No problem. Asking about a site isn't something you need to apologize for. That's what this forum is meant for.


I don't mind answering questions that aren't answered somewhere on their site but I think this kind of stuff is on there if you look around. They probably can handle any type of assignment a student might get.

No problem. Generally, you should have no problem with deadlines but, as with any legit company, it still always depends on the actual writer. Delays (and personal emergencies) can happen, but in that case, any experienced writer knows to contact customers ASAP and update them before missing a deadline instead of afterwards.


Since 2003. No complaints from my perspective. I wouldn't know from the customer's perspective (besides customers whose papers I've written), but in general, the company is totally legitimate and you'll either get the paper you ordered or you'll get a full refund if no writer ever takes it off the board...and they add bonus pay to orders that seem to be at risk of not getting taken.

I don't see any orders due at 2:00PM tomorrow (EST). That probably means someone already took it off the board.

As I've pointed out many times, you've (previously admitted that you've) never seen anything I've ever written besides my posts on this forum and you know absolutely nothing about what I can and can't write or for what projects I'd ask customers to provide sources. I write 500-700 papers every year and request sources for maybe 10% of those. Meanwhile, you can't even post a one-sentence forum response without at least 4 mistakes that prove you don't write English well enough to criticize anybody else's writing.

Just got another call from her. No apology, no payment info, just wanted to discuss her "reputation."

"What can I do for you, Hala?"
"I just got your emails...I can't be spoken to like this...I know you think that I'm a..."
"Hala, we have nothing to discuss except a vaid Money Gram code."
"Do you know how to Google?"

Presumably, she's going to prove something to me about who she is or who her family is or some other nonsense.

"I'm not interested in Googling anything. Just get me a valid Money Gram code and the necessary pickup info or get out of my life.

"I'm just asking if you know how to Google."
"Just get me a valid Money Gram code and then I'll Google anything you want. Until then, get out of my life.
"OK fine, goodbye."

Click

Thank you, I appreciate that.

Nope. Unbelievably, she did start calling me again and emailing more promises after complaining about what I wrote here and saying none of this is "for public consumption."

Just a few more entertaining bits of nonsense from this wealthy professional globe trotter:

She's supposedly been in NYC for almost a month now...in a luxury Trump penthouse apartment.
The "chauffer" got the money from the bank but then it was unavailable again because it was "in the safe."
Still has no idea what street this "Trump building" is on or what the address is...after being there for a month in the penthouse her family owns.

No idea what her local phone # is even though I told her to just dial 1-800-444-4444 to get her number automatically from any NYC phone.

Since then, she couldn't pay me because she was bed-ridden for 2 weeks after her "sinus surgery."
No idea what hospital she had the surgey in.
Hasn't left her apartment all this time...she has "people" with her who just bring her junk food. (I asked how she eats.)

She didn't want to give me her "chauffer's" phone # or to give him mine even with my permission. She said she'd have to give him her phone to press redial to reach me on her "locked" phone because my number is "none of his concern." He never showed up. I know, shocking.

Since I told her I'd just come get my money in person and only need her street address, she's adopted the same exact pattern of excuses ("first thing tomorrow," "I'm sleeping," "I'm in the middle of a paragraph, you know how that is," etc.) that she relied on to avoid giving me those mysterious "verified codes" for that superdupersecretsecure "Category 4" Money Gram transaction that Money Gram's representatives said doesn't exist.

Of course, most of this nonsense is preserved on tape in case I'm ever challeneged about it and I'll just post some audio files for everybody's amusement.

My last email to her:

"Hala, the time has come to either give me your address and local phone # as promised many many times so that I can pick up my money or just finally admit that you're really nowhere near NYC and that you have absolutely no intention to pay me another dime.

No point to verbal reassurances...actions speak louder than words. You're not in the middle of a paragraph, you're not sleeping, and you're not "not reading" this either. If you're in NYC, there's no plausible explanation for any of this. To anybody of your purported means and professional success, what you owe me is pocket change and nothing worth all these emails and phone calls.

If you're really in NYC, you could have dialed 1-800-444-4444 and given me your local number in 30 seconds...less time than it took to email response like "does that work for cell phones?"...you supposedly have a round-the-clock "chauffer" available to you...who's never available. I've given you a car service that knows exactly where I live 1-212-923-1111 and offered to pay your round trip fare from my money...and you've supposedly been in NYC for almost a month in a luxury apartment your family "built" on a Trump building with no idea what street you're on or what hospital you had surgery in. You could just step 10 feet outside your building and hop into one of the 20 yellow cabs that passes every few minutes and give the driver my address...if you are really in NYC

Enough with the nonsense already. Pay me or just admit the obvious truth that you need my money more than I do, that you've never set foot in any Trump property in NYC or you'd know how ridiculous it is to say anybody built a penthouse on top of one, you've never even met a "chauffer", but you enjoy this stupid game for some inexplicable reason to any normal person. You're really in some shack in Egypt next to an old TV with a wire hanger for an antenna and you have some need to pretend to be something you dream of being to a stranger you don't know except as somone on a long list of people you've ripped off in a small-time fraudulent operation. Let's be done with this nonsense already instead of playing this game.

And please don't bother pretending that you had any intention to pay me today before this email unless you want to prove to me that you're in NYC by calling me to tell me that from a 212 number. any other response besides your address or a call from 212 will do nothing but confirm my image of you and your wire hanger TV antenna using this game to feel better about yourself and your life. At least know that nobody really believes Any part of the image that you think you're presenting to the world of people who don't know you personally. I know exactly what you are...and what you're not, except in some fantasy life you've invented to keep a lousy $500 or $1000 that you need desperately."

Needless to say, I'm not expecting any kind of response other than her supposed taking such offense that she's "now" decided not to pay me after all.

Pheelyks and I just responded because we've both always openly admitted that we write for the company in question and we recognize when someone has no idea what he's talking about.

I do have a law degree but I do not practice law.

The reality is you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. No assignment is ever worked on by anybody besides the writer who takes the order. Once in a while there might be an order that the assigned writer runs into a problem with, in which case it's just reassigned from scratch to a different writer who wants it and that doesn't happen very often. The idea that two different writers would ever be writing any single paper simultaneously is totally ridiculous.

As Pheelyks said, an 8-pg paper is something we routinely write overnight, very often, along with other papers in the same night.

Thanks for asking but that sounds like it's a topic that Pheelyks might want to do more than I would.

Is your theory that Pheelyks and I patiently waited until 2009 and 2008 to sign up here as part of our 3-way plot to pretend we were just forum members who didn't all know one another already? Is your theory that Pheelyks and I both signed up here using the exact same IDs we use on the company boardsand that we've both always admitted what companies we write for using those IDs because we wanted to pretend not to be writers for the same company you always accuse of running this forum? Even you understand the flaws in that theory, right?

1. I greatly prefer smart clients over stupid ones; they're much easier to work with and much more appreciative.

2. As writers, neither Pheelyks nor I have any access to customer information on company systems. Obviously, we already know all the order numbers of any assignments we take and we don't have any involvement in other writers' assignments, much less in any problems other writers may have with customers over a paper. Pheelyks and ResearchPro are the only other company writers I know and that's only because, like me, they also use their company IDs as their S/Ns on this forum.

3. Pheelyks and I have always openly admitted what companies we write for. I don't know WB except as a fellow member of this forum and I certainly don't "work" for her.


No customer of any site is "required" to discuss any assignment on this forum. Every essay site has a messaging system for customers to contact writers and customer service reps.

If customers choose to discuss their assignments on this open forum, they should be required to disclose the order number because that's the only way to prevent dirtbags (like Stu4) from creating phony accounts and using them to pretend to be "customers" disappointed by reputable essay companies they can't compete with honestly and fairly on the quality of their work.

As Pheelyks pointed out, the order number has absolutely no meaning outside the company system. As WB pointed out, any details of the typical complaint about any assignment would provide enough information for any company reps reading these threads to figure out which order it was if they really wanted to. As I've pointed out, you really need to make up your mind between accusations: If this forum is maintained by an essay company as you've suggested, that company could simply ID any customer by matching IPs to forum posts.

There's simply no other way to prevent dirtbags (like Stu4) from starting threads under phony accounts saying "Company XYZ ripped me off and here's my story." Posting the order # allows entirely false, made-up complaints to be identified so nobody has to figure out which complaints are real and which ones are 100% BS.

Nope. Never heard a another word from her after the email reproduced earlier in this thread where I suggested it is implausible that someone could really be in NYC for 4 days and still have no idea which Trump building, what address, what street, or what local phone number...especially in the same building where her family owns a penthouse apartment they built for their personal chauffeur.

Do you not understand why it makes sense? They're the ones choosing to post about it publicly in the first place and there's nothing to stop lowlife competitors from posing as "customers" of other sites or writers. They have the company message system to talk to company reps to keep it private if they want to. It's their choice: but they can't have it both ways by publicly criticizing the company and then objecting to any request that they substantiate that they're really customers because it's an "invasion of privacy."

They can always redact the last one or two digits of the order number the same way credit card numbers are partially redacted on statements. But even partially redacted digits of any supposed "order" would allow any of us who really write for those companies to determine instantly whether or not the form, series, and sequence is correct or that it's a totally fabricated complaint.

In fact, I specifically do recall one forum member who did provide a correct order # here about a year ago and as soon as he did, he received only genuine responses from those of us who write for that company. Nobody accused him of lying and nobody "retaliated" against him.

That doesn't make sense. If WB is an ET owner/employer/etc as you've claimed, she'd be able to "track down" complainers here by their descriptions of their orders. If this place were run by ET, they'd also be able to do it by ISPs.

I believe it's a sensible suggestion because there are some really sleazy competitors here (like Stu4) who are so desperate that they create phony accounts here pretending to be disappointed customers. In the past, they can never respond when asked for an order number and that's because there wasn't really any order and they weren't really customers.

Requiring order numbers for public complaints simply makes it harder to post phony complaints and that would be mutually beneficial to any company being defamed and to any prospective customers trying to figure out what sites and writers here can be trusted and which supposed "complaints" are just sleazy attempts to undermine the more successful businesses and writers by those who can't compete against them fairly.

And I practice what I preach: It would obviously be much easier for me to ignore the attacks on Pheelyks and to just be glad that someone has decided to keep using me as a comparison calling me genuine and him a "fraud." I'm definitely a legitimate writer, but I don't think the person making these comparisons between Pheelyks and me really has any way of knowing that. It takes much more effort for me to actually take my time to respond to those posts in his defense than it would to simply ignore them and count my blessings. As I've said many times, he and I compete directly against one another, both on the company boards and in our private work. If everybody else operated that way here, there'd be no need to ask for order numbers on any complaints. Since they don't, there is.

I don't have any argument with you, but I'd really appreciate it if you just left me completely out of your arguments with Pheelyks and stopped drawing comparisons between us. I've said repeatedly that while we are direct competitors, I can personally vouch for his legitimacy, honesty, and writing ability, and I consider us to be equals. I don't believe any of the negative comments here about him. I do believe that there are some outright frauds and horrible writers here, but I know that he's not one of them. Your problem with him (and with WB) is none of my business and I'd really like to keep it that way. Thank you.

If you use an ordering system that allows you to select our names from a list, the order is only visible to us for the first 3 hours and we get an email notifying us that we've been requested. If we don't see it during that time, it goes public for any writer to take after 3 hours. If we see it and just choose not to take that particular order, we release it so that it goes public immediately.

If you use an ordering system that requires you to just type out your request for us in the box (or you do it that way instead of using an available drop-down selection function), it gets posted publicly, we don't get any email notice, but it's not supposed to get taken by other writers for at least 3 hours. Honor system.

If we've done work for you before, you can use an older order to access the messaging system and ask whether we're available for another topic. That way, we're less likely to miss it and we can also tell you why we may not want that particular paper and suggest another writer we happen to know is good in that area.

If you don't want the paper unless it's by your chosen writer, put that in the order and say you want a refund if your chosen writer (or a specific alternate writer by name) isn't available.

Then, nobody else will take it and it will be refunded. And if someone else does take it, you can demand a refund...but don't do that unless you have already decided that you don't want the paper unless your writer takes it, because there are many good writers besides Pheelyks, ResearchPro, and me.

I've been writing for them since 2003. While I've never seen the customer-side view of the system, I can tell you that papers often get grabbed by writers within minutes of getting posted...I do it all the time. It's also pretty common that billing verification will delay the posting of the order. On my (writer's) side, that's a common cause of a paper listing a lower payout than usual (especially for rush papers) because the payment rate (my side, again) is determined by when you place the order, not when it gets posted. The only question is why it would say "pending approval" and "in progress" simultaneously and I don't know the answer to that. But I do know that you're not going to get ripped off because the site is 100% legit. You should just use your system tools (on your side) to direct your question to Customer Service and to confirm that a writer actualy took your paper already. And 25 pages in 5 days is nothing...I have an 8-pg and a 4-pg company paper and a 7-pg private paper to write today for delivery tonight and I'm still going back to bed soon for some more sleep, just to give you an example of how much we (who do this for a living fulltime, that is) routinely write in a day.

Same person: WRT = Hala (That's never been in dispute.)

I realized that all along; that's why I waited all this time to post the details until I was 100% certain that she has absolutely no intention to pay me. Obviously, I never believed that anybody built a home for her driver on the roof of any Trump building with a "special permit." By the time someone says that she's in NYC (for 4 days) but still has no idea which Trump building, what address, what street, or what local phone # (in a luxury doorman building with a 24-hour lobby staff available to answer questions like "Excuse me, what is the address of this building where I have a million-dollar apartment?"), you know that they'll just keep saying anything and will never just admit that you're never getting paid. The only mystery to me is why spend all this time answering emails and making international calls just to drag out what's eventually going to be obvious in the long run?

Ultimately, my experience is virtually identical to that of every other writer on this forum who has complained of not being paid and then been accused of being fired...except in my case, I have all the promises by phone recorded and WB can confirm that I forwarded dozens of emails acknowledging the amount of the debt in question throughout the last month or so.

And she can prove me wrong anytime by just calling me from her NYC #

No, I've received several payments previously, although always very late and only after repeated reminders. I stopped writing for them in October because I hadn't been paid for the work I completed over the summer. First contacted Hala about it in November and eventually received $500 less approximately 10% in Money Gram fees, just as in Perry's case, although I didn't have to open any kind of account for it.

Starting in late November, she told me that she'd issued a wire transfer of the rest of the money owed and told me it would be deposited in 10 business days. When it wasn't, I contacted her and she apologized, promising it would be deposited in another week. That never happened and the next promised payment dates were Dec 25 and then Jan 1st. When nothing came through by Jan 10th, we went through two more rounds of promised wire transfers, the last of which she said that she personally confirmed by checking the bank statement and that it was guaranteed and non-refundable.

When no wire transfer came through, she began talking about Money Gram transactions again. My questions about what had actually happened to the wire transfers never got answered. At that point, I began forwarding the email chains directly to WritersBeware because I'd seen how the other writers here who had complained about not getting paid by WRT were all accused of having been fired or of lying about the facts. I wanted an independent observer (who happens to be the industry's premier authority on this kind of thing) to see what was going on before I posted about it publicly. Hala never provided the pickup code for the first two MG transactions and never explained what happened to them. Then, after profuse apologies, she guaranteed that the next one would go through. I asked just about every single day for the pickup codes (she'd said there were 3 of them) and forwarded WB all the responses from her promising to get me those 3 codes the next day...and the next day...and the next day...she kept telling me that those codes were in the process of being "verified" and she never responded to my requests to have those actual codes in the meantime.

She eventually gave me one code but when I called to confirm, MG had no record of it, at least not associated with any variation of my last name. I informed Hala that MG could not confirm any transaction in my name and she responded that it was because she'd paid extra for a "category 4" transaction that was more secure and unable to be accessed in the MG system by MG service reps. So, I went to the MG website and used their system to ask about that. This was their response, verbatim:

From: CustomerService <CustomerService@moneygram.com>
Subject: XCRM0097249
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:51:04 +0000

Thank you for contacting MoneyGram International. Please accept our apologies for the delayed response. Once the transfer is completed, it is available in our system within 10 minutes, and we do not have "Category 4" transactions. We were unable to find an available transaction under your name and suggest that you contact your sender in order to obtain reference number and transaction details. If you have any additional questions, please contact us by email, or call our customer service line at 1-800-926-9400.

Regards,
Customer Care Case Management Specialist
MoneyGram International
OAS This message may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email from your system.

Then, Hala started talking about having the money issued by an agent of hers. A few rounds of promises and assurances but no money. Some of those responses were emails she said she was composing while she was personally at the agent's office waiting to get my information for me (and WB is in possession of all of these emails because I forwarded them as they came in).

After some more inquiries about it, I got an email from Hala's IPad that said it was from her sister and informing me that Hala had entered Cromwell Hospital for surgery and would get back to me after she recovered. So I went to the Cromwell Hospital website to get their phone # and I tried calling just to wish Hala my best. The hospital checked for her name and found nothing. So, I let Hala's sister know and she responded with a different spelling of her last name that she said Hala used. I called Cromwell back but the same thing happened: no record of any patient by that name.

A few more rounds of email promises but no answer to what ever happened to any of those wired transactions, the MG transactions, or the money issued by the agent.

Then, she said she'd be in NYC the following week and we shifted from emails to repeated phone messages and conversations, each and every one of which I recorded. She said she would pay me in person, take my wife and me out to dinner, in addition to inquiring into whether I had kids so that she could bring them all IPads. As in Perry's case, she always talked about wanting to pay me an advance of $1,000/mo for an entire year and I eventually stopped saying that I just wanted the $1,750 because it always got us off the topic of immediate payment. That's about the point that I started posting here about this hoping that might motivate her to make good on the debt. She also promised to provide her local phone # and address as soon as she arrived. As you've already read, she called me a half a dozen times since arriving in NYC but after 3 or 4 days in town, had still not managed to find out which Trump building she lives in (and on which Trump building her father built a roof-top home for her driver), what her address is, what street the building is on, or what her local phone number is.

Since I pointed out how implausible all of that is, I no longer get any phone calls, any emails, or even any auto-responses from her email account.

That's the story, and, as always, I have made no accusations, comments. or conclusions beyond stating what actually happened and what was said. WB has dozens of these emails and I can post audio files of the phone conversations or her acknowledging the debt and repeatedly promising to pay up. Naturally, if that should happen, I'll let everyone here know immediately.

Unfortunately, I don't think there's any basis for U.S. jurisdiction and it's still too little to make it worth pursuing internationally from here with investigation fees and foreign attorney's costs, but I've sent you a PM with another idea we can consider if it becomes necessary. From the looks of things, it's pretty obvious that's going to be the case. No word from her since her last call two nights ago promising that James would deliver payment about 12 hours ago.

Once I reach that same conclusion, I'll provide much more detail about this whole 3-month ordeal.

Nope. Sent this last night. Last contact from her was 2 late night phone calls the night before promising payment at 1:00 PM today from her driver, James. It's now almost 2:00 PM (the time stamp on my posts is 1 hour off). No response to this email or to another one this morning. Hopefully, nothing but a misunderstanding with an honest company representative that I'll be happy to clear up after all debts are paid honorably as promised many many times.

Hala, please confirm exactly what our plans are for Monday...how am I getting paid, by what method or by whom, and what time of day? I will be awake after Noon, local NYC time.

If plans should fall through for any reason on Monday, I'm going to ask you for your local address and phone number in NYC so that I can have someone just pick it up from you in person. If you are really in NYC, there is absolutely no plausible explanation for why you would not be able to provide your local phone # and street address after all this time because all you have to do is ask your doorman for the address of your building and you can find out any NYC phone # you are calling from by asking the operator or by just dialing 1-800-444-4444...a recording will tell you what your phone number is. Obviously, James also knows your address and you have his phone # in your phone. If you can reach him to give instructions to pay me, you also ask him for your address.

If you are not really in NYC, please just tell me the truth because there is no point in playing games if you're not and it is impossible for you not to be able to find out your building # and street address. In that case, I really don't care, but please do tell me if you're going to pay me and when and how. If you're not really planning on paying me or you are only willing to pay me a portion of the debt, just tell me the truth so we can stop wasting one another's time.

Thank you.

-Charles.

That's right. I've been doing this since 2003 and this is the first time I've ever had to chase down a payment from any company.

Latest Update:

Hala called again last night around 2:30 AM to say she's very sorry and understands my anger, and that she swears that she told James to pay me. Promised to call me in the morning because she hasn't slept in 3 days.

Left another message on my phone this morning around 11:30 AM to apologize again and to assure me that James will pay me $13,750 at 1:00 PM tomorrow (Monday). That's $12,000 more than I'm owed but I'm not going to keep repeating that same conversation about just expecting what I'm owed.

Again, I'm making no comment about any of this either way right now and I genuinely look forward to reporting that the matter was concluded honorably after all.

As I said, I'm not drawing any conclusions or commenting, much less accusing anybody of lying. I'm just reporting the facts and the content of our telephone conversations and remaining optimistic that I'll eventually be able to report that all debts were paid honestly and in good faith. Still no word from James though, or any response from Hala to my suggestion that she just call the car service from my neigborhood and let me pay for her round-trip ride in a very comfortable Town Car.

Still no word from James. I just emailed Hala the phone number of a car service that dispatches from an office two blocks from my house. Told her to just call for a car, let them drive her right to my door so that I can come down and get my money, and she can deduct the $50 round trip for the ride from my money and never even have to get out of the car. I'm losing patience so I asked her to pay me already or just admit that she has no intentions of doing that because continual reassurances without any progress really aren't helpful anymore. I'm waiting for her response and I'll be sure to report in very full detail exactly how honorably this matter got concluded either way. I look very much forward to being able to report that payment got issued and that I was 100% wrong for entertaining any doubts.

Actually, I have no reason to doubt WritersBeware. In fact, she's tried to be helpful to me. You see, when this whole thing started to drag out with multiple wire transfers and multiple Money Gram transactions that never came through, I started forwarding her all the email chains with WRT to her to ask for suggestions. She contacted WRT/Hala on my behalf but she never received a response. Again, I'm looking forward to just reporting to everybody here that there's really nothing to be concerned about when it comes to WRT/WriteRightTeam/Oxbridge because my payment was eventually concluded honorably.

I'm hopeful that's exactly how this will end...and very soon.

Just heard from Hala again. She sounds very groggy and explained that she has trouble sleeping on planes. It's 3:00 PM in NYC and she still hasn't adjusted to the time change. Anyway, she just called to say that she's going to call me again later today after she wakes up. I suggested that she just get some sleep and just give my # to her driver for him to contact me directly , since she already told me that he was the one who withdrew the money yesterday. I asked where her driver lives and she said he has a guest house. I asked where the guest house is and she said that it's on the roof of the Trump building whose address she still doesn't know. She explained that her father built this guest house on the roof of Trump's building with a special permit. I asked her to give me the driver's phone # so she could just let us make the arrangements but she doesn't know his # offhand...it's in her cell phone...the one she just called me on. So, I suggested that she just use her cell phone to call him right now to give him my # and I confirmed that she has my # written on a notepad. We ended this conversation just now agreeing that her driver would be calling me shortly and that this transaction would be concluded today. Just keeping everybody updated here. Please understand that I'm not drawing any conclusions or even commenting on this one way or the other...I'm just reporting our conversations so any other writers or customers of WRT/WriteRightTeam/OxbridgeEssays can draw their own conclusions based on how this ends up. For my part, I'm still very hopeful that I'll be able to report that her driver called me and arranged delivery of my money today exactly as agreed and that there is no reason for anybody ever to mistrust Hala's word about anything.

Another update: Hala just called back. She says she gave her driver (James) my phone # and that he'll call me today and stop by. I asked for his # but she never got it off her phone. So I asked for her cell phone # (the one she's calling me on) but she doesn't know it. Again, please don't draw any conclusions because I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation for all of this and I'm just reporting the facts without any comment or conclusions from me.

Well, Friday came and went with no contact. Then, another phone call at 1:00AM. She explained that she'd just woken up and hadn't had a chance to set her watch to NYC time yet, or to find out her local phone # or which Trump building she was in or what the address was...but she was sure that it was right across from Central Park. I asked what street, since the park runs from 59th to 110th, but she didn't know. I suppose that can happen when you're from overseas, so I'm not jumping to any conclusions.

As of last night, she indicated (again) that she has my $1,725 in her possession and that her driver has already picked up the $12,000 and that she'd be in touch today to arrange delivery. I've already said several times that all I want it what I'm actually owed, but I've stopped refusing the extra money because that always seems to get us off the subject of immediate arrangements and into a loop of polite refusals and even more polite insistence that I accept the money. I've also provided very simple and clear street directions to my building and mentioned that I'm here by the phone to assist in any way if he has any questions. In case her driver is unavailable today, I've also offered to have someone just pick it up from her if she gets a chance to just call down to the concierge desk in her Trump building to confirm the street address and give me the apartment #.

I'm still giving her the benefit of the doubt because she says she'd never not pay a writer. Before this, there were about 4 different wire transfers and Money Gram transactions that all never made it to me for various different reasons, but this time, I'm sure we'll find out for sure one way or the other what the truth is because it's now totally in her control. She says she's already in NYC (for 2 days now, actually) and that she has physical possession of my $1,750, and that she has a driver at her disposal 24 hours a day. So, I'm assuming that she'll be in touch very shortly and that I'll be receiving my money before she leaves town so that I can report to everyone that all debts have been paid, that she should be trusted by other writers and customer in the future, and that tere must indeed be some legitimate explanation for those failed prior transactions between November and February.

Will definitely let you know right here, but I'm expecting to get paid later today exactly as promised.

Confused because she called me last night to reassure me that her driver would be dropping it off today but I haven't heard from her all day. I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation and no reason to start getting suspicious or anything like that. After all, she said she's already in NYC and that she already has the money in hand, so there's no way anything could possibly go wrong now assuming only that she genuinely intends to pay me and I'd like to give her the benefit of the doubt. However this concludes, I'll provide all the related details for everybody's benefit shortly.

Just got an email from Hala that she is at Orly Airport and on her way. I look forward to reporting a satisfactory resolution soon.

Latest update. Hala has arrived in NYC. Curiously, she's talking about sending her driver to pick me up even though we already agreed last night that he'd be just dropping off my money and that there's no need to pick me up. She asked me to take her to the bank too, so I told her to just deduct $50 for all the cab fare she might need to get to any of the dozen banks near her and even to deduct another $100 to take a limo from the airport at my expense. I didn't want to complicate things by inquiring why that would be necessary with her having a driver and all...and I'm not sure why we're back to discussing her driver picking me up again, but I'm sure it's just a jet-lag thing and that she'll be having him drop off my remaining $1,600 on Friday exactly as promised and I look very much forward to reporting a successful and honorable conclusion to this transaction here very soon.

I know that all of this sounds very confusing. You see, she said she has my $1,750 in hand but she wanted to take me to a bank to get me another $12,000 as an advance for all of next year. I'm not greedy, so I told her that wasn't necessary at all and that she could just send the cash over with her driver, less the $150, because I'm a man of my word. For some reason, now we're back to discussing meeting in person for the transaction and the $12,000 again. She doesn't know her local phone # or her address, but Iunderstand because she says she's hardly ever here and she's going to give it to me tomorrow. I'm certain there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for all of this and that I'll soon be reporting that the debt was paid exactly as promised. After all, nothing can possibly go wrong now that she's personally in NYC with the cash in hand and she has my address and phone #. I will provide an update and details about how smoothly this transaction got concluded very shortly for those who might have doubts about this.

Great news: Hala just called me from her cell phone to confirm. Her driver will be dropping off my money later today. I'm feeling quite relieved now, because now I can't imagine any possible scenario besides getting paid. I intend to apologize to her for ever entertaining any doubt. I'll do that over dinner because she wants to treat my wife and me and I'm really looking forward to meeting her, finally.

Yeah, it reflects work done mostly last summer and promised bonuses. I haven't written anything for them since October and I started asking for this payment in November. Since I'm still giving Hala the benefit of the doubt about paying me in person this week while she's in NYC, there's no need to go into much greater detail about it here.

As always, your posts have zero basis in truth and absolutely no relation to what's even being discussed. You respond to all of my posts with the same vindictive baseless accusations. For your information, there is no dispute about whether or not I'm owed the money or how good my work was. Hala/WRT continues to praise my writing and to refer to me as being among the top writers in this entire industry. I don't necessarily know how true that is, but the point is simply that there's absolutely no dispute about the quality of my work or that I've already earned the money. This is strictly about getting paid, and as I've said, I'm still trying to give the employer the benefit of the doubt.

I'm trying to give Hala the benefit of the doubt and simply reporting that she told me she'd be in NYC this week and as of last night, she promised to have my money delivered to me today in person. I suppose it's possible that she's just jet-lagged but in that case, I imagine I'll get paid in person by tomorrow or Friday the latest. There's actually a much longer history to this but no need to detail it publicly, especially if it's about to be satisfactorily resolved any day now.

She was in contact with me by email as of last night saying that she would be in NYC today and that her driver would be dropping off the $1,750 I'm owed in person today sometime. Just emailed her a reminder because I haven't heard from her. I should be able to report whether or not this transaction was successful by the end of the week.

You can't change writers for an essay you already received, but it's as bad as you say, customer service will handle it. You can request a different specific writer next time if you have one in mind; if you don't, just specify which writer you don't want.

Thanks. Now we know that there probably is no "friend" and there probably is no paper on "fluid mechanics" from SNR at all. If you really had a paper, you wouldn't have to "think" about who the writer might be because you'd know for sure and you'd have said it right in your very first post in your original thread about this.

I never wrote any paper on fluid mechanics and this isn't even your "best guess"; it's just the latest outright lie in an endless series of them from you accusing me without any factual basis about anything.

The original poster can confirm that I wasn't the writer; you've already admitted that you've never seen anything I've ever written besides my forum posts; and I've never had a single customer complaint on this forum in almost 4 years here.

Thanks, but in my opinion, we're equals. We compete directly against one another but we've also shared clients and we've handled work for one another's clients in our respective areas. We've never met, but we have a mutually respectful and appreciative relationship via email and I trust him as a writer or I'd never send any clients his way. My wife and I once made plans to meet him and his wife for coffee at a diner when he was in town visiting family but we couldn't match our schedules. In my opinion, he's as good in his specialty areas as I am in mine and we're probably about the same in topics we both handle. He's just had bad luck here with a couple of vindictive psychotic customers who tried to rip him off. I wouldn't necessarily consider myself more of a "gentleman" either and if anybody tried to do to me what "sandyy" tried to do to him, I'd have posted her essay publicy much sooner than he did. I am "content" with my life but as far as I can tell, so is he and he's probably got a fuller life than I do but my life is boring (by other people's standards) by my choice. It would obviously be more in my interest to keep my mouth shut and not to defend him, but I don't like reading nonsense about him any more than I do about any of the companies I write for and I don't compete that way. I leave those types of tactics to the genuine lowlifes of this forum like "stu4."