They know nnnrnnnnuthing. Until it's point out. By somebody who filled out forms and jumped through all their hoops.
ANY BOOK. Heh heh.
If you're an author, and your book is selling in a Kindle or Nook version, it's quite likely it's been leaked to an Internet torrent or to forums.
The good news is that torrents and forums are sneaky places that most people know little about.
The bad news is most people know EBAY, and that it's a good place to find a cheap new or used copy of a book. A bidder types in a name, sees "digital version" or "ebook" after the title, reads "I am a licensed reseller," and buys.
Ebay is so eager for sales, they throw ads all over their pages, and ads like THIS one instantly turn up, letting a bidder know that just about ANY book is fair game.
There are quite a few weasels like this, almost all of them BRITISH, who play this game. See the entry below.
Ah, but THIS dealer, who claims to be located in the United Kingdom, is actually in LATVIA:
Paying attention? Did you note the gMail address of this bastard? A good VeRO rep pays attention. (Penguin/Random House doesn't have a VeRO rep at all do they? Do they have a blind one?).
Note that the zapizx G MAIL address used by the seller SUERTEMAN, turns up in the seller ID of ZAPIZX888, ANOTHER bootlegger. Or rather, the SAME creep with another account:
What a surprise, eBay and PayPal allow a seller multiple accounts to commit the same FRAUD.
They have been known to allow the same prick (in Florida, Sri Lanka, U.K., Latvia, anywhere) to have a whole bunch of accounts all selling the same items. After takedown after takedown after takedown, a seller might get suspended....but only under ONE account. The others remain! Ebay supposedly does not allow a suspended seller to have a second account, especially one selling the same item. But who do you report this to? The VeRO program says they are not in charge of suspensions, just removing specific auctions. They will NOT give out the email address of whoever is in charge of suspensions.
If you call eBay's phone support, you'll get somebody in Latvia, Sri Lanka, Cambodia...who the hell knows where...and that person will say "Not to worry, I will forward this!" And nothing happens. Ask them if they know where they are forwarding it, and if they know the NAME of the person, and they get evasive. "Not to worry...I understand...Not to worry...I will forward this!"
Yes, a seller who is obviously breaking the law not only doesn't have to worry about an eBAY rep looking through auctions to find him, he doesn't have to worry if he's caught over and over, or is breaking eBay's rules on a suspended seller having another identity. Or PayPal rules on fraud.
Why do some of these foreign swine pretend to be in the UK or USA?
If this Slime put down "LATVIA" for item location, it would be easier for a VeRO rep to red-flag him as a bootlegger. Also, it might lose sales, since some bidders don't trust getting an item by mail from LATVIA.
What deals these parasites have: for only GBP 5.99 ($7.65 if you're ordering from the United States) you can get EVERY George R.R. Martin book, or Rowling, or pudgy E.L. James, or Christine Feehan or anyone else. Every Agatha Christie? Sure.
People buy an item like this, thinking the "GNP" is somehow real, and these things aren't bootlegs that cheat the authors, and they're set for months, if not a year. That's a year of NOT buying a real copy of a book and helping an author or the economy or a book store. Or keeping a library open.
Instead, the money goes into the greedy pocket of a Latvian bastard, PAYPAL and EBAY.
Why should PAYPAL and EBAY be eager to NOT make a percentage of a sale? That's why they make it so difficult to report anything, and why they happily hide behind the filthy skirt of the DMCA law, which says they don't even HAVE to have ONE employee monitoring crap like this.
Yes, the Latvian maggot has an alias, too:
But there's plenty more of these cheap nickel and dime parasites. Here's another guy ready to screw authors like hundreds of men screwed his whore mother before he crawled out of her.
Notice how this ad shows people with their arms in the air, holding up COPYRIGHT BOOKS as if they're NOT copyrighted and should be copied off for pennies?
To me, that picture looks close to a LYNCHING photo, where the angry villagers wave their pitchforks and the MOB rules.
It looks like rally in a Communist Square, where authors are told to get to a Gulag if they don't work for the good of the people and renounce Capitalist notions like getting paid for every book sold.
It's very much like the way obnoxious Internet bullies constantly get new fake identities to hoist bootlegs to forums and torrents while screaming "Freedom of Speech...music, movies and books should be FREE FOR ALL."
The creeps who grab every book and shrug that they have every right to distribute whatever they want, should take the locks off the doors, and let their neighbors re-distribute every possession they own.
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