Did this seller actually WRITE the book?
Of course not. That's too hard. BOOTLEGGING ON EBAY IS EASY.
Do the math. 75 copies at $6 each. That's $450 profit for DOING NOTHING. Except STEALING.
On behalf of the parasite Ebay bootlegger: "Thank you, Bret Contreras and Kellie Davis. For supplying the EASY MONEY."
Many authors get NO advance.
Many authors pay a company to hoist their eBook to Amazon where they PRAY to break even at least.
Many authors try and sell their eBook for a modest $3.99 or $5.99 because competition and piracy are so great.
HERE is an EBAY BOOTLEGGER who makes $6.00 per book without the effort of writing more than a paragraph about how the book will be sent by email.
Too bad Bret Contreras and Kellie Davis.
File it under "HOW I WAS ROBBED OF $450 from ONE eBay seller in a few weeks."
How many authors are being robbed by EBAY and PAYPAL? Hundreds? Thousands? For how much money? Hundreds? THOUSANDS?
An author is lucky to get $2 off a $9.95 Amazon Kindle eBook sale.
That author would be lucky to make the same amount off the hardcover price.
Instead of $2.00 this EBAY BOOTLEGGER gets $6 for doing nothing.
Has this AUSSIE EBAY BOOTLEGGER with $450 in the pouch done more damage? Yes.
The seller has circumvented dozens of readers who WOULD HAVE BOUGHT THE BOOK legitimately.
The copies sold end up being copied and copied, to the point where Christ knows how many hundreds of bootlegs have been "Shared" with NO money going to the authors.
Authors accept that libraries "share" books. The trade-off is they BUY hundreds of copies. Libraries all over the country BUY the copies, so that's guaranteed sales. This EBAY bootlegging is nothing but a LOSS. A DEAD LOSS.
Piracy on eBAY is a massive loss. It hurts authors and discourages them from writing more books. Publishers have to pay less advances. Bookstores continue to go under. Libraries shorten their hours and disappear. PIRACY HURTS.
Bret Contreras and Kellie Davis, your publisher either doesn't care about you, or doesn't know eBay is a den of thieves, or maybe they've hired a company that doesn't know how to find BOOTLEGS ON EBAY.
So, Bret Contreras and Kellie Davis, you've lost hundreds of dollars thanks to THIS seller alone.
THIS parasite has figured Bret Contreras and Kellie Davis can be had. Bret Contreras and Kellie Davis put in all that hard work so SOMEBODY ELSE can get the royalties.
Too bad Bret Contreras and Kellie Davis.
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