Scam or Incapability: degrees of a scam in essay companies?

Greetings again,

In the small amount of time I have been able to view these threads, it appears as though there is a fairly hard toe line on what constitutes a scam as far as an essay writing site goes, yet in this vein; I guess I wonder if it is that simple...?

I understand that when a website,

A. Does not pay you.

B. Lies about their physical address.

C. Does not have a customer support branch, nor have any protocol for dealing with disputes in place.

D. Fines you unreasonably.

it pretty much constitutes a scam.. yet I wonder if there are degrees* of scams in certain companies.

Specifically I mean companies which, might have just started up and do not have the capabilities in place yet to deal with the (at times I'm sure) massive undertaking of setting up such sites?

I am probably being quite naive, yet I I am wondering if there is a somewhat murky line (at times) between scam, and incapable?

You got that right.

That was uncalled for...

Good question.

I think that, for a customer purchasing an essay, the two are intertwined: a capable, talented writer or group of writers can build their business by writing quality works and charging an appropriate amount for them. Incapable writers can't get by with writing crappy essays, so they resort to scamming, by undercutting competition's prices, producing a poor paper, and then forcing the customer to maneuverer through numerous paths in order to get any sort of refund or service.

When it comes to the company's writers, though, I don't think incompetence can explain why so many services are accused of unfairly fining their employees or refusing to pay. That's just greed and a scam.

I think the word "scam" is used too easily and freely.

A scam is someone who takes your money and runs.

Getting a service you were not happy with is not a scam, it could be a multitude of reasons why that happened. Getting a bad mark on an assignment is also not a scam, especially if the company does not gurantee a mark.... you have to be careful when you use the word "scam".

If "getting a service you are not happy with" means buying a piece of writing that turns out to be plagiarized from various sources and cobbled together by someone that has no understanding of the subject matter or English language mechanics, then I think the term "scam" is appropriate. There are many companies and writers that do this to their customers, unfortunately.

There is no limit to the degree of scams that a company can implement in order to improve their income. Be it a company or an independent writer, the scams abound because the students remain clueless about how the business really works and how to spot the difference between a scam and a company or person that is working on the level. The difficulty in spotting the scam rests in how most of the scam companies run on the same template and are seemingly more popular on the web than the reputable services and writers. The trust is earned in a number of ways. Anywhere from using fake photos, to make refund promises that are hard to implement or sometimes, believe. These days, the scams have been elevated to the level of blackmailing and holding model papers hostage until the client complies with the demands of the scammers.

Incapability is something totally different. The word connotes a sense of not being able to deliver. Sometimes, a writer will read the project, bid on it, get the project and then midway, discover that he got in over his head. So he freaks out and either doesn't deliver the paper or gets it reassigned, which causes problems for the student. That isn't a scam. That is just overconfidence gone wrong.

@Smiley73 It turns into a scam when the writer refuses to pass the order back into the system so that a more capable writer can deal with it. It is a scam when the writers pass around the order and the company cannot find someone to assign it to. It is a scam when the company refuses to refund the client because the deadline passed and no paper was submitted or, the deadline passed and a worthless paper was submitted to the client. A scam is a scam. Don't try to differentiate it. The writers simply run a different level of a scam. They hope to get paid for a worthless paper that they developed, knowing the company will hold on to the money paid anyway.

Essay writing companies are finding it hard to run their regular scams these days. They are trying to keep their clients happy by at least providing the work in a decent manner instead of scamming them upfront. Even the blackmailers are sort of lying low these days since they are losing out to AI generated essays. Let's face it, AI killed the scam companies, writers, and any other scam acts they could think of. They can't scam a student of the student client does not exist.

If AI has affected scam companies more than legit providers, I think the simplest explanation is that scam companies have always relied either exclusively or nearly exclusively on first-time customers, for obvious reasons. Unlike good legitimate providers who have always earned the long-term loyalty of repeat customers strictly on the basis of the quality and reliability of our work, scam companies, by definition, can't ever earn any repeat customers; instead, they have always relied on advertising very aggressively and deceptively to (what used to be an endless supply of) disappointed first-time/last-time victims of their scams.

AI programs have reduced the volume of new customers across the board, for scammers and legitimate providers equally; however, the best of the best legitimate writers have been able to rely on long-term customer loyalty. We're also able to demonstrate to new customers who've been very disappointed with the results of trying to use AI for academic projects why there's absolutely no comparison between the garbage generated by AI and the good work of qualified legitimate human writers.