I've been writing academic papers for a year or two. I do mostly on my own, but did sign up with My.WritersDepartment.com. The pay sucked, but they had tons of orders that I could pound out quickly when I needed money and my own orders were slow. I worked with them for about 6 months without any issue.

I had a couple of hundred dollars ready for payout; I requested my payment and it never came. I contacted them, they said it was a mistake and would be processed right away. 24 hours later, there still wasn't any payment, so I contacted them again. They told me that the previous conversation I had had with customer service never happened and that I was making it up. They then said they don't want to work with writers with questionable integrity. Of course, I still haven't gotten the money owed to me.

Lucky for me, I wasn't relying on this money to pay bills, but still--I earned that cash. Stay far, far away--these guys are crooks. I should have known better.