$10 for Your Blood, Sweat & Tears
January 20, 2008 by Deborah Ng
Filed under Entertainment
It’s hard to put a price on hard work. Take a college paper for example. Some of those puppies take weeks of research. If you were to put a price on the fruits of your labor, what would it be? $100? $500? $2500? Wrong. Try $10 or $15.
Seeking Submissions of high school, undergraduate and graduate papers
Reply to: ihelppeoplecheat@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-01-19, 5:21PM CST
Publish your college papers online and get paid $10 or $15 for each paper accepted.
Oboulo.com is an online document database, and it is seeking submissions of college papers on a wide range of topics including literature, history, art, math and sciences, journalism, marketing, law and legal documents, and many more.
Authors may sign up online at https://www.oboulo.com/action.php?action=subscribe and submit and publish your documents. Authors will receive $10 per document published. By entering the ambassador number b12094 upon signup authors will receive $15 per document published instead of $10.
www.oboulo.com
- Location: Austin
- it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
- Compensation: $10 or $15 per paper accepted for publication
You might be wondering what this site does with your papers. Why, they sell them. Hmm…who would buy a term paper. Oh I don’t know….could it be…perhaps someone in need of a term paper….say a student? Perhaps a student who wants to pass said term paper off as his own? This site couldn’t be condoning cheating, could it? I’m shocked!!!! Shocked I tell you!!!
Further perusal of the site showed each paper to be selling for a couple of bucks. I saw some for $1.95 and others for $3.95. So let’s think about this. The author receives $10 bucks for selling a term paper and the purchaser pays a couple of bucks. I’m thinking there’s not much of a profit margin there.
Ass.
I’m thinking the idea is for you to post papers you’ve already written, as opposed to writing a new paper for $10. And the plan is probably for them to sell more than one… they sell three to five of each paper and they make money/break even.
It took me roughly 2 minutes to find a paper selling for $9.95 that had been purchased 32 times, and another $9.95 paper that had been purchased 52 times. So yeah, these people are making money hand over fist. But you’re not.
Let’s hope everyone who does this goes to a doctor who cheated this week.
I have a friend who teaches English at Rutgers, and she assures me they have mechanisms in place to catch papers from these paper mills, not to mention simply being aware of their own students’ writing abilities and whether they match up with submitted papers…
There’s actually special software for it now. Doesn’t stop kids from buying the papers, though, and lining the pockets of people like this.
Oh, how I wish I still had those college papers of mine. I would type them up but introduce factual errors in the content… not necessarily things that a paper-mill person would catch, but most assuredly details that any instructor would pick up on.
THEN let’s see if the idiot who thinks paying for papers is a good idea still wants to waste their money after they get an F, which is what they deserve for cheating in the first place.
Ha, I’ve suggested something like that too… like “writing” a plagiarized paper for one of these cheating students, collecting the dough, then sitting back and imagining the fun that no doubt ensues. It would be worth the couple of hours it would take to cut and paste stuff from the internet. HAHAHA
Hey if you sell them a long enough paper what are the chances they’d catch say, some ethnic slurs and swear words buried deep into page 10.
“Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is seen as a book-length rejoinder to this sentiment but some established critics dismissed his work as the tendentious polemic of a f—– up n—–.”
Hoo hah! Hilarity ensues!