Mr. Halasz claims to be able to write scholarly work, but doesn't have access to library resources, and instead only relies on internet-based ones. How is it possible to write scholarly work with only sources that can be found online?

Oxbridge Essays indeed take their lessons from marketing. Lesson 1: make promises and guarantees and do not abide by them after the customer gets it in the shorts good and hard. There is absolutely no truth to their claims that their writers are Ph.D. graduates who have published in their own right. Lesson 2: make sure you charge a whole lot more than anyone else so the customer, i.e. sucker, will assume that they won't be paying for a steaming mound of human refuse. Lesson 3: make sure getting a refund is in fact impossible after the customer realizes that they had gotten screwed good and hard. Lesson 4: make sure you screw each individual customer at least once and make them pay a very high price for it.

It appears that anyone in the developing world who's got online access can get into the writing for hire business. Oxbridge Essays preys on suckers who will pay a high amount of money while naively expecting quality work, and instead get a load of crap.

Can anyone comment on this company's services? I personally have reason to be very suspicious with my own order that is well below par, have told them as much, and don't know whether I'll ever hear from them again.

They have claimed to have experts in different fields. What I had received was a poorly written cut and paste sample written by someone who's first language is not English, does not have experience with writing scholarly work, and does not have access to library resources. After I had volunteered to assist in the production of the task by sending sources, they only have thus far responded with angling for more money for more contents without first providing quality results.

It appears that this operation has outsourced the task to a cheap writer who could not ever be worth the demand for $40 US a page fee that they charge, and give them considerable less while pocketing the large difference.

I'll post a retraction if I end up hearing from them again, and actually receive value for money, rather than stinging me once and then never be heard from again.

When first discussing this task, there was no mention of paying more than 20$ a page, rather than $25 a page, which is what I was quoted. Mr. Halasz had also told me before posting publicly here that he does not have access to offline sources before saying something different here, re: it would cost more. Besides, anyone who has experience with doing research for scholarly work knows full well that tertiary sources in the form of newspaper and magazine articles found online do not qualify as sources for scholarly research.

Yes, there are indeed published sources that are also found online in the books of e-books and e-journals, but not a majority of them, as is claimed, are available online, or are open access for that matter. In other sources, one needs to have access to a library to find them.

Hence, there is no complete substitute for library research, whether from one's computer anywhere or preferably on the library premises where the majority of scholarly resources are to be found. No longer going to the library therefore belongs to the realm of science fiction, and not common present reality.

It remains to be seen whether Mr. Halasz is going to be able to deliver the goods that I had paid for after telling me to wait for the next improved results and not post anything negative. I will gladly post a positive review if that is going to happen.

Don't make the mistake of paying for something without seeing the results first, and don't ever believe what they tell you about how qualified they are and the guarantees they say the offer. It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that you really ought to see the finished product before paying anything.

Keep things simple and keep the so-called service providers honest. Never pay for a completed product before seeing the results first. You'll otherwise get it in the shorts and never hear from them again, and there will be no chance of getting a refund after getting screwed the first time and finding out the hard way.

Are you familiar with the law in the developed world? How about laws concerning providing fraudulent products? Is this to be written off with a wave of hand and claiming caveat emptor?

Further to my previous post, they have not replied to my reply after they tried angling for more money in exchange for more cut and paste crap from free or open access sources, including hastily and sloppily using the notes I had sent them, and expecting me not to be able to tell the difference between crap and quality.

A retraction is going to be posted if I ever end up hearing from them again.

Amen to what klosegoal said. I suspect the outsourcing is done to some poor unfortunate in the developing or underdeveloped world who's first language is not English, and if it is, they don't have access to a proper library and completely cut and paste crap from online sources and always use the APA reference method regardless of what you require or ask for.

No offence intended to you, klosegoal. Clearly you're perfectly bilingual. The trouble of course, as you correctly indicate, is finding the right people who are able to write scholarly work as well as having sufficient fluency.

No reason to believe you will not receive it? It would be lovely to actually see that happen. In my own experience, this would be like getting blood out of a stone after getting cut and paste crap from someone who did a ramshackle job at their convenience rather than go through the trouble of following instructions. Oxbridge and so-called academicwriter1 are two examples.