OnlineBookClub.orgReviews of onlinebookclub.org

I was excited to be able to make money with my love of reading. I chose a book that I did not enjoy reading and left a very in depth review and they flagged me for plagiarism with use of AI and banned my account. I have never read any published reviews and everything was my own words. I also did not use AI and requested them to check it again to receive the same outcome. If you try this company my warning is you are wasting your time, you will not make money.

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-10 stars! I got an email days ago saying that there was a problem with my review. I follow the link and it needed me to verify two other email addresses to my paypal *despite having one already verified and valid.* What has followed has been over thirty email messages with their customer service. This is how every interaction has gone. "Hello how can I help?" "I have a verified email, can we just use that one for payment?" "Im sorry please send a video of your trouble". (Sends video and we have over TWENTY emails back and forth where ALL my questions are ignored!!!) "What seems to be the problem?" "I showed you I had a valid email, can my payment be sent there?" "Please send a video showing your entire email that our emails for validation are not being recieved, proof that your paypal emails are all linked to your account, and explaining your issue." (So I do.) "We're sorry, paypal blacked out the screen, please insert the photo you sent over the black parts of the screen, so IT can see it." (THREE tries later just to edit the video, Im in tears of pure frustration, they appear to recieve it and forward it. In said video I ask again- can we just use my verified email? Can we just delete the 2 I cant verify? And- Am I not getting paid because you cant verify 2 emails *unnecessarily*? I get a response this morning.) "Im sorry I dont understand what you need help with and I watched your video and read the email exchange." WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DONT KNOW WHAT I NEED HELP WITH THEN!!?? I guess I just lost $75 for my review. DAYS of asking the same question, directly and in videos they request, no ones answering. And finally get someone to send me more than a couple sentences and they have no idea what I need. I have never seen customer service this poor. Id rather deal with a limited bot than *30* emails and ZERO answers.

I've been with the OnlineBookClub for over 6 years, and my experiences have been nothing but pleasant. Until recently. I won the giveaway prize, and I have always sent receipts to their specific email address. Apparently, it was being phased out. Okay, not a problem. I sent a message asking if I need to resend it, as the email I received immediately after sending my receipt said it was being phased out. It was marked as resolved, and they said they would reply back to me. It is now June 23rd, and I have received no email back about if my receipt was good, and I haven't been paid out at all. I'm not sure if my account has a problem; I logged in and everything was fine. I have tried to get assistance with no response. Customer service has gone downhill, and I am really disappointed with how this has been handled, or lack thereof. I would have no problem removing or changing this review if or when I get the giveaway prize owed and this becomes full resolved. But I would like this looked into, because I did everything I needed to do.

Unfortunately this is a terrible platform with a bad UI, questionable business ethics, and they pay for Amazon reviews. I joined this platform with high hopes, not just to make some extra cash, but to have the opportunity to review books and chat with others. Let me detail my experience: 1. Was convinced by the platform to buy a $3.00 book with my own money to complete a review. This was a terrible and hard to read book, that was mis-categorized as historical fiction when it was actually erotics. Sex scenes, rapes, and even an illegal abortion. But 7 hours of reading and detailing this smut, I made it through. Then, I had my 500+ word review, I did a grammar and spelling check with AI tools, and answered the multiple questions to submit the review. It was all in all over 8 hours of my time, and was supposed to pay $75 as long as I agree to submit an Amazon review (which is kind of shady as well). They flagged my review as plagiarized (I wrote it 100% myself and didn't copy anything) then accused me of using AI (which I only used for editing, and no where on their site is that prohibited). I never got paid. The book sucked. While I was waiting for the review to go through, I tried to read another book, which also sucked. 2. The User Interface is straight out of 1990. Hard to navigate, text based, and badly laid out. The menus are not intuitive and the site is compartmentalized. 3. My conclusion is that this is a site with very low quality books that authors PAY for reviews, and readers are treated less than garbage and promised payouts that don't happen. Save your time if you value it, and don't bother.

After quickly checking other reviews here, I am now convinced that this site has a much deeper issue. Aside from unqualified wannabe reviewers who doesn't know the difference of a Review to a Critique, the customer service and issue resolution process is heavily problematic. (It sounds much worse than that) Main issues I have faced after purchasing a Premium review: 1. Their turnaround times for a level 1 premium review is 4 months. That already exceeds VISA's chargeback guidelines, so there it is - this site already owns you without any guarantee of a refund. Nice trick! 2. As I said, there are people here who wants a quick buck to bash, crucify, and defame authors, especially new indie writers. They try so hard to find anything they can criticize, and use against the author, even going lengths about falsely accusing writers of using AI and running scams. The audacity! And oh, these are all written in the public-facing reviews that Premium users paid for. Who would pay at least 148 bucks to be insulted? They didn't even read the entire book and likely used AI to write their reviews - even got the title wrong. and... 3. Customer service is an aboslute nightmare. Really. Aside from the inconsistency, long response times, different people responding, the issue is NEVER addressed. They are insistent, and absolutely focused on one thing: RIPPING PEOPLE OFF! That's right. They are so active in sending marketing emails that will take more of your money, but takes a very long time to address an issue. 4. Even if the premium customer did not get what they paid for, this site just won't give your money back. It's like buying a premium product and not getting anything but an empty box. That's what this site does. Conclusion: I agree with the other people's reviews, and this is an honest one: OnlineBookClub.org is an absolute Ripoff. Do not fall for it! Most newly published independent authors trying to enter the business (like me) are one of their primary prey. They know how desperate we are in having a decent, professional review to boost our sales. Heed our warning, everyone. This site is NOT going to help you at all. This site is just aimed to syphon money off authors. Now, let's see how fast you respond to this. It's probably much faster than your response time on the emails, and you probably spent more energy and attention responding to this than addressing customer issues. Am I right? So, how does it feel? This is an honest review, though not as brutal and objectively false as your so-called 'professional reviewers' does, but this is a real, authentic, experience-based, verified review. Come on, try and deny.

Scott Hughes has consistently told me that he will go "above and beyond" to make things right, but he has never suggested what that could be. He brags that he has over 5 million members, but what he actually has is a lot of people looking for quick and easy money by reviewing books. These reviewers, many of whom are unqualified to review anything of a technical nature, will not care about an author's deeper insights, and once a book has a review, it is unchangeable. What happened to me can only be described as fraud and a scam.

ONline Book Club is a scam. They asked me to review a book. I sent them the review. They asked for my bank account so that they could pay me. Instead they debited my bank account twice with amounts of £42. They keep asking me where the review is and sending me threatening emails, saying they will block me as a reviewer. They deducted money under the name XR Academy. I would Like to add that the director of XR Academy was BAHRA, Taranjit Singh of 87 Greenridge Road, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, B20 1JN. The company was dissolved on 6 February 2024.