It is a shame in the case of that PhD student, I imagine that students who tutor/supervise probably do find that time is tight- it seems though that the university should also be monitoring this more closely through their Director of Studies/Co-ordinator. It does seem however that this must be a less common phenomena- the service I have written for mainly seems to put up undergraduate essays, some masters, and the odd revision aid.

I understood that you were saying it would affect the end result more than a normal term-time essay, I was just reasoning that while this was obviously dishonest there was only so far this could take them (if their abilities weren't up to later jobs or positions). On a lesser scale, the education system is full of inequalities, from funding to personal concerns, all altering to some degree the individual's ability to gain qualifications.

Firstly, it is not plagarism of my property, the work is copyrighted to the essay writing service, which is their purpose. It is dishonest, that's not really been in question anywhere on this website as far as I can see, the only comments made are why people basically feel that it's ok in their case. It's not for me to judge, I could work in any number of ways to make money and this seems a far more effective one than the minimum wage jobs I've done every holiday. If they get found out they'll obviously be in a bad situation, but it's not my judgement if their dishonesty is so wrong.

Secondly, 'fair play' and 'cheeky' were obviously used in a conversational style. Maybe that kind of work would help them more than the occasional essay, but what will come of it? People can advance themselves in all sorts of ways with money, if they are not up to the resulting jobs then they won't get far, and if they are intelligent enough but were too lazy at university then while the work was fraudulent it was not entirely misrepresentative of what their abilities might be. I fail to understand why people but the 'occasional essay', I suppose if missed deadlines will endanger their degree then it makes sense, but commissioning a 2:2 standard essay to be done in 6 days (which is what I did) seems hard to justify- that is ample time to produce a work of that standard, and if they are unable to produce the work for a valid reason then it should be valid enough to present to the university ie. family concerns, ill health etc. There are obviously exceptions that can be found, but I'm sure a lack of effort must feature.

And with respect to possible future jobs it seems very unlikely an aspiring academic would buy their work, and were they to, I doubt they'd find work at any credible university (I think I'm justified in my belief that the Cambridge supervisors and lecturers I have encountered did not buy their PhD's online, or if they did I hope they can also show me the sites where they will write you academic research, books and teach you how to appear to know the information).

It is fraud, and I would never do it, but I am in no position to judge anyone doing it, especially as they are paying me for a service.

I've not seen anyone else here who writes for these companies.
I have no idea if the people running this are trust-worthy or not, I'm in a similar position- I won't have lost any money but I will have wasted a lot of time on someone else's work instead of my own.

I'm a 2nd year Cambridge student, I've only written one essay for this kind of service (though I hope to write more). I worked very hard on it, I think it was better than the requested standard, but I haven't been paid yet so maybe I was scammed. Which is a shame, because I could do with £70 or so, whilst whoever commissioned it must have too much money kicking around. They only commissioned a 2;2 standard essay, they might as well have done it for themselves.

Why do people buy essays? Surely you can't alter them afterwards without reading the sources anyway, which if you planned to do you'd write it yourself. People buying masters and dissertations seem cheeky but I suppose fair play, for the money you spend you're probably very likely to make it back in whatever job you get as a result of the qualification. Though on some more fundamental point I wonder a bit why people want to go to university if they're content with coming away without the knowledge, they may well just fall on their arses in whatever job they get as a result- if you get employed on the basis you can produce top-standard written work quickly they'll need to learn fast or get very left behind.