AmonsEssays 2 | 190 ☆
Apr 17, 2012 | #1
Kim owes me $200,000. Some of this is for work done, and some of this is as a partner in Term Paper Topics.
I began working for her last year around January. She seemed up and up, having a good reputation on EssayScam and elsewhere. I found few negative comments about her, certainly none of which stood up to scrutiny. I did a lot of work for her for a few months, and although she paid me late, I finally did get about $2000.
After this came months of excuses about how she couldn't pay me. PayPal was being arbitrary and banned her account. (Never mind that she couldn't send me an e-mail demonstrating this fact, and never mind that creating a new account under a different name or any number of other ways would have been fine). Wire transfers were held up because they were too large. (This happened multiple times, again with no evidence, transfer numbers, etc.) Western Union didn't work because... of some reason. She didn't even bother explaining that. MoneyGram couldn't work. Payoneer fell through. Sending the money through international post as cash or check couldn't work; apparently, the postal service will scan for cash (but that still doesn't explain why a check didn't work). Ordering a prepaid card failed for some reason that was never discovered. When I went to a Bank of America to pick up a prepaid card, they were baffled even at the idea: Kim wasted my valuable time by having me go into town to try to pick up a card that doesn't exist! I made clear, over and over again, that smaller sums over a period of months would be tolerable. People get paid internationally all of the time. Worse, she claimed to be in California, just as she claimed to be in New York, for multiple weeks! She even offered the excuse that the Orthodox Pope's death meant that she couldn't see me on a particular day!
What's worse is that she couldn't get me any objective evidence, over an entire year, that any of these things had occurred. No e-mails (she forwarded e-mails but they could easily have been fabricated), no phone calls with a third party, no scans of documentation. Of course, after a year, even the best evidence would have been insufficient, but she couldn't even meet these simple requests after a few weeks.
It has now been more than half a year of these excuses. Writer Team has been down consistently and repeatedly and as of this writing I cannot connect to it, as are other accounts linked to her GoDaddy profile. It is quite clear to me that her business is failing and she is undoubtedly up to her ears in debt. I have repeatedly offered to be paid over time, but she insists everything is fine. I have given her numerous deadlines and have been given excuses and delays. It has come to the point that she called me claiming that her e-mail said we'd meet on Saturday when she didn't!
I cannot conclude that Kim is anything but a liar and a fraud, regrettably, as she has been relatively pleasant compared to some in the industry. I have e-mails going back months as well as screenshots and all of the work I have done saved. Even if this is an honest mistake, her incompetence is clearly staggering.
If you are a writer, steer clear of anyone connected to Kim, Term Paper Topics or Writer Team. If you are a potential customer, know that she has systematically alienated some of the best writers in the industry and that she can't be trusted to pay her writers, which means she can't be trusted with your order.
While I can't confirm Freelance Writer or Alok's stories directly, I can certainly confirm that their story is EXACTLY like mine. Moreover, I've had the chance to look over the administrator part of the site when it was still up. There were signs that many orders were being filled by her (she claimed this was to help others be confidential, which is bizarre since client information is anonymous), and other orders were not paid and hadn't been for months. When I asked her about this, she dodged the question.
I suggest that all writers ripped off by Kim begin to pressure her. I know that she doesn't want this information revealed because she is still in constant contact with me.
If I am paid, I will retract this post.
I began working for her last year around January. She seemed up and up, having a good reputation on EssayScam and elsewhere. I found few negative comments about her, certainly none of which stood up to scrutiny. I did a lot of work for her for a few months, and although she paid me late, I finally did get about $2000.
After this came months of excuses about how she couldn't pay me. PayPal was being arbitrary and banned her account. (Never mind that she couldn't send me an e-mail demonstrating this fact, and never mind that creating a new account under a different name or any number of other ways would have been fine). Wire transfers were held up because they were too large. (This happened multiple times, again with no evidence, transfer numbers, etc.) Western Union didn't work because... of some reason. She didn't even bother explaining that. MoneyGram couldn't work. Payoneer fell through. Sending the money through international post as cash or check couldn't work; apparently, the postal service will scan for cash (but that still doesn't explain why a check didn't work). Ordering a prepaid card failed for some reason that was never discovered. When I went to a Bank of America to pick up a prepaid card, they were baffled even at the idea: Kim wasted my valuable time by having me go into town to try to pick up a card that doesn't exist! I made clear, over and over again, that smaller sums over a period of months would be tolerable. People get paid internationally all of the time. Worse, she claimed to be in California, just as she claimed to be in New York, for multiple weeks! She even offered the excuse that the Orthodox Pope's death meant that she couldn't see me on a particular day!
What's worse is that she couldn't get me any objective evidence, over an entire year, that any of these things had occurred. No e-mails (she forwarded e-mails but they could easily have been fabricated), no phone calls with a third party, no scans of documentation. Of course, after a year, even the best evidence would have been insufficient, but she couldn't even meet these simple requests after a few weeks.It has now been more than half a year of these excuses. Writer Team has been down consistently and repeatedly and as of this writing I cannot connect to it, as are other accounts linked to her GoDaddy profile. It is quite clear to me that her business is failing and she is undoubtedly up to her ears in debt. I have repeatedly offered to be paid over time, but she insists everything is fine. I have given her numerous deadlines and have been given excuses and delays. It has come to the point that she called me claiming that her e-mail said we'd meet on Saturday when she didn't!
I cannot conclude that Kim is anything but a liar and a fraud, regrettably, as she has been relatively pleasant compared to some in the industry. I have e-mails going back months as well as screenshots and all of the work I have done saved. Even if this is an honest mistake, her incompetence is clearly staggering.
If you are a writer, steer clear of anyone connected to Kim, Term Paper Topics or Writer Team. If you are a potential customer, know that she has systematically alienated some of the best writers in the industry and that she can't be trusted to pay her writers, which means she can't be trusted with your order.
While I can't confirm Freelance Writer or Alok's stories directly, I can certainly confirm that their story is EXACTLY like mine. Moreover, I've had the chance to look over the administrator part of the site when it was still up. There were signs that many orders were being filled by her (she claimed this was to help others be confidential, which is bizarre since client information is anonymous), and other orders were not paid and hadn't been for months. When I asked her about this, she dodged the question.
I suggest that all writers ripped off by Kim begin to pressure her. I know that she doesn't want this information revealed because she is still in constant contact with me.
If I am paid, I will retract this post.
