As a writer, I try to have hope that most people are honest and most people ARE! But there is one individual who pretends to sell ideas and programs to unsuspecting people like me. A name I recognized pushed a product of an affilliate of his. His name was one I had heard of before on the net, so I plunked down my credit card.
Well guess what? the free DVD and ebooks I paid for were not accessable. I complained to him and to the owner 3 times. The answer was that something must be wrong with my computer. NOT! I tried on two different computers with the same result. All other sites I visited were fine.
I am within an inch of telling you the names of these individuals, but am waiting for the results from my credit card company to see if something can be done.
I will tell you if you want to check up on someone's reputation, first try to type their name in quotes into the Google Search bar. This is something I knew, but failed to check before I bought. Never again!
When I did check, I was shocked to see that this unsavory, person had 364,000 results, most of them complaints and charges of an internet scam. Wow! talk about "closing the door after the horse has run away."
So my message to you is to check everyone and every company you plan to invest in, on the net. Not all will be found out, but the repeat offenders will be seen.
This must be a time for me to be tricked, cheated and taken advantage of, because I just discovered another Blogger, Ana, has used one of my copyrighted articles, changed some of it, added links in the middle of a sentence, that had nothing to do with the article, making me look like an idiot. When I tried to track down the person responsible, I found that they were anonymous.
I am not finished. Google and Blogger will be getting a cyber visit from me in my investigation.
Writing on the net is not as harmless as it appears. I do so love to share information that helps other people but when soul less individuals think it is okay to steal and break all the rules of sharing information, it causes me to withdraw and just write for my own self, not on the net.
Like my last article, I feel used and abused. Maybe I should take my own advice and just get out!
Anyone have any suggestions?
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