Essay Site Sales and Giving Back

Reading up on the news about Retweet being sold (slow day), I thought I'd look around and see if any essay writing sites are up for grabs. Found a few at Flippa, one called il-essays that I'd never heard of. It seems to think itself worthy of a $10,000 opening bid. Surely some mistake?

If it's not a mistake, I'm in the wrong business and should start setting up custom essay sites pronto. Not to do kids' homework, but to flog them off at ridiculous rates. Beats spending hours in a dusty seminar room with no windows and concrete floors...

Why would people want to buy those sites to begin with?

How Essay Writing Services Give Back?

Do essay services have any free programs that help students (ie. their clients) with their education? I mean non-profit program like education awareness, plagiarism awareness etc.

Are there any non-profit organizations that address these issues run by commercial businesses at the same time?

Most legitimate websites teach their clients (by posting educational articles written by native English speakers) about plagiarism, quality education, etc. Writing essays vs. writing poetry - there's not much difference. With some exceptions, the majority of "essay writing sites" are managed by regular freelancers who happened to create a simple website. Most of them use other freelancing platforms because it's impossible to create a good brand when you are a single person with limited budget.

I understand this post to be about essay site sales, but not about how it gives back.

Gives back to what? The community? The writers? The students? Whatever.

I do not believe that any academic writing website is worth $ 10,000.00 If the website is for sale, then that means the company is third rate, could not keep their writers happy, and could not deliver the client's needs.

Therefore, they should be giving away the company to anyone who wants to take it.

I wonder what the going rate for an actual working website is these days.

I heard through the rumor mill that these companies are constantly for sale, changing hands at least twice in one year. Which drives their writers up the wall due to the constantly changing writer and fining policy.

Not to mention, every time the site gets sold, the CPP for the writer gets cut as well.

Exactly! If a reputable essay company was actually for sale, it wouldn't be a public sale. The company itself would be for sale via negotiations through an interested party. The website for sale is only the domain and it will contain nothing at all (no data, no pages, no clients, no writers, nothing but the domain name).

Some companies purchase domains that have expired for whatever reason (most often being that the site owner didn't pay renewal fees and it went back into the available domain names pool). These resellers come along and purchase (usually in bulk) names they think will be high (or higher) domain and slap outrageous fees on them. How do I know this? 1: I am a researcher, like many in this forum (grin). 2: It has happened to a colleague. She had a website for her design services (her name was the domain name). She stays busy with clients and updating her website wasn't a priority. She also forgot to update her expired credit card info and when it came time to renew, it wasn't paid. By the time she was able to update her website, she realized her domain was redirected to the "this domain is for sale" website. GoDaddy was her host and the company she purchased the domain through. When she contacted them to correct the issue, she was told she could pay a "discounted" $1500 to get it back as it has since been purchased and that was the rate it would take to get it back. Did she? Heck no! She didn't use it much anyway. She simple bought another domain at the regular rate (under $20) and added "designs" after her name.

Any way, the moral of the story is... domain resellers do not sell companies. They broker domains for outrageous amounts!

The writing companies pretend to give back to the students by offering "blog" articles pertaining to writing skills improvement, research advice, formatting explanations, etc. They feel that by doing so, they are actually doing a "good service" to the student community. Nothing could be further from the truth. Their blogs are riddled with errors when it comes to proper information, they do not bother to grammar check their postings, and all of the "advice" they give eventually ends up telling the students to hire their professional writing services. So much for giving back to a community that they supposedly love. Well yeah, they love to fleece the students of their hard earned money or limited allowances. I don't think these companies could give back to the anybody, I bet they don't even deal with the taxman properly.

Since academic writing in the human form seems to be almost a thing of the past now, the essay writing websites and companies have lost significant value in the market. They could not sell the business for a profit these days even if they tried. So what the companies do is, they shut down the actual business but hold on to the domain name to sell. Most of them seem to have made a tidy profit from selling to online gambling sites. These are bought by companies that hope to get students to stay and spend a few bucks after accidentally stumbling onto the gambling site. As for giving back, these companies have been known to stiff their writers,so do not expect them to give back to the writers or students for any reason in any form.

In the 10 years that wrote for essay companies prior to 2014, the only thing I ever "got back" besides my payment was a pocket calendar with the company's name on it around the holidays, one time, around 2009 or 2010.