2007-10-26 13:56:38 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
Is it a scam? Really?
I won $200.00 from them 2 years ago....
2007-10-26 14:03:24 · update #1
thanks for input. all i asked for was your vote.
I have published many a poem on this site for many a year, and never ever bought a single book. :)
2007-10-26 14:47:13 · update #2
ok Ronnie, i went thru and looked at all the complaints about that site, wow, amazing. Thats a shame. I think i will remove my poem. Thanx for the info.
I just do it for the fun any how and have won lots of money and certificates many years over...THANX again. I dont like scam companys who rip people off!!! Ive never spent a cent of my own money , but i wont promote a company who takes others hard earned cash. THANX!
2007-10-26 14:57:42 · update #3
I think you'll be a semi-finalist. Of course, everyone who posts to poetry.com is a semi-finalist. It's a scam.
Yes, it's a scam. They make millions of dollars on cheap books, and they give out prizes at random. Congratulations on your $200. How many books did you buy?
http://www.ripoffreport.com/searchresults.asp?q5=Poetry.com&searchtype=0&q1=ALL&q3=&q2=&q7=&q4=&q6=&start=0
2007-10-26 14:01:17 · answer #1 · answered by Ronnie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This website looks like a for-profit business to me. One of the drag downs is under the heading: "products".
No organization really representing poets would use the word product to describe anything they do or offer.
It also doesn't provide a membership list. Every writing organization I know - and I am a freelance writer and former director of several organizations, as well as president of one - would not have an area on their website listing some of their members, their websites, links to their books, etc.
You can post a poem, but they will try to get money from you somehow, either in buying an anthology in which it appears (for a highly inflated price) or laminated copies or other trinkets.
I hate to burst your bubble, but this doesn't seem on the up and up to me.
2007-10-26 21:35:35 · answer #2 · answered by brian s 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i have a poem published on that website! so it works
2007-10-26 21:07:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the page wont come up at all. ?
2007-10-27 00:17:02 · answer #4 · answered by the_silverfoxx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
page doesn't come up.
2007-10-26 21:00:33 · answer #5 · answered by B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋