What to do if an ordered paper is not paid? (besides publishing the content)

Apart from publishing the content, whatelse can be done if you are not paid for academic research papers, written as a freelancer?

Gungun

Assuming you wrote the research paper properly according to the client's order, and assuming it met the standard, was not plagiarised and was on time, you can make a claim against the company perhaps.

But you would have to be able to prove you did good work to the promised standard - if your work was sub-standard, then you have no case, because the company probably had to give the student a refund or pay another writer to do the research paper again.

IMHO, and in most cases, the fault lies with the writer in these cases, assuming the company you wrote for is not a scam site. Also, you should be very careful regarding the law: if you badmouth a company that was fair in not paying you, then you could be sued by them, and they could claim damages.

BUT, experience tells me that people do come on this forum who have rather inflated sense of the quality of their writing. If you did poor work that did not meet the brief, then you do not deserve payment. Simple.

In most cases, it's best just to move on. And also it's best to take a good hard look at how good you are as a writer too.

You mentioned an alternative option of publishing the paper - it may work provided your contract with the company allows you to do that.

You are one of the worst "writers" to ever disgrace this board.

Aren't you late for that not eating contest in Sydney?

WritersBeware the ********* loonie is back ranting again...

So funny. You lose every single argument and make such a fool of yourself. You have proven yourself to be barely literate - and your English is atrocious! No wonder you attempt to write for cheapo shabby sites - no quality site would offer you any work, moron!

Aren't you late for your lobotomy appointment, mental woman?

I've never been to Sydney, so I'm afraid your sad paranoid delusions seem to be starting again.

NURSE! Injection needed for retarded loonie runt! make it a LARGE one!

Now, that's what I call humour!

Little things amuse little brains...

I see no humour at all in some dumb lie comment from a retarded scammer from ********* called WriterBeware.

But then, the angry nasty little witch is a trailer trash American moron, and so-called comedy from the USA is almost always deeply unfunny and unamusing. No intelligence at all in US comedy. Just basic primitive puerile infantile ranting -

HEY that's YOU WritersBeware? YOU ARE A CLOWN AFTER ALL!!!

Personally I am constantly amused by the fact that a moron like WRT keep licking WritersBeware's big fat stinkhole and that I have exposed these liars on here for all to see.

Aren't you late for your appointment with your therapist LOONIE WRT?

Now SHOO, VERMIN!

Why would any serious freelancer write a paper and deliver it to the client before receiving payment? Except you're dealing with an old and trustworthy client, it is a risky thing to do.

As I see it, the only way to get back at the defaulting client, if they are anonymous, is to publish the content. However, if one knows a client's real identity and institution, it is relatively easier to 'persuade' them to pay up.

I think you mean, "unless." You should study some English before you start trying to talk shop, because you look foolish.

Are we taking English lessons here??

You sure as heck need more than a few.

AcademicExpert, are you lost and looking for directions? Don't worry, there are Berlitz franchises in over 200 countries.

I don't need no promo because haters like Editor75 do it for me...

You need all the help you can get... but you won't get it unless you have the skills you need.

I dare you to put the best paper you have ever written here in this forum. I will put the worst i have ever written too and let the writers/students community evaluate our skills. I am damn sure you will never show your face around this place again.

You first, ace.

Since you the expert, you go first dude... If you sure that you work is excellent, why back off???? You always place yourself as competent writer, so dude you go first...

Generally, unlike you, I'm used to people paying me for my words, and I also understand how copyright works. Do you know what posting an order on this board equates to? It's comparable to adding the work to a plagiarism-scanner. You're the one who offered the challenge; you are obviously a fraud who hopes to drum up some business here among people looking for info on scam companies. So go ahead and post one of your masterpieces, as you obviously don't care about your clients, if your goal is to compromise them so openly. Anyway, I doubt you even have any clients, and I don't believe you can afford to take the English lessons you're going to need to get some.

AE101's abilities may be a bit higher than you think. ;-)

I can't wait.

As a writer you should always be writing, not necessarily for customers, but for yourself. I think you only write to get paid, but I write for passion. I have several essays and articles, which I use as samples due to copyrights and client's confidentiality dude. If you present samples of papers you have already been paid for, then you are as fake as you sound.

It seems I can change your tune. Maybe you'll listen, then:

"I write for passion--" funny, but not quite English. Maybe you needed that definite article? Or maybe you meant, "I write for the fun of it."

As I am an ESL teacher in addition to researcher and (yes) published author, I know that the awkward misuse of words like "passion" and "dude" can be all too common. I see a lot of this kind of mistake among those students who may have a bare clue about the language, but who have no corresponding clue about the idiom.

I generally take your butchery of the standard US/UK English idiom on this message board to be applicable to your style of essay-writing. You may take my generally faultless English, even as it exists in the casual format of message board posts, to be equally indicative. As far as I am concerned, there's no need to extend the point further, in spite of your emotional need for a pi-contest in which you can cut-and-paste freely.

Have a nice day.

Firstly before giving any order you personally approach to your writer, discuss all order details and make a deal for your order. If he is not giving the order in time then talk to them properly about what is the problem that they are not giving the payment of order in time. Wait until they are not giving any response then again talk to them and warn them that you will take strict action against them if clients are not giving you payment in time.

It depends upon whether or not you submitted the paper to the client. If you submitted the paper then your opportunities to strike back are limited. If you did not submit the paper due to non-payment, then there is nothing stopping you from making money off the hard work that you put into the paper. You can opt to sell the paper to a different client who is using the same topic (provided your sources are acceptable and still relevant at the time) or, you can submit it to those sites that pay for pre-submitted work such as AcaDemon, although that company isn't solely focused on selling pre-written term papers anymore. You can also use it as a reference point for another paper which might have similar content. You can always revise it to suit the focused needs of the new client. However, in cases wherein you submitted the paper and did not get paid, then short of publishing the content, there isn't much that you can do. Not even blackmailing the student will work to your benefit because your claims will fall upon deaf ears and blow your cover as an independent academic writer. Personally, I would just let the case go in this instance. There are always other clients to make up the lost income anyway.

Just notify the client that you're going to post the essay as a free essay in the appropriate section of this forum and that any plagiarism scan will lead right here, leaving the professor with no doubt about the essay's actual authorship. By far, the best approach is simply never start work on any project (much less deliver it) before it's paid in full. Here's just one very recent example of why that's the case:

Just last week, I did two very difficult identical OSCOLA-style UK Law projects (different choice of topic question for two friends). Both requested paid revisions for me to make changes to incorporate their after-the-fact editorial requests and I delivered both revisions after payment. Then, one of them requested another revision to cut it down from 3,500 words to < 3,300 words, with too little time before his submission deadline for me to explain that cutting it down is another paid edit because his original instructions never specified that the 3,000-word project had any hard maximum word count. (We'd also had email exchanges in the interim in which I'd specifically referred to a 3,500-word maximum because that's what his friend had indicated and the two projects were identical except for choice of topic.) Even though it wasn't an owed fix, I tried to do the right thing for him and just went ahead and cut it down immediately and turned around that second revision in time for him to make his deadline and I explained in the email with the final file why it would have to be a charged fix because he'd wasted my time unnecessarily by not indicating any hard maximum word count in his specs or in response to my email referencing a 3,500-word maximum length, and I asked him to submit that nominal payment after the fact. Had I just responded with the explanation about why it would have to be a paid fix and waited for payment before doing it for him, he'd have missed his deadline.

Take a wild guess whether or not he ever responded or issued that payment after receiving his rush edit in time for his deadline.

And then we get a smart fellow every now and again who claims that we're basically thieves for charging up front. I imagine the payment rate for writers who charge after delivery is somewhere in the low 20%, if not less.

Why did you agree to work on the paper without any money upfront in the first place? It is not a good business practice to work on something to completion then hope to be paid for it. You should have asked for the money either prior to starting the work or before you submitted the paper to the client. Heck, even a 50% down payment would have been to your benefit in this instance. Your business sense is questionable. I hope you learned your lesson.

As for what you can do to get even other than publishing the content, you are out of luck. Even if plagiarism checkers lead back to EF, the student can always come up with some sort of defense since the university or the professor will not bother to check with the writer claiming to have worked on the paper for authenticity. It is up to the writer to prove that the student is submitting work that was completed by someone else.

Most new writers ( I am assuming the OP was one of those) often fall into this trap. In my time as a writer and company owner, I have come to realize that there will always be some students who will try to fleece a free paper out of me or my writers. What I do is, I inform the other writing companies and independent writers within my network about the student. I warn them not to deal with a student who uses the following information because the student is running a scam on the company and/or the writer/s. As for the payment, I write it off as a loss for myself, my writer , or my company. There are very little things you can do short of reporting the student to the university with evidence of the plagiarism, which is a long and tedious process that isn't good for anybody. It will not get you the money back.

Some writers try to blackmail the student into paying for the paper, which is just as bad, if not worse than not paying for the paper. That has been the go to method of some dishonest writers. Others, will just consider it a learning experience. I would pursue all legal means of collecting on the debt. I would send collection letters, upscale that to a lawyer for collection purposes, then finally, use a collecting agency (budget providing). When all else fails, I would post the name of the person at forums such as these to warn the other writers not to deal with this person.

Unless you and the client happen to live in the same jurisdiction, there's no realistic scenario that involves court systems. Likewise, very few projects are big enough to make it worthwhile to retain a lawyer, because a single hour of almost any lawyer's time probably costs more than the vast majority of writing projects; the same goes for the time and cost of making several round trips to court, even relatively nearby. Your best bet, therefore, is simply to follow my advice earlier in this thread about never doing any work unless or until it's already paid for in full, because chasing after clients over unpaid projects is almost never worthwhile.