If you have an EBAY account please go report this lady. She only has a few arcs up now but that's because my publisher got her pulled down last week. She is back up and running a few 24 hour auctions back to back. Take a look at her history. She has sold HUNDREDS of arcs and I've confirmed she's gotten them from a well know PR person who works with many publishers and when confronted she was far from remorseful. CLEARLY.
She has her ID hidden on ebay but you can request it and should. Requesting her ID and REPORTING her to Ebay will stop this but only if we hit them hard and fast with lots of requests. My publisher is working on this but the EBAY machine works faster with complaints piled on complaints.
http://shop.ebay.com/booklady08/m.htm...
For those of you who don't know how ARCS work — publishers send them to reviewers to review the book — well before release. The arcs are not to be sold but reviewed and hopefully enjoyed. Authors get a few too so in things like OPERATION AUCTION these arcs are special because they are not the final copy and they are unique in formatting. THEY are early, not for sale, samples.
Please –if you have an EBAY account go report this person.
They've been doing this a long while without getting caught.
Lisa
Published on March 31, 2011 16:50