An unemployed professor is no kind of professor. Since he was unable to get tenure at the university he was working at, then it is safe to assume that he was not very good at his job. Even as a regular professor, he should be able to work even at the community college level. I have yet to come across a professor who actually works full-time as an academic writer. Most of these educators see that type of profession as beneath them. Which is why I find it hard to believe that a self-respecting (unemployed) professor would work for an obviously third rate writing company. The "professor" part is a ploy to get students to believe that academics are in charge of their paper. I have yet to come across anybody who has used this company and gotten a professor level type of writing out them. Anybody here have a different experience? Would you say that, having used the service, they actually employ ENL professors as their writers?

@FreelanceWriter Would you be open to having clients pay in installments? say 50% upfront, 25% midstream, then the last payment before the submission of the final part of the paper? Some students say that the upfront complete payment is what prevents them from hiring some direct writers (not necessarily you). They say writers who are open to a payment schedule tend to get their business more . For the students, would you also prefer payment schedules? If so, why? If not, please share your reasons.

The OP should rejoice at the confirmation that the company has officially gone offline. A sign that it may have gone out of business. I pray that the company did not just change domain names to avoid the negative publicity that their previous name garnered across the web. It would be a shame if that is all that happened because there is nothing positive at all with regards to business dealings with this company. It is a bit difficult to trace exactly where the previous owners are and if they are still engaged in academic writing at the moment. From the looks of it though, it appears they have disengaged themselves from the business. At least, that is what the evidence points to at the moment.

The promise of this company to deliver high caliber grades to a student is straight out of an Indian movie that I once saw. What was it called again? Oh yeah, 3 Idiots ! One of the students in that movie was paid to attend classes for a lazy rich kid whose father needed him to get a college diploma, but could not get his son to attend any sort of classes. He had another person attending classes in his name since he was in high school. Which is what the services of this company, when it was still active sounded like. By the way, I consider any student who hires someone to attend his classes and take his tests for him to be exactly that, an idiot. FYI, I am not from India nor do I have any sort of Indian heritage. I just prefer the Bollywood movies over Hollywood due to the strong storylines, even if I have to read subtitles. Anybody here seen the movie? I suggest it. It says a lot about college life, regardless of where you are in the world.

For some reason, the company url directs to their anchor page, which only talks about the company being open for hiring. They try to explain why they believe you should work for them with complete vagueness. Clicking on the apply now page leads the potential applicant to an error page based on "too many redirects". So there is something not right going on with this company. It is almost as if they have planted some virus or malware in the page that the browsers can detect and prevent from infiltrating the user's system. I would take that as a warning that the page and the company cannot be trusted. If anyone here works for the company, then feel free to correct me if I am wrong. Anybody?

This self proclaimed "notable" author claims to be a writer of import but fails to establish any writing credibility in any of his social media and employment link profiles. He is just like all other writers here, a ghost writer trying to earn a living by writing for other people. So do not believe his claims of being on the level. His ire was probably directed at students who refused to hire him for overpricing or something.

By the way, no student who uses writing services can end up killing someone in the future. If he isn't studying, he is eventually going to fail his course, regardless of the papers written for him. He is not going to pass his tests, which carry more weight than any research paper grade that is written for him. Nobody passes a class based on essays alone. If anyone has passed college classes based on research and essay submissions alone, please tell us how you did it. I am sure everyone here would be interested to learn how it is done. Right?

This forum is meant to help educate the students when it comes to the warning signs in relation to scam websites. These are pretty straightforward and are truly informative to learn about. Most people learn from the negative experience of others. Most, are saved by the fact that the companies being mentioned are no longer in business. While the site does not allow us to tell the students which companies to use, we can at least warn them of what companies not to use. Based on the reviews of the services on this site, the writer will have the opportunity to create his own screening system for when he finally decides to hire a writer or writing company. He also knows which companies to avoid right off the bat. That is the best that can be done without violating the forum rules when it comes to recommending websites and writers. Or is it? If anyone has any other ideas regarding this topic, feel free to jump in. No experience is too old or irrelevant.

By definition, anybody who calls himself a "freelancer" works on the basis of selling work or services by the hour, day, or job. We do not answer to the company but to the client. The company is only the contact point for the job. It is understood that the company earns an undisclosed percentage from the work they assist the writer in getting. The writer is not employed by the company since there is no employment contract. Therefore, the company is not bound by any laws to treat the writer as an employee. This is also the reason why it is wrong for the writer to allow the company to treat him as a regular employee. The company uses the "not an employee" excuse every time it suits them to do so. There is no rule that prevents the writer from using the same excuse on the company when it suits them to do so as well. Writer should treat the company the same way they treat their writers. That will level the playing field.

Well, at least the company is not pretending to be a long standing company in the business. They admit to being practially in their infancy at only 3 years old and counting. The presentation they use is far more businesslike than their counterparts and competition, which at least tells the visitor that the people who wrote the copy are serious writers and not teenagers looking to scam a few off unsuspecting students. Do these observations make them a legitimate company? I doubt it. However, the manner by which they present themselves makes the company worthy of at least an inquiry from the said visitor.

2 problems I have with the second website are:

- Unlimited rewrites/modifications until complete satisfaction.
This type of ruling tends to open the writer to the possibility of endless revisions in the guise of an "unsatisfied" client. There are times the student decides to go into the essay selling business by offering his paper to his classmates. He promises them original papers because the company offers exactly what is stated above. So the student can have 12 versions of the same paper, make money from it, while the writer ends up with penalties and deductions. Sometimes leaving him with no income as the cunning student decides that he is not satisfied even after countless revisions and demands a refund.

- College professors endorse a "learn from example" approach
This is the same as the professor's suggestion. The "learn from example" approach relates to previously written essays that are accessible to the student via the library database. An originally written paper for the student does not qualify under the same considerations. "Learn from example" suggest previously published / graded work. What the company is selling is an original paper, which has not been graded nor previously submitted, thereby not meeting the definition as set by the professors. These original essays are meant to be submitted for a grade.

The website claims: BuyEssay provides papers for assistance purposes only! We don't do your homework instead of you.

What a load of BS ! They are assuring the students of plagiarism free papers, an assurance that the essay can be submitted for a grade, without getting caught as having paid for a writing service to complete the work. They are doing the homework instead of the student. There is no disguising the purpose of the company and the services their writers offer. They manage to contradict their services claim the deeper one reads into the anchor page. You assure the students of an original paper, and countless revisions (again, proof that they do the homework for you). So this is simply an essay writing service, in the paid essay sense and student expectations sense of the business.

Perhaps college is also slowly becoming an obsolete educational need due to the evolution of Man in terms of intelligence. Toddlers these days are far more advanced than previous generations, knowing how to operate a tablet or a computer seemingly by instinct alone. It is also this instinct that has made them more creative, imaginative, and brimming with talent. Computers have made it possible for this generation to show the past / current adults how things will be done in the foreseeble future. They learn to use computer and code practically before they learn how to write their names or simultaneous with it. With such rapid development of intellect, there just may come a time when college will become truly optional for most young people.

This domain is for sale: $2,795

That is the message one will get on the landing page once he enters the aforementioned link. Talk about an overpriced domain name. Nobody in his right mind, nobody who is familiar with the history of the domain name and the company behind it would pay that much to use this name. A look into the company background will reveal the problems that led to the demise of this company. Accusations ranging from fraud and writer non payment are just some of the basic problems that this company had to deal with. Were the accusations true or not? Based on the end result of the company business, I would say the accusations were all true.

The OP has indicated 3 of the long standing academic writing companies online. Though problematic in terms of quality, writer treatment, and ownership, these companies have managed to keep their client base satisfied somehow. They have also managed to survive the pandemic and keep their writers paid, although with heavy CPP adjustments. Would I call them the best sites just because they survived the pandemic? Are they not the worst sites since they do not pay nor treat their writers well? The immediate response to both questions would be yes. They survived the pandemic and manage to pay their writers even though the rates are laughable. Anyway, the best writing sites are the ones that the writers are satisfied working for. That is based on a personal experience so one can only respond after having had some experience working for these companies. Only then will be writer be able to say that for sure. So work for the company first, then come to your own conclusion. Nobody can give an accurate response to this inquiry.

There have been cases ( and you can look this up in various universities and colleges rather than asking me to prove it) where the students actually use the "lent paper" by the professor and have it written up by someone else, using the same source material. It is a business the other academic writing companies call "paraphrasing services" and these are all based on previously written papers "borrowed" from the professors.

The professors always catch on and penalize the student who did it, but refuses to admit it. Then the student chases after the hired writer who botched the job since he was caught using the plagiariazed paper. I have never been involved in these instances as I draw the line for academic integrity at some point. I am however, in the know about some freelancers (not you!) and writing companies that do this kind of work. I rejected such work offers in the past.

Thankfully, I am not an active academic writer anymore so I am no longer faced with these decisions. I am out of the academic business totally so you should not consider me a threat to you and your mode of work at all. Which is how you seem to eventually view any other active person on this board. Scared because you cannot keep up with the modern way the business is done I guess? You must be too old to be in the business already which is why you are no longer relevant and familiar with how the students actually get around the old blocks and use new ways to cheat the system. Modern way of doing things? Not really your style is it? Hence your defiance at any explanation that proves you to be wrong.

I do still enjoy discussing the business though. Which is why I am explaining the method by which these "accidents" occur to you. I hope you don't get an aneurysm reading my posts. My disclaimer stands.

While this site has been taken offline, the domain name still connects to an advertisement selling the company name. It appears that the original owners have decided to keep the url active in an effort to sell the name, but not the business. They know that the name has resale value, but that selling the business lock, stock, and barrel will not be possible due to the negative image the company has developed over time. Their only way of getting any money back would be from the sale of the domain name. However, I do not believe they would be able to sell this name on their terms since they are using a bidding process for the name sale. Perhaps they hope to sell it for a higher price if they go through this method of selling the business. I doubt it would work though. Most people who are looking to buy a used domain name will conduct due diligence and look into the background of the business. In which case, they will not pay a single dime for this product.

The website is now offline and useless as a connection to this domain name. The server has been emptied of the site contents but, still remains an active address so the name is still trying to connect to the website. This site going offline is for the best. It is one of the most problematic sites out there, whose reputation precedes it. The main problem with their service being that they never actually had college level graduates of the ESL (at the very least) writing the papers. These people barely made it out of high school (when they do have a secondary education) yet they believe they can write advanced academic papers for any student. They could not even complete a personal statement according to one student I spoke to.

It is really simple. Consumers will not go through the bother of verifying information unless they have already been scammed. Prior to that, they are satisfied with accepting any information found on the site at face value. They will continue to accept these information as fact for as long as they are satisfied with the service being provided to them. It is almost like a hypnotic state that these clients find themselves in. One mistake on the part of the company though and the spell is broken. Information will then be verified (if they know how to do so), and screams heard to the high heavens will be released as they realize what fools they were in the first place.

For some reason, this url now redirects to a cryto currency business. It is not a good sign when a domain name is used to mislead users. One can only assume that there is something criminal going on with regards to the company that the url redirects to. It does not instill confidence in anyone to suddenly have a crypto business show up in a browser window since you never clicked on a link for one. Since crypto tends to have a negative connotation till now, I would suggest that a malware and virus scanner be run on your system should you accidentally load the page.

Just like any business involved in customer care, the company will have its share of detractors and supporters. These varying reviews should not be the basis of the final image of the company in the eyes of the potential client. If anything, these comments should be the foundation of their considerations when hiring their services. Write down these concerns. Add your own questions. Then interview their client assistants to get proper clarification. If you decide that the responses are satisfactory, then use the service. At the end of all these steps, the client will be able to create his own opinion of the service and whether the detractors have valid opinions as stated here.

It is difficult to spam any website these days. The spambots are finding it difficult to get around the Captcha requirements prior to posting. The search engines also have human beings on the other end who are constantly monitoring for spam post warnings being emitted by the spam block system. What I did notice though that although some of the sites continue to post to social medial, there are those what have not made any social media posts since 2001. Maybe they found a different way of making their past posts relevant 20 years later? Or they just gave up and decided to leave the site just in case it can provide promotion for their business?

QuickEssays is out for the count so there is no use surmising about why they went out of business. All we need to know is that they went out of business. However, academicwritingexperts.com is still active and conning students into deals that make them think they are hiring US based and educated writers. Consider the following line from their anchor page and you will immediately recognize that the company is solely ESL writer based:

We are a team of experienced academic writer US

What does the above line represent? It highlights the fact that the blurb was written using SEO considerations, regardless of the grammar appropriateness of the presentation. Whoever wrote this did not consider proper grammar to be an important aspect of his job. This is a clear example of the lack of care that their other writers will provide to any work that is assigned to them. It will be a revision nightmare with the client acting as the editor and proofreader for the writer. Best not to hire them at all.

Both url's redirect to the same busy and elementary produced academic writing website. The way that the site is formatted to look like a carnival of advertisements rather than a professional writing company should be the first warning sign for the students. The fact that they think "Oh shiny!" and "Clown! Clown!", thoughts that the visitors will think at first, will garner them clients, they have another thing coming. This website shows a lack of professionalism in terms of product advertising, content delivery, and professional conduct. The company represents exactly that, clowns that should not have lasted this long in the business. How they manage to keep themselves afloat when the other con sites have gone down is beyond me.

Although Freelancewriter and I may have our differences and disagreements at times, the one thing that will never change is my admiration for the work he has done for previous students and other working professionals. Noting his reviews at this forum under his brand, students will be lulled into a sense of trust for the person and the work he provides. There are no negatives to be read about the work he provides, even if you try hard and hire a private investigator to find one. What am I driving at? you will not lose anything by trying his services. He is worth the risk. Students before you have attested to that.

Professors do not advise using the presubmitted papers in their university database because of the tendency to "accidentally" plagiarize previous student's work. However, the school library may also have some exemplary research papers on file as written by university students, and published in journals as articles. They may ask the librarian, rather than the professor for those. These may be used as actual reference points in their new research papers and essays. The universities do their best to avoid any case of accidental plagiarism on the part of the new students and that includes previous papers being accidentally paraphrased. Published work though, is considered a legal and academic reference due to the publishes nature of the student's work.

There is no need to worry about the fraudulent activities of this website at the moment. The site is under construction and tells the visitors that the site is "coming soon" without any indication of when "soon" might be. My guess is, "soon" will not be "soon" enough. They are waiting for the publicity about this company to simmer down and be forgotten before coming back to the business. Their identity was just so negative, it was difficult for them to stay in play. They took the site down to cool off. Why they did not rebrand the company is beyong me. Rebranding and killing the original domain name would have been a lot simpler than waiting things out.

Now known as privateessays.com, the company claims to have trustworthy reviews from sitejabber and trustpilot. After looking at their "high" rating on both sites, it became obvious to me that the "clients" were actually paid to post positive reviews about the company. Anybody can post reviews at these sites. It is open to anyone who has a working email address. So I do not believe that these site reviews can be trusted. Another major reason why the service should not be used is because they claim that they use turnitin for client plagiarism reports. While I have not come across any evidence that the company does use the academic plagiarism checker, it would be better not to use their service because, once your essay is uploaded to turnitin, it becomes part of the database. It can no longer be submitted for a grade without triggering a plagiarism report on your teacher's part. The paper, that the client paid a hefty sum for, will only be useful as a model paper. The client will have to use the paper only as a basis of a personally written academic paper, which defeats the purpose of hiring a ghost writer in the first place.

Just as an update, the location of this company has changed. New information about the company can be found here. The company was also formerly known as flashpapers.com so we know that this company will be constantly changing its domain name to serve its selfish needs. It will continue to fool students by delivering unworthy papers, while charging a premium price. It is best if students stay away from the company in its new incarnation and location, since it is still run by the same criminal group from Pakistan.

Well, the company has once again relocated. This time, the company headquarters is in Cyprus. By the way, the company has also placed a well advised disclaimer in their page that indicates that the service they provide is not disallowed by universities and colleges, provided the student only uses the model paper as a references in one or in all of the several ways they explain on their page. Oh, they also admit to having both ENL and ESL writers at this point. They encourage their clients to choose the writer based on their writing level I guess. I am glad that there is another essay company that is honest about what comprises their pool of writers. This is an emerging trend in the companies that seems to be slow in catching on, but is slowly being adopted, probably as a part of their best business practices.

Now rebranded as Ghostpapers.com, the company promises to deliver only original and plagiarism free papers to their client. This is a promise that takes up 99 percent of the page. The other 1 percent? It relates to a disclaimer that the student cannot use the paper he paid for in his class (e.g. submitted for a grade) He can however, refer to the paper he paid for as a source material for his actual, personally written paper. This to me is a problem because the student is paying a premium price for a paper composed only of "references", as written by the assigned writer. Why will he pay such high rates per page if he cannot use the work as his own? Why make guarantees of timeliness, originality, and satisfaction, if the paper is only a model paper? Their claims do not support the disclaimer that is on the site.

$3-$4 represents an advanced writers rate at the essay writing companies coming out of certain sectors of the globe. These are companies that cannot be considered legitimate for any reason. Legitimate companies pay far higher rates, with independent writers normally charging a fee based on a "take it or leave it" scale. The norm these days is usually a dollar per page for the gray area companies. That is the entry level fee. While the next level fee is close to $2 dollars per page. Rather than increasing their writers salaries to help them out during these financially difficult times, they are lowering it to almost unlivable levels for their third world writers.

The undergrad probably bit off more than he could chew in terms of keeping his business running. The url is also a disconnected domain name at this point. From the records I have seen, it appears that the undergrad manage to run the company well into the time after his graduation. He probably managed to round up some 3rd world ESL writers for his company for more than 10 years. However, the pandemic seems to have affected the finances of the company, which prevented it from existing in the new educational landscape. Due to the name and nationality of the owner, it is more than likely that he catered to ME students who needed writing help in the English speaking world. He was overpriced but since his clients were monied, it did not matter for a period of time.

The website has been taken offline since the previous comment was made. So there is no way to verify the claims regarding the abilities of the company to provide their client needs. Not that it is necessary at this point. What is the use in reviewing a dead site right? Anyway, it is server disconnected but still an active domain name. The assumption can be made that the business is being sold at this point, which seems to be the aim of the negative reputation companies at this time. A review search for the company will make the name unsellable at this point. So I am not worried about this company being reborn in the near or distant future.

The company went belly up and some company claiming to be pharma bought the URL. It is marketing some sort of drug that is supposed to help a person grow a brain, or something like that. I think it is just a prank page meant to keep the url active while they try to sell the name to some other business owner. I really doubt the same people are still running the page as it is now. The content is a something that I view as a comedic placeholder ang nothing more. As the song goes "another one bites the dust".

Having a business address in the UK showing up in the Contact Us page does not prove that the company is based in the UK. Anybody can claim a UK business address. That does not actually matter. The fact that the writer was hired, even though he obviously admitted to being ESL, and even used fake documentation is all the evidence one needs to understand that the company was never UK based nor owned by citizens of the UK. He applied to and was hired by a 3rd world essay writing company pretending to be something else. If the OP actually quit his job, then I applaud him for having a conscience. He did the right thing and hopefully, found himself a job better suited to his actual skills.

I am not sure if this company is still in existence at this point. When a search is done for the domain name, it returns 2 different sites that both deal with academic writing. Neither of which are well known in this business. There is little to be known about their track record with regards to services, quality of papers produced, and client satisfaction. The first company, whose name I cannot mention lest I be accused of promoting the company or being paid to be its representative, claims to have been in the business for decades now. How many decades was not indicated. Their page actually tells very little about the background of the company beyond vague references. The second company, has a more professional anf businesslike presentation when compared to the loud and almost childlike presentation of the former company. The second one seems to be more professional in approach and does not make any obvious false claims in their page regarding their existence and services. Are these the same as the company in question? Maybe, maybe not. For some reason though, the Custom Essays Lab keyword returns these two companies as a result so... Maybe yes?

This is the main problem when working in an unregulated industry. The company owners make up the rules as they go along, without needing to inform their writers. The students do not have a clue either which is why they get scammed. The writers often do not vet the company that they are applying to because they equate legality with a Google search. Writers have tried time and time again to take down this company but they fail because of a lack of legal backing. It is hard to close down a company that can list its address as being anywhere in the world. Thus avoiding any legal responsibilities to their writers who do not have a legitimate contract in place since they are freelancers anyway. The lesson ? Never work for any company without a freelancers contract. Yes, a freelancer contract does exist.

Since the site has a broken internet connection, I will assume that it is currently being dismantled by its current owners. Even the cached version of the site is no longer accessible. It is definitely no longer a player in the essay writing business so there is no need to delve any further into the company and its reliability. It can be ignored since it no longer exists in a form that could cause damage to the students. Not even if the domain name goes up for sale. My guess is it went offline early this year. The name has disconnected but the server records still exist. It just doesn't allow access to the pages on a public basis anymore. A prelude to the full record removal.

Not so anymore. Someone has bought the domain name and intends to revive it as an essay writing site. The domain name Was actually purchased just this year. I do not believe the original people involved in the business are staging a comeback. Since the site is listed as coming soon rather than returning, it is a safe bet that a new team of players are involved in the operations of the new company. As the company maybe considered reborn, it would be best to give them a chance to prove themselves upon their relaunch. I will observe and comment about their services when the right time comes. As of now, let us await their opening with anticipation.

The company sells its services the same way those home tv shopping networks hawk their goods. Unbelievable discounts, bundled services, unbelievable guarantees, and other out of this world promises makes them a student's dream come true. Any company that promises a student the moon and the stars cannot be trusted. There is a reason they are appealing to your sense of need, they know you can be broken down and made to surrender to their empty promises and unfulfillable words. The fact that their anchor page is equivalent to several pages ensures that they are trying to run a convincing con. Anybody that talks that much leaves more room for question rather than belief.