| vince123 |
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Apr 29, 09, 02:32PM
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If you're on this site I am sure you are shopping around for a good, honest site to write a paper, as was I a few months ago. After doing a lot of research it seemed like custompapers.com was the best choice. My subject was the no child left behind act and I was quoted around 200 dollars for my paper. Which seemed a little high to me but the site looked very credible and I just had no time to do the paper. I got the paper on time and that was about the extent of good things I have to say about them. I would say 80% of the paper was direct quotes, random statistics, and just about anything but the writers own work. Much of the 7 pages I asked for was in footnotes that didn't really fit into the paper at all. There was also a very sad two sentence intro and no conclusion at all! Just kind of dived right in and dropped right off. I tried to clean the paper up as much as possible and turned it in and still failed. My teacher did give me a chance to redo it and gave me many suggestions while doing so. I sent custom papers her comments and asked them to redo the paper, cutting down direct quotes, and following my teachers comments. First they said they would be happy to do it for free.......but then a day later they sent me an email changing there mind, how nice! So I ended up paying another 90 dollars for them to make changes. After getting the paper for the 2nd time I put them side by side to see all the changes they made, they cut about 4 of the direct quotes and pasted them into the footnotes, more footnotes and that's it! After emailing them saying they didn't follow my teachers comments at all and asking them to redo the paper again, they said they would be unable to follow my teachers comments without redoing the whole paper and they were unable to do that, but that's what a paid for! I complained a few more times after this and they just ignored my emails, Scammed twice! They also have a passing grade money back guarantee, but claimed it was not there fault my paper failed and could not refund my money, some guarantee. I began to think about all this and in the time it took to research these sites and the many emails sent back and forth I bet I could of written two papers in that time. I believe after reading so many good things about this site and having them be a total rip off that pretty much all these sites are scams, just write your own papers and learn from my mistakes!
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| WritersBeware |
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Edited by: WritersBeware Apr 29, 09, 02:36PM
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vince123: I believe after reading so many good things about this site and having them be a total rip off
There are two sides to every story. We would have to see the paper and your exact, original specs.
vince123: pretty much all these sites are scams
That's not at all true.
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| Major |
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Apr 29, 09, 02:51PM
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vince123: First they said they would be happy to do it for free.......but then a day later they sent me an email changing there mind, how nice!
Maybe they compared your original instructions with the new set of instructions and it turned out the new instructions were completely different?
Or they realized you tried to submit the paper for a grade as your own without appropriate references..
I wouldn't be surprised if that was one of the reasons.
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| FreelanceWriter |
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Edited by: FreelanceWriter Apr 29, 09, 03:39PM
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Vince123: My teacher did give me a chance to redo it and gave me many suggestions while doing so. I sent custom papers her comments and asked them to redo the paper, cutting down direct quotes, and following my teachers comments. First they said they would be happy to do it for free.......but then a day later they sent me an email changing there mind, how nice! So I ended up paying another 90 dollars for them to make changes. After getting the paper for the 2nd time I put them side by side to see all the changes they made, they cut about 4 of the direct quotes and pasted them into the footnotes, more footnotes and that's it! After emailing them saying they didn't follow my teachers comments at all and asking them to redo the paper again, they said they would be unable to follow my teachers comments without redoing the whole paper and they were unable to do that, but that's what a paid for! I complained a few more times after this and they just ignored my emails, Scammed twice! They also have a passing grade money back guarantee, but claimed it was not there fault my paper failed and could not refund my money, some guarantee.
I don't know anything about that company at all. All the sites I write for prohibit you from actually submitting their work as your own and expect students to use our work as a guide for your own writing. If we screw up an order by not following the specs, you always get a rewrite. If your rewrite request is based on stuff you never requested in your original order, it will be denied; same goes for rewrite requests based on "teachers' comments" because we're never allowed to do additional work on papers once we have actual knowledge or good reason to believe that the customer violated the TOS about not submitting our work for academic credit.
If the company you used has different rules and promises specific grades, that's a much different story and if they took more money to make specific changes they didn't fulfill, you have a legitimate complaint, obviously.
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| mariopuff |
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Oct 25, 09, 11:38PM
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Hi vince123,
I was doing the same thing last week searching for a essay company to write my paper, as it is my first time and i didnt knw wat or which company is good.. and then i came across this website and appearently custompaper and another company (i 4got the name) was one of those that isnt a scam and quite a few ppl kept on saying that custompaper gives you top-notched paper.. and I've actually read at ur post last week (i searched up custompaper becoz by I wanna know what ppl think of custompaper..) but then.. I guess I've choose to ignore it becoz I was really desperate to have someone write my paper becoz I really dont have time! so I ordered my paper from custompaper and JUST in case I need to fix the paper up I ask them to deliver the paper earlier then the due date.. and hurray~ they send the paper on time!! JUST on time tho..
ANYWAYZZ~~ so I was happy and kinda excited to see the paper(lol i dunno why) and I opened up the attachment.. (my heart was pumping abit.. thinking.. finally my paper is done and I got nothing to worry abt.. ) and I started to read my essay...
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Honestly.. I have to say.. I'm disappointed.. because my paper was exactly like vince123's paper.. 80% of the paper is quoting from sources!! and I paid like $150 for it.. by the look of the essay I can do it myself!! jst quote everything and hand it in! and I'll save myself some money!! Every 2 sentences theres a quote or citation!! luckily I've ordered my paper a day earlier so now I can fix my paper up becoz I knw if I hand this in I'm gonna fail like vince123, becoz what teacher will pass ur essay when the whole essay is jst quoting and copying?? Now I'm gonna fix my paper up before I hand it in tomorrow>< Oh and worse, sentences that are written by the writer thats not a quote.. doesnt even make sense!! And I cant post the essay here becoz my uni uses scan on our essay so jst in case I dont wanna post it here an then get busted! even tho I'm gonna change it.. anyway I cant be bothered getting a refund becoz I'm gonna change the essay (I'm not gonna risk failing) and also becoz I've read vince123's post it seems like getting a refund or redo is no use.. so yea..
Oh and at the start, the custompaper ppl give me a quick quote (not really I gotta wait for a day..) and they find me a writer really quickly.. and everything seems to go really well.. but once u get the essay................u'll be disappointed for sure..
ok thats it! thats my experience from custompaper.. in my case it wasnt that pleasent.. =(
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| pheelyks |
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Oct 25, 09, 11:45PM
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mariopuff: Every 2 sentences theres a quote or citation!!
This is standard academic writing. There shouldn't be direct quotes to often, but it is not uncommon for there to be a citation for almost every sentence of a well-researched academic essay. All facts have to come from somewhere, and these sources must be properly cited in the text. Essays are about using existing information to develop new ideas, which involves organizing the information in a way that makes an assertion. There is still a great deal of originality and thinking involved, otherwise you would have been able to write your own paper.
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| FreelanceWriter |
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Edited by: FreelanceWriter Oct 26, 09, 03:38AM
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That's one reason I greatly prefer papers that require more emphasis on the analysis: I don't have the patience to string together so many ideas from other sources; in my opinion, that's more of a pain that just writing what you have to say. I tend to do more papers that allow intellectual creativity and independent analysis with appropriate citations for any factual material or conclusions that aren't mine. I try to stick to one or two necessary citations per paragraph and I almost never actually quote anything except legal statutes and stuff like that. Many times, I purposely avoid papers where the student specifies to use lots of direct quotes or I try to explain that all those direct quotes only make the paper worse instead of better because it looks like nothing but filler in place of actual writing.
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| pheelyks |
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Oct 26, 09, 03:52AM
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Most of the orders I complete have almost no direct quotations, and I absolutely agree that writing original analysis is much easier and more fun, but there's also less work out there for it. I enjoy writing, but I'm in this industry for one reason and one reason only--it pays.
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| CP_Miriam |
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Edited by: CP_Miriam Oct 26, 09, 10:31AM
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"mariopuff" (Emmy),
Thanks for expressing your concerns. My name is Miriam, I'm a representative (salesperson) from CustomPapers.com. I've reviewed all of the model papers we sent to clients within the past two days that cost between $100 and $200. You see, we are very serious about quality control, and when we read about such problems as you have described, we look into them.
Based on your location (Australia), I was able to find the exact same model paper we sent to you (btw. you paid $120, not $150 for the paper).
What I found is that this model paper contained anywhere near 80% in direct quotes. In fact, out of 1,200 words, exactly seven (7) words were directly quoted. That is 0.05%, which is LESS THAN ONE PERCENT.
The rest of the model paper was written in the writer's own words, with proper APA-style citations any time she used information obtained from another source. As a side note, you asked us to use six (6) references, which we did, and each and every time one uses a source, one must cite that source.
It is your choice not to post the paper, but you should also understand that if you provide no actual proof to back up your accusation, we may be forced to show the proof to the public ourselves. Since you have made it clear that you will be significantly altering the model paper which we provided to you, there should be no risk in posting the paper.
Finally, it is regrettable that you didn't contact us directly so that we could help you resolve this situation. Vince123 aside (and please understand that the truth about his situation is far different than he has presented here), we work very hard to please our clients, and will indeed always correct any errors we make, for free.
Again, the model paper we have written and sent to you contained anywhere near 80% in direct quotes; it contained 0.05% in direct quotes, which is LESS THAN ONE PERCENT.
Because of this huge discrepancy, I encourage you to post the model paper which you received as a way to back up your claims, because just telling the other forum participants that this is the case does not make it true.
I also encourage you to email the company directly if you would like to resolve this issue.
Sincerely,
Miriam, CustomPapers.com
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| WritersBeware |
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Oct 26, 09, 02:37PM
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CP_Miriam: What I found is that this model paper contained anywhere near 80%
CP_Miriam: Again, the model paper we have written and sent to you contained anywhere near 80%
Don't you mean "nowhere"?
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| WRT |
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Oct 27, 09, 03:23AM
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Miriam's post comes across as credible.
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| PatsFan |
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Oct 24, 10, 11:17AM
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I used Custom Papers on 2 occasions. The first one a writer named "Orlando" wrote the paper and it was excellent. The next time I had someone named "Tom" write it and it was not as good. There were all kinds of very curious errors, which almost sounded like "Tom" was not even a native English writer. They are not a scam and do deliver the papers, but one of my friends also used the service and had a very negative experience. He placed and order for a very important paper, paid for it, and they never delivered it. I guess that the writer quit and the company did nothing to find another one or get the paper to my friend--he ended up having to drop the class it was for. They eventually refunded his money for the paper, but he still lost the thousand or so that he paid for the class.
I don't know--I've used three writing sites (Essaywriters.net, Elephant Essays, and Custom Papers), and Custom Papers is one of the better writing sites. I really don't like the CSR "Ericka," who seems very disinterested in helping out clients and sometimes argumentative. The last two papers I ordered they could not find writers for, and when I asked why she basically started an argument with me. I was blown away, because I was nothing but polite in all my emails. It's definitely a strange company with some good writers and CSRs, but also with some horrible writers and CSRs. I would probably give the site itself a 6 out of 10.
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| Cardsmall |
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Feb 9, 11, 12:21AM
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Oh no! I have Tom for my paper! lol
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| WRT |
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Feb 11, 11, 07:33AM
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Cardsmall
They are the real deal ...
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