Many reviews lie about some dissertation writing services - why?

I encounter many sites that review essay services, like Top 10 Dissertation Writers or Top 5 Essay Services among others. They have ratings based on a number of criteria (for example, Reliability / Satisfied Clients / Timeliness / Price / Trust / Discounts).

I asked my friend who has a small site helping students and he said these are fake. He even showed me a link to a site that reviewed his service - it claimed someone ordered essay from him, but order ID and prices were impossible to match his site. So someone lied he ordered and then wrote review about it. Why they do this and who can you trust? Why they are not truthful? Who is doing these fake reviews?

There are many sites, primarily based outside of North America and the UK, who deal not in quality, but in volume. They hire incompetent writers, and therefore they aren't going to get many repeat customers. So they must get lots and lots of first-time customers. They do this by capturing web traffic. They want the hapless student to place an order with them and not a competitor. Thus, they spend large amounts of time trying to smear any perceived competition.

Quality providers do not think like this. Their business depends on repeat customers. They know that customers who have had a good experience, are very unlikely to switch to another provider.

The industry's best writers are overbooked, and they're not out fishing for every hot lead on the web. They don't have the time or the need to slam competitors. In fact, in the busy season, they're often trying to get other writers to take some of their work.

Very good point. That may also explain why these foreign companies are forced to develop dozens of new websites every year in order to try to be competitive (just like poor writers who are forced to use multiple email accounts and new names to attract first-time customers).

There are so many of them, apart from lowering the price, lying about others is one way of remaining competitive

i 100% agree

This industry is insane. It's exactly what happens when unscrupulous people find an unregulated industry and try to milk it for as much as possible; everyone loses. Scammers always look bad but then it has a negative effect on the credibility of legitimate essay writers. As everything is shrowded in unethical activities anyway (paying someone to do your academic work for you) there's no recompense. There's no indemnification. There are only questonable promises from traceless, etherial men. At this stage, unless you know someone personally, for a first-time client there is no way you can be sure that someone will not rip you off. Any essay which requires a modicom of specificity in a subject matter (e.g. Law) is much better being done yourself.

Unfortunately, this seems to be the harsh reality right now and it looks like it's getting worse every day. At least I'm a real Oklahoma corporation and have been for a long time (since 2006), but it's still a crap shoot even with my papers (some are better than others). Some of my clients tell me they've been scammed two or three times, though -- unbelievable.


Wait until you practice law.

Thats how scammers work OP. They lie, make up reviews and generally talk b******s

Hi I think I was very lucky, not that I was satisfied with the assignment I received but after reading many reviews I think I got off lightly. I paid for a first but only got a 2-2. however saying that my paper went to turnitin and was only 9% plagiarizer. I now realize it could have been much worse. I did get a paper without being plagiarizer and I got it on time.

You deserved a '0' for cheating. You were supposed to use your paper as a model for writing your own paper.
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this is the problem you might take when relaying on such companies. use the internet before you submit the work because most properly it will be posted some where.

Fake essay writing service reviews are written by the service writers (usually not quality ones). It's easy to spot them.

Indeed, such comments are reviewed only to achieve their purpose only. Just something to promote not mean anything.

This has been a very common practice for long. Besides attracting the novice-to-online-world clients, it also helps them put in place a few SEO related strategies to boost SRs. However, new algorithmic updates from Google are certainly going to give these companies a bit of setback. It's quite interesting to watch what alternative ways they devise now to stay in the business with the same approach.

I guess its due to competition.

The review sites are no different from models and endorsers. They will say the best things about a service provided the service is willing to pay for it. These positive reviews help in not only advertising their website and services, but also allows them to get benefits out of their SEO rankings and search engine advertisements. In theory, it should function the same way as the "crowdsourcing" review at TripAdvisor and Yelp. These sites are supposed to be open for reviews as well but you will notice that their websites have ads that contain references to competitor sites.

The rating review for websites work the same way. Nothing is really free and nothing is gained without an exchange of money. The amount of lies told you make a company look good and increase their chances at getting clients are based on the amount of money they are willing to spend. These companies that write the reviews are image makers in a way. They can make your site as popular as you need it to be based upon fake reviews or, they can tank a competitor site if that is what the other company is paying them to do. It's all about the money in the end.

It's part of the competition in the business. All businesses have their own methods of sabotaging one another in a discreet manner. These "reviews" are one such type of competitive actions that these sites take. By poisoning the image of each other in the eyes of the student, it becomes more difficult for the student to make a decision regarding which site to trust. It's basically a mind game that the sites hope to have work in their favor. By sabotaging the reviews of one site, they increase their chances of receiving the business from the student.

That is why these site reviews should never be trusted. These are all designed with one objective in mind, to get the business that one site might have an opportunity to having. By leaving a question in the mind of the student, the student may consider other options first and hopefully, that other option will include the site of the company that paid for the bad review of the other site and glowing review for their own site.

"All businesses" do not attempt to "sabotage one another"; only the dirtbags do that. Promoting your own business by (truthfully) emphasizing whatever you believe makes it better than the competition is an example of perfectly legitimate competition for business; so is drawing (truthful) comparisons, such as advertising that you provide 300 words per page vs. 225 words per page that your competition provides. Sabotaging your competition by publishing fake negative comments about them is not "part of [legitimate] competition in business" at all.

I compete directly against several other legitimate writers without "sabotaging" them and we even refer work to one another and back one another up in emergencies. In fact, when someone disparaged some of them dishonestly on this forum, I defended them, even though it would have been more in my interest to keep my mouth shut and simply let them absorb as much negative publicity as possible. I've (always) also competed fairly for new customers against the essay companies for which I was writing at the time, but never unfairly or by trying to "sabotage" them. I never stole any of their existing clients and (before my 2010 agreement with the forum owners not to discuss that company here), I used to defend them against false accusations posted by dirtbag competitors that I knew couldn't possibly have been true because I know how they do (and don't) do business.

If you're not a dirtbag, you deal with your competition fairly and honestly and you earn customers by establishing a reputation for providing good work, not by disparaging your competition dishonestly.

Reviews can sometimes be taken with a grain of salt. While good reviews can boost business sales, they should be honest. I'd rather read a review that illustrates how a company or its customer service handles an issue than to read a ton of "oh they're the best" reviews. I want to know the real deal. I want to know how they handle customer issues. After all, as freelancers (whether independent or working with a company) are human beings and believe it or not, we make mistakes. I'd rather know how the company remedies mistakes. To me, that says a lot about the company. ;)

Unfortunately, that isn't how the reviews work for these companies. They are out to sell their business and kill the negative publicity. Or they want to take out their competition. The whole idea is to drown out the negative reviews without actually giving the client any usable information. That's why they pay for these reviews. It's like paying a publicist to handle the problems a celebrity comes across. The writer's job is to spin the information about the company.

It is because of the "spin" that nobody should take the reviewer's word for it when they sing the praises of the client support or writer support of the company. It is all designed to make the company look good even though there are students who know what a lie that is. That's why a positive review should be read with reservations and the same should be applied to negative reviews of a company as well.

There are actually some start up writing companies that see benefits from having paid reviews created for the site. Since the company is new and without a client base, they need to up their profile. The best way to up your profile? Get someone to advertise your site. Consider the reviews part of their influencing campaign. They do not mean to do any harm to other companies, nor are they out to poach clients. They are simply using the reviews to gain traction in the business. They entice clients to try them out the only way they know how, by influencing that decision through positive reviews on popular review sites. Before anybody gets on my case, no, not all these starting companies are scams. They are honest companies that just need a break. I should know, I was one of those people who used a paid positive review site to get my business off the ground, and it worked very well for me and my writers pool.

Yes. Those review sites are fake for the most part. They are actually search engine directory targeted advertising for academic writing companies that have several companies under their umbrella. They pretend to review these sites and sing praises of the quality and writer dedication, knowing very well that they are lying about the company and its attributes. Since this is also company run, those review sites stay online and actually keep running for as long as the mother company exists.

Correct. Every website that you find by searching for reviews of essay companies is run by the essay companies with the highest supposed ratings on those "review" sites.