Hi. New here. Wish I found out about this forum early on so I didn't have to waste my time with essaywriters.net

They owe me around 800! After paying me once, they rip me off by claiming plagiarism was detected in my work. The funny thing is, they can't spell PLAGIARISM correctly. They spell it as PLAGARIZM! lol.

It is their MO. I believe it is. I received the same message a few weeks ago. They said they "detected a large number..." but fail to give a copy of these findings to the writer. I'd ask which paper and which part of the paper was believed plagiarized but they give you no answer.

If plagiarism was indeed found then they ought to at least provide the writer with a copy of thier findings and allow the writer to clarify results of those findings. That would have been fair.

What is more, they should be doing these plagiarism checks before a paper reaches a client -- not when a client has already paid and has already obtained his or her grade! I had clients telling me they got A's and some B+. The bad thing is, those papers were cancelled by essaywriters -- because their system check says the paper was plagiarized! How bad is that? I always cite my sources. It's obvious that they earned the full amount of those papers already -- but they still take writers' compensations for those orders! They're terrible.

Ah, there were around 5 or 6 papers I did which were 1 page essays that required no citations and references. They were purely essays based on experience. But they too -- according to their plagiarism detector -- plagiarized!

Wow.

I agree with Amy. We've all had bad experiences with them -- and similar too. why continue working for them?

I read that notice too, but thought -- Is there such a thing as overuse and limit for money transfer companies? Won't they be happier that their services are preferred and more remittances are sent through them (xoom)? Maybe it's just essaywriters' excuse to not pay writers on time.

Smandy, if you've really been working for them that long, then you're probably aware that orders in their available orders list rarely get taken.

They have about 300+ orders and they just get recycled until someone actually rsks to write about some orders -- or the customer/s who placed some orders may have just decided to cancel the order/s instead. Notice also that some links in the list just return a blank page. Some joke.

If you ask me, I think essaywriters.net no longer has writers. But if they do, maybe you're the only one left.

They're unfair to writers that is why their writers leave them. They shouldn't post that slogan on their website coz they don't care about the writers. There have been complaints against them since 2006 but never did they attempt to revise their policies about what's fair to both customer and writer.

I also doubt that you havent come across any problems with them in 6 months -- that is if you're really their "writer".

yup, pious, i too find it hard to believe. i know someone who's really new and that person's having problems already! lol.

hi essayer. no payments received. was reading threads on other topics here. someone called our earnings as salaries. i wouldnt call it that for the amount we receive are not fixed and regular. essaywriters.net uses the term "salary" too. obviously those support reps and web content writers for that company don't understand the meaning of the word.

ask their reps to define plagiarism in their own words and they can't define it. ask them to tell the difference between a direct quote and a paraphrase but they won't give you an answer. terrible. they shouldn't be in the writing business because they don't know anything about research and writing!

With only a small portion of the full amount paid to the company going to the writer, essaywriters.net either takes that small portion and keeps it for themselves or splits the amount you earned and holds one part until the next payment schedule! that is indeed another modus operandi of theirs. you're right phoenix, the payments they owe us should earn interest after all! lol.

Checked my essaywriters' account and noticed many changes made there. They now have a page made for writers to post complaints and other issues on a message board for support reps to address. I suppose they would not have done this had they not monitored the issues posted on essayscam. However, these changes are not enough and those who have worked or are still working at essay writers want to see more changes.

Writers who have been with them longer and have observed their numerous errors and treatment of writers are the ones who can tell whether they are being cheated or not. I for instance, have noticed that a writer's work goes straight to the client without first being scanned for quality and plagiarism. Feeding the paper into a plagiarism software is not enough for there are ways on how to mislead the software. A proofreader must read the work and ensure that it is of standard quality.

I don't understand essaywriters' procedure when it comes to scanning customers' works for quality and plagiarism. When I trace from which site an order is placed - superior papers, bestessays.com, and dissertationsexperts.com - customers are assured that before getting their copy, the paper is scanned for quality first. Had this been actually practiced then more customers would be satisfied with the work.

There are instances also when the paper is scanned only after a customer has received the work with no complaints and has therefore, already paid the company. The bad thing here is that the paper is allegedly plagiarized without giving the writer proof of the allegation and the chance to shed light on results of the scan. Payment for the said paper is then withdrawn from the writer, robbing him or her then of his or her dues.

Essaywriters shouldn't have to wait until a writer or human editor demands for the scanned results of his or her work. Why not give it to the writer as soon as possible to confirm the charge?

People behind essaywriters should also be able to strike a balance on what's fair for both the customers and writers. True, there are writers who deliver second-rate work and these works need to be checked and rewritten to satisfy customers. However, there are also customers who are abusive and demand revisions and refunds be made without sufficient reason. What others don't understand is that writers write only based on a customer's initial instructions. Essaywriters therefore should clarify customer instructions so writers wouldn't have to suffer complaint consequences later.

On the issue of payouts, writers often wonder about delays. These delays and the excuses posted by essaywriters have been analyzed and a trend was seen. They make excuses about not paying writers when pay day is only a day away and it is disheartening.

About ESL writers, I don't see anything wrong with them writing academic papers just as long as they deliver the paper in acceptable quality.

And then about essaywriters' support reps? Some of them are nice, some of them are rude. They expect writers to be professional. Writers expect them to do the same.

The forum serves as a means for customers and writers to voice out their experiences with writing companies. It allows us to inform others about the workings of a particular writing company that refuses to address writers' complaints of unfairness. Sometimes a forum like this compels reps from companies in question to answer and prove that the reports typed here are false. However, they should do so by not assuming another identity lest they be banned :-)

Verified this and it's true. Switched to a different payment mode now. Hope the coming payments come on a more regular basis.

Correspondences with support reps have been deleted in my account too, probably to prevent us writers from using these against EssayWriters in the future. They deleted all of their posts including those of the customers' in the messaging system and all that was left were my messages in triplicates! This action makes them all the more a very suspicious entity described in essayscam and essayfraud.



So someone here is trying to figure out who among essaywriters' writers are posting on these boards, complaining, and exposing their annoying business practices and thus causing them really bad publicity... how else could they tell who QWS and essayer were and dub them "disloyal" without getting them into a trap to get their identities?

Hey Beth, how about shedding light on this issue?

How would you know that you hold the same sentiments as your "fellow writers"? How would you know that they too are "deeply saddened, etc." by the posts of individual writers here? Most writers at essaywriters don't know a thing about each other so how can you speak on their behalf -- the "hundreds" of other writers working for the company? I know a three or four others working there -- BUT A HUNDRED?! LOL Unless you're the employer...

Would freelance writers actually go to the extent of asking essaywriters' admin to "weed out unhappy and disgruntled" writers of the company? I still don't think so. Like the opinions of others here,



You've seen these changes recently had it not been for the posts here, honey. I think that prior to most of the complaints posted here, essaywriters wasn't doing anything :-)

a chance? you're a writer for essaywriters and you see the number of available orders posted there everyday. If they had hundreds of writers, how come the orders posted there don't get taken? One essayscam member who signed up recently, Smandy, said it herself that most of the orders don't get taken at all.


nom_de_plume's post made it seem as though exchanges between her and other "content & loyal" writers take place regularly. she may know a few writers maybe, but i doubt she knows hundreds. note that essaywriters' messaging system allows writers to communicate with customers and support reps ONLY. we are also prohibited from disclosing our personal information to customers. so how in the world can she speak for other writers and tell that there are hundreds of them out there who will back up the company she claims is upright?

i appreciate essaywriters' efforts to improve their company and it's a good move to resolve issues with disgruntled writers like me LOL, but to have someone post something like nom_de_plume's is unbelievable. she would have had posters here believe she was just a writer for the company without the backed-up-by-hundreds kind of talk.

Go back to the post and read what I said. Did I suggest in any way that my observations, complaints, and sentiments were held by the majority? I did nothing like that BUT YOU DID in your post which made me react and provide you with that response. Notice that what I posted here were my own experiences with the company, I did not speak on behalf of other displeased writers. you ought to re-read your own post and note how you assumed that those so-called hundreds of writers maintain the same regard and position as you regarding essaywriters.


and how would you know how much experience I really have? you took my remark out of context. it is true that freelance writers at essaywriters do not know each other because there is no way for freelancers to communicate with each other at essaywriters. freelancers may only know other freelancers unless they are friends who sign up for the same company.

What makes you think that I still take orders at essaywriters? HAVE YOU BEEN GIVEN AUTHORITY TO MONITOR DO THAT? lol. I'm waiting for my payments, honey. That is all, nothing more, nothing less. Just because I check my account at essaywriters from time to time does not necessarily mean that I am still taking orders for them. I check the payment schedules and any messages that may be left by support reps there. Aren't all account holders at essaywriters encouraged to check their accounts from time to time?

Continuous destruction of business reputation and integrity? What I posted here are comments, my personal views of how they run the business, and my experiences while writing for them. I even gave a few suggestions that may be useful for them to improve their company. You call that destructive of a company's reputation and integrity?


okay admin, pardon me for repeating what i said earlier but just to make the pluma understand -- I NO LONGER WRITE FOR ESSAYWRITERS. I AM JUST WAITING FOR MY DUES.

you ought to prove this allegation. otherwise, you have no business accusing me of nonsense.


I made no such admission plume. Read it again. lol.


ah yes, missed that. thank you for pointing that out. I welcome comments, corrections, criticisms,suggestions, etc. Of course, feel free to cancel my views. I believe keeping an open mind usually outweighs having a bigoted one.


The above remark was based on a friend's and my own observations of the company. He signed up for them in 2006 and from then on observed how such a business worked. I was not patronizing myself neither did I state that the changes at essaywriters were made because of MY COMPLAINTS. You have a comprehension problem. Re-read the post a second or third time, maybe you'll understand the message of the post by then.


Believe whatever you want to believe. You see those pages yourself and you know exactly what I meant by the majority of orders not being taken. And excuse me for namedropping, I did not have the time to look for the thread she posted in and quote her.

And you're a champion only at slinging insults which seems to be the only function of your brain. Your reply to my remark only shows that you can't support your claim about the so-called hundreds of writers who're pleased with essaywriters' business strategy.

why don't you check out the website yourself and you may be interested too? At least when you write a piece for them, authorship is your own and you get published too. I don't see anything wrong with that post. You have very morbid thoughts.

By WB's use of the word "detractor" she probably meant "critic / reviewer" because you are clearly an essaywriters supporter and I no longer am. WritersBeware and I are simply posters here just like the others and we have no connection, relationship, or affiliation whatsoever with each other. Whatever you think of me are just theories in that neurotic brain of yours.

essayer, it's good to know that you got paid already. too bad others still remain unpaid.

check their log-in page for writers. there's something about reactivating accounts. what does that mean? are they wooing old writers they've terminated to reactivate their respective accounts? i guess that's a sign that they really are losing writers! LOL.

the site is there -- LOL, just there but is useless. i remember asking the essayfraud moderator about it when i was still looking for writing jobs over the net and didn't know it was part of the hot list of fraudulent custom writing companies. check the essayfraud list and carefully read topics there to keep you informed. everyone is encouraged to read the warning signs and avoid being scammed.

no payments yet. i've been waiting patiently while working on my day job and studying to complete my masters. they're coming up with numerous excuses not pay up. at first it was about bank details. now it's the same plagiarism accusation. it's funny because everything was either paraphrased, summarized, explained using my very own words, and/or quoted -- as requested by the customers. to top all that, everything was well cited in the body of the text. the quotes are included in the paper only as per request of the customer and i don't think those at essaywriters consider that. school has been long over now and grades have already been released. i've received no complaints on the side of the customers and yet essaywriters continue to cut back on my accrued earnings! i suppose they don't really know how to use the plagiarism software... and for me, using that software is not enough to charge one with plagiarism. i still believe papers should be proofread to verify results of the plagiarism check.

correction please. i've received some payments -- as i said before, payments were staggered. but as for other earnings accrued in the months of february-march, no payments have yet been received. i wonder how the others are doing. LOL

hi all. i got paid half only. got tired of waiting.

whoever's claiming that they're really earning big at essaywriters.net must be in cahoots with them.

received 400 a month ago - half the amount i was supposed to receive last march. the other half due me was kept by EW.net

it was a long wait that i actually quit waiting. you see, the payments were shifted from february to march to april, and then again to may, june, etc by EW.net. i wasn't certain about my actual date of payment because EW.net loved shifting payment schedules from one month to the next.

like i said before, feedback from customers were always good yet EW.net made huge cuts on my earnings claiming dissatisfaction from customers, late upload dates, plagiarism, and cancelled orders -- and dig this -- three months after i've delivered the goods!

so writers out there planning to join the EW.net team -- write for them at your own risk...

the quality of writers that EW.net actually hires are all reflected in various posts here. LOL

better for you to continue writing for US magazines. you can also try news reporting or write documentaries for an established company. or maybe, you can author you own book...

great work WritersBeware! i had a feeling they were filipinos... i kept telling my friend -- who by the way still writes for EW.net -- that the people behind that horrible company could be filipinos! every time i read their posts, there's something in the content, style and tone of the text that makes me think they aren't ukranian but filipino. your expose here confirms that hunch! could it be that ukranians have partnered with filipinos? no matter coz this makes me feel bad all the more. now, some negative labels instead of more positive ones would be attached to filipinos...

take a look at this note for instance - posted at the EW.net message board last october:

October 21, 2007

Dear Writers!

As you have noticed that we have a very convenient way to ask client for additional compensation (per page)/additional pages or deadline extension.

Writers also have the option to offer clients revision themselves as well as ask for additional files upload.

There are special automated templates located in the bottom of every Order Details page. Please kindly use them ONLY to submit your requests to clients. This will ease the work of Support greatly and will as well facilitate the order preparing process from writers' side.

Thank you for cooperation
We hope for your kind consideration on this matter
Warm regards,
Writers' Support Team

notice the tone and style of the text? here's another example:

January 18, 2008

Dear Writers,

We are sorry to inform that PayPal payment is being delayed due to the fact that we have still not finished PayPal authorization with the new bank.

The accountant is negotiating with the bank representatives to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

We are kindly asking you to wait.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Regards,
essaywriters.net Team

i've seen a lot of this kind of writing and told my friend about it. she also suspects that the EW.net team may be composed of filipinos -- (working for ukranians (?) like olga, who sends out writers' payments) after reading and re-reading EW.net posts.