Essay Shark Review:
Everything You Need to Know
About the Service

EssayShark is rated with 3.9 stars based on 934 reviews on review sites, leaving some customers dissatisfied. Some users appreciate the ease of ordering but often mention slow customer service. EssayShark ranks 16th on the list of best essay writing services. Research shows that EssayShark is quite reliable but offers average-quality papers.

When you go through Essay Shark reviews — and believe us, there are plenty of them — you may get a feeling that you’re dealing with a recently launched essay writing service that’s speeding up to its eventual demise. And your trust is shaken as soon as you decide to check out the website.

The service has been around since 2011, and you get all the information you need from their website. They take any type of paper you need. They offer 24/7 customer support. If you have doubts, there’s a pop-up so that you can chat with customer support representatives immediately.

You get a detailed plan on how your order is going to be carried. Nothing looks shady so far, except for the complete lack of negative comments in the review section.

At first glance, the question “Is EssayShark legit?” should not pop up in your head. After all, scams are unlikely to stick around for over a decade.

But what is a scam when it comes to essay writing services? After all, they cannot be involved in something illegal. And upon testing the service, we may state that it doesn’t swindle their customers in the traditional sense.

The main page of the website provides you with all the information you need to place the order. It promises that the end paper is plagiarism-free and states that you can request a refund if you’re not satisfied with your order. There’s a simple form that you need to fill in and place an order. There, you choose the paper type, the number of pages, and the deadline.

Aside from essay writing, the service offers several essay-related options, such as title generation and plagiarism check. EssayShark also offers samples for different paper types that you can check for free.

Unfortunately, the service doesn’t offer other academic options, which probably has to do with the fact that it was launched in the early 2010s. Nowadays, essay writing services additionally offer help with math and coding.

So, it’s time to check out how good EssayShark is. When you go through the reviews on the website, everything seems perfect. You can go through all the pages of reviews, but it’s impossible to find any customer who rated EssayShark lower than 9 out of 10.

Things are a bit different when you check the reviews elsewhere. You will find positive reviews, of course. But they are short and non-descriptive. The negative ones go into detail about what exactly went wrong.

You can find a few complaints about the support service, but generally, all the wrath is directed at the quality of the papers. This is surprising, given the fact that the service allows you to choose the writer for your order and communicate with them directly.

We did just that, and despite the detailed instructions, the writer misunderstood the task. We’ve ordered an essay about the causes of state terrorism and got an essay on the origins of terrorism. The essay offered several definitions of terrorism while omitting state terrorism completely.

Needless to say, the assignment failed. As an essay on the origins of terrorism, it was quite fine. But is EssayShark reliable when its writers misunderstand the task and don’t ask for clarifications?

After figuring out the main reasons behind most negative feedback in EssayShark reviews, we decided to check out its customer support service. Even while you’re browsing through the service’s website, the message offering you to contact support pops up. It’s a nice thing, given that some services don’t even offer communication with the support team until you create an account.

When approaching the support team, we decided to express our hesitation regarding the service and asked what they could say regarding the bad reviews that could be found online. The support agent replied within a minute.

Given the mistakes Darryll made in their reply, we were surely not communicating with the bot. And given that Darryll used parenthesis instead of smiley, he’s from some post-Soviet country.

As you can see, their reply mainly concerned the communication with the writers who may not answer the customers immediately. Yes, it was in the negative reviews, so it’s good to see that the service is well aware of them.

However, nothing was said about the poor quality. And Darryll assured me that despite delayed communication, the writers can provide the best results.

But isn’t it amazing that the agent didn’t ask us to clarify what kind of bad reviews we were talking about? Well, that’s how we rated the conversation.

The prices vary depending on the complexity and urgency of your order.

You get a 20% discount on your first order, but if you plan to stick around with EssayShark and expect any loyalty program, forget about it. The welcome discount is all that you get.

The service offers several convenient payment methods, such as Visa, MasterCard, Discover, Amex, and ApplePay.

As for the money-back guarantee, in case you’ve placed the order and the service failed to find the writer, you may expect a 100% refund. You get a partial refund for a missed deadline. And if you decide to cancel the order for some reason, you will get a partial refund based on the stage of work done by the writer. In terms of the refund policy, we can say that EssayShark is a good service.

This feature is of utmost importance to everyone who’s considering turning to professional academic writers for help.

If you decide to check out the EssayShark essay writing service, one thing that you shouldn’t worry about is the revisions. The service claims to do revisions for free, and there are no complaints on the web about it. None of the users of EssayShark ever complained that they were asked to pay for the revisions.

Besides, the service gives you two options when it comes to revisions. You can ask the writer who originally handled your order to make revisions. But if you think that it will do more harm than good, you can reach out to support and request another writer to revise your essay. And no matter how many times you ask to revise your essay, the service will do your bidding until you’re completely satisfied with the finished product.

Now, it’s time to figure out, “Is EssayShark a good service when it comes to deadlines?”

The paper that we ordered when testing the platform arrived on time. If you check reviews on the web, you can find some complaints about the missed deadline, but let’s be realistic here. It’s unlikely that you will find any service, except the AI-driven ones, that doesn’t get complaints like that.

What we learned from the reviews is that generally, either a writer working on your order or the support team will notify you in advance that your essay won’t be ready on time.

Some reviewers claimed that they weren’t notified about the delay. Yet, again, our paper was delivered on time, so we can neither confirm nor deny any information about how frequently EssayShark misses deadlines.

Now, can you trust EssayShark when it comes to plagiarism? The short answer is – yes. When they deliver your essay, they submit a plagiarism report. Besides, the service offers its own plag check tool.

According to their site, aside from plagiarism, the tool searches for hidden symbols, paraphrasing, and whether the writer used Cyrillic letters (parenthesis instead of smiley makes more sense now) instead of Latin ones. Such a tool doesn’t leave a chance for writers to swindle the 100% uniqueness.

We got the plagiarism report together with our essay. Of course, it stated that no plagiarism was detected. But can their plagiarism check tool be trusted? So, we didn’t stop there and ran the delivered essay through several plagiarism checkers. The uniqueness results varied from 95% to 97%, which is close to perfect. After all, it’s quite difficult to write something 100% unique when it comes to academic papers.

So, does EssayShark work the way it is supposed to? The service offers help with various types of writing tasks, from high school essays to book reviews and business plans. It offers direct communication with writers, but their replies are often far from being timely. However, communication with the support team is satisfying.

Despite the direct communication with writers, they may misunderstand the task, and you end up with a timely-delivered, plagiarism-free paper that requires a lot of revisions. Gladly, the revisions are free.