WRT 16 | 1656 ☆☆ Company Representative
Aug 02, 2010 | #1
Essayscam's goals, as listed on the Homepage, include the following:
EssayScam's members come here to expose unscrupulous business practices of some of the "illegitimate" essay-writing websites that (willingly or unwillingly) jeopradize the good reputation of the law-abiding academic writing and research organizations. Some of them believe that all research companies (both 'foreign' and 'domestic') should work together in order to protect their clients from substandard services and the industry from unfair laws or bad press.
As some of the older members know, EssayFraud attempted to fulfil the above goal through its verification procedure. Considering that EssayScam is, without contest, the leading industry forum, I believe that it should actively work towards the fulfillment of the above goal though the estabishment of its own `company verification pocedure.'
EssaySam and several members here have often emphasised that legitimacy is unrelated to nationality but to whether or not websites/companies tell the truth:
1) are they honest about their nationality/the geographic origin of the company
2) do they honestly disclose the geographic origin of their service - nationality of writers (if they hire ESL writers, they should say so - this is important because most of the problematic sites claim that they only ever hire Brits and Americans with MA's and PhD's; while we know it to be untrue, customers don't)
3) what are their recruiting practices - do they hire students or people who just `claim' to have multiple degrees or do applicants have to submit proof of their academic degrees)
4) do they honestly disclose company ownership and the nationality of the owners
5) do they clearly inform customers that they are linked to other sites (their network of sites, I mean)
6) do they offer writers fair pay
7) do they have a writer fining system
8) do they pay their writers or find various excuses not to
9) are their guarantees empty promises or do they enforce them
10) do they encourage plagiarism or are they serious about the no-submission policy
etc., etc.
The goal here is to seperate the good companies from the bad ones, not the foreign from the domestic. A foreign company would be counted as `legitimate' if it honestly disclosed its nationality, etc.
How about EssayScam, as the leading industry forum, implementing a verification system? This would benefit both customers and writers as only companies which are honest in their dealings with their writers and customers would be verified.
I, for one, am willing to send EssayScam all the relevant docs to establish that we, as a company, are honest about who we are and fully disclose our affiliations. I am further willing to invite EssayScam into our backend so they may check whether or not we satisfy the other conditions for verification. If we do not satisfy the conditions, we will just have to work on improving ourselves and reapply for verification at a later date.
What I am proposing here is simple - as per EssayScam's goals, let's seperate the honest from the dishonest. The `legitimate' companies (and that includes the foreign-based ones) should work together to improve the industry's image and ensure that industry operatives run a clean business.
I fully realise that my proposal needs a great deal of polishing but there are several here (WB, Major, etc.) who know this industry a lot better than many of us put together - maybe they can come up with a workable proposal.
EssayScam's members come here to expose unscrupulous business practices of some of the "illegitimate" essay-writing websites that (willingly or unwillingly) jeopradize the good reputation of the law-abiding academic writing and research organizations. Some of them believe that all research companies (both 'foreign' and 'domestic') should work together in order to protect their clients from substandard services and the industry from unfair laws or bad press.
As some of the older members know, EssayFraud attempted to fulfil the above goal through its verification procedure. Considering that EssayScam is, without contest, the leading industry forum, I believe that it should actively work towards the fulfillment of the above goal though the estabishment of its own `company verification pocedure.'
EssaySam and several members here have often emphasised that legitimacy is unrelated to nationality but to whether or not websites/companies tell the truth:
1) are they honest about their nationality/the geographic origin of the company
2) do they honestly disclose the geographic origin of their service - nationality of writers (if they hire ESL writers, they should say so - this is important because most of the problematic sites claim that they only ever hire Brits and Americans with MA's and PhD's; while we know it to be untrue, customers don't)
3) what are their recruiting practices - do they hire students or people who just `claim' to have multiple degrees or do applicants have to submit proof of their academic degrees)
4) do they honestly disclose company ownership and the nationality of the owners
5) do they clearly inform customers that they are linked to other sites (their network of sites, I mean)
6) do they offer writers fair pay
7) do they have a writer fining system
8) do they pay their writers or find various excuses not to
9) are their guarantees empty promises or do they enforce them
10) do they encourage plagiarism or are they serious about the no-submission policy
etc., etc.
The goal here is to seperate the good companies from the bad ones, not the foreign from the domestic. A foreign company would be counted as `legitimate' if it honestly disclosed its nationality, etc.
How about EssayScam, as the leading industry forum, implementing a verification system? This would benefit both customers and writers as only companies which are honest in their dealings with their writers and customers would be verified.
I, for one, am willing to send EssayScam all the relevant docs to establish that we, as a company, are honest about who we are and fully disclose our affiliations. I am further willing to invite EssayScam into our backend so they may check whether or not we satisfy the other conditions for verification. If we do not satisfy the conditions, we will just have to work on improving ourselves and reapply for verification at a later date.
What I am proposing here is simple - as per EssayScam's goals, let's seperate the honest from the dishonest. The `legitimate' companies (and that includes the foreign-based ones) should work together to improve the industry's image and ensure that industry operatives run a clean business.
I fully realise that my proposal needs a great deal of polishing but there are several here (WB, Major, etc.) who know this industry a lot better than many of us put together - maybe they can come up with a workable proposal.
