I showed people two places where they can look up reports about companies, including the one you work for.

I could not find any mention of them on ComplaintsBoard.com.

complaintsboard.com/?search=powerpapers.com

Nothing about them on RipoffReport, either.

ripoffreport.com/Search/powerpapers_com.aspx

Those are the first places I would look when checking out any of these companies, rather than just taking the word of their representatives who post on here. Those are also some of the places where I have posted complaints of my own from time to time.

History is full of examples of people overreaching and imagining that they could get away with anything, only to discover too late that they finally went too far.


And with a mentality and personality like yours, it's hard to imagine you being anything else but a Republican, or a Repuke as I call them. You fit in with them very well.

Your own arrogance and hubris are well known to all of us regulars on here, but that will catch up with you sooner or later. It always does.

I had an AlertPay account but never used it. Recently I got an email from them saying that they have merged with another company.

"The AlertPay that you love is becoming Payza this spring - to give you exactly these things! Thanks to a recent merger with UK- based MH Pillars Ltd, a leader in prepaid card solutions, we were able to join forces to take AlertPay to the next level of online payment processing.

On May 14, 2012, we're launching a redesigned website with more service offerings to bring you an even better online payment processing experience. All of your information will transition to Payza.com - so you don't have to do a thing! Same account number, same personal and financial information, same login & password!"

3,823 posts and counting, at least under the name "Pheelyks", versus about 90 for me.

I'm not the one promoting myself since I have never taken a single order as a result of posting anything on this site. In fact, I am burned out on writing essays and will probably be slacking off on it quite a bit. After 5-6 years of doing this, it gets very old.

What are you talking about, Pheelyks? You just posted something on here about nursing theory, which I'm sure NickPas found very helpful. LOL.

By the way, do you live on this website? You're always here, even during the busy season.

I think it would always bee better to write independently if possible rather than for any of the companies that are being discussed on here. They are not all outright frauds or scams, but many of them are, and even the better ones have certain defects. An independent writer gets to keep 100%, instead of letting one of these companies take 50-60%, which always left me with the feeling of being ripped off. Others make the writers bid on orders instead of simply selecting them, so one never knows from one day to the next how many orders you might get--if any. Some sites pay very well, especially in the UK, but if their prices are too high they don't have many orders. ManuscriptServices in the UK was like that, since their rates of pay were always quite high, but it's hard to get more that 2-3 orders a month because there just aren't that many. On the plus side, they always pay on time and the exact amount that you earn instead of scamming the writers, playing all kinds of fun and games with "fines" and all that.

I have had a great deal of experience with various companies over the years, and there are some that I would tell you to avoid completely as outright frauds, such as Academic Knowledge and essaywriters.net[DND*] under its various names. I have also been a member of Researchwritingcenter, but the pay was so low that I never even bothered to take an order, not to mention the problems various writers have had getting paid. On the whole, I just avoid the companies paying $3-8 per page because the writers end up doing a lot of work for very little money.

So overall, it would be better to work independently, but then you would have to take on the entire hassle of dealing with customers directly, trying to collect payments from them, including those who are just trying to scam you to get a free paper. It goes on all the time. After doing this type of work for years, I would say that the best thing about it is to freedom to set your own hours, and not to having to show up in an office every day wearing a suit and tie, but it also has its share of drawbacks.

I worked for them for over a year, writing quite a few papers, and was always paid on time and what I was owed. I never had any complaints about them on that score, although I was not treated very decently in the end. I'd say on the personal level that the people running these outfits are not very decent. Not much in the way of loyalty to their writers.

You're a piece of work, aren't you? You do like to provoke lots of arguments on here, of course, which can sometimes be amusing.

I will continue to post anywhere I want and say what I want, whether you approve of it or not.

Pheelyks, I have already answered you question by saying that I have no desire for fame or fortune in the the land of Essayscam.

So what do you think my terrible, hidden, ulterior motive might be that has you in such a fury? LOL.

Why did I stop WHAT? I'll post on any thread I want without clearing it with you, Pheelyks.

Is that all right with you? Do I have your permission to do that?

Then there have never been any messages from this website in my email, nor am I interested in getting any.

No customers ever have contacted me on here--not once--nor do I even look at the private messages.

What about you?

What name is that? I'm not on here selling anything or promoting myself. You won't find the name "th63" anywhere.

I'm not in the least interested in keeping my name more prominent, I can assure you of that. I'm not sure that "everyone" knows it's a scam, although a company with fake phone numbers certainly is.

Yes, Pheelyks, I have my reasons, and they have nothing to do with keeping my name displayed, such as it is.

In calling the number listed on their website, I received a recording message requesting my BP Charge Card number. Their mobile phone number was not in service, so I would advise extreme caution in dealing with this company, if it really exists as advertised at all.

I tried to call the number listed on their website and got a recording that asked me for my BP Charge Card number. Needless to say, this leaves with me very grave doubts about the legitimacy of this service.

The mobile phone number given out by this company was not in service. Extreme caution is advised.

If you work from overseas like I did for many years, then there is no need to pay U.S. taxes, and even in the U.S. there is a way to reduce all the taxes that the self-employed have to pay by taking deductions for a home office. Even so, it is a highly seasonal "career" and the summer months are generally dead. Nothing can be done about that.

It is a good enough job for people who like to work at home and spend time on the computer, as long as you keep looking around for higher rates of pay and avoid the orders that don't pay very well. You also have to avoid the companies that cheat you and the customers that try to screw around with you in order to get themselves a free paper--or those that simply submit bogus orders because they are really working for some rival company.

As for Mr. Obama, I will vote for him regardless since the Republicans have led the country into the worst disaster since the 1930s.

And no, I don't exactly regard it as a steady, stable, long-term career for a whole host of reasons. At some point, I suspect there's going to be a real crackdown on this "industry" by the state and federal governments because of complaints about cheating and academic fraud by the universities, no matter that the majority of customers seem to be ESL students with an extremely poor command of English.

I WILL vote for him again, and you can like it or lump it.

Such language. I thought you didn't care for talk like that. LOL.

I understand.

That's far from being true in my case! LOL. Believe me, I'm the last person who would want a job as Best's customer service rep--and for very good reasons. I can be objective about it, though, and discuss all the ups and downs of my online writing "career", although I have to admit that I got tired and burned out on it after five or six years.

In my experience, you can request a writer but they don't necessarily have to take the order. I suppose it all depends on what other projects they have at the time.

Similar things have happened to me as a writer, more than once. I would call it a kind of sabotage.

You are correct that the majority of customers are ESL students and have great difficulty with English. They probably shouldn't be studying in any English-language university given their very limited skills in spelling, grammar and vocabulary.

Then once in a while I would fun into customers who I believed were fake and simply trying to cause trouble and provoke an argument, probably because they were not real customers at all but represented some other online writing service. It happens quite a bit.

And I think you know exactly what I'm talking about.

This sounds very much like the same outfit as essaywriters.net[DND*].

You may well be, Sibos, I have no way of knowing. I'm just saying that in my "careeer" as a freelance writer, I've also come up against plenty of the other type who have tried all kinds of fun and games.

This may well be a real customer who placed or real order, or someone working for a competitor who is out to sabotage the writer. On the Internet it's is very hard to tell who's who, either on the company or the customer side. That much I have learned over the years I've been involved in this business, and of course I don't trust anyone.

I've never heard of this particular company, though, and know nothing about the case one way or another, only that I take everything I read with a large grain of salt.

I have sometimes made 10-20 times that amount, too, although I have to admit I always felt a certain sense of shame in doing it.

I have a feeling that I met jj1 before, or someone very much like them. LOL. As I said, it all becomes very tiresome after a while.

No one should accept such low pay for any type of writing services, since it is pure slave labor. Of course I am well aware that Western companies have been flocking to China, India and other developing countries for years, where they can take advantage of extremely cheap labor and desperate populations who will work for virtually nothing. I do not think this should be allowed at all since it's the worst kind of exploitation.

By the way, I have written hundreds of "model essays" over the years, and I am well aware that the majority of students who buy these are in English-language universities and they have great difficulty doing written assignments because this is not their first language. I also know that many of them are enrolled in some type of online university or distance learning program.

Frankly, if I were the professor in a class that had students whose English was poor and I received some type of "model essay" like this, I would turn them in for academic fraud. I don't simply mean plagiarism but outright fraud, for which a student can be suspended or expelled from the university, since I would know almost at once that the essay was not from them.

I am certain that some of these students do get caught and the university authorities force them to disclose where they really obtained their essays.

This just proves to me yet again that some of these "orders" are coming in from fake customers trying to stir up trouble.

Say Pheelyks and Writers Beware, when do you have time to write all those papers, because you seem to spend all your time on here? LOL

Now go ahead and pounce on me. I think I'm going to start having some fun around here.

I skip over a lot of orders like those. I also skip over the ones that look like "problem" types or phonies.

It does get a lot easier to write more papers after doing this for a few years, since many of them are so similar, but it starts to get boring after a while.

Damned if I know, and I don't care much either.

Never heard of it.

Term Paper Fast always pays their writers on time and what they're owed, and I had only one serious problem with them on that score over the years. Their Support tends to be so-so, especially during the busy "season", and that can be stressful.

I do believe that some of the "customers" that pop up on their are phonies and have some kind of agenda to throw a monkey wrench into the machinery. The longer I've been doing this, the more fun and games like that I find.

Thanks for telling us. There are a lot of them out there, and if you find one that pays their writers on time and what they're owed, then stick with it. I can say that Graduate Writer did that almost all the time, and CustomPapers did as well. As for others, like Essay Writers (which operates under many different names), you'd better watch out.

It wasn't me, since I am an American and always make damn sure to avoid any UK orders or those using Harvard references.

I signed up to work for them but never actually wrote anything because I heard they were crooked. If you find even one honest company out there, then stick with them.

It depends on the time of year, as with all essay-writing services.

And yes, there are some people who seem to post on here 24/7 as if they live in the place and do nothing else in life.

Either that, or more than one person is using the same handles.