I ordered several papers form Academic Composition this semester. I got them all on time and did pretty well on them. They always followed my instructions and were pretty flexible about my revision requests.

Though do be careful about that, they are pretty strict about their revision policies. Each time I wanted something changed, I had to explain how my request is based on the instructions.

The prices were good too. With other services, I've paid over $20 per page, but they never charged me more than $15.

Hey guys, I used their service several times a few months ago and posted a review.

The quality was pretty good, so I assumed they were either in the U.S or the U.K. However, Major's last post made me wonder about where they were located.

I did a little bit of research and found a review for them on scamadviser.

scamadviser/check-website/academiccomposition.com

According to this, they are located in the U.S and the owner's address in Virginia is published here too.

The link I had in my last post is a bit inaccurate. When I plugged it into my browser, I was just taken to a general Google page with various links to scam-adviser. However, the second option on that page took me to the site I was looking for.

The link below should take you directly there.

scamadviser.com/is-academiccomposition.com-a-fake-site.html

If it still doesn't work, just Google "Scam adviser, Academic Composition". You'll find it.

I found Academic Composition through Craigslist. The first time I replied to an ad, Alek got back to me and sent me a link to his site. There, I filled out an order form with my instructions for a sociology paper on conflict theory.

If I recall correctly, I was supposed to pick a social problem and analyze it from the conflict theoretic perspective.

Alek sent me back an email confirming that he got my order form, then we discussed prices and deadlines. We reached an agreement fairly quickly and I've made a $20 down-payment.

Although I asked for my paper to be done within a week, he sent me an email a few days later saying the assignment was done. There, I received bits and pieces from my final draft along with the invoice for the remaining balance.

I've made the final payment and he released the final draft. Then, I asked him a couple of questions about the assignment to make sure it was done properly and he got back to me the same day.

Everything turned out well, so I came back about a month later for a much bigger sociology paper. I believe that was a ten-pager where I had to analyze the problem of unemployment from various perspectives in theoretical sociology. I didn't really pay much attention to the topic, but I believe the professor wanted to see a contrast between how functionalists and conflict theorists would view the issue.

After that, I also hired them for my final paper where I had to pick a classical sociological theorist and critique a modern social issue from their perspective. We did that one on class exploitation and its role in the problem of unemployment.

I never really got to talk to the writer directly, so I am guessing Alek was writing my papers. Though, I do recall him saying that he had subcontractors. I didn't really care to ask as I was getting good papers on time.

They must be a really small company as their site is very basic and don't have any kind of sophisticated features. Some other companies had a forum where I could chat with the writers directly and pay on the site with the credit card.

It was a bit of a pain in the ass, actually. Answering all those emails and responding to PayPal invoices was pretty tedious. But hey, it wasn't too bad: I got decent work for fairly comparatively low prices.

P.S-- When you go to the scam adviser review for Academic Composition, there is a link that says something like "see detailed review here". When you click on it, you get taken to a different page. There it says, "96% chance that the site is based in the U.S" and then, the owner's residential address is published below.

I tried to post a link directly to that page, but it didn't work.

scamadviser/check-website/academiccomposition.com

This is the URL I had in my browser when I was viewing that page. Since that just takes you to Google with a bunch of links to scam-adviser, just follow the other link I sent you and click the "detailed review" link they have there.

Is it illegal for somebody to run an online business without first registering it with the state?

So, if I want to start selling electronics on the internet, I'd be breaking the law unless I register my business with the state?

I have friends who run multiple businesses on the side and they pay taxes as independent contractors. Just because they haven't registered official companies with the state, it doesn't mean they are doing anything illegal.

They just don't think their ventures are big enough to be called official companies.

There is nothing illegal about anybody selling things and then paying taxes as an independent contractor. A lot of people do that and I've never heard of anybody getting in trouble for that.

@editor75, I am an electrical engineering major. Writing is not my forte, otherwise I wouldn't be looking for help with my papers.

However, English my native language and I scored a 32 on my ACT test a few years ago. That can leave you guessing as to what result I achieved on the English section of the test.

As far as I can tell the sentence you've quoted does not have a single grammatical mistake.

To your credit, I am not seeing many such errors in your post. However, you don't understand the concept of redundancy. I suppose I shouldn't blame you for that because it's a rather subtle element of style.

" PS-- Your phony, BS link doesn't work."

The terms "phony" and "BS" are synonymous. There is no reason to use both of them in the same sentence.

Yet, given what I know about your attention span, I have no hope that you will ever grasp this notion. When I sent you a link to various scam-adviser sites, all you had to do was look at the second link on that page. Had you clicked it, you would have found the page you were looking for.

If you lack even the most rudimentary cognitive abilities to achieve this simple objective, you've reached the limit of your potential as a writer.

You've learned how to avoid egregious grammatical errors in your own writing, that's quite the accomplishment. Yet, avoiding redundancies seems to be too sophisticated of a skill for you.

As for pointing out actual errors in somebody else's work instead of calling them "moronic", that may require an iota of critical thinking on your part. I cannot fathom that you have the intelligence or self-discipline to even begin learning how to do that. If you don't understand why ad hominem is a fallacy, only a fool would hire you to write their analytical essay.

I definitely wouldn't hire someone who doesn't know the difference between a real argument and an elementary fallacy. I might forgive your little redundancy and inability to do basic research, but I have no use for a writer whose reasoning skills are as deficient as yours.

@Editor, since you have such a hard time finding real grammatical errors in other people's prose, I am going to help you out here.

In one of my sentences, I missed the word "is".

However, English is* my native language and I scored a 32 on my ACT test a few years ago.

I should have proof-read more carefully. By all means, prove to me that English is not my native language. What else is wrong with my post?

You are the spammer here. I am the only one posting coherent content. I hope that "editor" is just your screen-name and no-one was foolish enough to have you editing anything.

I am an electrical engineering major and I haven't even written a half a dozen papers in my entire life. Yet, even I can point out basic mistakes in your posts, both in terms of content and style.

That is just pitiful, there is no other way of looking at it.

I am not running any business and I don't need to. Unlike you, I've majored in something worthwhile and will have a real job once I graduate.

"Calm down; don't get your feathers ruffled. English is tough-- it takes about a dozen years' study and constant exposure to its changing idiom, and even then, you're not done. "

A semicolon is used when you intend to describe two different ideas that are of equal importance.

For example, most essay-scammers prefer to fly under the radar; others advertise on websites or forums.

In your case, there was no reason to use a semi-colon because you only introduced one idea after "calm down".

Thank you for that unsolicited advice. I am not much of a reader, but I do trust that you understand the Biblical aphorism you've quoted.

Whether the thread gets moved anywhere isn't my concern. I've made my statements and have clarified my position each time you've asked me to do so.

I have nothing else to say about the original topic.

You act as if you know how to write academic papers and that seems rather frightening. I can only imagine what would have happened if I hired you when I needed help.

My customers? I've never written papers for anybody.

Yet, I am still two long years away from graduation. If someone like you can make money in this industry, maybe this will be a good gig for me.

However, I am a bit skeptical. I wouldn't even hire you and I barely know how to write. Even to me, it is obvious that you shouldn't be writing any paper.

Then again, who knows. Maybe a lot of people are gullible enough to fall for your little ruse. If that's the case, you've got nothing to worry about me turning people away from this industry.

If it is really true that you can make money with your kind of writing, there is no reason why I can't. I am more of a math guy and that's much harder than writing, but I just may give this a shot.

Thanks for the suggestion!

It's all perfectly straight. I am an electrical engineering major and I took a sociology class to fulfill my general education requirements.

Again, this goes back to my point regarding your inability to analyze other people's arguments or even find stylistic errors in their writing. You can't even follow somebody's narrative.

If you cannot even interpret what I am telling you about myself in an informal conversation, how can you possibly comprehend a challenging text that may be assigned as part of an assignment for another one of my gen-ed classes?

It's not like I was asking you to follow a chain of reasoning in a mathematical proof. All I said is that I got help with a sociology class and I am an electrical engineering major. I presume the connection between that and math is not obvious to you. Amazing, somehow you managed to make a mess out of such a very simple narrative.

As for your confusion between inspiration and disappointment, I guess I shouldn't be surprised. If you don't even understand a concept of redundancy, how on earth can I expect you to know when I am being sarcastic or genuine?

I appreciate your tenacious efforts to win me over, but it just isn't working. The more I read your posts, the more I am astonished by how a person of your intellectual caliber is able to pass himself off as an academic writer.

That's cute. Do you win over a lot of clients this way? That is, by hassling people who have good things to say about your competitors?

At first, I found your petulance to be a bit endearing as you reminded me of my little brother. Yet, now you're just becoming downright annoying.

If you really do run a business of your own, learn a little class. Nobody who reads this thread is going to be drawn to your services. They may forgive your intellectual shortcomings, but they'll never take you seriously when you act this way.

That's clever. I suppose anyone who praises someone other than you is involved in a scam of some kind.

I take it that you got very far in life with this mentality.

Your affairs are very much of my business and that of anyone who wishes to keep this forum clean.

It's clear that you are just a troll looking to libel anyone else who gets positive publicity.

You accuse me of being affiliated with some kind of a scam, yet you have no evidence of any of that.

Fortunately for you, I have a very generic name and you aren't harming my reputation. You'll get what you deserve, I see lots of libel lawsuits in your near future.

What do you think would have happened to you if I had a unique name and I really was that "Ex-Iron Curtain POS" you're talking about? Do you think any of your allegations would have held up in a libel law-suit?

Given what I know about the quality of your writing, I am sure you've defrauded countless other clients. What do you think they'll do with you once they graduate?

Ah yes, your rationality has failed you again. There you go again, throwing around petty insults and you have no clue who I am even.

You sure have a way with words, but again, you don't understand the concept of redundancy.

Yet, I am not affiliated with any company. Don't worry about it, you'll never understand that, regardless of how many times I explain that to you.

A friend of mine used them about a year ago. He said he got mixed results, the work was done on time, but the quality of writing wasn't so great.

I've used them too, about a year ago. Surprisingly, they did a pretty good job all around. The only problem I had with them is that the prices were a bit high. I suppose that's not necessarily their fault. They charge in pounds, which are worth more than dollars.

All in all, not such a bad experience, just wish they were located in the U.S. Maybe prices would have been better that way.

Has anybody used these guys lately? Since the market is declining, I am wondering if their prices have gone down.

I am looking for a company that can get me As for much less than what they charged me when I used them.

Is there a way to find out if their prices declined without actually going through the trouble of submitting the order? I don't want to do that, as they ask me to pay up-front.

I am not sure if I am the best person to comment on this. I've been burned quite a few times, but I did find some good companies.

I'd say stay away from cheesy and flashy looking websites that make extravagant claims like "we have 100s of writers or we were here since 98".

I'd probably even stay away from companies or focus on companies where I can talk to the writer directly. I notice that when I get to talk to the writer directly or manager, I generally get good results.

Yet when I deal with flashy websites, I usually have problems. I bought plenty of papers in the last two years and it took me a while to find people who wouldn't screw me. Just my two cents.

A friend of mine worked for a company like that. His experiences weren't great. The pay was fine, but part of the contract required him to refund a semester's worth of pay if the client didn't get an A.

He said the managers of that company took advantage of this and withheld pay for perfectly good work.

There is no simple answer to this. You learn to find decent companies through trial and error. As I said in the other thread, deal with those where you can talk to managers or writers directly. In my experience, they are less likely to rip you off.

I've never used them, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were a scam. The website looks cheesy and flashy, it's just the kind of a thing I'd avoid.

As a rule, decent companies tend not to hire international writers. So, that has to be a red flag right there.

This one is a tough call. It seems that they have a cheesy website and that's a red flag. Yet again, some people had decent experiences with them. So, maybe I'll consider using them at some point.

I placed an order with the unemployed professors last year and was assigned a writer by the name of A+ Paper_chaser.

She did a good job on the first couple of papers and then it all went down-hill from there. Kept on making all kinds of crazy excuses and my work was pushed back by yet another week.

So, I got to speak to the manager, Rafi. He refunded my payment and we left it at that.

Not the greatest experience, but they weren't a total scam either. At least they took responsibility for their mistakes and gave me a full refund.

Story about EssayWritingCompany.com

I've read terrible things about the essaywritingcompany.com.

According to this story [2010], their owner was quite sleazy.

citypages.com/news/plagiarism-inc-6743352

Yet, the word is he has sold this company a long-time ago. Despite that the site still looks flashy and cheesy, I've heard good things about the company. People have been telling me that they do real good work now.

I might try them out, but that story in citypages makes me wonder. Have they really changed?

Academic Experts: Highly recommended

Recently, I tried Academic Experts because their prices were quite low. I am not sure where they are based, but judging by the quality of their work, they must be based in the U.S.

academicexperts.us

The prices are great and my paper was done perfectly. I'd highly recommend them any day.

I started another thread about a company that had such statements on their website. The reality is that the owner of that enterprise wasn't even 15 years old in 1998 and subsequent investigations reveal that he certainly did not have over 100 PhDs.

Not to worry, I heard they've changed a lot! I might use them soon, but their prices are a bit steep. $25 per pages is a little too high for me.

So, I am sticking with academic experts for now, they wrote an awesome paper for me recently for less than $10 per page. I think they are based in the U.S too!

But man, this is so tempting. If Academic experts let me down, I might try essaywritingcompany.com (that company that claims to have been around since 1998).

I've heard nothing but good things about them, so it's hard for me to write them off just because of that story I read about their ex-owner in the city pages.

Never heard of them, but I'll add them to my short-list of companies to consider. I am with a good company so far, they did a great paper for less than $10 per page. I am also considering another company, but they are expensive.

If this one charges less than $15 per page, I might place an order soon.

What makes me a liar or a spammer? I've used many companies before and most of them didn't impress. A couple were good, but this not only got me a great essay, but the price was the lowest I've ever seen!

What's wrong with me coming here and discussing my experiences?

So, Essaywriting company hasn't changed at all? All of my friends are saying great things about them. They used many companies before and were burned by this one, but they are coming back.

In that story I read about their ex-owner, he tried to bribe the reporter to publish a great story about them.

Could it be that the new owner is now bribing dissatisfied customers like this? That wouldn't make sense, he'd just be losing money left and right.

If my friends were lying to me, I'd know it. What makes you say they are a joke? I am sure they were one before, but I'd really be shocked if they are still the same.

If they are a joke, why are there so many people saying great things about them?

I'll place an order with them and see for myself. Then I'll publish the paper I get from them here, along with the professor's grade. How about that?

I don't have any sites. I just used a lot of services and know a lot of people who tried different companies too.

Do you think I own all of the essay-mills here?

It has been attempted previously and I've known people who got burned. Yet the company has a new owner and that's why people are giving them a second chance.

I think I'll do that too.

Academic experts have been good to me and they aren't going anywhere.

Essay writing company seems worth a try and I'll use them, but I'll rely on Academic Experts for the bulk of my needs because their prices are better.

Yet, I've been getting mostly Bs with them. What if essay writing company can get me As?

Maybe that's worth paying a little extra, don't you think? Eh, I don't know. It seems like a gamble, maybe I'll throw them a bone, but I doubt I'll jump ship.

I have no clue who essay_client is. It must have been somebody who signed up recently. Maybe they are a spammer, but I think they may be a real person because they say the kind of things I've heard about the essaywritingcompany.com.

I didn't even think about giving the essaywritingcompany.com a second chance until I've heard my friends say good things about them. Why did they give them a second chance?

Maybe because of the new owner? Some of them were a bit gullible, I admit. Or maybe they were bribed, I don't really know!

The United States, apparently. I wouldn't be surprised if they are based in the U.S, they aren't so bad. I've spoken with the owner and the writer, they seemed to be native English speakers.

They refunded my money, so no harm done. I might still use them, just probably won't bother with the A+ paper chaser. The trouble with them, is the high prices. That's really one reason I pursued companies that charge less and finally settled for Academic experts.

Yet, I am getting tired of getting just Bs. I want to find a company that can get me As, maybe somebody besides the A+ paper chase on the Unemployed professors can do that.

Does anybody else here know anything about Buyessays.us?

I am in the market for a company that can get me As. Could this be it? I don't mind paying $15 per page, but would prefer to pay $10. I know they are from India but maybe their English is not bad?

Well, maybe he kept the same site, but a different person is managing the company.

If JK sold it, couldn't he have also sold the same domain he used?

Maybe the new owner isn't very tech savvy or didn't bother changing the domain name? How would I know!?

All I know is that people are saying good things about them and I think they may get me an A. The only thing holding me back is their high prices. I don't want to pay anything over $15 per page and I am paying $10 now. But that only gets me Bs, I wonder if I can do even better within my budget. Though, I'd really think about settling for a higher price if somebody REALLY could guarantee me As.

Their site says there is a guarantee and that used to be bs, but what if it's real now? Am I supposed to just ignore everything people are saying and forget about it?

What evidence am I supposed to provide? All I know is that my friends are telling me essaywritingcompany isn't a scam and they are getting As.

Am I supposed to video-tape their testimony and post it here?

The only thing I can do is place an order with them, but I am still a bit unsure. I've gotten used to paying $10-15 per page lately and this company will charge me twice as much.

Yet, what if I still get screwed? All I know is that I've heard they are good now, but I never actually tried them and I am somewhat hesitant to do so.

That's why I am here, I want to know if someone outside of my social circle also used them and got great results again.

I guess I am going to have to try them for myself and see what grade I get.

Arghh, too many options. So far, a lot of the companies I know about aren't total scams, but none of them are so great either. That's why I keep on switching around, I wish I could find one that I could stick with.