Ordered some not very important content writing on fiverr. Good deal, I thought at first. 5 bucks a page (or 10 if rush). It was supposed to be a simple 2 page essay on a general topic with no references. I planned to use it as informative content on my blog catering to students. So it didn't have to be 100% professional and accurate; more of an opinion kind.
They sent me paraphrased garbage. The writers took an article on the same topic available online, reshuffled it and run through some kind of text rewriting software that replaced similar words and sent it back to me. It got me angry, but I thought I'd salvage it somehow. I had extra money in my account so I found a "Level 1" editor, their best I hoped. But from our initial correspondence after I sent her writing instructions it was obvious to me the English was her or his 2nd or 4th language. So I had to cancel this time, cannot fool me twice. "Level 1" my a$$. Then I found to some other site, that only offered English text editing. I finally talked to a real US-educated person. She basically told me that for her to edit the original essay she'd have to charge me as if it was ghostwriting from scratch. Because it was that bad and illogical and made no sense overall. I ended up having her write the essay from scratch for $35 per 300 words. Never again will I use fiverr or similar cheap crap sites for content writing. Expensive in the end and it adds stress if you miss your deadline -- you always do. A 2 page simple content cost me overall $40 a page and took extra 5 days.
Those people aka "technical and article writers" who have profiles there are scammers. Maybe not the fiverr site but those who provide writing or English language editing services there. Fake flags and names. Do they check them? Maybe they are better for graphic design and computer programming but definitely not for English writing, unless you are very lucky.
Has anyone here had better success with fiverr for professional English language writing like for blog content and such? I imagine academic writing is more complex than that with all the references or tables required. I still have a few bucks left in my account and going to withdraw it tomorrow. Not using them again.
Do you have equally bad experience with them? Do students even use them, why?
