essayshark is not a legitimate company. I imagine you already know this since you work for them.
michael890  4 | 130   Freelance Writer
Dec 23, 2012 | #5
has anyone seen this site's business model? do you have any opinions on this? i wonder if more of these types of sites will start popping up. i'm not trying to make a statement, positive or negative, as I have no experience with it, just curious to hear everyone's opinion.
99Essays  3 | 243   Freelance Writer
Dec 23, 2012 | #6
Do you mean the general style of the site? When the site has an order form, I generally assume the work is being farmed out. To where, it's hard to know -- but I have some guesses. An individual writer would not generally want orders to come in via form. The writer would want to talk over the details by mail or phone before accepting the money. The paper might be outside the writer's favorite subject areas, or the writer might be overbooked. SEO and a lot of back-end functionality are, to me, the marks of a site that is farming the work out.

Independent writers live on word of mouth. They fear getting more orders than they can handle and, thus, disappointing people. I would not dream of starting a website of that nature unless I had a reliable team of writers. I don't, and so I don't. In the busy season, I am walking around like a zombie because I'm getting no sleep. In the off season, I'm glad for the break. If I started a site like that, it would have no effect on the customers I already have. All it might do, if promoted properly, is drum up more business than I would want. A small business-card type website is fine, but is quite optional in my case, because by the time they're in contact with me, they're ready to order the paper.
wolfpack  - | 13  
Dec 27, 2012 | #7
They fear getting more orders than they can handle and, thus, disappointing people.

Not true. Ordinarily, they are frank. If they have a lot of work, they simply tell the customer sooner. If they do not have, they accept work. In this manner, the customer is more secure than if they ordered via a company. Plus, it is easier for a customer to control an independent writer with respect to revisions and that they can get faster response as compared to a company's writer.

P.S. An independent writer will always work hard to avoid losing a customer. On the contrary, a company writer does not always work hard to produce a high quality paper. In this context, they give work to unqualified writers--they employ them and source orders from a company. Undoubtedly, their work is not consistent and this has contributed to many customers preferring independent writers. Hence, stop lying simply because you want more people to order from your company--EssayShark.
writers2beware  29 | 1712 ☆☆  
Feb 26, 2013 | #8
essayshark.com is a UKRAINIAN site that is connected to the same ESL charlatans who own customwritings.com.
articice  - | 2   Freelance Writer
Aug 30, 2014 | #9
Worked for them for 2 months, first seriously and then as an additional source of income and entertainment.
The 'business model' as they call it here makes it very hard to get orders from normal customers, usually they want previews for free and never assign anyone to the order. Most orders hang around for a long time with customers not replying. Most customers I got were cunning, cheating and manipulative, and were obviously looking for a mule to extract more and more work from.

The essayshark.com management demanded writing an exclusive preview for each order I bidden on; they disallowed me to use paragraphs from an extensive archive of my previous writings. They said it somehow would be "cheating on other writers".

With orders approval being so unstable and having to write exclusive previews - you simply end up spending time 24/7 tethered to the site, working, but not earning much.

Fined me for cancelling the order on a very arrogant customer (although for clarity and fullness - I was late with it for a few hours, when the customer decided to demand "A-quality" from me, also adjusting his requirements). I did what a professional should do - if I can't deliver what is requested given the timeframe, I cancel.

Got their "Newcomer of the month" award easily.

Payments ok.
What I like about this particular company, is that they give you true money figures; not trying to cover up the fact that they take away 3/4 of your hard-earned money. The marketplace idea is nice, but operation fees are way to high, given the fact that the website offloads the duties of communicating with the customers on you.
editor75  13 | 1844  
Aug 31, 2014 | #10
This business model-- I don't know what to call it-- is to clamp onto the backbone of one's own organization (the writers) like stupid gangsters, wildly charging and fining the workers for every little thing, until they either quit (if they're any good) or stay (if they're poor and/or desperate). Ukraine never underwent any of the Sherman Anti-Trust or Inquiry and Control Act stuff Americans and Britons may be familiar with. Oh, there's also the language barrier.

I would advise customers not to trust organizations that have a "UK address" which 1) does not have the same name as the site you're ordering from 2) does not have a proven track-record 3) cannot be visited by customers and/or 4) exists only for payment processing.

It's sort of a drain to everyone having companies like Essayshark/Customwritings (plus their 500 subsidiary smokescreen sites) in the industry, but, then again, having some swine around makes the pearls shine brighter.
editor75  13 | 1844  
Aug 31, 2014 | #11
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Cite  2 | 1853 ☆☆☆  
Dec 13, 2020 | #12
EssayShark is exactly as the name implies. They are sharks out for blood. Their writers do not even pretend to know what they are doing, the company makes refund procedures for the students a nightmare, and the company has the worst possible after sales service you can think of. It would be best for all concerned to judge this company by its name. It actually embodies it.
noted  8 | 2047 ☆☆☆☆☆  
Jul 29, 2024 | #13
Funny how the company is now claiming 2 things. The first, is that their writers write plagiarism free work. The second, is that the papers done by the writers are AI free. Well, I know the first claim is bogus since their writers are barely able to string together a sentence. As for the 2nd one, if their writers suddenly developed writing skills, then there is no question that their writer's are using AI to complete the papers. Since their writers are ESL, I do not doubt that they use AI at some point during their writing process.
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