Poetry.com ripoff Balltimore Maryland
Dear Poetry.com
You keep asking me to send you more money
but after receiving your book, something smelt funny.
Even if I do say so myself, my poem was good
and was worthy of recognition as it should.
You told me mine was one of the accepted few.
This I believed and thought to be true.
To raise people's esteem just to fulfill your greed
is a very low act and a despicable one indeed.
You say a small percentage are chosen to receive an award. Everyone and his dog gets one. Your figures are a fraud. If a dog can manage to say "bow wow,"
that's good enough. The poet's dog is in it now.
Don't forget his rooster with his "c**k-a-doodle-doo."
Again, that's good enough. We'll include him too.
I'm not from the USA and this obviously is a scam.
Are your laws so lax that authorities don't give a d**n?
There was a time when I had no suspicion
and it was just for my silver bowl I was wishin'.
I knew the $200 price tag was much over inflated.
At the time I wanted it though, so I wasn't irritated.
But how can I be proud of it with what I now know?
This whole thing is akin to a rigged carnival show.
This bowl and the medal I "won" are nothing but a farce.
Not fit for any mantelpiece, so shove them up your ar$e!
If you think I'm jumping to any conclusion,
I've looked to dismiss any confusion.
Just send us your poem. Send us your rhyme
and in return we'll be happy to rip you off big time.
From what I see of the way you sell your books,
you're just a bunch of scumbags. Nothing less than crooks.
You should consider changing your ways before it's too late.
When you lot go belly-up, God will decide your fate.
Scheming conmen like you are almost unbelievable.
You get at people in every way conceivable.
You wouldn't know what honesty was if it bit you on the bum.
You're as low, dishonest and as underhanded as they come.
There obviously is a loophole that needs to be addressed.
This is getting too long. I could go on and tell you the rest but suffice to say, and I'll leave it at this,
if I did have your bowl I'd only fill it with pi$$!
I hereby declare this poem to be all my original work.
You have my permission to include it in your next book.
Bruce
Perth WA
Australia
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10 Updates & Rebuttals
Sheila
Marion,Ohio,
U.S.A.
Bruce great poem
#11Consumer Comment
Wed, September 27, 2006
I know that they are con artist I have called them to and the same stupid rude b*$*h answers the phone.
They stole one of my poems but never got any money from me because I came across this rip off website and found out that other people have got the same things in the mail as me.
Thanks to all the people who have written reports about them. It saved me money.
Got to poetry.com and look under the poets for the last name poetry.com and read the poem by Suck This Poetry.com
Sheila
Marion,Ohio,
U.S.A.
Bruce great poem
#11Consumer Comment
Wed, September 27, 2006
I know that they are con artist I have called them to and the same stupid rude b*$*h answers the phone.
They stole one of my poems but never got any money from me because I came across this rip off website and found out that other people have got the same things in the mail as me.
Thanks to all the people who have written reports about them. It saved me money.
Got to poetry.com and look under the poets for the last name poetry.com and read the poem by Suck This Poetry.com
Sheila
Marion,Ohio,
U.S.A.
Bruce great poem
#11Consumer Comment
Wed, September 27, 2006
I know that they are con artist I have called them to and the same stupid rude b*$*h answers the phone.
They stole one of my poems but never got any money from me because I came across this rip off website and found out that other people have got the same things in the mail as me.
Thanks to all the people who have written reports about them. It saved me money.
Got to poetry.com and look under the poets for the last name poetry.com and read the poem by Suck This Poetry.com
Sheila
Marion,Ohio,
U.S.A.
Bruce great poem
#11Consumer Comment
Wed, September 27, 2006
I know that they are con artist I have called them to and the same stupid rude b*$*h answers the phone.
They stole one of my poems but never got any money from me because I came across this rip off website and found out that other people have got the same things in the mail as me.
Thanks to all the people who have written reports about them. It saved me money.
Got to poetry.com and look under the poets for the last name poetry.com and read the poem by Suck This Poetry.com
Sandra
Tennesse Colony,Texas,
U.S.A.
Some of you people need your heads examined!!
#11Consumer Comment
Tue, June 27, 2006
I was going through reading the rebuttals to this rip off report. I couldn't believe some of the things I was reading. How can you say that poetry.com has been good to you. The company is obviously ran by a bunch of conartist.
Call the number they give you and I guarantee you a girl answers the phone. I bet she sounds straight off the street, uneducated, and rude. I say this because I have called several times and it is always the same person who refuses to give her name.
Get real people. They ask you for your money to publish your poetry. Does this not send up a red flag. Then you say if I don't want it I don't buy it. That is all great but how do you know your so called poetry is being pushlished then?
Heather
Bensalem,Pennsylvania,
U.S.A.
I also bought books
#11Consumer Comment
Fri, June 02, 2006
I submitted a few poems many years ago and bought a few of the books that they were located in. I just wanted to say that your poem doesn't always end up on the first page. In fact, mine never did.
Clay
Yo Momma,Wisconsin,
U.S.A.
...wow
#11Consumer Comment
Fri, June 02, 2006
yes
well i too am a poet
and i TOO am sitting here with a letter something akin to:
"after carefully reading and discussing your poem, our selection committee has certified your poem as a semi-finalist in our International Open Poetry Contest, i want your money and i will suck it like a vampire if i have to!"
haha, thanks for the heads up, that would have been a humiliating way to begin my carreer.
thanks again
Mary
Paramount,California,
U.S.A.
Another Point of View
#11Consumer Comment
Thu, May 11, 2006
I have been a customer of Poetry.com (International Library of Poetry) for many years. I have recently joined Poets'.com and in the past have been a satisfied member of International Society of Poets.
The experience for me has been an immensely creative one. This has been my experience and I speak for myself alone.
If I don't want something, I simply don't buy it.
I have never in any way been penalized for my choice. One time I bought a book with my poem
published in it. Fine. Then another book came,
and another and another and I only had paid for
one. I called them up and asked did they want
me to mail back the others. They said no, it
was their mistake and I should just keep them.
When one compac disk was faulty, they sent me
a whole new set and told me to just keep the
good recordings and don't return them.
Recently, everything that could break down in
my mobile home, did, and I couldn't afford to
order the book although I hope to in the future
(my poem titled Saying Goodbye to Mama.} Nevertheless, I received the Editor's Choice Award.
Poetry does not belong to the poets. It is innate in the human soul, whether we choose to write it or read it. I feel organizatons such as
these, give the everyday person a voice if he
or she chooses to use it. I feel, too, it is
a safeguard to freedom of speech.
Not every poet wants an agent or feels they
must go down this path or that to publish.
Poets come from all paths of life. Poetry
does not need to be perfect to be immensely
moving. Remember, Robert Burns was a farmer,
Phyliss Wheatley a former slave, and Ben
Jonson was a bricklayer. Be careful who you
call an amateur.
Thank you once more for letting me express
my opinion.
Kathleen
Alabaster,Alabama,
U.S.A.
I also submitted a poem HA
#11Consumer Comment
Mon, December 12, 2005
I was also dumb to believe they thought my poem was good. I didn't mind the wait to get the book, which was a lot by the way, but what I thought was very suspicious was my poem was on the very FIRST page. Now, I think that's kinda funny. I have a feeling everyone who submits a poem and buys the book, has their poem on the first page also. I would love to know if others ordered books and this has happened.
But, I'm not really complaining. I have the book laying on my coffee table and when I read some of the stuff in there, well, I didn't even understand half of them. Made no sense to me!
I have submitted other poems but I will not buy another book. Now, I'm just having fun. I have never written poetry before but I got mad one day, at my ex, and started writing about what an a$$ he was. It is actually now a form of therapy for me.
Anyway, I was just looking around on here and came upon this and I had to add my 2 cents. I usually go to Ameriquest where I really air my frustrations! DON'T EVER refinance with them. They truly earn their reputation on this site.
Merry Christmas!
Debi
Show Low,Arizona,
U.S.A.
loved your poem
#11Consumer Suggestion
Sun, December 11, 2005
Dear bruce
Loved your poem it was heartfealt and full of senament. I have used their site and have wondered to about their honesty not all buisnesses are genuine. There are several vanity presses a whole lot less reputable then them. Yess they ask for more and more money if you don't wish to do it DON'T. I for my self have not yet had a bad exsperience. Yess as several other reports have commented they do take a looooonnnnngggg time to get their books out many publishers do. I don't doubt the problems that have occured and some of their requests do get persistent when they start asking for money every time you turn around. If it is something you don't want don't buy it.