Amazon. TWO rounds with pirates selling on Amazon, one I suspect being an offshore seller outright pirating everything in print and selling subscriptions to their ‘service’—the other being a piece of equipment I need to get the Rusalka cover done—which the seller says was already delivered by UPS [not true] by a tracking number UPS tracking does not recognize, and if I have trouble about that shipment I should contact the US POST OFFICE…yeah. Sure.
AND phoning Amazon about the book download pirate gets the response that it’s up to me personally to confront this seller.
One round of damned spammer using a webcrawler to find keywords inside text on sites and trying to sell windows. Fried.
The next person to cross me today is going to walk into it.
I missed the original Books LLC postings, but today they are under “Cherryh books” on Amazon as a “Study Guide.” For $14.14!!! What a scam!
Emailed Amazon to complain. I suspect though that dmc a takedown notice to Amazon should have the effect
Note: Just for amusement watch my review of the one that lists Chanur and Finisterre—see if Amazon leaves it up. Betsy Wollheim of DAW blew the whistle on them in a review there and on a couple of other sites and they took her review down.
I just put up a review on one of those Alphapress ripoffs. Yours isn’t up yet, or did they already remove it? I’m trying to raise questions without screaming “OMG THIS IS A SCAM” so the review actually makes some people stop and wonder.
Well, I just put up a review and we’ll see if it actually gets put up. I was polite.
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Another Amazon seller named supermoviedeals is selling used copies of the same thing. I wonder where they are getting them from, or if that’s just a different name for the same company.
Apparently the Alphapress thingie is put out by a different outfit entirely, but they don’t even hint that it’s not the whole book(s). You might be able to infer that from the LLCBooks listing by careful scrutiny of the posting. The only way you can tell on the other compilation is by the page count. Is there a ‘smiley’ for :gritting teeth: ?
Tell you how I found them: I took the front end of the spiel down to the first time the word “Chapter” is used, and searched the internet. I’m betting they’re working overseas, maybe India, which is not signatory to the copyright treaty. I did some research on the company indicating their principal market is the Middle East.