Dear Allan,

As you have neither ordered anything from my company nor worked for me I wonder how you have come to this conclusion.

I pay my writers 33% of the total fee plus an extra 4% Right First Time Bonus. I have only ever had to refund 2 clients in the past and all other clients have been happy, with many being extremely happy. I have had a very high rate of repeat orders, surely if our service was that bad that just simply wouldnt be the case.

Regarding writers payments, by comparison Oxbridge Research Group, Oxbridge Essays, etc, pay only 10% of the amount paid by the client. Academic Knowledge pay 33% but they charge 10% more for their services on customessays.net.

I therefore provide good value for money for both the clients and the writers and have maintained excellent relations with both.

Dear Struggling Student,

If you are an unhappy customer please do not hesitate to contact me at sales@criticalproof or on 07912 527074 with your order number and I will do my very best to resolve any dispute you have with my company.

Again, I do actually have excellent writers on board with well over half holding not only a 2:1 degrees or higher, but also Masters and PhDs.

Regarding communication, I have a mobile which I have on me at all times and unlike with the larger companies, my customers only ever have to deal with myself thereby negating customers from having to repeat their entire situation again and again.

Also in response to another query on this site, the reason that I do not have a landline is that I am currently working from home and landline providers simply cannot compete with mobile networks for business rates. My decision to use a mobile has been based both on cost and the fact that I can carry my phone with me wherever I go enabling me to take phone calls even when not at my desk! I am open and transparent and have nothing to hide. Yes Critical Proof Limited is registered in England and Wales, is VAT registered, registered PAYE etc etc, and I hold a Lloyds bank account. My company is therefore in no way illegitimate.

@Helenrob - I havent actually had any clients called Helen so I would be very interested to hear your complaint and your apparently hillarious experience with us. Please get in touch.

As always, if anybody has any queries please do not hesitate to contact me directly.

Dear MeoKhan,

The reason that I do not have a landline is that I am currently working from home and landline providers simply cannot compete with mobile networks for business rates. My decision to use a mobile has been based both on cost and the fact that I can carry my phone with me wherever I go enabling me to take phone calls even when not at my desk.

I am open and transparent and have nothing to hide. Yes Critical Proof Limited is registered in England and Wales, is VAT registered, registered PAYE etc etc, and I hold a Lloyds bank account. My company is therefore in no way illegitimate.

I am 34 years old and yes I obtained my BA Hons degree in summer 2011 - a bit of a late starter I know! :) I will shortly be studying for a Masters in International Law. I began writing for other companies whilst studying for my degree (yes before I even passed my degree) then following graduation found it very difficult to obtain a suitable position like many other graduates of recent times. I therefore decided to begin my own academic writing company which I will continue to run alongside carrying out my masters course.

If you have any queries regarding my company, its services or myself please do not hesitate to contact me directly. Thank you.

Best regards,

Karen Oliver
Managing Director
Critical Proof Limited

Dear Helen

I havent scammed anyone. You are obviously a fraud from a rival company who thinks it good business practice to slag off competitors in forums such is this which is really very petty.

My name is Karen Oliver and I am the owner of Critical Proof Limited and I can confirm that I have asked various customers and writers to provide actual information about their experiences with my company. I dont need to "pay someone" to make up positive remarks about my company. These are actually verifiable people - if you click on their names you can contact them and they can verify who they are, so actually they are verifiable.

I note that EW Writer has written over 2000 posts, clearly a paid forum writer/troll etc.

If any potential customer has any queries regarding my company you can contact me directly - the contact details are on the website - criticalproof - or please call 07912 527074 or write to sales@criticalproof and I will be more than happy to help you with your requirements.

Best regards,

Karen Oliver
Managing Director
Critical Proof Limited

Well, they are actually quite competitive compared with other quality UK companies. People are always welcome to pay peanuts and get monkeys of course.

EW Writer, I am absolutely sure you are correct that there are several companies on here who do just that. However, I am not one of them. I do not "make up accounts" nor pay people to write these items. I have a loyal customer base and an excellent rapport with my writers which is why they agreed to correct the misinformation posted on here about my company. I only even came on this site as I noticed people were asking questions about my company, and also others were disseminating disinformation whilst obviously represening rival companies.

I agree it is completely petty and ridiculous but if other companies/trolls/whoever are going to give negative publicity without substance regarding my company then I will have something to say about it. In fact it is actually libel and is a criminal offence. I'm not directing this at you but at some of the other members of this forum.

Also under what grounds are you telling people that they are fools to use my company? What evidence do you ctually have that we provide a terrible service as you so imply? None because I provide an excellent service.

And yes some of my actual customers have been kind enough to post on here, as well as certain writers.

So please desist from inferring that I am lying on this forum as I have no need to.

Good day to you.

Karen Oliver
Managing Director
Critical Proof Limited

I responded to all of these posts. Re MeoKhan's comments so what if I passed my degree in 2011? And?

Allan Smith has never been a writer or a customer so how does he know anything about how I run my business.

Struggling Student I asked them to contact me with order number to resolve issue - surprise surprise no one contacted me so as you can see there was no real disgruntled customer.

These are all just silly ridiculous online games being played out by people such as yourselves who have nothing better to do.

I have not lied about anything on here and I will have you removed from the site for libel if you make unfounded accusations again.

Thank you G :)

I have to agree. When I started my company I did have one particular writer from Kenya who was really excellent both in the quality of content and language usage. However, he then began his own writing company in Kenya and started sending me work from them and the work was absolutely terrible so I had to stop using them altogether.

FSR is correct, there are not as many engineering writers as there are writers for other subjects such as Politics, Economics etc and it does sound as if the companies in question have been honest with you.

Spam removed.

But under most universities codes of conduct, foreign students are allowed to use proofreaders or assignment editors to improve only the language component of their work, so this would not necessarily be the case.

Note that that applies to both "manual" (human) proofreaders and automatic grammar correction tools.


In my final year at uni, our Philosophy lecturer questioned every student regarding their papers - this was at Greenwich, UK.


This is a valid point, however, in my experience students run into problems because they themselves have absolutely no idea of how to do the work themselves, even if they had the time, and are therefore incapable of providing sufficient instructions to the writer, and they also do not understand the work when it is delivered to them.

I had one particular client who literally couldn't understand the Economics paper which one of my writers had prepared and who then had to spend hours on the phone explaining everything to him.

I had another client who can't even have read the paper at all, as when their lecturer questioned them about it they were unable to answer anything at all.

So there are students who should not be "allowed" to study under normal circumstances, but since academia is a business as any other then whoever has money to study can study (despite their intellectual talents or lack thereof).


I absolutely agree.

In all honesty I cant remember exactly, but I think all that happened was the lecturer gave them a poor mark and the student was hugely embarrassed.

This is absolutely disgraceful. When you placed an order with them you would have agreed to terms and conditions, one of which should have been regarding confidentiality on their part, so if I were you I would check this out and prevent them from doing this to you.

Also if you are in the UK pursue them through the small claims court its amazing how effective this system is - even just threatening this can usually yield results with companies.

Best of luck.

Same here.

While this may be true of some companies I make sure my writers provide their degree certs and transcripts, along with 3 pieces of academic writing. I do actually take foreign writers on ocassion but only if their writing is of sufficient quality. I find the easiest way to assess an ESL's writing skills is to look at their informal emails. This is far more reliable as of course they may in fact have paid for their academic essays!

Karen

No problem - this is when international financial law actually comes in handy! :)

Ubstudent06

I've just had a look at this site and I certainly wouldnt go anywhere near them - when you click on "contact details" at the bottom it just goes to an online form - no info is given anywhere on the site about who they actually are - steer well clear.

At least with bona fide UK sites the worse case scenario is that you will get a refund (and maybe a headache) :)

From my own experience, the US companies pride themselves on volume rather than quality, whereas (the better) UK companies will charge more but will be more likely to make certain that you receive work of the correct standard. They also have a lot better customer service teams and verifiable data on their websites.

Best of luck.

Hi JonDan

I think there are certain disciplines which tend to use essay writing services more than others.

For example business studies, economics, politics and nursing have come up most frequently for my own company but I have had clients from a wide variety of disciplines.

Certainly statistics comes up in many of the Economics briefs so you should be able to maintain a good income with your skills.

I am always looking to have such people on board as yourself, feel free to get in touch if you like.

Science, Maths, Medicine and English students, in my experience, don't tend to use these services very often, if at all.

Best regards.

Yes I absolutelky agree. By far the best company (apart from mine :)) on the market, excellent to deal with, and they are meticulous at checking work. i have never had any problem with them which has not been resolved amicably. Very nice people to deal with.

In all honesty, unless you have a PhD you are unlikely to make a full-time living at this work. I have only one writer on my books who has made a decent full-time wage since working for me, because he has a PhD and can therefore take all of the top level Business and Economics work.

When I personally worked my ass off with an UG degree I earned about £700 max pcm with a good company and it was bloody hard work.

To make a lot you need a PhD, or at least a MA Merit/Distinction and be wiling to take on all the last minute jobs, and of course be excellent at what you do.

But this kind of work can really do your head in. I personally love doing this kind of work as a supplement, I love the academic process etc, but full time wow its a head banger after a while.

So in short can you do it? Yes you can but it takes a whole lot of dedication.

Karen

Look its capitalism, just make your product and service better and get some good advertising. End of story.

Yes they are reputable company and definitely pay their writers on time as advised, I have worked for them for 2 years with no problems at all.

If you are looking for a company to carry out work for my own company can do it at 10% cheaper at least.

Best of luck.

You know that :)

What do you mean? Of course if a client hands in your work as their own it will be added to the database, thats how they work. If you want to scan your own work use writecheck.com which is for students.

charliebrown

This site doesn't give any details whatsoever about who is actually running the business. No address, no contact number, no names, not even a country, so I would give this site and others like them a a very wide berth.

Kedam

They claim to be a UK company and they have a UK phone number (though of course this could be rerouted to anywhere else in the world) but they do not provide an actual address nor the names of any persons involved with the company. There has also been some use of US English within their writing and to me it doesn't read like the writing of a native English speaker. I would personally not use this company. Looks Pakistani or Ukrainian one. Same live chat widget like on related non-UK based websites. Just because they have a .co.uk web address doesn't mean they are from the UK (anybody can register a similar name and Eastern-European services are masters at deception - remember that).

Well many companies actually pay their writers as little as 10% - Oxbridge Essays for example only pay this which is shocking considering the amount they charge clients in the first place. There is only one i know who pays 33% (All Answers/Academic Knowledge) and I pay 33% plus 4% Right First Time Bonus at Critical Proof on each order.

But we have VAT, accountancy plus all other running costs including advertising which is definitely not cheap. On the face of it, it can sound as if the companies are ripping off the writers but the better ones really are not, they are just trying to make a living.

I would say private writers should be looking at around £13 per 250-word page, so that would be about $20.

Be good to hear your feedback Richard.

Companies have bigger overheads.

you can contact my company.

Well companies have a lot more tax burdens for a start. For instance, in the UK as well as paying income tax and NIC, there is also Employers NIC to pay. In addition to that there is Corporation Tax and VAT. VAT alone is one fifth of the price of the order. There are also a lot more legal implications, costs of setting up websites, advertising etc. Freelance writers just seem to chat on forums like this therefore free advertising.

Absolutely agree. you cant even get references from happy clients, except anonymously like I have on this site, because of the nature of things. Its definitely very lucrative and as long as you are prepared to ride the seasonal fluctuations you can make a good living. and yes repeat customers are extremely important which is why good companies and private writers will always do their very best to ensure the client is happy.

I dont agree with this. Whilst this may be true of a substantial portion of customers, my best clients all say the immortal words "I dont care about the money I just want it done properly." Which leads me to believe it is quality and not quantity which clients most aspire to.

And I make every effort to ensure that all my customers are satisfied with the outcome. I remember one particular instance in which the client was not happy with one of my editor's work, and my editor would also not budge, so I got an independent opinion from a third party and agreed to abide by it. It was not my area of expertise so was not able to make a judgement myself - the client had ordered an MA Distinction. The 3rd party thought it was only worthy of a Merit so I refunded the client in full as it was an editing job. Sorry gone off topic a bit.

Had a great day. Had repeat orders from very happy customers and also a wonderful phone call from a client who thanked me for helping them so much with their work, they got their results today for year 2 UG. It can actually be quite rewarding this work, in ways other than monetary.

Absolutely there is always someone out there cheaper but definitely their work will not be better.