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Old 13-06-2005, 11:26 PM
Hywel
 
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Hi All,
I'm new to this newsgroup but hoped you wouldn't mind if I asked a favour?
I would like to try and gain the honest opinions of members of "rec.gardens"
on a gardening book we are about to publish and as such I would like to give
away 10 copies to those people who contact me first.
It's 155 pages of what, I feel, is genuinely useful information for those on
a time and money budget. It covers topics like: Easy Lawns, Fast Flowers,
Delicious Fruit and Vegetable plots, Easy care plants and an Annual
Gardening Activity Calender.
The cost of the book is normally $19.95 but obviously in this case it is
free to the first 10 readers who get in touch. The only thing I ask if you
would like a copy, is that you actually read it and email me back a few
lines on what you thought of it.
To get a copy can you please send me an email with "Garden Book Link" in the
subject line to: and I will send you the download link
for the book. (In case you are curious, we are using a Hotmail address
because our main address previously suffered from spam after making a public
post on a newsgroup).
Please be assured I won't retain your email address - I'm literally only
interested in getting feedback on this book. Thanks,

Hywel
Raymer Publishing


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Old 14-06-2005, 12:07 AM
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Hywel wrote:
Hi All,
I'm new to this newsgroup but hoped you wouldn't mind if I asked a
favour? I would like to try and gain the honest opinions of members
of "rec.gardens" on a gardening book we are about to publish and as
such I would like to give away 10 copies to those people who
contact me first.
It's 155 pages of what, I feel, is genuinely useful information for
those on a time and money budget. It covers topics like: Easy
Lawns, Fast Flowers, Delicious Fruit and Vegetable plots, Easy care
plants and an Annual Gardening Activity Calender.
The cost of the book is normally $19.95 but obviously in this case
it is free to the first 10 readers who get in touch. The only
thing I ask if you would like a copy, is that you actually read it
and email me back a few lines on what you thought of it.
To get a copy can you please send me an email with "Garden Book
Link" in the subject line to: and I will send
you the download link for the book. (In case you are curious, we
are using a Hotmail address because our main address previously
suffered from spam after making a public post on a newsgroup).
Please be assured I won't retain your email address - I'm literally
only interested in getting feedback on this book. Thanks,

Hywel
Raymer Publishing


I looked at your web site and was not impressed.

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Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8
Sunset Zone 5

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Old 14-06-2005, 12:50 AM
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"Hywel" wrote in message
...
Hi All,
I'm new to this newsgroup but hoped you wouldn't mind if I asked a favour?
I would like to try and gain the honest opinions of members of
"rec.gardens" on a gardening book we are about to publish and as such I
would like to give away 10 copies to those people who contact me first.


[snip]

To get a copy can you please send me an email with "Garden Book Link" in
the subject line to: [snip] and I will send you the download link for the
book. (In case you are curious, we are using a Hotmail address because
our main address previously suffered from spam after making a public post
on a newsgroup).
Please be assured I won't retain your email address - I'm literally only
interested in getting feedback on this book. Thanks,

Hywel
Raymer Publishing



Everything about your post stinks of spam and scam.
1: no mention of website, or book title
2: http://raymerpublishing.com/ is really
http://www.greatinfoproducts.com/catalogue/ which is your site
3: greatproducts.com's products are all get rich quick schemes
4: no mention of your "book" on the website.
5: legitimate publishers don't send books to random people on the internet
for peer review,
they send copies of the books to respected individuals in the industry.
6: legitimate publishers an easily create a temporary address like

7: further I bet you won't respond to this post because this same message
was probably made on every gardening related website you could find.

Given these clues, I would be willing to bet your "book" isn't worth the
time it would take to download.

-S


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Old 14-06-2005, 01:10 AM
 
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where is travis when something actually does smell fishy around here?

toad

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Old 14-06-2005, 07:55 PM
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Hello Snooze,
I'm happy to respond to you. My offer is quite genuine - I had (naively
perhaps) thought that the best place to get honest feedback on the quality
of a gardening book was from genuine gardeners who might appreciate it.
I've often been a little dubious of titles with testimonials from industry
peers as everybody knows that they normally only give these in return for
either a copy of the book free or the favour returned to them.
You have correctly named one of our sites and yes, we offer information on
business opportunities and a great many other subjects as well. If the book
is of no interest to you however, I would at least like to thank you for
taking the time to check us out.

Hywel

"Snooze" wrote in message
.. .

"Hywel" wrote in message
...
Hi All,
I'm new to this newsgroup but hoped you wouldn't mind if I asked a
favour?
I would like to try and gain the honest opinions of members of
"rec.gardens" on a gardening book we are about to publish and as such I
would like to give away 10 copies to those people who contact me first.


[snip]

To get a copy can you please send me an email with "Garden Book Link" in
the subject line to: [snip] and I will send you the download link for the
book. (In case you are curious, we are using a Hotmail address because
our main address previously suffered from spam after making a public post
on a newsgroup).
Please be assured I won't retain your email address - I'm literally only
interested in getting feedback on this book. Thanks,

Hywel
Raymer Publishing



Everything about your post stinks of spam and scam.
1: no mention of website, or book title
2: http://raymerpublishing.com/ is really
http://www.greatinfoproducts.com/catalogue/ which is your site
3: greatproducts.com's products are all get rich quick schemes
4: no mention of your "book" on the website.
5: legitimate publishers don't send books to random people on the internet
for peer review,
they send copies of the books to respected individuals in the industry.
6: legitimate publishers an easily create a temporary address like

7: further I bet you won't respond to this post because this same message
was probably made on every gardening related website you could find.

Given these clues, I would be willing to bet your "book" isn't worth the
time it would take to download.

-S




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Old 14-06-2005, 09:58 PM
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In article , "Hywel"
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Hello Snooze,
I'm happy to respond to you. My offer is quite genuine - I had (naively
perhaps) thought that the best place to get honest feedback on the quality
of a gardening book was from genuine gardeners who might appreciate it.
I've often been a little dubious of titles with testimonials from industry
peers as everybody knows that they normally only give these in return for
either a copy of the book free or the favour returned to them.
You have correctly named one of our sites and yes, we offer information on
business opportunities and a great many other subjects as well. If the book
is of no interest to you however, I would at least like to thank you for
taking the time to check us out.

Hywel


Ain't you the same spammer who sells "get rich quick on eBay" schemes?
Ain't you the fool with websites either horrible-looking or
non-functioning who nevertheless has the hutzpah to scam people into
buying instructions from you on how to make websites profitable? Don't all
these scams strive to hornswoggle victims into buying not one but several
non-existent "books" on each get-rich-quick topic? Ain't you a Vanity
outfit whose moronic writings don't meet the professional requirements
that would linterest actual editors & publishers with distribution of
books that actually exist? Ain't the words "Free" & "Absolutely Free" &
Free This And Free That your USUAL totally amateaur hoky sales pitch to
get people to shell out around forty pounds per "starter" nothing-kit?
Ain't you an e-text vanity "publisher" fraudulantly misrepresenting
e-texts as published books?

I was just awfully amused by one of your other "Free" offers of another
faux "book" that promises to teach people "How To Write Killer Ads" which
you must've neglected to read yourself -- unless you really did mean "Kill
any chance of success."

If you HONESTLY wanted "honest feedback" as you pretend, you got it from
Snooze, Travis, & from Mike, Shazzbat, & Pammy in another ng you
scam-spammed -- that the responses have been somewhat hostile should tell
you something, as garden groups are not naturally & wholeheartedly brutal,
& just about everybody would like something free if it were not a pretense
& total sham.

But then, you should be used to such responses, being an old-hand at
spamming, & alienating the public is like water off a duck's back to
spammers who believe they only need to find one sucker out of every ten
thousand people they annoy. If you'd been on the level you'd've paid
attention especially to Snooze's totally constructive Point #5 which any
creditable or authentic publisher would NOT have needed to have been told.
Whether it's "send me money to get rich quick on ebay" or "send me money
to get-rich-quick with a website" or "add yourself to my spam lists &
maybe win one of ten free books" (books that do not now & never will
exist), all your "angels" have been just this sort of lowest level scumbag
shams 'n' spams 'n' scams.

You've been doing this too long with for me to believe you performed such
an appalling act of spam-scamming out of sheer naivete & stupidness,
though the stupid factor might be partially in play since spamming UseNet
does tend to get exactly the responses warranted, raising public Avoid
Like The Plague flags. Of course, spammers tend to believe even bad
publicity is good, so perhaps you're measuring this as an advertising
success.

-paghat the ratgirl

"Snooze" wrote in message
.. .

"Hywel" wrote in message
...
Hi All,
I'm new to this newsgroup but hoped you wouldn't mind if I asked a
favour?
I would like to try and gain the honest opinions of members of
"rec.gardens" on a gardening book we are about to publish and as such I
would like to give away 10 copies to those people who contact me first.


[snip]

To get a copy can you please send me an email with "Garden Book Link" in
the subject line to: [snip] and I will send you the download link for the
book. (In case you are curious, we are using a Hotmail address because
our main address previously suffered from spam after making a public post
on a newsgroup).
Please be assured I won't retain your email address - I'm literally only
interested in getting feedback on this book. Thanks,

Hywel
Raymer Publishing



Everything about your post stinks of spam and scam.
1: no mention of website, or book title
2: http://raymerpublishing.com/ is really
http://www.greatinfoproducts.com/catalogue/ which is your site
3: greatproducts.com's products are all get rich quick schemes
4: no mention of your "book" on the website.
5: legitimate publishers don't send books to random people on the internet
for peer review,
they send copies of the books to respected individuals in the industry.
6: legitimate publishers an easily create a temporary address like

7: further I bet you won't respond to this post because this same message
was probably made on every gardening related website you could find.

Given these clues, I would be willing to bet your "book" isn't worth the
time it would take to download.

-S


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"Hywel" wrote in message
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Hello Snooze,
I'm happy to respond to you. My offer is quite genuine - I had (naively
perhaps) thought that the best place to get honest feedback on the quality
of a gardening book was from genuine gardeners who might appreciate it.
I've often been a little dubious of titles with testimonials from industry
peers as everybody knows that they normally only give these in return for
either a copy of the book free or the favour returned to them.
You have correctly named one of our sites and yes, we offer information on
business opportunities and a great many other subjects as well. If the
book is of no interest to you however, I would at least like to thank you
for taking the time to check us out.

Hywel


It's a good thing it's not my first day on the job. Otherwise I might have
mistaken your attempt to shovel fertilizer for an honest reply. Having
written professional papers, and having reviewed books for technical
accuracy I know that's not the case.

Anyone who has established themselves in an industry or field and has
developed the depth of knowledge necessary to write a book has developed a
network of professional contacts. There are plenty of nursery men,
botanists, master gardeners, and biologists who would gladly review your
book for only a copy of the book, if you had established a professional
relationship or friendship with them over the years, or while doing research
for your book.

Since you have published an e-book, you own the publishing company, the cost
of giving away an e-book is zero. There is no raw material or labor cost
involved. Given that you're willing to give away copies to completely random
people on the net, any excuse about not wanting to bribe for a review with a
free copy of the book is a lie. The best review you can get from some random
person on the net is "nice book." There would be no checking for technical
accuracy or content.

Given that you are asking random people on the net to review your book, we
can only come to two conclusions.
1: Your offer to send is really just a scam and an attempt to collect email
addresses
2: You have not established a professional network of people who would be
willing or able to review your book for technical accuracy.

Any book that has not had the benefit of a peer review for technical
accuracy is not worth reading. If a "book" exists, it was most likely
written by plagiarizing or paraphrasing other books or searching sites on
Google.

You are welcome to attempt to prove me wrong by sending a copy of the
manuscript to email address I am posting this from. Should a book exist, of
even minimal literary value I will publicly apologize for calling you a scam
artist. On the other hand should you feel the need to make the excuse that
you have already sent out your 10 free copies, please understand we will
consider that an admission that your book does not exist and you were really
attempting to scam the readers of this newsgroup and collect email addresses
for further spam.

-S



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