The best way out might be if students are dealing with companies they can conduct research and can find something bad about them or cling to the ones that have already made a good name for themselves since they're well known. Also if they use their credit card they can file complaint with the card provider that could be bad for the company's reputation if it happens many times. If they use PayPal the same applies because they can dispute their case and ask for refund that could have the company blacklisted. If they're working with individual freelancers they shouldn't pay the whole money in advance. In fact, they've to see at least 500 words sample before they part with their money. This could give the small industry a good image.

My advice is try to find a freelancer and develop a long term relationship with him/her. I always tell students not to pay all the money upfront, because they mightn't get what they paid for. Ask the writer to send in at least a 250 words sample on your topic and if you like it you can start paying for two or three pages, and if you like those three pages you'll continue paying because you know you'll get more or less or exactly what you need. At the same time, you might have found you future writer that you can nurture. It's also good to use one writer because the style of the writing won't change frequently making your instructors suspicious.

Without even seeing one of your papers ordering three papers simultaneously was a gross mistake.

You're better off with the known companies and pay a little bit more for quality work or hire a freelancer.

Proof for that is simply google "essay writing companies" and you'll come across a website that listed the ten best essay writing companies where you can tell by the design alone they're all owned by one company. Look at the order taking forms, basically they're all the same. But they've spent money to make all the sites look different, because they can afford it.

Start choosing a few and google them. You'll find something that will tell you whether they're reliable or not.

If you look at it it's a job offer where all you've to do is promote the company to people you know first and then if you want to cash more you can go to any of the social media sites to start promoting the company. Simply request those who contacted the writing company using your promotion to mention that to the company, while at the same time sending you an email so that you'll have a followup of how your promotion effort is doing.

It doesn't have to be a sample writing per se, but it can be part of the writing process. Once the two parties agree to work with each other, it won't harm the writer if he/she sends in at least the first 250 words of the paper to win the confidence of the customer since both of them are new to each other. If a writer can't make this kind of arrangement with a new customer, it'll be difficult for the customer to tell whether they're dealing with a genuine writer or a scammer who can run away with their money.

The only problem is a new website doesn't have a track record, which would mean you'll be the first one or the first few. Because of that you're better off to work with companies that have a known track record. It's also good to give new websites a chance, because unless they get that chance there isn't any easy way they can demonstrate what they're capable of doing. Because of that, if they want new customers they've to offer something the other companies aren't offering, which will mean you'll get some advantage for trying their service. If they do a good job you can recommend them to others. So the question you'll ask is what do you get from this new website that you don't get from the others? Low price might be one attraction or if they've good testimonials and are genuine, they could be worth trying showing you it's difficult to make a decision. It could always end up being trial and error.

I don't know how expensive the freelance writers who are posting here are. However, if their price is affordable I don't see why anyone bothers to work with companies when he/she can work with the writers directly. It isn't difficult to see there are highly qualified writers posting here.

There are a few that regularly send money once a month to an account, but finding work with them isn't easy. The key in addition to being a good writer is the timing, because unless they've work I guess they've no choice other telling everyone they've failed their tests. But if you try them when the busy season is around, there's a good chance to work for them. But don't expect to be paid a lot of money, their page rate could be low.

This is the best place to recruit native speaking writers, because it seems that they're here in big number. However, they could be expensive, and most of the time no one wants to pay them that kind of money when there are companies that provide the same service for $5 and $8. And to make things worse wherever you go there is an overflow of writers that tells you essay writing business has become too crowded and be ready to offer your service for $4 if you can beat the bidding. Or if you find work with some of the companies that don't require bidding and make $4+ on the busy season, don't be surprised if they offer $2 for the off season. I think this small industry had been around for a while and has attracted a lot of people, the reason why there might not be enough work to go around.

Even giving them any piece of ID for their files is unsafe since the majority of the companies themselves aren't disclosing their proper IDs or where they're operating from. They can use it for any illegal activity and we all know wherever you go they ask you for some kind of ID. How you could you be sure that these kinds of companies aren't being started to harvest IDs. And if they want to make those IDs public that's even worse.

If they were a responsible company, with enough volume of work, they should have refunded what you asked them, provided that you were telling the truth. But some of these companies are trying to survive and they don't care about their reputation. This will tell other students to be careful about them.

Studentshare website has a lot of material that one can use and whatever the source of the material, they seem to be legit.

If you mention the name of the company, it might be easy to get an account. The trick is to catch them at a busy season, otherwise, since they know they can't give you work, and even if you pass their test, they'll tell you've flopped.

The best way out is to rewrite it, which should be simple since the idea is yours.

Give them a try and if they don't meet your standard for some reason, abandon them. My personal suggestion is it's much better to work with individual freelancers.

Don't think of writing for them because they're very crowded and getting an opportunity is out of the question.

Use Grammarly to weed out mistakes of all sort and Turnitin for plagiarism.