The Unveiling discussion

Charles wrote: "Anyone else agree?"

This person is engaging in Illegal activity. Fake accounts are associated with this person who initially agreed to do some reviews on my book. Naive me bought his story that the reviews would be sincere, but they weren't. That just makes me naive, but not criminal like he is now harassing me on goodreads because I asked for a refund. Here is just one threatening email I received from an "anonymous" email as he hasn't courage to attack directly, "STOP ASKING FOR REFUNDS, UNLESS YOU WANT TO SEE A BUNCH OF 1 STAR REVIEWS ON YOUR BOOK. WE ARE VERY BAD PEOPLE. DO NOT MESS WITH US. TAKE IT AS A FIRST AND LAST WARNING. IF YOU DON'T STOP HARASSING US ASAP WE WILL START OUR SMEAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST YOU. AND YOU ARE ALSO REQUIRED TO KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT ABOUT US." I am keeping digital records of everything and will be escalating to any and all proper police authorities that I can. I have other means of ensuring justice, but for now I will see how stupid he wants to get. I suggest you ignore this account on goodreads and any other smear and attack messages he may continue to send. But it's your call. I am keeping records of everything.

Actually I take back what I said earlier about all these fake accounts and negative attacks simply because I wanted my money back from this fake guy's reviews. Even negative publicity is still publicity. I'm getting messages from others who are smart enough to realize there are MANY positive reviews on my book so they believe me. They are asking questions, interacting with me, promising to read the book for themselves and give sincere reviews etc... Wow! Thanks so much fake guy!!!! Please keep it up!!!! I still insist on my money back though, and through paypal I will make sure that is done, one way or another. If you want, maybe we can negotiate some private deal for some more negative attacks. For about half the price I paid before, will that cover maybe at least 100 more negative false attack messages? Well, seems I don't even have to pay for it, so forget that. I will just wait and seems you have hundreds of fake accounts and you will just give me this good service for free. Thanks!

Joseph wrote: "This person PAYS for 5 star reviews. DO NOT trust this author. I am reporting him to Amazon as well"

Goodreads is NOT as stupid as you think. They know the difference between sincere people, proven by the odd good review, versus a sudden flow of negative publicity constantly and every day. Report me all you want. I am doing the same, and again goodreads can tell the difference between someone who only defends and reports abuse, versus tons of fake accounts and constant attacks. Sincere people only defend, not constantly attack. It is you who will be deleted and kicked off goodreads in the end, but hopefully not before all this "good" negative publicity continues to drive people to me for good interactions. It's working great so far. Never realized how good even negative publicity can be. And it's all free! Thanks again!