- Report: #186867
Complaint Review: Poetry.com - Owings Mills Maryland
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Poetry.com
1 Poetry Plaza Owings Mills, MD 21117 Maryland, U.S.A.
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Poetry.com Ripoff scandal! please tell me how to delete my poetry from poetry.com Owings Mills, Maryland
I have been stupid and put my poetry on poetry.com, I have read that there is a way to delete your poetry but I cannot find a way myself. Since I posted my poetry I have been sent letters saying that I was a semi-finalist and that they had given the following: "The Board of Trustees unanimously agrees to award you with a free Associate Membership in our society." from these emails:
when I followed the link they asked me to pay quite an high ammount of money ... so I left the website...
then I received another email saying the following:
"You may submit any poem that you have written for this one-of-a-kind, personal poetry review from our professional editorial staff(...)Since we are only accepting a limited number of poems, we must charge a nominal fee..."
and then another email saying "Imagine . . ."The winner of $20,000.00, a $10,000.00 book publishing contract, and our next Poet of the Year is Alessandra Palange!" inviting me to Las Vegas or something. I emailed them to tell them that I was not interested in their products and I never received any reply....
This is not just a rip off, it is Ridiculously stupid, they offered me gold pens, a crystal trophy... I DONT WANT TO GET RICH WITH MY POEMS, I just want people to know what they think about them... I think these people are exploiting not only the dreams of young artists but also the needs of non-rich, working people. they ask you to pay and you make a sacrifice just because you think... hey I could earn much more out of it... ITS A RIP OFF............
NOW I AM ASKING any of YOU who FELL IN THE SAME TRAP TO HELP ME!!! I NEED TO KNOW IF AND HOW I CAN DELETE MY POETRY FROM THERE... I AM ASHAMED TO HAVE BEEN SO NAIVE... THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED IN MY WORK and I DON'T WANT MY POETRY TO BE IN THERE...IF YOU WANT TO READ MY POETRY; JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY and leave a message you CAN GO ON THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE:
Alessandra
London
United Kingdom
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when I followed the link they asked me to pay quite an high ammount of money ... so I left the website...
then I received another email saying the following:
"You may submit any poem that you have written for this one-of-a-kind, personal poetry review from our professional editorial staff(...)Since we are only accepting a limited number of poems, we must charge a nominal fee..."
and then another email saying "Imagine . . ."The winner of $20,000.00, a $10,000.00 book publishing contract, and our next Poet of the Year is Alessandra Palange!" inviting me to Las Vegas or something. I emailed them to tell them that I was not interested in their products and I never received any reply....
This is not just a rip off, it is Ridiculously stupid, they offered me gold pens, a crystal trophy... I DONT WANT TO GET RICH WITH MY POEMS, I just want people to know what they think about them... I think these people are exploiting not only the dreams of young artists but also the needs of non-rich, working people. they ask you to pay and you make a sacrifice just because you think... hey I could earn much more out of it... ITS A RIP OFF............
NOW I AM ASKING any of YOU who FELL IN THE SAME TRAP TO HELP ME!!! I NEED TO KNOW IF AND HOW I CAN DELETE MY POETRY FROM THERE... I AM ASHAMED TO HAVE BEEN SO NAIVE... THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED IN MY WORK and I DON'T WANT MY POETRY TO BE IN THERE...IF YOU WANT TO READ MY POETRY; JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY and leave a message you CAN GO ON THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE:
Alessandra
London
United Kingdom
CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report.
3 Updates & Rebuttals
Sheila
Marion,Ohio,
U.S.A.
I understand what you mean
#2Consumer Comment
Wed, September 27, 2006
They are ripp offs. I had 3 poems on their website and One of them disappeared. I called them and they said it was up for review by judges and it would be back on the website in 4 weeks. 4 weeks passed and it is still not back on the website. I called them today and they told me it was taken off because it was playgerized or it had profanity in it. My poem did not have any of these and I wrote this poem in September of 2001. It was about 9/11 So tell me what happened to it. It was the same person I talked to the last time I called them isn't that strange. I told her to just take my poems of the website and she said she would. She still didn't know where my poem went she had no explanation for it. Stupind F*$#@**% Rip Offs. I would justr give them a call.
Thomas
Anderson,South Carolina,
U.S.A.
Can you *update* or *edit* your poetry?
#3Consumer Comment
Wed, August 09, 2006
If so, edit it to dumb characters=> %%$$## etc. Or enter some new-age poetry: Roses are red, Violets are blue. This site sucks, And so do you! Be creative! Enter some really obfuscated poetry. The Flight of the Jaberwocky was always a bit dense. Have fun until they get tired and remove your poetry.
Linda
Fargo,North Dakota,
U.S.A.
Poetry.com did the same thing to me!
#4Consumer Comment
Wed, August 09, 2006
If I were you I would try to contact Poetry.com about deleting my poems. They list no information on their site on how to delete your poems. If your poems are copyrighted to "YOU" (in my opinion) then they should NOT be allowed to "reserve the right" to use your poems without your permission nor should they be able to restore your original work if you choose to edit it. On the other hand it is their website they do have a right to the content therein of (providing it's copyrighted/registered to them). But if you choose to edit/delete your poetry, they should reserve an option for you to do so. If they do not like your edited version then they should contact you about this and give you the option on whether to use your original work on their site or delete it. If their not willing to delete your poetry I would contact a lawyer. I myself am not a lawyer thus I cannot give you information on the laws of copyright infringement. I would go to their site and read CAREFULLY through all rights and terms reserved to both the company and consumers. I would also read through any letters or emails that they might have sent you. You need to be careful with any suit or claim that you make against a company.
