I believe that order details of any sort, should not be shared in public. Not without the consent of the individual and more so when it identifies the location of a (nameless or otherwise) client. The postings here that he links to are different. Those are a matter of public record, being previously published with the consent of the OP. His personal client files, I am not sure if he did the right thing by publishing it without consent. It isn't like the IRS or FBI used a court order to ask for his records to be produced. I wonder if, based on his actions, he actually studied law, graduated from law school, and worked for the government as he repeatedly claims. I may have the wrong understanding of the data privacy laws so I would be much interested in his clarification of his actions as it pertains to the international laws. Specifically the UK data privacy laws.

Please do not misinterpret my words once again. I am not really buying into it. Rather, I am looking for information that can help me better understand what is going on between you and @a1writer. Do not mistake asking for information for clarity sake as me taking one side over the other. That thought never crossed my mind.

It is difficult to assess the reliability of an academic writing site on a continuing basis. The company standards could deteriorate over time. That would result in a once good and trusted site becoming a problematic on. That usually happens during a change of ownership. Something that commonly happens in any business that is sold. That is not to say that the existing good companies have gone bad. They could have remained reliable and even upped their writing standards by now. There are some good site reviews that can also be found at this forum. When one comes across a good review, consider it a recommendation and look up the site. Just make sure to hire the company only after they have satisfied your personal questions during the consideration process.

@Freelancewriter for the benefit of any potential students from New Zealand who may stumble upon this post since it was revived by our discussion, would you consider taking on NZ clients again? If given the opportunity, would you be open to helping them out with their academic needs? Or is writing a paper for a NZ curriculum more difficult than having to write a UK paper? What are the similarities and differences?

@a1writer do you have any insight into the educational system of the UK and NZ? Are there similarities that students should consider when hiring a writer? Would you believe that a US based writer could satisfy a client based on the testimony presented? Why not? Does a writer for NZ papers need to be UK educated as well?

These are the sorts of information that you should be sharing upfront, immediately, when you come across detractors such as @a1writer. The length of time you have had this recognition from a UK based peer and his understanding of when you actually started the job, and why you can do it well, can easily be supported by these types of explanations. I am not trying to fan the flames of discord here. I am just thinking out loud about how you could have easily informed him about what makes you qualified and that he should be looking up your international reputation as a UK writer before judging you.

@Freelancewriter I cannot help but be puzzled as to why you did not offer to help this student at the time. He appeared to have qualifications of interest to you as a writer looking for clients. Seeing as how the client was a middle aged adult who had just returned to school during that period.

Learning how to write for New Zealanders could have further increased your client base and made you a unique, one of a kind writer. The only one who would have successfully learned to write academic papers by New Zealand academic standards.

@a1writer, wasn't New Zealand once a UK /British colony? Does that mean that their halls of learning also use the UK standard?

This makes me wonder, do academic writing companies miss out on opportunities by focusing only on the USA, UK, Canada, and Australia markets?

I have reviewed both existing websites and have found no similarities between the two company sites. The prior website is more of a professional undertaking that does not have a solely academic focus. Superwriters appear to focus more on technical writing and other writing opportunities. While academic writing is also offered, it is a minor focus and does not comprise most of the work that they do. Allwriters on the other hand, has a highly unprofessional image as they advertise their services through a cheap looking blog, with regular posts that would not entice a serious student to hire them. The prices for their per page costing is, in my opinion too low to be written by any writer of high quality and skills. If I were the student, I would consider superwriters, while never considering all writers, based on the online image of the companies alone.

You can safely ignore them since you did not use any part of the essay that was developed for you.There is no copyright problem. Either they transferred the rights to you or they did not. If not, then the paper maybe considered a model for you to gain inspiration from. It sounds to me like they are setting up to blackmail you. Block their emails and do not give it a second thought. None of these companies make good on their threats because they know the threat is not enforceable. Do not make the mistake of responding to the threat as it will embolden them to up the pressure.

Thank you for the respect. Yes, I will openly admit that I do not know the first thing about the UK educational system. I only hear about that information as it relates to the royals. As you may have guessed by now, I am a royal buff. So anything I learn about the UK, I learn about through my interest in them.

I am more familiar with the US system as you pointed out in a different post. That is the precise reason why I asked you to clarify my understanding of the way the system operates. Thank you for sharing the information and shining a light on considerable writer hiring points.


I actually based my observation of his claim on this precise reasoning. Since FLW is actually US and not UK educated. The systems being as different as night and day. I do not see or understand how one would be able to reconcile the difference.


For the benefit of those who claim to be UK writing company attached or otherwise, could you explain what this standard means? I often see something similar at UK writing websites but never really got a clear idea of how this ratio has a relationship with the grading system. It is alright if you do not wish to share that information.


I agree. Academic writing is, in my opinion, a dead end career that most graduates should use only as a stop gap until they find regular employment in their field of speciality. In the meantime, they can turn their academic knowledge into a money source. It should not be the only career goal for a professional.


It is actually becoming tremendously clearer to me now. I actually observe, read, learn, and adjust my insights / opinions as I become more enlightened about the discussion. Thank you for being patient with me about this.


It would truly be more beneficial to the student since he will not have to turn teacher and educate the writer about how to accomplish the task. It lessens the possibility of revisions or instruction misunderstanding.

Not to say that FLW is not capable of accomplishing these papers based on experience. However, I would still consider the difference in educational foundation a considerable compotent when hiring a writer for UK based academic institutions. If the writer can pull it off, without a UK based education, then the student should consider himself lucky.


Well, he does admit it. Based on my recollection, he actually mentioned something in reference to this in one of his previous posts. Being a paying member of this forum, he is allowed to self promote. He is getting his monies worth out of the monthly fee. It would be best to ignore his self promotion and focus on discussions regarding general writer qualifications instead.

As an aside, I would just like to say that personally, I prefer to interact with anyone at this forum who proves to have interesting posts and responses. I do not choose who I interact with. I do choose to participate based on the posters responses and topics posted. The more infomative the topic, the more I tend to interact with that poster and no, I am not a paying member of this forum.

in case anyone is interested, DRX Research is a medical product used to help aid Henriated Disc patients. It does not have anything to do with academic writing. Maybe it did before but not anymore. There is no trace of the academic writing company existing in an online search. The company name is now used officially as a medical product label. I sincerely doubt it will ever be connected to a writing company ever again.

Actually, I only repeated your observation. Which was done when you thought I was a competitor in the field to try and discredit me in the eyes of potential clients. I am confident enough in my English skills, both spoken and written. I have recieved validation not from mere academic writers, but from far more valid authorities on the language. I do not have a need for client validation or validation from any perceived / so-called "peers". I rank far higher than most of you when it comes to the English language.


I would also be honest with my clients all the time too, if I were an academic writer.


This is an amazing count. It would place you among the top UK academic writers. How you can pull this off without a UK based education is questionable. While I know academic writers are capable of learning on the job, I believe it would be far more difficult to gain an expertise, regardless of the amount of time one has been a writer, and exposed to a writing style when dealing with an academic style that one did not receive formal training in through the formal schooling process.


if I am right, there are certain educational levels one must pass through a formal national test / assessment every so often in the UK right? making it highly difficult to progress with ones learning in the formal academic setting. The tests are meant to assess the learning and writing abilities of the student right? Do you think FLW could pass the tests based on exposure to client writing alone? I think it would have something to do with his writing proficiency in the UK style? I believe that, based upon what you have been sharing here for the information of all concerned about UK writing, the UK academic writer competency should be based on how well he performs in his A and O levels as well, not just what he learned theoretically within the classroom setting or through client writing exposure in a form of education vastly different from his own. UK students are heavy on the writing side of learning. Making their papers difficult to complete because of the age old rigid writing requirements of the academic institutions. Even the royals are documented to have difficulty in passing these tests.

Just asking what I consider to be a valid question. No personal attacks implied.

@a1writer No company does that online so why should they be any different? It is the companies that do not include an actual address or a questionable map address in their About and Contact Page that students should worry about. As long as their actual location is stated somewhere in the site, they cannot be accused of misleading the student. The student can however, be faulted for not doing a thorough research of the company based on the available information on the company site. I have to disagree with you on this.

@a1writer Am I a mod or not? Be careful what you think and say, it might just turn out to be true. Think what you will. I shall not contradict it. Free speech will always be respected here. Mine was merely a suggestion and not to be taken negatively.

I focused on the page count since based on my experience, the teachers / professors often instruct the students to write an X number of pages about a certain topic. Rarely do they ask the student to write based on a word count since the word count limits the ability of the student to present a well researched paper. They have more freedom to discuss based on the page count. Everything else that you mentioned also comes free with every order placed with any writing company or independent writer. That excludes the Annotated Bibliography, which is considered a new paper order rather than an addendum to the source listing and footnotes.

Additionally, the page count order also comes with a minimum word count guarantee from the writing company (not necessarily the same case as with an independent writer). The writing companies try to merge these 2 possible requirements whenever possible. Students often base their orders on the page count and spacing requirement when they are ordering based on a limited budget. They try to fit their writing requirements into what they can afford to pay for. It may not be the same case for everyone, specially in the UK. I was not focused on the UK and was speaking in general.

Can you possibly participate in the discussions with a general focus rather than just the UK? The idea is to help the students regardless of location. It would help the students more if you can provide helpful and general statements unless the UK is specifically mentioned in the discussion.

They never meant to deceive the students in that case. They were honest about their location, but provided it only on a need to know basis. Since they are based in Cyprus, this allows them to get around the UK law against writing companies and also allows them to focus on UK students as clients. It is up to the student to take a chance with them, or not. If you ask me, any company that intentionally misleads the students based on their company name should not be trusted though.

This 13 year old company currently has more than 100 other sites linking to this domain name. What the other links are and what their functions are do not seem to be available on the public domain. The only thing I can be sure of is that it is a company that openly advertises academic writing services and, the company has a server based in Chicago. Does having a US based server mean the company is legitimate and should be trusted with personal, student, and project information? That is not necessarily the case. However, based on the years of the company's existence, it may be given a small semblance of trust. A company in this line of work cannot stay in business for over a decade if it were involved in bad actions on the side.

@a1writer Most writing companies ask the writer for his list of writing competencies and do not allow writers whose qualifications do not fall under the client requirements to be assigned to a particular task. The writer is asked to submit his educational qualifications via college transcript and his actual college certification during the application process. This is the way that the bidding system protects the students from writers who might misrepresent themselves. The same protection does not apply to students who have independently contracted their writer. Which is probably the biggest drawback of the direct hiring method. It is up to the writer to be honest with his clients and indicate when he can and cannot work on a particular paper. I totally dislike it when a writer uses a client as an experiment tool to see how far he or she can push his writing skills. I am not referring to any writer in particular but I do know that there are some writers who do that. If it works out for them, well and good for the client. If not, oh boy! I do not even want to think about it.

@a1writer The one thing good to come out of that law is the student can actually sue a real company and hold them accountable should their deal not work out. An option they did not have before.

The data from Maps is different then. I guess the offices found their legal loophole. Do not offer the writing services online Offer it on the sly from a legitimate office location instead. What is posted and what happens at the actual office could be 2 different things. Students will always inquire about writing services. Who are we to knowthey do not doit, in a more roundaboutway? As long as they get a legitimate UK writer right? This would bethe bestway to ensure that.

The company has not been shut down. It actually exists online using fictitious claims made to indicate that they are truly a group of PhD writers (whose English is so atrocious they would have been kicked out of any UK academic institution) who are experts at writing some of the most complicated papers that a UK student can come by. Here is the dead give away that the company is a scam though. Their UK address? Yeah, it leads to a Chinese take-out restaurant. That is the only business located at that precise address. I hope the restaurant knows that an illegal online business is squatting on their physical address.

A competent writer can be had regardless of whether that writer is ESL or ENL. The main qualification the writer must have is his ability to properly research and discuss the assigned project. It will help if the writer actually has a background in the field he is writing about since that will lessen the chances of miscommunication with the client.

The only difference that I can see between the two writers is the way that they express themselves in English. I have been told that my capacity to use the English language is proficient enough, but still obviously ESL. Since I never claimed to be an ENL writer in the first place, I see no reason for my English ranking to matter. An active ESL writer who can meet the writing demands of an ENL student will not receive complaints from the client, more so if the writer assigned is an ENL.

I think that the writer competency zeroes in on one particular requirement, that of his expertise and ability to actually write about the topic assigned. As @a1writer often notes, it is important to hire a writer with a relevant background but, doesn't on the job experience and collected knowledge count as well? If a writer has been at this job for decades on end, written papers on a massive number of topics, gained knowledge and experience through those practices, then I believe that it makes him or her competent for the job.

While the owner of Northwind Essays may have had good intentions in mind, and me may even have had the writing skills to boot, it appears that his efforts did not result in the growth of his business. If anything, I believe the business shuttered its doors since the last conversation in this post. I tried to do a deep search of the website or any reference to such a company but turned up empty handed. I guess the poor guy did not have what it takes to stay in the business. It looks to me like he was trying to use this post as a networking tool but it completely backfired because of the attacks on him. Based on the date of the original post, he may not have known how to effectively use social media to circumvent any negative attacks he experiences here.

The only thing sure about this company is that it is no longer in business. It has been out of business for some time now. I am not surprised that it did not last long considering the kind of comments that were posted about it at this forum, within this thread specifically. Add to that the other negative comments that can still be found online at the moment about the company services when it was still existing and it will be easy to understand why it had no chance of staying around long enough to make a positive name in this business. It just did not know how to satisfy the client needs. They only knew how to collect the payments and nothing more.

The domain name has been up for sale for some time now. There are no takers at the this time mostly because there is a growing interest in url background checks from people and companies who are looking to purchase second hand domain names. A second hand domain name is one that has been previously used and has garnered some sort of online reputation over the years. The more negative the reputation, the less likely the domain name is to be resold. The first time domain name owners learned that the hard way. They are now paying the price for not caring about how they cared for the brand name that they chose for their business.

Unless the now graduated student plans to work for any government in the world, I sincerely doubt that his potential employer will do a deep search into his academic, financial, and personal background. Even then I doubt they would look into whether or not a student purchased academic papers during his college days. It will not have a true relevance to his job skills anyway. It is either he learned to do the job or not during his focused academic years. A university professor might realize the student bought an essay during the term, but not after and most certainly, not after graduation. Students will always do best to follow the instruction of the writing company. Use the originally written paper as a model and nothing more. Rewrite the paper as needed to avoid any future complications.

The company does not identify the type of English writers that are in their employ. Some of the more honest companies openly admit that they hire a mix of ESL and ENL writers, mostly to suit the writing style of the students. When a company simply claims to have "Certified English writers", I tend to question what it means. Does this mean an indirect admission that they employ solely English as a Second Language writers? Since the word "certified" was thrown in there, without clarification, then I would be led to believe that there is an unofficial admission of not having American or UK educated writers on staff. They only have either TOEFL or IELTS certified writers waiting to take the order. Does anyone else think this is a safe assumption to make? In which case, is it worth it to pay the high prices the company asks for per page?

Students have also come to realize that essay writing companies and forums such as there are not the only placesa nor are these the best places, to find writers for their various needs. Writers themselves have begun to shy away from writing companies while opting for memberships at forums only as a networking method. The jeg economy has led to the path of self promotion at these new direct hire, per project sites. The clients / students have more control over the hiring and bidding process in those places. The writers have more project options without the need to use a middle man as well. The result? Writers that are actually qualified to work on specific projects get hired by employers at a cost efficient price.

Spammers are part and parcel of any open discussion format. We should just be thankful that we are dealing with human spammers rather than bots. Humans may be detected and easily suspended. Bots, not so much. That AI seems to get around even the best anti-bot and spam programs.

There was a spam influx the other day. Luckily someone caught on behind the scenes and suspended the user. I did not see any trace of the spam anywhere at the forum today.

They seem to ramp up their attacks as the new schoolyear draws nearer to the opening date. It should abate soon

I've tried to access this site via several browser apps. None of which could complete a connection to the server of this company. That makes it official. This company is officially gone from existence. As a non-existing company that was financially troubled during its existence (as evidenced by this post) their writers were likely left unpaid at the time of and long after its closure. Based on the length of time the company was in business, it would appear that its only intention was to amass funds on both sides for its owner and nothing more. Tough luck for their writer stable at the time. I wonder where they eventually ended up working again.

The company must be doing something right in terms of treating their writers. For all the complaints in this thread, the company has managed to keep a large roster of active writers. Most of whom have not registered any complaints from what I have found. Either they have improved their treatment of the writers or the company has tuned into a one writer show. Please note that they no longer focus on academic writing though. That is probably what made the difference.They are more involved in commercial wiling contracts these days. That could be another reason for their improved writer treatment. There are lesser reasons to crack the whip on non-academic writers.

Since the company claims that they will not be writing any papers in the educational sphere, then what sort of papers do they write? Why does the list of assured services still sound like they are engaged in academic writing? Maybe because they are still engaged in it albeit in a less public way than their competitors? It would make sense for them to do it on the sly since the reviews for academic papers from the company are not exactly stellar. I may even say that their writing products will not have improved, even with their departure from the academic writing focus. If anything, this disclaimer is meant to cover their tracks when writing "model papers" for the clients. Who would these clients be if not students? Why not say outright that they service only professional writing needs in this case? Would that not be a clearer and more direct way of telling students to not even ask if the writers will complete academic paper orders?

The gig economy has ushered in the advent of various money transfer methods beyond bank transfers and PayPal. These could be currency based money transfer services via fintechs, or, alternative fiat such as Bitcoin and the like. These avenues has lower exchange and transfer fees that can benefit the freelancer that opts to use the service. He just has to choose the best transfer service for himself or, ask the company which alternative payment method they offer that has the lowest service rates. Banks are practically the last transfer channel a gig player considers these days. They always charge more and payout less to those who need to convert the dollars to their local denomination.

Students can easily get away with handing in someone else's work as their own. It happens all the time. The teacher's do not tend to overcheck the homework students turn in these days. Why would they? They are overworked and underpaid anyway. The teachers will pass any student who meets the requirements to move up the next academic year. The only reason a student could get caught is if he is so badly on the wrong side of the teacher that there comes a need to take the student down a peg or two. Otherwise, only blatantly plagiarized work would get caught and cause problems for the student.

Offshore incorporation only has big-time benefits for large conglomerates that have ultra complicated financing and accounting records. There are always international tax loopholes that the rich can exploit. Academic writing companies cannot claim the same benefits though. They do not make the same amount of revenue to do so. There are even times when claims of offshore incorporation prove to be false. It is just a play they use thinking that it makes their dark company seem more legitimate. Do not overthink offshoring so much. It is irrelevant in this business.

The address listed houses a language school, a home learning college office, a publishing house, a consulting house, and a driving school as far as I know. I've not come across this company at Peter House at all. The address listed is quite general and could be seen as valid by most people. However, the lack of proper office unit address indicates that they opted to illegally use the said address. Even a phone call to building management did not turn up any leads. It has never existed at their chosen address. So, what else are they lying about?

Essay Empire has not improved since the time of this posting. In fact, it has gotten worse. The poor schmucks who hired them found that there is not a single shred of truth to their claims of writer expertise or proficiency. They proved for themselves that the writers are NOT UK based, educated, nor trained. The writers can barely string an English sentence together and, they do not accomodate revision requests. The uniform complaint is that the writers do not even try to write a good paper and it was not uncommon for them to simply take Wikipedia information and cut and paste it into a document, and expect to get paid for it !!! That company is a definite scam. There are other alternative sites out there that clients can safely use. Find and use them.

The file has since been taken down from Weebly. I was sad to have seen that. I was looking forward to reading it. It sounded like an interesting read. I have to say though, that with all of the English variations now in existence, it has become even more difficult to judge ESL from ENL writers. Just look at the number of English types under the Youtube closed caption list or keyboard English variations available and it will be easy to understand what I am implying. There simply are not just I ways to write in English any more so this discussion is really moot at this point.

Hmm... Is anyone else getting redirected to a mobile version of the site? I know I am and the page is asking me to connect to mobile data or wifi for some reason.The sewer does not identify me as properly connected. Makes me wonder if the site is going offline? FLW, would you know anything about this having worked (or are you still working ?) with them before?

I do not believe that a company being run out of a blog site, and sells its services via a blog format can be trusted to come up with high quality essays of any sort. CheapestCustomessays.com is the site that I speak of. When I asked around I found out that they are one of the laughing stock companies on the web. Most companies do not give their claims any respect because the company owners cannot even afford to mount a real website, even as they already have a paid server for their blog. They are not pros at the business, an image that was solidified by the way they try to hawk their services so unprofessionally.

Hmmm... Ghost Papers have 2 sets of people working on a paper at any given time? They claim that the writer's just write the paper and the research is done, not by the writer, but by a "team of researchers" that "back up the writer". There is something wrong with that claim. Normally, the writer does the research because he is the one who knows what direction the paper will be taking, the type of sources needed, and how the information will develop in the paper. Only the writer knows the relevance of the research material. These academic papers do not require research assistants. There is no reason for that. However, that is quite possibly the reason that the writers always fumble the paper that they develop for the students. It is a case of too many cooks spoil the broth.