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Major   
Apr 20, 2016
General Talk / How to find essay writers? [33]

Did you check the Recommended Services: essayscam.org/forum/rs/? You may also check EssayChat.com, EssayBrand.com and possibly other advertisers (banner above).
Major   
Apr 19, 2016

The copy written in broken / ESL English; that's what I meant. How much did you pay - did you order a writing assignment? Depending on your deadline, you may try to contact other writers or services in case they fail to deliver.
Major   
Apr 19, 2016

Have you checked their website copy before ordering? It's clearly written by an average ESL content writer. The site is hosted on the same server floorsandwalls.in is so, based on the experiences of other posters with the 'assignmentSOMETHING.com' domains it may be safe to assume the site is based in India as well. I see the site is operated by a company from India - ostpl.com - and they appear to have a live chat; you may try to contact them.
Major   
Apr 08, 2016

The question is - did he actually send you the completed paper? If he/she didn't then there's no case against you.
Major   
Apr 07, 2016

For an unknown to me reason, some 'business owners' think it's possible to buy reputation through spamming and hacking. At best, it may have a short-lived effect and within the next couple of years such sites, built solely on marketing gimmicks, will not be worth the domain registration cost. A lot of students may be naive, but they are not stupid; they can spot fake reviews as easily as most of the forum members here.
Major   
Mar 30, 2016

I've just checked the following terms in Google trends graph, as below: "custom essays" (red), "custom term papers" (blue), "custom dissertation" (yellow) and the general trend for these keywords appears to be downward ..unless students use completely different set of keywords to find example research paper services.. On the other hand, nowadays a lot of students use social media sites / direct or private recommendations, so the fact they don't use Google search as much as they used to doesn't mean the trend in fact negative. Thoughts?

Academic Paper Trends

Btw - I've just checked a different set of keywords: essay writing service (red), dissertation service (blue) and these search phrases seem to contradict the ones I used in the first scenario (the trend is on the rise). It's hard to conclude the real trends; damn stats ;)

Academic Dissertation - Essay Service
Major   
Mar 27, 2016

Why on their website they call themselves a 'company' despite the fact they are not a formal company and they are run by an individual freelancer?
Major   
Mar 26, 2016

Ok, let's establish some important facts:

1. academiccomposition.com is not a company and it's not based in the US.

2. A few spammers working together pretend to be happy students who used the service.

The first point should be the starting point of evaluating the legitimacy of the the service. For now, we haven't seen a proof this company exists and is in fact based in the US. Maybe one of these 'students' have more information about where the 'company' is located?
Major   
Mar 26, 2016

Is it illegal for somebody to run an online business without first registering it with the state?

Yes. You register to pay taxes and have a legal business status. Thousands of foreign-owned 'companies' (just like academiccomposition.com) wrongly assume they can obtain a temporary US-based area code phone and a fax number and call themselves a 'US-based' company; fortunately, more and more students have learned that it's not worth trusting such 'companies' because they are not bound by the laws of the US / UK / Australia and can steal their credentials and misuse any other information with no legal protections.
Major   
Mar 25, 2016

'Scam adviser' is a scam: complaintsboard.com/complaints/scamadvisercom-a-next-big-scam-on-the-web-is-damaging-other-legit-online-businesses-c631201.html

They must be a really small company..

So far I couldn't find any evidence such a company exists; for a company to formally exist and do business in a legal way, they must be registered with the state..
Major   
Mar 24, 2016

So they don't have a business address / business registration - that usually means they are not really located in the US..
Major   
Mar 24, 2016

Maybe that's one of the reasons why freelance writers, in general, have less jobs; corporations don't hire them because they have content created for free (typically using unethical and dishonest means)...
Major   
Mar 23, 2016

It it a real company? I couldn't find a business address (could be a PO box) on the site. I'm not sure but aren't registered companies required to post a business address on their site? Also, it's confusing what 'weekly forum posts / essays' could be..
Major   
Mar 22, 2016

In your case, hiring an experienced freelancer would probably be the best way to go (some people here would argue it may be illegal to 'transfer copyright,' but I'm still not persuaded that's the truth). One way or another, if you pay a lot of money for a piece of paper you should be able to do whatever you want with it (as long as your actions don't violate any laws or legally-binding agreements); if someone tells you otherwise, you should probably consider other options, like buying a pre-written paper and using it as a starting point to your own research and writing.
Major   
Mar 19, 2016

This ^ plus the level of education is going down; to save money, schools hire ESL teachers from 3rd word countries where English is not even the official language working in US/UK/Australian colleges. This is how the 'leveling of the playing field' (or communism) works - high quality has been replaced with cheap imitations. When schools and teachers don't care about high standards, students don't care, either. In result, more and more students consider the low price of an example academic research service as the main factor and they end up working with Africans who cannot compose a simple English sentence without errors.
Major   
Mar 14, 2016
Essay Services / experience of newessays.co.uk [24]

There might be and someone might have been satisfied. The positive feedback is also typically made by the same contractors hired to produce fake videos. If you are comfortable with deceptive marketing techniques and false claims published on the website then I'd suggest that you use them and report the results.
Major   
Mar 11, 2016
Essay Services / experience of newessays.co.uk [24]

I've just visited the site and went to the Testimonials page. Flashy site, but virtually all testimonials (including the video ones) are fake, bought on fiverr for $5-$10 a piece. I'm pretty sure you would find these fake 'customers' available for hire on fiverr.com/search/gigs?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_in=everywhere&source=guest-hp&locale=en&query=video+testimonials

Multiple lies on just a single page; if they still teach critical thinking in colleges you should not be having a tough time to decide if they are worthy your money or not...
Major   
Mar 11, 2016

What plans do you have in mind (and why would it be so expensive)? It may be like chasing your tail - you expose one, they buy a new domain and spam search engines with little effort and minimum cost (using the same backend scripts, but different logo / design template).
Major   
Mar 10, 2016

Point #1 and #2 - I think you are 100% correct and you summarized how these business operations really work (btw. Putin is the president of Russia, not Ukraine, even though half of Ukrainians consider themselves Russians ;). Google / Bing search results have been spammed with hundreds / thousands of fly-by-night flashy websites owned by a few individuals from foreign countries. Writers from Africa.. I still don't get why they are in the academic writing business.. lying and deceiving is their first nature..

Point #3 - you're right that high quality will always prevail. Students will eventually learn that a flashy website usually has little to offer (same applies to other online industries). And that if nobody's heard of the website/company yet it usually means it's been created to spam search engines.
Major   
Mar 09, 2016
Essay Services / reliable thesis writing service [29]

How did you find these services? The design and content looks similar to hundreds of related ESL websites owned by the same person..
Major   
Mar 08, 2016

I'm sure students have less money to spend on example research services than during the boom years (2000-2012); still, the number of global students is probably on the same or on the higher level, so overall the negative effect shouldn't be very drastic. Maybe some students have decided to choose quantity over quality and they hire average writers from foreign countries (and spend more time on fixing the papers to meet their needs)..
Major   
Feb 02, 2016

These are not real research / writing sites - they were created to spam search engines using keyword domains. Sites like these don't care about their own reputation and I doubt they've had more than a few customers since they were created a couple of years ago. You are welcome to report the results if you decide to try them and find them better than expected though ;). These days I'd personally look at the age of the service; if it's less than a few years (AND there is no mention of this site here), it's typically too risky to consider.
Major   
Jan 29, 2016
Essay Services / anyone use globalwebtutors.com? [22]

Their spammers come here regularly; I wonder who would be using such off-shore 'web tutoring services...' Hopefully they are banned.
Major   
Jan 27, 2016

Do you mean assignmentconsultancy.com? If so, it appears to be yet another kolkhoz (ie. one of about 600 websites they created to cover multiple keywords and to spam search engines). If you have an important project to do, you may want to consider a reputable service or writer that has been in business for a decade or so. Assignment Consultancy was (literately) created several months ago: whois.domaintools.com/assignmentconsultancy.com. It takes years (not months) of hard work to gain good reputation in this business. It's obviously easier to scam 100 students and move on by creating a new website than to keep going for 10+ years with the same website ;)

Regarding Milton-Crane - it appears their website (miltoncrane.com) no longer exists or is currently down.
Major   
Jan 14, 2016

It wasn't your best decision to use 'free' anti-plagiarism tools - as described here: essayscam.org/truth-plagiarism-detection-tools/. The paper you submitted was probably saved in their database and will be published under a different name soon.
Major   
Jan 03, 2016

You may be right about the location; a number of Pakistan-based services use .co.uk domains (instead of .pk domains) to give an illusion of legitimacy. Other than that, claims like '100% satisfaction guaranteed' or 'rated 4.88 out of 5' are bogus and may want to question the other claims or promises posted on the site.
Major   
Dec 04, 2015
Essay Services / anyone know of s2papers [41]

@tomwilks, it's obvious you are s2 rep, not a student; you guys come fraudulently here a couple of times a year to pretend to be students. Take a look what you posted under other usernames in the past to see the pattern.
Major   
Nov 30, 2015
Essay Services / How about gonerdify.com? [7]

seems very convenient

Could you explain why you think it's very convenient? From the screenshots, I see a lot of time wasting without substantial results (to order a paper you must type in your instructions; if you use a smart phone it could take you an hour to do so). Then you are told to pay $25-30 per HOUR and after a few hours you aren't likely to have your paper ready. The review score seems fake too.
Major   
Oct 26, 2015

- "in deducing the use of handwriting" - sounds a little awkward. Maybe this is better: "in reducing the use of handwriting."

- "some researchers have proven"...

Regarding the contextual aspects of your essay:

- pain and handwriting -- it's not a very persuasive point (a counter point could be that handwriting promotes better arm muscles + typing on a smartphone is probably more painful if we talk about pain).

- "low standard people" -- it's confusing what you mean (even if someone cannot afford to buy an electronic device it doesn't make them "low standard)

You could devote a paragraph to 'voice to text' solutions / technology (when you say words to a microphone and they are being automatically translated into electronic text). You could also strengthen your argument that using handwriting is important by referring to research that proves that people who use handwriting may "exercise" parts of their brains that normally don't work when using electronic keyboards only.
Major   
Oct 21, 2015

At the beginning of the essay, you may mention where the government is taking money from (how it funds arts / music / theater). Then you may elaborate on why some groups of businesses may need money more than other groups of businesses (it's not clear why a government would want to make direct profit on art; maybe you mean commercial businesses instead?). Lastly, you may give an example of a city or a country that has successfully implemented your ideas (this could work well as a strong conclusion).

Overall: 7 out of 9.
Major   
Oct 20, 2015

It seems finding an honest and qualified freelance writer / editor borders with miracle these days.. :| But it's your own fault, too - he provided a FREE consultation over the phone (how long was the conversation?) -- perhaps he thought you took advantage of him by getting free advice and cancelling the order.. and that was his reaction to your actions.
Major   
Oct 19, 2015

Wizard WriterWhat do you mean by them hounding with emails? Looking at a sample order (Management subject / 30 pages) and the amount offered to their writers: $149 ($4.96 per page) may suggest they work with ESL writers only/mostly... and their 'promotion' page reads like a marketing brochure for first-time writers. The contact us page features a postal address shared by hundreds or thousands of other business organizations (which strongly suggests the service is not physically located in the US and isn't governed by US laws and regulations).

There is some website (originally written in Russian) showing some reviews of their company: prostoboss com/services/press/khoroshaya-vozmozhnost-zarabotka-dlya-tekh-kto-znaet-anglijskij-yazyk-i-umeet-pisat-akademicheskie-raboty

Here is Google translation of one of the reviews:

Hi! I would like to share my impressions of the work on this site. The biggest plus of working for the site is the large number of orders and decent pay (I have been working for other academic research sites, so I have something to compare). At first it was scary, especially when orders were sent back for revision; I always thought that it is necessary to rewrite everything, but in the end I usually only needed to add or remove some information to get the order through. Since it is expensive to call support if there are any questions, I use a very helpful email tech support (that is available round the clock).

But, as elsewhere, working for Wizard Writers also has its weaknesses. Firstly, it is necessary to write only the original text and correctly cite the sources used (plagiarism is not allowed and writers may be fined if they plagiarize their essays). Secondly, writers need to properly allocate their time to make sure they meet deadlines to finish up all orders. You can not be late. That may disturb your sleep during the night, so be warned in advance (American clients have a different time zone so you often need to work at night). It happens that students try to contact you during late hours and you need to get back to them later. But overall, I'm satisfied with the work on this site and I recommend it.