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. About a month later, when i had almost forgtten about it, i get an email from Howard Ely, telling me that i'm an a semi finalist and my poem has made it to the finals and will be entered into the "Eternal Portraits". Now those who have encoured Poetry.com, will know that when you submit a poem with them, they would send you a letter via post and ask you to make any typograhical corrections, plus submit a biography and send it off. The first poem i did, had some errors and i made the corrections and sent it off. This ws in April. Then late last month, i get another letter saying my poem was so good that they wanted it in a CD. When i got the letter, i noticed the errors were NOT corrected. Then i decided to look them up on Ripoff, to see the legitimacy... Busted!!! They have so many reports on them it's not even funny!
What i noticed about them is that they'll send you all the crap in the mail, placing emphasis for you to buy their books (even when they say no purchase necessary to enter, which is a ploy, just to entice unsuspecting people), but still throw it in your face to try and buy it, by introducing special prices, so on and so forth. I never sent any money to them, Thank God. What a bloody bunch of nonsense. Shame on you Howard Ely, for playing around with peole's emotions and talent, just for your personal gain. You need to be stopped. And it's not to say the people who submit their poems aren't talented and it's a darn shame when people try to use poetry.com as a tool to get some form of artist recognition and all they're doing is building on false hope. I think poetry.com's days really should be numbered because it's only a matter of time when the public will see them for what they truly are, lying, cunniving, and scum and they will be boycotted and NO ONE will EVER have anything to do with them... Now let's see their artist talent now!!
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