Should I bother with Academon?

I've got a pile of old papers just sitting around collecting dust. Do I really stand to make any money uploading them to Academon? I think they're pretty good, though some of the older ones could certainly use brushing up. On the other hand, that site looks like it's probably overflowing with all sorts of essays on similar topics.

Sorry if this question breaks the rules. I'm new here and not quite used to it yet.

it's not much, unless you upload 1000s of papers. but even a drop in the bucket is okay... the bucket will eventually fill up, even if it takes years. why not?

Yeah, I guess he should settle for your best, hah? LOSER . . . .

you don't know anything about me, lunatic. get on topic.

I know the following FACTS about you, Rusty:

* you lost employment with multiple companies;
* you are a criminal (by your own admission);
* what you make per month from Academon is downright pathetic;
* you're a woefully unqualified "teacher";
* you're clueless to the point of comedic relief;
* you create new usernames when you can't take the heat;
* you're inferior to me in all aspects of writing.

I'm sure that there are facts about your incompetence and devious background that I'm omitting; the ones that I listed above are simply off the top of my head.

I guess that answered my question, so thanks. It's not like I was expecting a whole lot out of that site anyway, so even if I don't make that much off of posting my essays, it's not really a big deal.

The point that I am making is to not let Rusty discourage you. Don't let his low, personal expectations affect your effort and outcome.

haha. from one thread to another, saddo, you have failed to prove any of the above. do you know what a fact is? it may be time to add your own definition to dictionary.com.

* I blew up at AR after they stared fining me, and they fired me. I'm okay with that. what other companies? WRT's paranoid fantasy does not count.

* Everything I did at that company was perfectly legal.
* My academon account brings in about a hundred bucks a month, true... and it's been doing so for over ten years, despite your 3-year-old, phony crusade to have it closed.

* I have been teaching for over fifteen years, and I've gotten nothing but compliments and promotions... not that you'd know.
* I'm not the one casting ridiculous aspersions.
* I would have kept the old name, if I had been able.
* This accusation of inferiority displays nothing but your own insecurity.


WBS, suddenly a beacon of encouragement and positive thinking... that's some rapid cycling. perhaps someone should adjust your dosage.

I posted the proof long ago, a-hat. Pretending that it doesn't exist makes you quite pathetic. Tell me-why did you try to set me up for a legal fall when you created the "editor75" username? You were foaming at the mouth after you ignorantly thought that you had something on me. Remember when you stated (probably not, considering how you have so obviously confused yourself with your own lies) something about how I "ruined your family" because I "got you fired"? Gee, I bet you forgot about that rant, didn't ya? I haven't. I remember it quite clearly. Why would you set up a second username, pretend to be someone else in order to entrap me, and claim that I got you fired if-as you NOW conveniently claim-I had nothing to do with you getting fired because it was due to an "argument" you had with AR management? Good luck explaining your way out of this one, Rusty.


Ah, so you want to claim that you never openly admitted to operating a complete scam through which people paid and you provided no service? Think twice before you answer.


You see, Rusty, the problem here is that you and I belong to very different socioeconomic classes. To you, $100 per month seems like quite an accomplishment. To me, $100 per month is the chump change that I pay to each one of my 4 gardeners. As for attempting to close your account, it's literally not worth my time. I'd RATHER have you pathetically admitting to bringing in peanuts than blaming me for shutting down your account. LMAO!


That you've been "teaching" for 10 years is a blight on our educational system. (Hey, why don't you remind me again about the plural possessive of "sheep"?)


You're the court jester. I've proven you clueless so many times that it's damn near impossible to keep track.


If you had been "able," you would have kept using "rustyironchains"? Really? So you were forced to abandon the "rustyironchains" username and create "editor75" within 48 hours after getting fired and rightfully blacklisted by multiple companies? You were forced to lie about your ties to the industry, intentions here, previous involvement here, and so on? You were forced to pretend to be "someone else" in a feeble attempt to "set me up"? Right.


So, your position is that you are a more polished, skilled writer than I am? Buddy, you can't even punctuate properly.


It's so very funny and predictable how you throw up your ass-backwards, "psychology shield" every time someone smashes you in a debate. You pull the same, cowardly garbage with pheelyks all the time. It's pathetic, and speaks volumes about your tangible inferiority as a man.

delusions of grandeur much? I created that name when the mod blocked my old one. it had nothing to do with you.

admittedly, I was briefly paranoid that you and WRT had something to do with AR letting me go... before I wised up and realized that you are a toothless wonder-loon, and you + WRT have about as much power to affect my quotidian reality as a bag of fart.


ah, the wonders of legal loopholes. but you know about that already, don't you? caveats, etc. oh wait, you think that students accurately cite essay mills' products in their bibliographies, don't you?


lol... you sound like new-money trash. all the gardeners in the world aren't going to cover up your shanty-Irish roots, "toots."


it's put up or shut up time. what companies? and what name are they using to blacklist me... my SN? keep digging, jenius.

Thanks for playing, ya fraudster.


Make up your mind, you fu**-n idiot. Get your story straight. If AR fired you because of an argument, you NEVER would have accused me of getting you fired and you NEVER would have lied about being someone else in an extended, feeble attempt to get me to acknowledge that I got you fired.

YOU LOSE.

I'm not playing; I'm asking you questions about your hilariously off-base accusations. you've put up a goose egg so far. pretty soon, it's going to be time to exercise that second option.

You're a liar, criminal, impostor, and bottom-feeder.

Apparently, you have a comprehension problem:


If you knew that you got fired because you had an internal argument with management, why did you accuse me of getting you fired? Hmmmmmmmmm . . . .

I already answered your question.


know why I was paranoid? it's because you were claiming credit for something you had absolutely nothing to do with... as usual.

now it's your turn, ace. here are the questions again; pay attention. good luck, especially on the second one.

1. what companies, other than AR, do you think have fired me?

2. wtf do you mean, "blacklisted?" how can one be blacklisted as an anonymous SN?

That answer has absolutely NOTHING to do with my question. Once again, MORON:


Until you provide a valid answer to my question, which I posted BEFORE yours, you will continue to wait for my answers.

Again, please get your lies straight.

nice try, squirmy. I know you can't answer my questions, and I've already answered yours.

have fun fooling others into thinking you matter.

Yes, I can, and I gladly will. All you have to do is give a legit answer to my question. Address your blatant contradiction.

in case you haven't noticed, ninny, life is full of contradictions. I got in an argument with AR admin, after which I got fired. I briefly entertained the notion that you or WRT may have been behind the scenes. you encouraged this belief, because you're a liar, and you enjoy taking credit for, and reveling in, the misfortune of others. later, I realized my mistake.

now, since you're busy trying to squirm out of answering my questions, why don't I just do it for you?

1. I haven't been fired by any essay mill except AR.

2. notice about RustyIronChains posts maybe you consider this piece of comedy a "blacklist." there's something important that it's missing, though: my name. derrr...

So, you're claiming that you thought WRT and I were at the AR agent's office, coaching him/her on what to say/type during your real-time argument? Really? That's your explanation? Wow. Good job!

Yes, you were blacklisted by UVO Corp and other companies. As for your name, I'm quite certain that it was never publicly published in order to protect WRT and her lawyers from a frivolous libel complaint by you. One can't sue on behalf of an anonymous username, moron. Thank you for putting your painful ignorance on display yet again.

no, this is just your strange, off-the-deep-end interpretation of what I stated. by, "behind the scenes" I meant, "exerting some kind of insider pressure on AR admin." it was totally stupid of me to think either of you two clowns capable of such effective tinkering, as I've made clear elsewhere.

so... again... how is this a "blacklist" if it doesn't have my name on it? and how did I manage to work for AR for quite some time after that UVOCorp post? you need to watch your language.

Yawn. More of the same bulls-i* . . . . You're worse than a broken record.


F!*K you. Are you going to do something about it?

you mad again bro?

to be more clear:



I could care less about your tendency to turn into a foul-mouthed brat when your house of cards falls. I just don't like you misusing the English language.

Wow, you sure are a moron of the highest order. Seriously, can you not understand the most simple statements? AGAIN:

If you'd like more details, you'll have to ask WRT and her attorneys.

how WRT chooses to waste her money is none of my business... yours is defending your word choice.

how is it a blacklist if my name's not on it?

this is your last chance to pull off an answer, saddo. happy scrambling.

I've made more than spam selling my papers on AcaDemon.

Lolz. You have made "spam"?

No, I wouldn't bother with Academon.

My dollar amount (five figures) was deleted from my post.

ESL students and foreign students familiarizing themselves with the Western way of academics find Academon services helpful. The people who upload their essays for sale though, don't get much benefit from it. While they promised a 50% commission on every sale, they barely pay out 1% to the owner of the paper. It isn't clear why this has been happening but it has certainly dissuaded the potential sellers from uploading their papers at this point.

The used paper market is dead. No point uploading papers to a site that nobody uses.

Academon as a website is obviously dead. However, the used papers market is not. As I pointed out in a previous thread, there is a new niche market opening up for the academic writing companies. They are now reselling the old papers they have in their servers to students looking for "model papers" to use as templates or guides for their own writing on specific topics. That is the main reason that academic writing companies are not open to hiring new writers at the moment. What is the sense in doing that when the students would rather write the papers themselves using previously written work as its basis? The company wins, the writers lose. Definitely do not bother with Academon since the site is up, but not really doing anything other than being an anchor page for future use of its owner. If you are a student, look at writing companies that sell model papers. For independent writers who have papers dating at least 5 years back, look into selling those on your own to get your share of this emerging market.

Selling old essays was a major part of this industry, going all the way back to the pre-Internet era, until plagiarism scanners changed that, making pre-written essays worthless, starting in 2007. Today, plagiarism scanning is much more advanced than it was 15 years ago, in addition to being much more prevalent, with mandatory scanning common throughout academia. Why would that suddenly be changing, now?

They went out of business with the dinosaurs. When the market for pre-written essay sales dried up, they tried to change their business model several times and failed big-time each and every time. There was just no way to sustain their business since they were not run by business minded people. They were surviving based on an outdated business model that could not be revised to generate income for them once it came time to evolve the business. They would not have survived the onslaught of AI in essay writing anyway.

Turnitin was, essentially, the one thing that immediately made it possible for good writers to make a fulltime living writing academic essays, because it made pre-written essays worthless, almost overnight in 2007. Fifteen years later, ChatGPT killed off many essay companies and all but the very best and busiest freelance writers who had a sufficiently large regular client base to have sustained us while many students just needed to find out, firsthand, how bad and unreliable AI programs really are for academic essays.

It'd interesting to know why the pre-written market has "died." Not everything is published freely online.

Agreed. However the essays they were selling had a lifespan. The information was valid only for 5 years at the most, making it difficult to sell the older papers. As TurnItIn became more and more used by the schools, the pre written essays started to become a problem as universities began uploading essays to the system. Plagiarism became a real problem for the students, who thought it better to hire a writer to create a fresh essay instead. So the pre written essay market "died".

Prior to 2007, most customers of essay companies bought pre-written essays and far fewer chose to pay more for original custom-written essays. As soon as Turnitin and other plagiarism scanners became available and popular among professors, pre-written essays became almost worthless and business skyrocketed for original custom writing. I really don't think it had anything to do with how old the pre-written essays were, because students who purchased those essays, whether with the intention of submitting them for credit, or even just to learn how to write an essay wouldn't care that they were more than 5 years old. If they were planning on submitting them for credit, they wouldn't have had any reason to refrain from simply "changing" the dates on the sources or replacing them with newer sources; and students hoping to use them to learn how to write their own essays wouldn't have had the slightest concern about the dates on any sources, because that had nothing to do with whether or not those essays were models worth emulating in their own essays.

Good points. Regarding Academon, it was a very popular site back then.

I just checked the website of the essay company for which I did the most work from 2003-2013 before becoming completely independent; they still have 350 of my old essays listed for sale.