First, I'd like to thank ProfessorVerb, 99Essays, Meokhan, and Wordsies for their kind words.

Second, if any readers are (still) trying to figure out whether any of the recent accusations and characterizations about me are true, simply consider what it means that no fewer than four of my current and former (now-retired) direct competitors actually took their time to defend me, here, without any conceivable benefit to themselves or possible ulterior motive; in fact, my current competitors have actually done so at their own expense, when they could have remained silent while hoping to benefit indirectly from all of those ridiculous lies and accusations. It demonstrates that each and every one of them knows my work and knows my reputation, firsthand, from the feedback he's received directly from his own clients about my work. It demonstrates that these accusations and characterizations are completely false and hardly motivated by "legitimate concerns" about anything besides disparaging me for sheer spite and jealousy, claims from the author of all of those outrageous lies about being "retired" and being interested only in "protecting" students from bad writers notwithstanding.

Third, the only thing that it actually "highlights" is precisely what I've said many times over the years: namely, that legitimate writers compete against one another only in ethical ways and maintain respectful and mutually-supportive professional relationships with their legitimate peers. Notwithstanding any false accusations to the contrary, each and every positive review left for me anywhere on this forum is from a genuine client who received great work from me, exactly as promised. Unfortunately, there's obviously no way for me to "prove" that. However, each of the four other writers who have taken the trouble to respond to these false accusations on my behalf has a very long history on this forum, which can be confirmed quite easily by anybody. Their support cannot possibly be "faked."

Finally, the only thing that I "encourage" my clients to do is to use my projects however they think will benefit them the most. I respect my clients as autonomous adults who are fully capable of making those decisions for themselves, which is why I transfer copyrights to all of my projects to my clients who paid for them.

I've been doing this work as my only real source of income ever since I left my government writing job in 2007. It's been a while since I checked the FedGov pay scale, but I think I earn more doing this than I would be, now, in government, as a GS-1082-12. Either way, working 5 days a week downtown left me very little spare time and it was hard enough just getting my workouts in; there's absolutely no way I'd ever have been able to start playing hockey again, pretty much as often I want to. In fact, I just got home from the rink. If I were still working at 26 Fed Plaza, I'd be leaving work right about now and dreading another 4 days of getting up at 6:00 AM and scrambling just to get to bed before midnight for a measly 6 hours of sleep, and then sleeping half the day on Saturday, just to catch up on all the sleep I didn't get during the week.

In principle, strategic decision-making is very similar to mathematics and chess, and AI is perfect for generating outputs based on specific inputs in relation to given rules. Writing, on the other hand, includes more creative components that are much harder for AI to replicate, at least in ways that aren't extremely easy to identify. Sometimes, essay company reps post advertisements for their companies on this forum that are very obviously AI-generated, and they're always immediately recognizable as AI writing. From what I understand, AI is already capable of generating (short-form) conversational responses in question-and-answer format that are indistinguishable from human responses; but that, also, is much more similar to mathematics and chess, and to outputs based on specific inputs in relation to given rules. I expect that it will still be a long time before AI will be able to generate essays that aren't easily recognizable as AI-generated.

Just continue doing exactly this and don't second-guess yourself.

Thanks, Meo. Much appreciated.

My earlier reference (below) to the essays sent to me by clients simply means essays sent to me by clients as EXAMPLES of their writing style, not as requests to work on those essays.


As far as how I handle "editing" requests, more specifically, that's detailed in Post #12 (2019) of the thread "Writers: Do you take editing jobs?" right here:

https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/writers-take-editing-jobs-3839/#msg82063



Finally, on the topic of "honesty," more generally, in 14 years on this forum, I have never been accused, by any client, of being "dishonest" about anything, even once. To the contrary, several forum members have posted, specifically, about my declining their projects, precisely, because I'm always honest about my relative confidence with any project, and I always disclose any concerns that I have about being able to take on projects if I can't do so with high confidence about my ability to do them extremely well.

I usually just ask all of my new clients whether they want me to write their projects at the highest possible level or to hold back a bit and provide something written more at the level of a typical undergraduate. Sometimes, obviously ESL students ask me to provide work at the highest possible level, in which case I ask them whether they just want a high-level analysis but expressed in simpler English in terms of vocabulary and sentence structure.

Sometimes, even students whose emails exhibit quite poor ESL-English tell me that they still want the highest possible level, both in terms of substantive content and in terms of the writing. I assume that my (adult) clients know what they want and that they'll ask me for whatever best suits their intended use of my work; but I always alert them to potential concerns that they might want to consider. After I let them know that I can provide higher or lower substantive analyses and/or higher or lower levels of writing, it's up to them to ask for what they need from me.


In 20+ years of doing this, I've had only one client ever report that he encountered a problem along those lines. This particular client's emails were written in relatively low-level ESL English. However, and for whatever reason, he specifically asked me to provide my very best work for the substantive content AND for the writing. Subsequently, he started bombarding my inbox with "EMERGENCY" emails about how his adviser had asked him some questions about the dissertation proposal that I wrote for him. When he couldn't answer those (very basic) questions, the adviser asked where he got the ideas for his proposal and who wrote it, and he responded that "an American friend" of his helped him. He ended up ordering a new proposal on a totally different topic; and this time, he took my advice to allow me to write it at a much lower level in every respect. That proposal was accepted, as was the eventual dissertation on that topic.

If new clients provide me with their own essays, I always caution them against ever trying to submit anything written by me for the same course in which they've already submitted any of their own writing, especially if their own essays are really bad. Sometimes they'll ask me to try to "match" their own level and just shoot for a low B or C; other times, they'll thank me for my warning and decide not to use me for that particular course, at all. Once in a while, they send me such bad essays of their own that I have to tell them that I just cannot "match" that level of work. In those cases, I'll offer to write the worst essay that I'm comfortable writing, with the understanding that they should rewrite it in their own style; but I still make very clear that the worst essay that I'm comfortable writing will still be suspiciously good if compared with their own essays.

Any "money back guarantee" based on customer "satisfaction" in this industry is always a scam.

This is true, even when the company involved is legitimate, in general. Back when I was writing for what was then probably the biggest and best US essay company, there were projects whose instructions said things along the lines of "This is the second time I'm ordering this same project. I already ordered it from XYZ Essays and the essay that I received was terrible. I really hope you guys are better than they are!" Meanwhile, I knew that the companies those customers mentioned in their instructions were just another of many subsidiaries or "affiliate" sites of the company from which they re-ordered the same project. I only learned that many different companies were all connected by seeing the fax headers (or payment confirmations/receipts) that customers sometimes included as a cover sheet on the project sources that they uploaded to the system. Apparently, those essay companies all had their own customer-facing ordering systems; but, in reality, there was just one assignment board where all of the projects ordered on a half-dozen or more (seemingly) different essay company websites just got posted for the same pool of writers. Most of the time, we writers had no idea which company actually booked the project, unless there happened to be some evidence identifying a specific company on one of the project source files uploaded to the system.

I know absolutely nothing about this company; however, I do know that this argument recently parroted, repeatedly, ad nauseam, is patently ridiculous.


Experienced academic writers who are good at what they do routinely write "A" quality essays in numerous different academic fields. If this weren't possible, then, students would also be incapable of ever writing excellent essays in any academic field outside of their own major courses of study. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of college undergraduates manage to write their own "A" essays every semester. Every student reading these posts knows that plenty of students write great essays in courses totally outside of their own majors. If an undergraduate Biology major can write a great History essay, and if an undergraduate Economics major can write a great Political Science essay, then, so can many experienced professional writers with degrees in different areas. That's only much more likely to be the case if a writer happens to have hundreds of essays in those areas under his or her belt, already.


The need for revisions rarely has anything at all to do with a writer's existing knowledge about the topic of a project. Anybody intelligent enough to write academic essays for a living (especially for many years), in the first place, is perfectly capable of reading course materials and/or finding and reading relevant authoritative source material to produce a great academic essay in many different academic areas, and regardless of whether or not he or she happens to have a degree in the same field as every project. The vast majority of revision requests in this business - at least as relates to legitimate writers - are the result of writers accidentally overlooking something in the original order specs, not whether or not writers have their own degrees in the same area as every project.


"Taking the course, learning the lessons, applying the lessons, and graduating with a certification" are important only to someone's ability to write about a subject without using sources, such as in a closed-book/live-testing scenario (and, obviously, to one's ability to perform on the job in a vocational setting after actually being hired as a professional). Clearly, those are two completely different situations. An experienced writer who happens to have a degree in Political Science or Philosophy, for example, can usually write (very well) about many Psychology or Sociology topics if given the opportunity to do some research. Nobody is suggesting that the same writer can answer questions off the top of his head or write about Psychology or Sociology topics without any opportunity to do some research. So, when it comes to hiring a writer to provide an excellent academic essay for a deadline, as opposed to, say, writing a timed closed-book exam essay, what's infinitely more important than the writer's own degree area(s) is the experience of that writer and that writer's reputation for honestly representing his or her confidence level with a particular topic to his or her clients and prospective clients.

How could you possibly know any of this?


If the writers were all "equally qualified," exactly how did a customer "create his own problems" by simply picking one of them...and how could you possibly know anything about the "order requirements"?

I know nothing about them; but even legit companies usually prohibit their writers and customers from communicating directly, simply to prevent them from making deals behind the companies' backs. Did you actually order and pay for an entire dissertation without testing them on a short portion of it, first? Usually, dissertations require extensive proposals that are reviewed before any part of the actual dissertation is written. Who wrote the proposal?

Obviously, (to anybody not scraping the barrel just to find something to twist into a disingenuous criticism, that is), either one would be a good test. My post was simply a direct response to this:


Personally, if I were a client looking for a reliable writer, I probably wouldn't use a portion of a large or particularly important project for that test, unless I had no choice because of the deadline. Instead, I'd prefer to test the writer with a small relatively unimportant project with a long deadline.

The only thing this actually exemplifies is that your arguments rely on twisting words completely out of context to pretend that they mean something entirely different from what (even you know) they actually mean. The whole point of that excerpt from my website is, precisely, that asking a new writer for a "sample" as part of your vetting process really isn't very helpful, at least to the extent you're asking for it because you don't yet know that you can trust that writer. You have no way of knowing who really wrote any sample sent to you by a writer or posted on an essay company's website.

All of what you just quoted from my website, totally out of context, pertains exclusively to the notion of asking for a FREE SAMPLE. The only real value to "samples" is to see whether or not a new client likes the writing quality and style of a writer where that writer's legitimacy isn't in question. They have almost no value as a test of legitimacy, because if you don't already trust the writer, then, you can't trust that the sample provided was actually written by that writer (obviously). I don't offer "samples"; but if a client insists, I won't refuse to send a "sample." However, it will always be on an entirely different topic from the new-project inquiry, simply because dishonest clients and scammers who target both clients and legitimate writers simultaneously could be asking for that sample just to get something for free that they hope to misuse in one way or another.

By contrast, the discussion in this thread to which I was (obviously) referring in Post # 15 obviously pertains to something entirely different: namely, the idea of ORDERING a short PAID portion of the project that a customer actually intends to order from a new writer or essay company. That, of course, means you'll be receiving something custom-written specifically as a part of your new project that fairly represents the quality of the work that you'll be receiving from that writer if you choose to order the rest of your new project from that writer after reviewing the short prepaid section. That remains the best "test" of any writer or essay company, except that with an essay company, it also depends on getting the same writer for the rest of the project, which may or may not be the case, at all. Even that test isn't necessarily foolproof for various reasons; but generally, that's the most reliable way to "test" a writer with a test that has any degree of validity. Generally, once a writer provides a high-quality Introduction section or Literature Review, it's probably a safe bet that the writer can be trusted with the entire project. However, if a client wants to be even more careful, he or she could even order the entire project only one section at a time; but that usually requires a much longer deadline for the entire project.

My website makes clear that my work is intended to be used as a model; but my clients are all adults who are fully capable of making their own autonomous decisions about how they choose to use the projects that they receive from me. If I were a client, I definitely wouldn't appreciate some essay company dictating to me what I may and may not do with the work that I paid them good money to write for me. I'd never do business with any essay company whose TOS specify that the company exclusively owns the copyright to my project or that prohibits me from using my project that I paid them to write for me in any way that I choose, because it's really none of their business. Furthermore, if the essay company exclusively retains the copyright, that, by definition, also means that there's nothing to prevent them from reselling my essay whenever and however many times they want to after delivering it to me. My clients don't have to worry about the steps that some essay companies say they reserve the right to take to "protect" their copyrights or about my ever reselling or reusing their projects in any way. Once my projects are delivered to my clients, they own them exclusively and they can decide how to use them in whatever way they think will benefit them optimally.

First, the only thing that Post #26 is "promoting" is the idea that legitimate writers don't constantly stalk the posts (and websites) of other writers and perpetrate a non-stop series of unprovoked defamatory personal attacks against them in which they lie about and make baseless accusations against them, twist their words, and deliberately quote small portions of their posts (and websites) totally out of context to misrepresent what they actually said. It "promotes" the idea that it's quite possible to compete against one another without resorting to lies and other cut-throat tactics.

Second, I pay very good money to this forum for the privilege of being allowed to promote myself here, an opportunity that is equally available to every other independent writer and essay company who wishes to make that same investment. For the record, srandrews (Post # 21 above) was another legitimate writer who was, much like Professor Verb, also a legitimate competitor of mine who never had to resort to a nasty disinformation campaign against me. More importantly, and regardless of what anybody thinks about my choice to pay to advertise and for the privilege to promote myself here, I have a 14-year reputation on this forum for providing nothing but high-quality work to all of my clients, including many UK clients, that earned the respect of my legitimate competitors and former competitors on this forum:

https://essayscam.org/forum/gt/thing-paper-1619/
Post # 19

This is actually true. What's much more important than whether or not a writer (like me) chooses to advertise on the forum is how long the writer has been active here, especially under the same forum S/N. A long forum history, particularly one that goes back almost 15 years, allows prospective clients to review that writer's long-term forum contributions, client feedback over many years, and comments from that writer's colleagues and even legitimate competitors. When I first signed up here in 2008, I purposely used the exact same ID for my forum S/N that was both my writer ID at every essay company for which I have ever written and my email username. That's because my username has always been, essentially, my "brand" name. Long before I ever had any kind of website at all, my email address was my "brand."


I also agree with this and have suggested that clients using a new writer for the first time always do this. Ideally, order a short, less-important project with a long deadline before you take the risk of ordering a long critically important project with a short deadline.


This is not necessarily true, because an experienced American-educated academic writer can write UK projects that are indistinguishable from projects written by a UK-educated writer. Many of my clients are UK and European students studying at some of the best UK and European universities; and the vast majority of them use me for years, just like their American counterparts.


There's no better "test" of whether an American writer can meet UK standards than the same basic test that clients should always use with any new writer: namely, the suggestion to order a short project or a short portion of a larger project before trusting any writer with a larger project. If UK students want to be sure that an American-educated writer can provide high-quality work on UK projects, they should simply test that American writer with smaller projects or smaller portions of longer projects.

Incidentally, (now-retired) Professor Verb was the most prolific, versatile, and successful professional academic writer I'd ever encountered in 2003, when I first started writing for the same essay company for which he'd already been writing for several years. He also covered everything from Advertising to Zoology at the undergraduate level and many different academic areas at higher levels, and for both US and UK students, alike. For roughly 15 years, he and I were direct competitors, both for company projects and private clients; but we always maintained an ethical and mutually-respectful competition without ever resorting to trashing or lying about one another on this forum or anywhere else. On a few occasions, we also backed one another up with emergencies, and we often referred clients to one another when we were too booked up to take on more projects.

Please. No writer and no essay company has a retention rate of 100% and you'd have been the first to scream "liar" if I'd said that "all" of my UK clients end up using me repeatedly.

My client retention rate has always been extremely high, both for US and UK/Euro clients. Sometimes, their first project happens to be their thesis or dissertation; so once that project is complete, there are no other future projects. Other times, students who usually do all of their own writing hire me just for a particularly difficult project, or for a particular project that they just don't have the time to do, for whatever reason(s). Once in a while, clients use me with great success, but then try to find someone cheaper, such as NotSoTypicalBlonde, (a New Zealand student) who related her first experiences in that regard, in Posts #13 and then, her regrets about the cheaper writer, in Post #18 in this thread:

https://essayscam.org/forum/es/legitimate-writing-services-2832/#msg67260






These quotes had to be edited to fit within the 45-word limit for quotes on this system; but they can be viewed in their original unedited form in the linked thread. (Also, because one of your favorite tactics is to deliberately quote totally out of context, the last quote above pertains to the other writer, not me.)


Yes, and quite routinely (2.1). I've also had clients tell me that they received a 1st even though they asked me to try for a 2.1. However, when a prospective UK client proposes a project in my comfort zone but specifically asks me for a 1st, I usually explain to them that my work usually does quite well, but that I can never guarantee a 1st and that this cannot be any part of our agreement if they choose to use me. I tell them (quite honestly) that they're very unlikely to find anybody who can do the project better and that my work typically is good for an A or B+ in the US and a high 2nd in the UK. I tell them that I've written 1sts before, but that I'd never take on any project with that expectation as any part of our agreement...and that they should never trust anybody who guarantees a 1st to get their projects.

Since you asked, here's my most recent feedback from a first-time UK client who happened to report his results and who has since ordered another research project. Strategic Planning received a 65% and the Research Proposal received a 67%. (For US readers: In the UK, 60-69% is = a B in the US and a UK 70% = an A in the US.) Obviously, anything that could possibly identify the client or reveal any details about his projects has been deleted. For the record, I've never taken a single course in Strategic Planning or on the topic of his Research Proposal:

From: xxxxxxxxx@outlook.com <xxxxxxxxx@outlook.com>
To: freelancewriter
Sent: 10/16/2022 12:50:01 PM Eastern Standard Time
Subject: Re: Just Confirming Receipt

（1）Of course.
（2）Sorry for the delay, I just wait until the results were posted.

Strategic Plan 65% and Research proposal 67%

Classifications:

B
Module pass result of 60-69%

________________________________________
From: freelancewriter
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2022, 10:29
To: xxxxxxxxxx @outlook.com <xxxxxxxxx@outlook.com>
Subject: Just Confirming Receipt

Since this is our first project, I just want to confirm (1) that you received it and (2) that you're happy with my work...

You seem to have missed the title of the thread and the fact that the OP says BOTH companies failed to provide timely, satisfactory work OR any refund.


What difference does it make what "refund scenarios" they "spell out" if they don't adhere to their supposed policy and never actually issue those promised refunds when those exact "scenario" occur?


Each and every one of my many UK clients knows that I'm educated in the US and, if they ask, exactly what degrees I hold besides a US Law degree. The vast majority of them also use me many times after the first projects, regardless of whether their projects happen to correspond with in my formal degree areas. Maybe you'd like to address the substantive merit of your argument directly, instead of just providing convenient excuses for refusing to do so, exactly the way your friend just did, right here after Post #64: https://essayscam.org/forum/es/oxbridge-graduates-seem-legit-tell-137/2/#msg86364

Please explain exactly what I have ever said that was "dishonest," what I've ever "lied" about, and exactly what it is about how I "do business" that you consider problematic. You're just furious and, I suppose, horribly insulted that I recently indicated that your ESL writing is very good, but still recognizable as ESL, which wasn't even intended as an insult, nor was I trying to "discredit" you, as you suggested. It was in response to a post of yours in which I thought that you were referring to the fact that you're an ESL speaker. Since then, you've purposely twisted my words and repeatedly announced, completely falsely, that I "outsource" projects because I volunteered the fact that for statistics-based projects ONLY, I use a stats specialist to do SPSS, and ONLY after first fully disclosing that to my clients.

Your other main excuse for continually defaming me here is that I said that I believed approximately half of my clients are UK-based and then chose to upload a file documenting that approximately one-third of my clients from that particular month were UK-based. The point was simply that I have a LOT of UK-based clients and that the vast majority of my clients are repeat customers, in response to the nonsensical argument that an American writer can't provide high-quality UK projects. Since then, you've repeatedly claimed that this is evidence of some kind of "lie." Likewise, and for the same reason, I once posted a screenshot of my emails to document that a particular UK Law client who found me here in 2011 ended up using me many times in between 2011 and 2015 and then again in 2020. (Incidentally, that client left public feedback about me and specifically confirmed that I originally declined his first project, precisely because I don't take on any projects unless I have high confidence about being able to do them very well.) You promptly accused me of "disregarding" that client's privacy and of "violating" international online privacy laws, even though that screenshot was heavily redacted, precisely to avoid disclosing anything that could possibly be used to identify him, other than by his public forum S/N. That thread also illustrates what you really think about my abilities and about how I "do business" before you recently reversed yourself based on nothing besides personal animus:

https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/legitimate-writing-sites-work-347/2/#msg86173

Your main motivation for all of this dishonest vitriol is personal, rather than anything remotely related to any objective "principle." Even you don't believe there's anything "wrong" with a writer disclosing to his clients what his confidence level is with their projects before taking them on or about using a stats specialist for SPSS work with the full knowledge and permission of clients.


Please explain exactly what I have ever "misrepresented" about myself and on exactly what evidentiary or factual basis you have the nerve to claim that I've ever "lied" about my skills or my academic training. I've never "misrepresented" or "lied" about my skills or training and, instead, I've repeatedly said that I always disclosed to my clients exactly what my confidence level is with every project before taking it on, especially in areas outside of my own degree areas.

I'm competent enough to know that "spectre" means a ghost or apparition or aura, and that word you're looking for there is spectrum, Chief.


The topics in which I have lower confidence obviously tend to be subjects that I never studied and in which I never had any interest, not topics in my own degree areas. In any case, that's still a very silly proposition. Someone with a general undergraduate History degree or in American History (for just one example) might be something of an expert in American History but still know relatively little about Russian History and, therefore, have much lower confidence writing about Russian History than writing about American History. I never took a single Tax course in law school and have never had any interest in Tax law; so I avoid the vast majority of Tax law topics.


I don't consider being completely honest with my clients and always erring on the safe side in sharing my relative confidence level with them to be "humiliating" at all.

In your desperation to disparage me, you're saying more and more foolish things. What is obviously meant by "not outsourcing the work" is outsourcing work without a client's permission.



1. Nobody (including you) actually believes anything as foolish as the proposition that honestly disclosing to clients that I do not have the confidence to handle a particular project is a "violation" of anything, on this forum or elsewhere; in fact, it's exactly what a writer is supposed to do anytime he lacks high confidence about a project, and clients appreciate that honesty, quite obviously.

2. Referring clients to other writers means helping clients get their projects completed by someone trustworthy. Nobody (including you) actually believes anything as foolish as the proposition that responding to a client's request for a referral to someone else trustworthy is a "violation" of anything, on this forum or elsewhere. The only alternative would be leaving them twisting in the wind to scramble to start trying to find someone else trustworthy on their own, from scratch.

3. Please at least exhibit some integrity by avoiding twisting my words completely out of context and ignoring my previous specific responses to the same exact accusation. In Post #13 of this thread about statistics-based projects linked below, I said:


(Emphasis added.) https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/statistics-papers-orders-writing-jobs-3626/

Ever since then, you have repeatedly misrepresented what I said and twisted my words to support your disingenuous and deliberately dishonest misrepresentation of what I did say and what I never said. First, statistics work is the only type of work that I don't do myself in any project for any client of mine. Second, and much more importantly, I don't even do that without my client's explicit permission. You already know all of this, of course, because you can read English and I've responded directly to your previous identical accusations several times. Your recent reversal of your opinion of me and your continual unprovoked defamatory comments since you posted this below is all because you were, quite apparently, so incredibly insulted that I recently mentioned that your ESL writing is very good, but still recognizable as ESL, which it is. That wasn't intended as an insult; but you obviously took it for a declaration of war. Post # 3 in this thread is what you (really) thought about me.



https://essayscam.org/forum/es/dissertation-writing-services-days-rewrite-6644/#msg85109

Interestingly, particularly considering your brand new opinion that I've "violated" something that should be "dealt with" by the forum by sometimes providing referrals to other writers when I can't take on a project with confidence, this is what you used to think about that:


(Emphasis added.)

As I've already explained several times, the idea that an experienced academic writer can't write great projects in any subject without having a "degree" in that subject is complete nonsense. Most college students receive only one degree, and many of them don't even select a major until they're almost halfway through college. All of them have to write essays in subjects in which they'll never be receiving degrees, and some of them write "A" papers. If a college student who has written a total of maybe 10 college essays in his entire life is capable of writing an "A" paper in a subject in which he'll never receive a degree, why wouldn't a professional writer with thousands of academic essays under his belt be able to write an "A" paper for the same assignment?

Consider that college students who haven't yet even selected their majors (or who are Biology or Economics majors) take Political Science and Sociology courses all the time. Even a Political Science or Sociology major has only taken, at most, maybe 8 course in his major by the time he's halfway through college. Meanwhile, after 20+ years of doing this for a living, I've written hundreds of projects in each of those subject areas and I've read thousands of pages of textbook chapters and journal articles, quite a few of which were actually assigned as readings by the professors who assigned the projects for which I read them. I'm obviously not going to hold my breath waiting for you to actually provide any kind of substantive response to any of my questions; but other readers should wonder how a college student -- especially one who is already in the market for an academic writer in the first place, because writing essays presumably isn't his strong suit -- could possibly write a better Political Science or Sociology essay than someone who has been writing them (literally) since that student was an infant and who has already probably read ten times more Political Science or Sociology textbook and journal pages than that student will ever read in his entire life, especially if he isn't majoring in and going into a career in those fields.

Furthermore, even having a specific degree hardly means that a writer necessarily writes his best projects in that area or that another experienced writer can't write just as good projects in that field, even without a degree. While I certainly do write many projects in my own degree areas, I actually prefer writing Political Science and Sociology and Philosophy and Creative Writing essays to (many) History, Psychology, and Law projects. Likewise, I've known other freelance writers who didn't have degrees in History or Psychology whose projects in those areas were comparable in quality to mine, precisely because if you're smart, and you're a good writer, and you have good reading comprehension, it really couldn't matter less whether or not an experienced writer has a "degree" in every project field. As always, what matters much more is simply that the writer is realistic about his abilities and honest with his clients when he indicates what his relative confidence level is with any specific project.

So, how could you even imagine that a typical college student looking for an academic writer or a much less experienced writer with a degree in a field in which I've already written many hundreds of projects over 20 years a could possibly write a better essay than I can in any of those subject areas?

In 20+ years of doing this for a living and thousands of projects, my clients have provided me with real "data" maybe a few dozen times. Clients have provided me with sufficiently developed and sufficiently original ideas and/or sufficient analyses to incorporate into their projects to (arguably) generate joint copyrights maybe once every couple of years, for a rough total of maybe 10 times. Ordinarily, I decline projects if clients want to "collaborate" with me writing it. That's nothing related to copyright issues, though; it's just not a service that I offer, because I find it to be too much of a headache and I'd rather just write every project from scratch, myself. Occasionally, clients provide a fully developed full-sentence outline and/or good original ideas for analyses, in which case I'm fine working from that as the project specs. However, once I start writing the project, that's the end of client participation, unless I'm writing a larger project in prepaid sections, in which case they can request substantive revisions to sections already delivered on an ongoing basis, either as the next prepaid section or (much more typically) in conjunction with the next section of the project for combined delivery.


Even the dumbest lawyer would know that isn't how joint copyright works anytime the respective contribution of each putative author is sufficient to establish copyrights. Joint copyright (where it exists) simply permits both co-authors identical rights to use the work as copyright co-owners. Joint copyright doesn't allow co-owners to demand compensation (or sue one another) for using the work. In my case, the point is moot, because my clients own exclusive copyright to anything they pay me to write. It's also moot in the case of every commercial essay company whose TOS I've read, for at least two very different reasons: First, all of them expressly retain exclusive copyright and expressly deny any copyright transfer to their customers. Second, commercial essay companies only sell their customers a "license" to use the work in very specific (and very limited) ways, such as the right to read and study the work and the right to cite the work as a source in their own research and writing. Even if it were the case that their customers were copyright co-owners, that would simply entitle both the company and the customer to use the work without restriction, and not to demand compensation from one another for doing so.

This is, of course, complete nonsense for several very specific reasons:

1. Professional academic writers who are good at what they do routinely write high-quality projects in many different academic areas. This is the precise definition of our job and those of us who are honest with our clients always indicate our level of confidence with any project before taking it on. Essay companies simply post every paid order on a virtual bulletin board from which all of their writers can select whatever projects they want to write. Every successful professional academic writer is capable of researching, reading, understanding, and writing intelligently about many different academic subjects.

2. Consider that every typical college student takes many courses in academic areas outside of his or her major course of study, yet each of them is fully expected to write projects in all of those areas. Obviously, if some students are capable of writing "A" projects in all of those courses despite never pursuing or receiving degrees in any of those academic areas, so can a good professional academic writer, especially if he was a good student, himself, who already received his own degree(s) and wrote all of his own assignments as a student. If an Engineering or Aviation Science student can write an "A" project in an English or History or Political Science or Business or Philosophy course, so can an experienced professional academic writer. In addition to writing similar projects as a student, the writer has probably written (literally) hundreds of projects in each and every one of those academic areas over many years. Meanwhile, a typical Engineering student might take only one or two English or Philosophy or Business or Political Science courses in his entire academic career. Engineers, in particular, are notorious for being bad writers, generally. In fact, it's not at all uncommon for them to hire me, even for projects within their major courses of study, in addition to projects for their elective courses.

For example, while my own degrees are in History and Psychology and Law, I've written hundreds of projects in each and every one of the fields mentioned above. By the time he is an upperclassman, even an English or Philosophy major is very unlikely to have written more than two-dozen English or Philosophy papers; and he's never written more than one or (maybe) two or three papers on any one piece of English literature or on any one classic work of philosophy, respectively. By contrast, after doing this professionally for 20+ years, I've written about many specific pieces of English literature and about many specific classic works of philosophy dozens and dozens of times, each. Furthermore, every time I write about the same topic, each new essay is likely to be a little better than my previous essays on that same topic. Frankly, whether or not a student is an English or Philosophy major, or just taking elective courses in those areas, his chances of writing as good an essay as mine on any topic assigned to an undergraduate - let alone one that's better than the essay I'd provide on that exact same topic - is very close to zero.

I've mentioned before that I've had more Nursing clients than students in any other major course of study. They're also the clients who generate the most referrals from their coworkers, which I suspect is because most of them are already working professionals and not students competing against one another for grades. I routinely write everything for them from those silly little 150-word class forum posts and responses to their classmates' posts to their major PICO projects, master's theses, and PhD dissertations, and always with great results; and that's despite never having taken a single course in Nursing, myself.

3. Obviously, even the best and most experienced professional academic writer is better in some academic areas than others. That's why anytime a new client inquires about an Engineering or Computer Science project, (for example), my first response, (along with indicating that I always need to see the complete assignment specs for every project), is that it depends on the level of the project. I can write many undergraduate projects in those areas as well as or better than the student himself, and I can handle certain higher-level projects in those areas with high confidence, (especially if the client can provide the source material for it); but there are (obviously) many higher-level projects in those areas that I cannot take on in good conscience, at all. The most important thing is simply that I'm always honest with my clients about my confidence level with every project before taking it on.

As I've said many times, there's no correlation whatsoever between the complexity or simplicity of a website and the legitimacy of the provider and/or the quality of the product. There are total scams using beautiful websites just to lure their victims and completely legit providers with great reputations for providing top-quality work for decades using very simple websites, and vice-versa.

Agreed. He exposed totally innocent customers to catastrophic risk, even though they had nothing to do with his dispute.

As usual, your despicable disinformation campaign targeting me relies completely on your twisting my truthful statements completely out of context. What I said was simply that I always disclose my relative degree of confidence in every project to every client before taking projects on. That's about as honest and forthcoming as a writer can be. That's also one of many reasons that I don't use an automatic online order form. Honest disclosure of a writer's degree of confidence with a project is, precisely, what honest writers do, rather than just taking on every project regardless of how well the writer believes he can write the project.

For the record, we have a perfect example of exactly how that works preserved right on this forum:

A forum member named "Lazy Skeptic" approached me with a UK Law project in March of 2011 and I responded to him, completely honestly, advising him that (at that time) I could not take on his project with high confidence. He later posted about that (Post #22) in this thread: https://essayscam.org/forum/es/amons-2176/#msg41552


After I declined his project, he tried a few UK-based essay companies and reported his results (Post #4) in this thread: https://essayscam.org/forum/gt/paypal-refund-money-off-topic-2145/


Then, he decided to try me for another of his UK Law projects, even though I'd expressed only "low to medium confidence" with it. As always, I erred on the safe side in disclosing my relative confidence level with his project. As it turned out, he was so thrilled with the results that he became a regular client of mine, using me for many projects for the next few years, for the rest of his academic career, which is typical of just about every client who uses me at all. Then, when he needed more (non-academic) writing, in 2020, he contacted me again, because of how happy he was with all of the projects that I provided in between 2012 and 2105. In Post #17 of this thread here, I provided the details of this particular client's history of using me for his subsequent UK Law and European Business projects in between 2012 and 2015, including a file documenting our email history, and only after very carefully redacting anything that could possibly be used to identify the client other than by his public forum user name: https://essayscam.org/forum/es/academic-writing-providers-orders-refunds-2897/#msg85797

I'd never take on any project without honestly disclosing my relative confidence with it. Contrary to your mantra that no US writer can possibly produce high-quality UK Law projects, since 2012, I've become very comfortable with UK Law projects and now do them quite routinely, and with nothing but gratitude from my UK clients. The same is true for projects in each and every one of the subject-matter areas listed on my website. Obviously, I can write very advanced projects in many of those subject areas, but only undergraduate-level projects in other areas listed there. When clients contact me with proposed projects, I always indicate what my level of confidence is with every project, and I always err on the safe side. Many times, clients decide to use me even after I disclose only a "medium" or "low" confidence level in advance. Other times, they continue their search for a provider; and, not uncommonly, they end up coming back to me because other writers (and essay companies that simply accept payment for every project automatically) provide them with unusable work that's much worse than projects in which I express only relatively low confidence.

That's precisely how this is supposed to work and it's exactly what clients hope for when they contact a writer for the first time, hoping he'll be honest with them, starting with their very first inquiry.

Negative on all three accusations and complete nonsense. I don't "hide" anything. You're afraid just to disclose your full identity and whereabouts, even to your actual clients. I provide my clients all of that info; I just prefer not to publicize it on a website for the whole world to see. I don't "subcontract" out any work other than Statistics calculations; and the only reason you even know that is that I recently mentioned, here in the thread about Statistica projects, that I use a stats specialist for SPSS and that I always fully disclose that to any clients who need those kinds of projects before I take on their projects, precisely because I'm honest about it. I also disclose my confidence level with every project to every client before taking it on, and for the exact same reason.

My clients have only gratitude and appreciation for my work; so, I've never had a problem disclosing my identity or address to them.

Readers should definitely take a quick look at the website in question. It provides a perfect example of why a beautiful, high-end, flashy website with a fully automatic ordering system, phone number, and "chat assistants" means absolutely nothing in terms of credibility, legitimacy, or reliability. Some of the worst scam sites in this industry deliberately put a lot of money into exactly this type of website, because it's designed to suck you in based on the assumption that there must be a correlation between the apparent quality of the website and the quality of the services that the company actually provides. In fact, check out the website of just about every company revealed elsewhere on this forum to be a total scam and/or a blackmailer, and if it's still in existence, you'll find only very similar, professional-looking websites.

Selling old essays was a major part of this industry, going all the way back to the pre-Internet era, until plagiarism scanners changed that, making pre-written essays worthless, starting in 2007. Today, plagiarism scanning is much more advanced than it was 15 years ago, in addition to being much more prevalent, with mandatory scanning common throughout academia. Why would that suddenly be changing, now?

Exactly like THIS?


Projects of a given length and relative difficulty with statistical data analyses always cost more than projects of the same length and relative difficulty that don't require data analyses. If my clients choose to order projects from me for which I use a stats specialist only for the statistical work, I don't make a dime on the part that the specialist provides for me; I simply add on whatever the specialist charges me. Furthermore, I obtain a price for that task from the specialist and communicate it to my client before the client makes his or her decision about ordering the project.


It's not about doing "favors," much less "convincing" anybody about anything. Frankly, my regular clients have absolutely no desire to go back to the whole process of trying to find another good, legitimate writer, especially my regular clients who found me only after first having gotten ripped off by -- or after having received low-quality work from -- my many illegitimate competitors. In fact, much more often than not, when a client initially proposes a quantitative-analysis-based research topic, I explain that, if they want to order the project from me, the options are: (1) To have my stats specialist do (only) the stats, or (2) To let me come up with a suitable qualitative-analysis-based research topic or a suitable literature-review-based topic. (My clients also have the option of ordering their projects elsewhere; but this isn't an option that they need me to present or explain, because it's patently obvious.)

Typically, when it's the client who originally came up with the idea for the research design, they simply allow me to provide an alternate research design that doesn't require any statistical data analysis. Usually, they contact me before anything has actually been submitted for approval; so, I just provide an initial proposal for a project that I can write in its entirety. On the relatively rare occasion that they're already locked into something requiring statistics, they're fine with paying for exactly what my stats specialist charges me for that work, no more and no less. New prospective clients who don't yet know my work often go elsewhere for those projects and thank me for my honesty. Regular clients who already know my work almost always choose to have me write everything (including the narrative portion of the data analysis section) based on the numerical data analysis provided by my stats specialist.

"Relative confidence" means, precisely, that I have a very high confidence level with projects in some academic areas and less confidence with projects in other academic areas. There are many academic areas in which I can handle almost any undergraduate-level project with very high confidence but not necessarily post-graduate-level projects, at least not with the same degree of confidence. I always disclose my "relative confidence" about every proposed project to my clients, in advance, especially, if it's anything less than high confidence.


My direct communications with my prospective clients include many project-specific elements that aren't on my website. The point is that I always disclose everything relevant to every specific project to every client before taking on any project.


I mentioned "stats" because that thread was about statistics-based projects, and I volunteered that information because I was responding to the thread topic truthfully. There are no other elements of projects that I "outsource." The only reason statistical analyses sometimes present this issue is that some research projects whose topics, themselves, are no problem for me require SPSS data analysis. In those situations, I have exactly 3 choices: (1) Take the project without disclosing that I'll be using someone else for the SPSS; (2) Take the project only after disclosing, honestly, that I'll be using someone else for the SPSS; and (3) Decline the entire project, outright. I choose Option 2.


Just because you can't write competently in each and every topic listed on my website hardly means nobody else can.


There was nothing remotely "deceptive" in anything that I posted in the thread to which you're referring:
https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/takes-lot-competent-writer-3261/2/

What I said in that thread, originally, was simply:


Then, in response to your mantra that no writer educated in the US could possibly handle UK university projects competently, I decided to take a quick look at my records to see whether I had anything that I could share to prove that I have many UK clients. The only document that I could find showed a particular month in which I had 17 US clients, 8 UK clients, and 1 Australian client, and, much more importantly, that 75% of those clients were returning customers, not first-time customers.

I chose to post that document in Post #47 of that same thread, precisely, because to any forum reader who doesn't have a hostile personal agenda to twist my words, quote them out of context, and make endless totally disingenuous arguments to disparage me because we're direct competitors, it's irrelevant whether it was exactly 50% or closer to 30% of my clientele; the relevant takeaway was simply that I have many UK clients, contrary to your posting, ad nauseam, that US-educated writers cannot possibly write UK projects competently.


By now, anybody familiar with your posting history and your obsession with disparaging me knows, without the slightest doubt, that if my website did provide an automatic online order form, you'd be screaming about how "irresponsible" and "dishonest" it is for any independent solo writer to use such a form, because it cannot distinguish between projects that I'm capable of writing well and those that I'm incapable of writing well enough to take on in good conscience. As I've explained many times, one reason I don't use an online order form is, precisely, that I need to review every prospective project, first, to respond to the inquiry and disclose my relative confidence with the project to the prospective client before taking payment for it. I work alone and I write every project that I accept, and I also have a life outside of my work; so, I could never use an automatic system that allowed customers to add new projects to my calendar without any opportunity for me to review them first, to make sure, both, that I can do them well, and that I can fit them onto my calendar.

I've not been "dishonest" about anything I've ever posted on this forum since I joined it in 2008. What I said, in this thread specifically about statistics-based orders, was:


https://essayscam.org/forum/wc/statistics-papers-orders-writing-jobs-3626/#msg86268

As is the case with this and every other aspect of my relationship with my clients, I always disclose everything about my relative confidence with every element of every project. It's entirely up to my clients whether to order these types of projects from me after I disclose, in advance, that I need to have the stats work done by someone else. Sometimes, first-time clients decide to look for a writer who can also do the stats, which is their prerogative. My regular clients already trust me 100% and typically have no problem with this, at all. My obligation is simply to be honest about it so that they can make a fully-informed decision. If I had any intention of being "dishonest" about it, I wouldn't disclose it to my clients in advance and I wouldn't have volunteered that information publicly on this forum. Quite obviously, there's nothing remotely "dishonest" about any of that. A dishonest writer wouldn't risk losing those types of projects by disclosing that information to his clients, in the first place.

This is complete nonsense, mainly, because an order form has absolutely nothing to do with a writer's honestly, credibility, or ability. I've been doing business just fine for over 20 years without using any kind of "formal order form." Prospective clients simply send me their project proposals with all related materials, specifications, desired length, and due date. I review whatever they send me and either respond with the exact price of the project or I let them know that I can't take the project if I'm not confident about being able to do it well. If I need any additional information about it, I just ask for it.


Also complete nonsense. Every scam company that has ever been discussed on this forum since its inception in 2007 probably used a "formal order form." The mechanism or process by which writers and essay companies collect the information they need for projects is totally unrelated to whether or not that writer or essay company is a conscientious, highly-qualified, and honest provider or a total scam. What determines whether a provider is reliable is his honestly with his clients and the quality of the work that he actually provides, not whether or not he uses an order form or prefers to review and quote every project, individually.


Since this nonsense about "banking" money has become the latest basis of your totally false characterizations meant to disparage and defame me, allow me to address the history of this issue on these forums:

On May 30, 2022, someone identifying herself as "Ellie" posted a comment titled "General Writing Administration" on (currently) the 3rd page of Essay Chat: https://essaychat.com/3/

According to "Ellie," no fewer than 5 writers had approached her with offers to take "retainer" payments in the neighborhood of $3,000 USD/month, and all of them had refused to simply take one project order from her at a time. On July 8th, I noticed that post, and in my response, I explained that in 20 years of doing this for a living, I'd never even heard of writers demanding "retainer" fees, especially on a monthly basis and regardless of whether or not the writer actually had to do any work for the client during that month. I asked "Ellie" where she managed to find no fewer than five such writers and suggested that, in her search for a writer, she might have stumbled into a community of scammers all running the same scam; but she never responded: https://essaychat.com/2/

In my July 8th post, I explained that the idea of charging monthly "retainers" is ridiculous, because there's no reason that anybody would ever need to pay any writer in between actual assignments. I also mentioned that occasionally, some of my long-term clients prefer to pay me a lump sum in advance, from which I simply charge off their projects and indicate how much credit they have remaining with delivery of each project. Now, it appears that you're very deliberately trying to twist those words for the purpose of totally mischaracterizing what I said. For the record:

1. At least 99.5% of the thousands of clients who have used me in 20+ years simply pay for whatever project they order, one at a time.

2. I've never offered or suggested (much less "required") that any new client pay me for anything more than whatever project he or she wants to order from me. It's hard enough establishing a clientele and allaying the concerns and fears of some skittish first-time prospective clients paying for one project at a time, especially if they've already been ripped off by one of my competitors with a much flashier website complete with "formal order forms." If I were a prospective client and a writer asked me for any kind of payment for more than his first project, I'd run the other way, immediately.

3. By the time any of my long-term clients decides that it's easier to issue lump-sum payments for future projects, that client has already used me many times and knows exactly what my usual pricing is for his or her kinds of projects. Typically, these tend to be Nursing or Business students whose courses require numerous small weekly or semi-weekly projects that make it much easier to just charge them off as I write them, instead of quoting and taking separate small payments for each of them, one at a time.

4. There are no pricing surprises; my prices don't "change" based on the payment method; and (obviously) any unused remaining credit is always either entirely refunded or held and applied to future orders, totally at the client's option. No money is ever deducted from that lump sum unless it's actually for more work; that credit never expires; and if a customer tells me to hold onto any unused credit for future work, initially, but later decides to take the refund, instead, obviously, I issue a refund, immediately and with no deductions since the last project and no questions asked. Furthermore, no client of mine has ever tried this payment format and subsequently asked to go back to paying for projects one at a time, precisely because the price of my projects doesn't "change" based on the payment method; it's simply a convenient system that saves both the writer and the client time. Once the client already trusts the writer based on a perfect record of delivering high-quality projects on time (or earlier than promised), it's just more convenient for both parties.

5. Two days later, on July 11th, someone calling himself "Blake" posted a nonsensical rambling response in which he defended his practice of charging monthly retainers (supposedly for 25 years), and in incoherent ESL English, proceeded to explain both that the main purpose of these "retainers" is to guarantee unlimited revisions and that he never gets any revision requests, because his projects are always delivered perfectly. (Apparently, it didn't occur to him that if his projects never need any revisions, there'd be absolutely no need for any "retainer," in the first place, since the main purpose of his "retainer" is to guarantee unlimited revisions.)https://essaychat.com/2/

6. "Blake" also added that my comment must reflect my "jealousy" because his clients (supposedly) pay him monthly retainers while my clients are only willing to pay me a "store credit" and that this suggests that I don't deserve much "professional respect."

It's not impossible at all, as long as you're willing to pay for the time necessarily involved in a critical substantive read of 80% of a dissertation. In my experience, prospective clients who approach me with this kind of proposal usually present it as a "proofreading" project without understanding what proofreading actually means. Proofreading doesn't include any substantive analysis of the content; it only focuses on most superficial technical elements such as spelling, punctuation, tense, etc. Line editing consists of rewording and rewriting parts of some sentences to improve the writing; but it still doesn't address the substantive content or the logical organization of the material or of its arguments. What you're requesting is the most difficult and time-consuming type of review; and it takes a lot of time, mainly because it's already, essentially, a substantial amount of the work involved in heavily editing or substantively rewriting an entire dissertation, even without actually doing any of the editing or rewriting (yet). Finally, in my experience, most of the dissertation drafts provided to me for this kind of proposed review are so bad that it would (literally) take more work and time to fix them than it would take to simply start them over entirely, discarding almost everything except the topic of the dissertation; sometimes, even the topic is inappropriate (or impossible to execute satisfactorily) for a dissertation. Usually, those projects are also presented to me, initially, as "proofreading" requests.

None of the above necessarily applies to your dissertation, obviously, because I haven't seen it; I'm just sharing my experience with these types of inquiries, to answer your question about why it might be so difficult to find someone to do this for your project. Out of perhaps 50 or more such inquiries that I've received over roughly 20 years, I believe only about 2 or 3 actually required only "proofreading" or a relatively light line editing; and I recall only one such inquiry to which I responded by telling the inquirer that it needed only such a light proofreading that it would probably be a waste of money to pay me (or anybody else) to do it, because anybody who wrote that draft in the first place should be perfectly capable of proofreading it himself, after just letting it sit for a few days to be able to do a "cold" read.

I just received another of these types of requests, except with a slight twist that I've never previously encountered: The client wants two versions of the exact same assignment; but he specifically wants his friend's to be "at least 1 letter grade lower" than his, because they're graded on a curve. I refused to do this (for several reasons), and responded that he can decide which version to give his friend and which version to keep for his own use, but I'm going to do both to the best of my ability. Ordinarily, I have no problem holding back and providing projects at whatever level clients want; but I'm not doing it under these circumstances where the intended recipient hasn't requested it and has no idea that his "friend" intends to sabotage his results.

Why would pre-written essays purchased from commercial essay companies be any more helpful to students than the (free) assignment samples provided by their own professors who actually teach their courses and grade their submissions?