Since when writing is "a product"? Who should be the judge if the writing SERVICE (not product) is inferior? Writing is art like painting, not a product.

If foreign-based companies were smart they would change their marketing agenda and announce:

"Look, we are not physically based in the US, but we hire the same freelance writers American sites do. We charge less and our profit margin is less, but that is still enough for us since living abroad is cheaper than in the US. We use the same secure card processing companies that American sites do. You can call us at anytime at our Ukrainian phone number: XXX xxx XXX."

After that, WB, you will be sorry because your "American website" will have less and less clients. Why? Because clients first look at the price (other things being equal).

Much worse - they get people's votes based on their speeches.


Of course they are. Do essay service representative appear at school for the student with a fake ID and take exams for them? I think not. What you do with a knife you bought in your local store is your business (and your problem if you try to do something illegal with it). Just because you bought a knife or a term paper does not make it illegal (and never will because that would make no sense and knife manufacturers should be worried then too).

Presidents (including the US president) don't write their own speeches or other documents but 99.9% people think the president wrote that speech (it's also called "presidential speech"). Should they put him on trial too, I guess some would think so.

Is homework help legal? Why focus on term papers since if anything, any tutoring or homework help services do the same and more?

I think the biggest problem in this industry is that one entity (one or two persons) hold the majority of the market. I mean that a group of two or three people (that call themselves 'a company') have dozens or even hundreds websites! They have different web addresses and different designs and the purpose is to flood search engines under different keywords. They do not reveal that they have hundreds of websites, of course.

A customer thinks that these websites have different business owners, but in fact these are run by the same people! In fact, every 3rd essay writing website is run by the same person! If you search on Google and find 10 websites writing essays, there are very big chances that 3 of these websites belong to the same company!

In result, if the owner happens to be a fraud then 30% of the market is prone to fraudulent activities too. Then we see posts like "websiteA.com scammed me", then "websiteB.com is a fraud" - but the customers do not realize that "websiteA.com" and "websiteB.com" are run by the same person! Consequently, the general idea is that most websites are frauds.

So if it's possible to truly uproot one fraud then 30% of the industry could be cleaned overnight.

But then, again, fighting on the forum only gives wrong ideas about the industry as the whole and it should be avoided because it is not going to bring any positive results.

Any more opinions on that?

They may not always provide the same service, BUT they charge less! There is a market for everybody - some people can afford to buy a Lexus, others buy Fords. That's how the business goes everywhere - you can buy a pair of 'no-name' shoes for $10, but you could also buy a pair of Nike for $50.

But it doesn't mean that people working for Nike would picket all day by the store that sells 'no-name' shoes and call the store manager names just because they "dare" to sell cheaper and less quality shoes that would still serve their purpose for many users.