<p>Uhm. This isn’t a scam. I was published in this myself when I was nine. My parents bought one hardcover, and two or three soft covers. I still have them, and many others are published with me. If you don’t believe me, I can take a pic or a vid- it’s legit.</p>
<p>^^ mantori.suzuki was right. “I think this is where a brand-new member is supposed to make their first and only post ever, explaining enthusiastically how it’s not a scam.”(post #9).</p>
<p>Loosely reminds me of a Mother’s Day writing competition my S entered in elementary school. The “winning” prizes were a diamond solitaire stone for 1st place, and various other real precious stones for 2nd place and so on. A jewelry store was the sponsor of the competition. My S was a 2nd place award recipient and we went to (reputable) jewelry store to claim the prize. As a 2nd place award winner of this contest, we ended up spending $600 to have the stone we won set in a ring. (I didn’t want to get sucked into this, but my wife insisted, and she proudly wears this ring almost a decade later.) </p>
<p>It sounds like spending 13 bucks is a lot more reasonable than spending six hundred, IF his writing is actually contained in that book.</p>
<p>Just noting that it’s been two years since anyone posted in this thread.</p>
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<p>People of the College Confidential forum! I have traveled here from the year two-thousand-and-nine to witness the fulfillment of my prophecy. The member who is called Bayberry kept the covenant, and I anoint him as my prophet, to rule here when I return to my own time, which I now must do. Blessed art thou, Bayberry. All hail Bayberry!</p>
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<p>As a retiree, I find it increasingly more difficult to keep track of the day of the week and now, sadly, the YEAR!</p>
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<p>This made me spit up my drink. You guys make me laugh. You know you have spent too much time on CC when you can actually predict subsequent posts to theme threads…even years in advance! After awhile, I guess, there is nothing really new in a forum, it’s like it’s one big groundhog day.</p>
<p>What’s wrong with being a new member? I was planning on joining this site eventually. I was looking them up again because I wrote something I liked, and wanted to submit it to them, and I saw this thread. I was just really ticked off because it’s not a scam…</p>
<p>And for the record… it’s not my only post… and won’t be my only post… so your prophecy is only half fulfilled.</p>
<p>Have you ever encountered those pop up ads that show up when you clicked on something else? You then have to click on the box that says “____ No, thanks” or the corner that says “skip this ad”. Well, my son and a friend were ordering something unrelated a few weeks ago and up poppled an ad about a small college and unless they clicked on the “No, thanks” line, they were going to get an admissions person calling. Guess who I’ve been talking to lately?</p>
<p>My point is, maybe that’s how they got your son’s name. Many companies share their email lists.</p>
<p>Actually, my teacher read mine, and came up and asked me if I would like to enter a contest or something (I forget) and I was like “meh okay then”</p>
<p>She had me rewrite the whole thing, perfectly and neatly, with my address and all.</p>
<p>My parents never knew about it. I never told them, didn’t think they had to know. My teacher just entered me herself. Then my parents got the mail and they were all “… what is this.” and I was like “Oh, my teacher had me enter that a few months ago.” and they were like “O.O OUR DAUGHTER’S BEEN PUBLISHED HOLY-”</p>
<p>Yeah… I don’t know how your son got in, but he got in. Because they could only get the name from his teacher.</p>
<p>Just because a teacher sends it in and kid ends up ‘published’ it’s no less a scam necessarily (if all or most of their revenue comes from proud parents of book buying ‘winners’).</p>
<p>Like many, my whole professional life I’ve been badgered by Whos who books, their variants and similar knock offs. They appeal to ego and it’s how they make most of their money…getting the suckers to buy the Whos Who in which they appear, or the plaque, or whatever other ego-trinkets they sell.</p>
<p>We’re probably using the wrong term. A scam would be, in my opinion, not getting what is advertised. The poetry book is, I suspect, just misleading, in the sense that no contest was won (everyone’s a winner!) and the merchandise is not worth as much as you pay for it. Not exactly a scam, just not what it seems to be at first.</p>