Integrity and client satisfaction are a big problem of custom essay companies

From my initial research on web based custom essay companies it seems that integrity and satisfaction (both for the customer and writer) seem to be a big problem.

I have been self employed for most of my life, and I know customer service is paramount aswell as keeping staff happy and motivated. As far I can tell the main problems are caused by the business owners' egocentric attitudes. It takes time to build a good company and earn customers' trust. From my experience a good business needs continuous improvement to improve customer service and the quality of the product. However some guys for whatever reason insist on taking the first fast buck they make.

I am thinking about setting up a custom essay company and would appreciate any feedback both from writers and customers regarding your expectations of a good essay writing company.

I believe in paying staff well, I would rather charge a higher price and produce less work in order to ensure customer satisfaction. Although I don't believe in extortion, students don't have a lot of cash so the price would have to suit both the writer and the customer.

I also don't believe in a rushed piece of work, I'm thinking of minimum turn around of 3 or 4 days. Overall I'm talking about quality not quantity.

I think the best advertising is a customer's recommendation so my aim would be to be provide the possible service.

I also have a few other quality control and incentive schemes for both writer and customer which I will keep to myself for now.

I'm 38 yr old graduate with a BA (Hons) 2.2. in Business Studies, graduated in 1991 in the UK.

I'm not sure you'd need to charge a higher price to pay writers well - just cream off less for yourself! From what I've read, and from friends who work as writers, most essay companies only pay writers a third of what they rake in from customers.

Standard turnaround times for UK essay companies seem to be 5 or 6 days with a premium payable for work needed faster.

I think most of the quality issues arise because many companies use undergraduate students rather than graduates to write the essays. Sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn't. If you pay for a Master's level essay at first class standard and someone who is a first year undergraduate writes the essay then the chances are you will be disappointed with the product.

I don't know of any company that guarantees that the writer will actually have appropriate qualifications to write essays of a particular standard. For example, a guarantee that if you want a first class paper on economics that your writer will have graduated with a first class economics degree etc. Given that most UK companies charge double rate if you want a first class paper, it is annoying to find out that many companies give the work to people who are not graduates and who may not have even studied that particular subject.

Good luck with your business - I hope you manage to attract some good writers.

Well, they obviously do not work for any American companies, because I know for a fact that the top American companies pay writers 55-70%. If writers want to work for (support) these bogus, ESL sites like BestEssays.com, EssayWriters.net, Academia-Research.com, vdwriters.com, and MasterPapers.com that falsely claim to be American, the writers deserve their low wages and bad treatment.

Amy, I wasn't talking about bogus ESL sites. I was talking about UK based essay companies that are registered as legitimate businesses with Companies House. I've no idea how much bogus ESL sites pay writers, or if they pay writers at all (from some posts on here it would seem that some don't pay them anything!).

I know US companies charge a lot less than UK companies so even though the writer may get a better split I doubt that their actual pay is much better.

I've started to favour websites where I can do business directly with writers and avoid essay companies completely - this way I get to talk to the writer directly before paying and make sure that they understand my topic. Even with the 'legitimate' US and UK essay companies it is still a lottery as to whether your assigned writer understands your topic and can write to a good standard.

Needless to say, writers and customers should avoid ESL sites and those sites that misrepresent their true location.

Thanks for ideas, appreciate your help.

matt68
The only way to legitimate your company is to get it approved by very american company Essay Fraud.
Ask Amy to arrange that for you, otherwise you are bound to fail.
And Amy, just for you so nobody can understand us:
كيف الجو في روسيا يا كلبة روسية؟

"How you, the atmosphere in Russia, Russian is his dog?"

Translation courtesy of [google.com/translate_t]

So, I've been slightly wrong about you, perhaps? You're actually the Pakistani term paper guy. My bad . . . .

Dylan,

Is there a way I can contact you? I would like some names of these websites where you can deal directly with the writers? Thanks alot!

I use kasamba.com - don't post on kasamba's public boards but contact writers directly after searching your subject area - just be sure to check the writer's ratings (the ones I use have at least a few hundred five star ratings) and you should also email / chat with the writer to discuss your project to make sure that they understand what you want from them. There are a few weirdos / muppets on there (low ratings and weird profiles) - be sure to avoid those! As a safety mechanism, any payment you make is held in escrow until you have received and accepted the work.

There's also elance.com which I think someone else on here mentioned.

By the way, you can contact members on here through the private messenging facility. I'm pretty open on the forum about who I've used and my opinions but others may prefer to say what they want to say privately. Don't accept any one person's opinion as gospel though (including mine!) - there are a lot of people who post online who claim to be students who I think really are stooges for essay companies and are really either promoting their own business or knocking someone elses.

Dylan, with all due respect, you have made nearly every thread in which you post a huge billboard for Kasamba. Please stop advertising for them.

I don't advertise for them, and I do alert students to potential problems of using sites like these which is that anybody can sign up and claim to be an 'expert' (which is why checking out the writers ratings is so important).

Given all the problems that students have with rogue essay companies, I am happy to let students know that there are widely available alternatives to using essay companies. Writers too!

If the site moderator is in any way unhappy with any of my posts then s/he can edit or remove them. In the meantime, with all due respect, I will keep posting my opinions.

UK writers charge more (cost of living is higher in Europe). Don't know about the quality though.

Are they any legitimate American research writing companies? I'd like to work as a writer for one of them. If anyone here knows of any (or just one, that's all I need), I would appreciate it. From the blogs on this website, essaywriters is a fraudulent company and someone listed academia-research.com as a fraudulent one too. I was seriously considering academia-research. After I got accepted by essaywriters.net, I logged in and clicked on the link Order Details; I kept getting a script error message on every single order that I clicked.

Yes, there are several legit, American companies that pay writers 55-70% of the total order cost. But if I were to mention their names, the Ukrainian crooks masquerading here would accuse me of being affiliated with them.

As long as you avoid all of the foreign ripoff sites mentioned here, you should be fine. Just keep looking. Trust me, you'll know it's an American company when you begin communicating with them.

Oh, and here's a list of 415 scam sites to avoid:
essayfraud/scam-fraud-ripoff.html

I can give you my personal email address and you can tell me the names of these reputable companies.

I'd really appreciate it if you could mention these American websites. The essaywriters episode has left me completely broke! I got accepted at Academia....but they turned out to be fradulent as well(acc to the forums).

So now I'm sitting at home and wasting time. Help!

can anyone tell me if ive made a mistake by using ivydissertations to complete my work for me?

Calling it a "mistake" would be an understatement. I suggest you cancel your order immediately, or become the EssayRelief hoodlums' next victim.

Essay Relief owns Ivy Dissertations:

essayfraud/forum/index.php?showforum=12

Sabakhalid: Go to essay fraud and you will find a list of 415 sites that are fraudulent for essay writing.

Roughly: "How's it going, Russian buddies?"

An ancient thread, I know, but I will comment anyway. I would say that the number one problem for anyone starting an essay company -- and for any student seeking an essay writer -- is finding writing talent. The IT and customer service functions are important, but even the best back-end systems in the world can't write you a decent essay. The number of people who can produce high-quality essays day in and day out is tiny. Meanwhile, the companies will constantly be barraged by applications from very poor writers seeking work. The standout writers might work for companies for a time, but eventually they will end up picking up their own clients and making more money than the companies can pay them.

If you can run a company and maintain even a semi-competent stable of writers for any amount of time, then you have my respect. I have concluded that demand for good writers is very, very high and supply is vanishingly small. And that is the core of why it's hard to start a successful company in this industry.

I agree. Consistency in this biz is tough. Sure, some papers will be better than others, but I figure as long as people are actually paying me for my critical analysis skills, I should tell them what I think. That's worked out okay so far, but some teachers (and clients) are just nuts and cannot be satisfied. Day-in-and-day out is also hard to do but it's way better than cubicleville.

By the way, my photo album at student.com ("Professor Verb's Compendium of Zany Pictures") has gone viral with more than 95,000 views. If you need copyright-free graphics for school-related topics, you can find them here. These are free pictures organized into categories ("professions," "arts and crafts," "computers," etc. and some "zany" ones).

100% agreed.

This is a policy that I personally believe in and have applied for several years now. Well paid writers produce excellent work. Reasonably priced work that still results in acceptable payments for the writer results in client satisfaction. It is a delicate balance that is highly difficult to achieve. However, if one has been in the business as long as I have been, finding the right balance becomes second nature already. Everyone is happy and satisfied in the end.

It is too bad that this thread got hijacked in content towards the end. It was a very promising idea that the OP had regarding starting his company. I had hoped to read that he had eventually legally registered his company in the UK and that he hired only UK based writers since he was UK educated himself. I believe that integrity and client satisfaction will also come from the client knowing that the company is legal in all ways and means and that they hire writers that are truly familiar with their work as based on UK educational and writing rules. There are very few companies that seem to do that these days. I wonder what happened to him and his ideas.

Incidentally, (now-retired) Professor Verb was the most prolific, versatile, and successful professional academic writer I'd ever encountered in 2003, when I first started writing for the same essay company for which he'd already been writing for several years. He also covered everything from Advertising to Zoology at the undergraduate level and many different academic areas at higher levels, and for both US and UK students, alike. For roughly 15 years, he and I were direct competitors, both for company projects and private clients; but we always maintained an ethical and mutually-respectful competition without ever resorting to trashing or lying about one another on this forum or anywhere else. On a few occasions, we also backed one another up with emergencies, and we often referred clients to one another when we were too booked up to take on more projects.

@noted
It would be interesting to know if the OP has started his own company. Sadly it looks as if he hasn't been on this forum lately. It is some years since his idea and if he hasn't set up a company yet I don't think the present economic climate is particularly conducive to setting up a company although he could do it in such a manner that it complies with the recent changes in English essay writing law.

Interesting to note that #26 is another opportunistic instance of self-promotion, completely irrelevant to the start of this thread.

First, the only thing that Post #26 is "promoting" is the idea that legitimate writers don't constantly stalk the posts (and websites) of other writers and perpetrate a non-stop series of unprovoked defamatory personal attacks against them in which they lie about and make baseless accusations against them, twist their words, and deliberately quote small portions of their posts (and websites) totally out of context to misrepresent what they actually said. It "promotes" the idea that it's quite possible to compete against one another without resorting to lies and other cut-throat tactics.

Second, I pay very good money to this forum for the privilege of being allowed to promote myself here, an opportunity that is equally available to every other independent writer and essay company who wishes to make that same investment. For the record, srandrews (Post # 21 above) was another legitimate writer who was, much like Professor Verb, also a legitimate competitor of mine who never had to resort to a nasty disinformation campaign against me. More importantly, and regardless of what anybody thinks about my choice to pay to advertise and for the privilege to promote myself here, I have a 14-year reputation on this forum for providing nothing but high-quality work to all of my clients, including many UK clients, that earned the respect of my legitimate competitors and former competitors on this forum:

https://essayscam.org/forum/gt/thing-paper-1619/
Post # 19

He doesn't care about relevant discussion anymore. He will discuss what he wants, whenever he wants, in whichever thread he wants because he has been spoiled by the mods at this forum. They let him pretend that he owns this forum and we owe him the favor of being allowed to post here. He is delusional at this point and I will no longer defend myself against him since he understands no reason nor real logic anymore.

I refuse to humor him any longer and will ignore his threads going forward since I know that he will always be spouting lies, self-promotion, and also, painting himself into a corner where he will eventually have to retract or adjust his statements anyway. It is best to ignore him and his statements. I am here to protect the students and that is all I will focus on doing. He can do whatever he wants. The students have seen through his deceptions and lies by now.

@FreelanceWriter

I imagine your use of 'legitimate writers' is a veiled reference to me but as I have reiterated I am retired. My sole interest in being on this forum (used exclusively by you as your propaganda machine) is to help all students identify scam and incompetent essay companies and freelance writers. Being British I have a particular interest in protecting the UK market. Your nasty characterisation of me is totally false since I am not your competitor.

However my comments on this forum are having some effect. The former client I mentioned before has British friends who say they would not touch you with a barge pole. Their reasoning is the same as I have set out on many occasions.

It is not defamation if what someone says is true. Your memory for telling lies is very short. Suggest you refresh it below:
https://essayscam.org/forum/es/anyone-used-essayexpert-526/ #13

If you're a student in search of an honest, talented and trustworthy writer, you can count on freelancewriter, Any attacks on this writer are just strong evidence that unscrupulous writers are scared of him and his abilities. He's one of a dying breed. Consider yourself lucky if you can contract for his services because he will not let you down.

@ProfessorVerb


If only that were true, wishful thinking. I have written for a top UK essay company and then as a freelance writer so I don't qualify as 'unscrupulous'. I have nothing to be scared of. Encoraging students to cheat is unscrupulous and that is why FW should be avoided.

I don't care where you've worked. There's nothing remotely "scrupulous" or "honest" or motivated by trying to "help" or "protect" any clients, whether in the UK or elsewhere, in attacking a good honest writer like you've been doing. There is no justification for perpetrating this kinds of sustained, highly-personal vitriol and untrue attacks against someone who has probably been the best and most reliable writer active on this entire forum for a very long time. It's shameful and somewhat sad that someone would invest this kind of energy in such undeserved malevolence, especially in his supposed "retirement." I've also known FLW's work, firsthand, and have seen the feedback from my own clients after referring them to him for very difficult projects that I couldn't handle. He's always been as legit and honorable a writer as any client possibly could hope to find on this forum, and nobody who actually knows anything about FLW would ever believe a single word of your months' long disinformation campaign against him.

I don't think a bunch of FW's mates coming out the woodwork to offer support fools anyone.
My so-called 'attacks' highlight the legitimate concerns I have about him.
Honest scrupulous writers don't encourage students to cheat.

First, I'd like to thank ProfessorVerb, 99Essays, Meokhan, and Wordsies for their kind words.

Second, if any readers are (still) trying to figure out whether any of the recent accusations and characterizations about me are true, simply consider what it means that no fewer than four of my current and former (now-retired) direct competitors actually took their time to defend me, here, without any conceivable benefit to themselves or possible ulterior motive; in fact, my current competitors have actually done so at their own expense, when they could have remained silent while hoping to benefit indirectly from all of those ridiculous lies and accusations. It demonstrates that each and every one of them knows my work and knows my reputation, firsthand, from the feedback he's received directly from his own clients about my work. It demonstrates that these accusations and characterizations are completely false and hardly motivated by "legitimate concerns" about anything besides disparaging me for sheer spite and jealousy, claims from the author of all of those outrageous lies about being "retired" and being interested only in "protecting" students from bad writers notwithstanding.

Third, the only thing that it actually "highlights" is precisely what I've said many times over the years: namely, that legitimate writers compete against one another only in ethical ways and maintain respectful and mutually-supportive professional relationships with their legitimate peers. Notwithstanding any false accusations to the contrary, each and every positive review left for me anywhere on this forum is from a genuine client who received great work from me, exactly as promised. Unfortunately, there's obviously no way for me to "prove" that. However, each of the four other writers who have taken the trouble to respond to these false accusations on my behalf has a very long history on this forum, which can be confirmed quite easily by anybody. Their support cannot possibly be "faked."

Finally, the only thing that I "encourage" my clients to do is to use my projects however they think will benefit them the most. I respect my clients as autonomous adults who are fully capable of making those decisions for themselves, which is why I transfer copyrights to all of my projects to my clients who paid for them.

Exactly, reviews are worthless but you keep banging on about them.

Your mates want to support you hoping you might bung those still active some work as you have done in the past, helping each other out. So probably with a bit of persuasion from you they all jumped on the bandwagon.

Your attacks on me which have been vitriolic are basically centred on the premise that I am not retired and am seeking work. Wrong again. It suits your narrative to say this but I am no longer working in any capacity. You won't ever find me on Essay Chat or anywhere else looking for work.

FW quote 'Finally the only thing I "encourage" my clients to do is to use my projects however they think will benefit them the most'. What surprises me is that you still don't get it.

Plagiarism is ideological theft, when a person takes an idea that is not their own and represents it for credit. You offering to 'write the worst essay that I'm comfortable writing' is the most blatant example of someone writing in a specific style knowing the client is in all likelihood going to pass it off as their own. This is cheating. But you couldn't care less.

Reviews aren't "worthless," at all. However, there's obviously no way to "prove" that they're genuine; that's for readers to determine independently, such as by reviewing the entire posting history of the writers being reviewed, along with the posting history of the authors of those reviews. My point was, simply, that while any isolated client review about any writer could, at least in theory, be faked, there's absolutely no conceivable reason or any plausible motive that any (genuinely) retired writer, like Professor Verb, would ever come back here, just to weigh in on my behalf, unless he recognized the abject falsity of all of your accusations and also recognized the despicable motivation of your (sole) obsession with me, as well as the falsity of your claim that your intention is to "protect" any customers.

There's also no conceivable reason that any working writer would ever compliment and publicly vouch for the reliability and talents of other writers against whom he competes directly, except for intellectual honesty. Professor Verb (really) retired in 2018 or 2019. Prior to that, he and I were direct competitors and widely regarded by most of the other (legitimate) writers on this forum as the two best freelance writers in this entire industry. Before that, we competed directly against one another for the same projects at various essay companies.


https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/put-resume-example-academic-paper-editor-assistant-4776/#msg77470


https://essayscam.org/forum/ot/gone-commercial-say-1319/#msg76343


https://essayscam.org/forum/es/trust-writer-ask-payment-first-order-paid-pontius-4466/#msg78440

All of those posts predated Professor Verb's retirement as a professional academic freelance writer. Just off the top of my head, the (partial) list of other legitimate writers who vouched for my reliability and talent on this forum, as active writers competing directly against me for clients, includes: ProfessorVerb, ResearchPro, Pheelyks, srandrews, 99Essays, Wordsies, and Meokhan.

I think it is a great idea. When I studied at college, I wanted to do all this 'dirty work' of writing essays about some nonsense done for me.

@LaseKour What are you trying to say? Speak English and be coherent about it. Better yet, keep your incoherent thoughts to yourself. That way you won't present further evidence of how incompetent a writer you are in English.

I think it is a great idea. When I studied at college, I wanted to do all this 'dirty work' of writing essays about some nonsense done for me. We had to write a lot about happiness, the sense of life, etc., which I could explain in a few words. However, the bare minimum was always about 150-200 words; I lacked fantasy, which was a huge problem for me. Sometimes I paid my friends to write it for me because I could spend about 3 hours on such a simple task, and I didn't want it. Now I use an online service helping writing text when I need it for work. But your idea is also great for those who want it to be written by a real person. Good luck!