I've been working for LR since December 2016. My experience was mostly positive till July 2017. Right now, I've got to admit that the company is going to hell. I guess freelancers need to know the truth about this pathetic essay mill.
Don't let the operators, graders and the management fool you with their cloyingly polite, sweet language: you, as a Writer, are not worth anything to them. Let me explain why.
The company is currently expanding their "full-time writers" department, so freelancers are now receiving only a tiny fraction of available orders. Compare: right now, there are 11 orders in my feed. Exactly a year ago - that is, December 2016 - there were no less than 100, sometimes 150 orders. In short, full-timers scrape off the cream, you as a freelancer are left with the dregs.
The company has upped the minimum price for their clients. At the same time, they have dropped the minimum price for the writers. A couple of months ago, the minimum writer's rate was $4.5/page, now it is $3. Go figure.
Orders - Like I said, good orders are picked by fulltimers. What reaches you is abstruse, incomprehensible orders with longitudinal descriptions that nobody wants to work on.
The new Writer's interface is slow and buggy. You can't just skim through the orders list: you have to open each and every one, and when you close the order, the interface freezes up and throws you at the top of the list. It happens all the time and they can't do anything about that.
They say that the average wage is $800. This is, in all honesty, a lie. With the current workload and the grading policy, you would be lucky to earn $200.
Graders - the most disgusting type of people I've been unlucky to meet. These are mostly illiterate, uppity individuals who've never read anything longer than the grading rubric. They are supposed to proofread your papers, but at times, all they do is they add mistakes of their own. They worship the grading rubric as the Holy Bible and never use their own judgment.
Fines - It seems like they take some kind of sadistic pleasure in handing out fines, often for ridiculous reasons. You need to understand that the company will lick the Client's ass no matter what, even at your own expense. The client may place an order that you will accept and write. Then the Client changes his mind and asks you to rewrite the whole paper. The company suspends the order and tells you to "revise" it - for free, of course. If you refuse, they fine you 100% of the order price. They've recently fined me 100% because I literally refused to write another page for free. This sort of abuse is so rife that Writers are starting to take it for granted.
Operators - These guys are mostly polite and harmless, but very slow. Back in December 2016, they normally responded within 2-5 minutes. Now it takes at least 30 minutes, sometimes hours.
As of yet, I wouldn't recommend Livingston to anyone. You will not earn anything here but you will definitely waste your time and lose all hope in freelance occupation.
