Supply of Good Writers versus Customer Demand

What do you think about the supply/demand ratio in the essay business? Are there more willing-and-able writers than available orders? Or more willing customers than available writers?

Here and at essaychat, I see evidence that would support either position. I see writers who are fighting tooth-and-nail for any paying customer. And I also see customers who seem desperate to find a good writer.

My impression is that it's an efficient or "noisy" market, where many unqualified writers market aggressively, and customers have trouble finding the writers they really need and want.

What do you think?

Exactly. Scammers from Africa have multiple email accounts they use to commit online crimes (or plagiarize papers at best). Clients start to understand that more than half of those who call themselves academic writers are in fact African fraudsters who lie about their location and credentials. Better to choose a real company without a risk than to hire illiterate Africa mafia.

Regarding the supply/demand ratio.. I'd say the market is saturated and it would be difficult for someone new to enter the market and make big bucks. Many still try every month, but very few succeed (maybe because those who try are in fact foreign scammers too). I don't understand why some companies still produce dozens of websites under different names (being one and the same company/provider).

I meant inefficient.


Do you mean a new company, or a new writer? I entered the market only this year and I have so much work that I hardly get any sleep, and I have to hand some assignments off to other writers. And I've never done a single assignment for a company; it's all private work. But that's just my little corner of the market and the world, and I wanted to see what others are experiencing.

srandrews,
Apparently, I need to make 500 posts to contact another writer on this site. I had some questions about contracting work, and was wondering if you can email me at @gmail

Regards

srandrews

After years of negotiating with this problem associated with freelancers, at solvemyassignment.com, we decided to recruit only full-time employees because we could not compromise on the quality of Essay Help/Assignment Help/Homework Help/Dissertation Help

Although I have not read any paper or study on this matter, I would assume that about 1/2 of all customers gets are either scammed or get a low-quality output from their writers. I believe this is true. I am a writer, not a customer, so I cannot tell for sure, but these people who pay us dough to do their papers for them are making a huge gamble.

Your obsession with maligning African writers is delusional. You pay peanuts to your writers, you get trash. What else can you expect? The law of demand Vs supply applies here. Give writers good money and you will get value for your money. It's a simple a class one Maths.

In my experience, good writers get good rates. Writers who advertise low prices are doing so for a reason -- they can't compete based on quality. I've been told several times lately, by other writers and (believe it or not) by students, that my rates are a little low. I've been thinking about increasing them.

One of the founders of this business, Mike Von Plato, once told me, "If you have too much business, you aren't charging enough." He was a great guy.

When this Srandrews guy talks **** about Africans, it just reminds me that while the whole world is fighting against racism, there are others who are embracing it. If you have not gotten a client to pay you to do a project for them, dont blame on those innocent Africans. Just find a suitable strategy of convincing clients to give you some job. Life is hard man, work harder

Please quote one example of me saying anything about Africans. I only talked about unqualified writers. If you read that as "Africans," then that's your racism, not mine.

Interesting. If you deliver quality works, customers will pay for them.

Depending upon the company that one is working for, the trend could very well be that of having more writers than the demand for their services. Academic writing companies these days have slowed down in their hiring process because there just aren't enough orders to go around. In fact, they do their best to discourage their number of writers from growing or remaining constant by developing reasons to make the writers quit. This is how the company also weeds out the bad writers in order to present their best writers to the potential clients. The greater writer ratio has been growing over the past years based upon my observation of various writing companies and the number of writers that indicate that it is almost impossible for them to get orders these days. It has become a cut throat competition where only the most patient or the best writers continue to survive. Certain aspects of the business has changed over the years and this has caused the change in essay writing demand as well. Some writers still get steady orders but others, don't have that opportunity.

I haven't taken a company order in several years, but they've allowed me to maintain my account because I still refer orders to them on occasion. When I was still earning a substantial portion of my income from company projects, the only way I was able to do it was by making sure I got the jump on new orders as soon as they popped up on the system. I had a laptop signed on to their system in every room of my apartment 24/7/365 and I was never farther than arm's length from one of them. I even got an I-pad specifically so that I could still check new projects that came in while I was in the bathroom. Regardless of what I was doing, I could check any newly-posted project within seconds of its posting. Part of the reason I built a full gym in my apartment was that it enabled me not to have to leave my apartment for 3-4 hours almost every day, because I needed to be able to check the company board for projects all the time. (That's also why I get my sun on a massage table on my terrace instead of going out to a park or beach.)

As soon as the system indicated that a new order was posted, I checked it and grabbed anything I wanted immediately. The company also implemented an audible indicator as well as a bright visual cue on the writers' screen to indicate that a new order had come in, (both at my suggestion), which was very helpful. Since I noticed that the email notifications of new projects often came in before either of those indicators, I also always enabled those system-notice emails to alert me to check the board immediately (and probably) before anybody else realized there was a new order. The instant my nearest computer "clicked" to indicate I had a new email, I refreshed the writers' screen without even checking to see who emailed me. Before that, there were no active on-screen indicators and we had to refresh the board manually to see new orders; so, from 2003 through about 2009, I'd hit F5 on the nearest screen as often as every 30 seconds whenever I was awake. They added the active notifications in 2009 after I suggested it.

That's, essentially, how I managed to keep a full calendar of company orders even during very slow periods when only a few new projects came in all day. It was very competitive, because anytime there are so few orders, they all get grabbed within a minute (or less) of getting posted. A few years earlier, it was not uncommon to see 50 or even 100 orders posted on the board throughout the busy season and a dozen or two the rest of the time. That would probably have been impossible for anybody who wasn't already something of a hermit. I started playing adult-league hockey and practicing regularly again in 2014 after a 24-year layoff, which would have been impossible for me while working (mainly or substantially) as a company writer, without significantly cutting into my earnings. As a freelancer, I have much greater freedom from my pc screens, although I still tend to be a hermit.

Why not? Maybe they have less expensive writers or something.

@Major
I've managed to establish a large enough private clientele that I just haven't needed to take any essay-company orders for quite a while. As far as pricing goes, the companies set their prices, not their writers. The companies don't charge customers any less than I do; they just take a substantial cut off the customers' payments and, in my experience, they pay their writers only $8/pg to $20/pg (maximum). Customers pay the same $30/pg to $50/pg either way, but they still get the same exact essay written by me whether I keep the entire payment or the company pays me only $20/pg on projects for which customers pay twice that amount or more. Surely, you understand why I'd rather take direct orders from freelance clients than write the exact same essays for an essay company and get paid no more than $20/pg. If you had as much freelance work as you could manage, would you spend your time writing company essays for half the pay?

One can argue that customer protections and overall guarantees may be better when ordering from a legitimate company. For example, a company doesn't reveal the consumer's information to the writer who completes the order and it is fully / legally responsible for keeping this information secure and confidential; a freelance writer doesn't have the same protections and there is a reason why most scammers pretend to be US/UK/Australia-based freelance writers. Some students may think working directly with a writer would give them an advantage, but that's not always the truth. Of course, it is true for legitimate writers (especially the ones advertise here), but in reality there are few of them available in the academic research market.

I wouldn't disagree that a totally unknown freelance writer with just an email address is as bad a risk as any unknown essay company, especially located in the 2nd or 3rd Worlds. But when it comes to writers who've established good reputations on this forum dating back roughly a decade (especially those of us who use the same exact S/N here that we used as our Writer ID on the most reputable websites in the business), customers are no less safe doing business with us directly. As always, the fair comparison is between legit reputable freelance writers and legit reputable essay companies, not all freelance writers and only the legit reputable essay companies.

I just referred a client to my old essay company (from which I haven't taken an order in several years) a few minutes ago and I contacted admin on his behalf to make sure they match him with the right writer for his highly-specialized project. But I was one of that company's best and most trusted writers (by those who run the company and its customers alike) based on the quality of my work and the number of requests they received for me. So, at least in my case, clients are in equally good hands when they order projects directly from me without any middleman taking about half the fee paid for the work. As I've said many times, if I write it, it's the same essay whether they buy it directly from me or through the company. Frankly, while I did good work for all of my company orders, I am even more conscientious about work for my direct clients, because that's only natural when I'm being paid roughly twice as much for the same project (because I keep 100% of the fee) and when it's my personal reputation at stake if someone's not happy with my work.

As far as protecting customer info goes, I don't even put customers' real names anywhere on my computer: all of my projects are identified by a random code and the key to that code is only on paper, just in case I'm ever hacked or my laptop is stolen. I also remove all personal info from any course materials or source documents provided by clients. While I haven't checked recently, every essay company that I ever wrote for explicitly retained copyrights to all work they provide customers and also explicitly retained the right to resell their work a few months after delivering it. I don't retain any copyright in work that I provide to my private clients and I've never resold anything I've ever written for a client even once in my entire two-decade-long career as an academic writer.

I never keep a supply of mediocre writers on staff. It is important that all my writers perform above average, at the very least, on every paper that they write. QAD is extremely strict about that and I do not hesitate to release writers who under-perform for a whole semester. It is imperative that my writers are capable of providing the highest possible paper for my clients regardless of the customer demand or writing season. I do not believe that the market is dictated by the students alone anymore because I manage to find other jobs for my writers, besides academic writing. Therefore, the client demand for my writers can be considered to always be on the high side of the demand. That is why I do not believe that there are more willing and able writers when compared to clients. All good writers are in demand, regardless of client type.

Due to the Covid 19 lock down, it would appear that there is actually an overflow of good writers when compared to customer demand. The one down side of the ECQ on a global scale is that students are now locked at home, with nothing to do after attending their video classes. So some of them end up actually doing the work themselves, for lack of something else to do, instead of hiring writers who can do the job for them. However, I have still seen a steady flow of orders that require good writers to work on them. Yes, even during a lock down, there will be some students who would rather rest and play video games than do their homework. That means, that as a business owner, I need to make sure that I have a good writing staff on hand, regardless of the client demand at the time. You never know when the market might suddenly pick up again.