How many academic paper services online?

Does anyone know how many essay writing sites are out there? My estimate is around 3,000 - is it good estimate? How many of them are active?

And how many sites, on average, one company may have? My estimate is that one company has on average 3 websites, but some have even up to 100. Is it true?

I mean only sites that write essays in English (American or British).

Some companies have 500+ sites. In fact, ***** lost 555 sites in a Federal Court ruling.

How many companies are there in the student research industry?

Hi there,

I am doing some research in to this industry and the deeper I delve, the more confused I become. There seems to be a network of similar companies apparently all owned by a small number of people. Many sites I find look the same as others and are heavily linked to each other, indicating that they are not competing. The only reason I can see is that as soon as a company receives a bad reputation, usually on forums such as this, they start a new one to compensate?

Also, the language use on many of these sites indicates that the vast majority are not even based in the UK despite what they say on their websites.

Any help would be greatly welcome.

Btw. Reviews of legit services are also needed :)

Thanks.

This is Crazy! I think you are really on to something here with your research. Perhaps we need to make a website where writers and customers can be informed about the ownership and locations of some of these writing services? Are you saying that some of these sites may not even be located in the US or UK? These are big claims my friend and I hope you have a shred of evidence to prove your radical theory? I only wish that there was a website or something that posted the connections between some of these "Essay Writing Networks". If you find anywhere that has this information be sure and let me know.

Thanks

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How many good, reliable custom writing services are there? - in the US that is

I'm calling on the seeming experts on this forum (WritersBeware, WRT, etc.)...in your opinion, how many good, reliable, US-based custom writings services are there? I'm asking for a number, not names. Once I have a number, I will try to discover on my own what they are.

There are dozens of legitimate, truly American sites that are operated by only a handful of American companies. I would actually put the number of legit companies at 6.

Am a new writter, please give the names of well and prompt companies worth working for.

True...a lot of these essay writing services have nearly identical order forms.

I think I've identified 3 of these legit companies you speak of.

Am requeting that you include names.Am anew writer and could like to know whih to work for.

No offense, but it doesn't seem that your English skills are strong enough to do this kind of work.

WriterBeware I need your help

Im not trying to be an a#@ or anything but (i asked for a rewrite and i got the same paper) my question is i told them twice that i didn't need a paper with all quotes. what should i do? help? any advise---

What were the original instructions you submitted? (You can change the exact topic if you don't want to post the actual assignment details publicly.)

How many pages/word in the paper and how much of it is quoted?

i don't know how many legitimate American companies there are but the best amongst them are, of course, the original ones. They are easy enough to identify ...

I must be super dense, because I still have difficulty figuring this out. Please help.

Pls understand that doing so would be a violation of forum policies. Just look for the ones which have been in operation for the past decade ...

How many essay sites out there?

How many essay writing websites are out there? Has anyone counted them? Trying to figure out if it would be hard to kill my competition +). I mean both company websites and individual freelance essay writers, if possible :).

Is it about 1,000, or more?

roger, you don't provide real competition to decent companies or writers. fu*- off.

What if I create 400 new sites? Your sites would then be burried, maybe you should start partnership with me.

Given that there are probably over 5000 different websites offering the same services, I really don't think the addition of 400 more is going to "bury" the ones I work for, even if they weren't run by an incompetent moron like yourself By all means, go ahead--let's see what happens.

It hurts to much when somebody is going into your 'territory'? Childish behavior.

I am not in the least bit hurt or threatened by you. I wish you would leave the industry so I didn't have to deal with so many pissed off and hyper-sensitive customers, but that's the only real issue I have with you.

We do not operate in the same territory. You write s-i*ty essays for customers that don't know any better and you get paid d*ck to produce them. I get paid a substantial income to write good, coherent, and grammatically correct papers for customers that know how (or at least are lucky enough) to find reputable companies that hire decent writers.

Care to let the discerning readers on this forum know where you work? I'm sure the mods won't consider it a recommendation or advertisement--your posts are more dissuasive than anything else.

I don't want to hurt your feelings so I don't answer off-topic questions. I just wanted to know the number of essay sites.

Don't worry. I'm a big boy. I've been insulted on this forum by people who are much better at it than you and haven't had my feelings hurt yet.


I didn't ask any questions. If what you meant was, "I don't respond to off-topic statements," my reply would be, "You've been responding to me in this thread so far." Either way you look at it, you're pretty much a moron.


Right. As if someone has actually counted them all, and makes sure that their count is accurate by checking up on these sites on a daily basis (they come and go with great regularity). I'm not sure what your angle is, but the retard bus is leaving...better get on board.

You can use the 'combination' function (its symbol is something like nCr) in your calculator to estimate the total number of sites offering academic assistance. You will need to 'combine' all the adjectives in the english language with the word 'essays' (so that the resultant word is something like bestessays, rushessays and so on) and after that replace 'essays' with 'papers'. I think it will return a figure of 1 million or more. And 80% of them are in the hands of a few.

nCr is a probability calculation, and in no way reflects a count of essay sites. As an estimation tool for this scenario, it is grossly inaccurate and unfounded at best.

Allow me to use a simple example to justify my proposition. Lets assume that the words rush, fast, best, total, custom and plagiarismfree could be used as prefixes for papers, essays, writing and research to describe writing companies. Examples of site names would be totalessays, totalpapers, totalwriting, totalresearch and so on. But how do you find out the number of times these two groups can be combined? There are 7 prefixes and 4 words, so the total number of possible combinations will given by 7C4, which which gives 35. The answer you get is absolute and not relative as the case should be for probability functions such as poisson or binomial. nCr is useful for establishing sample sizes, which can then be used to establish specific probabilities but that does not limit its use to probability. So to the extent that you have dismissed this proposition as unfounded, I disagree, but on inaccuracy, you are probably right.

it is unfounded because it implies a finite data set that does not really exist. I understand your reasoning, and it is a creative way to approach the problem, but language cannot be broken down into math (despite Chomsky's attempts to fully describe Cartesian linguistic principles--which is of course an altogether different topic, but brining it up makes me feel smart).

Of course, now we're totally ff topic, and that won't make roger too happy...

Better estimate would be about 2,500.

Of course. It makes perfect sense that you would ask a questions, have no idea how to go about answering it, then provide your own answer out of nowhere as a means of correcting the one person that actually tried to help you. Now you're an a$$hole in addition to being a moron. Congrats.

Nope, it's a counting formula. It can be used for determining probabilities but it has uses aside from that (counting the number of ways that etc. etc..). However you're right, forumregulator's use of it is too assumptive.

True. It's been awhile since I've been in a math class. I think I've only ever seen it used as a larger part of probability calculations, however--counting the number of existing options to determine the probability of a single (or multiple) option(s) happening. Poker hands, for instance. Although that would actually use nPr, wouldn't it....?

Nope. Calculating the probability of poker hands use nCr, since hands are valued the same regardless of arrangement. For example, a hand of 3A2K is a full house regardless if the player arranged them as AAKKA or AAAKK.

right. back to 9th grade for me....

Nah, it's not like you actually need to use it for anything. As far as the topic is concerned, you're right that using nCr is not an appropriate way for determining how many term paper sites exist. Also, counting the number of term paper sites IS pointless. In my opinion, rogerb was just trying to advertise his services.

guys are there actually any legit custom-writing sites out there?

Yes. They are simply overshadowed and outnumbered by the shady ones.

My advice:

- If you have already found a service, a writer's username, or a writer's Twitter's username, do search on this forum to check if they are true and credible. If negative, drop them and start your search anew. You don't want to risk working with a foreign "writer" or "service" that may take your money without delivering the requested assignment.

- If you haven't found a writer or a research service yet, you probably won't go wrong with services or writers listed as "recommended" above. Since they advertise, they won't scam you, why would they. Still, not all of them are the greatest, I'd go with the most reputable ones or the oldest ones.

While there does seem to be a proliferation of online writing companies, you are right that they tend to be owned by the same people under an umbrella organization, but the owners themselves refuse to admit that. So you will find it difficult to prove such accusations. However, the people at ES have put on their Sherlock caps and called these companies on their illegal practice of using various company names to con the students. The new name is not usually because of a bad review online. Rather, they tend to gobble up their weaker competition, which leads to the "subsidiary" set up. Whether the "companies" operate independently or by the same people is what creates the question about the legitimacy of each. We already know that these types of companies use bad English copy and yet students continue to hire their services. Actually, your whole post just repeats what has already been said here over and over again. However, having you say it again does show that people are waking up to the scam and as such, are becoming wiser when dealing with online, virtual academic writing services.

I would have to say that the number quoted in the original post must have dwindled by now. The academic writing companies are already cognizant of the government being hot on their tails and have decided to try and simplify their organizations by lessening their umbrella companies. While their umbrella companies still number in the hundreds, they are trying to keep that down now and have done their best to distance their mother companies from their satellite companies. That is because they have discovered that their lust for cornering the market is what is spelling the downfall of their illegal businesses. The only way they can avoid further detection is by consolidating their companies. I know of a few companies that have gotten together by dissolving their other companies and investing in a new corporation. That way they get their potential lawsuits out of the way by creating a new, totally unrelated business entity. This is what makes it difficult to come up with an actual number of currently existing academic paper services online.

I don't think the total number of companies has decreased; if anything, only the proportion of legitimate companies to the foreign scam companies has decreased in the 9+ years since the question was first asked in this thread.


Agreed.