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Posted by Jennifer Mattern on April 26th, 2009 in PR News

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  1. Comments by Victoria on November 5th, 2009 at 6:47 pm |

    First, had to search and search for any way to contact you. Your BigList page said to tell you if any were not free. MANY are not free, and they make you go through all the process of putting up your article before they tell you to join first, then you join and then have to do it all again.

    Some of them let you go through all the work of submitting through the “free” option, then they request a “donation” of various amounts for services. There’s no confirmation, soyou can’t tell if they accepted your “free” submission without the “donation.”

    The worst of them, http://www. PR9.net puts you through all that work of setting up the submission, the free account, and gathers your private & business information, then at the very last step after you click “Submit” it actually DEMANDS payment! before it will process your submission.

    What a crock! This should be illegal, and probably is, but nobody’s going to waste even more of their time pursuing these crooks after they have wasted so much of our time already.

    Maybe it’s just the way the world is - people are liars and cheaters and that’s the Modern Style of doing business. If you can successfully cheat and/or screw people, that means you’re cool and smart. I don’t think so. Nobody can outrun their own karma, and the universe is a meticulous bookeeper.

    Take pr9.net off your list, and I forgot the names of the others. They didn’t make me mad enough to write, just annoyed that they wasted my time needlessly, and they didn’t have the decency to be upfront about how they do business.

  2. Comments by Jennifer Mattern on November 5th, 2009 at 6:57 pm |

    Contact info was / is available right on the About page linked at the top of the blog.

    It’s not the first report of a similar situation. I’ll remove them now. Others won’t likely be edited until the New Year when I’m planning to test each one on the list personally, as well as others people have submitted in comments or via email. I figure that’s a better approach than relying solely on 3rd party feedback, since I know some of the sites are confusing so it can look like payment’s required when it’s not, and related problems. The list will likely be updated twice a year at most moving forward as this isn’t any longer an active blog.

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