WriterbayReviews 189

A well-known, UK-based, writing company recently closed down. After a few months, writers of this old company received an email titled "Good news!", our company has been taken over by another company known as Writerbay and our writers can expressly apply to this new company to become their writers. Writers like myself were excited about this news. Alas, I wish I never switched over because it was more like "bad news". My journey with them has been the worst experience with any writing company since I became a writer 8 years ago. Writerbay UK is a sham, they only assign orders to their special writers! Do not bother applying because you will never get orders, and if you do get orders, you do not get paid! Do you know the company you took over from, do you know how well they treated their writers? Writerbay is not even 10% as good as the previous company. The old company would give orders fairly to everyone, ensure everyone gets some work. It's been 4 months since I moved over to Writerbay and all you do is bid without getting a single job. What a waste of my time. There are more reliable writing sites out there, please try them out like I did. I plan to close my account with this impractical company!

I have been writing for Writerbay since May 2011. At first I thought it was not a legit site but after receiving my first pay, I knew it was not a scam. Since I left my job, Writerbay became my sole source of income. Aside from a good source of livelihood for me, it has also been a learning experience. Since I started writing in Writerbay, I learned a lot about different subject matters, from criminal justice to management to economics. Writing for the company is a good exercise for my mind especially since I do not have a permanent job. Although the rates are lower than other academic writing sites, I still appreciate the time I spend doing researches to complete orders.
I plan to work with Writerbay as long as I am able to think and use the computer. I just wish that the rates for writers who have stayed with the company are higher than those who are just new in the business. Loyalty has a price too.
Thank you Writerbay for everything!

I have been a freelance academic writer for Writer Bay since December 2012, or almost 7 years now. So far, this freelance writing organization has been one of the most reputable and reliable online writing services, so far. Support provides immediate response for inquiries and clarifications, and had been very prompt in resolving issues pertinent to writing. The challenging issues that were encountered included payment issues where my salary has been sent late or problems with payment methods (I changed payment methods thrice already) were not immediately resolved since they could not provide assistance in tracing the status of my payment. In addition, with the recent mandatory audits being conducted, I honestly contest being given a demotion (from PRO status to PRO light) on the basis of non-compliance with the required 100 quality pages per month. I believe a demotion in status is derogatory since the demotion considered the number of pages without taking into account that there are different orders of varying complexity depending on academic levels. There are pages that are easy to write and others are fairly difficult, especially entailing application of theories learned from my graduate degree course. I have been writing consistently for WriterBay for almost 7 years with 1933 approved orders. And then you demote me for writing below the 100 orders per month which is supposedly a requirement to sustain my PRO status. It is my conviction that I earned the PRO status for delivering quality orders consistently through the years. Demoting my status to lower PRO light is actually demotivating and demeaning. It is not an effective manner to say I have to strive harder to reach the same status in the future. I hope you will reconsider this auditing practice and the number of pages written should not solely be a main consideration for adjusting the status up or downwards. Quality should precede quantity. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to write a review. My very best regards to WriterBay.

I have been with writerbay for 5 years now. Although I have ny own share of lapses, I am believe that I develop more as a technical writer because of my tenure with writerbay. Before I was only doing it as a part time job, but I realized that the site offered me more fulfillment compared to my day job. I am now doing this full time.

I know that I will learn more and I continue to look forward to establish a good working relationship with writerbay

This company claims to have a competitive work environment. It's more like aggressive and hostile. It is really difficult to make any money there.

I actually know a lot of writers there, and they all say the same things, so when the writerbay representative answers this to defend the company, just keep in mind that so many of their writers feel this way, they are bleeding money every day instead of remaining profitable... and allowing their writers to remain profitable too. A writerbay rep will most likely respond to this with something like, we have hundreds of orders every day, our top writers make thousands of dollars, blah blah blah. It's all just a bunch of hogwash. That might be the truth for the handful of writers that they favor, but the rest of us have to fight to get orders.

Really, the problem is in the QA dept. who is in charge of assigning orders. They bottleneck all of the orders and then only assign one out of every ten or twenty you apply to. The only explanation I can think of is that they have a lot of fake orders rolling around to make them look really busy. Those orders drop off after sitting in the cue for a little while. I believe that their writer earnings are fake too... no ONE human being can make 5,000 a month unless they write at least 20 pages a day at $20 a page, and believe me, unless they have a special cue for a handful of writers, getting an order for 20$ per page is like seeing a unicorn in a rainbow. Plus, when there are orders for this amount, usually, the task is really impossible unless you have a paper that is prewritten and you can type 120 words a minute. I wish! I have friends who can do it, but when they do, they can't do it grammatically correctly either.

Many of us are leaving. It's too late now. We need to actually work for a company that allows us to make money. Your representative's attempt to CYA is not going to convince the rest of the world that your company does not have a real business that offers writers real money.

There is a pecking order at this company. They have writers who they give all of the highest paying orders to, and everyone else must bite, scratch, and scramble to get decent paying work. I am one of these writers who is not favored within the organization even though I have been working there for fifteen months, and I have my share of highly rated orders that I have completed. Yet, I literally have to apply to twenty orders just to get a handful, and if I'm lucky, they'll throw me a scrap or two of a high-paying order like a dog.

Because of these conditions the company creates, it leads to limited chances to make money every single day your work for the company. It even affects writers when they have a contest. For example, their latest contests call for writers to try and write as many pages as they can within a month or have the highest amount of rush orders. We all know that this contest is fixed, because only their darling butt-kissers get the urgent orders, and the rest of us get some only occasionally. It's not a real contest where everyone has an equal chance to succeed and get a bonus.

If they stopped rigging the entire company so that only a handful of people profit, they might have a really good thing going. I don't know if it's a cultural thing or what, but as polite as the staff communicates, most of the time (you have those who do not and try their best to interfere with all of your orders to make life difficult for you), you won't get a fair shake at this company, no matter how many favors they talk you into doing for you where you will wind up making only a few ducats an hour.

I have to agree with what the previous reviewer said about Writerbay. I started working for Writerbay last year, and it has been an extremely disappointing experience. I bid on jobs all day long, and never get assigned a job. It is apparent that the people assigning jobs have their favourite writers. I have gone from writing an average of 20-30 orders for a previous company, to barely completing 2 orders in a whole month for Writerbay. I barely earn anything after joining Writerbay, and I have had to search for other income since joining them. Other similar companies adopt a fairer approach by ensuring everyone gets some work in a month. Writerbay has no fairness in their approach, because I don't see why a writer will bid on 30 jobs in a month and barely get assigned one job. I think the company needs to change how they assign orders, it is unfair to writers who are shut out due to personal grievances or because someone prefers certain writers. And maybe stop employing more writers when you already have your 'special' writers who get to complete all the jobs? Because I don't understand why a writer will go through the entire recruitment process, only to end up getting only one job a month? It's one of the worst approaches to assigning jobs that I have ever seen.

Never expect to make any real money at this company. The problem is that they assign orders, which I suppose is their right, but what this does is turns their company into a very political organization. If you cross hairs with someone there and that person is working on that day, you won't get any work. And forget all of the top paying orders. They'll assign those to people who either put in bids to do it for less money or they have a handful of writers who get all of the top work. I have been working there for years, and I have found it impossible to support myself solely on Writerbay. If you do something for them once in a while, I guess it's okay. The people are polite enough, but you have to watch, because you have some people there who will stress you out for no reason, just because it's fun. It makes it very difficult and stressful to earn any real money with them, so make sure that you do not become dependent on them as your primary source of income. It's much better if you have other income to cover when the staff get into that mood and don't feel like assigning you anything for the day or want to assign you all of the lowest paying contracts for the week.

One of the best writing company, however, many of my writing struggles are a result of either an unresponsive support team or one who insists on their rules, without bothering to check the requirements. Of course, they have to check the submitted papers based on the guidelines, but some members of the support team do not check the paper details. They insist on sending the paper for revision, even when it was properly completed based on the client's requirements. At least give your writers, especially those who are already expert in their field, the freedom to complete the paper without the need to be checked by your support team. This is especially in the case of new members of the support team, as they are the ones who often give unnecessary headaches to writers who know what they are doing. I suggests that you let the writer and the client communicate, rather than letting the support team get in the way.

Wow, I would just like to say that customer service is really polite, for the most part, although I don't really trust much of what they say. You have to really watch all of the people in this company, though, because they try to get you when your guard is down. The entire staff goes in and changes things on your order so they can make more money off of you, like lowering your per page rate in the middle of an order. They claim it's a mistake, but when you see the name of someone who you know has it in for you in the company as the person who did it, it makes you doubt their claims. It's not like they go out of their way to check over their adjustments to see if they made a mistake. If you don't catch it, then they keep the money. Not the most horrible I've worked for, but just be careful. They are not the most trustworthy either.

UPDATE! The rep from the company is simply full of crap. This did happen, it does happen, and it will happen. This company is a foreign company, and they have no care for treating their writers well, at all, ever. This is my experience with Writerbay, and if they don't like the fact that I called them out on it, it's really just too bad. They had tried to steal money from me like this on a number of occasions. It was so bad, I had to start taking screenshots of the contracts I took on so that I had proof that someone went in there and changed the pay, and I went to management every single time. You can take your response and stick it you-know-where, because it doesn't help solve anything, it's completely and utterly useless, and it only shows how guilty you really are. Because of your ignorant response, I changed my vote to a one star because your company and everyone in it is utterly useless.

I just started with this company back in September. It seems like they have a lot of work, but I have never really gotten any high-paying work, even though I was qualified to write the order. If they really wanted to create a good system for writers, they would turn it into a take system, like some other companies I've worked for. Then it's just a matter of who is quickest to grab the contract. Writerbay is different, though. They reserve all of the high-paying assignments as a way to favor only certain writers, and then everyone else gets shut out. You can make some money, but it's not much. You're better off going to companies who offer a higher pay per page in the first place, and finding a company where they allow writers to grab the assignments as they see them. This company uses their high paying ones as a weapon, and it does not allow all writers to earn money with their company fairly. If you're not on that extremely short list of writers who get ALL of the high paying assignments, then guess what? You're not going to get any at all.

Hi guys! Never thought I'll write this kind of a feedback. I've been looking for some reviews on Writerbay as was thinking whether to apply or not.
Good Lord how lucky I am to communicate with their representatives before I got here. Lauren was actually super nice and helpful. Honestly, I can't even imagine some posts below are real.
I have now passed all the introductory parts and got approved, so now I can tell you my thoughts: they are not perfect for sure BUT their team is amazing. I cannot imagine someone from their representatives acting like Frank said. I wrote him a personal message asking whether it's a true story or it was made up and now waiting if he replies at all. Lol

Sitejabber team, do you actually check whether a person worked with some company? Looks like not.

I just read Mark B.'s review, and as a family member who has watched the torture they love to inflict on writers, I have to say that his assessment of Writerbay is completely true, 100%.

The management is of high school level. They are extremely vindictive. They do turn away all good writers.

I have watched my poor spouse pour heart and soul completely into this worthless company only to have them play games with wages, just like Mike said, and more.

In addition, when my spouse tried to confront them with the issue, they yelled at my spouse, cursed me out, and then hung up on my spouse three times.

This is the rudest, most unprofessional group of managers I have ever experienced, and they are running that company into the ground.

The curse contained a racial slur, by the way, against Americans. Something about entitlement because my wife doesn't want to work in a paper mill sweat shop.

Their working conditions are absolutely horrible.

They should be brought up on charges for violation to international human rights.

My spouse has since then found another company to work for, and they are a really nice group of people. They treat my spouse well, complimenting on talent and give thanks for working with them.

You would have a better chance of working in a den of tigers than with Writerbay. Your survival rate will be higher.

After working for around a year with the company, I found that the company respects its writers a lot and gives opportunities. I had to wait too long for the first order but then it was all good. Timely payments and plenty of work. However, since I was a newbie, I made several mistakes and the account was terminated in March.
I have learned from my mistakes and am ready to take the challenges again with a much enhanced capability of handling any order. I requested Writerbay to allow me another chance but they said I can reapply only after a year of termination.

I regret about my mistakes and wish if I could go back in time and not do those mistakes. I badly want to work with the company again. Hence, I would request the company to kindly allow me to work again as soon as possible. I am ready to pass all the tests again with much better results.

My name is Max and I have been working for year. I asked them to delete my account since I had to apply for a new job and move out. That was a half a year before. But I had splendid experience with this company, though was fined several times for lateness :( Actually, it is a good freelancing job that absorbs and implements your attempts to gain new skills and more experience with writing process. Sometimes such skills can be inevitable and vital. I didn't have any negative experience with them. Though I am not a native speaker. My friend is still working for them and receives big projects. I didn't take them, because they looked terrifying lol. Well, it's cool opportunity to earn some good stuff! :)

Writers bay is one excellent company that attracts top notch writers across the globe. Personally, I write for uvorcorp, but I had a privilege to manage this account for a friend of mine who was sick for quite some time. All the orders that I submitted for that period were approved by the clients and no issues came up. However, when I try to open an account with them, I am not always successful. I tend to imagine that Africans gets it difficult to secure these accounts whenever they attempt to apply. We have the potential my friends. We love you very much. We desire to work with you. We believe that you are a great company. Kindly try to be fair to all people when you are approving accounts. Otherwise, you are exceptional and I can admit that!

I used to write for Writerbay when I was a student since you can take orders with the deadlines that suitable for you, so to combine your studies and some writing. I have not been active for some time as I do have some other stuff to worry about, but I might consider returning back. A friend of mine is still working there as a freelancer (I referred her) and her overall impression is good. Which is nice, is that I actually earn on my friend's orders and have some passive income due to the referral program Writerbay provides.

My account as deleted awhile ago for no reason in my opinion, so there's that. The English of the employees is also really bad. It was funny when I was told that the essay I wrote had grammar errors, and then I found out that the person reviewing it really just didn't know English well enough to understand what I wrote. They're based in the Philippines, and Filipino English allows for a lot of what would be considered grammatical errors in American and British English, so that is what this experience is like.