I just joined essaywriters back in Jan 2010. While I haven't had issues with payment, I have issue with their practices and how they penalize and fine writers for order problems.

I found an order that I may have been able to do, but the compensation amount was listed at $0. The client was requesting essaywriters to pay from credits she had received for previous orders. I did not accept the order, but requested the compensation to be increased so that perhaps the client would get serviced. I don't know of any writer that would accept a $0 compensation order.

The client did not respond for 4 hours to the compensation request, by which it was the middle of the night (2:00 am). Because, I did not hear back immediately, I could not work the order and I did not accept the order into my queue.

Once the compensation request was a approved. Apparently, another writer requested a time extension on the order.

The next day I received a call asking if I could take the order. I said that no, because of other obligations I would not be able to complete the order in the client's time frame (approximately 2 hours from my phone call).

This evening when I checked essaywriters. I was informed via message that I received a $15 fine for missing the client deadline on this order that I never accepted and that I never requested an extension on.

Needless to say, on this site, apparently they can fine you for orders that you don't accept into your queue, merely by someone in their support office "assigning the order" to you without even asking you.

I have asked that they remove this fine since I never accepted the order in the first place and because it was the other writer who accepted the extension. I doubt they will reverse the fine and as of now I will not be writing for them.