Oxbridge and UK Essayist (I was not paid for completed projects)

Well I wrote for the writerighteam, aka Oxbridge Research, aka UK Essayist and I was not paid all they owed me. I was paid twice and both times were weeks after it was due and took a lot of emailing and calling to get payments that were less than I was owed. I am still owed $50 and the Bonuses promised, a total of $400 etc. Hala the owner lied to me on numerous occasions, promising payment from her personally by next Tuesday and it never came and so on. She rang me a couple of times and lied through her teeth telling me a load of BS and I played along for the simple reason that to call her bluff wouldn't get my money. I have the emails as evidence and the phone recordings for two of the calls.

She promised me moderator status and first pick of the orders, then that I would be in charge of Australianessayist and paid $2,000 a month and so on (I have that on tape). She lied about their payment facilitator, Swreg and blamed them for non payment. I contacted them and have a lot of correspondence proving she was telling lies the whole time. Then the dodgiest of all, paid me via some bloke in Egypt and that took $50 of my money as a fee and I had to open an account with this dodgy money wire service, all very strange. She used to reply to my emails but since 14 January there is only her auto-response message. I think they are going out of business as their web site isn't coming up now. It is typical of con artists that when it starts to go sour they are suddenly out of contact. I expect her to disparage my writing, despite having a recording of her saying I am a 'superb writer' and so on. Another tactic con artists use is to make out they are reasonable and the complainer is acting hysterically, making wild claims and so on. But forewarmed is forearmed, hence the email trail and the recordings.

To say I am disappointed is an understatement. I wanted to believe in them and the integrity of their published policies, that they provided model essays only (of course the lazy students will pass off as their own but that is their illegal act, not mine) and that they would pay on time. I have advised them I consider the work not yet paid for to be mine and I reclaim copyright of all work submitted as compensation for expenses incurred and so forth. I have considered publishing the essays online but that would hurt the customers, who may not have passed them off as their own work and not this scam outfit.

I am hoping they do their usual thing and threaten legal action. I can't wait to have this managed in an Australian court and there is no way they can get me into an English one. Even if they try, they don't know who I have as relatives in London, some very highly placed people who can make life difficult to say the least. At least if she answers this post I will have finally gotten a response! Don't use them and students, do you own essays and earn your degree. If you have to plagiarize to get there, you will feel guilty for the rest of your life.

From what I just read, you barely write in good English! How do you expect to win a case if clarity and coherency are still vocabularies to you?

She was in contact with me by email as of last night saying that she would be in NYC today and that her driver would be dropping off the $1,750 I'm owed in person today sometime. Just emailed her a reminder because I haven't heard from her. I should be able to report whether or not this transaction was successful by the end of the week.

Heremeout, (shouldn't that be Hearmeout?) I wrote it to the level of the average reader here, like you. How would you like to post something relevant to the points raised instead of rattling the bucket with this rubbish? Or tell me where, in your professional opinion, the clarity and coherency is lacking? Now if you were willing to pay me for my time I would give it a re-write, maybe add some citations, a few song lyrics, whatever gets you going.

Freelance Writer, are you holding your breath waiting for the $1,750 or sneaking the odd sip of air, I mean traffic in NYC being what it is and all?

I am hoping to draw Hala out, or anyone from that mob, with this post. I am amazed they haven't responded yet, normally they are very quick to fire back with their rebuttal and denials, followed closely by the threats of legal action.

BTW Heremeout, does this post meet your standards?

Heremeout is a Kenyan idiot and ESL fraudster. Ignore him.

I gathered that from his sentence construction. I am sure he is fluent in Swahili but I'm afraid there isn't a lot of call for it at the moment. The sentence that made me chuckle was "How do you expect to win a case if clarity and coherency are still vocabularies to you? " I have no idea what he means by 'still vocabularies to you?'

I'm trying to give Hala the benefit of the doubt and simply reporting that she told me she'd be in NYC this week and as of last night, she promised to have my money delivered to me today in person. I suppose it's possible that she's just jet-lagged but in that case, I imagine I'll get paid in person by tomorrow or Friday the latest. There's actually a much longer history to this but no need to detail it publicly, especially if it's about to be satisfactorily resolved any day now.

You write offtopic and your write skill is pretty poor so dont expect to get paid. Follow the client instructions first and think about payment when you deliver the good product, not the other way.

FreelanceWriter, I understand. I gave her the benefit of the doubt for several months. Then a small amount would come in, but always well after it was promised. Then more delays, more excuses, more BS and then the second lot. In the interim I checked her story with SWreg and found it to be totally at odds with what they said. I still gave her a fair go for two reasons. First she was always polite to me and previously responded very promptly. The praises she sang for my writing I took with a grain of salt, I was sure either she was genuinely impressed or just trying to massage my ego and keep me writing etc. After her adamant promises of 2 Jan, 7 Jan and then 11 Jan I have heard nothing since 14 Jan when all I got was her auto responder saying she doesn't reply to non-work emails between certain hours etc.

You have nothing to lose by being polite and patient. Who knows? I decided after weeks of nothing, including no orders posted, that things are going horribly wrong for the business and consequently she doesn't have the money to pay me and is ignoring my emails simply because there is little point replying (from her point of view). Rather than admit this, she remains silent. Maybe she genuinely meant to pay me when she promised to but events got away from her and she couldn't fulfill that promise. Maybe not. It makes no real difference. I have not been paid. When I got to the point where I believed the chances of being paid were less than those of getting any more money, I posted here. If for no other reason than a little payback, feelgood, vengeance is mine sayeth the writer.

Stu4, I take it Stu is short for stupid. You are not even replying in context let alone coherently. Are you Heremeout's tug-buddy?

As always, your posts have zero basis in truth and absolutely no relation to what's even being discussed. You respond to all of my posts with the same vindictive baseless accusations. For your information, there is no dispute about whether or not I'm owed the money or how good my work was. Hala/WRT continues to praise my writing and to refer to me as being among the top writers in this entire industry. I don't necessarily know how true that is, but the point is simply that there's absolutely no dispute about the quality of my work or that I've already earned the money. This is strictly about getting paid, and as I've said, I'm still trying to give the employer the benefit of the doubt.

FreelanceWriter, I have to say if you have $1750 outstanding and given the lack of orders posted of late (unless I was cut out of the loop), you must have been waiting for payment for several months, or there is only really you and me writing for them. I haven't seen an order for some weeks, at least two and then not much before that. Hala said the exact same things about me and my writing and I believe it to be true (he said modestly). I do hope you get paid the full amount owed and today or tomorrow. Personally I would like to think this is all a sad mix up however, I think I am being too trusting there.

Yeah, it reflects work done mostly last summer and promised bonuses. I haven't written anything for them since October and I started asking for this payment in November. Since I'm still giving Hala the benefit of the doubt about paying me in person this week while she's in NYC, there's no need to go into much greater detail about it here.

Unfortunately it is still very inferior to my writing standards. So my answer is simple:
No it doesn't.


WB,it is so apparent that ignoring me is the least thing Perry wants to do. Can't you see I am already a pain in his ass? Of course,you can't see that!

Just got an email from Hala that she is at Orly Airport and on her way. I look forward to reporting a satisfactory resolution soon.

Latest update. Hala has arrived in NYC. Curiously, she's talking about sending her driver to pick me up even though we already agreed last night that he'd be just dropping off my money and that there's no need to pick me up. She asked me to take her to the bank too, so I told her to just deduct $50 for all the cab fare she might need to get to any of the dozen banks near her and even to deduct another $100 to take a limo from the airport at my expense. I didn't want to complicate things by inquiring why that would be necessary with her having a driver and all...and I'm not sure why we're back to discussing her driver picking me up again, but I'm sure it's just a jet-lag thing and that she'll be having him drop off my remaining $1,600 on Friday exactly as promised and I look very much forward to reporting a successful and honorable conclusion to this transaction here very soon.

I know that all of this sounds very confusing. You see, she said she has my $1,750 in hand but she wanted to take me to a bank to get me another $12,000 as an advance for all of next year. I'm not greedy, so I told her that wasn't necessary at all and that she could just send the cash over with her driver, less the $150, because I'm a man of my word. For some reason, now we're back to discussing meeting in person for the transaction and the $12,000 again. She doesn't know her local phone # or her address, but Iunderstand because she says she's hardly ever here and she's going to give it to me tomorrow. I'm certain there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for all of this and that I'll soon be reporting that the debt was paid exactly as promised. After all, nothing can possibly go wrong now that she's personally in NYC with the cash in hand and she has my address and phone #. I will provide an update and details about how smoothly this transaction got concluded very shortly for those who might have doubts about this.

Great news: Hala just called me from her cell phone to confirm. Her driver will be dropping off my money later today. I'm feeling quite relieved now, because now I can't imagine any possible scenario besides getting paid. I intend to apologize to her for ever entertaining any doubt. I'll do that over dinner because she wants to treat my wife and me and I'm really looking forward to meeting her, finally.

So what's the final update?

Will definitely let you know right here, but I'm expecting to get paid later today exactly as promised.

Confused because she called me last night to reassure me that her driver would be dropping it off today but I haven't heard from her all day. I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation and no reason to start getting suspicious or anything like that. After all, she said she's already in NYC and that she already has the money in hand, so there's no way anything could possibly go wrong now assuming only that she genuinely intends to pay me and I'd like to give her the benefit of the doubt. However this concludes, I'll provide all the related details for everybody's benefit shortly.

and you refused? You are half-man.

Believe me I was thinking of the same thing to happen. I don't know why. Maybe because the way she communicated with you was a bit dubious: she had the money; she is sending the driver; etc.

I have every reason now to believe that she may keep you in the limbo for some time and would say that for this reason and that she has to leave NYC and that she'd make the payment next time, etc.

It is also possible she'd make some of the payment - not the entire amount. However, this is just my naive analysis. I hope it goes wrong and you get the money.

We'll be waiting for the final update from you as it'd be the first genuine feedback on 'her' after we have had a considerable number of people making serious complaints against her on this forum.

Best of luck.

Freelance Writer, that runaround of implausible excuses sounds familiar. In my experience things are usually pretty cut and dried, black and white. When they start to get complicated and illogical then it is not genuine. $12,000 in advance is a confidence trick to get you to keep trusting her. Is she actually in NYC? Why fly from Orly? I thought the offices were in Manchester, they have flights to NYC all the time, same for Heathrow. Or is she trying to convey how important and jet setting she is? Makes me want to trust her just knowing she can type words like 'Orly'.

Friday is over in NYC and I would bet London to a brick you never got your money, never got your dinner, never got your advance and never even got to meet her 'driver'. What, she has a personal driver just hanging around NYC for when she visits? How very colonial. I'll have my man in Istanbul organize a couple of carpets for your office wall...

I had money sent to me from her friend in Cairo, all very bizarre. How come he sent the money? Why not her? Is she really in England? How come nobody has done the usual thing with this mob and taken me to task for my posts and allegations? Could be perhaps they are true and thus without a leg to stand on and knowing I'm not an dumb schmuck like Heremeout they are ignoring me.

BTW Heremeout, I don't have an ass, I'm Australian. We have arsessss and keep your eyes off mine. Of course now you have shown me what a terrific writer you are I will trawl through old posts and find your work and revere it. Hell, I might just claim some of it my own as. (an attempt to speak in Heremeout vernacular). I wonder if your clarity and coherencys can be vocabularies to me... or whatever it was you said.

Freelance, we both know how this is going to end and I am so sorry to read this. My attempts to get paid for work dating back to July started around October, also. I got $170 on 25 Oct from Global Direct aka SWreg and then $225 via Moneygram in Dec. I might point out that after the first payment I asked for all that was outstanding and was told the usual thing as how I would be paid bonuses and so on. By mid-November I stated I was unable to continue writing, got the tuck back into bed, did some more and in late November to mid December was given the 'Moneygram Runaround'.

First of all the pick up code wasn't right and then I found out the name they said I was to be paid under was incorrect and this all took lots of back and forth so it was not happening. I recieved this from Hala:

Had assiate send from cairo, Egypt to avoid extra 10% service charge
Seder: mohammed Ibrahim
Tel: 01006487767
Pickup code: 50595935
Service: moneygram - western union system was down
Amount: 250$
Pickup USD 225

So why have an 'assiate' in Cairo send the money? What extra 10% service charge is she referring to? Western Union is never 'down' and if it were, not for long. They charge about $7.50 to send to the UK from here so I imagine even twice that to go the other way would be just $15 and nowhere near 10% of the total let alone an extra. And this Moneygram cost $25 and that was taken from the $250 total? I think it was another couple of days before I collected the $225, say around the 7th December. I was promised the balance and a bonus, all up $400. I just wanted the $50 I figured was outstanding. She kept promising $400 and how it was for Xmas, for my family and how she valued my writing and at some stage offered me the job to take over the Australian end of the business and another call mentioned the sum of $2000 a month retainer and so on.

By 29 Dec I had had enough waiting and told her. There followed numerous emails until 14 Jan when she stopped replying other than her auto-responder. She had promised all sorts of things, blamed SWreg and what have you (I have all the emails). I was already in contact with SWreg and they denied any instructions to pay me from anyone although they were not at liberty to name clients and fair enough. The last email Hala responded to she said:

From: HK
To: perry gamsby
Sent: Saturday, 14 January 2012 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: Non Payment

No. Will have legal call them. I just get into shouting matches

Sent from my iPad

This was in response to my email:

On 14 Jan 2012, at 03:08 AM, perry gamsby wrote:

> I just checked my PayPal account and still no sign of the deposit. I have not heard back from SWREG either. I just called the hotel in Tathra and cancelled our two nights mini-vacation as we were relying on that money coming in on Tuesday to go. The kids are, as one can imagine, gutted but that is life. I wonder if anyone at SWREG gives a toss? Cheers Perry

>
> Perry Gamsby, MA(Writing), CertIV Bus, CertIV Trg&Assg

Which was my reply to this load of cobblers (According to SWreg, no such call is recorded by them):

From: HK
> To: perry gamsby
> Sent: Sunday, 8 January 2012 12:39 AM
> Subject: Re: Non Payment
>
> I just called and yelled at them.One of my partners, the company lawyer, will emil and remind them of how many finance laws thy broke. They always respond to hs emsils and shape up. Well. The best thing about 2012 is that we are changing them

>
> Sent from my iPad

So if you get your $1750 I will be very happy for you but I doubt this will occur. Con artists like her prey on people who are genuine, honest and trusting. People who want the work and need the money and so are willing to suspend disbelief and hope that it will all work out, that they will keep their promises. It is hard to take a stand and say No because there is a niggling doubt in all of us that says, well what if....? There is no if. She will not pay. Unless just to prove me wrong she pays you, which I hope she does. As for what she owes me, I doubt I will ever see a penny and I certainly don't believe a word she says and to be truthful, I never did. Nevertheless, like you, I figured it was a Pascal'

s Wager kind of situation. I had more to gain by giving her the benefit of the doubt than I had to lose by calling her bluff. Until it became obvious she was doing a runner at last.Cheers Perry

Quite terrible and i sympathize with you.

@All forum members: Now see how hypocritical, discriminating, lying, fraudulent and scheming WritersBware is.
Because one of her close ASSOCIATE (WRT) has been found fraudulent, the witch(WB) cannot dare comment about this thread.
If WRT was another Ukrainian, you can bet your last cent this jigger called WB would be vomiting all over the place calling the ones involved fraudsters.

Conniving fraud(WB, where are you????

All because your fellow arabic conwoman has been busted, you would rather keep quiet....................
@All students: you can now see for yourselves in WHITE AND BLACK how deceiving this WB snake is. WRT has been established to be a thief!

Well, Friday came and went with no contact. Then, another phone call at 1:00AM. She explained that she'd just woken up and hadn't had a chance to set her watch to NYC time yet, or to find out her local phone # or which Trump building she was in or what the address was...but she was sure that it was right across from Central Park. I asked what street, since the park runs from 59th to 110th, but she didn't know. I suppose that can happen when you're from overseas, so I'm not jumping to any conclusions.

As of last night, she indicated (again) that she has my $1,725 in her possession and that her driver has already picked up the $12,000 and that she'd be in touch today to arrange delivery. I've already said several times that all I want it what I'm actually owed, but I've stopped refusing the extra money because that always seems to get us off the subject of immediate arrangements and into a loop of polite refusals and even more polite insistence that I accept the money. I've also provided very simple and clear street directions to my building and mentioned that I'm here by the phone to assist in any way if he has any questions. In case her driver is unavailable today, I've also offered to have someone just pick it up from her if she gets a chance to just call down to the concierge desk in her Trump building to confirm the street address and give me the apartment #.

I'm still giving her the benefit of the doubt because she says she'd never not pay a writer. Before this, there were about 4 different wire transfers and Money Gram transactions that all never made it to me for various different reasons, but this time, I'm sure we'll find out for sure one way or the other what the truth is because it's now totally in her control. She says she's already in NYC (for 2 days now, actually) and that she has physical possession of my $1,750, and that she has a driver at her disposal 24 hours a day. So, I'm assuming that she'll be in touch very shortly and that I'll be receiving my money before she leaves town so that I can report to everyone that all debts have been paid, that she should be trusted by other writers and customer in the future, and that tere must indeed be some legitimate explanation for those failed prior transactions between November and February.

We'll be waiting for the update from you.

Actually, I have no reason to doubt WritersBeware. In fact, she's tried to be helpful to me. You see, when this whole thing started to drag out with multiple wire transfers and multiple Money Gram transactions that never came through, I started forwarding her all the email chains with WRT to her to ask for suggestions. She contacted WRT/Hala on my behalf but she never received a response. Again, I'm looking forward to just reporting to everybody here that there's really nothing to be concerned about when it comes to WRT/WriteRightTeam/Oxbridge because my payment was eventually concluded honorably.

I'm hopeful that's exactly how this will end...and very soon.

Just heard from Hala again. She sounds very groggy and explained that she has trouble sleeping on planes. It's 3:00 PM in NYC and she still hasn't adjusted to the time change. Anyway, she just called to say that she's going to call me again later today after she wakes up. I suggested that she just get some sleep and just give my # to her driver for him to contact me directly , since she already told me that he was the one who withdrew the money yesterday. I asked where her driver lives and she said he has a guest house. I asked where the guest house is and she said that it's on the roof of the Trump building whose address she still doesn't know. She explained that her father built this guest house on the roof of Trump's building with a special permit. I asked her to give me the driver's phone # so she could just let us make the arrangements but she doesn't know his # offhand...it's in her cell phone...the one she just called me on. So, I suggested that she just use her cell phone to call him right now to give him my # and I confirmed that she has my # written on a notepad. We ended this conversation just now agreeing that her driver would be calling me shortly and that this transaction would be concluded today. Just keeping everybody updated here. Please understand that I'm not drawing any conclusions or even commenting on this one way or the other...I'm just reporting our conversations so any other writers or customers of WRT/WriteRightTeam/OxbridgeEssays can draw their own conclusions based on how this ends up. For my part, I'm still very hopeful that I'll be able to report that her driver called me and arranged delivery of my money today exactly as agreed and that there is no reason for anybody ever to mistrust Hala's word about anything.

Another update: Hala just called back. She says she gave her driver (James) my phone # and that he'll call me today and stop by. I asked for his # but she never got it off her phone. So I asked for her cell phone # (the one she's calling me on) but she doesn't know it. Again, please don't draw any conclusions because I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation for all of this and I'm just reporting the facts without any comment or conclusions from me.

LMAO! This ignorant claim should remove any doubt as to the moron's cluelessness and deceptive nature.

We'll be waiting for the final word on this issue. I also hope the matter gets to a positive end soon. Again, good luck.

Still no word from James. I just emailed Hala the phone number of a car service that dispatches from an office two blocks from my house. Told her to just call for a car, let them drive her right to my door so that I can come down and get my money, and she can deduct the $50 round trip for the ride from my money and never even have to get out of the car. I'm losing patience so I asked her to pay me already or just admit that she has no intentions of doing that because continual reassurances without any progress really aren't helpful anymore. I'm waiting for her response and I'll be sure to report in very full detail exactly how honorably this matter got concluded either way. I look very much forward to being able to report that payment got issued and that I was 100% wrong for entertaining any doubts.

"She explained that her father built this guest house on the roof of Trump's building with a special permit." That says it all for me, right there. You can't believe a word this woman says. While I object to queen sheeba's racial slur (Arabic conwoman)it is apt, at least the conwoman part. Freelance, nobody builds guest houses on the roofs of New York buildings to house drivers. She can't even keep her stories straight and they have to get bigger and bigger to accommodate all the objections and excuses. I would be surprised if you get a fraction of your money. I am stunned I got $400 out of her but I no longer harbour any misconception of getting a penny more. Nobody is that jet lagged and still conscious. Nobody can have so much trouble getting money to you given her alleged resources of a 24/7 driver and the cash already in his paws and $12000 of it. C'mon. Wake up, smell the coffee, mate.

As I said, I'm not drawing any conclusions or commenting, much less accusing anybody of lying. I'm just reporting the facts and the content of our telephone conversations and remaining optimistic that I'll eventually be able to report that all debts were paid honestly and in good faith. Still no word from James though, or any response from Hala to my suggestion that she just call the car service from my neigborhood and let me pay for her round-trip ride in a very comfortable Town Car.

She calls you other night and you refused. You dont know how to treat women with full respect. You half-man.

If you're going to spout off, at least be funny. You're not the slightest bit amusing.

This is absolutely fair on your side. We're also waiting for this matter to get settled soon.

$1750 is a lot of writing. I hope you gt it but I am willing to be whatever is owed to me you don't. So ad as Hala seemed like a really nice person etc. But then every con artist I have ever met or read about comes across that way, its how they get as far as they do.

Perry I can see the bitterness in your tone. You sound so deeply stung. However, we'll have to wait for the final update.

Latest Update:

Hala called again last night around 2:30 AM to say she's very sorry and understands my anger, and that she swears that she told James to pay me. Promised to call me in the morning because she hasn't slept in 3 days.

Left another message on my phone this morning around 11:30 AM to apologize again and to assure me that James will pay me $13,750 at 1:00 PM tomorrow (Monday). That's $12,000 more than I'm owed but I'm not going to keep repeating that same conversation about just expecting what I'm owed.

Again, I'm making no comment about any of this either way right now and I genuinely look forward to reporting that the matter was concluded honorably after all.

The next payment time is now just a few hours away. Let's see.

MeoKhan, mixed metaphors aside, it is not bitterness at all, rather a simple observation of fact. I don't care about the $50 I am owed as it is not worth worrying about. Better to get on and write for paying customers. I am disappointed in Hala as I really hoped she would be honest. It seems there are no honest services out there (honest writers, yes, but the companies seems to all be rotten). Perhaps it is the taint of the trade, after all we all know these students don't use the essays as models and examples but rather hand them in as their own work. What is really sad is how they don;t seem to think that is wrong in any way, or have any shame or embarrassment coming on to a forum like this and letting everyone know they were gypped.

You're quite wrong. Freelance would be the first to tell you that, I'm sure.

I added an s at the end for some reason....Should have been '...the companies seem to all be rotten.' Or '... the companies all seem to be rotten.'

I am sure there are honest companies out there, I just haven't found any. All the ones listed and complained about are the only ones I can find. I haven't found one to write for that people praise. Which only means I haven't found a good one yet. Any recommendations?

I wasn't attempting to correct your typo, just your general assumption.

Recommendations are not allowed, but I'm pretty sure that you're smart enough to figure out the handful of legit companies simply by studying this forum.

That's right. I've been doing this since 2003 and this is the first time I've ever had to chase down a payment from any company.