AcademicExperts.us/UVOCorp Payment Discrepancy (writer's experience)

Hi guys,

I'm an American who is proud to say he's been writing for AcademicExperts.us/UVOCorp for about three years now (on and off). It has been my pleasure writing for them, and they have never let me down. They've always struck me as quite professional and ethical, or at least as much as you can expect for a gray market industry.

However, I've just recently noticed an unnerving discrepancy in my list of completed orders and my financial overview. I'm hoping people here can maybe shed some light on it.

There was this one order I had in the middle of September. A high school history research paper about a noet scrap left by Lincoln, the founding principles of the United States, the Constitution, et cetera. I put a great deal of time+effort into this paper, and was quite satisfied with the quality even though it was on the lower end of the pay grade for me ($59 for 8 pages).

Long story short, this quickly turned into a nightmare order. A few days later, the customer orders a revision. They had shown it to their professor, who basically told them that everything's wrong and that the collocation of the words "pensive" and "reverie" showed up in a plagiarism report. The revision request was inane and incomprehensible.

It was obvious to me that the professor simply didn't believe that they wrote it. Not my problem, I thought, however I volunteered to accept their re-write request anyway. I wrote them another 8 page paper, hitting and exceeding all their revision criteria, and trying to tailor it more to the realistic expectations of their high school teacher, but without actively trying to make it totally inane and incomprehensible. Very, very ESL. I spend six hours doing this, and am again satisfied that I met all the criteria of their instructions.

A few days later I got another revision request. Actually, it wasn't a revision request through the UVOCorp system, but rather a message from the customer. It was in especially brief and broken, so I disregarded it. Maybe a day later I get more messages, very angry, very ESL, and kinda cynical. Long story short, there's some drama, and I confer with the UVOCorp people behind the curtain, and it fizzles out. Anyway, an understanding is reached between the UVOCorp people and I that I had met and exceeded my duties and that the customer was a bad egg. Towards the end of it (although maybe after UVOCorp cut them off) I even offer to revise the paper again (though on a very limited basis). After all, the pattern was clear: Their fickle revisions were the result of an instructor who was in utter disbelief, and would continue to send them away until they wrote the goddamn paper themselves. I wrote them two top-notch papers for the price of one, meeting all their criteria even when they changed it. (To illustrate just how fickle and inane their criteria was, for the first revision they had me remove all the quotes and citations completely, and for the second revision they wanted the citations put back in. In fact, I think I did put the citations back in, now that I remember it; there were several revisions within the course of two papers.)

Anyway, after this appeared to be all settled and done, the paper ended up sitting in limbo for over two weeks as "done/delivered", but still "current" instead of sifting over to my Financial Overview page as it should have within a few days of completion. I mentioned this to the Support Department in passing a couple times, eventually writing to the Payment Department a few days ago. No reply.

At this point I took screenshots of all relevant parts of my UVOCorp account. As of today, the order has disappeared completely. (Although I can still find it if I search for the order #.) it has not been factored into my financial balance.

I'm not sure if there's some latency between an order losing its "current" status and it being computed into one's finances, but to be honest I'm rather anxious about this. I currently have $830.55 owed to me in the Financial Overview, with another ~$250 in the pipeline. The next payment period is the third week of October.

If anyone, or a UVOCorp representative, has any answers for me, it would be greatly appreciated. Again, I've always seen no reason to distrust UVOCorp and am proud to work for them, but in light of their unresponsiveness on the matter, I am worried that I'm working for the wrong company.

All the best,
Bob

There are UVO spammers on this site like white on rice, but I think a lot of them are too shell-shocked by now to make nonsensical, bureaucratic excuses in the open. We'll see, though.

I wrote for these people years and years ago. They are giving you the treatment. If you want my advice, don't lie down. Stick to your guns. And in the end, you may find that you can do a lot better elsewhere.

Thanks for the response.

Yeah, I mean, I'm all about sticking to my guns, but if my account gets 'disappeared' along with some $1200 dollars, not only did I waste the last month of my life slaving away but I'll also be down to my last pennies in a foreign country (Nepal).

That said, again, I've generally been proud to write for UVOCorp, especially as Ukraine is a nation that I greatly admire and even spent a month in this past spring. I know some of their business operations are kind of entrepreneurial/shoddy, but that's part for the course IMO.

What's more, there's a recent notice on the website announcing that payments will be delayed by ~5 days during the upcoming payment period...

Where is CyberMediaBoy, or whatever the current handle is?

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In another thread someone mentions that CyberMediaBoy is the "owner" of UVOCorp/AcademicExperts.us, et cetera. This is true, that you or anyone else knows of?

It's fascinating to peer into this vast, vaguely intimate subculture of down-and-out academic freelancers and morally bankrupt 'university paper' syndicates... And hordes of incomprehensible Africans and South Asians who spend hours hunched over a keyboard in cybercafes, or probably NGO learning centers or some ****, typing away in broken English for a few bucks.

Update: They got back to me and apparently the $59 was processed in the previous pay cycle. I checked and there it was. I still don't understand why the order hadn't filtered over from the Current to Completed tab if I'd been compensated for it. I won't be bothered to go in and make sure it adds; my skepticism is satisfied enough that I no longer feel the need to worry that I have been ripped off and might again be ripped off in the future. UVOCorp can be brutal, but as long as I know how the game works, I'm good with that.

Whew.

Please refer all further question to writer services department.

Bob can you please get in touch with me please

UVOCorp is a scam that runs a slave roster of writers. The OP is a plant. He is not a writer for the company. I have had writers from UVOCorp and its affiliate sites apply for full-time positions with me. During our interviews, they tell me what company they first came from and why they are leaving. They normally refer to the 6 month delay in salaries paid out by the company as the main reason for their move. They do good work and do their best for the clients. However, the company does not value them. Instead, they delay the release of the salary (usually with penalties) by at least 3 months so that the writer is always "on hold" and working "for future salary release", which is a policy I never agreed with. When I started my company, I made sure that the writers would always be paid a current salary during the active month. Every 15th and 30th. UVOCorp? You never know if and when you will get paid.

Beware of UVOCorp as the international owner sold the company, or perhaps decided to register the company, in the Philippines. Their writers are, from what I have heard, already local based and have an office somewhere in the first class area of the capital. They try to come across as a legitimate company employing "researchers" without givign away what they actually do. Not that a country like the Philippines would ever question what business they are in and who is running it. Did you guys hear about the POGO scandal that rocked that country? Seeing that, I can understand why fraudulent essay writing companies would want to register their business there.