Costs

We don’t offer ‘ball park figures’ because every commission is unique and our pricing system reflects this.  We ask you to calculate your own price cost, but are always available by e mail or telephone (0044 121 454 5874) to help you.

How we calculate cost:

Base Rate

Please Note: Our cost is calculated at time of beginning you commission (when we receive your instructions) and not when it is delivered to you. Our writers’ working week is 35 hours. The rate is dependent upon the numbers of hours required (5 day week @ 7 hours per day or 7 day week @ 5 hours). Your date of final instruction for invoicing purposes is the date when we receive your last materials or receive a communication from you. Therefore it is important to instruct as quickly and as completely as possible.  

Our costing system is complex but transparent. Please read all sections before commissioning any work and ensure you have estimated your final cost correctly. Our pricing system reflects our ethos, we are more expensive than many sites but provide a more personalised and much higher quality service in all aspects. 

Work Commissioned at less than Base Rate

Work required in less time is calculated for Undergraduate commissions as;

When work is commissioned to begin immediately in order to meet your deadline (for instance 5,000 words in 3 days) we will deliver your commission by using multiple teams/writers to deliver the number of hours' work required within your timescale. There will be a charge per team for this service and this will be shown on your invoice as an additional cost of £500 per 5,000 words.

When calculating for Masters’ and Doctorate rates begin from the appropriate Base Rate and calculate accordingly.

Length - we calculate all  commisisons upwards to the nearest 500 words and @ 8 hours per 1000 words

Hours per 1000 words

Our charges for editing are the same as for writing. We always undertake a full document edit on all manuscripts submitted to us, including second drafts of extant commissions and not chapters (if appropriate) or sections or parts of these. The document you require to be edited will go through a word count on arrival and again when despatched. The charge is levied on the upper word count whether this is the incoming or the outgoing document. Where a further edit is required in line with supervisor comments, whether on the client's draft script or one already constructed by ourselves, the edit is carried out upon the entire document and costed on the upper word count whether as an incoming or outgoing document.          

A pre-reading fee applies to all materials and is calculated on the number of words you require and not the number of words you have sent. All commissions must be written from the materials you have sent or from research we will source for you, or a combination of both. No commission is accepted without either of these provisos. Where the material relates to privileged information which our researcher cannot access this must be provided by you; please see FAQS. Our writers are experienced and skilled but all commissions that depend upon material as supplied can only be as successful or as complete as that material enables them to be. Provision of the necessary information is the client's responsibility and once work is in progress your writing team will work from what has been provided.

When sending your own draft for editing or for incorporation in a new draft this is subject to an incoming editing word charge and is charged as a seperate item from your secondary materials.

Editing of a manuscript that has been completed, but failed or is only partly complete is the most time consuming and therefore costly type of commission. It can incur charges for; pre-reading your draft, pre-reading of any materials you have sent which are needed to complete or improve the script. And if additional research is required to improve the quality and level of the draft and for which you have also contracted a researcher there will be a pre-reading charge for the materials that have been generated, making 3 pre-reading charges in all.  

If the commission is ongoing, for instance editing the draft in stages, the initial pre-reading of the entire draft is necessary for orientation before work on any stage can begin. In this case the pre-reading charge will be levied at the time of despatch of the first commission and submitted as a separate invoice so that you will receive 2 invoices (pre-reading and construction) each to be settled within 14 days. However, this is a one-off charge and there would be no further charge for any subsequent re-reading that may be required.  

As an example on a 30,000 word incoming dissertation script subject to a pre-reading fee of 3 hours per 1000 words (Master's Level) of 90 hours at Base Rate of £45 an hour (14 days before commencing work) the cost would be £4,050 and at immediate rate (£70 an hour) £6,300.

If you wish us to pre-read a dissertation submitted by another in order to gauge the level, or what is required, this is subject to a separate pre-reading fee.

Research once completed must be assimilated by your writer and we levy a research completed pre-reading charge:

Other costs include the Verifier's Fee which is always at Immediate Rate and is calculated in 5,000 word increments:

To ensure the optimum verification each item  - such as a plan or a questionnaire for collecting primary data for a dissertation - is regarded as a separate commission. It is submitted to a Verifier and is subject to these pro rata costs.

All commissions are subject to independent verification before being despatched to you and we normally allow 48 hours for this process  But if you commission work at Express or Super Express rates and work must be begun on it at the time of your instruction or shortly afterwards this 48 hour period cannot be maintained.

In this event we will automatically pass on your script for Express Verification and this express service will incur an additional cost of 3 hours per 5,000 words for undergraduate, 4 hours for Masters and 5 hours for PhD (Verification is always costed at Express Rate) In cases where work has been expressed and to keep our pledge to you of undertaking free amendments if required, the cost free notification period will be reduced from 24 hours to 12 in order to ensure that we are able to undertake any such amendments and you are able to keep your deadline. Please check FAQs for free amendment eligibility and timescales.

We are able to match commissions and writers in all disciplines but some may become oversubscribed owing to the specialised nature of fields of study We always seek the closest match between your writer's specialism and the commission but in those cases where we consider we are unable for any reason to offer the best match that can ensure the highest quality of outcome we will advise you within 48 hours of lodging your instructions and refund your registration fee in full.

All commissioned work is subject to a word count and there is a minimum charge of 1,000 words for any commission. Where the commission has consisted of a cluster of smaller units of commissions (e.g. survey, questionnaire, interview schedule) these will be costed independently and itemised on your invoice as Commission, 1, 2, 3.

Once you have commissioned the work and a completion date is set the contract becomes binding and subject to a cancelation fee if you choose not to go forward. This fee is compensation to your writer @£500 plus £100 per 1000 words contracted. The date of materials or final instruction received is of relevance only for the calculation of your invoice. 

This is especially important in long term writing collaborations, where you may be asked to sign a Writer Retention Agreement to secure your writer for the length of your commission. If you decide to defer part of your programme or the final year dissertation your writing team will require three months prior notice of your decision to do so. This is because your team will have apportioned their time to you, turning down other commissions because, being in post, they are limited to the numbers of commissions they are able to accept and must be compensated with sufficient advance notice to enable them to secure other work.

*Clients residing outside the UK will be asked to make a payment contribution before commissions are released. If paying directly into our account please allow adequate time for transfer. Any direct payment must show in our account by close of trade the date settlement is due. If paying by cheque we strongly advise you send recorded delivery or cash by registered post. Mode of payment is dependant upon your ghostwriter’s instructions. Ensuring that payment arrives by the due date is the client's responsibility. Late payment surcharges apply at all times and in all cases, on any late payment.

All the information you require is on the site, so please read it thoroughly, especially FAQs. If you don’t find the answer there or you want to check out specific requirements before you register e mail us at info@elizabethhall.co.uk or telephone 044 121 454 5874  Someone is available to answer your queries 24/7.

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