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Overview

WriteCheck has a rating of 1.44 stars from 18 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. WriteCheck ranks 190th among Writing Other sites.

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Top Positive Review

“Cheated by writecheck/ turnitin for $111.00 No plagerism recived Now not refunding”

Shabbir K.
11/3/15

On 21 October 2015 I purchased 17 paper credits for plagiarism check Waited for more than 40 minute No response/ No result. I immediately sent message that your system is not responding. My Case #00467039 Create Date: 10/30/2015 Case Number: 00467036 Issue Type: Writecheck Originality Report-Content not captured by crawler Dear On 10/21/2015 purchased following credits 2015-10-21 4247120 Purchased Semester Plan (3 documents) 3 0 0 2015-10-21 4247141 Purchased Semester Plan (3 documents) 6 0 0 2015-10-21 4247143 Purchased Graduate Plan (5 documents) 11 0 0 2015-10-21 4247145 Purchased Graduate Plan (5 documents) 16 0 0 2015-10-21 4247146 Purchased Single Paper (1 documents) 17 0 0 2015-10-21 Submitted "Shabbir Thesis 1", 85963 words (18 document credits) -1 0 0 Complaint lodge vide Case Number: 00463789 Either check my thesis or refund my money. The reply was they will not refund as it is their policy. They did not served but charged me This is CHEATING UNFAIR They took my $111.00 money Please help how to recover the amount.

Top Critical Review

“Horrible, avoid at all costs.”

Gholama A.
11/9/19

Inconsistent, unreliable, and a broken system, to say the very least. At first, I couldn't even purchase any credits, to begin with, after waiting a whole week for them to respond, by then, I no longer needed their services. They charge high prices for something that doesn't even work effectively nor adequately. The customer support is nonexistent. Therefore, it's tough to get any feedback or help at all. Use another service, save your time and money, what a waste this is. This website is a disgrace to TurnItIn and students. Mark my words, you'll regret spending your time and money here...

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Thumbnail of user gholamaa
1 review
0 helpful votes
November 9th, 2019

Inconsistent, unreliable, and a broken system, to say the very least. At first, I couldn't even purchase any credits, to begin with, after waiting a whole week for them to respond, by then, I no longer needed their services. They charge high prices for something that doesn't even work effectively nor adequately. The customer support is nonexistent. Therefore, it's tough to get any feedback or help at all. Use another service, save your time and money, what a waste this is. This website is a disgrace to TurnItIn and students. Mark my words, you'll regret spending your time and money here...

Thumbnail of user tourajl
1 review
0 helpful votes
December 28th, 2017

The system is broken and has lots of bugs, I wish I had read reviews before using the that. They go on maintenance without notice and it is really painful to get something useful back from them. For people in academy who get deadlines: do not waste your time, seriously.

Thumbnail of user kiras1
28 reviews
173 helpful votes
April 17th, 2011

TurnItIn powered plagiarism checker. The main advantage of this one is that you can check the paper without it being stored unlike TurnItIn itself. It's not free but well worth the money spent.

Thumbnail of user dw746
1 review
0 helpful votes
August 14th, 2017

There is no tech support. Stuck at "generating" for 3 hours on a paper at a due date night, doesn't let me retry. I had to spend another $8 bucks to give it another shot, and it was done in 2 min. It does NOT make any sense you take 1 credit before I see the result. I honestly feel like I was scammed!

Thumbnail of user larryj26
1 review
5 helpful votes
June 28th, 2015

I just received a 65% similarity score (with indexing checked) and 75% with indexing unchecked. This is ludicrous as I wrote everything directly from my notes which were not lifted from any source. How can this be accurate. I use Turnitin at York University and pay for using it as part of my tuition. Because its down right now I signed up for your check. This is doubly frustrating. There is no plagiarism in the report. I just hope I can still submit it as it is.

Thumbnail of user jamiej47
1 review
0 helpful votes
May 8th, 2017

I should have read reviews first before purchasing the product. I have a paper due to tonight, and the ETS checker cannot process my paper. Well, that is useless to me as I'm not sure what items are plagiarized.

Thumbnail of user elun
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
July 20th, 2016

They took my money and they did not give me credit to submit my paper. Waiting for two days now and my assignment is due today. Useless site. I should have come here first before i purchased

Thumbnail of user shabbirk
1 review
2 helpful votes
November 3rd, 2015

On 21 October 2015 I purchased 17 paper credits for plagiarism check
Waited for more than 40 minute No response/ No result.
I immediately sent message that your system is not responding.
My Case #*******
Create Date: 10/30/2015
Case Number: *******
Issue Type: Writecheck Originality Report-Content not captured by crawler
Dear
On 10/21/2015 purchased following credits

2015-10-21 ******* Purchased Semester Plan (3 documents) 3 0 0
2015-10-21 ******* Purchased Semester Plan (3 documents) 6 0 0
2015-10-21 ******* Purchased Graduate Plan (5 documents) 11 0 0
2015-10-21 ******* Purchased Graduate Plan (5 documents) 16 0 0
2015-10-21 ******* Purchased Single Paper (1 documents) 17 0 0
2015-10-21 Submitted "Shabbir Thesis 1", ******* words (18 document credits) -1 0 0

Complaint lodge vide Case Number: *******
Either check my thesis or refund my money.
The reply was they will not refund as it is their policy.
They did not served but charged me
This is CHEATING UNFAIR
They took my $111.00 money
Please help how to recover the amount.

Tip for consumers:
Shabbir Khan

Thumbnail of user nachol
1 review
0 helpful votes
April 21st, 2015

WriteCheck is immensely expensive and does not revise the paper correctly. For example, parametrization is an entry accepted in most of the dictionaries but WriteCheck marks as an error. Moreover, you cannot see the sources of the plagiarism, hence it is barely useful for that reason.

I regret deeply to purchase 3 papers corrections and lose 30 dollars.

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Thumbnail of user jonm39
1 review
8 helpful votes
August 20th, 2013

It's a SCAM because they don't clearly tell when you sign up that "Resubmissions must be at least 70% similar to the original document. Resubmissions cannot be more than 150% the length of the original document." Many people pay and submit their paper only to find out they cannot get resubmit after they have considerably edited their paper. The info about limitations only appear when you try to resubmit or if by chance you happen to read their FAQ. It's a SCAM

Thumbnail of user clareh43
1 review
2 helpful votes
April 28th, 2018

(UPDATE at end)

I too wish I had read the reviews.

I paid for the semester package. I made sure the document was less than 64,000 characters with (spaces). The document was less than 20MB. And I (attempted) to upload it. There it sat - claiming that it would take 2 mins to upload. 20 mins later - it never did. What it did do was to automatically log me out of the system and send me back to their home page.

There is a note on the page that suggests "Because the service is temporarily experiencing unusually high volumes, your results may take several hours." So I tried again at various times. Early morning. Late night. Middle day. Afternoon. It did not matter. No uploading.

I wrote to them. Got back a? Generic reply saying they would send my concern to their "Tier One Specialists to be investigated further". No reply 2 days later. (time of writing this review)

Also note, that their website says: "All WriteCheck credits purchased are non-refundable. WriteCheck will not prorate any unused credits for an account."

But what if there isn't any service to begin with?

This company is not good. It can be a headache for the student stretched for time. And it is money lost. Stay away.

I hope to be able to update this

********UPDATE *********

Got back a reply that said to change the browser. I had used Google chrome previously (listed by them as compatible). I used Microsoft edge this time. It did the same. Took 2 credits and gave no report. Frustrated I went to write a complaint to them (again) and had to check the site - lo and behold, there sat my report.

So it works. Grammar notes were appreciated. It listed most of my citations (e.g. Brown 2009, Clarke 2010, Dizon 2011) as plagiarism though (what gives?) and that increased my score.

The agent noted that they were having a huge amount of submissions. So there was a backlog.

The site name has 'beta' attached. Perhaps it's not ready as yet. I can't faithfully recommend this. I went with another site that was way faster and didn't flag my citations. I feel better with them.

Upgrading stars from '1' to '2'.

Tip for consumers:
Do not use.
Check unicheck.com instead. They do not save your info. Results in 5 mins.

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Thumbnail of user anithaa
1 review
0 helpful votes
October 7th, 2016

Plagarism meaning is lost by this site.If a sentence is copied from any where it should show as copied but this write check is showing the words and key words also though the whole sentence is written in different way.

Thumbnail of user juliej27
1 review
3 helpful votes
August 16th, 2015

Experienced Inconsistencies in services, submitted a document, and the system does not allows for a reading through the write check version,
Even after multiple submissions, Still I am unable to have access to the write-check version, and consulting a their customers' services

THIS REALLY QUESTIONS THE RELIABILITY OF YOUR SERVICES

Thumbnail of user richards42
1 review
7 helpful votes
September 28th, 2012

The plagiarism check, which is the only reason I used this site, does not pick up a good number of word-for-word quotes, from highly cited articles, which are picked up by the turnitin checkers used by universities. I work at a London university and checked this. If you are looking for a site to allay fears of inadvertant plagiarism, writecheck.com is useless. I have emailed them a number of times asking them about this and have recieved no response. Waste of my money.

Thumbnail of user same42
1 review
2 helpful votes
May 14th, 2013

Borderline deceptive policies tailored to take your money with no hope of refund. Apparently most of their policies are in the FAQ but some key policies are not noted at time of purchase of the service. 1. Each "essay credit" ($8 each credit) is for 5000 words of less. Thus, if your essay is 5001 words, you need to pay $16. However, you won't realize this until after you've paid the first $8 (which can't be refunded). 2. WriteCheck does not filter out any recent work submitted by the student/author. Thus, let's say you submit an essay to TurnItIn.com a day prior and then want to use WriteCheck to see what your math % is (presumably to people other than yourself). If you submit your essay to WriteCheck, you will get a 100% match, which is useless information (i. E. you're plagiarizing yourself). These two points could easily be noted prior to purchasing any credits (using checkboxes so that the customer states s/he understands).
Customer service is non-responsive. Their stated 24 hour turn time was never hit each time I sent them an email. After 48 hours, I would have to send an inquiry about whether they received my last email, at which point they would respond. Also, customer service responses are robotic in nature, lacking any empathy or acknowledgement of understanding the customer's point of view.
WriteCheck sent junk mail on how they are superior to Google's essay checking service. Perhaps it'd be good to check out the competition such as Google's service.

Thumbnail of user jamess125
1 review
10 helpful votes
June 17th, 2013

This site is a scam! Don't you dare give them your credit card info! They'll take everything! Run!

Thumbnail of user scottb55
3 reviews
6 helpful votes
June 17th, 2013

They have policies that are hidden from easily being viewed until it's too late, their customer service is rude and unsympathetic, and their software kind of sucks.

Thumbnail of user edwinj
1 review
4 helpful votes
June 12th, 2012

Not worth the money for legal papers. It doesn't recognise standard phrases, can't seem to understand when things are properly referenced (it even treats the references as plagerised!); overall hopeless
PS: just self-plagerised my comment on Kira's review

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