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I got a letter in the mail back in August telling me that my son was eligible to published in a book entitled '2008 America's Most Beautiful Babies' I read the information to myself and discussed it with my boyfriend who thought it would be a great X-Mas present for the grandparents have their only grandson published in a National book.
The next day I went to work, filled in all the information needed, gave them my account information and looked forward to seeing my son in a book.
Four months later here I sit with no book, and a huge hole in my savings account where I used to have money. They not only took the original amount for the book out, but I have noticed that on a monthly basis they have been taking money out of my checking account. It's not a lot of money each month, but enough that I have noticed it.
I'm glad I caught it now, before they could take any more money, but thanks to the Great American Photo Contest, I'm out $170.00 and my confidence in doing anything online has gone completely out the window. THANKS A LOT!
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I think its a rip off. I submitted a photo of my akita just yesterday via ad on FB, and after seeing all the info required just to vote hit the back button..with not a single vote He won a coveted spot in the 2010 edition, which I could reserve for $69.95..it's a sham contest to sell book orders which you may or may not ever get..They should just call it" The Book of Great American Pets With Owners That Paid $69.95 To Get Their Pet In This Book." ; P
Say Can You Tell Me About Pets and This Group ? is My Pet Going to Be In There Book Or Was That a Lie ?
This is a Photo of My P J and I Was Told That He Was Pick To Go Into it in 2011 ?
Do Get Back to Me If You's Can - Thank You ?
"The Best Photo of Pets" This is such a bunch of dog poo! Apparently my pet won some plaque and will be presented in a book aswell. All I recieved was SPAM emails and bloody fn phone calls from people who have accents from far east! My son answers the phone and yells" mom its Peggy calling again!(reffering to the fakers on a credit card rewards program commercial ) I still cant find thier link typing it in, I can only view it clicking it from my email! They are really ticking me off, Thank goodness I didnt give them any money or acct info. I just keep unsuscribing to all thier SPAM.
The same exact thing happened to me with my dog. I've unsubscribed from their mailing list at least three times. Isn't it against some law to keep contacting me? All I know is I've never won anything in my life so I was skeptical at best when they told me Cody's picture was chosen to be in their book. I later realized I was correct in my judgment when they wanted me to pay $65 for MY photo. I guess somewhere in the fine print I gave up the copyright to the photo when I unknowingly entered it. Otherwise I see no reason why they should be allowed to print it for a profit. It's not a big deal, but I am lightly annoyed that they keep contacting me and that I found it originally on facebook. I really wish that the facebook community would move onto another website, because doing it alone won't work and facebook continues to push the boundaries of trustworthiness when it fails to protect our privacy, tailors advertisements to our posts and other personal information, and on top of that allows websites such as this one to post advertisements to their site. They're rich anyways, they can afford to have standards. The truth is they just don't care about or privacy and by default our safety.
I got the same scam with a pet photo. I have been inundated with emails since I submitted my pet photo. They want $69.95 for a copy of the book and I pay &19.95 I can have her photo submitted for a $10, 000 drawing. There is a saying if it is too good to be true it is probably a scam. I have not responded to any of these emails. If you truely won an entry in a actually published book, you should be paid for your photo, not the other way around. Rule of thumb, never pay for a prize. That is a sure sign of a scam.
I got the same emails this week about my dogs and I am not going to order the book online because one it's too expensive, and two because i don't trust it.
I will wait until it comes out and then check if my dogs are even in the book. If not then that sucks.
They should totally pay the people who took the pictures. It would be fair.
Hi, OMG, THESE PEOPLE SHOULD GET REPORTED...I GOT THE SAME E-MAILS U GUYS GOT MINE ABOUT MY DOG... SOMEONE NEEDS TOREPORT THESE SCAMMERS... ITS NOT RIGHT...
THANK GOODNESS I LOOKED IT UP BEFORE I DID ANY THING, WHICH I WASNT GOING TO DO BECAUSE IF U WIN SOMETHING U SHOULD NOT HAVE TO PAY ANYWAY...I GET FOURIOUS...
SHARON..AKA SAMANTHIA
Just tried it & don't care to trust any of you people that seem to not know wtf is going on and probably just assume that you "won" to get in the book, which it does NOT say from the get-go, and those who seem to have been happy with them seem a LOT smarter than the ones whining and complaining, so I'll just go on the fact that my boy is cute (not just from a doting parent's POV. Nothing personal, and all babies are wonderful, but some aren't that "cute" because their parents just aren't. Get over yourself) & that I know how to handle spam without random, stranger's advice about how to deal with it (Go to your "mail options" & deal with it on your end. DUH. I mean, are we THAT freakin' lazy nowadays?!?!?), so instead of allowing any negative comments to sway me, I'm convinced that most of you are just impatient, kinda rude, not that bright... Well, anyway, sorry to sound like an employee, ad, or "mean" to the ones w/ less "fortitude", but I just say it as I see it.
Been hesitant, but my negative and positive suspicions have been confirmed. Don't get suckered and you won't get suckered. Simple. ...and you do need to love your babies, but need to be REALISTIC. If they can't sing, then HELP THEM LEARN HOW TO instead of just feeding their ego to make a fool of their poor selves on American Idol, for one example. Oh, and don't put your comments IN ALL CAPS, it makes you look... "unstable" & no one should listen to you.
I THINK IT IS THE MOST [censor]EST THING EVER! WHAT PERSON WOULD DO THAT. THE FRIKEN PHOTO CONTEST WOULD AND THEY KNOW JUST WHO TO STEAL MONEY MONEY FROM PEARENTS WHO WANT TO GET PAID FOR THERE KIDS CUTENESS. I SUBMITTED A PHOTO OF DOG CRAP AND IT GOT "SELECTED" TO WIN THE PRIZE MONEY.
Well when my dog passes away I thought it would be a great present for my mom to get a plaque made of our dog and we received on time with no problems :)
I was sent an e-mail that my beautiful dog Gibbs was selected for this book. they want me to send them a large amount of money for the book but never showed me the pic of him. I wouldn't pay that price for a book when I can go to Barnes and Noble get it at a discount. so I have checked Barnes and Noble web site and there is no such book. what a scam and glad I didn't send money. so now how do we make this validate? they are selling and taking money with no book.
I'm not sure what to think I put my son in the contest, and then after realizing that I just put my son's picture out over the Internet how stupid was that, I decided I would see if there was anyway to unsubscribe or whatever to correct my mistake, anyways I went to my email and I had several emails from them first telling me that my son was chosen by a panel of judges for a book called Beautiful Baby in America, then I also received other emails saying that my son was chosen to compete in the 25, 000.00 contest. I had originally entered him into the 2500.00 contest. So now I am not sure what to think reading all this feedback makes me really leery about believing anything, however did anyone ever receive an email stating their child qualified for a bigger contest where the prize money was way more if chosen?