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Report: #1301172

Complaint Review: Insight Publishing - Sevierville Tennessee

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  • Reported By: Sarah — St. Catharines Ontario Canada
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  • Insight Publishing 707 West Main Street, Suite 5 Sevierville, Tennessee USA

Insight Publishing Publishing company makes false promises, takes your money, lies and now unreachable Sevierville Tennessee

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Contacted by Insight Publishing promising to put together an anthology of authors. Book apparently already scheduled to be printed with authors lined up (e.g, Jack Canfield), just needed a few more authors to contribute. They require you to pay upfront by cheque which they say covers costs of books (you are promised 200 upon completion of project) and when challenged on this they say it's in advance to cover their upfront costs of putting book together.

We had to put together interivew questions for them, we were interviwed, they put together a transcript, we proofread it (they were VERY strick about turnaround time), given a book release one-pager with picture of the cover, and we waited...and waited....

We were promised book by late fall and started emailing in early fall to see if book on track with minimal response and given new deadlines but when those new deadlines passed started pressuring for firm commitment. Person dealing with apparently "fired" so we were shuffled around when we called to various people, none of which called back. Finally got a hold of the owner, David, who promised to call me back within the week once he found out where we were on the project list and never did.

Aren't I surprised to find two things:

1. Three weeks after that conversation with David, the phones are not working and no one is returning emails. Did they finally go bust? Disgusting. 

2. On the website is a testimonial of an author in the book we were supposed to be in (either it's a lie or they forgot to put their paying customer in the book) -  "Stepping Stones looks really great and professional, thank you. I believe it is important to give credit when it is due. Regards, Tumi FrazierAuthor, Stepping Stones to Success"  [note: Jeanne was apparently fired months ago]

 

Disgraceful. 

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