Originally Posted by The Other Steve

Good writers are usually providing custom work and don't have samples to show you. What you should be doing is asking for the writers to provide you with referrals so you check to see if the people they've written for have been satisfied with their work.

And as someone else in this thread has already said, if the terms 'quality', 'cheap' and 'reliable' are simply not synonymous when it comes to just about anything.

If you want quality and reliability then you have to be prepared to pay for it.