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UK essays charge 3 times the amount they pay the writers


exwriter  3 | 250  
Jan 04, 2009 | #1
I was surfing the net recently looking for essay fraud sites and found the below link in which UK essays have posted essays which have been paid for using stolen credit cards.

ukessays/essay-fraud/

Having previously worked for the company I checked out the essays on there and discovered how much the customer had been charged for the work. As I had kept several of their emails which they had sent to me inviting me to bid on various projects to write I decided to see how much of the money charged went to the writer. I still have these emails so can irrefutable prove that an essay for which the customer was charged £300 was offered to writers for £100. In essence that means that the company get 3 x the amount the writer gets. How can they justify such a huge profit? I checked quite a few of the essays listed at the above link and on each one the amount charged to the customer was 3 x the amount the writer was going to get.

When you also take into account that writers are fined 300% if the customer complains that the work is not of the standard expected that means that if the person who wrote the essay for £100 was to be fined they would have to repay to the company the full £300 that they charged to the customer. This means that the company would retain at least £200 from the deal assuming that thet refund the customer in full. I very much doubt that the company ever give a full refund unless the work is so extremely poor that it could not be used by anyone so it is likely that some of the £300 would also be retained by UK essays. No wonder the owner can afford such flashy cars.
Major  35 | 1449 ☆☆  
Jan 04, 2009 | #2
Hm, but the real question is why would students pay 30-50% more for the same paper?

If they order from legitimate American companies they could pay 30-50% less.. especially that quite often the same writers work for both American and UK companies.
alice  1 | 61  
Jan 04, 2009 | #3
Marketing is King!
OxbridgeResearchers  5 | 722 ☆☆  
May 27, 2009 | #4
but the real question is why would students pay 30-50% more for the same paper?

On the off-chance that a member of the Royal Family would write it for them ...

Seriously though ... I thought that UKessays paid writers 40-50% of the total? A few REAL American companies pay 50%.
WritersBeware  
May 27, 2009 | #5
A few REAL American companies pay 50%.

That I can confirm. From what I've gathered, ET pays 55-60%. FreelanceWriter could probably confirm more precisely.
OxbridgeResearchers  5 | 722 ☆☆  
May 27, 2009 | #6
ET pays 55-60%.

They do treat their writers well, irrespective of claims to the contrary - and I am speaking on the basis of personal experience ...
OP exwriter  3 | 250  
May 27, 2009 | #7
Seriously though ... I thought that UKessays paid writers 40-50% of the total? A few REAL American companies pay 50%.

Thats what they would like you to believe, but from personal experience I can confirm that this is not the case. Writers get roughly a third of what the company charges the customer.
OxbridgeResearchers  5 | 722 ☆☆  
May 27, 2009 | #8
Writers get roughly a third of what the company charges the customer.

So, the writers do all the work, bring in the profits and ....
OP exwriter  3 | 250  
May 28, 2009 | #9
Are screwed over by the company. Added to that exorbitant fines etc for supposed complaints from customers and the company rub their hands with glee!

To them, for every writer that gets fed up and walks, there are several more waiting in line to replace them.
OxbridgeResearchers  5 | 722 ☆☆  
May 28, 2009 | #10
To them, for every writer that gets fed up and walks, there are several more waiting in line to replace them

Yes, but have you ever come across the work which these "academic and writing professionals" produce? Rampant plagiarism; superficial and nonsensical content; and rotten English ... Most of their writers are absolutely unqualified and, worse still, management is equally linguistically and academically unqualified. I am not disputing the fact that these companies have a handful of good writers but, generally speaking, the majority have absolutely no place in the industry.
Cite  2 | 1853 ☆☆☆  
May 31, 2021 | #11
there are several more waiting in line to replace them.

Until word gets around about how the company treats the writers and then... Yup. The applicants dry up too. The writers tend to net the companies they apply to these days, allowing them to better consider their options. Yes, there are writers whointerview the company ups prior to application nowadays. I guess the con works both ways now.
noted  8 | 2052 ☆☆☆☆☆  
Sep 29, 2021 | #12
Students are not normally s with the C P P the writer is paid. Neither do they actually care. They just look at the final order price and decide. They cannot be bothered with such relevant information. All they know and care about , is that someone is willing to be paid to do the work. They tend to believe that the full amount charged to them represents the writers salary in full. I can't flame them for misunderstanding. They don't recieve a payment breakdown as a part of their general format e-ecrept. What the OP found out in not out of the ordinary. It is actually an industry norm.
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