Care to share where you were able to hire them? Not necessariy the site if you prefer, but if it's from a writer marketplace, writing agency, Upwork, etc.
Would be interested so as to be more watchful when getting from such sources, if they're ever a factor.
Try Sideprojectors.com. These are fully functional sites that are different from the regular ones common in the likes of FEI, Flippa or EmpireFlippers.
Just want to chime in here that I've used ThriveThemes for a couple years now and after using it for multiple sites (especially clients), I've come to view it as a good quick-and-dirty way of getting a custom design relatively fast, at the price of some bloat, inefficient code generated, and...