Yes, I do copy writing, no I will not do your homework. I have things thing called morals and ethics. Many people just want money, while I do want money there are certain things I will not do for money. And when I refuse to do your homework calling me an asshole and telling me you won't send me any future work (when you have never sent me anyway) typically just causes me to laugh at you and think how stupid you are for not being able to do your own homework and then threatening me because I won't do it for the measly 75 cents per 100 words you quoted me. That is all
hmmm... What has moral or ethics got to do with this? Schools mostly don't teach the right thing anyway - thank god I'm done with uni and school... but wow... someone quoted you 75 CENTS per 100 words! Now that is morally wrong! =P
I was bored with school, so I won't take these kind of jobs anyway. I really don't want to get back there.
This goes on all the time. I saw a freelance writing board somewhere that I would guess 80% of the "jobs" were for term papers. There were quite a few writers making a nice gig doing it. As an added bonus, they could reuse just about everything since nothing was being published. lol The irony is that I saw more than a few "students" complain that the pieces were written so well that their teachers/professors knew they had hired someone.
hmm, this can be a market for beginners to both brush their skills and get paid while they are doing so!
I've been approached more than a few times to do homework and write essays. It's an unethical business practice any way you cut it. If you're justifying essay-writing and homework as being okay or honest, you're fooling yourself. It can be a business, sure, but then so are any number of other unethical or blatantly illegal activities. It's a personal choice, but not one that I can respect. It's also a decision that can hurt your credibility and brand if you plan to ever actively market yourself as more than an essay writer someday. Thanks OP for throwing this out there - I appreciate it as both a writer and an English teacher.
For the record, the marketplace was real, my support of it was satire. I was shocked to find an open marketplace where this was going on. I only mentioned it because it showed how prevalent this has become.
It's even dirtier than that. In Egypt, some rich babies hire others student to study for them and get degrees. Fake IDs and yes it happens. There are students who are getting paid to study and doing it for money. Shaming but exists.
I just got contacted by same idiot today after I gave him a talking to about how I don't do others homework... He had another assignment he wanted me to do for half a cent a word.... I'm thinking about doing it for him and then hiding in the paper somewhere that he paid someone to do it so his teacher busts him
Hahahaha that's a nice idea! just blend it in the conclusion of a essay or a important place of the assignment!
I prefer not to do homework (for a lot of reasons), but I don't think it can be said to be any more unethical than other work I have been hired to do. How many times have you done sales copy for a product you know probably doesn't work? Or that you haven't really had any success using yourself? I have plenty of times, writing sales pages, paid consumer reviews and advertising campaigns. I have written whole ebooks on how to naturally enlarge the penis, and I don't even have one. I once wrote a sales-based review for a product from a woman who claimed there were little creatures living in our colon, sucking our life energy through our auras. Ethics is clouded in any business like this, unfortunately. Do I hope I can get away from all of it someday? Yeah, I do. I have the ambition of being a novelist and a poet, not a freelance junk peddler. But it pays the bills and feeds my two kids, and we all settle on the side of the demeaning, sometimes.
I don't lie. And your only partially correct - your no better then the scam artists on here that don't pay for their work, or don't do work when you get paid.
Oh come on dude it's NO DIFFERENT from copying off of the smart kid that did his homework everyday when you didn't! EVERYONE DOES IT.
Not really sure how you came up with that conclusion, but alright. I bow before the master of morality and ethics. Especially given the fact that more than half of your outrage seems to be the price he offered you. ETA: I also wanted to add, the more I think about it, how odd your sudden attack was. You can't have much experience and/or objectivity on this issue. Otherwise, you would expect it to apply to all facets of copywriting or freelancing. For example, I am doing a set of articles right now for a referred client about DJ equipment for a blog he maintains attached to both a physical and online store. I am not a DJ, I have never done a gig, but I am offering advice. I am doing this based on research (which is thorough) and the client's specifications. Am I unethical because I will not be using the equipment talked about in the articles? No, it is based on real information that I have gathered. Your opinion is extremely odd and short sighted. I cannot even begin to imagine what it is you write that is held to such a high standard. You must only work in topics you have years of education and experience in, right?