If Ihatedwriting too and I found this site, I'd do this:
1. Use the forum search function to read up on any company you've heard of.
2. Make a list of those that sound like they're
possibly legitimate.
3. Try your best to weed out transparent fake posts from people pretending to be students and essay site owners trashing other companies. In between all that nonsense you will find some genuine experiences of students who actually
used essay sites (and independent freelance writers). You will also find comments from people (like me) who
openly admit what sites we write for and who (obviously) always
hope that people will use us. Sometimes, we've even broken the forum rules and advertised our services (and been suspended or had our PM privileges suspended) for it. Finally, you will find competing companies use those violations of
forum rules as an excuse to accuse us of being "frauds" as writers.
4. Narrow your list of companies (or writers) and put them in the order that you would choose to trust them with a first test assignment. Don't wait until you have an important paper and do realize you may get burned. The purpose is just to find a legitimate and reliable company and/or writer. Basically, it's exactly the same as finding an honest and competent car mechanic. Test them out with a paper you think you could do yourself; if you're really paranoid about it, order a paper
and also write it yourelf, just in case. When/if you get your paper from the company, compare it to what you wrote.
OR
Place a test order for an essay you don't even need, or make one up, or even ask for one you already wrote last term. Make those tests relatively small orders of $40-50 or whatever.
5. If you get ripped off or you get a lousy product,
please share that experience with everyone here, since (i believe)
that is the purpose of this forum.
6. Repeat with a different company/person.
7. The first time you get back a good product, stick with that company and/or writer in the future.
8. If it's a company, always request the same writer; if it's a freelancer, ask them what topics they do and whether they can recommend anybody for other topics you may need.
You probably have at least a 50% chance of finding a good company/writer on the very first shot just based on reading previous threads first to make your list of companies to test. In the worst case scenario, maybe you will have to blow $100-$200 to find someone you trust. But If you're going to be needing your nursing essays (let's say) for the next 2-3 years, that's a very well-spent $200 now to find someone reliable for your entire career in nursing school (or whatever).
I'd love to list all the sites that use me but that always brings accusations from competitors that I'm "spamming" the board. I can (and have always) openly vouched for the companies that use me because I know first-hand how they do business and how much I bust my butt writing paper after paper on a daily basis for them. I dont know anything about BE other than what I've read on this forum. I know that if you order a paper from any of the sites that use me you'll get your paper, it will be on time, and it will be the appropriate quality you're expecting. If no writer takes your paper you get a 100% refund, probably on your next cc statement. If a writer screws something up the writer gets a rewrite notice and it gets fixed within 48 hours if it's a legitimate complaint.
9. Always share your experiences with other forum members.
Good luck.