LOCUS RAGS and associated sites like Cheap Assignments - not paying freelance writers

I was hired by LOCUS RAGS site (one of its associated site) and I was asked to provide help to the students on various topics.

I am shocked about the payments and dealings of this site. They are now creating a poor record of the payments to freelancers.

When asked about the payments, they will say that they are holding the payments as "Student failed"/

I was so shocked to hear this during the payment day. They could have told this before. what a coincidence !! what innovative ways they device to hold honest freelancer payments

When I asked them to provide me the number of the student are at least set up some platform where I can communicate directly with the student, I was not provided any phone number or even some way whereby even I could have a chat with the student who needed the assignment.

This shows that they are cheating.

I am Level 20 academic freelancer (Colt) at freelancer site and I have 100 of 5* ratings everywhere.

I am total shocked to get this behavior from a Locus Rags company.

I will advice the other freelancers to be aware of this and deal with them very carefully as at the end they may end up in eating always your heard earned money.

Incidentally this will definitely de-motivate you against doing good freelance writing work for students.

This made me smile at least. You mean, "They devise," "I will advise" and "hard-earned money," of course, and while it is unreasonable to link payment with the grade a student receives (it's virtually impossible to verify this), it is also unreasonable to expect any company to provide you with a client's phone number. The obvious mistakes above indicate that the problems you've experienced with this company may be based on factors other than those you cite.

Well if they cant provide phone numbers. certainly they can arrange a con call with the expert. I hope your brilliant mind will not deny this, does it?

I am not a grammar expert, rather a Programming expert and when we write a program, like exact science, we can test it -- whether it works or not. Unlike, English language, where one may debate about how artistically the language was written, in Java Language, we are more concerned about the functionality. If its functions are working correctly, no matter how horribly it is arranged, the program is rated to be correct,

Off late, assignment companies have mushroomed, and cheap and greedy people have opened thousands of sites. Fairly large perc cent of them are cheats and duping honest freelancers

Let me know if you need more examples.

Foreign companies like:

cheapassignmenthelp.com
ozassignmenthelp.com.au

and 10 others are falling under a group fashioned as Locus RAGS. At these sites you may find support@locusrags email contact

Why they need 10 sites? to fish the innocuous young chaps?
if one site gets many bad reviews, you still have other one?
Put your eggs in many baskets?

I completely agree that transparency in operations and open communications between essay companies, clients and writers are needed for a legitimate company, but your original post stated you were hired as a freelance writer to "provide help to the students on various topics" and there was no mention of Java programming (it may be that this is the focus of the Locus Rags site but I didn't bother to check). If a student failed because your code didn't work, that's an entirely different matter from a research paper that is graded subjectively. Not to put too sharp a point on this, but your original post made it clear that although you may be a stellar programmer, you are not a professional academic writer (at least in English) and all I'm saying is that your complaints about this company may be ill-founded.

Dear Professor Verb,

By Profession I am B.Tech (CS) and I am now working completely as FL writer. I have level 3 in UK and US English to prove my English proficiency. Whilst i dont say that I am a great English writer, rather an average one, but most of my publications received a fairly good rating. I apologize for failing to correct the grammar in my initial post which was written around midnight. This was due to grave shock I received from these guys. I am also concerned about the fellow FL community , who may fall victim to their machinations and hence this review.

There is no reason why the student would fail -- programs are working correctly, the project was prepared in 5 stages, at each stage the professor reviewed, and we progressed to next stage, and suddenly the student failed?

I have the reports as well as the program/projects with me. I have email communications.
What do you think would be the reason then?

I can challenge anybody and I am totally transparent.

I will post all the email communications and also the tapes of phone call as audio clips if someone wants.

You are clearly well meaning and you came to the right place to voice your concerns. I'm confident that some other freelance writers will benefit from your post.

While I agree with PV that your English is nowhere near good enough for the purposes of academic writing, I'd assume that if the company is actually reputable and you genuinely haven't been paid because the student failed, then they would likely have given you greater detail and potentially have asked you to re-do the work at no additional expense to them or the client. This is a red flag for me. Moreover, how long after the submission was the payment supposed to be paid? If it is just a few days, then I feel that it's unlikely that the student will have submitted their work and had it both marked and returned already. Another red flag if this is the case.

When I first joined this forum 5 or so years ago, I kept seeing references to "PV" and I wondered, "Who is this a%%hole and why don't they do something about him?" until I realized it was me...

The OP most certainly proves the reasoning of the company that refused to pay the salary. While I am sure that some ESL writers at that company can somehow provide acceptable work, this guy isn't one of them. I agree that the company should not have paid him and that it is really possible that the student failed, causing a refund, and a punishment for the writer. The writers should only be paid based on the satisfaction of the client. If there is actual evidence that the student failed, then this writer has no right to complain, or even post a written complaint at this forum. If I were his boss, I would fire him immediately.

It's ON this forum.

Secondly, this is NOT TRUE. You have to know when to support and defend your writers, even if it means you may have to eat a refund or two. Your policy leads to good writers quitting, hating you, etc.

Also, don't you know that it's illegal to promise grades in the US/UK, and unethical everywhere else?

This is just another sign that you're a con-artist trying to cozy up here and do some damage. You would have been thrown out of here weeks ago if this place made any sense.

Both website domain names are no longer active. The first one in the list is up for sale with no takers. The second one, just recently went offline because the domain name is still active but no longer capable of doing a handshake with the server. It cannot detect the anchor page for the site anymore. So it is safe to believe that both companies have released their writers, whom we hope have gone on to have better writing careers. Provided they were good academic writers in the first place.