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There is only one writer here that seems to still be using the Featured writer service of this company at this point. So he is the only one who could be misusing the service as an advertising tool.
Wow. Someone here is on a real tear trying to disparage me (and, of course, completely anonymously) even though I hardly post here at all and haven't bothered posting an ad here for several years. FYI, the featured writer option IS an "advertising tool" and intended as such; that's why writers pay to be listed as featured writers. Kindly explain how I've ever "misused" that tool. I've always openly acknowledged - in fact, volunteered, unprompted - that it's nothing but a paid advertisement and I've never suggested or implied in any way that anybody should ever necessarily trust anybody who uses it to advertise just because of that advertisement.
Consider if you will that he makes boisterous claims about how long he has been in the business, a member of this forum, and number of satisfied repeat clients.
Actually, as explained below, each and every comment from my customers that I quoted in my paid Review thread (another feature that is intended by the forum Admin as a paid "advertising tool") can be found in the thread where each of those customers originally posted it. Likewise, the 5 comments that appear on my featured profile were also left by actual clients. Kindly provide an example of a "boisterous" claim that I've ever made on either forum. Everything I've ever said about myself on these forums is true: I received a law degree in 1989; I've been doing this for over 20 years; during some of that time, I was also a fulltime writer/editor for a very large US federal agency at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan; I've been a member of Essay Scam since 2008; and from 2003 to 2013, I was one of the 3 or 4 top writers (out of hundreds) at one of the largest and best US essay companies, along with Pheelyks, Professor Verb, and Research Pro. All of that is the simple truth about my history as a writer and as a writer in this business.
As for Freelancewriter. He has always been here as an independent writer trying to sell his services. That is why he pays to be a featured writer here.
Correct. My business is doing just fine, thank you.
He is actually the last of his kind at this forum as far as I can tell. His contemporaries have stopped posting for some reason. Maybe they found better paying regular jobs or, they decided to retire from the business.
All of the testimonials on my Review thread are from real clients who are real forum members who can be contacted directly through the forum messaging system. If they weren't, Admin would never have allowed me to include their quotes, all of which can also be found in the actual threads in which those comments first appeared (using the search function). The five comments posted on my forum profile are also all from real customers who posted those comments directly through the forum system to which I don't have access.
Freelancewriter on the other hand is just here for self-promotion and nothing more.
Every person who logs into this forum or EssayScam does so for one of only two possible reasons: (1) To promote his or her freelance services or those of his or her essay company; or (2) To find a reliable service provider and avoid scams and bad service providers. There are no real "observers" on these sites who don't have one of those two motivations for being here; however, there are plenty of users who just don't admit to owning or working for essay companies. Nobody spends time on a forum about essays for purchase just to read them for fun. Some people who are here for Reason #1 choose to pursue that objective indirectly and dishonestly and underhandedly by attacking their competitors instead of by establishing their own good reputations based on a very long history of providing high-quality work to their customers and by demonstrating their own writing abilities and/or sharing their knowledge about the industry in their forum posts.
Regarding how I do business, I've been doing this for over 20 years and I have my own process and procedures that I've developed over that time that work best for me; and I'm not interested in changing them for anybody who wants to do things differently. Generally, the way it works with me is actually quite simple: I expect clients to send me all of the info and files (if any) for any project, along with their desired length and a specific deadline; and I respond to those inquiries with a price quote. If they want the project, they pay for it, and they receive exactly what they ordered on or before whatever deadline we agree on. Most new clients do exactly that, either on their own or after I respond to their initial inquiry asking for whatever info was missing. Some prospective clients do contact me with different expectations about how this works, whether by proposing partial payment after delivery or by requesting to review their projects a few pages at a time, as I write them, etc. In those cases, I simply explain that this just isn't how I do business and that it's not an option of they want to do business with me. If they choose not to use me because they expect something different from what I offer, that's their prerogative. I don't chase after anybody's business and when I'm a customer of any (different type of) service provider, I understand going into it that whatever their FAQs (or email responses) say about how they do (and don't do) business is the way thing will work with them and I don't propose different terms of service. If I'm not happy with their policies, I find another service provider whose policies I prefer.
The way he has conducted himself historically at this forum makes me distrust his comments far more than I would question the posts of Noted in the forum threads. He tries way too hard to promote himself
Please post a link to any comment of mine in any thread that you believe demonstrates how I have "conducted" or "promoted" myself objectionably in the 14 years that I've been posting under the exact same screen name. Surely, it must be easy for you to find something objectionable that I've posted for you to say something like that; so kindly note that "All of your comments are objectionable and self-promoting" is not responsive to the question.
As for Freelancewriter?... Yes, I have looked at his website and it is actually boring, as well as very ancient in its presentation and conduct of business.
Yes, from your obsession with me, I'm quite sure that you've spent time on my website. I'm just a writer who offers writing services, not a website creator offering (or demonstrating) my expertise in creating websites. There's no reason for you to put "official site" in quotes, sarcastically like that, because I've never referred to it that way. In fact, I was doing just fine using nothing but advertisements publicizing my email address until 2010, when an undisclosed principal of an essay company started threads publicly warning customers never to use ANY writer with just an email address without a website. He did this (very deliberately) without any acknowledgement that a few of us writers without websites were obviously totally legit, because he also knew us as writers for his own essay company that sold our work to their customers under the exact same IDs that we used for our forum S/Ns. That's the only reason I had to create any website in the first place. My site functions, essentially, as little more than a very long FAQ so I don't have to answer the same questions over and over. I cannot include a user interface because, as a solo writer, I take (and often price) projects according to my schedule and how much time and work I think a project will require, not just by the number of pages, education level, and deadline. A system that allowed direct order placement would never work for me. For the record, at many sites with advanced UI and automatic ordering systems, customers don't realize that their orders may sit on the board (untaken by any writer for days or even weeks) after the system sends out a "confirmation" of their paid order. Sometimes, those orders never get taken and get refunded; and some of those companies never provide any notice that the essay the customer thought was "in progress" all along are just going to get refunded, and after their specified due dates. That can't happen with me, because I price and accept every order, personally.
Also for the record, most of the essay companies that have been proven to be either outright scams or providers of horrible ESL and/or totally plagiarized "writing" have fantastic high-end websites with sophisticated automatic ordering systems. Their disappointed customers who find me only after wasting their hard-earned money on them, first, after being duped by their flashy websites have no complaints about my simple website or the "image" that it presents. They judge me only by the quality of the work that they receive from me, which is why most of them end up using me for years and never try another provider after our first transaction. But thank you for your kind concern; I'm sure it's motivated strictly by your desire to provide constructive criticism and not at all because you're an undisclosed competitor hoping to undermine my reputation anonymously by saying nasty things about my website and me. Let me suggest that instead of attacking other writers under the cowardly cloak of total anonymity here, you should create a profile on Essay Scam and stand behind everything you say about others. Spend more time just establishing your own business and reputation instead of disparaging other writers whose relative success in this industry you obviously resent and covet so much. |
