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Complaint Review: Poetry.com - Nationwide
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I agree that poetry.com is a ripoff *Another Victim *REBUTTAL
I never bought any book from them, but this is how I figured out they were running a scam: I used to enter my poetry on various internet sites. One time I changed the titles and resubmitted the same poems. Poetry.com then contacted me and said my poems were again publishable. Well, if someone had actually read the poems, they would have noticed that they had already been submitted.
I definitely would advise against anyone sending money to poetry.com.
I definitely would advise against anyone sending money to poetry.com.
3 Updates & Rebuttals
One good SHILL deserves another I suppose.
#20
Sun, January 13, 2002
They filed the following to the above Rip-Off Report: Their email: [email protected] Their name: The Fraud Chick Their relationship to the company: Consumer Suggestion Rebuttal: One good SHILL deserves another I suppose. Mica, I'm astounded. The consumer pays a couple of hundred dollars for the book. What are they paying for if poetry.com isn't providing editing? So the way you describe it it's an even bigger rip-off than before. This scam company only cuts and pastes poetry submitted and then builds the hope of wannabe authors--pathetic. How much does it cost to run a damned spell check? Even if they don't pay for an editor, which can tack on overhead, they should at least run the spell check. Make no mistake-Poetry.com misleads consumers-it's a scam. It's just a money making scheme. The Fraud Chick
although it is true that their books include poems that others may deem as inappropriate or unedited; Poetry.com has followed
#30
Sat, January 12, 2002
They filed the following rebuttal to the above Rip-Off Report:
Their email: [email protected]
Their name: Mica Chambers
Their relationship to the company: Consumer Suggestion
Rebuttal:
I have been submitting to Poetry.com for a while now, and although it is true that their books include poems that others may deem as inappropriate or unedited; Poetry.com has followed
through on their statements. If you read the information on their website and in their mailings, you would see that ANY poem that you submit to the site may be published, and it is the
responsibility of the poet to edit their own work, and that the poem will be printed AS IS. (It is very difficult for a company that receives over 500,000 entries a year to read and screen every poem.) You will also note that you are under NO obligation to purchase the book which contains your poetry.
I can confirm that they are a rip-off.
#40
Wed, January 09, 2002
They filed the following rebuttal to the above Rip-Off Report:
Their email: [email protected]
Their name: Di Bael
Their relationship to the company: Consumer Suggestion
Rebuttal:
As someone who did spend money on a book from Poetry.com two years ago, I can confirm that they are a rip-off. After you write a poem, they send you a letter telling you that poem will be publised.
Out of curiousity, I did order a book and found they published a different poem of mine instead of the one mentioned in the letter. On reading the other poems in the book,
some of the poems were awful and none of the misspellings had been corrected.
You'd think a good publisher would make corrections. And what's worse, they published poems that not only were bad but had dirty words.
