POETRY>COM IS A SCAM! *please read*

[sick_korn_freak88]

POETRY.COM IS A SCAM. please no body send money to them there are making millons by lying...they say you will get a nice book with a page to your self when it is "published" yet when you get the book you find your poem cramed in black in white with a bunch of other poets, and they make you pay for your awards! if you atend the poetry convetoin (which i dont know what happens there) you have to pay i think it was 300 or 400 dollers to get in, and the same for your guest! and if you dont atend, they say "if you give us 169.96 we will have your poem read and you can still have your trouphie" if they really liked your poem they would give you the trophie ne way, and you woulden pay(there not making you pay to have it read, there making you pay for some bouges fake trophine) also, me and my friends "got put ona cd which only 33 people got on" come one, im from a small town, what are the odds of 5 girls from a small town getting in out of the millions of people in the world, its complete bull, please dont fall for it

go here for more info:
http://poetrynotcom.tripod.com/

[HowardM2]

Haven't really looked around the board yet, have you?

Prominantly displayed in the "Newbie's Stretching Room" is this SCAM ALERT (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16722&poems). And the "Blurbs of Wisdom" has a number of threads on the same subject.

[Donner]

We know. Take a look at these threads from the Blurbs of Wisdom forum:

I need some information about Poetry.com (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9885)
Poetry.com One More Time (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9951)
Just in case you still have any doubt Poetry.com is a scam (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9945)
Continuation of Donner's Poetry.com is a Scam (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9948)

Never hurts to be reminded about poetry scams, though. Good to see you weren't taken in.

Donner

[tbm]

you find your poem cramed in black in white with a bunch of other poets

That's just nasty.

bates

[Rachel Lindley]

I hate it when my poem gets crammed in with a whole bunch of poets. All that slopped wine, slept-in hair, and inky skin.

Rachel
dirty bird

[arthur_henry]

Just remember the immortal words of the great Rod McKuen: "Never be afraid to say / What is it?"

[Donner]

Poetry.com and like shameful scams should be known as publicashuns.

HA!

Donner,
who hasn't used up
her pun quota yet
for the month of February

[jsdealy]

publicashuns*golf-clap*

[garyg]

Yes, yes, they offered you the bouges fake trophines, but they failed to mention the plack, didn't they?