What Essay Companies Don't Want Students to Know

There are some details of the inner workings of many essay companies that remain unknown to most of the students who pay them for academic papers:

1. Papers to be completed NOT necessarily get assigned to the most suitable writer. Sometimes a paper gets completed by a writer who isn't exactly familiar with the topic, or even qualified in the discipline. In most essay companies, available orders are published on an assignments board for writers to bid on. Any writer with the clearance level (status) the assignment demands can take or bid on it. Very few companies (just 2 that I know of) deny a writer the chance to work on a paper solely because it falls outside his discipline(s) or area of specialization. Depending on how each individual system works, a Philosophy paper can be picked by a writer with an Engineering academic background.

2. Sometimes a paper doesn't get worked on until the very last day. Students think that once they place orders and confirm payment, a writer gets assigned immediately. They don't realize that a paper gets picked up by a writer (mostly) based on its appeal (difficulty, pay rate, instructions, deadline etc.) compared to the other available papers. Less desirable orders take longer to get a writer. It is not a first come, first served kind of scenario.

3. Many companies pay their writers less than 35% the rate charged to the customer. This is especially true for most ESL sites.

4. For essay companies with certain formats, the writer who gets assigned might not be the one who actually works on the paper. There has been a growing tendency of company writers to outsource work to other parties for a fraction of the pay. This happens in companies with inefficient mechanisms and where management has limited control over writers.

5. Sometimes the online operative/agent has little clue of the complex details the client is talking about. The specifics are normally just forwarded to the writer to make heads or tails of. This is true especially for sites run from Ukraine, Nigeria, India, Kenya, Pakistan, Philippines.

6. One of the main functions of company agents and operatives is to ensure that there is no direct contact between writers and customers. Otherwise, if only for efficiency, no company would have some of these middlemen in place.

This is the part that most student don't realize. Most writers (whether private or company writers) only ever start working on the order on the due date or the day before - depending on their schedule. After writing something like 12-20 thousand hours worth of papers in all imaginable subjects, you tend to develop a certain skill set that allows you to gloss over pretty much any piece of literature and draw out the most important bits and pieces. Most students need weeks of reading to do the same amount of research professionals can do in one afternoon.

I've never encountered any essay company that "assigned" projects to writers and only one company that maintained different writer classifications. Since they started me out at the top based on what they already knew about me from this forum, I don't know whether writers lower in classification just got paid less for projects or were restricted from even viewing them on the assignment board. We're independent contractors who take only whatever projects we choose. The only (isolated) exception that I ever encountered was the situation that I described in another thread involving one of my colleagues who allowed company reps to take advantage of his meek nature by putting projects on his account without his permission.


To be fair, this is also the case with any experienced independent writer, as well. Students and fledgling writers need several writing sessions to complete relatively short projects. Experienced writers simply mark deadlines on a calendar and often write short projects in one sitting on the day they're due if that happens to be most convenient for them. This is inconsequential to the customer, because if it's an experienced writer, there's absolutely no difference in the final product. Whether we write it that day or a few days earlier, the amount of time we spend on a given project from start to finish is the same. The main reason I learned to avoid doing this is simply that it limits my flexibility to accept other projects with shorter deadlines that I might have been able to take if I hadn't left myself no choice but to write another project that particular day. That only affects my earning capacity, not the product received by the client. To be safe, I ask my customers, in advance, whether the deadline they requested from me is their actual deadline: if it is, I just mark it a day earlier on my calendar.


That makes perfect sense from their perspective and I really have no problem with that, because if writers have the chance, many of them will steal customers. The only thing I object to is when people working for essay companies try to suggest that these customer service reps provide some kind of additional "benefit" to customers that they don't get from using an independent freelance writer. They're nothing but a buffer deliberately inserted in between writers and customers to prevent them from contacting one another directly.

If there's ever some major problem with a project or deadline, independent freelance writers are either just as easy to reach or (if anything) easier for customers to reach. If a writer isn't available to respond to customer emails, he or she isn't any more available to respond to frantic emails sent by customer service reps: either way, it's just an email received on our end. If I'm in the hospital (or the morgue) after getting hit by a bus, the company isn't going to be able to get a response from me any faster than a direct client; and either way, it would be my wife responding to those emails or emergency phone calls. If anything, to the extent there is any difference on our part in that regard, we're only likely to be even more responsive to our direct clients than we are to company clients, simply because we care more about our personal reputation than about any company's for which we just write as independent contractors. The same holds true about emergency backup: my freelance colleagues and I have one another's info in case of emergency, and I assume they also have someone reliable at home or in their lives who knows what to do and how to contact clients on the calendar (as well as our trusted emergency-backup writers) in any genuine emergency that could disrupt deadlines. In almost 20 years of doing this, I've never had such an emergency.

Applies even more to freelance writers who can only rely on their own 'expertise' (still, some of them try to work with completely unfamiliar topics as long as the project pays well enough ;)


What is the 'clearance level' of freelance writers? I get it - whatever they claim is to be taken at face value, right. Looking at your profile, you write:


So you claim you hold an MBA an LLB degree. Where is your proof? A company would verify that; for now we all know it's a lie (I'm surprised you didn't write you are a Harvard graduate working for NASA). Other thing - you claim that having experience in academic writing and research qualifies you to write papers on a 'wide range of topics and disciplines.'? How is so? If you have a public college degree in marketing, how are you qualified to write professional papers on nursing?


How is it different from a freelance writer working on a paper; do they complete all orders ahead of time (if so, why would they require a deadline)?


Many freelance writers charge as much as a company, giving much less value and protections.


Why would a customer care as long as the order is completed well and on time? Unless you mean that a freelance writer is (by law) prohibited from contracting his or her orders to others.


Do you mean a support person should have a PhD degree to service customers?


Why would they allow it knowing scammers would want to steal their customers? Or you mean that a company should spend money on advertising, brand building, and salaries so that freelance writers could take advantage of that.

Any writer, company or private, who takes assignments he/she is not qualified to do is a moron and will have a very, very short career in this field. It's a self correcting problem Major. Such attempts may work for a month, or two, but eventually they will get called on their bullsh*t and simply vanish.


Except for the fact that a company has 100 or more writers to roll on, a private writer can provide the same value - and even the fact that we work alone gets mitigated by the fact that those of us who take this work seriously enough always have a contingency to fall back on in case of emergency. What other "value" does a company offer that private writers do not? Maybe I'm biased, but I don't see it, customers who choose private writers do so precisely because we are individual writers, as they get tired of constantly being switched around through the company system.


This sentence is either purposefully or by chance constructed in such a way that it appears companies consider their own writers to be scammers. If that's the case, that's a sorry state of affairs. As for the secrecy, I understand why such a system exists, people get tempted to do all sorts of things.

Another piece of information that the students do not know, which the companies would rather they remain in the dark about, is that the paper is sometimes shopped within the pool or writers 24 hours before the deadline. This forced-assignment of orders normally happens when the paper is a long turn around paper which happens to get passed from one writer to another until the deadline is already at the door. This happens within a server system of assignment because the writers often take the order without really knowing or understanding the complexity of the project. It is only when messages between the writer and student begin to be exchanged that the writer finally realizes that he is in order his head, forcing him to ask for an order reassignment, which the company obliges. The company doesn't lose anything in the reassignment because the writer gets a penalty for such an action. This is a process that repeats itself until one of the writers in the forced assignment list agrees to accept the project or, the deadline passes and the irate client demands a full refund.

In addition to what has already been mentioned here, I find that essay companies would often struggle when it comes to handling new writers. This, in turn, makes a few orders that flow in the site to have difficulties in being completed in due time. While I have noticed that there are companies I used to work for that had preventative measures (ie. not letting new writers take hefty, lengthy and truly complex orders until they build their reputation in the site), there are others that simply let writers have a seemingly marketplace attitude towards essay writing. This has, in turn, created a field wherein incapable writers desperate for money can somehow sweet talk clients into letting them work on the projects. This becomes detrimental because they would then be unable to provide a decent output, creating complaints in the site. Running an essay writing business is a complex environment - more difficult than what others would perhaps anticipate when initially looking at the platform. After working for a multitude of sites, I have found that few can truly manage their orders, fulfill and satisfy clients, and maximize their outputs. Kudos to the sites that can manage these platforms efficiently.

The main thing that most essay companies don't want students to know is that all of their orders usually just get posted on a single bulletin-board-type of screen and that all of their writers have the same access to every project on a first-come/first-served basis and outside of any control exercised by the company. Some of the (undisclosed) reps from essay companies who post here have previously said that some companies do restrict what orders can be viewed by some writers, but I've never encountered this, personally. (One of them also once suggested that I wouldn't know this because I might not have been one of their highest-paid writers, which I believe even that person knows, full well, isn't the case at all.) The only companies for which I've ever written exercised no control other than by: (1) setting a higher payout per page for those of us who were their best and most-experienced writers, (2) limiting how many projects new writers could take per day, and (3) contacting some of us directly to ask us to take specific (unlisted) projects for their friends and family members or to offer us un-publicized bonuses to take certain projects that were already languishing on the assignment board with their deadlines getting closer and closer.

Another thing essay companies would prefer customers not to know is that their orders might sit on the assignment board for quite a long time before a writer takes them and that, sometimes, they stay on the assignment board untaken by any writer until their deadlines pass and that those orders just get refunded if nobody ever takes them. Possibly the most important thing that essay companies don't want customers to know is that there is a very high turnover rate among their writers, largely because the companies themselves really have no way of knowing how good or bad their new writers really are until they start getting requests for them or complaints about them, and that some of them get fired for incompetence shortly after submitting horrible (or plagiarized) work on their first few projects. For every writer who ends up doing this successfully on a fulltime basis, there are probably 5 or 10 (or more) who only do this very irregularly and/or realize very quickly that they lack the ability to do this job well at all.

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You must've noted some poetry here, but the bottom line is you don't work for the company any more and nobody really knows why they didn't want you to be a part of their team.

A. It's hardly poetry. You're just extremely predictable and right on time: "aucrtciastam..." is just an abbreviation for "aforementioned undisclosed company rep to chime in any second to ask me..." I'll omit the last part, since you didn't ask me exactly what I figured you would.

B. Actually, my company account is still active. As of this minute, there are exactly 2 orders posted: one is an Education project ordered on May 7th and due on May 9th and the other is a database project ordered on May 15th and due on May 23rd. The fact that there's a project posted with a due date of May 9th (now that I've checked because of your response to me) perfectly illustrates my earlier point about company projects sometimes lingering on their assignment boards long after their due dates have come and gone. It also illustrates another point I've made earlier about what often happens when customers request a specific writer: namely, that the requested writer obviously didn't want the project and it's apparently been sitting there available to any of hundreds of other writers ever since it went public.

C. Obviously, it's untrue that anybody didn't want me as part of any team. I just haven't taken any company orders in a very long time, entirely by my choice. This, also, is something you already know, despite your baseless suggestion to the contrary just about anytime I say anything that you perceive as negative about essay companies, for obvious reasons (see A above).

D. We're on good enough terms (see C. above) that I still refer projects to them occasionally.

My Point of View: Writing Essays is a Mastery

But I am so depressed at my university. I want to write well, but we have not enough time to get more proficiency in classes. I have faced a great issue. I've spent a week searching for the topics, material and try to write my essay. In the end, I wrote anything. It made me so annoyed and frustrated that I went to Google, typed there essay writing service and order an essay. Fortunately, they did their job excellent and tough deadlines weren't an issue for them.

This situation forced me to work harder on my expertise and follow things I like. I started reading a lot, but as a student, I have not so much time as I was at school. I would like to be good at writing, do quality essay in a short time. I believe I can get to this destination, I wish I had more power for learning at school.

These points are not so great about essay writing companies. I was lucky to get a good one.
Now I prioritize my expertise and will do everything to become better every day. As real-life demands experts. Nobody loves liers.

Essay companies also do not want the students to know that when they request for revisions, there is a great possibility that the original writer who worked on the order will no longer be available to correct the work. The essay is then returned to the server as a fresh order with the original amount paid to the writer having been deducted to serve as payment to the new writer. From the server, a new writer will end up taking the paper and trying to work his way around the first writer's work, trying to emulate his research and writing style. This is why a revision ends up going from bad to worse.