Best sites to sell example essays?

I'm a first year university student looking to generate a bit of income by selling my essays online. While I'm not by any means a brilliant writer, I managed to achieve a few D/HD essays in my first semester. What I'm unsure about is the most profitable avenue to take.

I've narrowed it down to two options:

1. Sell my essays outright to sites such as GradeSaver and MyEssays. But some of essay sale services are foreign companies so I don't want to give them my personal information?

After graduating high school I sold about a dozen essays using this method, for about $15-20 a piece. Though I realise that the hours I spent crafting my essays were a sunk cost, I can't help but feel bitter about selling my work for such a pittance.

My biggest concern is the submission review process; what's to stop companies from stealing my work? I've had this happen in the past, so any recommendations of high-paying, trustworthy sites would be greatly appreciated. :)

2. 'Pay per use' sites like Academon

While I don't expect people to be clamouring after my work given the sheer number of papers on these sites, I like the idea of generating something closer to passive income. It'd be nice to see a few extra dollars in my bank account every once in a while, even if it's highly irregular.

I was also wondering about what repercussions, if any, I might face if several people are found to have plagiarised my essay.
My uni uses Turnitin software and while I highly doubt any action will be taken against me, I still wonder whether I'm complicit in aiding academic fraudsters by putting my essay online for research purposes. Am I acting in bad faith, knowing that there are people stupid enough to try and pass off work from essay databases as their own? I'm not responsible for the actions of others, yet I've always refused offers to write international students model essays on ethical grounds. It's getting harder to know where to draw the line.

Unless there is some sort of enforceable "contract" with your university, whereby you were unwittingly forced into a work-for-hire relationship by way of simply being a student at the institution, then you have 100% freedom to do with your work as you wish. However, I would check on that "unless" part.

Thanks for the quick reply! Yeah, I think I should be good. The only relevant policy that I'm bound by is the Academic Dishonesty and Plagiarism one and what I plan to do doesn't constitute a breach. I'm not soliciting the services of anyone, nor am I exceeding the limits of legitimate cooperation between students.

The problem with selling pre-written essays is that hardly anyone buys them anymore. Before turnitin.com, there was a fairly lucrative market for it, but you'll be lucky to sell 1 or 2 a year nowadays. No one wants to buy an essay that's been used by a bunch of other people, because the likelihood is good that one of those people's universities added the essay to the turnitin.com database. It sucks, but that's the way it is.

That does suck. Still, it can't hurt to put my essays on Academon and see if anyone bites. I'll probably advertise on campus, in conjunction with that.

I still think there is a market, albeit a smaller one, for genuine students looking to improve their own work by looking at exemplar, pre-written essays. Seeing how a paper is structured can be really useful in taking it from say, a 90 to a 95. That's certainly what I did in secondary school. Granted, I never paid for any papers so it might just be wishful thinking.

As for Turnitin, I find its business practices highly questionable. The way it's structured is not only anti-competitive, but potentially copyright infringing.

I have never, to my recollection, consented to having a copy of my work stored in Turnitin's database when submitting my assignments. I might be missing something here, but doesn't this constitute a violation of my intellectual property rights? To add insult to injury, I have effectively added value to their company for free while devaluing my own work in the process. I'm just surprised that there hasn't been any high-profile legal action taken against this company yet.

Yes, it does amount to copyright infringement, but so far there have been no successful suits against turnitin.com. I still think that with the right expensive lawyer, one or more of the essay industry's more well-heeled operators could probably change that.

As for what you think, let me tell you from experience that I uploaded enough papers onto Academon over the years. I don't mess with it anymore. It was a pretty good gig for a while, and then the sales dropped off a cliff. My account was good for a few thou a year, but over the last two years, I've made under $100 from it. You'll find out for yourself, maybe, but take some advice, and don't beat your head against a brick wall. If you want to get into this industry, write custom research. It's all anyone wants anymore.

Unless you have become an independent but company attached academic writer, then there is no reason that you cannot resell your papers online. The only reason you cannot sell your academic paper to other sources is if you are attached to a company because they have a clause in the terms of use that turns over all rights and privileges to the paper that you wrote to the person who hired you to do the work. I think a similar clause exists in the agreement between an independent writer and the client as well. Since you are a student who is out to market his own paper, then you should not have any problems selling it as a model paper through other avenues. I think that reselling your papers isn't as good an idea as it was before anymore though. Just as @editor75 said, that well dried up long ago. These days, you need to write original content for the students already. However, you can still use your original work as your personal model for any related topics that you might be assigned to. It can help to refresh your memory if need be.

Actually, the opposite is currently happening. I have had some requests for the purchase of pre-written papers by students who have ended up in the blended learning crowd. The reason they want to purchase pre-written essays? They want to write the paper themselves, but not have to do the research or any other legwork for it. So the pre-written paper market just may see a revival of sorts these days. I tell you, Covid 19 has really shaken the academic and writing institutions. We are all still trying to figure out how to best do business these days. Which is why some old school business models seem to be emerging from oblivion. At the moment, whatever works is best. As long as it brings in an income. So go ahead and try to sell those old essays. It might be of financial help to you somehow.

Students no longer have a need to purchase sample essays. They already have AI to produce those sample papers for them. Whether the information is useful or not, they at least got their free sample paper. AI has done so much already in terms of disrupting our academic assistance business that I am beginning to wonder how much longer we humans will be able to keep this up. How soon before we throw in the towel and let AI take over, which seems to be what the students want?

In my recent experience, it's only students who haven't actually tried using AI for their essays who think that AI is a better option than using a good human writer. Some of my clients tried AI and then showed me their results when they came back to me, either to redo those projects or for their subsequent projects, the exact same way that some students find their way to me only after having first received their projects from other essay companies and/or writers and sometimes show me what they got from those providers. More often than not, that happens with fairly large (30-pg+) projects, probably because keeping their cost per page down is more important to them on longer projects. Unfortunately, that also means they've already wasted a lot of money on useless work from cheaper but less qualified -- or totally unqualified -- providers by the time they end up ordering the exact same project from me to do correctly, sometimes, at a higher price than my original quote, because it ends up being a much shorter rush deadline.