| Joffrey |
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Aug 18, 11, 03:21PM
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I bought a paper from a company and they contacted my university to say that I plagiarised. Can they do this????
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| MeoKhan |
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Aug 18, 11, 03:27PM
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Joffrey: Can they do this????
I am wondering how they can do it. How did they get your university/school details? I hope you're kidding, aren't you?
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| Joffrey |
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Aug 18, 11, 03:33PM
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I gave them teh syllabus and instructions for the paper. There was some problems with my payment and my bank reversed payment. When the company called me I told them my professor thought it was plagiarized and told them that i just handed it in. They told me they would try to contact my school because I violated their policies and cheated them. I never paid for the paper but they contacted my school. Now I'm in big trouble and dont know what to do.
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| MeoKhan |
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Aug 18, 11, 03:55PM
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I wonder why you just handed in the paper? This is unethical.
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| Joffrey |
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Aug 18, 11, 10:08PM
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It is complicated. I had to use the service because i didn't have time to do teh research and work full time. I didn't just hand it in but changed some things around when i got it back, but my professor said it was too good for what i usually write and said it was plagiarized. I also had problems with my bank and they reversed payment after i recieved the paper. The company emailed and called and said they would contact my school to prove that i used their work so they had proof for collections or something. I thought it was just to scare me into paying, but they actually did! I am facing academic suspesion now because they contacted my school. I still have not paid for the paper and now i will not pay, but i may get kicked out of school becasue of it. I really just don't know what to do. Is there a law against what they did? I want to sue them but i am not sure yet how.
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| Joffrey |
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Aug 19, 11, 10:43AM
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Can anyone help me? I just wanna know what are my options.
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| pheelyks |
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Aug 19, 11, 02:42PM
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You're screwed, buddy. You illegally turned in a paper and refused to pay the company you bought it from. Who exactly do you want help from, and why do you think you deserve it?
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| Joffrey |
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Aug 19, 11, 03:11PM
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Isn't it illegal for them to contact my school? I told the company i would pay, but then this happened. Isn't there a confidentialty thing? And i did change the paper after i got it back so it was not illegal. What they did was illegal!
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| WritersBeware |
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Edited by: WritersBeware Aug 19, 11, 05:08PM
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Obviously, it is you who somehow involved your school as part of the ordering process, so that's on you.
Joffrey, it is YOU who has committed an illegal act, not the company. You commissioned a product for which you dishonestly did not pay. You had every opportunity to remit payment via a secondary method, but you did not, so your "bank mistake" garbage does not cut it.
The company is well within its rights to take any and all legal means necessary to make sure that you do/did not use its property in any way. In fact, given that you turned in the company's intellectual property for academic credit, the company can sue you in civil court for breach of contract, as well as stealing and misappropriating its property (regardless of the fact that you now claim to have "changed some things around"). Stealing copyrighted "ideas" is also illegal, so you really do not have a legal leg on which to stand.
The doctrine of "unclean hands" is also squarely against you.
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| missheart |
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Sep 18, 11, 06:56PM
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If you did a charge back that would surely upset them and they would find a way to get back at you so they might report you for plagiarism by posing your work online.
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