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Flamed by a competing author!
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Jun 20, 2013 08:30AM
My self help book was doing wonderfully until I had a run in with a competing author and blogger and they flamed me on Amazon. Very unfair. What can I do? Has anyone else come up against angry, aggressive book reviews like this? Amazon won't remove it. Only thing i can think to do is to get positive reviews that will neutralize the negative ones. Anyone want to do book review swap?
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YES! He has even followed me on Goodreads with a 'load of rubbish' I don't understand.... SAD!Post the link so I can see your book and I will read and review. If you want to review one of mine I would be so grateful! The main one, which I know has mistakes, written 20 years ago but published end of 2008 Chasing Dreams in Lefkas is the one that has been 'trashed'!
CHASING DREAMS IN LEFKAS
http://bit.ly/UaFAiS
Amazon, Kindle B&N
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jn5hQiD6-A...
However, it did get a lot of good reviews so some people just enjoyed the true story.:-)
Diane
Diane wrote: "YES! He has even followed me on Goodreads with a 'load of rubbish' I don't understand.... SAD!Post the link so I can see your book and I will read and review. If you want to review one of mine I w..."
Not rubbish Diane, just pointing out that you have posted incorrect information about me, you have obviously confused me with someone you do know. I have never been to Cyprus, have never met you and my wife is neither Irish or "bitchy"!
Diane wrote: "YES! He has even followed me on Goodreads with a 'load of rubbish' I don't understand.... SAD!Post the link so I can see your book and I will read and review. If you want to review one of mine I w..."
Meant to say that if you let me know what you don't understand then I will try to explain to you, this may however reveal to all that perhaps you are not quite the "wronged" person that you are trying to make out.
Hi Diane - still no comment from you? Just to be clear, I did not follow you onto this site. I was told by a friend that there were comments about me on this site, having seen what you had written I exercised my right to reply. I can only repeat my offer - more than willing to explain any of the items you do not understand: use of multiple names from one IP address for example?
Well Diane - you were certainly busy!June 22nd you ask for a link to the book and within one day you have read it, used the methods, found they work and posted a 5 star review on Amazon. How absolutely amazing............
It was 15 pages!I can read that in one hour! It was a very helpfull book for a friend. I have also recommended a similar book by the same author. I thought I had given you the last word.
I don't doubt that you can read 15 pages in an hour. I do doubt that within one day of asking for a link to a self-help book that anyone could get the book, read it, implement the methods, find they work and write a 5 star review on Amazon. The problems this book refers to are compulsive actions, to say the methods work within one day of asking about the book is perhaps a bit quick! It was fortunate though that not only did this help you but that within another 4 days you were able to get hold of a similar book which you passed to a friend. They managed to try all the methods, find 2 that worked and get you to post another 5 star review on Amazon, all within 5 days of requesting the original link!
Speed reading!Interesting that on the same day you promise to write some kind words for a fellow author that you find a friend has a copy of said book (Savage Forest) which you are able to borrow, read and post a 5 star review on Amazon - again all in one day!
"I will write a few kind words on your book... Please do the same for me! It's the only way to get back at these sad people. It's only a little cheat! :-)"
I had something similar happen. I received a 4 star review for a book of mine, but it mentioned that I had a multitude of "typos and grammatical errors" which was the first red flag, since my book is pretty clean and no one else has ever mentioned in a review.Then the reviewer said "if you like this book, a similar read is..." and promoted their own book. I clicked to read the reviewers other reviews and they were ALL promoting the same book. Hmmmm.
