| exwriter |
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Jan 4, 09, 07:22AM
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I was surfing the net recently looking for essay fraud sites and found the below link in which UK essays have posted essays which have been paid for using stolen credit cards.
http://www.ukessays.com/essay-fraud/index.php
Having previously worked for the company I checked out the essays on there and discovered how much the customer had been charged for the work. As I had kept several of their emails which they had sent to me inviting me to bid on various projects to write I decided to see how much of the money charged went to the writer. I still have these emails so can irrefutable prove that an essay for which the customer was charged £300 was offered to writers for £100. In essence that means that the company get 3 x the amount the writer gets. How can they justify such a huge profit? I checked quite a few of the essays listed at the above link and on each one the amount charged to the customer was 3 x the amount the writer was going to get.
When you also take into account that writers are fined 300% if the customer complains that the work is not of the standard expected that means that if the person who wrote the essay for £100 was to be fined they would have to repay to the company the full £300 that they charged to the customer. This means that the company would retain at least £200 from the deal assuming that thet refund the customer in full. I very much doubt that the company ever give a full refund unless the work is so extremely poor that it could not be used by anyone so it is likely that some of the £300 would also be retained by UK essays. No wonder Barclay Littlewood can afford such flashy cars.
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| Major |
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Jan 4, 09, 12:43PM
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Hm, but the real question is why would students pay 30-50% more for the same paper?
If they order from legitimate American companies they could pay 30-50% less.. especially that quite often the same writers work for both American and UK companies.
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| alice |
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Jan 4, 09, 01:11PM
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Marketing is King!
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| OxbridgeResearchers |
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May 27, 09, 02:36AM
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Major: but the real question is why would students pay 30-50% more for the same paper?
On the off-chance that a member of the Royal Family would write it for them ...
Seriously though ... I thought that UKessays paid writers 40-50% of the total? A few REAL American companies pay 50%.
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| WritersBeware |
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May 27, 09, 02:45AM
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OxbridgeResearchers: A few REAL American companies pay 50%.
That I can confirm. From what I've gathered, ET pays 55-60%. FreelanceWriter could probably confirm more precisely.
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| OxbridgeResearchers |
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May 27, 09, 03:20AM
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WritersBeware: ET pays 55-60%.
They do treat their writers well, irrespective of claims to the contrary - and I am speaking on the basis of personal experience ...
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| exwriter |
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May 27, 09, 03:27PM
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OxbridgeResearchers: Seriously though ... I thought that UKessays paid writers 40-50% of the total? A few REAL American companies pay 50%.
Thats what they would like you to believe, but from personal experience I can confirm that this is not the case. Writers get roughly a third of what the company charges the customer.
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| OxbridgeResearchers |
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May 27, 09, 03:47PM
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exwriter: Writers get roughly a third of what the company charges the customer.
So, the writers do all the work, bring in the profits and ....
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| exwriter |
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May 28, 09, 12:12AM
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OxbridgeResearchers: So, the writers do all the work, bring in the profits and ....
Are screwed over by the company. Added to that exorbitant fines etc for supposed complaints from customers and the company rub their hands with glee!
To them, for every writer that gets fed up and walks, there are several more waiting in line to replace them.
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| OxbridgeResearchers |
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Edited by: OxbridgeResearchers May 28, 09, 01:37AM
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exwriter: To them, for every writer that gets fed up and walks, there are several more waiting in line to replace them
Yes, but have you ever come across the work which these "academic and writing professionals" produce? Rampant plagiarism; superficial and nonsensical content; and rotten English ... Most of their writers are absolutely unqualified and, worse still, management is equally linguistically and academically unqualified. I am not disputing the fact that these companies have a handful of good writers but, generally speaking, the majority have absolutely no place in the industry.
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