Since the posting in EssayChat and the hiring by this student happened on the same day, there would definitely be a suspicion that the writer and the client are one and the same person. That would be the easy conclusion to come to. Yet, there is still the possibility that it was just a coincidence. I often see postings made by writers in EssayChat that advertise their services and asking potential clients to inquire further with them. So, no matter how low the possibility, there is still a probability that the student and writer are 2 different people. Any other consideration would be jumping to an unproven conclusion.

As I tried to access this site to make sure that I would make an updated and relevant comment on the matter, I discovered that the url may still be in existence but the server the files are based in has been taken offline. Therefore, the company might have actually been made to pay their dues by losing their ability to conduct academic writing business online. With all the negative publicity the company garnered from this post alone it would have been impossible for them to defend the quality of their work and the way they treat their writers. I have no doubt that the company caused their own demise.

It is not impossible to find someone who would simply assist you in perfecting the format, content, and final presentation of your paper. You are looking for help coming from an Academic Consultant, not an Academic Writer. Sadly there are more academic writers than academic consultants to be found online.

Also known as Educational Consultants, you can actually use those 2 keywords (Academic Consultant, Educational Consultant) to get a relevant search engine return of valid services. Some are independent, others are company attached. They know how to assist students in ways that academic writers do not know or understand because their focus has always been on writing the papers themselves. The consultants are used to reviewing papers and helping students perfect the content based upon how they want to write the paper or how they have written the paper.

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I would just like to share what I know about determining the originality of an essay. Please add to it or correct me if I am wrong.

While essay writing companies provide a plagiarism and originality checker service with their orders, these cannot be relied upon because these are software that the company had created to cover up the plagiarism that their writers include in their papers. Therefore, students should double check the papers that are submitted to them using an independent checker.

One of these independent checkers could be turnitin.com. This is the official plagiarism checker of global schools and universities but, the services also come at a premium price. Other checkers such as grammarly and chegg are free to use, but often overlook aspects of plagiarism in the paper. Remember that some aspects of these papers, such as the in-text citation references within the paper itself, though properly referenced as a source will be flagged as plagiarism by the software since the AI cannot tell the difference between the citation and the plagiarized posting. So use the free checkers with caution.

One of the posters here before referenced using Google itself as a plagiarism checker. One would simply have to take a random paragraph or sentence from the writing, search for it in Gooogle then see what happens. Do these several times and if similarly worded searches come up, then the possibility of having a plagiarized paper is high. No similarities means the writer actually did his job of developing an original paper. The Google way is fast, free, and comes with a high degree of accuracy.

There is no single program out there that can prove the probability of plagiarism with certainty. There will always be room for misreading since the program / AI cannot do what the human can, when it comes to using logic and comparison when looking for plagiarism. However, these programs serve its purpose for the quick review of papers by professors. The professor still has to do the assessment part of the assignment in the proper way.

This type of template is only usable for determining the price per page of the order. It cannot be used, as far as I am concerned, as the order form because it just does not ask the right questions in relation to placing the order. A seasoned student user will immediately see that the writer is not one who has a proper idea as to how the order should be placed. The order form usually carries the telltale signs of whether or not a company or independent writer can be entrusted with the proposed word.

Do not rely on writers who negotiate prices via email either. These independent writers tend to ask the client to "bank" a certain amount with them, allowing the writer to charge what he believes is a fair amount for the order, after informing the client or, increase (but never decrease) the charges since the client has no idea how the order is actually being priced. Unless the writer or company uses a formal order form, it is best not to trust that the deal they are making will be trouble free.

In relation to the original topic presented in this thread, it is safe to assume that both companies are no longer threats that students should stay away from. Both companies are now non-existent with one selling its domain name and the other, still being located on a server but unable to load. It is unclear as to whether these companies were previously located in the UK and therefore, were the subject of the newly installed anti academic dishonesty law set into place. There is no evidence to be found online as to where these companies were previously located and when they went physically offline. Let us just hope that they did not somehow manage to reincarnate as a new writing company.

This information is incorrect. The website url may have gone offline for a period of time but it has been bought and appears to be back in business in an informal way. The company can be contacted through other means at the moment while they await the return of their formal website. As of now, the company is doing business through wordpress using the same company name. Their alternative contact pages are also listed on their blog page. So it is just a matter of time before the company returns to create problems for the students yet again.

Anybody who uses this website, and happens to be a student in the UK should understand one thing, the UK law pertaining to academic writing companies will not protect you should you encounter problems with this company. As these companies are outlawed in the UK, any company that uses a .uk extension is MOST DEFINITELY NOT LOCATED IN THE UK. The writing companies that actually had offices in the UK either veered away from the writing business and went into consultancy or, closed shop altogether. Do not trust a company that misrepresents its location. They definitely cannot deliver any promises they are making and, most definitely are not endorsed by any legitimate UK publications or universities.

It is important to take notice of the 2:1 grade guarantee of this company. Since they make this claim, it is safe to assume that they cater to the UK based students and that they are insinuating that their writers are UK educated. Both claims are false. As @a1writer will tell you, the UK writing companies, those actually based in the UK and using actual UK educated writers no longer offer these services directly since they have laws against academic writing companies already. This company is therefore not UK based and most definitely, do not employ UK educated / trained writers. It is important that the students learn to identify which companies and indepedent writers can actually deliver as promised since they are UK educated. Now, since the country has outlawed writing companies, the best the UK students can hope for is to have a proper UK educated consultant help them complete their paper. They have to write their own paper these days while consulting with UK academic consultancy offices for the review and editing of the paper. That is something this company cannot provide.

@a1writer, can you confirm if this company is really a part of the UKEssays group of companies? If so, then this is one website that they need to either take down or, improve the services of. I find it hard to believe that the main company would allow such bad service to exist in any of their partner sites since that would ricochet off the main site, as evidenced by this post. This is the problem with umbrella sites, the main company cannot supervise all of the writers in their employ since they come in through various channels, but get their orders off the same server. The client assistants vary per company and so does the final paper quality.

Well, this company certainly did not last long in this business. The owner has decided to pull the plug on the academic writing website itself and park it as a domain name for sale instead. No offer is too low for the owner. He is willing to negotiate and sell at a reasonable price. Sheesh! Considering the negative image of this company, I sincerely doubt that anybody in the writing industry will be willing to pick it up and use it even as an umbrella domain for its main website. The previous owner must be really hard up for cash if he is willing to accept bids with no minimum amount for his company domain.

The company has refocused its services on take home exams and in-class test taking. These are very dangerous tasks that the students should never outsource to a writing company, regardless of the (fake) claims of the company about the skills of the writers. It is important to remember that schools now have the capacity to track the exams the student is taking, confirm of the student is using a cheating site, or, if someone else is taking the test for him. Now is not the time to be testing the limits of academic integrity by hiring a questionable academic service. Take the test yourself and accept whatever grade you get. That will certainly much better than getting expelled for academic dishonesty.

A successful custom essay writing company should focus on 2 things:

1. The high quality of the writers they accept (and the products they produce)
2. Good terms of service for clients

These 2 targets work hand in hand. When a writer produces top notch work, the clients are satisfied with the service. This creates a longstanding relationship between the 3 (client, company, writer) which in turn, results in a higher image for the company through word of mouth referrals with the students and other clients.

Both companies have a problem keeping orders coming into their servers. Both have also been releasing their low performing writers from their freelancer agreements with the companies. The reason is pretty much the same for both, there are not enough orders coming into the companies to justifiy the large writer's pool. They are keeping only their top tier writers active at this point. Even that is becoming difficult since there are more writers than there are orders. This has led these companies to further intensify their fining system since the owners of the company want to pay themselves first, the writer's second. Even their top writers have said that they get fined at least 25% of their completed fees every payment schedule these days. It is not worth it to work for academic writing companies these days. Definitely work for yourself in the same arena if you can. You might earn something that way.

The company itself has a confusing image on the internet. Since the company carries the same name as a marketing office, people looking for jobs tend to get mixed up and end up working in areas they were not expecting to work in. There are some people who apply for jobs hoping to become academic writers, and they end up as marketers instead. There are those hoping to become marketers, who get hired to write essays. All because the company names are the same. Well, I hope somebody calls the attention of the owners of these companies to the confusion the company names provide and one or both of them make a move to fix this situation to help the people apply for the correct jobs.

The market for prewritten papers has not died, it merely changed venues. Rather than companies that specialize in the sale of pre-written essays such as Academon, the academic writing companies have decided to include their previously written papers in their database of "model papers" for sale to students looking to write their own papers, but wish to save time on researching or having to do extra work to complete their papers. The pre-used essays being sold by these companies are about 2 or 3 years old, still qualified as references for current research papers. Some students just rewrite the information as they read it, believing that they are creating fresh papers in the process. Others, use only bits and pieces to complete their original paper. So the academic writing companies that dabble in used research paper sales still manage to make money, even when their regular orders for original papers are few and far between.

All of the writers who work in a relevant industry are real writers. Writers who pretend to be extra ordinarily skilled in a multitude of subjects that they have no educational training in would not be fake writers but could be questionable writers. Fake writers are those who cannot string together a coherent English sentence, use cut and paste as a writing technique, and thing that plagiarism is acceptable in any form. Writers who do not disclose their actual English level (ESL v. ENL) are not fake writers, but are not trustworthy either. It is important to understand that there are no fake writers, only writers who embellish upon or lie about their actual credentials.

I have to question the way that the company assigns the writers to the orders. I am puzzled by the payment method as well. Since the client is allowed to pay in installments, and pay only for the work provided thus far, I believe that there is a strong possibility that different writers could be assigned to complete the paper. One writer per section paid for. Sure the client supposedly chooses the writer based on a bidding system, that is no assurance that the same writer will be assigned to work on the essay from beginning to end. That is the main problem with installment payments. The writer will get paid regardless of the degree of the project he has completed rather than being paid for successfully completing the project. The prices are also too low as far as I am concerned. These prices indicate a budget company that probably has only ESL writers on staff rather than truly reliable and highly educated ENL writers. I do not think a student should hire this company based on the installment payment come on alone.

There are actually several engineering specific writing websites available online these days. The student just has to type in the specific keyword into a search engine to have it return relevant results. These companies seem to be new to the business though and do not really have much of a reputation yet. The student will have to do his own investigation before hiring the company due to the lack of online references and reviews for the companies from their clients. There is also the option of directly hiring a writer with a background in engineering but there is a great risk involved in that since the writer may not be upfront about his actual engineering knowledge and writing skills. It is more difficult to tell when the independent writer is using a smokescreen to convince the client to hire him , or not. That is not to say that the same risk does not exist when hiring a writer through a company but, there may be lesser risk involved since he will have been required to include his diploma / certificate and transcript when he was given the opportunity to work with the company.

This was definitely a declaration of war on the part of the OP. It is just too bad that she was not able to continue with this crusade on the forum. Even the people she mentioned in her post seem to have retired from the business some time ago. So I cannot really consider this quest successful. Rather, it died a natural death since she dropped the cause for an unknown reason. The writers she mentioned also left the forum eventually without ever saying why they left publicly. So maybe consider this post a warning? Do not believe all of the crusaders just as we should not believe all of the writer's claims. Each of them have their own vested interests in battling it out with each other. Neither of them are really looking out for the student, just their images in relation to client recruitment.

Thank you for the email address. If you do not mind, I will contact them directly with my concerns. I make it a point to not share my private information privately or publicly with people I have not met face to face :-) Just taking care of my data to prevent fraud. You know what I mean.

I paid a visit to madpapers.com and discovered something refreshing for a change. It is a company that honors academic integrity and does not write the papers for the students. Even their homework help section does not do the work for the student but merely guides them towards proper learning and solution development. The company might have started out as an academic writing company but has definitely evolved from that service into a far more qualified student assistance / consultation company that actually helps the students learn, instead of passing a course by passing the work onto paid writers. It is an admirable and commendable website as far as I am concerned because it adheres to academic integrity. This is one company that can function worldwide and never have to worry about being flagged as a scam site. Maybe it started out as one, but it most certainly isn't one now. Students seeking academic help, rather than having someone do their academic work for them will do well to visit this site to get on the right path towards learning and paper development.

@a1writer can you help me out here? For some reason I am unable to access any of the sites connected with the company that you are affiliated with. Can you inform their tech support about this problem? I would like to leave fair comments and reviews for the affiliated sites but I am unable to do so because of the problem with connecting to the site itself. I do not know why but it appears my IP address is blocked from accessing the server. Is there any way I can coordinate with your office to fix this problem? I cannot access this site on any browser for some reason. Can you help me get to the bottom of it? Surely there are also some students who are unable to access these sites for the very same reason. Helping me would help them as well.

How was it possible to find reviews for this website when it appears to have been offline for some time now? Somebody correct me if I am wrong because I cannot access this site using any of my browsers. I always get a name not resolved error when I try to connect to the link. If I am right, then the reviews that were found for this site are no longer useful to the students. Even if the site is still active for some people, the fact that it does not have a high review rating, and it does not seem to be popular among the student clients, should indicate that this is a website may prove to be problematic should they opt to deal with it. It cannot be that the site is still building its reputation after more than a year in existence, if it still is in existence.

The reputation of this company as a plagiarism expert is what led to its disappearance from the academic writing business. They never could get their writer's to churn out original papers because they hired non-college graduates and ESL people to do the job. These are 2 elements for a failing academic writing business. They never had a chance to gain traction in the business because they never had good employees to begin with. The student's eventually realized this and they really worked on spreading the negative reputation of this company through digital word of mouth. I cannot say I was sorry to discover that the company was gone. They never tried to provide good services anyway. The company is no loss to the students and to the industry.

The company is now dealing with professional document writing under their new name and affiliat website, PolicyPros.UK. Reading the services offered by the new website, it appears that they no longer offer academic writing services and have branched out into far more professional writing for companies and other executive level professionals. I would consider this a good thing if I could be sure that an academic writing inquiry to their company will not result in a sure acceptance of their academic writing order. They never disavowed writing academically for anybody even though they do overemphasize that they only do certain types of professional writing services. Is the company still located in Pakistan? I do not doubt it since the 2 urls are still connected. This could be indicative of the same people still running the company with an revised company service objective / focus.

All of these electronic banking formats are what causes the problem with payments. Has no one ever given thought to simply asking the client to pay in cash via money transfer service? Yes, I know it is old school but the services do still exist. It is a bit inconvenient to pay since one would have to go to a remittance center to send the money to the writer but, it pays off in the long run. For one thing, the client gets some private information off the writer that he can use in case he wants to take up the writer on legal charges. For another thing, the writer is assured that there is no possibility of a chargeback claim due to fraud since the order was paid for in cash. In this case, the exchange of information provides a safety net on both sides that I would like to think some people would agree with.

Since the new academic year is just taking off, I would not want to rank any existing essay writing company at the moment. Whether official or unofficial, it is difficult to say that one company is better than the other since each student will have a different working experience with each of them. Internet search rankings cannot be trusted since these placements are usually paid for by the company either in a direct or indirect advertising manner. Basing the list on anybody's personal assessment is also questionable since it is not uncommon for these companies to pay bloggers to advertise for them as well. The more prominent the blog listing, the higher that blogger is paid. Even this list is tainted as far as I am concerned. Students should not concern themselves with company rankings anyway. It is the final output of the writers from these companies that matters and nobody will be able to assess that until they actually use the service.

The company filings for this foreign owned company dates back to 2013 as being registered in New Jersey. Not much can be learned about the company beyond the publicly listed information. I did manage to get some information regarding the way the company functioned and it appears that they have some of the lowest cpp in the business and their writers admitted to being perhaps the lowest paid as well. Oh, the writers were also treated badly if they were not located in the United States. There was a discrepancy between the salaries paid and the way the officers of the company dealt with non ENL members of the company. Collecting wages was also an issue with them so it is no surprise that there was a point during their existence that they also had problems with their server and other business related issues. They just did not know how to run the business. The company is no longer in existence as far as I can tell. The domain name is currently up for sale.

The website has gone down since the last time somebody checked on it. The anchor page only states "Coming Soon" now. It implies that the site is undergoing some sort of renovation in terms of presentation or services. The problem, is that they have been in coming soon mode for more than a year now. So either they are coming back or, they have given up due to all the negative publicity they have received in the past. Currently, it does not look like the company will be coming back. I do not believe they will be "coming" back anytime "soon". I have a hunch they are trying to sell the business at this point. It is the only explanation I can think of for the place holder on the site.

I tried to access this website in the hopes of being able to add to the comments in this discussion. While the link can be opened in a browser, there is no website attached to it at this point. It is not that the website has been taken down, it is just that the domain name has expired and the original owner or web administrator has not bothered to renew the name for their company use yet. Will the domain name be reconnected to the company at some point? Maybe yes, maybe no. It is possible that this is a superflouous name registration and the business still exists under other names, so losing one domain name would not be a problem. Perhaps it was a fiscal tightening move on the part of the company owner. Nobody really knows. What is sure is that the students will not be facing any problems with this company, using this domain name for now.

You have taken all the right steps so far. Since the Essay Mill law is in place in the UK, why not look into reversing the table on them by using the law to your advantage? I have heard that the law penalizes the company and not the student so why not be the test case for it? Surely there is something you can legally do to shut them up. You have confirmed that the company exists at its listed UK address right?

As for what else you can do to warn the students here, there is something you can do that will help. Publish the company name, writer name, and other information you may have about them at this forum in a new thread. Information is the best tool that we have to fight these scammers. Additionally, you can keep us updated about the investigation results. That would help keep the students away from them as well.

Everyone deserves a chance to pursue a career that he believes he can excel in. He had every right to pursue this career if he chose to do so, regardless of what others may think about his writing skills, what questions they may have about his educational level, or even what country he actually comes from. None of these matter when a person wishes to pursue a career. Let's forget about the writing industry for a moment and look at how real world employment works in relation to foreign nationals. Having foreign workers in various professions worldwide is nothing new. They also had to start at the bottom and work their way up. They got paid commensurate to their skillset. They were hired based on the need of the company for people of his skills. He was imported to the new country to meet that need. An academic writer is similar to those foreign workers. They have to prove themselves worthy of the job that they are doing, which allows them to charge the rights they deserve to be paid. He can be considered a foreign worker who works for an international company if he opts to work for an academic company at the start of his career. Then, just like other foreign workers, he can move on to other career opportunities as his skills develop. Does he need to be transpared and tell the student he is not a native English speaker? Transparency is best. The student should interview him and make sure he is fit for the task before hiring him anyway.

I would not say that there has been a spate of student client blackmails these days but, there have actually been 2 cases of extortion reported here by students. These happened during the off season / summer vacation season. They were threatened with academic exposure both times, but only one actually had a more creative blackmailer who was even willing to negotiate a lower price. It is highly unfortunate that due to the way the academic writing business is conducted, it is difficult for the students to bring these criminals to justice. Not having an actual office location is a benefit to the scammers. As for the 2 students, they have not added to the information placed here so the assumption could be one of 2 things:

1. They paid off the blackmailer due to their fear of being found out.
2. They successfully ignored the threats based on useful advice from other users at this forum.

Will these types of scams ever disappear? I doubt it. There will always be criminal minds that are willing to do anything illegal for a quick financial turn around.

I have actually met some students who have used the services of this company. They seem partially satisfied with the service most of the time. They mainly complain about how the QAD of the company does not seem to be paying attention to their jobs. They often receive papers with some missing information, lacking in accurate references, as well as spelling and sentence formation errors. Since the company does not sell their services cheaply, the students have high expectations of the service. Instead, they are left to deal with unresponsive writers and a client support department that earnestly listens to their problems and complains, then tells them that they cannot do anything about it until a formal complaint is filed. Then it will take about 2 weeks for a resolution. Not exactly the kind of company that a student would want to deal with for a full semester.

There is always a risk when living a custom essay service. If Lady Luck smiles upon you, then you get an excellent paper from a reliable winter. Otherwise, you get a paper from hell. The latter being easily avoidable if the student just taken the bother to check out the reviews of the company or freelance writer before hiring one or the other. The hiring experience is also based on the due diligence of the student. Do not base it on cheap prices or guarantees on the company site. Always look to the experience of others with the company or writer before closing the deal.

It is important to note that this company is no longer in existence. It does not perform any type of academic services as far as I can tell. This is a conclusion I base on the fact that the domain name is selling for a whopping $3195 on HugeDomains.com. I believe that the domain name squatting price is too high considering the lack of value that the name carries. For a potential academic writing company to purchase the name at that price, the name should at least come with an assurance of a qualified and reliable image. This company obviously cannot lay claim to either. Therefore, the company selling the name has overpriced this url immensely.

I also found out that the company does not rate well with the students and their own writers because of their lack of writer support and client support / services. Rather than assisting both sides in communicating during rush or emergency situations, they instead sit back and tells one or the other party to just sit tight and wait for a response from the writer / client. What the H kind of client service / writer support is that?They may as well give the writer the direct email address of the client or give the client the writer's phone number to call if they cannot be bothered to do their jobs. What for are the parties paying them to be the middlemen if they cannot even perform communication facilitation duties?

The company uses paid review services for their ratings at other rating sites. This is proven by the conflicting statements the "reviewer" provides in his statements. The claim that the writers are treated fairly and paid market level wages comparative to a direct hire freelancer is contradicted by how, in the next paragraph, the writer claims that the writer support department makes their work harder, and that unfair penalties are applied without reason or cause. The writers try to find out why these are applied but receive no response. It is safe to assume that they are even scamming the reviews for their own website !

Thanks for sharing the content of the email. It is now up to the students to decide if they will hire the company or not. We have shared is much as we can about the company that we can to help them come to their own conclusions and make their own decisions.