Academized Review

Academized is a fairly well-known writing help service, and with a 4/5 rating and a hundred positive Academized.com reviews on TrustPilot, I felt it was safe to test it with my upcoming essay.

The site looked decent enough, but what I liked is that I could see right away pretty much all the information I could ask for. As long as you don't scroll down to the very bottom, you'll be fine.

Because once you do, you will see a bunch of links leading to pages supposedly describing their services but actually containing no useful information.

Customer support

When looking for contacts, I realized that the site may actually have more tabs than it should, since I only found it in the dropdown menu by clicking the tab More. There, I found out I could write them an email, call them by the phone, or enter live chat. It's always present on the left side, but I didn't notice it at first.

Overall, I was content with the customer support answers, they were helpful and friendly, but not very prompt. And it all changed for the worse after I placed my order.

My experience

Before placing my order I've read  a lot of positive Academized.com reviews and wasn’t expecting that something could go wrong. How naive I was! The task I was delegating to an Academized writer was easy enough, but I just wanted to use it for testing a new writing service to see if I could trust it with something more complex in the future. So, is Academized legit? Unfortunately, they failed my test.

What was wrong? Was I an exception and is there a chance other people could have a satisfying experience with this company? That's what I want to explore in my Academized review.

Order form

The order form seems pretty common and is divided into three steps: paper details, order preferences, and contact information. The second step, I must say, surprised me, and not in a pleasant way.

It showed all the additional features, choosing a writer's level and the type of customer support among them. Like, you can get advanced customer support for extra 6 bucks, or a premium one for $10. Judging from the description, those options mean that they would control the quality and timely delivery. That explains why I got none of those things since I went with the basic package.

And how do you like an originality report for $30? I find it a blatant rip-off.

Discounts and pricing

One of the great benefits that you can get is a 15 % discount for your first order. I was really curious whether I will be able to use it and save some money, so I decided to place the order with them. By the way, I  read many Academized reviews confirming the application of this discount. 

At first glance, the prices here seem quite average. For instance, a page of a high-school level essay costs $13.  But now you have to pay your attention to the deadline. This price is valid for 14 days. Have you ever received a task to write a simple 1-page essay for college with a 2 weeks deadline? Me neither! So if you continue looking at prices you will notice that they are considerably higher than on other and reliable webpages. For example,  the if the option is 10 days, it will cost you  $16, and if you need your paper in 6 hours, that will cost $36. 

Revisions

Is Academized legit? Well, read this and make your own conclusion. But I strongly recommend you before placing the order read their money-back policy because there is a loophole there for them to write a low-quality paper and still not return you your money completely. The service has a 14 days free revision period when you can have as many revisions as you want. But! If you use this option, then don’t expect to have a 100% refund in case the writer, even after millions of revisions, still sends you a piece of crap. In such a case you can expect to have only 70% of the refund. It's nonsense, but they will be telling you that the writer spent the time, and didn’t take another order, so that is why a complete refund is impossible.  

Final quality

I’ve spent my time writing this Academized review only because I want to warn other people,  so they don’t make the same mistake as IK did.  The paper I received was not even close to a good one, The language was poor, the vocabulary needed urgent improvement, there were typos and what I hated the most was that the writer invented several references and plagiarized the considerable part of my paper. Of course, I asked for revision but after 3 or 4 rounds the quality hasn’t changed at all. I was really disappointed! But when you look at the ranking of their writers it’s hard to believe they can be so irresponsible, 

Writer's proficiency

So, according to Our writers' tab, there are over a thousand writers, which I find hard to believe. The main tab says there are active 187 writers. So, either their hire and fire writers too often, or it's all a lie.

Either way, it's not a good sign. Is Academized scam? Before passing a verdict, I wanted to see once again whether other customers were any luckier than I was.

People talking

So, yes, I fell for TrustPilot reviews, almost 90% of them praised the site and rated it either Great or Excellent. Now that I look back at them, they seem quite shallow and non-specific, while 11% SiteJabber reviews describe their experience in many details and seem quite plausible.

When I googled for more Academized reviews, I found much more negative feedback, as well as evidence of creating fake review sites to promote this service as reliable.

Loyalty program

So, there is a lifetime Academized discount you can get after ordering a certain number of pages. It goes like this:

• 15 pages and more = 5% off
• 50 pages and more = 10% off
• 100 pages and more = 15%

I'm not sure that anyone has ever got to use those discounts though, because after the first experience I have absolutely no wish to us it again, And i’m sure that my negative Academized.com review is not unique, and many people think just as I do.

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