TORG experiences with meeting/speaking to researchers?

TORG (The Oxbridge Research Group/Club Malamatinas) advertise that it's possible to meet with your researcher in London. They told me that if this isn't possible because they live far away, they could arrange a conference call.

I asked last Monday to arrange it, but the researcher hasn't responded by today (end of Saturday). They say they have emailed the person again today. I would kind of have expected them to call when the person doesn't respond to emails.

Anyone have any experience with this? Success/lack of success with speaking to your researcher?

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Wow.


SPAM & BS

Mixed bag so far:
- I did eventually get to speak to the writer (which was good). Given the time it took and difficulty to get it organised I would say that anyone booking an order over less than 20 days are very unlikely to be able to do this. What was not superb was that I intentionally booked a long time to delivery so the writer could have some time to read on the topic, but when we spoke halfway through the period I had the clear impression he hadn't even started and couldn't even quite remember what the question was about.

- The quality of writing in parts sent so far has however been good.
- It's now gone a number of days past the initial deadline though, and also past the later extension I agreed to. It is at the point where if I don't receive pretty much "in the course of the next 12 hours" it's of no use to me whatsoever.

- I told them this in an email and said I would be happy to receive a part if the whole wasn't ready, though no response. On the phone this morning I was told it had been received and was going through quality control, but 8 hours later nothing has been sent. Email sent asking to bypass quality control and 'just send it' has been unanswered.

By the way, I will update this when the final part is received (HINT HINT).

dingoperson and others: unfortunately, the pricing/deadline structure that customers like to see works very differently for writers. On almost every site (every site that I know of, anyway), you pay less per page for a longer deadline. This, of course, means that writers earn less money per page on orders with longer deadlines. Customers expect MORE time to be spent on their paper ("I gave them a month to work on it!") when writers are actually compensated LESS for their time.

During the busy season, I generally don;t take papers more than a day or two ahead of time, and when I orders with longer deadlines I generally put them off until close to the last minute--I have work due more immediately that pays me better.

It's not your fault as the customer, as the system is rather confusing, but in all reality if you want a writer devoted to your project for a full twenty days, you will need to pay twenty days of living wages--or a few thousand dollars. This is why my rates are generally the same when I work with customers privately regardless of deadlines--whether I have a month or a day to write four pages, I have to spend the same amount of time working on the project.

IMO, being given a longer deadline has merits that deserve some discount on prices. I agree that a longer deadline doesn't mean that a writer would devote more (or less) total time per word on the project than he/she would a project with a tighter deadline, but having a longer deadline means being able to work on the project a little at a time. When given a lengthy project (say 10,000 words) with a long deadline (say a month), I usually work on 1000-word chunks of the project every other day. This makes the project easier to do than having to write it in one sitting. However, customers should realize that there is obviously a cap on the amount of discount that can be given for more time. For example, a client should not expect to pay any less for a project due in 30 days than a project due in 10. Setting this cap is of course the prerogative of the writer.

Yet you keep them on staff ? I have a 3 strike policy with my writers, ignore our contact emails at your own peril. That would be the only reason I would withold a writers salary. So get their attention and make sure that they will never take any client or office contact communication for granted again. When needed, I require their presence at our shared office space to meet with clients. That helps with thepaper development process and allows the client to gain confidence in his writer. That face to face meeting is a good business practicethat I hope more academic writing companies and freelancers employ.

In my opinion, when a company offers in-person conferencing with a client, they should be held to that guarantee. If the person lives too far then, even during the time of this posting there were already available conference calls available for the writer to choose from. I see no reason why it could not be fulfilled.

Upon review of their website, I found this claim to be unbelievable:

we provide private advice and research to students whose universities are failing to provide them with the tuition and resources they need for success in their degrees.

Huh? So they also double as a university of sorts? They have professors and other academcians on staff to help the students? They do not provide any insight as to how they can accomplish this claim. I would definitely not take their word for it. Specially when they say:

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A tuition is only charged by a school or university, not by a writing service. They are not a registered academic institute and should not be charging such fees. That action is against the law.

Phone (and other in-person) "conferencing" is nothing but a marketing mechanism, at best, and just another part of a con game, at worst. I've written at least 10,000 projects in the last 20 years and I can count on one hand (with several fingers left) how many times a project has required a real-time conversation with the client. If a legit company advertises phone (or other real-time media) conferences, it's just a marketing gimmick; and if a scam company advertises conferences with its writers, the purpose is just to gain the confidence of prospective customers. Typically, the customer doesn't ever actually talk to any "writer" because the person on the other end of the line is part of the marketing team whose job it is to gain the customer's confidence and trust. This forum is filled with examples of real-time "chat" logs between customers and company reps and "writers." The one thing they all have in common is the immediate change from polite helpfulness to rude evasiveness (and abrupt termination) the instant the customer has any kind of complaint about the project or tries to cancel it, even minutes after placing an order.

That is true. It gives them an air of legitimacy and an anchored office existence. It does not delete the con from the equation. I only mentioned it because of the way the company was using it as a claim in reference to client confidence. I never had an expectation of the company following through on it.


Also true. That is why hiring a writer directly is always the best option. I know of times when the middleman actually posed as the writer as well. Just to pretend that there is a communication chain. The writer may or may not get the information the client was having delivered. The companies are difficult to trust. They try to cover up too much when a client starts to make inquiries. Go the direct route instead.