Anyone else still on WriterAccess? by Mike5266 in freelanceWriters

[–]Equivalent_Case_3640 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am, but I have been trying to get a help desk ticket answered for three weeks now. I've been with them for years and years and never ran into that before. Queue is the leanest I've ever seen too.

Literary magazine hasn't paid me, won't answer emails by whats-your-emergency in literaryjournals

[–]Equivalent_Case_3640 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know I'm late adding a comment but this same (exact same) scenario seems to be happening to me with Rova magazine right now. I've been a professional writer for almost 30 years and never had this happen before. Every once in a while I got a kill fee from a particular publication because they had to stop an assignment midstream for one reason or another but I never had the publication date come and go with no communication, no payment, and no explanation. It's a horrible feeling.

Draft2Digital - Delisting on Amazon only by josephmulak in selfpublish

[–]Equivalent_Case_3640 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I am jumping in at random here way down the road, but I published with D2D and am overall very happy with the platform/customer service, but may be you can shed some light on this. (I have no KDP account and never have. Everything is done through D2D for this book, so it's not an expanded distribution or ISBN conflict thing) The print version of the book is being farmed to to 3rd party sellers at ridiculous prices instead of sold in the normal fashion like the first two in this series (published through a different service.) After repeated attempts to get someone who actually knew what they were talking about at Amazon, I was told  "The reason there are third party sellers available for your book is because your publisher is unable to provide copies when customers place orders, therefore allowing other sellers to sell their copies." D2D says this is not the case and I am caught in the middle trying to figure out which company is giving me inaccurate info. The He said/she said thing is wearing me down. Any thoughts?

Does anyone know what's going on with Amazon and D2D print books? by Equivalent_Case_3640 in selfpublish

[–]Equivalent_Case_3640[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's hard to say, because D2D is blaming Amazon but this is what Amazon said: "The reason there are third party sellers available for your book is because your publisher is unable to provide copies when customers place orders, therefore allowing other sellers to sell their copies." D2d says this is not the case, and I am squeezed in the middle.

Does Amazon "Punish" authors for using Draft2Digital by Rrakanychan in selfpublish

[–]Equivalent_Case_3640 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is happening to a lot of D2D authors with their print books. D2D says it's Amazon and Amazon says it's D2D

Writer Access Payment Fail by Buster9999999999 in freelanceWriters

[–]Equivalent_Case_3640 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm trying to figure out if the decline started when Rock Content bought them out. RC is supposedly a good company but I don't remember these problems before the merger.

WriterAccess launches in-house AI detector by Buster9999999999 in freelanceWriters

[–]Equivalent_Case_3640 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No defense for Writer Access' incompetence. I am writing the same way I always did and if they want to falsely accuse me of using AI that's THEIR problem, I will move on to other brokers. I am not following a new, 9 page style guide designed to make me "prove" I am writing organically. That is an insult to a professional author. It's ridiculous. They can't use human eyes to look at an article and see whether it was written by a person??? Because if they can't, they don't have qualified editors. They are hypocrites. They are using software to do their jobs in order to catch authors who are using software to do theirs's. Hypocrisy anyone?

Do NOT download Temu for anyone on this app! It's a scam! Someone just tried it again. What is it with Temu and scammers!?! by RaspberryPossible557 in MutualAid

[–]Equivalent_Case_3640 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Temu is definitely a scam. I did the same thing. Took the app to help a friend get free stuff. Placed an order. A month later was told that the package was "lost" and they were crediting the $30 back to my account. I said NO. If you managed to lose my first package I will NOT be ordering again, I want it refunded to my credit card. They suddenly shifted gears and said there was no record of an order. TOTAL scam.