My clients and some of my most experienced legitimate competitors here who have known me for many years (such as Professor Verb and Research Pro) have referred to me as the best in this business, but not every project that I write is necessarily an A+ and I never promise that it will be. In my opinion, promising an A+ in the first place is a scam because grading is always subjective and anybody honest in this business understands why that is simply not a realistic promise. A company that advertises that all of its writers are NES (or that charges extra for the option of guaranteeing that a project will be written by a NES writer instead of an ESL writer) but then provides a project obviously written by an ESL writer could be fairly called a scam, as would any company that knows that its writers plagiarize or are incapable of producing work at the level reasonably expected.

However, nobody with any real experience in this business would ever suggest that a customer has been "scammed" just because he received a B on a complex project in a difficult course in a graduate school program that he outsourced to a writer who isn't in that program and hasn't had the benefit of attending any of the lectures of his professor. Likewise, there are various reasons that even a well-written project that is excellent in every objective sense might not do as well as expected. For example, sometimes, a customer provides nothing besides the essay prompt and the instructions for the assignment and receives a great essay only to have the professor complain that the essay is good but fails to address any of the major concepts discussed in the lectures or covered in the assigned readings. That's the fault of the customer for not providing the material that was supposed to have been reflected in the essay. Other times, professors might be very tough graders who just don't give out A grades. My father was one of them and I found that out from practicing with his university's hockey team when I was in high school: it turned out that my dad was known as "Dr. Hook" because he rarely gave out anything higher than a C. Luckily, he was also the main influence on my writing.

The phrase "scam" should only be used to denote a deliberate intention to take money from clients and provide either nothing in return or to provide an unusable project that the company knows will be unusable to the client. Providing off-topic barely-English gibberish and/or heavily plagiarized work on a regular basis would be types of scams in this business. But outright scams are hardly the only risk to clients. All you have to do is look through some old threads started by students complaining about getting a horrible essay from a different writer at the same company whose other writer previously provided good work. In many cases, your outcome depends on the luck of which writer takes your order off the public company assignment board. I wouldn't call that a scam, but it will be a big disappointment when someone finds out the hard way how much worse some writers are than others, even at the same company.

An ESL writer who can prove his English skills in posts and whose English is substantially indistinguishable from NES writers can be just as successful as any average NES writer. It may be harder for them to maximize their success, mainly because the really qualified ones are hesitant to lie about being ESL; meanwhile, the unqualified ESL hacks here have no shame (in addition to delusional beliefs about their abilities) and their perpetual lies and the gibberish they think is "English" poison the water for the better-qualified ESL writers, also scaring away cautious clients who become afraid to try any ESL writer. If I still get skittish new clients afraid of being ripped off after my decade-long history on this forum and NYC origin and location, and all of my genuine positive feedback and comments from the other best writers here, the good ESL writers here must have to deal with much more skepticism and hesitancy from new clients considering trying them for the first time.

My clients own the copyrights to whatever work I provide them, just as the essay companies for whom I used to write owned the work that I provided to them. The difference is simply that I choose to give my clients copyrights to my work but the essay company chooses not to, for several reasons. There's nothing "illegal" about transferring copyrights. My clients still have to make the decision for themselves whether to use my work (that they now own) for legitimate academic purposes or for illegitimate purposes. That's none of my business and I wouldn't have any way of enforcing it even if I knew what they did with my work. The argument made here by essay company reps objecting to copyright transfer have two main motives: (1) they hope it provides what the law refers to as "plausible deniability" about their knowing what their customers really do with their essays, and (2) they want to retain those rights to resell them to the extent that any prewritten papers are in any demand, as well as to use as "samples."

No essay company will permit direct contact between its writers and its customers for the same reason that they don't allow direct email contact between writers and customers.

Use the search function here to check the reputation of any writer or company you're considering. Change the default "topic titles" to "messages" so that your results aren't limited just to threads with your search term in the thread titles.

The only thing about it that might not be fake is that they might actually be vindictive enough to follow through with their threat to expose you to your university. If your priority is recouping your money, file a dispute with PayPal (or with your cc company if you paid directly with a cc) and provide the full email and chat history. If your priority is avoiding problems with your university, ignore any further contact from them, don't file any claim, and just cut your losses, but don't antagonize them or ridicule their obvious nonsense about their "solicitor" or "legal department." Either way, you should not use any of the project, so you're not actually in violation of any university policies or honor codes. If they contact your university, your response should be that you only intended to use the product as a model for your own work. You're probably safest forgetting about the money already lost and just finding another service provider after doing better research into any writer or company you're considering, this time. Also, do not pay them anything more, because if they realize that you'll give in to blackmail, they'll probably continue making more demands for money.

Generally, I wouldn't consider reviewing student-written essays to be a good way to learn anything substantive about the topic of the essay, partly because I've seen my share of essays drafted by students. As often as not, students misunderstand major elements of the material covered in their essays and they often cobble together disjointed information just to fill the minimum page count of their written assignments. At best, they might give you ideas about how to lay out and organize an essay of similar length about a similar topic. However, in terms of substantive knowledge, there's usually infinitely more value in finding some of the sources referenced in those essays than in reading what other students have written on the topic, previously.

I checked his website. It's no different from any other essay company, except for the fact that it still devotes a lot of space to promoting pre-written essays, unlike most modern essay companies that have phased that out, because Turnitin has made pre-written essays worthless.

You can't possibly be serious with that line of reasoning. Accounting and banking are both work, but CPAs who knowingly work for a criminal enterprise and bankers who knowingly take money earned illicitly are guilty of crimes, notwithstanding the fact that they wear shirts and ties and "work" in offices.

Likewise, the test of whether or not something is a crime is whether or not it is illegal under criminal statutes, not whether or not the illegal service is "valuable" to anyone or whether or not it "affects" anybody negatively. Prostitution, gambling, and selling marijuana are all examples of things that are crimes wherever they're prohibited by law and permissible wherever they aren't prohibited by law. Arguably, none of them has a negative effect on anyone; but if you want to take the position that they do cause harm to some people involved, you'd have to allow the same argument about academic writing for hire. Argue either side, but don't try to suggest that prostitution harms marriages and some prostitutes, and that gambling harms some gamblers and that marijuana harms some users if you're not also going to acknowledge that academic writing for hire can harm some students competing on a bell curve and some academic institutions if you're considering all conceivable harms associated with it.

Other than the obvious ESL text that reads exactly like your posts, your website looks like a great service for anybody who also owns a time machine to go to school and graduate before 2007, when pre-written essays became obsolete because of Turnitin.

Many of my clients are actually very good students whose major fields of study (and eventual careers) just dont require extensive writing. Nurses and engineers, for example, will never again have to write anything similar to any of the writing projects assigned to them as undergraduates. They'd just rather use their time mastering the skills that they'll actually need in the future (or studying for their exams) than writing a 10-page paper for some required Liberal Arts or General Studies course. None of them is going to be a worse nurse or engineer for having hired me to write some Sociology or History essay in college. I can produce a better essay in a day than they can in a month, and without the headache, time investment, and the month-long stress that they typically experience with the types of assignments for which they hire me.

I believe those system only evolved precisely because essay companies realized that some of their writers were doing exactly what you described in the second part of your post. The company for which I did the most writing always used to prohibit writers from providing their contact information to customers, but only implemented those types of automatic controls much later, after the prohibitions and the honor system apparently failed. During that time, the same thing happened with customer orders requesting specific writers. The company had to come up with a feature that displayed those orders only to the requested writer (for 3 hours, anyway). I'd imagine that it was the same writers who poached other writers' "requests" and also stole customers from the company whenever they could.

At one end of the spectrum, there are clients who are accomplished students in their own right who just don't have enough time for all of their projects; at the other end of the spectrum, there are clients who are in way over their heads in college and are simply incapable of writing anything at the college level. Most of my clients typically fall somewhere in the middle and it's really none of my business why they seek help from me. I just ask them what academic level they want in their projects and I write them at whatever level they request.

I don't think the total number of companies has decreased; if anything, only the proportion of legitimate companies to the foreign scam companies has decreased in the 9+ years since the question was first asked in this thread.


Agreed.

About 10 years ago, I took an order to rewrite a book draft about bartending from an essay company that primarily provides academic writing.

I have no problem with relevant old threads being revived for informational purposes, which is entirely different from the way two or three people here, in particular, have been responding to decade-old threads for about a year, for no other reason than to increase their post counts and visibility, quite obviously. Most online forums actually prohibit that and suspend accounts for it after one or two warnings.

What you're saying only applies to unrecognizable anonymous emails, not to anybody whose email address has been the same for many years and is well known in this industry. From 2000 to 2009, I did business only through my email account and my email was my professional identity. The only reason I had to create a website in 2009 was because someone created this thread very specifically and for the express purpose of trying to steer as much business as possible away from independent writers and toward essay companies.

I highly doubt that any company would try to publicize itself by drawing such negative attention.

No problem. It's not necessarily about the specific number of emails, because there are projects that do require more back and forth. But, as I've suggested earlier in this thread, being a good customer (in any industry) means not wasting the time of a merchant or service provider with questions that are totally unnecessary. Generally, that just means reading FAQs before asking any questions, not asking for "exceptions" to policies that are already expressed very clearly, and not requiring someone to ask for any of the information clearly outlined as necessary for a price quote in the FAQs. Anytime I'm a customer in any industry, I always try to imagine what might be helpful and what might be annoying to the seller or service provider; that's really all you have to do with us writers. It's really just about common sense, and most of my clients either do it from the start or start doing it as soon as I make it a little clearer for them in connection with their first project. Thankfully, the exceptions are relatively rare.

Actually, I'm dealing with a very similar situation right now: a client who has placed about a half a dozen orders since June and who has said that she's thrilled with my work (and would actually like me to reduce the quality to a slightly lower level), but who continues to waste my time with a half a dozen (or more) totally unnecessary emails on every project. I've been trying to be as patient as possible, even taking the time, about 2 weeks ago, to explain things from my end in great detail, hoping that might help her understand what makes my work harder than necessary and hoping that might help her start communicating with me more clearly. Excerpts from that email are pasted below without any identifying info. Even after that email, she has continued to do many of the things listed in Post #4 above, such as not answering my emails for days, failing to answer my most basic questions, re-asking me same exact questions that I've already answered clearly more than once, in addition to some other annoyances not even listed in Post #4, such as resending me the project file that I originally provided (3 or 4 times, now) in emails asking about subsequent work to expand that same project.

Meanwhile, I get new, first-time clients all the time who simply follow my FAQs and my instructions, by giving me all the info I need for their projects in their first email, receiving the price from me in return, and issuing payment immediately afterwards. As explained, earlier in this thread, I completely understand that new clients might have more questions and might need some guidance to understand how to do this as simply as I need. However, once I've already provided projects and the customer no longer has any concerns about trusting me, I expect them to simply follow my instructions without making me stop what I'm doing to read and respond to emails a half a dozen times (or more) for every project. It's extremely frustrating to deal with, especially because it's always the most difficult clients who never seem to understand why I consider them difficult. Eventually, my frustration comes out in the tone of my emails, and then they react as though I'm giving them a "hard time" for no reason. Just today, I finally had to tell this client that I just don't have the time for any more unnecessary emails on this new project and that she should just pay for it if she wants it, but please not to send me any more emails about that project unless my most recent email reflects some misunderstanding on my part.

These are excerpts from the email that I sent her earlier this month, hoping to help this client change her pattern so that I can continue taking her business. In addition to everything else, her previous email also asked about a "price break" for repeat customers, which is already clearly addressed in my FAQs:

"Please understand a few things...you already know the quality of my work and how reliable I am. I'm happy to take your projects but please understand that this process has to be very simple for me because I have constant deadlines 7 days/week here and every single email requires me to click out of my working screen to read and respond...so please just send me the project...receive the price...pay it if you want it...and receive it from me as promised...nice and simple. If I'm going to give anybody price breaks, that's your best bet to get one because it saves me time. I'm always reliable but need you to understand how I work...how much pressure I'm always under here trying to make multiple deadlines most days of my life...and I need you to help me simplify this process with as few emails as possible for each project, especially little ones...and that's much appreciated...ok? I don't know offhand which other project you're asking about...so it would save me time if you resent it now with length & due date in the subject field. Thank you."

At that time, she responded to that email appropriately and apologetically and I thought we'd come to an understanding of how this works. However, since then, it's been the exact same pattern of half a dozen or more unnecessary emails for every project, failure to answer my simple questions, etc. This kind of stuff only represents a very small percentage of my clients and it's very frustrating because nothing I do seems to help them get with the program or to understand why I sound so annoyed about any of it in my responses.

All anybody has to do is spend a few seconds reading their "About Us" or "Case Study Help" sections to know exactly what kind of writing quality to expect from them. Any writing company capable of providing a high-quality product would also have someone capable of writing grammatically (and linguistically) correct text on its website. While good writing on a website isn't necessarily a reliable predictor of high-quality projects, I definitely wouldn't expect the product quality to be any better than the writing on their website. If you can't even write easy web copy without glaring mistakes, you definitely can't produce good academic writing.

I agree. Daniel did a great job that probably helped some customers who might otherwise have trusted that company.

I'd imagine that this forum might also have had something to do with that.

The text of the website in question is obviously ESL, but it's not as bad as many sites, and I could see how a student might not recognize the more subtle indications of ESL writing. I'm not even talking about stuff like referring to "significant alternations" instead of alterations in their revision policy or the entire nonsensical convoluted second-to-last paragraph in that policy. It's a prefect example of a website whose appearance and functionality could lead many prospective customers to expect decent work from them. One would have to know much more about this industry to recognize some of the obvious BS in their promises and guarantees.


Actually, they're only overpriced if they don't deliver a quality piece of writing. In fact, if they don't deliver quality work, it's another example of how some of these sites skew the expectations of customers who don't realize that those prices just aren't realistic for high-quality NES writing. Their "disclaimer" also says that customers are required to "cite" the company if they use any of their work, as though anybody would ever insert the citation (AdvancedWriters.com 2018) into a project submitted to a professor.

Agreed.


I also disagree with this, mainly, because it implies that promises about "unlimited revisions" will be honored in the first place, which they won't, just as is the case with promises about "guaranteed refunds" if you're not satisfied with the work for "any reason." In my opinion, what these types of "guarantees" suggest is that the company is willing to make totally fraudulent promises just to get their hands on your money. They may or may not actually provide an essay, and if they do, it will almost certainly be written by someone unqualified in addition to, but not necessarily as a direct function of (also) being ESL, regardless of any tabs that allow you to "select" an American or British writer. Those tabs probably just add to the price without changing anything about who will write the project (assuming, in the first place, that it will actually be written, at all).

Legit companies (and writers) don't offer free revisions for "any reason" simply because that would be a ridiculous promise that would make doing business impossible if they actually honored it. As AW said, allowing "unlimited" revisions or (any) free revisions unless there's an objectively-valid justification for the revision would mean that customers could force writers to revise their projects for totally arbitrary reasons and after-the-fact editorial opinions and preferences never communicated as part of the original project specs. Legit providers always provide free revisions for outright mistakes and omissions, and they don't make promises that are ridiculous on their face. If it sounds too good to be true, that's almost always an indication that someone is lying to you to get your money.

Over the years, PV and I have referred clients to one another and backed one another up whenever one of us got overbooked. Before that, we both wrote for some of the same essay companies. I will miss his availability in emergencies but hope he has a very long and fulfilling retirement.

I've never encountered any essay company that "assigned" projects to writers and only one company that maintained different writer classifications. Since they started me out at the top based on what they already knew about me from this forum, I don't know whether writers lower in classification just got paid less for projects or were restricted from even viewing them on the assignment board. We're independent contractors who take only whatever projects we choose. The only (isolated) exception that I ever encountered was the situation that I described in another thread involving one of my colleagues who allowed company reps to take advantage of his meek nature by putting projects on his account without his permission.


To be fair, this is also the case with any experienced independent writer, as well. Students and fledgling writers need several writing sessions to complete relatively short projects. Experienced writers simply mark deadlines on a calendar and often write short projects in one sitting on the day they're due if that happens to be most convenient for them. This is inconsequential to the customer, because if it's an experienced writer, there's absolutely no difference in the final product. Whether we write it that day or a few days earlier, the amount of time we spend on a given project from start to finish is the same. The main reason I learned to avoid doing this is simply that it limits my flexibility to accept other projects with shorter deadlines that I might have been able to take if I hadn't left myself no choice but to write another project that particular day. That only affects my earning capacity, not the product received by the client. To be safe, I ask my customers, in advance, whether the deadline they requested from me is their actual deadline: if it is, I just mark it a day earlier on my calendar.


That makes perfect sense from their perspective and I really have no problem with that, because if writers have the chance, many of them will steal customers. The only thing I object to is when people working for essay companies try to suggest that these customer service reps provide some kind of additional "benefit" to customers that they don't get from using an independent freelance writer. They're nothing but a buffer deliberately inserted in between writers and customers to prevent them from contacting one another directly.

If there's ever some major problem with a project or deadline, independent freelance writers are either just as easy to reach or (if anything) easier for customers to reach. If a writer isn't available to respond to customer emails, he or she isn't any more available to respond to frantic emails sent by customer service reps: either way, it's just an email received on our end. If I'm in the hospital (or the morgue) after getting hit by a bus, the company isn't going to be able to get a response from me any faster than a direct client; and either way, it would be my wife responding to those emails or emergency phone calls. If anything, to the extent there is any difference on our part in that regard, we're only likely to be even more responsive to our direct clients than we are to company clients, simply because we care more about our personal reputation than about any company's for which we just write as independent contractors. The same holds true about emergency backup: my freelance colleagues and I have one another's info in case of emergency, and I assume they also have someone reliable at home or in their lives who knows what to do and how to contact clients on the calendar (as well as our trusted emergency-backup writers) in any genuine emergency that could disrupt deadlines. In almost 20 years of doing this, I've never had such an emergency.

Ours got up to 18 pounds until we switched to senior/indoor cat food and I got him a cat wheel. He never really did it spontaneously except as a way of asking for food. I'd trained him to associate food rewards with a few spins on the wheel. If he heard me tapping on it, he' come into the gym from any other room in the house and start walking the wheel...until the last treat was gone. After that, he'd just lie down on it and it magnified the sound of his purring like a speaker. For some reason, my wife had put a rain deer hat on him this time...don't remember what that was about...as I said, he was a pretty tolerant good-natured little dude.

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Thanks, AW. I've managed to establish a healthy client base through years of hard work, but other than having been born to middle class parents in this part of the world, the only privileges I'm aware of are (almost) never having to set an alarm clock and being able to work in my boxers. Some of my neighbors probably suspect that I don't even work, because they rarely run into me unless they're up at 3:00 AM and they definitely notice that I don't keep any kind of schedule that's consistent with any conceivable job.

Probably nobody else here remembers this horrible 1980 movie called Perfect, with John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis. The first scene where he broke out a laptop (MS DOS) and it became clear that he earned a living writing on his pc on his couch, I knew that's how I wanted to work for a living. And yes, that's sort of what gyms looked like here back then.

Agreed. In my opinion, there might be many people who can do a few of these kinds of projects now and then for some extra cash, but there are relatively few people who can actually do this well enough and at the sustained volume necessary to earn a living from it over a long term.

I never wrote for anybody else while I was a student, but I answered a classified ad a few years after graduating from law school, before there were personal computers (or an Internet). Back then, I wrote projects on a word processor and delivered them either via fax machine or in person. In fact, the guy whose ad I answered and who used to meet me in the middle of the night to pick up projects from me at the 24-hour gym where I was training back then had the same (relatively uncommon) first name as the guy who hired me about a decade later at the online essay company for which I did the most work. It occurred to me that he might be the same person, but I never asked. Other than not actually having to go to libraries to conduct the research, the work itself hasn't changed much since then; but it's obviously a lot more convenient with modern technology.

I'd add another important one to that list: Better Business Bureau (BBB) rating.

Generally, a low BBB rating provides good reason to stay clear, but a high rating doesn't necessarily mean very much at all. The BBB isn't any kind of government "watchdog" and each one (of over 100) operates totally independently. There have been companies that are outright scams with A+ ratings as detailed here: business.time.com/2013/03/19/why-the-better-business-bureau-should-give-itself-a-bad-grade/

None of that is intended to suggest that BBB "accreditation" means that any business isn't legit, just that a high BBB rating doesn't necessarily mean anything at all other than that a business has paid membership dues for that privilege. There have been plenty of instances where scam companies with numerous complaints that paid for accreditation received high ratings while totally legit companies with no complaints that did not pay dues received low ratings. The BBB business model is to provide BBB accreditation in return for paid dues and their customers are the companies paying those dues rather than the consumer, which is (obviously) a fundamental conflict of interest. Even the BBB itself specifically says that it is not any kind of "consumer watchdog," all of which is detailed here: money.cnn.com/2015/09/30/news/better-business-bureau/index.html

I completely understand why someone would want to buy one: self-interest and desperation. What I have more trouble understanding is who would actually consider selling one, even if only for self-interest, when the company involved has all of your personal information and the chance of not getting caught eventually is probably close to zero.

That would explain why a new writer desperately trying to break into this business might provide a single page or two up front, but not why anybody in his right mind would ever bust his butt writing 5, 10, or even 20 pages before payment, as some of these people have complained about having done.

In my opinion, it's simpler than that and there are three principal reason that companies have to hire writers continually:

1. Many (if not most) of the people who try to do this for a living really can't do it well enough to be relied upon.

When I was working (nearly) fulltime as a writer for essay companies, I saw plenty of writing from my fellow writers and much of it was shockingly bad, especially considering that one of the writers whose work I saw was requested fairly often. Some of their projects were provided to me as source material for projects they'd started and I saw the work of this one particular writer after Googling his company ID out of curiosity, which led me to his freelance page where he'd posted some of his company essays as samples. I've been out of the loop since 2013, but in my experience, even a very big and successful essay company with hundreds of writers relies heavily on the work of its 5 or 6 top writers, whose output is comparable to that of as many as 100 other writers. Every one of the mediocre or bad writers who gets fired or leaves because he realizes that he really can't write well or quickly enough to make a living this way has to replaced.

2. Most of us who are good enough to do this for a living eventually build up a big enough private clientele to become entirely independent.

Once we get a taste of working for ourselves, we become more committed to building a private clientele because we don't have to write (literally) twice as much to earn roughly the same amount of money. We begin taking fewer and fewer company projects and prioritizing our private work over work from essay companies. Our customers who might have previously tried out various companies realize fairly quickly that it also makes more sense for them because, for the same price as they paid companies, they can have direct contact with the same writer for every project and without ever having to worry about which writer might take their projects off a company assignment board. Every really good writer who phases out company writing in the transition to independence has to be replaced, either by another really good writer or (more often) by several less-experienced and/or mediocre writers.

3. Those who try to support themselves over the long term exclusively (or primarily) relying on company work eventually burn out.

If I hadn't made the transition to independence, I'd definitely have burned out because of the sheer volume of projects I had to write to make quite a bit less than I make now. Many times, there wasn't even enough space on my (paper) calendar to fit all of the projects due on a single say into that box. I was tethered to my computers because the only way to get a jump on the best projects was to check the board constantly, meaning refreshing about every 30 seconds from the minute I woke up until the minute I went to bed, including while I was writing, by using a second screen. I even kept a laptop in the bathroom. Once the company took my suggestion of adding a sound to alert us to new projects being added to the board, I'd interrupt anything I was doing (meaning anything) to click that refresh key whenever I heard that sound. I've already described many times how grabbing new rush projects due in a few hours while I was already writing something else became extremely routine, especially during busy seasons. Even for those of us who become very good at this, it's very stressful on a daily basis; and we don't work only 5 days a week, because to make a living this way, you have to be prepared to grab projects and write them almost 24/7/365 except when you're sleeping. Every good writer who burns out this way needs to be replaced by an equally good writer or by several less-experienced and/or mediocre writers.

That's because, unfortunately, the company rarely hears anything from customers about all the perfect projects their writers deliver. Even when the customer is nice enough to thank writers afterwards, it comes in the form of a message that nobody else ever sees except for the writer. The only projects that are on the company's radar are the projects that generate complaints, whether or not those complaints are reasonable or justified.

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In my experience, these don't really occur very often. More often, (again, just in my own experience), when customers provide incorrect details, it's more often by shortening the length of the assignment to reduce costs. If a project is assigned as "10-15 pages," that means the professor is expecting the amount of depth and detail allowed by a project of that length and not only the depth and detail allowed by a project half that length. I don't know why professors do this, but when they provide detailed descriptions and rubric of what's expected in the project in conjunction with the instructions to submit a project of between 5 and 8 pages, it's often the upper limit that's required just to do everything demanded for the project. That makes my job harder, but usually won't affect your outcome, especially if you order the full 8 pages; but if the assignment is for 8 pages and you tell me "4 pages," that's basically asking for a bad outcome even if I write you the best project possible in those 4 pages.


That happens a lot. A few weeks ago, I mentioned one instance where the client emailed me on the due date (and as I was actually in the process of sending her completed project) to tell me that the topic choice -- the specific disease selected for a Nursing project -- required the professor's approval. Another crucial piece of information that this particular client (and others have sometimes) left out was that she had already submitted previous projects to the same professor before she decided to use my services. If she'd have let me know that, I'd have asked to see her writing first, so that I could provide something roughly similar in writing level. Depending on how you choose to use our work (which is entirely your business), this omission could, potentially, cause you a lot of problems on your end and there's absolutely nothing we can do to help you when you send us a frantic email a week after we deliver a perfect project with "Urgent Help Needed!!" in the email subject field because your professor wants to see you to discuss the tremendous difference between your last two projects. If you just clue me in initially, I can help you avoid that problem in the first place.

Another piece of crucial information that customers often fail to share is that the topic they give me is only one topic on a long list of possible topics or (even worse) a totally original topic thought up by the customer rather than an assigned topic. Sometimes, this doesn't matter; but other times, it matters a lot. If you're hiring a writer, you should always leave any permissible choices to whomever is actually writing the project. There's no advantage to picking the topic if you're not going to be doing the writing, simply because your writer might be able to do a much better job for you on one of the other topics on the list. Similarly, when it's a totally original topic, you should let your writer help you come up with a topic, partly because we're very experienced at shaping topic proposals to the availability of high-quality sources. If you just propose a topic that "sounds interesting" to you, it might make it more difficult for your writer to satisfy the professor's expectations. As a general rule, you should present your writer with everything in the assignment but nothing more than whatever's actually in the assignment, and certainly, nothing less. Whenever possible, just let your writer make any and all decisions that your professor intends to allow you to make as the student.


Agreed. The customers who get burned the worst are those who don't even start looking for help until they need a big project due in a few days. At best, if you already have a good trustworthy writer, waiting until the last minute always increases the price of a project substantially. At worst, if you don't already have a good trustworthy writer, you're taking a big risk instead of at least limiting your risk by trying out any new writer with a shorter project, first.


I'd only agree with this to the extent you don't already know how good your writer is. Once you've previously received good work from a writer, your expectation of receiving exactly what you pay for in the form of work of similar quality on future projects is probably not unrealistic at all. If you're just going by what any writing service represents on its website, always try to test out that service with a smaller project to limit your risk, precisely because many of them absolutely do not provide work that is even remotely consistent with the representations and promises on their websites.

No offense intended, Wordsies. Nothing wrong with your chosen terminology. I just don't think the difference matters very much in terms of its value to customers. They may even be better off getting nothing because that makes it easier to pursue a payment dispute without requiring PayPal or a credit card company to make any kind of determination about the quality of the writing.

I don't consider delivering "close to nothing" legit. I've seen their work: aside from the atrocious ESL writing, it's usually nothing but paragraphs of sentences that all say practically the exact same thing as the preceding sentence and a concluding sentence that repeats the introductory sentence except with a "Therefore," or "Thusly," in front of it. They write paragraph after paragraph in which half of the sentences aren't even complete coherent sentences and the most substantial "point" in them is typically something along the lines of "National economic policies are extremely important to understand because such concepts are important to each country and to all of the citizens of the country. Therefore, it is extremely important to realize all of the details about national economic policies in every nation."

They read exactly like a cartoon that's been on my wall ever since a college professor handed it out to my class. It shows a student writing on a page titled Impact of the Industrial Revolution: "The Industrial Revolution was very industrial. It was also extremely revolutionary. Because the Industrial revolution was so industrial and revolutionary, it had a very great impact on everyone who was caught up in it, including men, women, children, teachers, students, as well as their pets..." [Content Paraphrased]The difference is the cartoon on my wall is just a cartoon and not something for which some student with a deadline paid hard-earned money.

Here's the cartoon:

There are almost always some exceptions to rules (or observations) that prove to be true, more generally. Generally, talented, versatile, experienced, NES writers with advanced degrees charge more than less-talented, and/or less-versatile, and/or less-experienced NES writer without advanced degrees. In turn, less experienced but talented NES writers usually charge roughly the same as some of the best and talented ESL writers. Those categories of writers often correspond to specific customer pools. For a few examples, lower-level ESL students are probably better off with an average ESL writer, whereas higher-level ESL students might specifically want a very experienced and educated ESL writer or a less-experienced but well-educated NES writer. Meanwhile good NES students who just have trouble writing well usually seek out very experienced talented NES writers, because they can also learn from us, and because we can produce written projects of the same A quality as those students typically achieve on their in-class exams. The best NES students who ordinarily do all of their own A-quality writing but sometimes hire a writer because of their other commitments that don't allow the extra time to write their own 25-pg theses during the holidays would seem to have no other acceptable choice but to find (and pay appropriately for) the most talented, educated, and experienced NES writer available, just to maintain the same level of scholarship as their other work. Whatever your specific needs are as a customer, there should be a writer matched to best help you achieve your goals on your projects.