Cheating Law Student Pissed Essay They Bought Isn't Up To Snuff

What ever happened to "cheaters never win"?

Someone didn't study enough...This is apparently a thing that really happened. Writing in to The Guardian’s Consumer Champions, meant to bring justice to consumers screwed over by unfair merchants, a UK law student complained that an essay they purchased isn’t good enough:

I decided to buy a legal essay from an online essay-writing service called Law Essays Help. I paid around £200 for something I was promised would be the standard of a 2:1 degree, but I was sent an appalling essay which I do not believe could have been written by an English speaker – and someone who appeared not to have a law degree (at least not from the UK).

I demanded a refund but was instead offered a revised version. This did not arrive, and when I contacted the firm again it said I would have to wait until the following week – and it was still not prepared to offer me a refund. Even then the supposedly “revised” piece of work was the same as the first paper. Please help me to protect other students from being caught. MM, London

The Guardian was appropriately peeved that their column was being hijacked by a student’s ineffective plan to cheat at their studies:

We were shocked by your complaint because you were clearly prepared to cheat to get through your legal studies – which does not reflect well on your moral compass.

This is why we can’t have nice things. This guy is trying to cheat and is so angry that his plan to CHEAT didn’t work out the way he intended that he believes he deserves assistance getting his money back from the newspaper?!?! Not a good look. If they spent half the effort expended on trying to cheat on actually writing the assignment they’d be £200 richer, somewhat smarter, and all around better off. Perhaps this is a lesson the writer, “MM,” can actually learn.

Meanwhile, our friends at Legal Cheek have some interesting thoughts on the query:

Indeed, some viewed it as so extraordinary that they speculated that it had been deliberately created to “troll” the paper.

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But the notion this is a ruse, rather than a serious question, seems more like blind optimism than anything based in the content of the original letter. After all, the author spent a lot of time detailing the revision process and the substantive issues with the essay — effort that seems unlikely if this was just a lark. No, this is just the world that we live in now.

An essay I bought online was so bad I want a refund – but the firm won’t pay up [The Guardian]
Law student complains that essay bought online was not up to scratch [Legal Cheek]


Kathryn Rubino is an editor at Above the Law. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter (@Kathryn1).

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