StinkFight.com

A friend just wrote me and told me that he purchased an item on eBay called “Film School Low Budget eBook Guide” from a scumbag seller with the user ID: cr3ativo

The eBook turned out to be a bootleg of my “$30 Film School.” And this seller says they have “99 available.”

This user appears to be based in Australia. Anyone know who it is? He’s also selling a bunch of bootleg eBooks under fake names and covers.
I don’t mind so much if people give away copies of my stuff, but I think the idea of someone making money of it AND duping the users is icky. They made up this fake name and a fake cover (with a picture of an Academy Award, which is TOTALLY antithetical to the mission statement of my book.)

And then they used my own ad copy:

“You don’t need big bucks to make great stuff. Computers have made it possible to make great films on very little money. They say that whatever effects the big studios have are four years away from the desktop, that is, four years away from your computer desktop. Big effects at low prices are here now. But great effects aren’t what make a great movie. Neither is money…..”

from my book in their fake pitch.

I turned them in to eBay as selling bogus stuff.

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FOLLOW UP ON OCTOBER 3rd:

eBay has removed the listing:

But not the user. User is still on there, apparently ripping off other authors and buyers.

But the guy who notified me about this  scam, who got scammed by buying the book, has posted a comment about it on the seller’s feedback page:

And you can’t get those removed without going through eBay to do it.

This entry was posted by Michael W. Dean on Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 at 6:57 pm and is filed under MWD's Cool Stuff, Stink Fight, The world is a strange and beautiful place, WTF??. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.