241, Report:
#199514
Posted Date:
Jul 05 2006
Poetry.com ripoff Internet
I too have been mislead by poetry.com. My daughter has submitted many poems to poetry.com and has received many certificates of Editors Choice Awards along with myself and my husband and her friend. Each of us were told that we would be published in their book. The same book Eter...
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Categories: Corrupt Companies
242, Report:
#146567
Posted Date:
Jun 27 2006
Poetry.com What a Scam and Ripoff!! They need to be Stopped!! Owings Mills Maryland
Yes i do believe that poetry.com is a bloody scam. I remember a few months back i entered a poem, which i thought was pretty good because i do write and love poetry. This happened around March 2005. About a month later, when i had almost forgtten about it, i get an email from Howard...
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Categories: Book Publishers
243, Report:
#191657
Posted Date:
May 16 2006
Michele Celentano, Photographic Artist ripoff Anthem Arizona
Michele Celentano was the photographer at our wedding in NY in August 1998. We received our album without incident, but had told her that we would be ordering some portraits at a later time. I had contacted her several times and did not receive a response. A while later, we recei...
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Categories: Photography
244, Report:
#166143
Posted Date:
Apr 20 2006
Olan Mills Portrait Studio ripoff broken promises bad customer service pictures take over a month to get in DO NOT USE!! Glendale Arizona
On November 13, 2005, my mother and I were shopping at K-Mart on 67th Ave and Bell RD. We had just checked out and were on our way to the car when we were approached by an employee inside the front entrance. She was asking us to check out a special on pictures that Olan Mills was h...
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Categories: Photography
245, Report:
#186347
Posted Date:
Apr 13 2006
Blakeslee House Bed And Breakfast - Blakeslee House -Blakeslee Inn Ripoff Misrepresent no services rendered no hot water insulted belligerent lacking hospitality, no privacy Marcellus New York
Our experience at the Blakeslee House B&B: Absolutely Appalling! We left within an hour. We arrived to a run down exterior, a wooden B&B sign knocked over, and a blackface statue at the door this was disconcerting though we had saved up to afford this and decided to give the benefit...
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Categories: Bed & Breakfast
246, Report:
#176745
Posted Date:
Feb 17 2006
Poetry.com Scammed by telling me I won a membership into an exclusive poets society. They promised to send books, magazines etc. Sent checks, recieved nothing. Ripoff Owings Mills Maryland
I submitted my poetry into a contest. I was sent a letter stating that I have won publication and copywright. I was then sent a letter stating that I have recieved a spot into the international society of poets. To become a Distiguished Laurette member of the society, i would need t...
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Categories: Corrupt Companies
247, Report:
#170950
Posted Date:
Jan 08 2006
The International Library Of Poetry - Poetry - Howard Ely a lying, greedy, ripoff, SCAM Owings Mills Maryland
I wrote this poem, entitled Bored. I wrote it it about 5 minutes, but about 3 weeks later, I recieve this letter, telling me I entered this contest and could win 10,000 dollars, and have my poem published in this book, Eternal Portraits.
Anyway, I was curious about this. It was j...
Entity
Categories: Book Publishers
248, Report:
#157902
Posted Date:
Oct 06 2005
Poetry.com ripoff; misleading; what a mockery, makes people feel like a total FOOL Owings Mills Maryland
I submitted many poems to poetry.com and was informed via both email and snail mail that 16 were to be published in the fall of '05 in the Eternal Portraits anthology!
I was happy and excited as these poems were from my heart about many different topics..my mother and grandma dying...
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Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers
249, Report:
#155300
Posted Date:
Aug 31 2005
Glamour Shots Beware of deceptive salespeople, pressure tactics and unethical practices RIPOFF Arlington Texas
I walked into Glamour Shots on 8/17/05 to get portraits done. When I made my appointment, I asked for the prices of the portrait and I got a vague answer like, It depends on what you want.
On the day of my photo session, I was asked to sign a contract that unless I purchased p...
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Categories: Photography
250, Report:
#151755
Posted Date:
Jul 29 2005
Poetry.com I just want to know what is going on and why i did not receive any word from this company, ripoff. Maryland
I sent in about 25 works of poetry to poetry.com beginning april of 2004. My first work, Afghanistan, was said to have made it to the semi-finalist. A Mr. Ely Howard wrote me seeking to publish said work in a forthcoming collection, known as the Eternal portraits. I did not give m...
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Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers