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Undergraduate students. The more urgent the order, the more my writers get paid. Average rate I pay is $11/double spaced page. I think that's quite reasonable for undergraduate level papers. For my American writers that translates to $13/double spaced page...the exchange rate has been quite bad recently. We don't do papers at the Masters or PhD level. I might change course in the future, and if I do I will of course have to pay my writers more. My main competitors pay their Masters level writers $15/double spaced page. I offer more than enough to be able to attract talented writers.

As far as qualifications, undergraduate degree from a reputable University with distinction (at least a 3.2 GPA).


There is absolutely nothing invasive about my style. In fact, I let my writers choose which papers to work on at their convenience. As long as it falls under their area of expertise, of course. Some of my writers get through 15-20 papers a month, others chose to work on less than 10. It's entirely up to them, and so far this approach has worked quite well. My top writers earn over $1,000 per month throughout an academic semester.

Wow, again. You've got some racket going there. Exchange rate has nothing to do with it. I actually do work for a Canadian company that will remain nameless, so I'm calling BS. They offer 73% and the price per page is double or more than what you are charging. Even this price is very low compared to standard ghostwriting at 26 to 50 cents USD per word. I do realize that academic ghostwriting commands a lower price than what I can get for ghost writing something that is to be published, but come on man. You must have clients with low expectations or you're pulling our legs (W2B has four and a very nice wool coat)?

I pay my American writers in USD, and my Canadian writer in CAD. Mind you, I had this policy in place when the rate was 1 to 1. I wasn't willing to cut my American writers' rates by 20-30% because of the recent change in the exchange rate. 80% of my writers are Canadian and so this hasn't cut into my bottom line to a great extent.

Undergrads do not have areas of expertise. They know a little about something and a lot about nothing.

You're still not getting it that you are paying almost nothing to your writers. This directly means that you cannot be offering a quality service. If you're top writer is making $1000 per month in the height of the season, then I shudder to think what your bottom-barrel writers are doing. They're probably making just enough to buy some weed and video games while wearing out their knobs in mom's basement.

I just have a feeling that you are not legit and you're not making all that much money. Why? First, the numbers you are quoting are pretty friggin close to what the ESLers over on the dark continent are making. Second, your writers would be financially better off washing dishes in Canada.

Another untrue statement from the King of Naivety . . . .

Dude, you're on crack. 1) Undergrads do have areas of expertise 2) Math is clearly not one of yours. Who on earth would pay $11/double spaced page for an undergrad essay from the 'dark continent'. Do you know what the minimum wage is in Kenya? India? Pakistan? Ukraine? Experienced engineers don't make $10/hour in some of those countries, if not all of them.

The absolute number they make is irrelevant. $1,000, $2,000 or $100. The rate is what matters, and I pay a fair rate. For one of my top writers at the moment to go $1,000 to $2,000, I would have to go from $11.double spaced page to $20. Either that, or they start writing 30 papers a month. $20 is completely unreasonable for an undergraduate paper, and I don't have any writers who have completed more than 15-20 papers in one month.

ah, so, nutcase, even your signature was disabled as well after you petitioned the mod to deactivate my signature?
Talk of a clueless b.itch with a knack for self-cannibalism.
Ha ha, the mod treats you with the same respect accorded to a housefly, your schizophrenia- fueled delusions of grandeur
notwithstanding.
want some reminder? ' demand evidence that you can verify'
F?*k off with your meaningless 'evidence'

Taking several core classes in your major does not make you an expert in anything. You just might be qualified enough to manage a burger joint or inspect bridges, but only after a good deal of training in both cases. Or you might just be pretty enough and have the intestinal fortitude to smile while be buggered so as to get an internship in your so-called expertise.

Now you're driving off topic. There is absolutely no way that you can get a high-quality undergrad paper for what you're paying. I know exactly what these scammers are charging in the countries you have listed and it is similar to what you charge. I've even purchased papers from these yahoos. The Mod at essayscam supports these companies by allowing them to advertise here and removing evidence of their bad work, so you're in good company.

You wrote, "Who on earth would pay $11/double spaced page for an undergrad essay from the 'dark continent." Ummm, most of the pinheads who pass through here. This forum is filled with one-liner fragments from P. T. Barnum's children; these are the primary sources of income for W2B, Ed75, Major, and the others who fish the bottom of the river. Again, top writers at other companies are making way more than double of what you have stated, so you're hardly in competition with the folks here.

Sure, maybe you're servicing the low-rent frat boys who just want to pass their lit class so as to make it to another year of Rohipnol and easy sx, but I sincerely doubt that you could produce for the discerning student.

Aplus, I imagine most of your writers see the job as a toe in the water to supplement other incomes, and don't take you very seriously (just like most of the people who have replied here). 15-20 orders per month is nothing to brag about giving your top people.

The decision to pay a writer 10-20 times the hourly minimum wage in their country for a double spaced page is yours, and has absolutely nothing to do with what is fair here in Canada. What I pay my writers has nothing to do with your idiotic decisions.


You stated earlier that standard ghost writing rates are $0.26-$0.5 per word...for argument's sake, let's take the lower end of that range. That translates to a rate $65 for a 250 word double spaced page! are you out of your mind? Sorry pal, but writing isn't as lucrative as you would like it to be. If I'm paying my writers $65, how much should I be charging my client??? $75? $85? for an undergraduate paper? Get a clue. You have no idea what you're talking about.


No, I'm servicing undergraduate students who can't afford your crazy rates.

I established that long ago. He's a clueless idiot who trolls here--intentionally starting fights with anyone and everyone--for the sole purpose of trying to direct essayscam.org's traffic to his s-i*ty, failed forum. As evidenced by his ignorant assumptions and asinine claims, he knows nothing about the business.

That's the fighting spritit. You just made W2B cream her jeans. You're not paying attention: I do some work for a Canadian company that has been in business for a few years now. They're likely your top competitor within your country and handle a much, much larger volume of orders than you. I have a pretty good idea what is fair. How is it that I'm making idiotic decisions if I'm making a lot more as a writer by avoiding your so-called company?


Here: the-efa.org/res/rates.php

I'm a member and I get plenty of work through their job board. The rates are real. Academic ghostwriting is somewhat easier and the market is a bit more swamped with hacks like those you employ. You jerks drive down the price and put out crap writing. Most of my clients are coming to me after some hack making $10 per page has screwed up their paper. I'm not getting $65 per academic page and never said that. I'm getting no less than $30 per 275 words on my own as a freelancer and no less than $25 through a company. And I'm certainly not fixing your mistakes for any less.

By the way, to all of you nut jobs here in this forum, the industry standard "is a firm 250 words" per manuscript page. I realize that this doesn't work out exactly in a lot of cases.

Bottom line: You are either ripping off your writers, providing crap service, or a combination of both. Your business model is exactly the same as that by Walmart. So much for your AMA.

You should hire W2B as a greeter.

As usual, your bulls-i* is overflowing. The most common citation style in academic writing is MLA. The recommended font face for MLA is Times New Roman, which results in 300-330 words per double-spaced page with 1" margins.

It's not my BS. That's the industry standard, not the graphophobius standard. Pay attention. Look it up (the-efa.org/res/rates.php) or learn your place by remaining silent. This is regardless of style, font, etc.

Talk about showing your ignorance! The most common style in academic writing is definitely not MLA. Show us the data, evidence, proof, blah, blah, blah. You have nothing.

You really don't have a clue about anything outside of the EssayScam universe, do you? What else have you done with your life other than harass people and point out the obvious? You have no affiliation with any company or institution and nothing to show that you have any expertise to share. You're just an anonymous entity that writes a lot of words that mean little to nothing.

It's easy to argue about, because standards differ. If you Google it, the answer comes up 250; if you actually work, 275-300 seems to be more the norm. I'm basing that on three major US mills. The industry standard isn't for one website (or one petty voice in the wilderness) to determine.

Hey, Captain Clueless, the-efa.org is completely irrelevant to the academic writing industry for multiple reasons, including--but certainly not limited to--the following:

1. companies in the academic writing industry charge per "page" (the shady and often intentionally hidden definition of which varies greatly in that--depending on the given site--a "page" will consist of anywhere between 225 and 330 words), NOT per word;

2. the-efa.org/res/rates.php has no listed rate for "academic" or "student" writing because that organization does not endeavor to provide either;

3. "The industry standard for a manuscript page, however, is a firm 250 words." That statement clearly indicates that the-efa.org focuses on writing/editing services in the professional sector. A "manuscript" is "the original text of an author's work . . . that is submitted to a publisher".

4. Students do not write "manuscripts" for English 101. They write amateur essays and papers that are never meant for publication.

5. Students do not have the financial backing of a corporation (and they certainly can't/don't benefit from being able to write-off the total purchase amount as a business expense, thereby receiving what amounts to an approximate 25%-50% discount).

6. the-efa.org hits new members with a processing fee of $35 and ongoing "dues," making membership unattractive to most freelance essay writers because of A) the cost; B) the fact that there are very few (if any) student essays/papers available to write, anyway.


"MLA (Modern Languages Association) is the most common citation style for writing in the humanities."
SOURCE: libraries.dal.ca/writing_and_styleguides/style_guides.html

". . . the most common citation style for English writing in the Humanities, that of the U.S.-based Modern Language Association."
SOURCE: 15.uta.fi/FAST/PK6/REF/pk6ovv.html

Since students who major in a humanities discipline tend to write more papers than students in any other discipline, it stands to reason that MLA is the most common citation style in academic writing.


"Mirror, mirror on the wall . . . ."

Your decision to pay someone from the 'dark continent' $10/ double spaced page is what I was referring to as idiotic. Like I said earlier, that's 10-20 times the minimum wage in some of those countries. That's like paying a Canadian writer $100-$200/ double spaced page! $10/ double spaced page is not the standard rate for these writers, it's the rate they get when dealing with people who aren't educated or knowledgeable enough to negotiate a fair rate, such as yourself.


I never claimed that you said you're making that much. You said earlier that the standard rate is $0.26-$0.50 USD per word. That's a range of $65 to $120 per double spaced page, because you know, writers get paid more than Engineers, Certified Accountants, and a whole host of professions that for the most part pay quite well.

As far as I'm concerned, the rates listed in that website are absolute junk, and if true, would be a ripoff of epic proportions. I pay my writers for papers written at the undergraduate level. What category does that fall under in your list? Ghost writing? That's listed as $50-$60 per hour! are you kidding me? That's double the rate you claim to make. Better get in touch with the good folks you work for and demand a raise.


1) As a business owner I don't take any offense to being compared to the most successful and profitable corporation in human history. 2) You're clueless. You clearly know and understand very little about servicing undergraduate students. My writers are all happy with the rate I pay as it falls within the range of what my competitors offer, and 80%+ of my clients are repeat customers.

I guess the difference between you and I is that I gained my knowledge from running a profitable and growing business, and you gained yours by getting ripped off by some Kenyan dude.

Perhaps it would be fair to charge students from the 'dark continent' proportionally less (ie. 10-20 times less than customers from Canada, US, Australia, or UK).

The cycle continues . . . . Graphie shows up again after an embarrassment-induced hiatus, makes more asinine claims that I easily disprove with verifiable evidence, and he disappears again. Don't worry, he'll be back.

I get it that you're all a bunch of second-rate hacks. That's okay. You have your place and serve your respective niches.

W2B lists too many erroneous statements to bother responding. For example, I made my dues and fee back and then some on the first job via the efa. The efa membership volume and the number of academic writing jobs speak otherwise to your poor observations. I'm sorry that you lack the credentials to be a functioning member. Again, know your place or remain silent. You're way off on the MLA thing, regardless of your source. At any rate, each one of your bullet points is wrong.

And you keep going on about defeating me and chasing me out of here. Yawn. I come back when I have time to kill. It has nothing to do with your delusions of grandeur. There is no cycle, only busy and not busy. I apologize for not keeping an ever-present watch on the forum. I'll leave that to you and your cronies. The worst that I can be accussed of is wasting time here arguing with you nut jobs.

Just as a point of clarification: I don't write essays for 101 level classes and the like. This is nowhere near my niche.

And aplus, you're still not paying attention and haven't a clue what engineers and accountants make. A writer certainly can make more than the average of these two professions (please spare the obvious bureau of labor statistics argument - it has already been shown by many that these numbers are way off the mark). As pointed out by the biggest dolt (Ed75) on this forum, the volume you quoted does not make you a successful businessman. Give it a break already.

You guys are a bit tiring.

What really gets me more than anything else about this forum are the little tweaks and edits that the so-called Mod makes. Look at post #54 above: the letter 'e' was removed from the word 's*x' to read 'sx'. How is it that I pray to this Mod? Do I write in all caps? How do I get my s*x back?

Way to ride my coattails and insult me at the same time. Apparently the mod doesn't like you, just like everyone else here. Anyone else remember graph's phone buddies? Crazy and pathetic.

Sex: Male.
Occupation: Creative insults at the expense of Ed75.

Seriously, who is the religious whack job editing the word 'sex'? Its not like I'm saying that I had an anal three way with Jesus or the prophet Muhammad. Neither one of those dudes would be down with the enormous size of my anaconda.

How many times do you have edit a small post, Ed75?

As many as I want. And you're not very in touch with this industry, if you're standing on the shoulders of one pay-to-play website about it.

Pay-to-play is for bush league suckers.

It was an experiment and I had some extra cash. It paid off. Like I said, I paid the dues and fee and made that investment back plus a whole lot more and right away. The gigs from efa represent a fraction of my work while still being a profitable investment. That's effing awesome! It's nice that I don't have to pound the pavement for work. The jobs show up in my e-mail, I send in my awesome CV, and bingo! Plus I jump-started my education on the business while being paid to do so. In terms of investing, I win! Whether I stay with efa in the future is another issue entirely.

I'd say that if you cannot afford the dues and fee of efa, then maybe you should consider another business. It's pocket change.

I just started the freelance thing a year ago and already have a fairly comfortable income. But yes, you are right that I am not very in touch with this industry; however, I 'm making progress by leaps and bounds. If I had waited to learn and pay dues like you, Ed75, had suggested long ago, then I'd still be doing work for folks like the Walmart wannbe in Canada. If I learned anything about working in this world, it is that hard work and waiting for things to happen to me do not pay off.

You ignorantly refer to me as a "hack," even though I have openly stated countless times that I do not write papers for students. In fact, I created a thread years ago in which I warn students not to contact me with job requests.


Oh, really? So, if one were to check, one would find that maybe 5% of all available orders are posted by ordinary, run-of-the-mill high school and college students? Tell me--is that percentage too high, too low, or just about right?


Honey, I have no need or desire to be a member of that two-bit organization. Thanks for the chuckle.


LMAO! You are an intellectually dishonest, inferior writer with deplorable research practices. Once again, you took the bait. You claimed that "the most common style in academic writing is definitely not MLA" and accused me of having no evidence to the contrary. (FYI, I initially prefer to withhold my evidence so that I can make an idiot like you swallow his entire left foot. I must admit that I enjoy it.) I reeled you in like a slimy eel. Knowing perfectly well that I have owned you yet again, you resort to claiming that I am wrong about MLA (followed closely by APA), "regardless of [my] source[s]." Yes, I bet that you get all of the important jobs.


Right over your head . . . .


That's understandable. Getting one's ass kicked in public for the umpteenth time can wear on a fellow, physically and mentally.


Perhaps, your hard work just isn't good enough?

You don't have to be a writer to be a hack. We've already established that you are incapable of writing. Get over yourself.

You prompted me to compile some of the data I've collected this past year. Out of a few thousand separate client inquiries for academic writing (undergrad, masters, and doctorate levels) this past year, only 13% requested MLA, whereas APA (43%) and Chicago (20%) took the lead.

Go ahead and run the stats on the efa jobs. Prove yourself with some real data, but I doubt that you know how to do your own research.

If you have beaten me back and handed my butt to me so many times, then why do you spend so much time taking on everything I write here. You can't possibly be making any money doing that. And if you are doing it for fun or some sense of obligation toward righting my wrongs, then you really do have no credibility as even an anonymous internet personality. You're basically worth less than zero.

And thanks for the tid bit. You slipped. Finally. You're a hard person to nail down. Catcha some other time.

The only thing that you have "established" multiple times is that you are a sucker for my punishment and couldn't outwit me to save your life.


Hey, excellent source! Very credible, indeed. Oh, wait, you didn't reference the source. Shocking.


LMAO! See previous quote.


I don't let false claims go unanswered because they may otherwise be accepted as true by the untold thousands of students who come here for information and advice every year. You are an irresponsible piece of trash. As for money, I'm not a bottom-feeder like you. I don't troll for crumbs. I made my money long ago, and the dividends are sweet. In fact, I probably make more in yearly interest and dividends than you make in yearly salary/wages/freelancing.


Only a worthless, lying, dirty, underhanded, unethical, immoral person like you would find no value in selflessly helping others.

Sources: A few companies, one of which advertises in EssayDirectory. I'm not allowed to name these companies.


That's rich. You, an independently wealthy woman, spend nearly all of your time on an obscure forum bashing ESLers and scammers, arguing, and stating the obvious over and over again. Given the effort that you've devoted to this, you could have done a lot for a cause that actually matters. How about poverty, inequality, child abuse, or cancer? Nope, those causes are too easy. You'll go with saving the low-intelligence college students from the ever-present scourge of ESL essay writing scams that plagues the planet. You've selflessly devoted yourself to pointing out the obvious toward helping college kids cheat the system. You're a saint.

Oooh nooo, I've upset the Warren Buffet of EssayScam! What happens if she uses her giant bleeding and selfless heart to direct all of her abundant resources to prove me wrong?!?!?

You have a sick, twisted need to cause trouble (with everyone) for trouble's sake. I'm pretty sure that you've gotten your a*s kicked a few times. Yes, I do mean physically beaten. Since you're such an ahole who nobody wants to help, there are probably videos of the beatings on YouTube.

Those are really strong words from the selfless champion of academic writing. I must have really screwed up to have drawn the ire of the immensely generous W2B Warbucks.

lol I am an engineer. I have a very good idea of what engineers make. You're clueless. Sure there are writers that can make more than the average of the two professions, but the vast, vast majority do not. Your average engineer makes about $65,000 per year, plus benefits. That's about $30-$40/hour. Software engineers will make that much right out of school! If you really believe that, as the website you referenced suggests, a writer deserves $50-$60/hour for ghost writing then you're out of your mind.

I am absolutely blown away by the esteemed company I have found on EssayScam. Who would have known that fantastically successful essay tycoons, wealthy investors, and deep-pocketed philanthropists would be taking time out of their busy schedules to provide a free education on economics, business, and professional writing? Wow. Aplus has found so much success as an engineer that he decided use his incredible skills to help poor college students cheat. And now he's here to tell us all how he succeeded in doing so! He should team up with the Shadow Scholar and write a book. Yay! And Warren2Buffet, what can I say? Double wow! Your "selfless" crusade to bring honesty to cheating is nothing short of godly.

How cute. Your attempt at sarcasm is almost is bad as your basic math skills. Look pal, I never claimed to run a multi million dollar business. I hope that's not how you define success, otherwise 99% of all businesses would be considered failures. You need to get a grip on reality. It seems that you live in a fantasy world where writers work for fortune 500 companies and have money flowing out of their pockets. You're never going to see anything close to $50/hour. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll stop wasting your life.

Aplus, for the record, graphie has been coming here for a few months strictly to start flame wars in the hopes that it will drive traffic to his shi*ty, failed forum that he promised would overtake essayscam.org in popularity. WHEN I CORNERED HIM A WHILE BACK, HE ADMITTED THAT FACT. Don't expect any truth or evidence of any kind. He has no intention of making reasoned arguments. He's like one of those chimps at the zoo that mindlessly throws s-i* at anyone who comes within range.

Well, that's not true. I don't make a steady $50 per hour all year long, some days it works out to be that much, or much more, depending the work and my mood. Professional ghostwriting, when I get it, definitely pays that. I don't wear a workometer, but I figured that my average rate has crept up above $30 per hour, which is more than most non-software engineers with a BS that are not from an ivy league or big state school. And all this talk about wages, Mr. Math, means nothing without cost of living taken into account. Sure, I've met plenty of engineers with just a BS that make what appears to be an incredibly attractive rate, but they live in places like Geneva, London, NYC, and SF. Or they're hanging out in the middle of the Australian outback and Alaska getting fat and wearing out their knob with their roughneck boyfriends. Again, if engineering is so awesome, then what the heck are you doing here in this cesspool? You said it yourself that you wouldn't associate your company name with a forum like this, yet you want to do an AMA? You need to pray to Mod for forgiveness!

At any rate, I'm not the one who set up an AMA on EssayScam without verifying my identity. I can do that too: "Hey everyone, I'm an astronaut, cowboy, and a fireman. Wildly successful at all three! Ask me anything except for my name and my affiliations."

Your numbers don't check out and there is no verification of your identity. Notice how nobody else has asked you a single question? Your delusion of grandeur is on par with W2B Warbucks. Yes, you can say the same about me, but again, I'm not posting a ridiculous AMA on this forum. Furthermore, anybody who wants to know my identity can simply send me a PM.


Never said that. Now you're making stuff up. Seems like a desperate move for someone of your selfless and wealthy status. Why can you dish it out and not take it, "...in order to avoid being ridiculed or name-called by other posters, one should not become an EssayScam forum member and/or one should not post any message on the forum." Geez, always a different set of rules for the 1%!

I got an easy 2-page assignment the other day, and it took me a half-hour to do it. Does that mean I can say I make $80 an hour?

Let me put that question another way: am I a self-deluded diphit?

Yes. It also means that you can't read very well.

It's your delusional bragging that no one is buying, not mine, you know-nothing noob.