Explanation of Fees

If the fees impress you as high, we can certainly understand. By way of explanation, we ask that you consider the following points:

• Research and writing is an extremely labor-intensive, time-consuming activity. (If you’ve tried it, you know.) It is also something that requires considerable knowledge and expertise, in order to be done well. Good writers require decent compensation.
  

• Our overhead is substantial. After compensation to the writers and other expenses are deducted, our profit margin is approximately 10 percent of gross. In other words, for every $100 we take in, we keep approximately $10. If the margin were any lower, we could not afford to continue to offer these services. Ask yourself this question: Would you be willing to go through all the trouble of processing a $500 job for any less than $50 (when several hours of work might be involved)?
  

• Cut-rate services are able to offer cheap rates for two reasons: (1) The quality of what they do falls in the lower end of the spectrum and (2) they resell the papers any number of times (through a catalog) after they are rewritten. We do not resell our custom research, so we cannot afford to do jobs “on the cheap” and recover our costs by reselling the reports.
  

• It is for you, the consumer, to decide where your priorities lie. If your main priority is paying as little as possible and you are not that concerned about quality or whether your custom research will be resold, on demand, to anyone who sees it listed in the online catalog, then the cut-rate services are probably your best choice.
  

• Services that pay writers a pittance naturally encourage practices that do not work in the consumer’s favor. Writers will take liberties when they are being poorly compensated. They will lift entire passages (plagiarize) and be sloppy in their documentation. The old saw is true: You get what you pay for.
  

• For every few flames we get from consumers about how high the fees are, we get at least one flame from a writer complaining how low the compensation is for the work involved! We think that both sides are right. We would like to be able to charge consumers less and pay writers more. But this is simply not possible. So we try to strike the happiest medium possible. Thank you for your understanding of these realities.