Posts by Cassandra

Cassandra

Aug 13, 2009

Writing Careers / Is Academia-Research out to get me? [64]

After submitting published articles and an original essay, Academia-Research gave me an assignment, "Causes of increasing crime in the UK." Or as the customer wrote, "couses". I submitted it a day early, waited to see if there were revisions, heard nothing. Meanwhile I was bidding on different jobs: Failed Banks in the UK, analysis of Medea by Euripides, areas in which I am an expert, but no go. "Already given to premium writers. Sorry! Try again!"

I got paid. Two weeks and a day after I submitted the paper and it was vetted by the admin and the student, I get a panicky email from the customer:

Escape Academia

Dear writer,

I've been asked to make notes and outline on the essay.the problem is i have to mention around 25 notes with the reference where i got it from.so could you please be so kind as to do it for me please.

I sized up the situation. The dude was busted. The paper was too good and the prof knew it. He ran it through the **** detector (the plagiarism machine) and it came up negative. I never plagiarize. No one can write better than me. Didn't know what to do. Asked admin. They didn't know. I revised paper. Then I get an email from academia-research re: a job for $630, 70 pages, on "Risk due to fire following earthquake." I write them back after I submitted the revision:

Let me know if you received it. Also, I got an email from Academia-Research regarding a dissertation on Risk Due to Fire During Earthquake (70 pages, $630) but I didn't pitch for it. Are you assigning it to me? Does that make me a premium writer? I pitched for other things I am an expert in, including Failed Banks and Greek literature, but I didn't get them. Does this have anything to do with the customer I am dealing with on this extremely late revision job?

Admin responded:

thank You for the revision of the paper. Hope the customer will like it.
as for the order You've asked about (70 pages) we think it was a mistake. We have checked Your account and found no orders but this one on Crime in UK.

We believe You will get the premium status in short time if our customer like Your writing and reward You (gain at least 20 rewards).

I haven't looked at the site since. However, in the last week they sent me 3 emails about different jobs.

My assumption is that they want me to sit at my desk, eagerly researching and writing (I can work on this stuff for 7 hours at a time, especially if I can locate the sources), polish it off, submit it and VOILA! Academia-research responds, "**** you very much, my friend. No dice. No money. No nuttin'."

Does anyone else who works for them get unsolicited emails? What's that all about?

Cassandra

Aug 14, 2009

Writing Careers / Is Academia-Research out to get me? [64]

Is modesty helpful at all in the lonely, rejection-filled occupation of freelance writer? I prefer the opposite, even at the price of delusion. As Orson Welles said, "You ain't gonna make it in this business by hiding your bushel under a barrel." Or maybe he said the Martians are attacking. How do you characterize your writing?

That's the problem, RustyIronChains. I can't tell if they're assigning me jobs by sending me unsolicited emails. When they sent me the first one and I asked them if that made me a premium writer, their answer was:

thank You for the revision of the paper. Hope the customer will like it.
as for the order You've asked about (70 pages) we think it was a mistake. We have checked Your account and found no orders but this one on Crime in UK.

We believe You will get the premium status in short time if our customer like Your writing and reward You (gain at least 20 rewards).

Hell, I'll try it again. I just don't want to twist in the breeze. Thanks for answering me. I really appreciate it. Do you think I'm considered a premium writer based on that missive? Should I bid and keep getting turned down, which was my experience before they sent me these unsolicited emails? I don't know how to communicate with the powers that be.

Cassandra

Aug 14, 2009

Writing Careers / Is Academia-Research out to get me? [64]

That's great advice. I'm going to contact admin directly to find out what's going on. By the way, do writers get fined? Why?

Cassandra

Aug 15, 2009

Writing Careers / Is Academia-Research out to get me? [64]

EW_writer
I certainly am a newbie in regard to essayscam.org. In terms of other websites and my blog, I am an oldie.

You should be able to tell that I'm a newbie because I can't figure out how to copy the message I'm replying to.

Cassandra

Aug 20, 2009

General Talk / Do "real" writing sites exist? [21]

Let's be charitable. Whoever is deeply frustrated with the lack of revenue-producing opportunities for writers who know that not just anyone can write well and the horrifying criminal abyss of Internet anonymity, click your mouse. At the very least, we can try for some good kharma instead of permanently etched venting.

Cassandra

Sep 07, 2009

Writing Careers / Is Academia-Research out to get me? [64]

Hi RustyIronChains. I so appreciate you helping me with your advice. I've been away from the site because at this point I'm a bit disillusioned with the biz. Note to some people questioning the identity of those on this site: I am an American freelance writer who doesn't pretend to be anything I'm not. But it's hard to prove a negative: you can shout to the heavens that you are what you say you are, but credibility is in short supply in the murky depths of the Internet. That's what makes it rare and VALUABLE.

Cassandra

Sep 07, 2009

Writing Careers / Is Academia-Research out to get me? [64]

I didn't get fined. I only wrote one paper online for a broker. It was my sole and virgin experience. I got paid. I thought I would like working with a broker as opposed to on my own, but I got paid less than I was used to when I dealt with people directly, and the admin wasn't very helpful. I'm more disillusioned with the name calling on essayscam.org(!) [what's the organization, anyway?] than anything on A-R.

Cassandra

Sep 08, 2009

Essay Services / customwritings.com - FRAUD SITE!! [21]

I had the same problem on the other end. I was a writer for them and they kept me from communicating with the customer who needed assistance quickly. Don't get ripped off. Know who your writer is.

Cassandra

Oct 16, 2009

Writing Careers / EssayWriters: Sweatshop Labour [17]

So what the hell is a "competitive" vs. "high end" rate? Does choosing "high end" eliminate you from consideration by the writing service?

Cassandra

Oct 16, 2009

Writing Careers / Any writers heard of Student Network Resources / SNR? [34]

Pick the words that are incorrect in the above headline and you qualify! No, I kid you with my cheeky Yank humor. Seriously, is SNR another Ukrainian front?