John B.

Worked hard on a book knowing I did not want to meet the usual gallery of rejection letters from publishers and agents. I signed up and went through all of the rig-a-more-roll of downloading W-9 form, creating a vendor account, giving out banking info and formulating a book cover. Spent 3 or so hours putting it together. Got notice hours later stating my book was now available for pre-order. I always experience hard times with these types of endeavors. True to form I get an email the next day stating my book was taken off sale because files 'were not uploaded' by February 14th. I created it on the 14th. Then I sent an email to (*******@BN.com) It's two days later with no response. I'm anticipating I won't get one and will have to go back to cussing out pusblishers and agents who don't want to work with me. Of course they don't supply a phone number (always a red flag). When you call you get a worker for 3 dollars an hour from the Philippines (red flag #2) who has no answer for your problems. The only thing I can say is...I put no money into the endeavor. If buying is like trying to sell...I wouldn't buy from these guys based on my experience as writer.

Title was a mouthful, yet I feel it is necessary to give a proper back drop story. I've been involved in numerous online sites on and off like most folks. The experience with these guys was par for the course. A lot of the problems spring from the types of people using the app and the tech support people who review everything done by participants. I joined up and paid in October 2020. Like anyone new I had a few women send me messages and several view my profile. November came and I stopped logging in until January. I met several quality women in the winter and dated one for a couple of months. We broke up and I logged back on in March. I started to notice that my profile was hardly ever viewed like it was in the fall and winter. People had stopped flirting as well. The interest level was really non existent. Another thing I did hate technically about e-harmony was the ability for people (or tech people to make it appear it was someone) to block others so easy. For instance, when I met the woman I dated for two months in January, I announced on my profile I was in a relationship. So, that I could be kind and fair to people. A viewer of my profile did not like my honesty and regurgitated my statement to me in a message with another message attached to it that she'd blocked me. The site has a pathetic way of announcing you're blocked by stating: 'so and so says GOODBYE.' Once they use that feature you cannot send them a message. I got blocked by a woman I never contacted. I suggested to admin they needed to change this feature so that no 'bad blood' would make the experience aggravating for users. They could not understand why I'd purvey such healthy dignity in how I was to be treated. I also suggested a couple of weeks ago they use a feature like Tinder (even though Tinder is garbage) to set it up where my matches could only be women who had indicated they were physically attracted to my photo or I was in their age range. It makes sense to only want to flirt with people you know would flirt back. I got a response stating that 'they want to give us as many matches as possible and LET US DECIDE'. What that told me was they wanted to keep up appearances that there were more good matches than in reality. I don't have magazine cover looks, yet when I go out in every day life 50% find me attractive 50% don't. I do about average like most well rounded men would do. You get on a site like this. One week you feel like you have something to offer. 4 months later for 8 weeks you feel dog, ugly. Maybe I just went through a batch of good women, then a batch of bad ones. It was just real peculiar how that worked. When I paid for 9 months I announced I was not renewing during the onset of the contract. I'm a guy in my forties looking to date younger out of necessity in wanting a family of my own. The women I encountered on E-harmony were mostly socially inept, insecure 'church' type people. Those tend to be more restrictive in things like age. This is not a good site for seekers of age gap relationships. No one told me that... I just sensed it. Then again it's hard to know if my profile was hidden at times or I was intentionally mismatched with women in the end so I'd crave more matches and pay for a new subscription. Two days before my paid membership expired I attempted to announce on my profile I was no longer a paying customer and could not communicate if messaged. I want to be fair to people. I got an email from tech support stating I was not allowed to announce it. Seems as paying customers we have the right to announce what we want to announce. Makes me wonder why they don't condone integrity. That same day I opened my message box to see that I'd been blocked again. This time for liking someone's comment. No message, just pressing the 'thumbs up' button. I know there are some grasping people online, but still felt it was improbable someone would block me for that. I honestly didn't remember even viewing their profile. Usually when you do there is a mechanism on the left of your profile showing who you had interaction with. I don't remember seeing the 'ghost' member who had supposedly blocked me on that list anywhere. I remembered I accidently set up two accounts from October. It appeared tech support was up to some shenanigans trying to get me angry again about being blocked by a member I barely contacted, if I had at all. Before that I had announced on my profile I was not renewing and was going inactive. The pattern was as the time before. When I either announced I was going inactive or taking a break then, all the sudden, I'd supposedly get blocked by someone. I also announced on my profile that morning: "This account is inactive. Membership expired." I got a notice that my new profile message was not accepted. I went back and wrote: This account is inactive. I never got another message telling me to change it. I think they realized they couldn't win. The same type of thing happened with my account on Match.com about a decade ago. From my accidental first account I noticed the day after my legitimate, used account expired I got a message claiming a woman two hours away had sent me a message. After months of not getting anything happening on that account from both ends. I already deleted my used account. Still working to delete my accidental one, I had to use a password. When I requested an email to allow me to change it to finally delete, it never arrived in my inbox. Pathetic. The tech support people who run these sites are vindictive, insecure people who want to control others. They lose their crap when they come across someone assertive. You have to decide whether you want to leave your dating fate up to these types of factors you can't control compared to walking up and introducing yourself on the street. I finish this review better off knowing I'll go down to the local coffee shop and get a smile and a flirty message from the barista behind the counter. I'll do that instead to get a sense of what is real in how I fit into the dating paradigm.

I had a damn good design and satire shirt for this political season. It was completely my idea and my drawing art on paper. I get a notice in e-mail stating the platform had pulled it. They gave no specific reason but just referred me to some generalized legal statements as you have to guess what they thought was either copyright infringement or other issue. I reviewed other messaging similar to mine and saw no issues I could have violated. In my opinion it could have been that the following sellers: (QAnonymous) (Anonymous_Artists) (AltrusianGrace) (Hashtagified) (Qbreakthru) (Boo Face Designs) (PatrioTEEism) (ReBunkers) (Stoney 09) (Artistic Ninja) (TS Studio) (Deadcat Design) (Demianak) (SLAaronJames) (Shariss) (Persa) (BlackSanta) (Shinevideo) (Kristie Miller) (Copper Rebel) (harrypottervids) or any number of far right design company could have reported my design. If they don't fix this and put my rendering back up, they not only permanently may havelost me as an artist but a customer as well. John@ Fat Ashley's T's