BookmarketeersReviews of bookmarketeers.com

I am an 89 years old. Book Marketeers sold me their Elite Publication Plan for my autobiography in October 2022 for $2100 and their Developmental Editing in November 2022 for an additional $1800. Half way through the editing process, they stopped communicating in July 2023. My wife also contracted them to retype two of her existing books for release on Amazon for $500 each. Even a simple typing job was beyond their capability to do correctly. For a total of $4900 from our limited resources we received nothing but heart ache and frustration and initiated a fraud report, hoping to save others from the same experience. They just walked away with our money without meeting one of their obligations. They give the impression that they are a New York publishing company, affiliated with Amazon publishing. In my attempts to reconnect with them, I discovered that the only presence they have in New York is a Post Office box in Astoria, but the company operates out of Punjab, Pakistan, using American sounding names. I encourage anyone to who is seriously considering them to make the effort to check them out or better to avoid them completely. Also, it makes a great difference in how a book is edited if English is not the editors first language.

I would not give this company any stars! Not only did they not follow through on their contractual promises, but when I disputed the charges on my credit card they falsified emails and documents to dispute my claim. Luckily, I was able to provide proof of their deceit and lack of performance. I would however, give 5 stars to Amazon Smart Marketing for the incredible marketing job for my book.

I've already written a review about this agency regarding my publishing experience and gave it two stars. This particular review is regarding the marketing package they sold me while I was still in the process of publishing my first book. The marketing package promises 100% customer satisfaction, whatever that means. Unfortunately, in my experience, it was 0% satisfaction and 100% stress. This company DOES NOT follow the contract, does not honor the timeline provided, and does not provide the results promised both verbally and contractually. All that time, I had to chase the PM, receiving occasional responses or, in most cases, no response at all. My questions were not answered, and requests to provide information or answers were ignored. I have not received ANY return on my investment (which was $2000 for the publishing contract, $1500 for the marketing contract, and additionally $500 to provide admin rights to my own website). Instead, I would receive “up-sale” offers from PM with promises to make the results even better. My first book was published in April 2023. The marketing contract was signed in March; however, work on it started in July (which is already past the refund time window), and, according to the PM, the returns were expected in September; then, the same PM promised sales in November. Additionally, the Amazon campaign my PM "ran" generated about 150 Amazon ratings, but those ratings completely disappeared after a month, and I'm back with my 14 ratings. PM blamed Amazon algorithms for that, but my ratings were never restored. Then, my PM stopped communicating with me completely, so I contacted the company and was reached by another PM (or rather, a manager of all PMs?). After explaining my situation, I was promised to get a new PM, and generate results. However, several days later, this manager called me and started talking to me, clearly thinking he was talking to a different person (telling me that my changes to the cover would be published in a week... what???). He didn't even remember what my issue was, and instead of admitting he'd made a mistake, he started changing gears while coming up with complete nonsense. Then, he started pushing a new marketing package on me, giving me another set of false promises, such as a full refund on all my investments if there was no return. When I requested to write it in the contract, I received the same marketing contract with one very vague sentence about a refund. I showed the document to my lawyer, who confirmed the paper had no legal value. By then, I was pretty much fed up with the constant lies, misrepresentation of the situation, and, in many cases, a very rude attitude of the last PM I'd been talking to. I cannot tell why I was treated this way, especially after seeing all those positive reviews, but I can only speculate on the validity of those positive reviews. The disclaimer on trustpilot.com also indicates that this company misrepresents the reviews. One more addition. While I was "working" with this company, I published my second book completely on my own, and I'm about to publish the third one. And the PM had the audacity to ask me why I didn't use their services.

They lied about the services they provided me, then lied to the credit card company when I disputed the transaction for breach of contract. I won the dispute since I had evidence of wrongdoing and they lost despite fabricating evidence.

This company has misappropriated my personal data and has decided to ignore me because they are unable to do what they agreed to do.

I've published 2 1/2 books with bookmarketeers. The first one was an excellent experience and I paid full price. The second one, they gave me a discount but the experience was miserable! The person I worked with was uninformed, slow and I think we had a language barrier. I was prepared not to use them again, then I was contacted by one of their department heads and offered to have my third book published for free if I'd give them another chance. It's been an awful experience! I've been ignored, lied to, and have had people trying to upsell me on other products! I've had to threaten them with legal action but I STILL do not have a finished product or have it uploaded on Amazon or Barnes and Noble! They are ignoring my repeated emails because they don't think I'll follow through with legal action, but I absolutely will! I will never use them again free publication or not!!! Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, I just got a call from bookmarketeers after they read my review. She threatened me that if I didn't take down my honest review, she would not publish my book! This organization has proved itself to me as a fraud and a scammer!!!!

My experience was horrible! I lost all of my investment and I lost investors!! My project manager was the same person listed in all the other reviews below!!! Which are probably not real reviews at all....(see below). She never built my website, never used the video we recorded and gave to them. She did not do a good job and the person who signs their letter of guarantee is a liar! He promised a full refund if they didn't deliver and that's not true! They have never issued a refund. Do not trust this company! They do not guarantee their service as they promised and they have not issued a refund as promised and they are now avoiding my calls and emails!!!

Lied to me about what they could do for me then lied about refunding me the money I paid after they couldn't do what said they said they would do. be wary of them. I suggest another company.