The only "reputation" I have here is for providing very high-quality work, turning down any projects that I cannot take with high confidence that I can do them well, for doing business honestly, and for competing only above-board, ethically, and honestly against my legitimate competitors. Unlike you, I don't resort to fabricating totally false accusations against my competitors and posting nasty insults about them, totally unprovoked, let alone stalking their posts and their websites. This is my only forum ID, which you already know, and you also know that your accusations that I am also "Noted" and "Writers Beware" are absolutely absurd. WB, in particular, used to start threads here warning students never to do business with any writer without a website, as part of his/her perpetual efforts to steer all clients to companies like his/hers and away from all independent writers. At the time he/she created a thread characterizing all writers using AOL and other email accounts as untrustworthy, simply because we didn't have websites, he/she knew, full well, that the top 3 or 4 essay-company writers whose writing he/she was selling, at the same time, through his/her own essay companies were all here under the exact same IDs that we used as our IDs at his/her company and that we all did our indpendent business through AOL email accounts. In fact, it was that 2009 thread that left me with no choice but to create a website for the first time, in 2010, even though I didn't really think I needed one, otherwise. But the point is, simply, that it's absurd to imagine that any freelance writer would ever create threads like those, because they would only underine our efforts to get more freelance work. Every person who has commented about my work, including both customers and other writers, is a genuine forum member to whom I have no connection; and that can be confirmed by using the messaging system to contact them directly, as well as by contacting this forum's Admin by email.


That's a really clever strategy for argument, there: When Ido respond directly to your false accusations point by point, you completely ignore the substance of those direct responses, and you suggest that either I have OCD or you congratulate yourself for "touching a nerve" simply because I responded directly to each of your false accusations. If I ignore any of your accusations or implications, such as your silly comment about the photos on my website, because it's just too stupid to bother dignifying, you repeat it elsewhere and imply that I should have responded to it. The fact of the matter is that I wouldn't ever expect any person looking at my website to imagine, even for a second, that the photo to which you referred is actually supposed to be me. Obviously, I simply chose from whatever stock photos Intuit provided, because I'm not trying to convince anybody that I create websites for a living. Do I also need to "disclose" that the other photos on my site aren't really my actual customers sitting in front of their laptops or my actual colleagues sitting around a conference table?

If you think about it, you've already sort of answered your own question. Most blackmailing situations arise when a shady company -- usually one with a 100% refund-if-not-satisfied "guarantee" -- that ONLY provides horrible work that never satisfies any of its first-time/last-time customers responds to totally justified refund demands with threats to report those customers to their schools if they don't cancel their payment disputes. Even these rip-off sites don't typically pop up out of nowhere with blackmail demands of clients who aren't pursuing refunds from the company. They use blackmail more as a way of keeping money they didn't really earn than as a way of actively chasing previous customers for more money. That's not to say they couldn't be simultaneously engaged in other shady or criminal schemes; but that would much more likely involve selling your credit card # and/or ID info to brokers, etc. They probably wouldn't be waiting for all of their customers' info to go stale before digging through their old payment and ID info years later to try to find and blackmail them. Even if you were inclined to being a blackmailer, that would be about the dopiest and most inefficient and unsuccessful way you could possibly do it.

Legit companies (and writers) don't blackmail anybody. Think about it: Could you actually picture someone diligently working for hours to make deadlines on high-quality essays that would most likely qualify for very high grades also working a scam as a blackmailer? Those ways of earning a living are usually mutually exclusive, because the types of people who become predatory criminals usually just aren't also the types of people inclined to sit at a desk all day researching and writing academic essays. If you were going to try to rob people, why would you waste your time also writing the kinds of essays that customer would be happy to receive? That takes a lot of time, and effort, and a skillset that most criminals probably lack. At most, they'd send you some garbage pasted together from Wiki in 10 minutes if essay services were nothing but a "front" for a blackmail scheme; or they wouldn't bother sending you anything once they had your info. So, just the fact that you received good work from them should probably be enough for you not to have to worry that they're suddenly going to blackmail you out of the blue. A company with writers on one floor, billing department on another floor, and a blackmailing department in the basement just isn't anybody's business model. (Nor are there really any brick-and-mortar essay companies with "offices" and rooms of on-site writers, in the first place, but that's an entirely different topic.)

Trust me that anyone with one whole entire brain cell wouldn't jump to the same conclusion.


Sometimes Noted and I agree, but probably a lot less often than we disagree. I've also defended other writers here, most notaby, Pheelyks, when he was attacked in this thread, even though it would have been much more beneficial to me to just sit back and watch him get criticized unfairly. Professor Verb and Research Pro also said very complimentary things about me on this forum. Does that mean that I'm also Pheelyks, Professor Verb, and Research Pro?: https://essayscam.org/forum/es/pheelyks-versus-freelance-writer-comparative-analysis-3051/


So, your conclusion after reading threads like this one is that I was also WB threatening to try to get myself fired from an essay company after I got embarrassed arguing with myself about grammar?: https://essayscam.org/forum/es/academic-help-verification-656/#msg9067

And here, I suppose I was arguing, as an atheist who detests Donald Trump against myself as a Christian who supported Trump while making vicious accusations about my own character?: https://essayscam.org/forum/ot/usa-presidential-elections-economy-5361/#msg74375


I don't post my full name, either. Is that being opaque, as well? If you can (supposedly) write UK law projects, you should be capable of quite easily understanding the two main reasons that I detailed (twice in successive posts) about why I prefer to discuss prices only with prospective clients and not to post them publicly.


That would be WB, not me. I defy you to find a single post anywhere on this forum where I ever "bullied" anybody since I first joined here in 2008. Furthermore, if I were WB, I'd have been completely unable to resist the temptation to point out all of your glaring grammatical mistakes in your post.


You're a real Sherlock Holmes, there, Pal.

WTF are you talking about and/or trying to imply?

This is all true; but the main reason that I don't like publicizing my prices is simply that it increases the chances that new customers who don't yet realize that most of my lower-priced competitors (both independent writers and big essay companies) are totally unqualified will just do a very quick price comparison and then go right to my totally unqualified competitors. At least when they have to contact me first for a price quote, I have the chance to explain why there's such a price differential and warn them not to trust my competitors with more than a very short portion of a larger project.

Thanks to Admin for editing out the price; I really appreciate it.


Thanks for the support. The last time someone posted a review like this for me a few years ago, it generated all sorts of accusations within minutes of being posted.


Exactly. This is also (the main reason) why I prefer not to publicize my prices at all. Unfortunately, this just isn't a normal industry where (mostly) legit providers compete against one another and whose prices are slightly different but in the same ball park, because they all offer roughly comparable services. In this industry, there are many more scammers and rip-off artists -- or just plain old horribly unqualified providers -- competing (and fairly successfully) against the relatively few of us legit providers by offering prices that are ridiculously low and much less than what good legit providers typically charge for the quality work that all customers hope to receive anytime they pay for projects. My main concern is that many new customers don't realize that and will be duped by those low prices (and by the flashy high-quality websites that play a large role in the success of those horrible providers) even more than they already are if I publicize my prices. The other reason is simply that not all projects are the same price, because prices are based on several factors, such as level of education, whether projects are for US or UK institutions, the amount of time that I think a project will require, and quite frankly, how busy I happen to be and how much will make it worth it to me to have to squeeze it in to make that deadline along with all of my other deadlines and non-work plans and commitments.

If I'd written it myslef, I would't have had to email Admin just now to ask them to please edit out the price. I purposely don't publicize my price and would prefer that hadn't been included, for several reasons.

Just this week, I did two rush projects for two different new clients, both of whom tried their luck with cheaper companies after first getting quotes from me on projects that weren't even rush deadlines when they originally sent them to me. They both discovered for themselves exactly why cheap prices are a red flag in this industry and they both ended up paying me more than my original (non-rush) quote, and after wasting about another 50% of what they paid me for totally unusable work from a cheaper competitor.

Actually, it's not a technically-sophisticated crime, at all, and that's hardly the problem. In fact, it's about as simple and basic as any crime could possibly be. They advertise high-quality original writing but what they really provide is extremely-low-quality "writing" that's substantially or entirely plagiarized. The only reason it's almost impossible to pursue any remedy through the legal system is also extremely basic and simple: they're just located way too far away to establish jurisdiction in any court that's a reasonable distance from the vast majority of their clients. That has nothing to do with the nature of the crime itself, but is only a matter of where the respective parties happen to be located whenever customers buy virtual products furnished online. If a client happens to live in or near the city where the company involved has an office or where it's registered to do business, there would be nothing technically difficult about pursuing a claim and prevailing quite easily: The client wouldn't have to do anything more than file the case, show up with screen shots of the website with all of its promises and guarantees, and just present the essay that was received, along with the plagiarism report and the email history. Then, he could contact the local sheriff (or local equivalent), pay a small fee, and let them levy the judgment against the company.

This is generally true, irrespective of the industry involved. If you find a provider who is significantly cheaper than a well-known provider with a good reputation, chances are very high that you'll find out exactly why there's such a price differential as soon as you receive your project (assuming that you do actually receive anything from them). You'll end up just paying someone like me to do the whole project all over again, after having wasted whatever money you spent looking for an unrealistic bargain.


Once in a while, prospective clients tell me what their whole budget actually is for a project and I have to tell them not to even bother wasting their time trying to find any essay company or writer for that project, at all. The tighter their budget is, the less they can afford to throw away any money on unusable work, which is all they're going to find for the price that some of them are hoping to pay for their projects.


Actually, this situation is even worse for American and British clients than it is for ESL clients. First, there are plenty of ESL clients who can afford to hire an experienced and reliable writer with an established reputation; they aren't necessarily less able to afford good work than their NES counterparts. In fact, some of my clients for whom price is never an issue are ESL. Second, and much more importantly, ESL clients can sometimes make some use out of a low-quality essay, if, for example, the research and substance of the work are "OK" but the writing is terrible and very obviously written by a non-native English speaker. Much more often than not, (of course), the research and substantive quality are also unusably bad; but for native speakers, the fact that the writing is obviously ESL makes it totally unusable, regardless of the quality of the research and substance, because they'd have to rewrite it completely just to sound like it was written by a native English speaker. Professors (and I) can spot ESL writing immediately, and usually, from the first sentence.

Next time, just use the search function here (first) to check out whatever company you're considering. What was the company and how much did you pay per page?

No problem. Generally, not unless they happen to harbor their company yacht within the jurisdiction of the court. For a civil court to have jurisdiction over a defendant, the defendant would have to have registered or been licensed in that state, or have consented to service of process to a designated representative in that state (like a local lawyer or the Secretary of State), or have offices or other property in that state, or advertise within that state (like in print or on road signs), or direct electronic or digital advertising specifically to people in that state, or ship tangible goods to that state, or do substantial business in that state, or cause significant harm in that state (according to the way the law defines all of those terms in context). Isolated commercial misrepresentations or fraudulent sales of digital goods delivered online by remote entities to individuals living in a state just isn't enough to establish jurisdiction over a company with no real ties to that state. Many companies (of all types) also include clauses in their contracts and/or TOS designating sole jurisdiction in courts where they're located.

I don't think they're actually hiring any paid shills. It's probably his website and he's just creating multiple identities here, on his own, starting with the OP who plants the seed by asking about the company so that he can just switch identities and pretend to answer his own question under a different ID. All you need to do is check the dates that each one of these S/Ns was created and started posting (only) in this thread.

That applies to the entire thread: The OP "Alex" was an abvious shill who created the thread on the same day that he joined. Then, he created both the "Tim Denn" and Charles_SS accounts to "respond" to his question, also on the same day that he created all 3 accounts for that purpose.

I don't know and couldn't care less what his vocational (or psychological) situation is and I've spent zero time thinking about him since he was banned from here several years ago. Nevertheless, I couldn't help immediately recognizing his writing style and choice of vocabulary, both of which made it very obvious to me that the last dozen or so new S/Ns here that immediately began trolling you before being banned again and again for unprovoked attacks that were sent to the Trash or Off-Topic section were all his contributions. I don't come here to engage in personal feuds and if you check his old (main) S/N, you'll see that I never initiated any exchanges with him and that his many personal attacks were completely unprovoked by me in any way. I have no idea what would motivate someone who claims not to need to work in this industry at all to continue creating new accounts here over and over again just to initiate personal attacks long after his main ID was banned. I've been busy simply earning a living by providing very-high-quality essays to my clients, many of whom found me right here.

I have no problem discussing how and why I started doing this for a living.


Thank you; but just to be clear, there have never been any "negative allegations" about my business practices, reliability, or honesty, or about the very high quality of my work from anybody, either here or on Essay Chat, going back to when I first signed up here in 2008. The comments to which you're referring are all just nasty personal insults from the same (ONE) person who has also been regularly creating new IDs on this forum for the last few years just to insult and troll you (and Cite, before you), and the forum's administrators. He had a very long history of stalking my posts on this forum to insult me personally before he was finally banned in 2016. His animosity towards me is strictly personal and originated after he badly embarrassed himself a long time ago (in 2010 or 2011) in a very silly argument in which he argued (seriously) that driving drunk is a "skill" that should be learned early, in connection with a lighthearted thread asking us writers about the stupidest essay topic that we ever had to write, to which I'd simply responded that it was an essay requesting an argument to support lowering the legal drinking age. Prior to that, he and I had coexisted on this forum for years without any conflict.

Nothing he's ever said about me amounts to any kind of substantive "allegation" about anything. His decade of personal attacks are nothing but insults about my age, his personal opinion that I'm not a very good writer, that I'm "boring," that my website sucks, that I'm a "pompous braggart," and that I probably never really graduated from law school. Ironically, given his comments (especially) about my supposedly being a "braggart," between the two of us, he's the only one who's ever made comments about how big his house is, that he was "Mercedes shopping," that he's a published author, that he really doesn't need to work in this industry because of how much money he makes elsewhere, and that he now makes "real money" for half as much work in some other job.

There's really no mystery or complex situation behind my having stumbled into doing this for a living, nor do I mind discussing it. I went to law school mainly because I figured a law degree might open up more career possibilities than undergraduate degrees in history and psychology, and I really had no idea what (else) I wanted to do after college. My LSAT score was nearly perfect on 3 out of (back then) 4 sections and my overall score put me in the 90th percentile; so it seemed like a no-brainer to go to law school even though I'd never had any specific interest in being a lawyer. In between my 3rd and 4th year of law school (the evening program is a year longer than the regular daytime program), I did an internship at a Lexington Avenue personal injury law firm and became familiar, for the first time, with exactly what lawyers actually do, what kinds of lives they live, and the kinds of hours they typically work, especially as new associates, and I knew that I had zero interest in that kind of career, because I just wanted to work a regular 40 hours per week (at most) and be at the gym by 5:00 PM at least 4 or 5 days every week.

I didn't need a law degree to work for the federal government as a writer; but I'm pretty sure that it was one of the reasons that they hired me for it instead of one of the other 400 candidates who had applied for the position. Writing has always been what comes most easily to me and it's the one thing that always got noticed about me at every level of school. Back in 1995, when I got my first DOS laptop, I asked my friend and computer guru how long he thought it might be before someone like me could earn a living from his couch on a laptop computer without having to leave his apartment, and he said "probably about 10 years," which turned out to be quite accurate. That whole idea first came to me from watching a 1985 movie about the 1980s gym scene: Perfect, starring John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis that came out during my first year of law school when my main social life also happened to be in one of the NYC gyms (Vertical Club on East 61st Street) that inspired the movie. Travolta played the role of a Rolling Stone reporter, and while I never had any interest in being any kind of reporter, the instant I saw him on his couch typing on a laptop, I knew that was the way I wanted to earn a living, not in a law office (or any kind of office) from 9 AM to 9 PM (or later), and often, another 5-10 hours at the office over the weekend.

Once I started writing for an essay company, it became immediately obvious that I was a much better writer than most of my competitors, from the way the company treated me and from some of the projects I did that were re-ordered and directed to me as requests from the company after other writers had done them the first time. Obviously, nobody gets rich doing this for a living; but those of us who are good at it can make a decent living that's about the same as we could earn as fulltime (on-site) writers, such as writing for a federal agency, which is what I'd still be doing if I couldn't do this, instead, without ever having to leave my apartment, or waking up to an alarm clock, or sacrificing my hobbies outside of work. Even working fulltime for the government, which is only 40 hours/week, wouldn't have allowed me to maintain my lifelong fitness routine or to play hockey, or even just to be on the board of directors of my co-op building. When I worked for the government, it was almost impossible just to workout 3 or 4 times a week and my weekends consisted of little more than catching up on all of the sleep I'd missed during the week, doing my laundry and food shopping, and preparing my clothes and food for the next week of work all over again. I have absolutely no idea how anybody lives like that for decades; and I suspect that might have a lot to do with why so many people seem miserable with their lives.

My bad. I'm sorry, but I don't monitor or think about you as much as you obviously obsess about me. Your original ID here under which you did everything I described in my previous post was RustyIronChains. Apologies to FG.

Thank you. I hadn't noticed those attacks until a few days ago, because I don't really spend much time there. I didn't have a chance to respond any earlier, because, unlike the anonymous person attacking me there, I actually had a lot of deadlines to meet before taking the time to respond in any kind of detail. The person is almost certainly someone who used to post here as "Editor75" because he's obviously not smart or creative enough to avoid using some of the exact same terminology (and specific insults) that (also) makes it quite obvious to me that he's the same person behind many apparent attempts to rejoin this forum as newly-created IDs that he's used only to attack you and this forum's administrators until his new IDs are eventually banned. Before he recreated himself here as "Editor75," he used to post here as "Fracture Gang" under which ID he'd proudly boasted about ripping off clients who "deserved" to be ripped off, writing some pamphlet that he self-published as a "book" about how to cheat and rob people in various different ways, and to reselling essays whose copyrights he didn't own.

Thank you.

Almost all of the legit writers here always got along even though we were direct competitors for new clients. We never disparaged one another or lied about one another, or competed against one another in any way that was dishonest or underhanded. The vast majority of the bad blood and nastiness that you reference was instigated strictly by: (1) posters affiliated with scam companies whose only way of "competing" against legitimate providers was personal attacks and fabricated accusations, and (2) undisclosed employees and/or principals of essay companies intent on presenting all freelance writers as unworthy of any customer's trust, even writers whose actual identity (and talents) they knew very well, because we were actually writers at their own companies at the time that they were trying their best to undermine us on this forum. They made it quite clear that they believed that any freelance writer looking for customers here was "stealing" customers who "belonged" to them. Pheelyks, ResearchPro, Professor Verb, JohnsMom, and I were all working for the same essay company when we first came here around 2007-2008 (at the company's specific request, to help defend them against obviously untrue public accusations, mainly from one disgruntled former writer). However, one of the (undisclosed) principals at that essay company made every possible effort to portray the same independent writers writing for her own companies as much less trustworthy than essay companies, even as her own companies were selling the essays that she knew we were writing for that company.

This is true, not to mention that written assignments in college are rarely anything more than annoying obstacles for students to hurdle. Whatever students actually learn from their studies in any substantive way has nothing to do with the essays that they're assigned to write outside of class. Most of them just paraphrase from the first sources they find through a Google search that are loosely-related to their topics; and they never plan on writing anything much more than emails after their graduation, anyway. I'm aware that some of my clients use my work to avoid having to write their own essays and/or to get much higher grades on assignments than they probably could get on their own, or because they just don't have the time to write them at that level, themselves. The only real guilt I ever feel is that it's not fair to their classmates if they're all graded on a curve, because they can't really compete with a professional writer of well over 10,000 projects who started doing this for a living before many of them were born.

Either his agreement says that he owns the copyright or it doesn't. If he owns it, there's nothing "vague" about what copyright ownership means and he doesn't need any additional contractual language defining what he can or can't do with work whose copyright he owns. Furthermore, even if their agreement specifies that he owns it, he'd still be just as susceptible to blackmail, to whatever extent that's a concern, simply because nobody inclined to perpetrate criminal blackmail would ever be deterred from that criminal activity by any civil "contract" not to engage in blackmail. Criminals don't even respect penal laws; so they obviously don't care one bit about violating "contracts."

I would disagree with this characterization and with your related assumptions for several reasons; but I'd agree 100% that nobody who is even remotely close to ever having been any kind of "professor" has ever worked as a writer for that company. It's just a company name meant to imply that their writers are all PhDs.

I don't expect someone who has never used me before to pay me in advance for a 20-page project. As long as their deadlines are long enough for it, I have always advised clients to pay any new writer (or company) for a short section of a longer project before trusting anybody with full payment in advance for their entire projects. On the other hand, your suggestion doesn't work, because it requires writers to spend their time on work that hasn't yet been paid for. There's simply no reason to complicate things that way, either. If new clients want to be careful, they should simply order (and pay for) as few pages as they wish; then, if they're happy with the first section(s), they can pay for additional sections.

No legitimate writer who is already busy working on projects almost every single day of his life can afford to spend even one hour of his time working on anything that hasn't yet been paid for. We don't need the headache of keeping track of who owes for completed work and we're never taking the risk of writing even a single page of any project before it's paid for, because whether or not we deliver it, we've still already wasted our time working on it by that time. I have two such projects pending right now: new clients have paid me for just the Introduction section of much longer projects. That's how cautious clients can protect themselves, not by expecting busy writers to do work before it's been paid for. Ultimately, someone has to take a risk on the first project: either the client risks receiving bad work (or nothing) after paying for a couple of pages or a writer risks writing a couple of pages that might never be paid for. The worst case scenario for a client is possibly wasting a payment for a couple of pages. However, on the writer's side, just imagine if we had to write 2 or 3 pages before payment for every new prospective client: We'd be writing 10 or 20 pages every week and then have to chase down payments, let alone getting ripped off by clients who never really intended to pay for the work they ordered.

As I've explained many times, at least clients have this forum (and Google) to check the reputation of writers; but there's nothing comparable for writers to check out the payment history of new clients. Those of us writers who have been operating under the same forum ID (and email) for a decade or two also have incentive to protect our reputations by providing good work; conversely, there's nothing comparable to provide incentive for clients who might want to try to rip off a writer.


These are the students who end up finding out for themselves that only the most desperate "writers" who have absolutely no projects on their schedules -- and usually, for reasons that quickly become obvious -- because no experienced writer who is already actually making a living doing this will ever even consider providing any work (even one page of writing) before it's been paid for. I'm perfectly comfortable letting those clients find this out for themselves; and the same goes for clients asking for "discounts" because some other writer or company offered them a lower price. I just warn those clients not to order more than a very short project (or section of a longer project) from those competitors before trusting them with payment for their entire projects. At least once a month, someone who declined my price quote contacts me again a few weeks (or days) later asking me for the exact same project, precisely because they found out exactly why my competitors charge less. They sometimes end up paying me more than the original price they declined to meet the same deadline, in addition to the money they wasted hoping to save 25% (or whatever) by going with my cheaper competitors.

As I've explained many times, "samples" are worthless to whatever extent their purpose is to determine whether or not you can trust the quality of a writer's work, because you have no way of knowing who really wrote that sample.


I know no legitimate writer who would ever even consider providing a project before payment. All writers want long-term relationships; but the way you pursue that is by providing quality work, not by exposing yourself to possibly being ripped off by a non-paying customer. No writer can afford to waste the time it takes to write a project that ends up either not being paid for or that requires folow-up emails chasing after payments. Scams go both ways in this business, and at least prospective customers have a way of researching the online history and reputation of writers; conversely, there's no way for writers to research every new prospective customer's reputation, nor do we have that kind of time.

Agreed.

This alone, is enough to know that a company is deceiving its customers, because no legit essay company really provides "unlimited" rewrites based on subjective criterion, such as the customer's "satisfaction." This forum is littered with chat transcripts between unsatisfied customers and reps from essay companies giving them the runaround and eventually just terminating the exchange altogether when customers tried to hold those companies to the terms of their ridiculous "guarantees." Legit writers (and companies) will always provide free rewrites for mistakes on our end and legit companies will always refund your money if you can show them that one of their writers used plagiarized content; but nobody would ever provide unlimited rewrites, or even a single rewrite, based on the customer merely saying that he was "unsatisfied" but without something very specific being wrong with the essay that could be fairly considered an objective justification for the rewrite request.

They've simply taken a slightly different approach to plausible deniability; but it really doesn't affect their relationship with their customers. I know absolutely nothing about the website or whether they're legit and/or any good; but I don't think it matters much that they use their webpage to do what most essay companies do through their TOS. Most essay companies include explicit statements in their TOS that prohibit their customers from using their work for any other purpose besides "studying" it or "citing" it as a resource in their own writing. Everybody knows that this is just their attempt at creating plausible deniability about knowing what their customers really do with their product, because I don't think anybody really believes that students are going to pay a premium for original writing just to "study" from it; and (obviously) nobody would ever "cite" the name of an essay company as a source in work submitted for academic credit. It would be a huge problem for customers if they did the opposite, such by promising that their work is 100% original and perfectly safe to submit for credit, while providing unoriginal work. If they're providing original work that a customer could safely submit for credit (if that's the customer's choice), what difference does it make that the website included language pretending not to condone that, while providing original work? Other essay sites include promises all over their web pages about "original" work, and they just put all of their language pretending "not" to condone the submission of their product for credit into their TOS rather than elsewhere on their sites. I don't see this as a very meaningful issue as long as they're actually providing original work of the expected quality, (if that's indeed the case).

The value of a generic college education has greatly decreased; but it's still a necessity to qualify for most decent jobs. College degrees that don't prepare graduates to enter specific high-demand fields aren't worth what they used to be worth; but college graduates (as a group) still get better jobs and earn, on average, a million more dollars over the course of a career than workers without college degrees.

Man is not currently "evolving" in intelligence, simply because the Darwinian evolution of intelligence would mean that members a species are increasing their chances of reaching reproductive age as a function of that increased intelligence. Global maternal and childhood health are increasing because of the increasing accessibility of clean water, sanitation, nutritious food, and basic health care in the Third World, not because of increasing intelligence. Furthermore, in this country, maternal and infant mortality are actually increasing not decreasing (and life expectancy is decreasing), mainly because of the unaffordability of quality health care in many low-income communities.

Children learn to use computers as toddlers simply because they're introduced to them as toddlers, not because they're being born more "intelligent" than their ancestors; and maybe only a few out of 1,000 become involved in computer programming. Computers and other forms of digital technology aren't much more than more efficient communications mechanisms; but without some kind of formal education, most of what's communicated on them is little more than useless gibberish. Digital technology will probably eventually result in a shift to online education just as it will probably result in a shift to online white-collar work; but the process of becoming educated and of acquiring a marketable standardized measure of specific levels of education through the award of formal educational degrees probably isn't going anywhere, much less just because kids are becoming computer literate as toddlers.

As I tried to explain to you the other day, this is just not the way that rational intelligent people have conversations or make arguments about points of disagreement. You're the one claiming to know of cases where students have tried to submit rewrites of sample essays provided, in the first place, by their professors, as guidance. If someone else says that he doubts that's true, a rational intelligent person responds by simply providing whatever evidence he can that backs his original claim. He doesn't challenge the person who doubts his claim to "find" the evidence of his own claim instead of simply backing up his own claim with whatever evidence he implied that there is.


I'm very familiar with project requests to rewrite essays so that they will pass any plagiarism scan and I've previously mentioned that I handle these types of projects once in a while. Usually, these clients provide no information at all about where they got the original paper. On what basis do you conclude that any of these original projects, much less "all" of them are, necessarily, samples provided by professors rather than essays simply written by other students? Someone would have to be pretty stupid to try to rewrite the samples provided by the course professor. Do you happen to have any evidence of this ever having happened even once that you can share?


I don't view you as a "threat" and I don't have any problem with anybody just for being "active" on this board. Going all the way back to the years when Professor Verb and Pheelyks were very active contributors, both of them were direct competitors of mine, at the same essay company for which we all wrote, as well as for prospective clients looking for writers on this forum. I have always maintained professional relationships with my legitimate competitors and, in many cases, we have referred clients to one another and backed one another up when we were too booked up to handle projects for our respective clients. In fact, when someone attacked Pheelyks by creating this thread here, I specifically defended him against accusations that I knew couldn't be true, even though it would have been much more beneficial to me to simply ignore that thread to let a very "active" competitor absorb as much negative press as possible: https://essayscam.org/forum/es/pheelyks-versus-freelance-writer-comparative-analysis-3051/

On the other hand, I don't believe that you're "totally" "out of the academic business" because I don't believe that any person who doesn't depend, quite substantially, on income from providing academic essays would ever spend as much time here as you do. That's especially true, because you obviously spend even more time researching the history and current status of dozens and dozens of companies in this business than you spend typing out the information that you collect on them.

For the record, I have never, even once, attacked or insulted you personally. I have only responded to the substance of some of your posts, because some of your proclamations, conclusions, and bits of advice that you post are patently ridiculous. For just a few examples, you have posted that: (1) Some professors now make "allowances" for ghostwritten essays because they understand the pressures facing students; (2) Writers shouldn't stay with any one company for more than 1-2 years to avoid problems getting paid; and (3) Writers working for foreign companies (including companies whose whereabouts aren't known) should protect themselves by making sure they have solid "contracts" with those companies. I pointed out, respectively, that: (1)I don't believe that ANY professors anywhere "allow" students to submit essays that they know those students didn't write; (2)There's no benefit, whatsoever, from continually changing companies, except, perhaps, for bad writers, because legit companies don't suddenly stop paying their writers whatever they owe them after 1-2 years; and (3) No "contract" provides any "protection" if you don't know where the company is actually located or if the company is so far away that the cost of actually pursuing (even valid) contractual claims against them would cost 10-100X the amount of money in dispute.

Those are all conversations about substantive disagreements, not "attacks" of any kind and they aren't motivated even slightly by how "active" you are on this forum or by the fact that you're (obviously, to me) someone working for a "competitor." On that matter, all you have to do is check the many dozens of threads about the history and status of various essay companies that you started or in which you've been "active." I have never, even once, invaded those threads to challenge you, because researching essay companies just isn't something in which I'm involved. However, the amount of time and effort that you spend doing this strongly suggests to any logical reader that it's inconceivable that you don't still earn a living in this industry, because there's just no other explanation for why anybody would ever spend that kind of time researching (other) essay companies if they weren't his competitors.


Nothing I've ever posted, especially in response to your posts, has ever been motivated by my being "scared." Again, as between the two of us, you're the only one who has insulted the other on a personal level. My responses are strictly limited to the substance of your claims with which I often disagree; and one the occasion that you post something with which I actually agree, I have said so.


Presumably, you're referencing the original topic of this particular disagreement: namely, projects consisting of requests to rewrite essays to pass plagiarism detection. I've said, more than once, that I provide this type of service on request. So far, you have yet to even provide a single iota of evidence for your own claims after they're challenged, let alone "proving" that anything I've said is incorrect. I'm the one trying to have an intelligent conversation about topics of obvious disagreement, and you've taken offenses at that and said various deliberately insulting and nasty things about me instead of trying to establish your original point with any evidence supporting what you've posted.


Yes, forum discussions can be enjoyable; but that doesn't explain why someone "totally out of the business" would spend so much time researching the history and current status of essay companies. On the matter of your disclaimer, since you bring it up, why would you take such offense and respond so personally and so angrily at my suggestion that some of the things that you post just don't make sense to me? Your own "disclaimer" in your signature implies that much of what you post might be inaccurate and erroneous.

Then, why do they often hand out examples of good essays from previous students (or provide them on request)?


No undergraduate essays are getting published in any "journals," especially any journals that would be appropriate as source material.


First, there are plenty of publications that aren't considered academically-appropriate sources, because, among other things, they're not peer-reviewed or professional or otherwise authoritative journals. Second, why would "accidental" plagiarism be any less likely based on who wrote the source and whether (or where) it was published? Either you cite all of your sources for any material that you derived from those sources properly or you don't, right? Any "accident" has nothing to do with the type of source or its author.

No student should ever waste money on prewritten essays. Most professors will be more than happy to provide previous "A" essays as samples of exactly what they're looking for if you plan on using prewritten essays for assistance writing your own essay.

As a company writer from 2003 to 2013,I wrote mostly for one of the largest legitimate US essay companies. Nevertheless, I took plenty of projects that were actually orders to re-do projects delivered by other writers at the same company that had obviously been written by ESL writers and that could never have been used by NES students.

Even the perfect contract provides ZERO protection to writers if they can't identify the company's true location. Furthermore, even if you do know the company's exact location, a contract still provides ZERO protection if flying abroad to a foreign court to enforce that contract (or hiring someone local to pursue your claim for you) costs 10X or 100X the amount of money at issue in the dispute. They're totally worthless and totally unenforceable by writers unless you know exactly where the company is located AND you happen to live in the same city or within a relatively short driving distance. The amount of money at issue in most disputes between writers and non-paying companies isn't even worth traveling to another state in the same country, let alone flying to distant countries.

The only writers who might conceivably benefit at all from switching companies regularly like that are bad writers who know that they're not very good at this. They'll submit bad work and/or recycled work for as long as they can get away with it until the company gets complaints and figures out that the those writers are no good, at which point those writers have to find other companies where thay can try to make a fresh start. On the other hand, I cannot imagine even the slightest benefit of constantly changing companies for good writers.

Whenever you first start writing for a company, the company really has no way of knowing whether you're any good or how reliable and trustworthy you really are, regardless of what's on your resume and how good your writing samples are. It takes some time for them to get to know you and to build their trust in the quality of your work for them. Many companies restrict access to more advanced projects and don't allow their newer writers to view them. Other companies rank their writers (based on their prior projects and on customer feedback) and only permit writers at higher levels to view and take certain projects. Customer service reps also need some time to get to know writers in relation to how they handle questions or revision requests from clients. The way CS responds to complaints and/or revision requests often has a lot to do with what they already know about that writer's work and reputation. Finally, companies will also offer their best writers bonuses to take on more difficult projects, sometimes. Writers don't usually get any of those benefits until they've written a few hundred projects for a company over the course of a year or more.

If you're a good writer, you have absolutely nothing to gain by constantly switching companies, and I don't know what "problems [with] payment values" could possibly mean, especially in relation to your length of time working for a legit company. If a company is legit, they pay all of their writers exactly what they owe them every payment cycle, whether writers have been with them for 1 month or for 10 years; there just aren't any "problems" that suddenly emerge after 1-2 years of working for them, and certainly not as a function of how much time you've been with them. Conversely, if a scam company rips off its writers, they don't normally pay them everything they owe for 1-2 full years and then suddenly stop paying them. What sometimes happens is that companies that rip off their writers might purposely suck them in by paying them for their first projects or for their first couple of months of projects, and then stop paying them what they owe them as soon as a writer is owed a few thousand dollars for a full month's work. But companies that do that don't pay their writers in full for 1-2 years and suddenly stop paying them after paying for their first few hundred delivered projects during their first year or two.

Taking your points out of order:


First, nobody is attacking you. I just have a very hard time believing that any professors are making "allowances" about ghostwritten essays or that college writing centers or professors are actually writing student essays for money. Second, this is a discussion on public forum in which you've chosen to participate. You don't get to decide, unilaterally, when any discussion ends, although you may choose to stop responding anytime you wish.


I'm sorry, but that's just not how adults defend their positions against challenges in intelligent conversations. I don't know that you're actually "lying" because you may very well believe everything that you posted. However, you made a couple of very far-fetched claims here that you posted as factual: namely, that students at some colleges are actually buying essays written for them by the staff of their college writing centers and even by some of their professors. All of that sounds highly improbable to me and I doubt that it's true. You shouldn't be offended or insulted or feel attacked because someone who is skeptical of these kinds of claims simply asks you to provide some evidence of where you got what you've posted as fact. If, as you say, "the proof is all over the web," then, it should be extremely easy for you to just post some of those links to this information. More generally, it's impossible for anybody to "prove" a negative, such as proving that there is no such evidence. I'm not the one making a factual claim; you are. I just don't accept your claim without some evidence, which you say is all over the web. So, why not simply direct me to some of this evidence?

Responding so angrily that someone asked you for some evidence of your claims isn't typically what people do when there actually is plenty of evidence to find; but it's exactly what people tend to do when they know that they just made something up for which they really have no objective evidence, whatsoever. Presumably, someone who isn't just making things up and posting them as facts would simply provide a link to any of those informational sources if they're really "all over the web" instead of lashing out so angrily at having been asked for some evidence of a factual claim or declaration.


Nothing that I posted has anything to do with my business or your business, much less about your business in relation to mine, or with how demanding my clients are. For the record, my clients are no more or less demanding now than they've ever been.


Again, I simply don't believe that any college writing centers, much less professors, are actually selling essays to students at their institutions; nor do I believe, that any professors are making "allowances" for their students to submit purchased essays for credit in their courses, which was your original claim for which I simply requested some evidence, in the first place. Since that evidence is "all over the web," why not simply tell us where you found it? Why refuse and get so angry about the fair question, instead?

So, let me just ask you again, politely and respectfully, to please provide whatever evidence you think there is that professors are making "allowances" for ghostwritten essays submitted by their students for academic credit and whatever evidence you think there is that college writing centers and professors are selling essays to students. Of course, you're free to hold any "opinion" or "belief" about those things on nothing but your own hunch or suspicion; but if that's the case, you should just say that and not say that there's plenty of evidence all over the web while refusing to provide it because it's my obligation to prove you wrong if I happen not to share those beliefs and ask you to back up your claims with some evidence. I'm perfectly open-minded and willing to check any evidence that you provide. Thank you.

I handle projects at the highest end of what you'd consider "advanced" services; but I don't ask my clients how they intend to use my work, because it's none of my business. Once I've been paid for it, my clients own whatever I write for them and it's entirely their prerogative how they choose to use it.

More generally, I asked you what evidence you had for any of the statements in your previous post and you responded with nothing but three paragraphs of more totally unsubstantiated statements and conclusions. So, I'll ask you again: what EVIDENCE can you provide to substantiate any of the statements and conclusions that you posted in this thread? Please start with how you would know that professors (1) know that students are purchasing ghostwritten essays directly from their college writing centers, (2) that they "opt not to say anything," and (3) that professors who have fallen on hard times are actually writing papers for students at some schools. Please post a link to any source of any of this information anywhere. Thank you.

How dare you presume to announce what you think my policies are and announce totally false information about my services? First, I don't have writers because I am a sole proprietor and not a company that employs other writers. Second, I don't provide any "tutoring" services. Third, I don't provide "extra" services such as plagiarism scans. In fact, I've repeatedly explained that those of us who already know that everything we provide is 100% original have no need for plagiarism scanners. Please do not announce what you think my policies are, because you don't know anything about me or my services other than what anybody else here knows from reading my posts on this forum. In other words, kindly mind your own business.