There is no way that I know of for a student to find a genuine essay writing company. There are too many risks and negative complaints associated with essay writing companies, no matter how good their writers may be at doing the job. While some of these reports could be accurate, most of them are just competitors trying to pull each other down in a quest to gain clients. I always tell students who ask me about how to find reliable writing companies now that I am a retired writer that it is always best to deal directly with an independent writer. That is usually the best way to find the service they are looking for. An independent writer can tailor his writing abilities to your needs based upon the client interview. This is something that essay mills cannot or will not do for their clients.

The website does not instill a vote of confidence in my opinion. The static page is meant to serve only the income generating purposes of the creator. From advertising to paid memberships, there is no reason why a student cannot use a more well known and probably more accurate plagiarism checker. The services offered by the company are not competitive anymore anyway. Most up to date plagiarism checkers now also include an AI writing checker in their paid / membership services. This one, does not and is therefore not worth the $10 a month membership.

There are some academic writing companies that claim to have a "withholding tax" on the earnings of the writer, which they remit to the said person during tax season. That is perhaps one reason why they require a valid ID from the applicant. While the information could be used negatively by some other players in the academic writing game, the truth is that there are some countries that require employers, regardless of their business type. To keep valid IDs of their employees, regardless of the person's work location. Perhaps this was one such company. I have no problem submitting a valid government ID to my employer, provided he can justify the need for it and show proper evidence to support his claims.

When one considers that students these days rely on AI to write their research papers and other essays, the need to actually find a way to test the ENL writer's ability has become a thing of the past. While AI does sometimes sound like an ESL writer got the paper done for the student, AI forces the student to rewrite aspects of the paper to better suit their writing style and needs. So they actually contribute their own voice and writing talent to the paper, negating the need to use an ENL writer. The paper becomes the actual voice of the student, which means his revisions make the paper work better for him rather than if he had to hire an actual writer then have a need to get several revisions from the writer until his needs are actually met.

This thread is actually a historical look at a time when students from all educational levels were hiring academic writers on an academic year or semestral basis. There actually was a time when academic writers were king in this field and there was nothing that could be done about it. Even if teachers knew a paper was paid for, they had no way of proving it and often just let it slide. Nobody, not the educators, students, or writers ever thought that the actual future of academic writing would lie in the hands of artificial intelligence. Even the prediction about how technology might affect the work did not show an inkling of knowledge about AI. We all thought of technology affecting us as writers in a vastly different way.

I believe that it would be best for a student to consider customessaymeister.com of the two companies. That is because the aforementioned essay company has an updated blurb that indicates it knows how AI has been messing up students papers and they are not allowing their writers to use AI for their writing services as some other companies have started to allow their writers to do. The former company has not updated their company and anchor page information in years. So I am not sure if you can rely on their writers to deliver up to date and properly written essays should you hire their services.

So, after all these decades, EssayTown is still an active academic writing company. Imagine that. The company survived all of the negative publicity of their past, all of the accusations brought forth about them at this forum, it even survived their writers who used to be regulars at this forum and have since moved on in their careers. It is important to note that the company has survived all of the negativity thrown their way because that indicates that all of the information being spread about them before was obviously fake news. They must have been doing something right all this time to survive in the time of AI essay writing.

They claim to have academic writers with years of experience and expertise. I will disagree with that statement. As I've said several times before, an experienced academic will never work for the pittance that an essay writing company will provide. They earn the professional big bucks at large corporations where their skills are well utilized for the benefit of their profession. Such exaggerated claims should be a red flag that the company is lying and will produce problems for the student in the future.

Google Adwords will always allow academic writing sites to advertise their services. They just don't want it to be too straightforward. They prefer that is happen as organically as possible for a writing company. Say, by using hashtags or something similar. Do not advertise your company as an academic writing service directly because that will result in a straight out ban on your posting, advertisement, or company. Try typing in Write My Essay in Google search to better understand what I mean.

I do not like how this company asks the client to "bank" funds with them towards their current and future orders. I do not believe that the company should have access to prepayments because, what if the client decides to go with a different company next time? It does not make sense to enter into an auto debit arrangement with this company. I checked the website thoroughly and there is no way to get a refund on your "deposit". You need to use it or lose it. That is something that only a company with evil intent would encourage a potential or current client to do. Never consider a writing company a bank. You should not leave money with them for future use. If you do, then you get the punishment that is coming to you.

I tried accessing this website from my tablet and accidentally saw how the page loads into my browser. The address pings over several places, masking the actual location of the company and domain name. This confirms that the company is not in the UK and your personal information as shared with them could be at risk. Please be cautious when dealing with them. You never know what might happen when you contract their services. Make sure to ask the right questions before you decide that it is worth it to hire their services.

I apologize for not being able to name names at this forum due to confidentiality and Do Not Discuss purposes. However, I can assure you that I have been talking to some of the more questionable players who have been forthright in their discussions with me. They have admitted that the advent of AI in academic essay writing has all but shut down their businesses. They have a few stragglers coming along who hire their services, which led them to rethink their business model. Rather than using AI to scam the students, who will not come back for additional services, they decided that it was time for them to try and help their writers and themselves survive in this business. They have been trying to be more helpful to both the writers and the clients, which has resulted in repeated business for them specially after they invested in training for their existing writers pool and also, educating them about how AI can help them improve as writers, regardless of their English proficiency level.

What happens when fake news from the left and right are the only things reported by mainstream media? Where is the truth to be found? I guess that is why the citizen journalist became a thing and has been fully encouraged by Elon Musk. When both sides of the political and social aisles have done nothing but produce fake news to help sway opinion and support in their favor, it is time for the true citizens to step in with their own reflection of what is going on. Flogs and blogs have now given way to TikTok streams and YouTube clips / reports from disinterested parties. I guess that is the only way to actually get fair and balanced news reporting these days.

I would not encourage the entry of new writers to the academic writing field at this moment. There is not much of a call for human writers these days as students flock the AI for their writing needs. There are very few students who seek the services of human writers these days, making it almost impossible for human writers to make a regular living from academic writing. It is difficult to say if this trend will reverse in the future or if we will be shown the door much like the typewriter and physical libraries were when computers and the internet became the norm for studying.

The website creation and content writing was outsourced. The owners hired writers who know how to use SEO successfully to help their website gain visitors. The problem is that the page is too text heavy and is very boring because of the lack of pizzaz in the overall presentation. It is not successful in promoting itself because the text is too long. Instead of showing the student what sets them apart from other services, they have to read it instead. Students who are looking for academic writing companies prefer to have an interactive page to visit, this company does not provide that.

Essay writing sites are trying to up their game these days because AI is starting to beat them at the game. You can expect more professional treatment from the remaining academic writing sites because of this. They now pay better attention to their clients and actually perform their jobs properly already. They are not thinking of how to best scam the student anymore because they know that students would rather use AI instead of a human being to write their paper. They are doing their best to evolve into responsible and trustworthy writing websites because of the challenges of the times in terms of their field of work.

Both the US and the UK have experienced a significant decline in their academic standards. I believe that is due to the over reliance of the students on AI and internet research. Most of the essays that I have been proof reading lately are mostly composed of cut and paste content, without any reaction or analysis coming from the writer. They just do the bare minimum to get a grade. That is all they want. They are not looking for quality education, they just want to get that credit towards graduation at the end of the academic year. We have to work to remove AI from the classroom at the very least, so that the students can practice their right to choose by actually using their brains to level up the educational system of their respective countries.

For me, it would all depend upon the topic that the team has chosen to present. Most people prefer to work alone when it comes to their dissertation or PhD thesis. It is simpler for them to work that way because everything gets done on time. Working with a team means having to balance different free times to work on your dissertation so it would be better if they just worked on it individually. However, having a research team ready to help you would be appreciated. Remember that serious professors have writing and research teams at their beck and call. Making sure that their team works on the same page. So what I am trying to say is, if the professor can do it, so will you.

There is always a risk of security theft with any academic writing website that is hired by the student. That is why it is important to know how to vet the writer who will be working for you. Make sure that the writer or company will not ask you to create a username that will be stored on their system. Avoid using essay writing companies because they are into mining these days. Before you know it, person over in the Ukraine is using your money to buy heat for his home. Be very careful when dealing with obvious non native speaking American countries as well. They still try to get your details for whoever started the trend of not a hiring a company based writer.

The writing company seems to be trying to stave off the development of AI throughout the industry by diversifying their writer's field of work. They are casting a wider net over the profession to keep their writers active. In the process, they have made it more demanding to be a freelancer writer. I believe that with the innovations that the company has done in terms of diversifying their writers field of work, they were able to stretch the existence of the human writer over several years.

Students complain that human writers deliver low quality papers. They neglect to see that the AI model of the paper does not do them any favors either. They are on the receiving end of a bunch of lousy paper work, which they keep praising as the next best thing and the godsend student helper. Till they get their papers back and realize that AI is not what they thought it could be. You will get poor quality essays if you hire an AI to write your paper. It does not have anything to do with human quality writing anymore.

It is strange that the company is actively trying to recruit new writers via their referral program. Most companies have stopped hiring or put a pause in it. They claim there are simply not enough orders to go around these days. The students seem to truly prefer AI, without knowing that it will cause problems for them in the future if they keep using AI to write their paper. They take it for granted that AI will write a good paper and not even bother to check what the AI wrote. Writer Bay seems to be hedging its business on how AI will fade into the past and not take over the writer's jobs. They need to believe that it will happen otherwise, they will shutter their doors.

The website is simple and easy to navigate. It is user friendly and crisp in look. It screams, I am professional. Yet, when you read the about page, it would appear that they seem to be inflating some of their claims. One of the worrisome aspects is the way that they claim an academic writer can earn 3K a month. Most writers I know struggle to make that amount because of the competition posed by AI. The only way a writer can easily make that amount these days is if he had a regular client base to begin with, pre AI.

I do not have much confidence in a writing service that calls itself Grade 1. It gives me flashbacks to the time when I was still a little person attending school. The overall format looks like it is geared towards elementary school users. The site has empty words representing their area of expertise. It is not the type of academic writing company that I would confidently endorse to any student. Even their testimony section was nothing but a waste of data space.

Speaking of which, have you given any thought to what field you might enter into should the writing field dry up for human writers @Freelancewriter? Since you mentioned Ai would be getting into far more that just academic writing, how do you see writers surviving in a future where AI will eventually rule as king? Would it be possible to AI proof some of these writing careers you think? Or will human writers be relegated to improving the sources of information for the AI to access?

@FreelanceWriter I can only hope that we do not go the way of the typewriter. May we never become an obsolete past of education. Here is hoping that we do not go the way of the typewriter, a still useful, but now considered obsolete part of writing history.

So, this website is no longer in the running as an academic writing site. It is still an active domain name, which tells me the take-down of the business is fairly recent and, there is a great possibility that they are planning to resell the domain name in the future. Then the buyer will mostly likely be a gambling website in Asia. The company was not able to stay afloat for some reason. They probably had a lot of quality issues to overcome and with the advent of AI, it became next to impossible for them to remain a serious player in the academic writing game.

I do not think that a client should be asking about the English writing abilities of the writers. It is discriminatory to ask for only Non-ESL writers and vice versa. A competent writer, regardless of his English speaking and writing skills, will be able to provide the client with any sort of writing they need, at a level that they prefer. Writers such as @Freelancewriter have taken pride in letting potential student or professional clients know that he is capable of writing at any level that is necessary for the completion of the paper. That is the kind of writer a student should be looking for.

Topqualityessays does not exist at all in any form online anymore. While essaycrate has become a gambling website that seeks to, (I am paraphrasing FLW) recruit students and entice them to gamble their money away. The only problem I see with these gambling websites trying to recruit students is that the majority of them have their text in Chinese. So maybe they are just targeting a specific type or group of students? Regardless, Students must remember that when they are using school provided internet, their every keystroke and mouse click is monitored so do not touch any links that might trigger a warning in the school server.

The company seems to now be Filipino owned. The website is now owned by UVO Philippines, clearly separating itself from the original, international based ownership company. However, the Filipinos are carrying on with the history of the company since its birth in 2006. Now, I know that the Philippines is an emerging, but struggling 3rd world economy. So my question is, where is the money coming from the pay the writers? Are the Filipino owners merely a front for the actual foreign owners? Are these foreign owners taking advantage of loopholes in the Philippine business registration and tax system? I ask these questions because it really does not make sense, in my opinion, to have a company in the Philippines at this point in time. Specially not one claiming to be as large as UVO Corp in the academic writing world. There are just so many questions surrounding this company that brings their existence and service quality into question.

Considering that school provided internet access have their servers blocking these gambling sites, I do not think that they will be able to recruit students to gamble online. Those students are not easily swayed into spending their money on gambling. They have the money earmarked for something else and because of the way money buys less and less these days, I sincerely doubt they would risk gambling the money away. You have a point though. The companies are betting on students getting sucked in by the animation on the site to make them stay and part with their cash.

@isabella333 I tend to agree with you. I can see the writing on the wall and I have been long advocating that the human writers learn how to merge AI with their own expertise so that they can prevent their becoming irrelevant in the business. Since AI is programmed by human beings, it is only a matter of time before AI becomes efficient in the same manner that a human writer would be. I understand that the more progressive writers have been using AI in tandem with their own writing skills. Unfortunately, they have not gotten to the point where that they have created the necessary seamless integration yet, but I I do not doubt that the time when that happens will eventually get here. AI is integrated into everything these days so trying to fight it or stave it off is a futile cause. Learn to work with it or be rendered irrelevant in the future. There will come a generation of students who will frown upon human writers who do not use AI in developing their papers. Some students may view these writers as not up to par with their writing needs or question the actual usability of the papers they produce. Students who are tech savvy and who will grow up using AI will want that integrated into any service they hire or purchase.

The aforementioned website is no longer in existence. The owners did not even try to resell the URL / domain name of the company for some reason. I guess we should be thankful considering the horrible service that they provided when they were in existence. I would like to point out though, that not all Indian companies could be accused of fraud or bad writing. Yes, a majority of them offer questionable services but, it has recently come to my attention that there are some good India based players out there who value and deliver quality work to their clients.

It would have been easy to earn the aforementioned income in the past. Academic writers were all the rage and our services were most sought after by students. AI has changed that. Now, if the writer does not have an existing stable base of clients, he will have difficulty in meeting his monthly income targets leading up to the $100K income, regardless of the time frame. It is important to understand that while writers may charge thousands of dollars for particular types of papers, the students do not usually have that sort of money to pay out these days. So they turn to AI for help, which always turns out to be a mistake.

The company address is no longer listed in the internet directories. Trying to access the page returns an "Address Not Found" message. This is indicative of the site being long out of business. It has not existed for so long that the name is not even up for sale anymore. It is free for purchase in case anyone is interested in buying the domain name. I would not advice doing that though mostly because you would want to purchase a domain name that has good reviews attached to it. A search of this domain name returns only complaints regarding the previous owners and their writers. You do not want a negative predecessor image attached to your business name.

It is next to impossible to prove or disprove the legitimacy of a writing website unless the complaints about the company becomes public knowledge either through word of mouth or through public complaints posted to websites like ES. Personally, I would question the legitimacy of any publicly listed academic writing company because they are commonly known to be hosted in 3rd world country and have a roster of 2nd rate writers who are not familiar with international academic writing standards. You would have a better chance of hiring a legitimate independent writer instead since a freelancer would be more than willing to prove his location, educational attainment, and writing history.

I have been told that CP is one of the more reliable companies when it comes to paying their writers. They always pay fairly on a weekly basis. The price that the writer asks for is never questioned by the company and they do not ask the writers to discount their work when a client asks the writer to do so. They believe that the writer should name his price and they stick to it because only the writer knows the amount of work and effort that will be required to complete the paper. They protect their writers as best as they can.

Ai has changed the game for essay writing companies and individual writers. There are no longer any strengths or weaknesses regarding each since both have been losing out to AI when it comes to academic essay writing. Sure, nothing will beat the work of a human writer, but nothing will beat the cost of an AI written paper either. The battle now is 3 way: Company v independent writer v AI. It will take some time before we learn who the winner of this competition will be.

I guess we will never know if this company ever proved to be a good one during its time in existence. I am not sure how long they have been out of business, just that they are no longer active in the industry. Even their domain name has expired at this point. We can at least, be sure that they will no longer be causing any students sleepless nights wondering about the quality of the work that they deliver. I have never heard of any writer who worked for this company so that may be the reason why there were not follow up posts in this thread.

Typewriters are considered a part of early human history these days. Relics only found in museums which have kids wondering how it worked. Where is the screen? Collectors like Tom Hanks probably keep the handful of typewriter repair specialists on their toes. The specialists realize that they are a dying breed and have been trying to pass down the art of typewriter repair to the next generation. The next generation studies the repair stuff because they are typewriter aficionados. They too understand that typewriters are no longer useful in the 21st century. It will always be nice to look back on the history of computers though, and start the story all the way back to the dawn of typewriters and the Flexowriters.